Apepollo11

@Apepollo11@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the next stop on the authoritarianism express?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A return of the concept of “unamerican” art and activities, to support the destruction and suppression of said things.

  I’d normally say book burnings first, but those have been an on-off thing in some parts of the states since the 50s.

  So I’ll go with “officially endorsed” book burnings. Not officially organised, mind, but an actual expression of support shown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the NFL draft day so "special"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Sports go sports!

  Athletics are number one!

  Participants are heroes!

  Go team yeah!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  “You’ll be pregabalin’ these capsules”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not the definition of a game, though.

  Loads of games need co-ordinated access to specific resources, from chess to the 2001 release of Halo. Doesn’t mean they’re not games.

  The line between games and sports is entirely arbitrary, and changes from person to person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The imaginary hypothetical outcome is the version of you that would have happened without beatings. You stated that you felt corporal punishment had a positive impact on many aspects of your personality. What are you comparing it to? A hypothetical alternative version of you that hadn’t been beaten.

  Bad faith markers:

  No previous post or comment history. First post is on a contentious topic. Sentiment of the post is unusual - “I don’t support it, but I was abused for an unusually long time and I think it was good for me”. Call to action is particularly baity - “am I just rationalising”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, I want to make clear that I strongly suspect that this is not a genuine post, and has been posted on bad faith.

  But to answer the question, the truth is that it’s impossible to know. You’re comparing a known outcome to an imaginary hypothetical one.

  The real question to ask is, even if it was the case, do the ends justify the means?

  Is it ever ok for an adult to physically attack a child in their care over, let’s face it, trivial matters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If trump shaved his head and didn't wear any makeup do you think you would recognize him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This alternative Trump totally looks like he could be leader of the UK Conservative party.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d group Audi drivers and BMW drivers into the same class of obvious driving.

  Just yesterday I saw an Audi swoop from the slow lane straight into the fast last between two tightly-spaced cars in the middle lane. Without indicating.

  From a technical point of view, I’ll admit it was an impressively small gap to sneak through, but it probably gave the second car in the middle lane a heart attack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now Teams has even spam?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you know it’s spam, though?

  Unknown_email_address@invalid.teams.ms might have nothing but the best intentions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How wil people react if Trump is right about Tariffs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The big difference between the US and China is that China is often close to the bottom of the supply chain.

  America doesn’t have the infrastructure already in place to supply the raw materials and basic essentials to manufacturers.

  Until this is the case (and I’m phrasing it optimistically but the reality is it never can be the case), all manufacturers have to pay extra just to have access to the things they need to produce their goods.

  This cost is passed on to the consumer.

  Like another commenter pointed out, there just isn’t a domestic supplier of many products. Crucial rare earth metals and various other minerals just aren’t available. Heck, to my knowledge, there isn’t even a domestic manufacturer of light bulbs anymore.

  Without putting anything in place before implementing these tariffs, he’s guaranteed that prices will go up on almost everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Come on, that’s not true. We just want to “re-educate” you guys

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what to tell you. When it comes to school shootings, it’s politics all the way down. There’s a reason that the US is the only developed country selling bullet-proof gear in the back-to-school section.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have any kids or anything but want some one day. I grew up under the fog of 9/11. How do you go about explaining terrorism and evil to young kids without storybooking it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • Question is about explaining terrorism to kids.

  • Kids go to school.

  • School shooters famously also target schools.

  • Kids are aware of terrorism due to the constant threat of a school shooting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you could add, remove, or alter one single bodily function, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sleep. It used to take up nearly a third of my life. Since having Long COVID, it’s closer to half my life.

  Honestly, think of what we could get done if we had all that extra time…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than Canada and Australia, which countries are best alternatives to traveling to the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can personally attest to Denmark having loads of English speakers.

  I encountered exactly one person in my travels there who did not speak fluent English.

  I’d learned a little, so I tried to use Danish to order things, ask directions etc, and everyone replied in perfect English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK famous youtuber "math sorcerer" is selling ai generated books⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they any good? If so, then I don’t see a problem.

  Unless…

  Are they plagiarising other books? If not, then I don’t see a problem.

  Unless…

  Have people lost their jobs because of this? If not, then I don’t see a problem.

  If it’s just a content creator using technology to help them create something of value, that otherwise would not have existed, then surely this is a good thing.

