Steve

@Steve@communick.news

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Green tinted glasses would be the technical answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Fight choreography only works against someone who also knows the choreography. Then it’ll play out according to the choreography.

  The real world doesn’t work that way.

  Keanu does have extensive general firearms training though. So if he had a gun you’d likely be in trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes a fart dry vs wet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  All farts are dry. If it’s wet, it’s known a shart.
  As in a shit you thought was a fart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The software is free. The server to host on is not. All Fediverse instances cost money to run. Every user costs money. Requiring one time “donations” is kind of misleading. More than that, its in sustainable. I signed up at Communick, because they’re upfront about the annual subscription. That’s the only way the Fediverse can work without adds or sponsorships.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve never seen someone put their phone in their pocket or purse, without turning off the screen first?
  I’ve seen lots of people do that. A couple times I pointed out why it’s not a good idea. But people who do it, just don’t seem to care. My mother has done this exact thing to me several times. She calls me back later, when she sees that I called her, wondering what I wanted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you doing when you call someone, don't leave a voicemail or text, they call you back right away but you don't answer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But dialing with a silenced phone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Being an idiot in a hurry I saw the medication Warfarin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You can always find outliers. That doesn’t mean playing the loto isn’t useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any Engrish-like community in here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or would it be a community of first generation immigrants venting their frustrations with English itself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3107: Weather Balloons⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like a climate change proposal to me 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s my kind of humor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is everyone democrats in this observation?
  I’m neither, for the record

  And I neither said, nor acted like, she was telling the truth. Mearly pointing out that Rump is ignoring his own “intelligence”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your TV Is Spying On You⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look for Signage Displays. They’re basically TVs with different software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Trumps own head of intelligence says they’re years away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Newer devices have been designed and made in the decades since.
  Are cars more sophisticated today then they were in the 1940s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  After world war two, Europe was busy putting itself back together. It left an opening that the US stepped into. And who wouldn’t like to be the big dog in the yard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to a family member who says the COVID vaccines are being used to depopulate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask them questions. Have them explain how, why. When you find contradictions or confusion, ask how they resolve them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The it sounds like you should be arguing for different semantics, that match the experience of living breathing human beings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they don’t, they’re still transitioning their gender. Exactly how much they decide to change themselves doesn’t matter. That’s the point of the term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gender isn’t biological. You’re conflating with sex

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we ask 100 random ppl to describe their ideal society, which real/fictional countries would the answers resemble the most?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depressingly, that would be a relative improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you’re actively being targeted for some specific reason (NSA kind of reason) in practical terms it’s unheard of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we ask 100 random ppl to describe their ideal society, which real/fictional countries would the answers resemble the most?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  United Federation of Planets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If youre bi do you have to prove it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How would you?
  Date men and women? Anyone can do that.
  Go further? You could be still be pretending.

  You can’t really externally “prove” an internal subjective feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have to solve the money problem!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really how it works. If it was made to work that way, it would still be a relatively small group donating their own compute resources to subsidize everyone else. Which is what we already have, and isn’t very scalable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have to solve the money problem!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only real option is to charge people.
  Hosting isn’t free. It costs money to host a website. That money needs to come from somewhere. If it doesn’t come from advertisers, it must come from users.

  There could be a verity options for that. But I like the simple annual subscription. Each and every user pays. Spread out the cost as much as possible. It’s only fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still not sure I understand exactly. Are you asking about individual autonomy, or the collective autonomy of humanity?

  I would say there’s no real difference on an individual level. I guess conceptually, humanity as a collective entity, might loose autonomy. But I’m not sure that matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Answer to what? The question I asked you? I don’t have answer. Safety without giving up liberty just seems fine to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you don’t have to give up liberty?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would it take to make Gemini suitable to be president of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Empire was peaceful for thousands of years.
  You’d rather have constant war and chaos?