WeirdGoesPro
@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 5 days ago:
Since when is it forbidden? Who is gatekeeping the sports page?
And I think you see it in sports news because it reaches their demographic better—some WWE fans are too insecure in their masculinity to visit the arts and culture section, and I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that football and wrestling have a huge crossover demographic.
We have been living in a post truth world lately, and pretending that WWE is a sport is just another facet of it. Strap in, the nonsense is just getting started.
- Comment on The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy 5 days ago:
You clearly underestimate the powers of the dreaded arch-mage of Cthulhu. /s
- Comment on The Tech That Safeguards the Conclave’s Secrecy 5 days ago:
…just who the next Pope is going to be.
Right, just one of the most powerful religious positions in the world overseeing a vast real estate empire worth billions to trillions of dollars, who will be appointed for life, and who cannot be questioned due to having the authority of God himself. Not important or interesting at all. /s
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy seems to have a pretty high number of non-native English speakers, particularly Germans and other Europeans. I think this leads to people making seemingly simple grammar mistakes while also appearing to know English well.
Plus, American schools have completely gone to shit, so I’m sure that doesn’t help either.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Older does not always equal more interesting.
- Comment on Instagram Is Full Of Openly Available AI-Generated Child Abuse Content. 3 weeks ago:
I’m a little confused as to how it can still be AI CSAM if the bodies are voluptuous and the breasts are ample. Childlike faces have been the bread and butter of face filters for years.
Which parts specifically have to be childlike for it to be AI CSAM? This is why we need some laws ASAP.
- Comment on Found money. What do? 3 weeks ago:
If I was that kid, the lesson I would learn from that is to not tell anyone in the future.
- Comment on It was nicer when Duke Nukem Forever was famous for never coming out 3 weeks ago:
I thought the reason was to get revenge on the human slaves who had stolen the voice from dragons?
- Comment on American and British English spelling and pronunciations 3 weeks ago:
Washroom promotes the incorrect assumption that people wash their hands. Any time spent in a public latrine will show this to be inaccurate.
Water closet, on the other hand, tells you exactly what to expect. Cramped, likely too dark or too bright, and riddled with moisture of both expected and occult origin.
Water closet is the way.
- Comment on Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets 4 weeks ago:
Rasputin is more like Elon Musk: a gross middle aged man pulling the strings of a king who has intelligence falsely attributed to him.
- Comment on Modern magic unlocks Merlin's medieval secrets 4 weeks ago:
Maybe I’m gullible, but the idea of a wise old man pulling the strings of a king and getting magical powers attributed to him seems like the sort of thing that could definitely happen in real life.
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 4 weeks ago:
It’s a ballpark average. The point is that it translates to “a holy shit ton of movies”. I need to store a holy shit ton of movies.
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 4 weeks ago:
Then I guess I disagree for a different reason—the ballpark estimate definitely helped me conceptualize how far that storage would go for me.
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 4 weeks ago:
I disagree. I very much want something like this at some point for media storage. One of these babies could replace all of my spinning disk drives.
- Comment on Why women live longer then men 4 weeks ago:
What’s up with Stake putting their ads on so many viral videos? It’s a good idea for advertising, but horrible for content reposting.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 4 weeks ago:
Or you’re Swearingen from Deadwood.
- Comment on Why would an all loving god create hell? 5 weeks ago:
Muslim hell is about feelings?
- Comment on Why would an all loving god create hell? 5 weeks ago:
Where are you getting this interpretation of heaven and hell from? I’ve never heard anything like it.
I’m a Thelemite, and in our tradition, duality is an illusion. Good and evil, suffering and pleasure, life and death—we see these things as two sides of the same coin, and reaching an enlightened perspective through meditation can show you that they have never been opposites at all, rather a continuum.
What you’ve described is basically a formula of “Heaven is LSD, Hell is heroin” and that doesn’t match up with anything I have experienced, read, or heard before. Without explaining your position more, I don’t really know how to discuss it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
6 months ago I would have said it isn’t that bad, but now…just be careful out there, friend.
- Comment on The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem 5 weeks ago:
If humans have to pay for knowledge with expensive student loans and book purchases, why should AI get that same knowledge for free?
- Comment on I have a bunch of questions: Whats the best way to get this platform's feed to compete with reddit? 5 weeks ago:
Making the mission be about taking down Reddit gives Reddit a lot of power and credit. Focusing on making an open future for social media creates a new path forward while treating Reddit like what it is—yesterday’s platform.
There will be people who want to stick with the old platform—just look at boomers and Facebook. That’s ok—if we play our cards right, we will be gaining young users while the older demographic shrinks on Reddit.
- Comment on Nicole seems nice 5 weeks ago:
Liver alone, cheese mine.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Wait…you mean we aren’t soulmates? 😭
- Comment on Why is there so much separation in the USA between people who identify as "black" or "white" compared to other regions like South America? 1 month ago:
Not saying it’s right, saying it is what it is.
- Comment on Why is there so much separation in the USA between people who identify as "black" or "white" compared to other regions like South America? 1 month ago:
That’s why it is primarily used by black people in America—the word was used against them and now they are setting the terms for its future use. Just because it makes some people uncomfortable, that doesn’t mean it is ok for a white person to try to control how it is used, just like it wasn’t ok for a white person to make it a slur against blacks. The word is under new management now.
And it sure does add a ring to rap songs.
- Comment on They seem to turn a blind eye to many things as long as you have a (R) next to your name and promise to hurt the right people. Must have missed that bible verse 1 month ago:
I see what you’re saying, but I’m not sure you can call it consensus when the various bible translations have been nearly exclusively produced by the ruling class who were using it for control over the populace.
It would be interesting to see which translation would actually win a general vote if there wasn’t pressure from church leadership to use a specific one.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
Here’s a non-paywalled PDF:
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
Here you go:
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
Here’s a study from Oklahoma State University specifically talking about the effects of mainland cats in contrast to island cats:
“Our review shows overwhelming evidence that, beyond causing island extinctions, where there were no native predators, and massive numbers of mainland wildlife deaths, cats can exert multiple types of harmful impacts on mainland wildlife species that are reflected at the population level,”