Seleni
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- Comment on Seattle Sets the Stage for Automatic Traffic Camera Expansion - The Urbanist 1 week ago:
Keep in mind too that they’re not always accurate. I know of one in my city that regularly takes photos of people going through on the green because it’s a bit of a wonky intersection. And that means a person gets to spend their day in court instead of at work fighting a ticket they did not deserve.
- Comment on Eggs 1 week ago:
Age matters too. Older eggs are easier to peel.
- Comment on The ‘Profound’ Experience of Seeing a New Color 1 week ago:
So Octarine, basically.
- Comment on Sega's Altered Beast Gets A Free Fan-Made Remake | Time Extension 1 week ago:
Hey, I never said it was a good design lol
- Comment on Sega's Altered Beast Gets A Free Fan-Made Remake | Time Extension 1 week ago:
Honestly not sure. Haven’t been to an arcade in years.
I should go to one again.
- Comment on Sega's Altered Beast Gets A Free Fan-Made Remake | Time Extension 1 week ago:
That was by design, actually. A lot of the old arcade games were like that.
It was to get people to either quit after a bit of playing so a new person could step in and give the machine money, or have the person who lost at the hard level put more money in.
Otherwise at just a quarter the machines become unprofitable. Just capitalism things.
- Comment on Most Americans see Trump as "dangerous dictator," poll says 1 week ago:
52-56%, in case anyone didn’t want to read the article.
I’d call that ‘barely more than half’, myself. Almost 50% of Americans still think this cretin is doing great. In fact, according to the article, 80% of republicans still love him, and 51% of white Americans think he ‘should be given all the power he needs to restore America’s greatness’.
Of course, 70% think his concentration camps are a bad idea, so there’s that, I guess.
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 week ago:
? Pretty sure that’s not what they said.
They said that there are people on Lemmy who think a person who stabs someone vs a person who doesn’t are morally equivalent—as long as they’re both poor.
Very different.
They did also say that there are poor people who stab others and blame their actions on being poor, but that was tangential to their main point about judging the morals of a person solely based on their wealth or lack thereof.
- Comment on Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Paradox Interactive's return-to-office policy may be driving employees away from the studio 2 weeks ago:
This is intentional. They are doing this to force people to quit without firing them.
As a bonus, the people who leave tend to be the most skilled, and thus the highest paid, making their bottom line look even better!
Of course this also destroys morale, productivity, and long-term will probably tank the company, but as long as line go up now for shareholders/owners the ones at the top don’t care. After all, they’ll just walk away with their golden parachutes guaranteeing a safe landing.
- Comment on Pelicans will literally try to eat anything 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why hasn't congress passed a law saying that you can only deport people *back to their own country*? 2 weeks ago:
Because then they’d have to deport most Republican lawmakers.
- Comment on Appers 4 weeks ago:
Satire is indeed dead
- Comment on What is your favorite movie? 5 weeks ago:
Blazing Saddles. Soooo many good lines!
- Comment on Tariffs on Canadian goods having a 'devastating effect,' U.S. farmers say 5 weeks ago:
They fear brown people taking over (aka the ‘great replacement theory’) and doing to them what they do to brown people.
They also see PoC as lesser and therefore needing to be lower on the totem pole; if they get rights, or even (gasp!) high-level jobs then they move up the totem pole, which is a violation of the ‘natural order’. And they believe that if the natural order is violated, society itself will collapse.
- Comment on So this is it, is trump god? Will Republicans sacrifice their own well being to own the libs? 5 weeks ago:
Oh man this is perfect lol
I remember a meme circulating a little while ago that went something like, ‘People who change their opinions because they’re annoyed by liberals are weak-willed; liberals are annoyed by other liberals every single day.’
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’
-Isaac Asimov
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 2 months ago:
Hahahaha I’d forgotten about that! Man, and people unironically call him a genius still.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 2 months ago:
I mean, I get that it’s a metaphor.
The answer to the MAGA thing is simply that you build, not for them, but in spite of them. You build for everyone. If you want to exclude people who aren’t willing to follow the rules of society and only cause trouble you can, but that’s different than refusing to build anything because they might use it.
The people like MAGA that only seek to tear down what others build, or who refuse to build at all because there’s a chance someone who they don’t approve of (ie PoC) will use it hurt not only themselves, but everyone around them. They are destroying the future by refusing to help build the present, and I think it’s really sad that they would rather a terrible future than one that has things they don’t like in it.
We must build despite those attitudes, or we will simply end up following them into a bad future.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 2 months ago:
They meant the question showed a viewpoint that seemed to center entirely around you (also a rather libertarian thing, honestly).
‘Someone who would never build something for you’ sounds a bit like you’re expecting a tit-for-tat, I-do-this-for-you-so-you-have-to-do-something-for-me in everything, and that’s just not how societies work.
I’m curious; are you using that phrase to refer to, say, rich assholes who just take and take, or Nazi assholes that would rather cut off their own hands than build something a black person might use? Or are you using it to refer to people like severely disabled folks, or say, low-functioning autistic people, who society supports but who don’t have much capacity to ‘return the favor’?
Or are you just referring to future generations, who will be around after you’re gone?
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 2 months ago:
I think it’s just your question comes off as nihilistic and a little bit libertarian, and neither of those is mentally healthy really
- Comment on Study reveals that honeybee dance ‘styles’ sway food foraging success. 2 months ago:
They must, since not only do they find their way back to the same flowers day after day, they also seem to remember when peak nectar production is, and when the flower will be open (in the case of species that close during bad weather/certain parts of the day/night).
- 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 2 months ago:
Clinton was in favor of abortion and women’s rights. As Trump is against both, he is ‘God working in mysterious ways’ and therefore should be seen as a sign of divine providence.
I wish I was joking.
- Comment on is it wrong/selfish to cut contact with my trump-supporting father? 2 months ago:
With Trump, it isn’t a difference in politics.
It’s a difference in morality.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
Shoot the dictator and prevent the war? But the dictator is merely the tip of the whole festering boil of social pus from which dictators emerge; shoot one, and there’ll be another one along in a minute. Shoot him too? Why not shoot everyone and invade Poland? In fifty years’, thirty years’, ten years’ time the world will be very nearly back on its old course. History always has a great weight of inertia.
-Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)
Been thinking about this quote a lot lately. The fact that Trump is so popular shows that he’s just the symptom of a deeper, possibly terminal disease.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 months ago:
To be fair though, Texas seceded once already and within a year or two was begging to be taken back. They probably would have crumbled too.
- Comment on Now we know 5 months ago:
Owww
Glad he survived that!
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 5 months ago:
- Comment on Just a little guy 5 months ago:
Maybe because they’re trying to get people to pet a blue-ringed octopus?
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 5 months ago:
Dude… these guys go there because us western women are ‘too woke’, ‘too feminist’, ‘don’t understand traditional gender roles’ (i.e. we refuse to be a housebound sex slave) etc, etc.
They’re told that women in X country (Mexico, Japan, and Thailand are the usual culprits listed) are submissive, traditional, uneducated, and you can just buy one, instead of, you know, actually working at building a relationship.
They don’t bother to learn the culture. They don’t bother to even learn the language. They believe that, because they’re white, all they have to do is show up and wave money around and every woman will fall all over their epic alpha maleness.
These guys are just gross.