folkrav

@folkrav@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gen Z is getting downright worrying at this point. I keep witnessing behaviours and hearing opinions that had practically disappeared since my high school days. I didn’t expect the same ass-backwards bullshit I would have heard some drunk uncle rant about at a family outing when I was a kid, to come out of the mouths of a generation raised in the 21st century. It’s utterly mind boggling. All I can wonder is, who failed to teach them this shit? Were they legitimately raised that way? Who did this, how did it get so bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Vance’s liking of Yarvin Curtis’ NRx philosophy, which openly dreams of neomonarchist technocracy[0], Peter Thiel’s funding and support of both Curtis/Nrx and this administration[1][2], this administration’s ties to Project 2025[3], what’s planned in it for the first 6 months of Trump’s term in terms of getting rid of democratic safeguards, dismantling government institutions and concentrating power into the executive[4], is already well under way to execute[5]… Combine all this with the things he’s been doing publically, like aligning with Putin, and threatening Canada’s and Mexico’s annexation over the trade agreements he signed himself 9 years ago, doesn’t really sell it as “fear mongering” to me, just as “looking at what’s happening”.

  [0] www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZluMysK2B1E&t=1027s [1] nytimes.com/…/peter-thiel-donald-j-trump.html [2] ft.com/…/a46cb128-1f74-4621-ab0b-242a76583105 [3] forbes.com/…/project-2025-author-russell-vought-c… [4] …project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.p… [5] www.project2025.observer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait till they officially start calling for a constitutional amendments and they suddenly start losing some of their own rights. But by then who knows what it’s gonna look like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to believe this, but cynical me is thinking about those conservatives that look at Milei in Argentina and legitimately think it’s going great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You managed to describe a feeling I’ve had for a while but never managed to articulate correctly. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the best looking retro console or PC?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Faux-wood was just everywhere at the time indeed. It was a mix of the materials getting affordable and a certain commodification of the hippie aesthetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you change the mouse over highlight color in windows 11? Where the mouse pointer is (Apps) in the photo it is easy to see what is highlighted. On the computer screen it's impossible to see⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Ctrl+Win+S was a shortcut that launched the Snipping Tool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your first hint that this is a naive take is that you’re brushing off a societal issue to a single, external factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Music (and other art forms) happen to trigger our brains to shoot the same happy/sad/etc chemicals other less abstract physical experiences do, for reasons we don’t completely understand. I’m utterly confused why being aware of them, or having the curiosity of wanting to learn more about it, is “what’s going wrong with society”. If anything, curiosity is one of the main things that kickstarted us as a species, and brushing it off to some abstract “deeper layers of human existence” like it was some sorcery we shouldn’t dare try to understand would be way more concerning about our state as a society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jazz has patterns and repetition, like any interesting music genre. If it didn’t, it’d be called noise. They just aren’t as in your face and predictable as the ones employed by pop genres.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We like music because our brains crave pattern recognition.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Polyrhythms and polymeters are still patterns. They’re often harder to perceive and follow than your typical 4/4, but we’re still searching for the beat and bobbing our heads to the complex patterns it creates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post your bandwidth usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not “self hosting” related tho lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Fly Me to the Moon” is a stupid song. You want to know what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars? Extremely unpleasant.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alpha Centauri A and B are closer from each other (~23AU) than the Sun and Neptune (~30AU). That’s basically next door in astrological terms, but still a whole freaking lot of empty space lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The answer is very location dependent, and often multifaceted. However here in Canada it’s a combination of neglecting affordable housing construction for decades, a huge uptick in immigration, a total lack of political willpower (most of our MPs report housing income, many actual landlords), and an economy that’s over-leveraged on real estate in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t correlate much from job count. I have had 5 in the last 8 years, two of those following layoffs. Shit happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two questions:

  • Can you justify this position in any way that wouldn’t be fundamentally racist?
  • How does this answer the question at hand at all?