force
@force@lemmy.world
- Comment on Later, losers 5 months ago:
Not gonna be active on Discord tonight. I’m meeting a girl (a real one) in half an hour(wouldn’t expect a lot of you to understand anyway) so please don’t DM me asking me where I am (im with the girl, ok) you’ll most likely get aired because ill be with the girl (again I don’t expect you to understand) shes actually really interested in me and its not a situation i can pass up for some meaningless Discord degenerates (because ill be meeting a girl, not that you really are going to understand) this is my life now. Meeting women and not wasting my precious time online, I have to move on from such simple things and branch out (you wouldnt understand) @everyone
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 6 months ago:
Idk man conservatives in recent history have a pretty consistent track record of assassinations and assassination attemps on liberal and leftist politicians in the US based on their politics. Tommy Burks was outright killed by his Republican opponent less than a month before the election (Burks was one of the most conservative Democrats at the time, but he was certainly killed by a lot more conservative Republican), Clementa Pinckney (targetted in a white supremacist shooting at a primarily black church that he was the pastor of), Gabby Giffords (shot in the head by an anti-government right-wing conspiracy theory consumer).
When Republican politicians are killed now, it’s pretty much only by personal enemies/drama that is unrelated to liberal or leftist politics, or by schizophrenic/criminally insane people who also weren’t doing it over politics. Like Linda Collins (her friend killed her after being confronted for stealing money), Mike McLelland (he was killed by a former lawyer who’s theft case he prosecuted). Hell, even Ronald Reagan was shot over a woman, not over the guy’s personal political views. Ironically, Republican John Roll was killed by the right-wing terrorist targetting Gabby Giffords, he was caught in the cross-fire. I don’t think there’s even an in-office conservative Republican politician that was assassinated by a Democratic rival this century, or even a single instance of a conservative Republican being assassinated by a liberal over politics in that time period.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 months ago:
So I take it you’re against the government subsidizing scientific research in general?
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 months ago:
“There is no future without electrification. But just electrification will not get us there,”
Daniel Posen is an associate professor in U of T’s department of civil and mineral engineering, and the Canada Research Chair in system-scale environmental impacts of energy and transport technologies. He agrees electrification is vital. But relying solely on electric vehicles to reduce carbon emissions from transportation may not be enough, especially if we want to do it in time to stop a catastrophic two-degree rise in global temperatures.
The article you link contradicts you, it clearly suggests that adoption of EVs reduce carbon emissions, but we still need to do more (e.g. ACTUALLY HAVE PUBLIC TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE) to prevent a climate catastrophe.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 6 months ago:
wiki.gg is where most of the wikis have transferred to
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 6 months ago:
I mean I can cut down all the trees I want so I’m not sure that’s true
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 6 months ago:
Fetuses aren’t living and don’t breathe. They can’t live on their own and all their chemicals come from another human being (via the umbilical cord).
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 months ago:
The code looks like any other Python code out there.
- Comment on It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene. 6 months ago:
How can you tell that they’re not a 2D slice of life anime protagonist living in the real world with real world problems? You the NSA or somethin’?
- Comment on It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene. 6 months ago:
Social jet lag? Isn’t that just delayed circadian rhythm?
- Comment on It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene. 6 months ago:
I mean ADHD, Autism, Dyspraxia, etc. have a specific set of symptoms and specific treatments, and a large part of the population has those (as well as other mental disabilities like MDD, Bipolar, etc.). Many psychology researchers tackling the subject find that ADHD is severely underdiagnosed in the population (despite popular uneducated belief being that ADHD is overdiagnosed due to misinformation being widely spread on TV shows in the 2000s), with around 20% of people likely meeting the criteria for an ADHD diagnosis.
It’s postulated that the high occurence of ADHD in many populations comes from our days as hunter-gatherers – then, many of the behaviours of ADHD would have been extremely helpful, such as high alertness/awareness of changes in the environment such as sound cues and slight visual changes, and impulsiveness/drive to be active to seek out berries and prey and such, making a small portion of members of a group having ADHD be a net benefit. But most of those useful effects have become quite useless in modern society, and many of the symptoms (like dysfunctional working memory & inattentiveness) have become a massive detriment in capitalistic society.
Fun fact, there was a study done on prison populations in Estonia and it was determined that 40% of prisoners had undiagnosed ADHD – the symptoms of ADHD are kind of contrary to the core principles of being a capitalist worker, often with it being mistaken for “laziness” or “lack of motivation”, so they have a much higher likelihood of falling behind in life without proper treatment.
