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- Comment on Husband needs proof news is censored 1 week ago:
Amazing how many subjects Chomsky wrote about. I think his review of BF Skinner’s Behaviourism might be his best work because it is so devastatingly well argued.
- Comment on How can I reject MAGAs version of america more then I already am? 1 week ago:
Try to live well and thrive in spite of the turmoil. Hold on to the belief that this crazy period in history will end and try to avoid getting dragged into arguments with people who have drunk the kool aid. There’s no need to engage with the bullshit if you can avoid it.
- Comment on Husband needs proof news is censored 1 week ago:
Regardless of whether the news is censored, you might just find that your husband has a different political perspective to you. Some people find that a dealbreaker but personally I enjoy having different opinions to my partner. It means that our beliefs get challenged (in a good natured way) and that one or both of us get the opportunity to change our minds from an initial knee-jerk take on an issue.
- Comment on Ninja sword owners will be paid to surrender weapons before ban 1 week ago:
Last amnesty a company handed in 1.5 million machetes and claimed the compensation for them despite importing the weapons themselves in the weeks before the ban. Pure profiteering.
I hope the police have learned something but somehow doubt they have.
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 2 weeks ago:
delightfully devious
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 2 weeks ago:
The phrase “in minecraft” must trigger alarm bells in some intelligence agency at this point
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 2 weeks ago:
Does anyone remember when the writer googled a recipe for their historical novel and copy pasted the first result - which turned out to the from Zelda BOTW lol
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 3 weeks ago:
Extremely unlikely and possibly physically impossible
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 3 weeks ago:
Probably Metroid Prime but some days I think it is Dark Souls 1. Both are similar in terms of trying to embody an adventure with strong environmental storh telling.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 3 weeks ago:
Dungeon Keeper 2 is good in its own way but definitely lost some of its original magic.
There was an indie series called Overlord (I think, can’t quite recall) which tried to be a Cities: Skyline type homage to Dungeon Keeper. I played it many years ago and it did scratch the same itch so you might be interested.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 3 weeks ago:
There is something satisfying about going back and cranking Far Cry 2 or some other older game to max settings / 4k with an extremely modest GPU.
- Comment on Is it possible to eat a toxic amount of culinary herbs/spices? 4 weeks ago:
Also effects last for nearly a day
- Comment on Indeed 1 month ago:
There are also recent examples of books like To Kill A Mockingbird being pulled out of high school ciricula due to antiquated attitudes towards race being depicted. I think these should have been kept and preserved as an example of outdated societal attitudes instead of being repressed.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 1 month ago:
I don’t think these people actually want to leave reddit. They are only interested in farming karma by complaining about it,
- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 1 month ago:
Not weird enough to be Pynchon but it was a good comment nonetheless
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 month ago:
I think we’ve both got different perspectives on this that aren’t going to change so let’s agree to disagree.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 month ago:
I’d argue that attempts to force people to change their beliefs too quickly has led to a conservative reactionary backlash in recent years.
Recent surveys are showing an increase in people, in particular young people, harbouring intolerant views vs even 10 years ago. I think that suggests that the maximalist progressive rhetoric on social media is turning people away from progressive causes.
Creating a more tolerant society is a frustratingly slow process where the general public gradually become acclimatised to new ways of thinking. Forcing it creates a backlash because people need to feel like they arrived at their ideas themselves. There used to be an acknowledgement that it was a mutual process which is missing from the debate today.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 month ago:
Queer people were oppressed by the social norm of not judging people for their political beliefs?
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 month ago:
They worked fine in the 90s/00s. Social media and smart phones has just come in and created hyper-polarization since then. Human beings aren’t designed to be able to handle getting news so quickly from such a wide variety of (dubious) sources.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 month ago:
People cast their vote for a variety of complicated reasons, often against their own interests. Someone might be stupid because they voted for a bad ticket but I don’t think they are necessarily immoral.
These old norms like not judging others for their politics used to function fine before social media propagated and the culture wars flared up. I’d be hesitant to throw the old norms away, even in our current circumstances, because after they go there’s no guarantee you’ll ever get them back.
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- Comment on Too many young people find doing a day's work 'stressful', says Liz Kendall 1 month ago:
I think the harder question about the NEET crisis in the UK is that the world of entry level jobs or those available to people with little experience is that they are borderline unbearable. They pay badly and in some cases are humiliating/degrading to do (especially if you interact with the general public). I’m never going to forget wiping cum off the walls of a TK Maxx changing room with blue roll during my student summer job there.
- Comment on Wimbledon school crash: Woman rearrested over deaths of two girls 2 months ago:
My brother-in-law has a slightly unusual form of epilepsy called absence seizures where he zones out and ceases to function for almost a minute at a time. It’s the exact opposite of what you’d want for a driver.
However he’s been on medication to treat it and hasn’t had an abscence seizure in over 10 years with his current medication. He lives in Cornwall and some of the council houses he is being offered are perfect but have problems like the nearest pharmacy being 20 miles away and buses being every 3 hours. Out of curiousity we checked to see if he could learn to drive and apparently if you’ve not had a seizure for 2 years then you can get rubberstamped for a provisional drivers license.
Ultimately he’s turning down these places due to these issues, it’s not being counted as a wasted bid since the drawbacks of the property are not just him being fussy. Additionally, I’m pretty certain he lacks the gross motor skills to drive even if seizures are no longer a problem. Will need to wait to bid on more suitable properties. People who live in the country really need better amenities and public transport.
At any rate that 2 year figure struck me as being very, uh, optimistic from the DVLA. Potentially any seizure should seriously curtail your ability to gain a provisional/full license.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 2 months ago:
I believe it would have been legal if the driver was an Albanian with a license. The issue is that the car was registered and insured in Albania and then driven by a Brit. Not EU country has approved them for use on the roads but there are weird loopholes.
- Comment on DOOM® CAPTCHA 2 months ago:
Is there any strategy for this level apart from kiting the enemies into your line of sight while you are shielded from the centre cube? Maybe the WAD could be tweaked. Cool project though!
- Comment on Police investigate after 'Sara Sharif killer attacked in prison' 2 months ago:
I mean, I agree, but this dude is getting medical support for these injuries like his daughter never got to experience. Having his throat cut probably distracts him from the consequences of his actions and allows him to consider himself as a victim. I want him serving every second of his sentence.
- Comment on Police investigate after 'Sara Sharif killer attacked in prison' 2 months ago:
This was entirely predictable. Why was he in gen pop?
I hope he survives so he can see out his sentence in totality.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 2 months ago:
Got 5 days left to finish Indiana Jones before the GamePass subscription times out.
- Comment on Nick Clegg to leave Meta ahead of Trump's return - BBC News 2 months ago:
I agreed* with Nick
*unfortunately
- Comment on British girls outdrink boys — and most of Europe 3 months ago:
Denmark are still worse though so no need for alarm. Scottish drug deaths meanwhile…