Schmoo
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- Comment on Based on a true story 9 hours ago:
Nor does it end with the UK, which is the perspective I assume you were speaking from when you said owning a car is a privilege and that people should just walk.
- Comment on Based on a true story 12 hours ago:
Not in the US we don’t. A car is a necessity for the vast majority of Americans because of how our cities and towns are built. The car lobby makes sure that doesn’t change because they can take advantage of that fact to put people in massive amounts of debt.
- Comment on Based on a true story 12 hours ago:
It’s a good thing we have a robust public transportation system and pedestrian infrastructure then. /s
- Comment on Israel publicly announces genocidal intent 2 weeks ago:
inhuman monsters
Fuck off with the dehumanizing rhetoric. You want an unending cycle of violence? This is how you perpetuate it. How do you think Israel came to be the way it is?
- Comment on Celebrating my 1000th comment. Here is a shitpost. 3 weeks ago:
I started to make a long effort post detailing Putin’s rise to - and subsequent consolidation of - power, but then I came to my senses and realized it would be pointless. If I went through with it, you would just do what you’ve been doing already, dismiss all sources I provide as false and biased propaganda while engaging in ridiculous whataboutism. I decided it would be a poor use of my time, is this really how you want to be spending yours?
- Comment on Celebrating my 1000th comment. Here is a shitpost. 3 weeks ago:
Putin and Xi are dictators in the same way that Trump is trying to be. They consolidated power under their office, removing term limits and checks, and manipulate the democratic process in their favor (often with blatant ballot stuffing and crushing opposition, in the case of Putin).
The US political system, as corrupt as it is, isn’t quite to that point yet.
- Comment on Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery 4 weeks ago:
You forgot to mention that it’s watered down. That’s what the emulsifier is for, to make the oils in the cheese mix well with the added water. The concept is fine - for some applications - if it were only that, but this is hyper-processed American food we’re talking about here. Gotta pad out that ingredient list:
CHEDDAR CHEESE (CULTURED MILK, SALT, ENZYMES), SKIM MILK, MILKFAT, MILK PROTEIN CONCENTRATE, WHEY, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SODIUM PHOSPHATE, CONTAINS LESS THAN 2% OF MODIFIED FOOD STARCH, SALT, LACTIC ACID, MILK, SORBIC ACID AS A PRESERVATIVE, OLEORESIN PAPRIKA (COLOR), ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE, ANNATTO (COLOR).
- Comment on check it before you wreck it 5 weeks ago:
Shaka, when the walls fell…
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The boomer ellipsis drives me nuts. It gives me a very ominous feeling, like something is being left unsaid that I’m supposed to extrapolate. The only time I use an ellipsis in text is when I want to indicate that the thought is incomplete.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 2 months ago:
This is not an issue isolated to Canada, this same story - give or take a few details - is playing out all over the Western world. The liberals are being exposed as lame ducks and losing the support of the people, leaving the faux-populist far right to take their place, in the conspicuous absence - or rather, enforced impotence - of left-populists. The status quo is falling apart and fascism is returning in force, largely unopposed.
- Comment on And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf 2 months ago:
So I’m not a medical professional, and I didn’t speak out of an abundance of caution while making an offhanded comment on a shitpost. Sue me.
- Comment on And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf 2 months ago:
And conversely, not everyone is you. Weed has particularly variable effects, I know it might not work for my grandma, but as I see it it’s worth a shot if the alternative is opiates. She’s only unwilling to try it because she grew up being lied to about cannabis and thinks it will make her crazy. She’s even afraid of CBD.
- Comment on And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf 2 months ago:
Honestly wish I could convince my grandma that weed would be better for managing her arthritis pain than the opiates her doctor has her hooked on.
- Comment on Magnus Carlsen: Chess champion quits FIDE tournament after being told to change jeans 2 months ago:
I’ve worked IT jobs that require khakis and it’s equally stupid and pointless.
