atomicorange
@atomicorange@lemmy.world
- Comment on Got to let them run around 1 week ago:
Everyone loves a buffet!
- Comment on Sad 1 month ago:
Easy, that’s just nRT/P, assuming the pineapple is an ideal gas.
- Comment on Ascended to Spanish 1 month ago:
Unironically, language dictates how we think.
- Comment on I learned so much 2 months ago:
I’m absolutely not denigrating Pratchett or calling him boring. I sincerely think he’s great. I just think those other books are pretty great too. They’re all really interesting reads. I don’t mind reading disturbing material though, my first grown-up novel was The Shining swiped from my dad’s bookshelf.😅
- Comment on I learned so much 2 months ago:
Terry Pratchett is great and all, but don’t you have any interest in learning new things? The Jungle is essentially journalism, it exposed real shit that was happening in our own country… and being fed to us. It changed minds. It basically led to the creation of the food and drug administration. It saved lives. That’s a powerful work of art. Revulsion is the intended response. It’s kind of a horror novel.
The other books you listed…. How about wonder? Hope? Fear? Fascination? Dread? Excitement? At least they make you feel something. Boredom is what kills love for reading in my experience. None of the books you listed are boring.
- Comment on I learned so much 2 months ago:
Those books are all fucking awesome.
- Comment on How did overalls and jumpsuits went from male work clothe to female fashion without becoming "male fashion" ? 2 months ago:
Ok boomer.
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
- Comment on Who made more money with it, him or Prince? 3 months ago:
156 movies!? That’s like 3 per year since the ‘70s! That man works hard.
- Comment on Who made more money with it, him or Prince? 3 months ago:
Would he have been cast for his Marvel role if he never said “motherfucker” in previous iconic roles? It’s impossible to detangle the impact of motherfucker from his success. If we could quantify the value of every word prior to his first on-screen motherfucker, and compare with his post-motherfucker value-per-word that might help support the hypothesis that motherfuckers are worth more.
- Comment on Sometimes, homeopathic medicine works! 4 months ago:
I think your great grandfather might have killed mine. I’m totally OK with this.
- Comment on How to show your affection 4 months ago:
I vote vanilla extract.
- Comment on Anti-racism be like 4 months ago:
Every time you hear a buzzing in your ear, or see an eerie glow emanating from the woods, it would help you remember that you need to pick up butter at the store! That’s marketing.
- Comment on Anti-racism be like 4 months ago:
I love the land-o-lakes mothsquitoman!
- Comment on Just a little morning pick-me-up... 4 months ago:
Mmmm fizzy beef wine!
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 5 months ago:
Why are you trying to explain this correlation? Nobody else had mentioned skin tone, so you weren’t correcting anyone. You just brought up a completely unrelated correlation out of the blue for no reason? And you’re defending it in comment after comment instead of just saying “sorry that was a non-sequitur, my bad”.
- Comment on Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living? 5 months ago:
The fact that they refuse to acknowledge that the skin tone part of their argument is irrelevant leads me to believe that they are being disingenuous about their motivations. You’ve clearly pointed out that climate is a sufficient explanation and that references to skin tone are unnecessary and misleading.
- Comment on I know it's one of you guys 6 months ago:
How many times have you repeated this process? Why was one flayed dick not enough?
- Comment on Have another meme 7 months ago:
It’s not making fun of suicide. It’s not glorifying it or making it seem like a good thing. It’s poking fun at Guy Feieri, and how he loves flavor so much he’d season a bullet even in the depths of despair. Taking suicide seriously is a prerequisite to enjoying the joke.
Being exposed to triggering material sucks, and I’m sorry for your loss. I hope you can get to a place where you’re comfortable engaging with humor around this topic some day!
- Comment on We don't judge here. :) 7 months ago:
You start with a real number, then apply several made-up safety factors.
- Comment on Roots of Mother Appalachia 8 months ago:
Headphones. Listen while you do dishes or other chores, or while taking a walk at lunchtime.
- Comment on What if we kissed at the salmon ATM? 8 months ago:
Problem with salmon is it’s a depreciating asset. Now a LOX ATM might be a better concept. Deposit fresh salmon, withdraw your cured fish at a later date.
- Comment on Female 8 months ago:
You’ve never met a woman. Unsurprising, and probably for the best.
- Comment on 6/10 8 months ago:
Percentage of points. So if you get half of the questions wrong on a test, you fail. In some cases, teachers will grade “on a curve”, meaning they normalize the class scores. My organic chem teacher in college liked to make extremely difficult tests, so you’d get 40% or something awful like that and it would turn out that nobody in the class scored over 50% so you actually got an A.
- Comment on Those were the days! 8 months ago:
The silliest of straws.
- Comment on Delta is fourth major U.S. airline to find fake jet aircraft engine parts with forged airworthiness documents from U.K. company 8 months ago:
The part supplier is the issue, the airlines weren’t aware they were being sold counterfeit parts. Chances are that many airlines, including small ones, purchased parts from this supplier. I’d be more likely to trust an airline that found these counterfeit parts than one who didn’t, it means they have a good maintenance / inspection system.
- Comment on I miss 2011 memes 10 months ago:
Convergent evolution is so fascinating!
- Comment on If you know, you know 10 months ago:
I totally agree, intrusive thoughts aren’t often acted upon.
I think the story is trying to capture what it feels like to have intrusive thoughts, how horrifying they can be, and is maybe a way for the artist to work through the idea of “what if those thoughts became so bad - through some supernatural mechanism - that we all succumbed to them?” It’s not meant to be realistic, but just to capture and communicate that feeling of dread combined with compulsion.
It’s kind of similar to Lovecraft’s way of telling stories. He tells you about horrifying and incomprehensible actions taken by regular people and gives some hints about their motivation. But he can’t really convey the full experience of cosmic horror so he leaves you to fill in the blanks. Some people are really affected by it, and for some it’s just too vague and speculative.
- Comment on If you know, you know 10 months ago:
I think this one rings true to a lot of people who struggle with intrusive thoughts. It’s not about logic, it’s about that weird urge to do the worst possible thing. You get the urge to climb in because it’s scary. So scary you can’t focus on anything else. But maybe if you just did it, at least you could stop worrying about it.