morphballganon

@morphballganon@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t write off small devs just because huge corpos are assholes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which timezone would win in a conflict?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm how do time zones work at the south pole? Can you run in a small circle and hit most if not all of them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which timezone would win in a conflict?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The one with Hawaii could just pretend they’ve already been wiped out and wait for everyone else to destroy each other

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use an air fryer

  No actually I’ve used physical media since the 90s and haven’t had a reason to change

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I stop sleeping through everything?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Increase the volume on your alarm. Set it to a ringtone that is less relaxing. Set multiple such alarms, a few minutes apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Still a lot of toxicity on BS as well, and I only see that increasing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to trust consensus to observe global average temperatures and infer that we’re in uncharted territory in regard to the climate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the bare minimum. For you to lambast the suggestion of doing the bare minimum would imply you prefer doing nothing, not doing more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re touching on the idea of a “truth baseline” as I call it. How do you know what’s real vs bullshit?

  My truth baseline is that maintaining the habitability of Earth is good. From that, I can deduce the following:

  • excessive carbon dioxide in atmosphere is bad
  • reliance on fossil fuels is bad
  • clean renewable energy is good
  • people who rail against renewables are bad
  • political part(ies) that do the same are bad
  • news figures that normalize that are bad

  Etc. See where this is headed?

  The ambiguity of whether someone is good or not is due to goodness being a subjective quality. There is no such thing as objective good. The closest thing to objective good we can attain is sustainability.

  The same can be said about truth. If you want something objective, that’s called fact. Truth is a subjective perception of facts. Thus… there is no one correct truth. Just an openness to adjust to new information while dismissing those who are opposed to your truth baseline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You either vote against fascism or you don’t.

  You can call me insane if you like. But at least I’m not a fascist.

  Are you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Guessing you mean the speed of a truck relative to the speed of the Earth, as the Earth is traveling around the sun much faster than a truck

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  -esque* fyi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I try to say it exactly like they say it.

  I had a coworker named Mahmoud, and all my native-English-speaking coworkers heavily anglicized the pronunciation, removing the throat-clearing sound of the h, and changing the first vowel to the a in “math” rather than the a in “wall”. Whenever I spoke to him, I tried to copy his inflection as best I could, and and he seemed delighted, but I never clarified if it was about my pronunciation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could I order a package without my parents finding it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you take a bus to a bigger city to buy them in person

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do all American stores have greeters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not at all. That customer was hunting for something to complain about so they could negotiate freebies from your boss. Sounds like your boss fell for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The resemblance is uncanny⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a really cool name with alliteration, fwiw

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people call it “woke”?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only douchecanoes use the term unironically, so it follows the person they are criticising is likely doing something morally right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people call it “woke”?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you heard the term virtue-signaling?

  Selfish people want to paint people better than them as bad, so they try to adjust the narrative to suggest that those better people are actually faking it. The term virtue-signaling suggests that these virtuous acts are actually just for appearances, and insincere.

  The term woke has a similar implication. It’s like “this person is trying very hard to appear to be virtuous, and in doing so, they’re going too far, and doing more harm than good.”

  That’s my intellectual take on it, anyway. Plebs just adopt the term without understanding the implied meaning. “Other team == woke == bad” is all 95% of them think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is in for the antivax in a government?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A sicker population means more money for the executives that own medical facilities and insurance companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey board of directors! Make me your new CEO and I will fix this problem!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do school shooters know how to use guns?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The hardest parts of gun use are aiming at long range and proper maintenance. Neither of those are a concern for someone planning to shoot at close range and not live another day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many kids are going to have their vision fucked up this time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard you can safely call someone an asshole

  Wonder if creep would likewise be safe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3141: Mantle Model⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Loss has 4 panels

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  Ok buddy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t make profit then either you’re losing money or straddling the line between profit and losing money, neither of which is sustainable. Then someone else will come in and try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can get lost and then spend time “progressing” only to find the way blocked and having to backtrack

  You mean you GET to backtrack

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skeptical about the accuracy, given everything we’ve seen AI do so far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  22yo women date 30yo+ men all the time

  Maybe not so much the other way around

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I quit my job to make my own game. Toll Booth Simulator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand what a lot of those activities have to do with toll booths

  The drinking animation needs a lot of work, or just skip it and have it be instantaneous with a gulp sound

  The woman’s head getting bigger from the drink is bizarre and disturbing

  The woman spewing liquid out from her mouth doesn’t look great