  AI isn’t inherently bad. It’s just a tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are the Roman numerals based on what your hand look like when you count?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back to the Future’s “Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan” begs to differ. 🖖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is a two-party system considered democratic?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly why so many countries around the world roll their eyes when America bangs on so much about democracy.

  It’s a marketing thing. Look around the world. Find any country with the word “Democratic” in the name, and odds are you’ll find a poor excuse for a democracy.

  The actual democracies in the world don’t feel compelled to keep repeating the fact.

  The reality is that America is only really a democracy in the loosest sense of the world. All you need to do is look at how often the wealthiest candidate wins to see that it’s true. Or how often the person with the most votes loses. Or how unregulated lobbying actually is. Or the insane amount of power the President actually has. The power doesn’t lie with the people - it lies with the super-rich.

  Sorry if that came off as really negative! America has a lot of good stuff going for it, but its implementation of democracy is not one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re thinking yoga retreats etc, I’d consider building an Earthship or two first. They’re totally eco-friendly, almost hobbit-like buildings. They fit the vibe and would give you a base of operations for future plans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people in constitutional monarchies pledge loyalty to the monarch, is it actually for real, or just symbolic / a pro-forma thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting addition here, we don’t even have an official national anthem. There isn’t even an “official” version of the lyrics for the song we use as the de-facto national anthem.

  We just all kind of collectively agreed upon the first verse, and mentally update it whenever a monarch dies and a new gender is required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t worry about it then. Babies are a lot floppier than you’d expect - it won’t be doing any harm :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it OK for a baby's head to be rolled all the way back on its neck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the baby’s just a bobble head.

  Unless the baby looked malnourished or uncared for, I wouldn’t worry. Babies are far more resilient, bendy and adaptable than we give them credit for.

  Also, unless there’s a developmental issue, a seven month old would easily be able to hold their head unassisted. Is it possible the baby was just trying to look at things?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELP! How do I help educate my son about his body when I know nothing about boys??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  Porn is as representative of real sex as action scenes are of real fights.

  It’s a stylised and codified version of things that specifically is designed to appeal to our lizard brains.

  Also, get used to saying the word ‘sex’ around him. It’s weird at first, but the best way to make it clear that it’s all a normal part of growing up, is by acting like it’s a normal part of growing up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is thinly-veiled political whinging really a question just because you used a question mark?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not entirely sure I read your comment correctly, but it sounds like you’ve never heard the word “whinging” before.

  For the avoidance of doubt, it’s a real word. It rhymes with “hinging”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded. As soon as you hit 40, every other visit to the doctor involves talking about something going wrong below the waist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there is no photos of earth from space?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I pop this on the telly for my kids when they have nightmares. It’s interesting enough to distract them, yet gentle enough to lull them to sleep again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some examples of video games with an UI layout ripped off of another game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems pretty fundamental, but fighting games have had pretty much the same basic UI layout since Street Fighter II. Before then there was a degree of variability as to how the different elements were laid out. Since SFII, it’s always been Timer in the middle and Health bars on either side of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recreate old chess pieces⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know imagetostl took glbs! I honestly wouldn’t even have expected it!

  I’ll definitely be using that then. Blender is great, but I’m tied to my machine - I’d much rather use online tools when I can.

  Thanks for that :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recreate old chess pieces⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have at least one of each piece remaining, then yep - it’s easy!

  The technology you’re after is called photogrammetry, and there are two inexpensive ways that I use often (there are more, but these are the two I rely on)

  1. KIRI Engine - I have a subscription, but I think there is a free tier. You take about twenty photos of the object from different angles, upload for processing, and you get a 3D model back that you can print.

  2. TRELLIS - take a single photograph and upload to here:

  huggingface.co/spaces/JeffreyXiang/TRELLIS

  You will receive a 3D model back that you can import into Blender, run a mesh operation to merge by distance (to create a watertight model), export as STL and then print.

  KIRI Engine requires more work upfront, with all the photos, but is the best at recreating existing things accurately.

  TRELLIS requires more work at the end, because it doesn’t automatically create printable models, and it isn’t a finished product yet, but it is the closest thing to actual witchcraft I’ve experienced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People are still people, and money is just there to facilitate transactions required for the stuff you need.

  Part of the problem is that a bunch of not-rights have decided that instead the point of money is to accrue it like some kind of high score.

  If you are so rich that you no longer experience the normal problems associated with being a person, such as bad hair days, then you’ve probably become a weirdo yourself.