Ashelyn

@Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is he signed up to be an organ donor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey I don’t disagree with your points but just wanted to mention that El Salvador is in North America (in a sub-region known as Central America)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'll take a liberal. Just 86 the tofu.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Replace the hot sauce with 2lbs of piping hot, thick, white American Patriot mayonnaise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Because I couldn't give straight spoons to my gay friends⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Those look like they could be quite economical, but it’s a bit hard to tell just from looking at them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choosing pink is chaotic evil?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a range limit on magenta? Do they have to be in my presence, just able to hear my voice, actively be paying attention? These are important factors!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Removing the homepage entirely, replacing the entire UI with the shorts-style format of “view video right now, tap button to see next/previous video”. If you want a specific video, you must search for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always found the idea of stable Boltzmann brains fascinating. The idea that on an infinite enough universe, there must exist self-sustaining minds that function on an entirely circumstantial set of rules and logic based on whatever the quantum soup spit up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also hard to argue while also claiming your god is moral, which is why creationists usually scapegoat the task of planting fossils to Satan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat lead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always found it funny how they’ll sometimes try to justify their claims scientifically to give it an air of legitimacy. If god created the stars close to one another and expanded them to fill the sky over a single day, the skies would be dark for billions of years. A YEC could easily say “oh well god put the light there to make the stars look like they’ve been in the sky for a long time” but very often they just don’t have an answer because they didn’t think of one. Unfortunately, there’s almost that will stop them from doubling down on their beliefs and just becoming more prepared for the next person they talk to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might as well go cyberpunk, I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Science fiction usually carries with it a desire to rationalize and explain the technology it’s built upon, to try and paint a world plausible from a scientific standpoint. You see this a lot with the technobabble in Star Trek.

  Cyberpunk has a lot of overlap with science fiction, but usually dives more into the social commentary on society and capitalism, using the technology within as a vehicle to amplify those criticisms. Some cyberpunk works seek to explain their technology and make it seem grounded in the same way sci-fi does, but that is usually secondary to the social and political themes.