- Comment on New Cyberpunk Netflix animation confirmed as 2077 tops 30 million sales 3 months ago:
It’s not that hard to imagine either. My mind immediately jumps to a sort of post-apocalypse where climate change caused the governments of the world to collapse. Sounds bleak at first, but you can make the setting solarpunk by showing how people adapted to live in the new world sustainably, and are thriving in the absence of oppressive hierarchies maintained by corporations and states. The external threat could take all kinds of forms, but I think the most compelling would be a cyberpunk city-state that survived the collapse and is now attempting to re-establish governance over the thriving solarpunks.
- Comment on don't be a coward 4 months ago:
Raccoon paws and octopus tentacles both rival the dexterity of human - and other primates’ - hands in my opinion. They even have certain advantages.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 4 months ago:
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 months ago:
Except all the liberals insisted they would vote for Biden’s corpse before letting Trump win. What does it say about them if an actual progressive is the real dealbreaker?
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 4 months ago:
This is not colorblind friendly at all.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 4 months ago:
I wonder that as well, I have a false front incisor and haven’t noticed any difference in durability, but as far as sensation goes it’s practically identical, if a bit less sensitive to cold. Then again, the part that actually gets replaced doesn’t exactly have nerve endings, I still have those underneath it.
- Comment on Do the ultra-rich consume popular media? 4 months ago:
He just had to know what the true hero of the story, Jules-Pierre Mao, would get up to next.
- Comment on [Thread] Mental Math 4 months ago:
Agreed, until prosthetics can achieve full parity of both function and sensation then they are only good as replacements for parts that are already missing. No sane person is swapping their hand for one that lacks a sense of touch just as good or better than what they have already, even if it’s mechanically superior. In such a scenario that mechanical superiority is desired they would opt for an augmentation over a prosthetic.
- Comment on If aliens do come it may be only cause they want us on thier side of some bigger war. 4 months ago:
Except the moment you have orbital dominance over a planet then no amount of ground or atmosphere based weaponry matters whatsoever. All they would have to do is drop some mass from orbit and they can cause destruction far beyond even the most powerful nuclear weapons.
- Comment on where the magic happens owo 4 months ago:
Wow, I know some of those words.
- Comment on Swiss Experiment Will Place Solar Panels Between Train Tracks 4 months ago:
This is just bait for grant and investment cash. Sounds genius to venture capitalists divorced from reality.
- Comment on Pee posting? 5 months ago:
Are you just supposed to carry that around with you everywhere? Do you wash it in the sink after every use? If I were a trans man I think I would just use a stall.
- Comment on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect 5 months ago:
Put those monkeys underwater and you might conclude that drowning is in their nature. I know of the studies you’re referencing regarding monkeys being taught to use money and I’m aware that they were done with monkeys in captivity. In the same vein, the debunked study about “alpha” wolves was done on wolves in captivity and observations of wolves in their natural environment countered the study’s findings. Our actions are a result of the context and material conditions that we are in.
People dominate others for personal gain because they live in a system that rewards them for doing so. Place those people in a system that rewards them for helping others and the very same selfish impulse will make them saints. The “tragedy of the commons” is enlightenment era defeatist bullshit. The commons existed and were managed by people for thousands of years before capitalists enclosed them and dared to claim that it was the inevitable result of human nature.
- Comment on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect 5 months ago:
If that’s something they need then that’s something they should get. No one will be happy doing nothing forever, in that year they will likely find something that makes them happy, especially if opportunities are made available to them.
- Comment on FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect 5 months ago:
These kinds of movements are a consequence of over-exploitation. The “lie down” movement - also “let it rot” - is similar to the “quiet quitting” movement in the US. People will not be motivated to contribute when they are struggling and do not see any benefit to trying harder. If these people were fairly compensated for their labor and had greater autonomy over how to contribute they would not lose motivation. Alienation from the result of their labor is also a huge contributor; feeling rewarded for your work can be as simple as seeing the result (a teacher seeing their students find their passions, for example).
- Comment on Is it normal to feel tired of technological progress? 5 months ago:
The technology we create takes the form of the incentives that drive its’ creation. If we create technology for the exploitation of others we shouldn’t be surprised that people use it for the exploitation of others.
