Psychodelic

@Psychodelic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what point when learning a new language do someone become bilingual?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, I’m bilingual and I only ever think in English. It doesn’t really seem to make a difference though, saying things out loud vs in my head.

  I’m learning a third language now and can just barely communicate with others (worked with a taxi driver!). That said, I wouldn’t consider myself truly trilingual yet. I could think in that language but it doesn’t really feel like it changes anything - I still only know the same words in my head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s cheap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam doesn’t want to pay arbitration fees, tells gamers to sue instead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing that info - I was just going off the recent headlines

  To your second point, don’t companies normally win arbitration cases? I thought that was the whole point of it all - to make it easier for a company to win lawsuits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump Vows 200% Tariff on John Deere if It Moves Manufacturing to Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also bizarre to do massive bailouts for certain industries then just become super principled about the free market on another one.

  This is exactly it. I’ve yet to see an argument for taking separate stances that is honest about the pros and cons. It always seems like there’s a bias depending on the situation and we’re meant to forget previous policies

  I had heard it said that the reason why the US sometimes tolerates grave trade imbalances and sending jobs abroad is because it gives us a lot of diplomatic clout.

  This and your last point are great! I think that’s really what gets missed. It doesn’t help that politicians and media companies seem to communicate in a patronizing way. Like, just tell us what’s the benefit of using slave labor or selling more weapon’s to shady groups. Tell us how much it’ll cost to change and who gets impacted. Let us have an honest transparent discussion. (/crazy, never gonna happen talk)

  I recall learning about President Diaz in Mexico (he was a dictator) and how he allowed Americans to basically own everything (natural resources, railroads, large industrial corporations, etc.) while Mexican citizens were left to become a permanent working class with no chance of ever competing. Interestingly, he was praised during his time in office by the most famous American robber barons and considered a great leader that helped make Mexico become “industrialized” and modernized. They said those things out loud and seemingly meant them

  I still genuinely do not know if the people praising him were using him and laughing quietly or if they genuinely saw it as a net positive for the average Mexican citizen at the time living as indentured servants forced to shop at company stores and whatnot. Like, if they genuinely believe it benefits the country to have such levels of inequality, it’s almost more worrying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Donald Trump Vows 200% Tariff on John Deere if It Moves Manufacturing to Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is where you get a split between leftists and neoliberals. (Note: I’m not a political science expert)

  I’m totally open to opposing views on this, because I don’t think this is something that gets discussed enough/honestly, but my first impression is that I’m totally in favor of this.

  I read Chip War (book on the history of Silicon Valley) and it covers up to Trump’s decision to put tariffs on Huawei, effectively ending their ability to monopolize the 5G market. I found myself supporting that as well, even though he makes his opinion known that Obama likely would not have done that - I doubt Biden/Harris would either. Granted, I think that’s because they’d be crucified for being anti-feee market and using government overreach. That said, silicon valley companies are happy to accept government support when it helps them compete against TSMC (supported by Taiwan’s gov). Imo, they do this because they want it both ways (gov support and low taxes/regulations). This is gross but I get it, so I’m usually just mostly disappointed in the American people that are asleep and rather stupid (not entirely their fault, but entirely their/our responsibility)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krillin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha. Nah, I wasn’t being serious. I was making a reference to the “-typical” in the term neurotypical and thought it was funniee to point it out - like a wink wink nudge nudge thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krillin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do this and it makes me wonder. It doesn’t seem normal typical but it makes a lot of sense to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Philosophy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright let’s do this Lemmy pals

  1. Socrates willingly takes hemlock after being cancelled for going viral

  2. Plato covers Socrates in written text (and goes viral)

  3. Aristotle does his own thing… getting fuzzy

  4. Aquinas makes… arguments

  …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a Sponserblock addon for Movies, Tv series and Porn.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, idk. They’ll show the important scenes. Just not entirely or anything. lol

  I was mostly joking but it’s def an option. It works if you just want the jist of the story and don’t really care about the acting or basically anything else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need a Sponserblock addon for Movies, Tv series and Porn.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried watching movie recaps on youtube? It’s the other extreme but i find it good enough for movies I’ll never see. There’s lots of movies I’ve seen there I’m glad I didn’t watch for a full hour. Most movies have tons of similar tropes you can easily understand in like a 15 min sentence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corn 🌽⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do people use breed and generically modify interchangeably? Are they actually the same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d have to pay me use that shit! Insane to me how popular it is for some people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So is the global IT crash fixed yet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad it wasn’t too bad for you/y’all.

  Unfortunately, I wiped my computer Thursday night before our company mentioned anything. lol. I ended up finding out about the issue on Lemmy/Reddit. My company didn’t send anything out until this morning - which I still find insane, my laptop crashed and started looping around 7p (took them like 12 hours).

  My laptop just rebooted while I was working so I assumed some program I’d installed caused it (explorerpatcher). I tried everything, safe mode, system restore, uninstall updates. I figured the only option left was to reinstall windows. Done it plenty of times on my personal PC

  Oh well, lesson learned. Shit’s totally fucked now. It won’t even connect to the Internet. lol. Definitely a Monday problem though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: 82% of US gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just realized you must be talking about mobile games or something. lol

  I was thinking of the finals or even warzone. Completely free games where you can just pay for a skin for your gun. Seems pretty great to me. I never pay for another COD game while then some poor addicted souls pay for everything they can. I mean, it works out pretty well for everyone… except those people, since they end up paying way more than what a game used to cost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: 82% of US gamers made an in-game purchase in freemium titles in 2023⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t make sense here, does it? The product is the digital skins or whatever

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major Windows BSOD issue takes banks, airlines, and broadcasters offline⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is absolutely fuckin ridiculous. Good luck IT teams

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game called One Million Checkboxes has sparked a terrible online war⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t call it ruined. I rather like knowing how many “edgy” people there are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, that’s totally fair. I would absolutely hate to get a work call from an unknown number. Tha didn’t even cross my mind!

  I was interpreting it as simply hearing your phone ring and thinking it could be a spam caller (I really need to set up custom ringtones at some point)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, it’s usually faster for both, no?

  You can just answer your friend and say hello. lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good thing back in the day there were probably very few cult leaders…

  Does anyone wonder about how the story of Jesus being plagiarized from the Egyptian myth of Horus affects the narrative about the Jesus that supposedly lived and died a century earlier? You know the one that happened to have incredibly important political value for the established leaders of the time?

  No? Me either. Praise Horus!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried not being insufferable? I highly recommend working on your ability to communicate with others so people don’t think you’re just trying to be a (usually fake) know-it-all that doesn’t actually know anything but really just wants attention

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s wild that this isn’t common knowledge …and that you commented with such confidence about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but the house was clearly divided. That’s data that conflicts with your main premise, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this recent vote affect your opinion at all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You say that like most people would agree with you. I’m my experience, most people think people are homeless because they’re lazy and/or lack values or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Huge’ proportion of mental health conditions in Australia found to be caused by childhood maltreatment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously! I thought we’d figured everything out already! Why are scientists still trying to learn things?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come on, science!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They already made it possible to clone your dog, just do that! Same shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this one goes out to the arts & humanities⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All three of you are insufferable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Steam Spring Sale is now in full swing⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With the state of free to play games, looking at you, the finals, I can’t justify buying games I’ll never even have time to play

  …which is fine. The finals is great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a triple-A game, according to Sega⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuckin hype!

  Sorry, do I have to be an insufferable, cynical pessimist to comment here?