WatDabney

@WatDabney@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get to Santa Claus beard status⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As the proud owner of a Santa Claus beard (though in color and texture, it’s more of a Grizzly Adams beard) I would say that the most important thing is to turn the care over to a professional. Just like your hair, don’t attempt to manage it yourself (beyond washing, combing and the loke). Find a stylist who also does beards and go on a regular schedule and have them trim it and maintain it. And they’ll also be able to tell you if you need to do something special to care for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re talking about two different things.

  Context was the idea of a government banning certain popular foods

  This would mean they’d be against food safety regulations, would it not?

  It’s entirely possible to be in favor of food safety regulations and opposed to the government banning foods outright. In fact, I think one could safely presume that those are the positions most commonly held by most people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grave of the Fireflies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a copy of it for about ten years now and still haven’t watched it.

  I plan on it, but I know enough about it that I know I have to be in just the right mood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that they’re truly synonymous but that each also implies the other. If it’s true that he’s dead, then it’s also true that he died and vice versa. So it seems like they mean the same thing because if ypu say one, it can be taken for granted that the other is necessarily also true.

  But even that’s not 100% - it’s possible that “he died” is true but “he’s dead” is not, since he might’ve been revived. That illustrates the fact that they actually each communicate something different - “he died” is an experience through which he went at some point, while “he’s dead” is the state he’s in right now.

  So again, they broadly communicate the same thing since saying one implies the other as well, but they don’t actually mean the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Catchiest video game song?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as Pokemon goes, I’ve always been partial to the Team Galactic battle theme from DPPT. And though “catchy” doesn’t quite do it justice, the night theme for Jubilife City, also in DPPT, is tremendous. Walking into that city for the first time at night was one of the defining moments of my video game life.

  And the Shiver City theme from Paper Mario is unforgettable.

  I don’t think anything will ever beat Still Alive from Portal though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard-right candidate who lost Romania’s presidential race contests results at top court⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah - sorry. I’m not buying it.

  Granted that most of those at tte top are not dumb and are instead evil, greedy, power-hungry and entirely self-serving, most of the rank and file have to be dumb.

  Either they’re so dumb that they think that the lies they’re told are true, or they know that they’re not true but go along with them anyway because they think that the face-eating weasels aren’t going to eat their faces, which is just a somewhat different sort of dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard-right candidate who lost Romania’s presidential race contests results at top court⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of them are that dumb. Even a surprising number of their politicians are genuinely dumb.

  But yes - they’re most certainly not all dumb. The people at the top very much are not.

  But even they realize that most of their supporters genuinely are dumb. In fact, they count on it.

  As I said, it depends on where someone falls on the right-wing “credulous idiot to lying sack of shit” scale. They all fall somewhere along it, necessarily, with the rank and file almost entirely on the idiot end and the handful of genuine powers on the sack of shit end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will all the folks complaining about loss of Snap and health insurance realize the GOP wants us to die and has ZERO empathy for fellow Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep wondering the same thing.

  It’s especially galling when I see some cautionary piece in the legacy media about how some Republican policy “might” lead to some negative consequences. As if they’re unaware of that and it’s up to the media to gently nudge them and point it out.

  The Republicans are fully aware of the harm their policies are going to do and that’s much of the point. They quite simply want everyone who’s not one of them to die. They’re not only okay with that - they’re eagerly looking forward to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard-right candidate who lost Romania’s presidential race contests results at top court⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what they do.

  Far right is a fundamentally dishonest position. It’s based entirely on lies - the lie that the nation/world was better off under some older system, the lie that the problems today are caused by liberal values, the lie that diversity is bad and racial purity must be defended, the lie that authority is good or even necessary, the lie that men deserve to dominate and women should submit, on and on and on, it’s all lies.

  So when they lose, as they deserve, they just automatically fall into the lie that they should’ve won. That’s what defines their entire worldview - they claim a set of truths, and when the world contradicts them, they convince themselves (or pretend, depending on where they fall on the far right scale of credulous idiot to lying sack of shit) that it’s some sort of conspiracy to deny them what’s rightfully theirs, when the reality is simply that they’re wrong. About everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government officials have coordinated with Musk executives to pressure small african countries into embracing Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To the degree that fascism has a distinctive economic system, one of its most notable qualities is a combination of private ownership of the means of producton with government/corporate partnership and a “revolving door” by which powerful individuals pass back and forth between business and political leadership positions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that Trump and Musk are only Thiel's meat puppets.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If only it was that simple…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US eliminates unit countering foreign disinformation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine that - an office dedicated to counterong foreign disinformation somehow ends up being accused of censoring conservative views.

  That reminds me of when I saw a mouse in my kitchen, so I set a trap snd caught it, snd somehow that slao stopped the ragged holes that were inexplicably appearing in food packages in the cupboards.

  Just one of life’s mysteries I guess…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see any situation in which I would.

  Mostly I have zero interest in sucking any dick (other than maybe my own, and I’m not that flexible).

  But beyond that, $20 just seems wrong no matter what - if I wanted to do it, $20 would be pointless and if I didn’t, it wouldn’t be near enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The timing here is what makes this move particularly baffling…

  It’s only baffling if you cling to the ever-more-laughable belief that the Democrats are any sort of meaningful opposition.

  If you instead simply shift to the ever-more-supported belief thatvthey are in fact essentially oligarchic co-conspirators, then the timing makes perfect sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That whole family is just rich white trash, aren’t they?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Lefties keep calling us Nazis but they don’t even know what Nazis are, and oh yeah, by the way, all of these people over here should be killed because they’re an inferior race.”

  Even setting aside the staggering psychopathy of the modern right - their complete and utter disregard for the lives of other human beings - I don’t even begin to understand how any human being could have so little self-awareness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[DISC] Chigau Miyahara Omae janai! - Chapter 43⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lately this series keeps feeling like tragedy and heartbreak are looming just barely off-stage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conservatives don’t care.

  Their blinkers don’t allow them to even see things like that. They’re just focused on seeing the people they hate made to suffer, and as long as that happens, they’re content. The rest is just trivia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do people say annoying/rude stuff and then tell you “it was a joke!”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the terms of the cliche, they’re trying to have their cake and eat it too.

  They want the immediate gratification of being rude assholes, so they do it just long enough for that initial rush, then they back away to try to avoid the consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of anarchism?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that if humanity can manage to survive long enough, anarchism is inevitable.

  It’s essentially the adult stage of human society - the point at which humans collectively and consistently, rather than just individually and situationally, can be trusted to generally do the right thing simply because it’s the right thing and therefore the most reasonable thing to do.

  Forvtgectime being snd the foreseeable future though, humanity is nowhere even close to that. Through the course of history, human society has managed to advance to about the equivalent of adolescence. There’s still a long way to go.

  In spite of that, I do identify as an anarchist, but my advocacy is focused on the ideal and the steps humanity as a whole has to take to achieve it. I think it’s plainly obvious that it cannot be implemented, since any mechanism by which it might be inplemented would necessarily violate the very principles that define it. It can only be willingly adopted by each and all (or close enough as makes no meaningful difference), and that point will come whenever (if) it comes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA Vice City Nextgen Edition Drops As a Standalone Package In Response To Take-Two's "Cruel" Move⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unfortunate that the mod devs were so thoroughly fucked over, but their response was perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Company Square Enix Threatens To Sue Customers For Criticizing Their DEI Practices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or framed another way, representative of a noxious vocal minority that has to some degree succeeded in bullying companies into accommodating them bemoans the factvthat the companies would really rather that they just fuck off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meloni: Soros is interfering in democracies, not Musk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this “Soros” in the room with you now? Can you describe him to me?