BrotherL0v3

@BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: “Kwaak” is the sound a duck makes, so frogs gotta say something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial disfigurement: 'Restaurant asked me to leave over condition'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He said they had told him that although it was a hate crime, it was “unlikely” officers could pursue it further.

  Next sentence:

  The Met confirmed to the BBC that officers had visited Mr Bromley about the incident and that although no arrests had been made, the force took “reports of hate crime seriously”.

  Pick one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What have you been pondering about as of late?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel you in a big way, but to be totally fair: corporations becoming states has probably trended towards the better from a zoomed-out perspective, and political leaders lying all the time has probably only become more visible than ever.

  The entities that were doing all the colonialism for the past several hundred years have been private companies, and they did huge amounts of slavery and genocide. Blackwater is bad, but the East India Company was worse. This is not to say that things are good now, only that they aren’t like worse than they’ve ever been.

  And I think the present day has a greater expectation of political leaders being accountable to the people they govern than most of history. Back in the days of monarchs and oligarchs, there was no mass media to tell everyone they were lying and no likely consequences for the liars even if there were.

  Again, I empathize a huge amount with what you’ve said & I am also disappointed that the world we’ve created isn’t better than it is. I just personally think that the above two are trending in a more optimistic direction, even if they’re still objectively pretty bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite economic growth, 70% of Americans believe the economy is getting worse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah. Who gives a fuck about a 2% increase in the GDP? Prices are high and wages are low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Female-to-male rape, (how) does it happen without roofies?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Rape does not always involve physically overpowering someone. Someone may coerce someone else into sex with blackmail, lies, threats, or abuse of a position of power.

  2. Erections are controlled by a person’s autonomic nervous system. A man can get hard even when he is not turned on or consenting to what is happening.

  3. Not all rape involves a penis. A woman who sticks an object into a man without his consent is committing rape. Rape is about power and control over another person, and the rapist need not be directly stimulated for rape to occur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Parasitic wasps and caterpillars type of thing⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Powerful people need to be more scared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Java. It’s familiar, it’s the one I use most at my job, and I’m not in love with any other language enough to choose something less pragmatic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a weird 16 year old, staying up too late on summer vacation of 2011. I had decided that asking people their favorite dinosaur was the ultimate conversation starter, and had a working theory that the more unusual their answer was, the more interesting the conversation would be. People who said “T-Rex” were lame, but “Iguanadon” would be cool, something like that.

  Well, she said “Pachycephalosaurus”, which was the first one of the night I had to look up. Naturally, I was enthralled.

  We talked into the wee hours of the morning, where she (being a fellow dumb teenager) sent me her Facebook profile. Before clicking, I had decided that I would look but ultimately not accept her friend request, because stranger danger and all. But when I checked out her page, it turned out we had a mutual friend! A guy we both knew had started high school with her, and moved up the coast halfway through and was currently going to my high school.

  That was good enough for me, and I accepted her friend request. July 7th, 2011, around 3am.

  From there, we quickly turned flirty and started talking all the time. We weren’t anything official, but I told her I loved her within a couple weeks. One problem though: she was over 400 miles away, and I was still in school with no license.

  To make a long story short, we were flirty on and off for the next three years until 2014, where we both decided “fuck it” and jumped into the special hell that is long distance dating together. I got to see her in person December 14th of that year after working and a grocery store while finishing up my associate’s degree to make enough money for a train ticket, and she was my first kiss.

  Anyway, college sucked and long distance dating sucks even when it’s the right person. Fast-forward to 2020 when I finally have a car & some degree of financial stability, I moved 400 miles away to live with her & haven’t looked back. Put a ring on her finger March of 2021, and married her on the beach last weekend after knowing her for twelve years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  End of an era. I met my wife on Omegle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Planet, some string and a bell.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I did some numbers because it sounded fun.

  Earth’s diameter is 41.804 million feet. I’m not sure if you meant that or Earth’s circumference when you said “Earth’s surface”, but I figure either one is gonna get us a really big number.

  The first result I can find for string comes in a pack that weighs 2.89oz and contains 328 feet of string.

  Using that as our standard, you would need 127,452 packs of string (assuming you find a way to perfectly attach them without wasting any length on knots).

  127,452 * (2.89 / 16) = 23,021 lbs of string total.

  So if we ignore the string stretching, compressing, or breaking, you’d only need to be able to pull 11ish tons of string to ring the bell!