morphballganon
@morphballganon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 days 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? 6 days 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 6 days 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*? 1 week 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*? 1 week 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*? 1 week 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*? 1 week 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? 1 week 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' 1 week ago:
-esque* fyi
- Comment on Should you copy a person's accent when pronouncing their name? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
Can you take a bus to a bigger city to buy them in person
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 1 week 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 1 week ago:
It is a really cool name with alliteration, fwiw
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 2 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”? 2 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? 2 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 2 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? 2 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 2 weeks ago:
How many kids are going to have their vision fucked up this time?
- Comment on My friend exposed a guy for bad stuff. Now he's created a site where he archives everything my friend posts online & deliberately twists it to make her look bad/discredit her. What should she do? 2 weeks ago:
I heard you can safely call someone an asshole
Wonder if creep would likewise be safe
- Comment on xkcd #3141: Mantle Model 3 weeks ago:
Loss has 4 panels
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
tHiS cOmPaNy Is UsInG tHe LeGaL sYsTeM tO pRoTeCt ThEiR iPs WhAt AsShOlEs ThEiR fAnS mUsT bE bOoTlIcKeRs
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? 4 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 4 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 4 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? 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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
- Comment on Damn 5 weeks ago:
There are significant differences between the two. Real’s got wrinkles and sunburnt arms. So the guy was right, the drawing isn’t realistic.
That said, we shouldn’t expect drawings to be realistic. If you wanted realistic, why aren’t you watching a live-action film?
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 5 weeks ago:
They know the thing they’ve got going on now isn’t working so they have to latch onto anything new
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 5 weeks ago:
Lots of guys are held back by looks and/or confidence.