Warl0k3
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- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 hour ago:
Short answer: It’s a turn of phrase the Incel movement popularized as a dehumanizing dogwhistle.
Long answer: In current American English, “Female” and “Females” are highly formal terms and really are only commonly used in situations like law and clinical literature (this is true of “male” and “males” as well, though there’s much less cultural baggage associated with those terms). People who use them in casual conversation instead of the much more common “Women” (or the diminutive, “Girls”) tend to be the kind of person that uses formal language to emphasize their own superiority over the common masses. Almost invariably this takes the form of explanations about why nobody wants to have sex with them, and it all goes downhill from there.
- Comment on China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant 2 days ago:
This… seems… highly theoretical.
- Comment on If we need a common enemy for people to get along then society has already failed 2 weeks ago:
We need something in common for people to get along. Enemies are just very easy things to share between groups, but common creeds, ideals, projects are all unifiers of equal power, though they’re not nearly as convenient to find.
- Comment on Athena spacecraft declared dead after toppling over on moon 3 weeks ago:
Landing a fridge on those spindly little legs did seem a bit… optimistic…
- Comment on Nokia Put a 4G Cellular Network on the Moon but Couldn’t Make a Phone Call 3 weeks ago:
Yeet The Rich (Into Space)
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 weeks ago:
God fucking damnit can we just have one thing???
- Comment on China’s humanoid robot turns into Kung-fu master after dancing debut 4 weeks ago:
Oh, yeah, that really does not look real. Like it seems unlikely since there’s been no talk about this until this short and sudden reveal, but wow that video looks fake.
- Comment on Mental health? In *this* economy? 5 weeks ago:
I think you may have misunderstood - this is not advocating inpatient mental health (esp in the US), this is just a dumb alternative term for having a day off to take care of yourself.
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- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 month ago:
We’re using graphene! Almost entirely for it’s electrical properties true, but we’re using graphene doped batteries in consumer electronics currently. We also use fusion and ITER research for a whole lot more than just power generation - plasma dynamics, just one tiny subfield concerned with physics, has applications in everything from radio transmission beam forming techniques to satellite engines to magnetodynamic modeling to the EMI shielding on your vacuum cleaner.
- Comment on Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam 1 month ago:
So many of their most beloved features are crazily dev intensive to maintain, and critically they’re not static. Amazon never really updates their consumer interfaces, steam is constantly adding new features and reworking their old ones across all their UX. Its just not economically feasible to pop in and replace them if you’re a publicly traded company, the shareholders would look at the maintenance costs alone and faint
- Comment on Reddit is purging NSFW subs as well as trans-related subreddits 1 month ago:
Don’t be a coward, jerk off on your main and your alt!
- Comment on Miku care about all fans 1 month ago:
Huh, thought thankyou was a cognate in ASL/JSL! More you know.
- Comment on Trump to get $25 million in settlement with Meta 2 months ago:
We are so screwed.
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 2 months ago:
It’s not an absolute descriptor - the most beloved works of satire use their commentary on the original work as the base from which to build engaging original stories. This anime in particular is just very heavy handed with its satirical takes, and it concerns me that so many people either miss (or outright deny, as if it is a criticism) that part of it.
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 2 months ago:
It’s extremely heavy handed about sexualizing the little girls in a way that constantly teases either a romantic or sexual relationship - loli content is very much a commonplace (and tbh pretty gross) thing, but it’s usually the sole focus if its the point. The sheer amount of slice of life tropes that are fit into the show, most if not all of them being taken to an extreme, would be what makes it satire. It’s a common premise, taken to extremes.
My concern with people not recognizing it as satire is a multifaceted thing. The lack of media literacy in culture is a large part of it, the number of people who unquestioningly accept the presentation of women in the show another part, the terrifying loli fans a big big part…
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 2 months ago:
I’m really not trying to be shitty here: have you had much exposure to satire?
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 2 months ago:
Err… Okay, so in episode one Tohru is wearing a sleep shirt with the 4chan logo on it. The little boy with the horny titty-dragon is named Shota. The lolicon girl is literally an 8000 year old dragon. The list goes on, but its a masterful satire of slice of life anime
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 2 months ago:
Completely sincere.
- Comment on "Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: A lonely dragon wants to be loved" Movie New Key Visual, PV 2 months ago:
It really concerns me how few people recognize this series as satire.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 months ago:
The only reason we americans need to know this stuff is to make sure we never accidentally end up going there.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 months ago:
It’s got good hardware, but there’s nothing being done with that hardware. The pricepoint kept there from being any broad dev support, so its basically a gimmicky paperweight that costs $3500. At least Microsoft will directly work with industry partners for Hololens development, but there’s nothing like that with Apple to help pave over the notoriously rough super-early adoption era.
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 2 months ago:
alabama’s rep so bad there are more people that know they fuck their cousins there than there are people who know where alabama even is.
- Comment on Day 168 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
I gotta say, going into the new years, I quite respect your dedication to this.
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 2 months ago:
I think this specific one is more down to shifting cultural attitudes, but yeah broadly I certainly agree. Some people…
- Comment on I think we might be leaving the "boring" part of this dystopia 2 months ago:
The only thing I took away from reading it in elementary school was the discovery that my english teacher couldn’t identify a pedophile if given a map, a copy of the criminal indictment for pedophilia and a big flashing neon sign that reads “pedophile”…
- Comment on British Army successfully tests new drone-destroying laser 3 months ago:
Kerzap! Pow! Gersplat!
- Comment on British Army successfully tests new drone-destroying laser 3 months ago:
Nuclear submarines move over, it’s the dawning of the age of
n u c l e a r t r u c k - Comment on Narrow is the road that leads to Publication 4 months ago:
“Huh.” - my dear friend, upon discovering what would turn out to be a phenomenaltly important question in plasma dynamics about fusion occuring in ‘star mode legs’.
Research is hard :(
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 4 months ago:
You should really think about how a fairly straightforward reframing of your actions reads, even to you, like an intentionally negative characterization.
