LesserAbe
@LesserAbe@lemmy.world
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 2 weeks ago:
First, I think OP is making a big deal where it’s not necessary. And the US as a nation has done many fucked up things.
That said, thinking about people not nations, I’m American and I didn’t elect a felon. Yes, 77 million voters picked Trump, which is shitty and doesn’t make sense. 75 million voters chose Kamala. And around 110 million people of voting age didn’t vote at all. (Which also doesn’t make sense to me)
But you can imagine for those 75 million people it’s not going to feel good to be painted with the same brush, and it’s not kind to do so.
- Comment on I never realized this 4 weeks ago:
Hyphenated names are too long. One of my good friends has one and people just refer to him and his siblings by the initials of their last name, like “Tim MP”
- Comment on I never realized this 4 weeks ago:
That’s great we’re in agreement. Your comment said “… a lot of people who published research before their marriage continue to publish under the same name even if they changed their name.”
So I didn’t read your comment as saying woman shouldn’t change their name, because you’re describing women changing their name, and then not using the new name in a specific context.
- Comment on I never realized this 4 weeks ago:
Sure it’s a headache. So why does the woman have to do it? I think either keep your names as is or both people change.
- Comment on I never realized this 4 weeks ago:
Are you saying that the people who came up with the original surnames are more qualified than people today? At least with my idea when people come up with a new name they have to use it themselves, rather than their defenseless children.
- Comment on I never realized this 4 weeks ago:
When people get married they should come up with a completely new last name for them both.
- Comment on Cowboy 2 months ago:
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 months ago:
Right, there’s also a constitutional amendment saying insurrectionists can’t stand for office
- Comment on Fungi using gamma radiation for energy in Chernobyl 2 months ago:
Interesting tidbit I didn’t know is that they’ve found fungi growing on the outside of the ISS
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 2 months ago:
My thought was that the video loading probably isn’t going to be nearly as fast as TikTok because of the money behind their servers and optimization.
- Comment on Big Ol' Beavers 3 months ago:
Tired metric joke
- Comment on A decline in arable land 3 months ago:
Go Netherlands
- Comment on This one goes out to the GLAMourous 3 months ago:
My friend working at a major museum in the U.S. brought me up to the roof once, and as we were walking down dusty dimly lit halls he pointed out some pole weapons which were determined to be fake but the conditions of the donation were that they had to keep everything, so they were just leaning in a corner.
- Comment on Researchers achieve first successful communication between dreaming individuals 3 months ago:
What do you think the business founder has in mind when they say this revolutionary? Like what regular use could this be put to?
- Comment on GRIZZLODILE 3 months ago:
Yeah, who are they calling apex predator, take a look around.
- Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 3 months ago:
Sovereign wealth fund baby, time to get Nordic
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 3 months ago:
No worries, just making a joke and not saying it’s a reflection on your character.
When I see “I’m white but not white enough to eat this” I interpret that to be saying some people are unreasonable in their aversion to spice. What did you mean?
- Comment on I'm as white as snow but I'm still not white enough to eat this. 3 months ago:
Yeah, people should only eat the things I like to eat
- Comment on If Jesus can turn water into wine, but wine is still mostly made of water, can Jesus apply his powers recursively and create more and more concentrated wine? 3 months ago:
Late one evening a boy and his father were accosted by a mugger. The traumatic moment unlocked some kind of latent power within the boy. Frantically he tried to intervene, skin touched skin, and the assailant’s blood turned to wine, fatal. But not before the cretin dealt a terminal blow to the father. And that night that boy became the hero we all know, Jesus Christ.
- Comment on After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance 4 months ago:
If you run your own server (like a country would in this case) you’re the one deciding whether things are allowed to be posted. Of course that doesn’t stop other people from blocking you. But the whole idea is as a sovereign country a private corporation shouldn’t have a say over which posts are seen.
- Comment on unzip 4 months ago:
Yeah, seems mean spirited.
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 4 months ago:
I remember watching them and the conversation about them. But that’s different than proof and admission that sentient alien life exists. It’s one thing to suspect while also having other possible explanations (could be secret tech that we or adversary nations developed, could be sensor errors or optical illusions) and another for the president to be like “I want you to meet ambassador Xlurg”
- Comment on If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween 4 months ago:
I’m with you. Yes, people acclimate to all kinds of things, but sentient aliens are going to take more than a few days.
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 4 months ago:
But I don’t want my devices to be bombs
- Comment on Another job lost because of technology 👿 4 months ago:
How widespread was this? I grew up in the 80s/90s and pre GPS we just had a map in the car. I’ve never heard of such a hotline until seeing this post.
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 4 months ago:
I didn’t take the image to be showing a macbook, it could just as easily be my computer (Dell XPS) or probably many others.
- Comment on What started “weirdo” as a slur just recently? 4 months ago:
I’ve seen people say there’s good weird and bad weird, and if you don’t mind calling yourself weird it’s probably the good kind.
As for calling maga people weird I think it’s effective because their whole deal is about vibes. “We’re strong, we’re smart” and it really bothers them to be perceived otherwise. It’s also not something you can “debate”. Either people accept it or they don’t. What are you going to say “no, I’m not weird”? Sure thing buddy.
- Comment on Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid. 4 months ago:
Pretty exciting!
- Comment on Words truly matter 5 months ago:
Oh man we’d be so fucked if all plants were sentient. We’d still eat, but we’d be doomed to commit plant war crimes to live
- Comment on There are lots of different ways to make cum and they all taste pretty bad 5 months ago:
For making porn of course