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 6 months ago:
Split brain experiment
- Comment on It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. 6 months ago:
In Hungarian it comes from literally combining “ott” (there) + “honn”/“ház” (house/home). “itthon” is the same way except with “itt” (here).
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 6 months ago:
- Comment on geoengineering 6 months ago:
You’re not wrong at all, humans won’t go extinct. The alarming thing is all the other things which will go extinct or be reduced in number, and the change in water/soil/weather sources. Biodiversity and not having your neighbourhood turned into a desert are pretty important things to like, not have life suck. Plus you know, having access to clean water… in 50 years we’ll all be living like poor African children are now*
*I am not a climate scientist, nor do I have much actual knowledge on climate science
- Comment on I think the original name was "dysaesthesia aethiopica." 6 months ago:
That’s how I immediately interpreted it, looks that way to me
- Comment on I think the original name was "dysaesthesia aethiopica." 6 months ago:
- Comment on I think the original name was "dysaesthesia aethiopica." 6 months ago:
Lol why are you getting downvoted, “your progress in this society is dependent on your luck of knowing people with power who like you” is a perfectly reasonable take
- Comment on I think the original name was "dysaesthesia aethiopica." 6 months ago:
I can definitely be wrong, but since the US has a lot more of a veteran obsession than other countries there are probably laws that give companies benefits (like idk tax credits) for hiring veterans.
- Comment on Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits 6 months ago:
“First world” doesn’t refer to the division between western bloc and eastern bloc anymore. The Three Worlds Model isn’t in use today. Now the term “first-world” refers to highly developed industrialized countries, i.e. a capitalist country with a stable economy and a high standard of living.
- Comment on "Yeah, but what if we used AI?" 6 months ago:
I’m not so sure considering the bizarre reality that many people on welfare also think people who take government aid are lazy and we should abolish welfare
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 6 months ago:
What made me and I imagine a large chunk of other people convert to revanced/similar apps is the super aggressive advertising, it’s impossible to use youtube when you get a double ad before and after every 5 second video and get 30 second midrolls every like 3 minutes. You can’t skip through a video to find the part you want to see because you’ll just get an ad. It’s extremely infuriating and time-consuming, it used to be whete I was willing to deal with it but they fucked it up. Now I can never go back to ad-riddled YouTube, even if it has a “reasonable” amount of advertising.
- Comment on But how would they be able to live on that? 6 months ago:
More like stop paying for the maintanence of shitty half a century old equipment that the military doesn’t use anymore that was outdated as soon as it was introduced (cough cough A-10 cough)
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 7 months ago:
Yeah Ryujinx is a C# Unity game so it has its limits. They wrote Yuzu mostly in C++ so while it tended to be buggy it performed way better.
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 7 months ago:
HDDs are your best option for long-term storage. Every storage mechanism fails eventually but HDDs are convenient, last long, and have excellent data recovery.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 7 months ago:
That’s very far from “banned”. That’s the point. Plenty of things are very disfavored legally, but it’s absurd to call them banned. Communism is one of them. There’s a whole list of openly socialist&/communist mayors in the US on Wikipedia, even. I can openly be extremely communist and the government won’t do anything about it. I can even attend a communist protest and that’s as legal as any other protest.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 7 months ago:
A majority of the countries that voted with China on that resolution were/are extremely tied to China and heavily economically reliant on China, and upsetting China enough means a potential economic crisis.
(note that Venezuela actually imported more from China than the US in 2020 according to some sources)
It only makes sense for them to not vote against China, no matter their actual crimes, it would be biting the hand that feeds them. It’s a similar reason as to why almost no country officially recognizes Taiwan as its own country separate from PRC.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 7 months ago:
That’s literally an argument against anything that exists at all. That’s kind of how laws work, linguistics is complicated so everyone’s interpretation is different. But as it stands, communist parties are not banned. What you speak of is a big “what if”, and currently you saying communism as a whole is banned is simply wrong, even as an oversimplification.
It is a big stretch to turn “Parties other than the two largest ones in the country have considerable cultural, legal, and logistical obstacles to being able to participate in high-level American politics, and an unenforced law from 70 years ago banned one specific communist party before most of the provisions being repealed by congress and thr law being overturned in state courts as unconstitutional” into “Communism is banned in the United States”. There is no legal way to criminally prosecute someone on the basis of them being a communist in the modern day.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 7 months ago:
Who makes that distinction?
… literally anyone who thinks about it? The US Communist Party is one party, there are plenty of other parties that identify as communist.
- Comment on unsure why we are surprised lol 7 months ago:
“Communist Party” and “Communism” are not equivalent concepts
