lath
@lath@lemmy.world
- Comment on if you had to choose one 1 day ago:
It’s like the second coming of Harambe, only the kid is a woman, Harambe is a bear and the guy shooting Harambe is a guy.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 6 days ago:
It’s on point.
- Comment on Will I ever be seen as truly British? 6 days ago:
That word is too well known nowadays. Needs another one.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
TFW you thought you were cool, but it turns out you had a yee yee ass haircut all along.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
The woes of true believers.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Some ideas on the topic.
I’ve only met vegans on social media. The vocal minority preaching vegan lifestyle is delusional. Outside of it, it’s still corporations doing their best to make a profit. The regular person just eats quietly and lives their life. The requirements and costs are pittance only in their idealistic view of the world. “If only people would just …” No. They won’t. We are where we are because people don’t. Everyone wants the world to go their way and we kill each other for it.
As an omnivore animal, I eat what my budget allows. Sometimes it’s meat, sometimes it’s vegetables and sometimes it’s cardboard. Just like the wild life, eating plastic bags because they taste yummy. Social media vegans seem to be either the ones that can afford to be picky or can’t afford anything else.
Simple truth is that life can always be better, people can always do more and most of us simply don’t want to.
- Comment on I cannot find it 1 week ago:
Fine the polar star, then go south.
- Comment on we love those power laws 1 week ago:
Playing Copper and Bronzers.
- Comment on So we currently have all these left wing folks claiming men are more dangerous than bears, why is the same group pushing multi gender washrooms so hard? 1 week ago:
Then there is the fact that if I was attacked by a bear, no one would tell me I was making it up. I wouldn’t be asked what I was wearing, if I was drunk, or what I had done to provoke the bear
They are wrong about the latter part. Whenever there’s a bear attack, I almost always hear someone asking “What the hell did that idiot do to piss off the bear?”.
- What you’re wearing depends on the scent it’s carrying. If your clothes smell like food, don’t go wandering around bear-infested woods.
- Drunk people fooling around with bears is far too common to be ignored as a question.
- Only people who’ve observed bears for a long period of time can accurately say what provokes a bear to attack and the ones I’ve asked have said that sometimes you’re just shit out of luck.
A bear encounter isn’t as clear cut as the text you’re quoting would like. Because they do avoid people normally, so meeting one means something is definitely wrong. Good luck figuring out what though.
- Comment on Why are male social workers so different? 1 week ago:
Probably unlucky.
Try to recall whether you acted uncomfortable in your initial interaction with them. The first one due to surprise of them being the first male social worker working on your case. The second due to the unpleasantness with the former. The first impression usually sets the tone of a conversation, so there may have been a misunderstanding which then solidified into prejudice.
Or they were jaded asshole. Who knows.
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
Yep.
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
Every time you shower or take a bath, your water betrays you for a quick hookup. Water only has loyalty to water.
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
That’s not a what if, it’s a when. Might not happen suddenly, but our air quality and ability to breathe it is going down fast the longer pollution reigns supreme. Air becoming a luxury is a real threat that money owners happily ignore.
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
With the human body being in most part water, it’s like you’re giving it reins over you freely.
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
Stargate has an episode like that. With sort of zombies. It’s great! You should watch it.
Stargate Atlantis also has a similar one. With fog instead.
- Comment on epidemiology 2 weeks ago:
Depends. Does the space curve during time travel?
- Comment on After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream 2 weeks ago:
Tbh, I did blindly vote for games I recognized or looked good in the screenshots/videos.
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 2 weeks ago:
You say worst, they say best and neither side is wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You hate them that much, huh?
- Comment on Ah, Yes! AI Will Surely Save Us All! 3 weeks ago:
They have been from the start.
- Comment on You gotta do what ya gotta do 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes, some people need to experience the worst in order to be convinced of pursuing the better.
- Comment on We are beings made of atoms in the universe, who are studying atoms in the universe 5 weeks ago:
It’s like we are mirrors of the universe… woah!
- Comment on I still don't know what he's trying to show me 🤷♂️ 1 month ago:
The toxoplasma gondii would like for you to ingest it.
- Comment on Geothermal is the hottest thing in clean energy. Here’s why 1 month ago:
So instead of drilling holes for oil or fracking, we drill for geothermal energy. Anywhere. Everywhere.
- Comment on Fucking hell 1 month ago:
Did ya get them to stop fucking mothers?
- Comment on I don't like what I've seen, man 2 months ago:
I agree that it’s a learned behaviour, but probably disagree on how it’s learned.
I consider it a natural form of learning. Animals that don’t have predators are known to lack any cautious behavior towards other species. We even caused the extinction of such a bird by introducing predators into their habitat. Children who start out as blank slates are like that. They don’t care until they accrue enough experience to start recognizing the differences.
We learn to distrust through experience. Whether this is directed by outside manipulation or self-realization, degrees of separation are gained over time through interactions or lack of. And the colour of one’s skin is an easily identifiable attribute that can give rise to the simple thought that we’re different. While to come to the conclusion that even if our skin colour is different, we are still the same on the inside is a lengthier thought process.
The bias you might fall to in this context is generalizing racists. I don’t know if you do, so this is a hypothetical presentation.
You don’t know how individuals have reached their conclusion to become racist and whether their personal experience has made them justified. You just assume that because racism is bad, they must be bad. Just like someone who becomes racist due to their bad experiences assumes everyone of a specific race is the same. It’s the same form of bias - to generalize a group based on your own experience with a few individuals.
All we can say in support of our theories is “all the representatives of a group that I’ve met have been like this”, but even so, on a planet of 8 billion people, all of those are only but a drop in a bucket.
- Comment on is this copium or hopium or schizophrenia? 2 months ago:
Paragraphs are bodies of text. So the second paragraph in this scenario is the one where we are only a few breakthroughs away.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 6 months ago:
Technically, we already are. I don’t know the conversion rate, but most of the body is being replaced by new cells constantly. So using the transporter would mostly be just changing to a new set of cells. But i’m rather attached to my own, homegrown cells. Feels cozier.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 6 months ago:
Capitalism depends on the selfishness of the individual and their ability to extract the highest value with the lowest cost. Communism depends heavily if not fully on ethics. We are definitely not an ethical people. So you are correct the former is more preferable to the latter, because it’s easier to implement. You cannot depend on ethics unless those ethics create the highest value at the lowest cost for the individual. So the key would be to make restrictions that inspire the ethical approach over cutting corners. If that is possible, then whichever system is used, they are more likely to be better than the alternative.
- Comment on You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next? 6 months ago:
As myself, not at first unless impossible to avoid. Eventually though, probably yes. As my character, definitely.
I’d also regularly make a clone and store it somewhere safe as backup, because there are a thousand ways to die in space and i doubt to be special enough and avoid them all.