steeznson
@steeznson@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 6 days 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"? 1 week 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? 2 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 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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? 2 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
delightfully devious
- Comment on What are some slow acting poisons? 5 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? 5 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? 1 month ago:
Extremely unlikely and possibly physically impossible
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Also effects last for nearly a day
- Comment on Indeed 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.