morphballganon
@morphballganon@lemmy.world
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 week ago:
They are correctly listing the month first.
You say the day first, the person listening has exactly 0 idea what the hell you’re talking about until you get to the month.
You say the month first, and they understand, and can form an understanding of your whole message faster than if you made them wait by saying the day first.
“When are you getting married?”
“Twenty-second of February”
/^ until February was said, the listener could glean nothing of value at all from the speaker.
- Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers 1 week ago:
I can confirm you can in fact get back pain before the age of 40
- Comment on What are some good games to play while sick? 2 weeks ago:
Zelda: The Wind Waker.
There’s a part where you heal a sick person, toward the middle.
Also, a kid with a snot drip hanging from his nose, in the beginning.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 1 month ago:
Using headphones is more polite since you’re not forcing it upon others.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Simpler meals. Skimp on cleaning when necessary.
- Comment on How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"? 1 month ago:
When Jeffrey Lebowski got a mug thrown at his head
- Comment on How to Remove Burn Mark from (acrylic ?) Sink 1 month ago:
Mr Clean magic eraser with some isopropyl alcohol, give it a scrub?
- Comment on If "James Bond" is a codename, would a hypothetical female operative filling the same role receive the same codename? 1 month ago:
Anyone who’s seen Casino Royale (2006) knows the codename theory is horseshit. Bond was Bond before he was a 00. Later, when he resigns from MI6, he’s still Bond. It’s his name.
Same with anyone who’s seen GoldenEye. If Bond was a codename, Trevelyan would be too, and he’d have mentioned that he no longer went by that MI6-given moniker.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 months ago:
“People who are more emotive with their gestures than me must be fake”
“People who are less emotive with their gestures than me are robotic lol”
Most people hold both of those views but have wildly different levels of emotiveness… The result? Posts like this
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 2 months ago:
Let’s get the other branches onboard too.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 2 months ago:
They got tired of harassing people on Bluesky and changed things up a bit
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 months ago:
Don’t write off small devs just because huge corpos are assholes
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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 months 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 months 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*? 3 months 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*? 3 months 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*? 3 months 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*? 3 months 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? 3 months 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' 3 months ago:
-esque* fyi
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 3 months 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? 3 months ago:
Can you take a bus to a bigger city to buy them in person
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 3 months 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 3 months ago:
It is a really cool name with alliteration, fwiw
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 3 months 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 months 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 months ago:
A sicker population means more money for the executives that own medical facilities and insurance companies.