keepcarrot
@keepcarrot@hexbear.net
- Comment on ‘Duty to report’ child abuse laws will not apply to doctors, teachers or nurses 1 month ago:
That is a bonkers stipulation put in a law
- Comment on ‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment 1 month ago:
Only a quarter? O_o also not sure why anyone would be expecting it to be lower
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 1 month ago:
All residential bathrooms are woke
- Comment on palaeoartists are dreamers 1 month ago:
He looks grumpy :( possibly from the implied cold
- Comment on Sad 1 month ago:
My knife only has room for 3 cuts, after that it’s just flat bar. How do I cut these pineapples?
- Comment on evangelism 2 months ago:
Imagine what wild beliefs he’d be lurching into if that story were remotely true. Wild that people seem to be into it
- Comment on evangelism 2 months ago:
What
- Comment on evangelism 2 months ago:
Reminds of various evangelical speakers seeing “crosses” in nature or cheese toasties and thinking they’re profound. Truly a Christmas miracle that a pair of lines intersect.
- Comment on Women should give up vaping if they want to get pregnant, study suggests 2 months ago:
Yeah, I’m pretty sure this lowers birthrates by publishing
- Comment on freaky nat geo 2 months ago:
Sorry :(
- Comment on freaky nat geo 2 months ago:
It’s just like in that song!
- Comment on And you're telling me that code interviews don't work... 2 months ago:
Like, I’m not a good coder and struggle to get a job but uh…
- Comment on space 2 months ago:
Teleporters as well.
I remember having access to one in an RPG (rogue trader, teleportarium), and almost every session was “why can’t we use the teleporter for this?”. Eventually we made a rule that we could only use it once per session, which meant functionally we saved it for emergencies or something really funny.
There is an enjoyment to solving problems in the engineering sense, but in an oppositional sense you dont really tell any stories other than about how you solved a puzzle you yourself invented
- Comment on space 2 months ago:
If I was writing a fiction and felt the need to address this, I would make it so where you wind up is based on the location of the time machine in the time you travel. But also I probably wouldn’t and just handwave it
- Comment on space 2 months ago:
Stable employment hopefully
- Comment on clearly aliens 2 months ago:
I assumed it was from the Moses story being one of the main cultural sources for ancient egypt
- Comment on Is sdf federated with Threads? 2 months ago:
Omg there’s a federation chain from hexbear to threads
- Comment on challenged :( 3 months ago:
Honestly, the biggest challenge for me was self-motivation while severely depressed. I could show up to class, but that pretty much used up all the juice. Sometimes I wouldn’t even be able to do that.
- Comment on Upcoming space RTS 'Falling Frontier' looks epic 3 months ago:
I’ll give it a whirl. Gotta survive until then
- Comment on Good job man 👍 3 months ago:
Yeah, it’s wild how much purchase it has
- Comment on What Are You Playing This Week? November 27, 2023 edition 7 months ago:
Looking at maybe starting to write my own in Godot! Gotta get a handle on C# and write some basic data structures and stuff before actually touching code though.
Also maybe Darkest Dungeon? Depends on how much time I have after other things.
- Comment on Czech government freezes Russian state's real-estate assets 7 months ago:
Tbh, I thought this would have already been the case
- Comment on A sobering thought! 8 months ago:
Dang, it sucks that death somehow causes misunderstandings of empiricism
- Comment on NSW Police considering using ‘extraordinary’ powers at Sydney pro-Palestinian rally this weekend 8 months ago:
In Australia, its the cops.
- Comment on Super easy, barely an inconvenience 8 months ago:
Feeling it this week :(
- Comment on Who Really Invented the Alphabet? 8 months ago:
The ones descended from west Semitic script (So, most European ones, including English)
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I personally avoid argument threads for the most part unless I have a dire social need, but not every conversation is necessarily about the Holodomor and Xinjiang (the two points of contention it seems).
I’d hope that everyone I talk to and take seriously is a denier of “White Genocide”, the theory that white people are under threat of being bred out and marginalised in their own lands by the deliberate machinations of refugees and immigrants. In this rather gross example, we wouldn’t refer to each other as genocide deniers.
After which point it becomes a discussion about what actually happened, what constitutes a genocide, whether that fits this legal definition or that etc. But the conversation never gets that far.
Personally I’m not super interested in relitigating this conversation every time a Chinese cop does something or a member of Azov sneezes. But if other people get something out of it, idk. Whatever. But it is a point of friction between our communities.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I try to engage everyone in good faith, but I’m also out of step with the majority of time zones on lemmy.
I’m not that scrappy. We don’t have downvotes (which don’t have notifications), so generally people reply instead (which do have notifications). The sincerity of any response is going to vary wildly. If I personally am going to respond to a post about Tiananmen Square or whatever, the initial poster is going to have to wade through a bunch of answers I will charitably call “tedious”.
That said, if a certain sort of poster who trips some wire responds, or we get called something that implies you won’t take us seriously (e.g. genocide denier is a more common one among others we’d consider on the left), why bother with civility or politeness? Even if you started to hear a doorknocker out, how quickly will your patience dry up when they start calling you a liar and a paid shill for inscrutable foreign agents?
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 9 months ago:
It is a very popular feature request. Not generally being able to block instances. Specifically blocking hexbear.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Yeah, life support being off or at reduced power would mean carbon dioxide build up and it would probably get a bit sweaty, but you can survive for quite a long time in a sealed room, especially with how much spare space is in Star Trek rooms.
Unless life support includes something like “shields that keep all the air in” or something.
I agree with the theme of the post, but some of the examples need more work, possibly at the expense of being less quippy