BigNote

@BigNote@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2827: Brassica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair play

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2827: Brassica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it not the case that kale, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage are all basically derived from the same plant?

  This is what I’ve been told, but I am very ignorant of such matters and while you will say that I can simply Google the issue, which is true, it’s never been enough of a priority for me to do so, goddammit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually a win for UAW. They want to unionize Tesla’s workers, so any anti-union activity on Elon’s part just gives them more ammunition with the NLRB, which has strict rules regarding what ownership is allowed to say publicly. It plays directly into their hands.

  Also worth saying that the Biden NLRB is the most pro-union and labor-friendly in history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, this is a straight up win for UAW. They are trying to unionize Tesla’s workers, so any anti-union activity on Elon’s part only plays into their hands at the NLRB level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a win for UAW though. They are trying to unionize Tesla’s workers and this behavior gives them an edge on the already labor-friendly NLRB by showing that Elon is actively anti-union.

  If anyone thinks for a moment that union organizers don’t actively plan this kind of thing out, I can assure that they do. It’s part of their job description. My union is a lot smaller than UAW and our organizers get up to all kinds of subterfuge and shenanigans, so I can only imagine what the UAW people are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And your point is…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta deletes Al Jazeera presenter’s profile after show criticising Israel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As a guy wholly descended from the peoples of the British Isles, I have a similar feeling, only in my case, it really is true that my people have trashed the world for their personal benefit.

  Granted that the Irish side of my family was never entirely on board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. There was some initial confusion when I first switched over to Lemmy that resulted in the creation of superfluous accounts. I am better now thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  K

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Describe your “aversion” to death any way you want to, if in the end it results in something that very much looks like fear, I think you’re making a distinction without a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not rational. Evolution has hardwired us and every other organism that has the necessary neural architecture to fear death and seek to avoid it. A species that didn’t have an instinctive and heritable aversion to death would not last very long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously not referring to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tick tock 🕚⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of people in this thread who became legal experts by passing the Reddit bar exam, or something of equally imaginary significance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More of a uniform than a costume.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Boulder is not a small town. But even if it were, it’s a college town which, surprise surprise, always changes the small town dynamic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More of a uniform than a costume.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair play. That said, you get used to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  100 percent agree. The world is disappointingly full of morons and idiots.

  There’s a Bertrand Russell quote to the effect that “the trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and arrogant, while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

  No doubt I’ve botched the actual quote, but the point remains regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well this got disappointingly stupid in no time at all. What I see here is something roughly like the same proportion of idiots as one would typically expect on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BMW⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no. They also saw the US as ethnically impure and therefore weak. The 4th Reich wasn’t going to have that problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does this instance have a stance on right wing disinformation communities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That escalated quickly.