steeznson
@steeznson@lemmy.world
- Comment on Drivers to be able to pay for parking using just ONE app under new Government plans 21 hours ago:
Do it! Cast it into the fires!
No, I still have 7 minutes left
- Comment on Does the average person know markdown? 21 hours ago:
No, the average person struggles with WYSIWYG editors
- Comment on Just finished Hogwarts Legacy, it was enjoyable but could've been better. 1 day ago:
Yeah this could have padded out the repetitive side content
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 2 days ago:
I find it a little bit useful to supplement a search engine at work as a dev but it can’t write code properly yet.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 days ago:
Do you name every FOSS project? This is uncannily close to what an actual open source project would be called, including the logic behind it.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 5 days ago:
To be clear, almost every argument contains a fallacy in it. Having a fallacy in an argument only introduces the possibility of it being wrong, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s wrong.
An example of a valid argument is like:
P1: Socrates is a man P2: All men are mortal C: Socrates is mortal
The conclusion is guaranteed to be correct if the premises are correct. Most scientific arguments are technically invoking a fallacy or are invalid in some way, due to the extrapolation from an experiment in lab conditions to a more general conclusion.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 6 days ago:
Not a baby name but I worked with a devops engineer who had dyslexia so all of our IaC variable names had misspellings in them. We just lived with it because it would have been expensive to teardown the resources and reprovision them with the correct spellings.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I wish people didn’t hyperfixate on labels so much these days. I feel like it causes more problems than it solves in terms of creating an identity someone needs to stick to instead of letting people just be themselves.
- Comment on What can US citizens do to fight/prevent their country enabling genocide? 6 days ago:
I disagree with this. You can already see a recent example of Canadian consumers avoiding US imports, creating pressure on US companies, and the US government reacting by making moves to curtail the original tarrifs proposal.
Obviously the Canadian boycott was only one component but I believe it did have a meaningful impact.
Kind of agree with you re:plastics. Last time I read about it they could only be recycled once into inferior quality plastic. Ironically in this case I’d suggest voting with your wallet is a solution to the plastic problem since businesses will react to more consumers switching to responsibly packaged products like paper bags for fruit + veg from a local grocers. One of the large supermarket chains in the UK, Waitrose, switched to paper bags due to public pressure in the past few years.
- Comment on Wasteland 2 is something I wish I didn't feel mid about 1 week ago:
Wasteland 3 is objectively better but I missed some of the janky charm of 2 when I played it.
Take my opinion with a pinch of salt since I only got halfway through each of them.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Lemmy hasn’t quite reached the critical mass to have completely insane subs like /r/gangstalking or whatever. People here tend to have quite niche interests but relatively normal nerd ones. Some accounts are basically single-issue posters who have some political pet view that they shoehorn in everywhere.
- Comment on How do children address a non-binary parent? 1 week ago:
My friend’s father transitioned to a woman but she kept calling her “Dad”. Not to invalidate her identity just that they were both happy to continue describing their relationship with that term.
- Comment on is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability? 1 week ago:
This post is very specific to your anecdotal experiences
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 1 week ago:
I live near a big public park and it would be strange if there wasn’t someone juggling there on a sunny day.
- Comment on Wolfenstein 2 is Available Free with Prime Gaming 1 week ago:
If you have a prime account this is just you getting the full value out of the subscription. Yeah, they are a scummy company (and apparently terrible to work for too at every level) but lots of households have prime because there isn’t another service that offers exactly the same things.
- Comment on Does the average person have no critical thinking? 2 weeks ago:
Social media is designed to override your critical thinking faculties.
Human beings aren’t evolved to get news/information from such a wide variety of sources at such a fast rate. Your critical thinking faculties just get overrun.
Everyone has experienced this and accidentally shared an article from The Onion or whatever without noticing in the short term that they are responding to some kind of bias being confirmed.
- Comment on Is it true that femboys are "fetishized" by right-wingers or something like that? Or is my friend(who told me this) tripping balls? 2 weeks ago:
I think this is true for a lot of prejudices. Pron sites have released data showing deep red states where one might imagine more racist people live searching for interracial videos.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 3 weeks ago:
Tax advantages, makes managing your estate easier if one of you dies, social status, etc.
- Comment on Why is the NFL draft day so "special"? 4 weeks ago:
We don’t have the draft for team sports in the rest of the world and it creates these megateams of galactico superstars. There is also relegation in European football/rugby so teams can push into the upper echelons if they are extremely lucky in terms of getting amazing performances out of nominally mid players.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah counterintuitively there are a lot of people who learn English as a 2nd language who have better grammar than native speakers because they actually learn the rules.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch ‘uncensored’ social network to counter mainstream media 5 weeks ago:
It’ll be a dating site for rich people like Ashley Madison but the only person they can match with will be her.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 5 weeks ago:
I can see where you are coming from. My BIL has learning difficulties and was borderline illiterate before smart phones enabled him to communicate in situations he otherwise wouldn’t have been able to. Unfortunately the “like” button still causes issues such as when he liked/shared a meme of a scantily clad black lady with the subtitle “When a n*gga dick hits just right” or something along those lines on facebook - his black cousin was quite offended by that.
That said, I agree with the other commenter that ableism is highly situationally dependent. Screen readers do not handle misspellings well like they mentioned. In my opinon it would be ableist if you were debating with someone or downvoted them due to an ad hominen dislike of their spelling as opposed to their sentiment.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 5 weeks ago:
Could be people using a second language like others have mentioned. Another thing could be British vs US english. Webster changed how words were spelt in the early 20th centry to make them more phonetic for Americans, i.e. “colour” -> “color”
- Comment on Has a patent office ever refused to grant a patent to something on the grounds it was too obscene? 5 weeks ago:
Amazon warehouse worker cages (so called “wagie cages”) got approved so idk if morality is a limiting factor
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 5 weeks ago:
If I find out then I’ll 100% be making it my ringtone to see which of my friends/colleagues react
- Comment on Husband needs proof news is censored 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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? 1 month ago:
delightfully devious