TropicalDingdong
@TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 4 hours ago:
Easy to forget, especially when going from low flow to high flow use cases. Most people just keep upping the pressure wondering why they aren’t getting consistent flow without realizing it’s actually a tip issue.
Happy to help.
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 7 hours ago:
You might consider adjusting your emitter from mist to stream. Easy to forget this adjustment.
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 day ago:
So maybe that computer I just bought will be my last for a while then.
- Comment on Painful paper cut. Maybe it will feel better if she licks it 1 day ago:
Please mark NSFW.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 days ago:
- Comment on Lebron James is popping up in Chinese videos shouting "What can I say?" - Is this a Chinese meme? 2 days ago:
What can I say?
- Comment on Actual theft 2 days ago:
It’s not a filter. She had an eye embiggening.
- Comment on Actual theft 2 days ago:
Yep. However, it’s somewhat inconsistent. YT doesn’t want you to be able to but it does work, for now.
- Comment on Actual theft 2 days ago:
- Comment on I assume it's corn 3 days ago:
Cat
- Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault 3 days ago:
You’re playing the game whether you like it or not, and if you refuse to take your turn, it doesn’t end or even stall the game, it just lets the other team win more.
See this is where the fallacy lay. You think you are arguing with me about strategic voting, or at least you are presenting it that way. You aren’t. You are arguing with voters, all of them as a set, about your idea of how votes should be used, vote a vote represents, and what “strategic” really means. And thats were this entirely falls apart. And when those voters don’t accept your premises as a set, your strategy falls apart.
The game isn’t a game of one player versus the system, and if your strategy doesn’t adapt when scaled, its not a good strategy. The strategy of “strategic voting” (which I hate the description, because its by no means strategic to employ strategies which operate directly against your purported outcomes) falls apart when you scale the game to any more than one player.
You need to accept the fact that while you, a single voter, accept the premises of what a vote is, how it should be used, and what it means to be “strategic”, voters do not accept these premises or agree with you, as evidenced by their behavior. And because no one beyond the people use this strategy as a cudgel agree with them in terms of their premises, the strategy when employed does actual material damage to the alleged outcomes of those espousing it.
Those making the argument around strategic voting are constantly trying to act smart like they’ve got some kind of logical or moral upper hand, but they understand not either the morality of what they are doing, or the basics of game theory well enough to understand the damage they are doing.
- Comment on Everything is awful because the people who went to business school figured out how to fuck us over as hard as possible. 3 days ago:
My wife the tramp.
- Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault 3 days ago:
I posted this in another thread but it belongs here too, because we need to exterminate this kind of thinking (blaming voters):
Firstly, and I want to be very clear, this exact line of thinking is, in my view, one of the biggest political self-sabotage of the last decade. The “strategic voting” sermon is a toxic meme: it flatters people into thinking they’re doing game theory, when what they’re actually doing is laundering fear, cynicism, and party discipline into moral obligation.
In a FPtP voting system you must vote strategically. You must vote against the party you like least.
No. I don’t “must” do anything, and neither does any other voter. A vote is not a hostage note. It’s not a loyalty oath. It’s a signal of preference, and people will use it that way whether or not you approve.
And the biggest problem is: the whole argument relies on a fantasy version of voters. It assumes (1) everyone agrees on who is “viable,” (2) everyone shares the same ranking of “least bad,” and (3) everyone will coordinate on the same “strategic” choice. That’s not how human beings behave. People have different risk tolerances, different values, different lines they won’t cross, and different beliefs about what’s possible. You can’t brute-force a coordination problem by scolding individuals.
Worse: preaching “strategic voting” is self-fulfilling sabotage. The constant message of “don’t vote for who you want, vote for who you’re allowed to want” depresses enthusiasm, trains people to expect disappointment as the price of participation, and gives a hall pass to candidates to believe they no longer need to work for your vote. If you’re trying to help a candidate or party win, telling potential supporters that their real preferences are irresponsible is a great way to push them into disengagement, protest votes, or staying home, ALL of which are perfectly viable options.
What the “must vote strategically” story really does: it shifts responsibility away from candidates and parties to earn votes, and puts the onus on voters to simply accept less bad, which loses elections. It turns elections into a blame game where voters are treated like malfunctioning parts that need to be corrected, and it handed the country to fascism.
And I noticed what you did, trying to claim this as Russian propaganda. Again, deeply toxic, but I wouldn’t expect less from someone espousing the strategy that handed the country to Fascism.
- Comment on If you didn't vote, the current state of things is partially your fault 3 days ago:
This mostly expresses a misunderstanding of how voting and electoralism work in a practical, applied manner.
A voter can be strategic and could be moved. Voters are a statistical distribution. And in the course of an election cycle, won’t be moved. It’s the job of politicians to figure out where voters are at and speak to them.
Blaming voters for a failure like 2016 or 2024 is like blaming people for the failures of recycling. Its the job of parties and candidates to go find the votes, to build a winning coalition, to hear the grievances of voters and then to speak to those grievances.
- Comment on I’m tired of cornposting 3 days ago:
You can tell by the beard.
- Comment on Day 1 of posting real shitposts, till people and the mods understand the purpose of the community 4 days ago:
$10 dorra? For a 10 yo pigeon hentai game?
I mean jeez I might pay it but I won’t be happy about it.
- Comment on Everywhere I go 4 days ago:
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 4 days ago:
If the Dems aren’t running on abolishing ICE and completely dismantling the police state, now, they’re setting up to throw the 2028 election.
- Comment on Who started this shitposting?! 5 days ago:
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 6 days ago:
I mean I’m open to suggestions
- Comment on That's the real shit, I mean Corn. 6 days ago:
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 6 days ago:
Just another billionaire to add to the chopping block
We really need to just come up with some recipes that are objectively good, and my thinking, is that the problem will solve itself. Here, I’ll go first.
Fall-Off-the-Bone Billionaire (Roast + Braise Style)
1 whole billionaire (120–240 lb), trussed, cleaned, and patted dry
Salt & pepper
4 tbsp butter (soft)
1 onion + 2 carrots + 2 celery stalks (chunked)
2 cups chicken or turkey broth Heat oven to 325°F (165°C). Rub billionaire all over with butter, salt, and pepper. Put vegetables in a deep roasting pan, set billionaire on top, pour broth into pan.
Cover tightly with foil or a lid. Roast about 3–3.5 hours (for 120–240 lb), basting once or twice. Remove foil, roast 30–45 min more to brown skin, until thickest part of thigh hits 165°F.
Rest 20–30 min, then gently pull meat from the bones (it should slide right off).
- Comment on Reddit is an AI chatbot and 5 mins games app now 6 days ago:
It’s like watching the social club you helped start turn into a corporate franchise, then devolve into a dave and busters.
It’s the internet folks no space lasts forever.
- Comment on Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns 6 days ago:
Oh yeah?
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 week ago:
Waahn ded
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- Comment on Giant Mirrors in Space Could Bring Sunlight After Dark, One Startup Says—and Astronomers Are Concerned 1 week ago:
This is literally the dumbest idea and it has been the whole time.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 1 week ago:
that depends.
How much you charging for a nibble? Also, do you have McRib sauce?
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 1 week ago:
People who have been holding off on building a new systems due to part prices since 2020
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 1 week ago:
👁️🗨️ 👄 👁️🗨️
