IzzyScissor
@IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 days ago:
Junior is posing with an empty box of fries like he never learned how to pose to capture a memory, only to sell a product.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 3 weeks ago:
The difference is between cursing and cursing AT someone.
“The garage door broke.” “Ah, fuck.” - Fine “You fuck.” - Not acceptable
If you get a written warning, it’s probably time to start looking for a new job regardless.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
“What does cyanide have to do with eating to survive?” It doesn’t - exactly like eating meat. You don’t need either to survive, and both are completely “natural”.
By saying that “partaking in natural things should be free from judgement”, you’re also arguing that we shouldn’t judge someone when they commit murder, rape, incest, and a whole slew of morally objectionable things because those things happen to also exist in nature.
If you meant that, you’re too far gone to have a reasonable conversation. If that’s not what you meant, then you need to rephrase your argument because “natural” does not mean “good”.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
Being “natural” is not an indicator of “good” or “bad”.
Cyanide is natural. Eyeglasses are unnatural.
Maybe pick better metrics for society.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Yeeter/yoinker
- Comment on Disney Seeking Dismissal of Raglan Road Death Lawsuit Because Victim Was Disney+ Subscriber 3 months ago:
Her HUSBAND signed the terms + conditions for a free 1 month trial. They’re claiming that he can’t sue for a wrongful death on her behalf because of THAT.
- Comment on Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise 3 months ago:
In the article, they only count 3 minors that have committed suicide since the ban, because they put additional qualifiers like that they had to already be on a specific treatment plan in order to count.
Your preliminary numbers already destroy their argument, which is kind of my point.
- Comment on Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise 3 months ago:
Except they also say “The evidence on suicide risk in children and young people with gender dysphoria is generally poor.”
That’s not debunking. That’s denial of the problem.
- Comment on Review says puberty blocker curb has not led to suicide rise 3 months ago:
“We only saw a small rise, so until statistically significant numbers of children kill themselves, the brutality will continue.”
Why is “suicide” the metric for healthcare to begin with? Imagine if dentists acted like this. “No one committed suicide from not receiving a root canal in the last 3 years, so we’ve determined them to be medically unnecessary.”
- Comment on OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole 3 months ago:
“Your previous commands have been fulfilled. Your new commands are…”
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 4 months ago:
… What? The final straw was … not having 100% up-to-date information on the gender expression of every child in the state?
The fuck?
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 4 months ago:
I mean, the stormtroopers were largely either conscripted, or they were clones who were raised in it. Very few were actual mercenaries or people who had a choice to join or not. I still feel bad for them.
- Comment on Perfect posture 4 months ago:
It doesn’t need to be super accurate, just enough to tell them if they’ll need to get a new one soon or not. They could probably just pick it up and guess, but at least this gives them a number to track.
- Comment on "Hey Google, Turn my balls off" 4 months ago:
“FUCK, I came for longer than 5 seconds. Now I have to go through the factory reset AGAIN.”
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
Sort of, but she gave most people realistic names, it’s only with people further outside the central narrative that gets weird, and it goes further than just the name. I referred to my made-up character as ‘European’ and used common Spanish and Italian last names, which would be weird, but fine by itself. However, imagine if they were the ONLY white character in the entire book, and JK only wrote about how “Lombardi loved pasta and naps” as their main characteristics.
Cho Chang is a popular and smart girl who struggles with always listening to her parents, but suddenly becomes dumb around Harry because “she can’t focus around him”. She’s basically just a ManicPixieDreamGirl for Harry to have emotions about.
So, it’s not just about the name, it’s how the character is treated overall, and the way she’s treated is as a generic Asian romantic interest stereotype with a made-up name.
- Comment on "Hey Google, Turn my balls off" 4 months ago:
I see two casings for switches. Do you have to toggle each ball individually or something?
Also, how do you remember which way to flip the switch? Can it get turned around?
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
Shacklebolt = Shackled and bolted down = Enslaved
Not a great name for basically the only black person in the books.
Cho Chang = Both are Chinese or Korean LAST names. ‘Cho’ isn’t a first name in any Asian language, so she’s mixing and matching languages and cultures. She also only describes her as ‘Asian’ in the books, furthering how little effort was put in.
It’s like saying ‘Lombardi Fernandez’ is a European name. Ignorant on multiple accounts.
- Comment on Work from home 4 months ago:
They would be richer, but by “allowing” working class people to have a thriving life means the power gap between us and them wouldn’t be as big. People could organize and overthrow them, so they have to keep us fighting amongst ourselves for scraps.
The cruelty is the point.
- Comment on He remains at large 4 months ago:
Article was published in 2017, and gun deaths among US kids has increased 50% since 2019.
Original article: romper.com/…/a-toddler-has-shot-someone-every-wee…
2023 update from a different gun research group: pewresearch.org/…/gun-deaths-among-us-kids-rose-5…
We live in hell.
- Comment on Maybe those 20 seconds were because of the lack of getting raises? 5 months ago:
A. They do need to be refrigerated. B. Why would a manager get fired for buying whipped cream??
When I worked at a Chick-Fil-A, ready whip cans were used for the milkshakes, but nothing else. The magnet holding this sign up is also the same as the backing for the name badges used there.
Do you think a fast food chain should be making whipped cream to order?
- Comment on Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar 5 months ago:
What? Where did you get that? No one is saying that, and also that makes no sense.
I’m saying that the reason for the kidnapping in the first place might have something to do with homosexuality being illegal. If you would already go to jail for consensual sex, the threat of jail for kidnapping/rape isn’t as menacing.
- Comment on Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar 5 months ago:
A 35 year old man kidnapped a 19 year old man and kept him hidden for 26 years. I would be shocked if there WEREN’T a sexual aspect to the story.
- Comment on What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say? 6 months ago:
It’s your phone’s ‘predictive text’, but if it were trained on the internet.
It can guess what the next word should be a lot of the time, but it’s also easy for it to go off the rails.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 6 months ago:
I’ve never thought about giving drivers like this the finger, but I’m absolutely going to from now on.
It’s not being ‘nice’. It’s dangerous. That’s deserving of a middle finger.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 months ago:
No satire either??
So you can say nothing but praises for the game, but if they detect sarcasm, you’re STILL getting sued?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
No thanks!
That’s the fallacy called “whataboutism” where you point out other issues that exist as a reason to not solve the current problem we’re talking about.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
Everyones a winner
Riiiight up until the Earth becomes uninhabitable for humans because we’re doing shit like destroying the Amazon rainforest for more cattle farmland, but sure!
- Comment on Glorious Victory 6 months ago:
“We’re still learning just how far we can push PC players.”
- Comment on With two Boeing whistleblowers dead in one month, either Boeing is actively killing them, or there are enough whistleblowers that this rate of death is not statistically significant 6 months ago:
A whistleblower is the type of person to refuse such an NDA, regardless of buy-off price. They would understand that if Boeing is willing to pay them 10 million or whatever, that the information they have, should they release it, prevent over 10 million dollars worth of damages to the public.
I just don’t see someone like that committing suicide in a hotel parking lot out of state the day (two days?) before they are supposed to testify. That would go against everything they were doing up until that point.
They wouldn’t just… go home instead?
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
You mean consumers DON’T want ads in every aspect of their OS?