Minotaur
@Minotaur@lemm.ee
- Comment on Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. 7 months ago:
Apologies for the confusion. I am not literally quoting a specific year in which Benjamin Franklins newspaper said this exact line. Just, as someone who has read several biographies on the man, a recurring theme of his writings (both personal and professional, including quips in the almanac) essentially boil down to pithy remarks of “everyone is working harder now and getting less for it”.
It’s just kind of a universal experience that essentially every generation has felt.
- Comment on Millennials are exhausted by working more for less. 7 months ago:
Barring the specific mention of Milennials, it’s kind of funny that this is probably the most common headline in history.
Like you can look at Ben Franklins newspaper from 1742 and find essentially the exact same line. I’m guessing if we had enough cuneiform to translate it’d be there too
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
… it’s because I didn’t laugh at your joke?
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
… this is all because I said you wernt the smartest cookie…?
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
This is actually because I said you wernt “the smartest cookie”?
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
… yeah dude. I think that’s what it was lmao.
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
All because I called you a little gullible. This is incredible.
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
What was that about being on the spectrum
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
Yes well, maybe look in the mirror if we’ve come this far and you didn’t realize I was calling your ‘dad jokes’ embarassing- and that I did not actually believe you for a moment thought I had found a talking cookie.
Really, it’s genuinely impressive. It’s like you started playing peak-a-boo and then scared yourself in the process.
Keep going, I love to hear from you.
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
… you really aren’t the smartest cookie.
- Comment on The System Shock remake is getting a massive patch with a revised ending, choice of female player character '8 years in the making', and a significant quality of life improvement 7 months ago:
Perplexing, but nice to see!
It’s a really great and faithful remake - but I feel like I heard so little about it that I’m so confused to see new endings and player characters come out for it now months later.
Hoping it has some second wind with the general gaming crowd. Seems like it got overshadowed by RE4 and the latest Zelda game and never hit it off with that kind of TikTok, game of the month crowd
- Comment on Roblox Studio head: 'you can say, okay, we are exploiting child labour'... 7 months ago:
There is a genuinely not-small amount of Latin America that plays RuneScape and WoW for a living.
It’s kind of a bummer in a way, as it’s basically these middle aged Venezuelans grinding out weeks into RuneScape so some pencil necked dork can buy in game gold for cheap - but I guess if it’s better than the alternative.
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
Yes, I can only hope you’ve been deeply high this whole time. The alternative is concerning.
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
It’s nice that me saying you might be a bit gullible has caused you to entirely intellectually regress
A bit of a soft baked cookie, if you will.
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
You’re not the smartest cookie are you
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
Brooklyn, actually.
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
I’ve got a bridge to sell you
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
… yeah man I don’t think it’s an unfair assessment to say that at least the 10 guys all of different religions getting together and saying they all have a vaguely stated religious need to see the solar eclipse aren’t at least kind of bullshitting.
They’re still right to do it. But no dude, these are not a group of guys who legitimately feel watching the solar eclipse is vital to their religion lol. They’re a group of guys trying to scrap a bit of freedom and dignity in an oppressive environment.
- Comment on New York inmates are suing to watch the solar eclipse after state orders prisons locked down 7 months ago:
The religious lawsuit is kind of bullshit, in my opinion - but they’re right to take action over what is essentially overt, purposeless cruelty to deprive people the ability to look outside simply in order to punish them for acts they’re already being punished for.
- Comment on Biden 'outraged' over Israel strike on World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza 7 months ago:
Biden outraged at deaths he helped facilitate.
Who could have predicted this! Certainly not those troublesome leftists
- Comment on Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed 7 months ago:
Appreciate this response, it seems to make a lot of sense to me.
I think people on sites like Lemmy and similar can kind of uhh… overestimate how much anyone outside of a very niche crowd care about the whole “federalization” movement, and yeah it seems unlikely to me that Threads is going out of its way to shadowban a niche competitor like Pixelfed
- Comment on Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed 7 months ago:
Very interesting. Appreciate the response. Didn’t know big companies like meta had any interest in the whole “federation” gig, seeing that it seems a little “opposed” to the kind of big revenue that supports tech companies like that
- Comment on Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed 7 months ago:
I’m kind of stupid and more here just because it tends to be better discussion than Reddit: what does “federate with” mean in this context??
Thanks!
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 7 months ago:
You are STILL looking at the chart of logical fallacies 😂😂😂
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 7 months ago:
You literally do though. You have a post saying you do. What are you talking about???
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 7 months ago:
Holy fuck dude, go back to Reddit if all you can do is quote the “logical fallacies!!!” Infographic you have saved in your terabytes of photos. I can (and have) engage with other people who actually want to talk about complex issues here without you
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 7 months ago:
Rulings often start at the corporation / large major entity level and work their way down to the individual. Think piracy laws. At first, only giant, clear bootlegging operations were really prosecuted for that, and then people torrenting content for profit, and then people torrenting large amounts of content for free - and now we currently exist in an environment where you can torrent a movie or whatever and probably be fine, but also if the criminal justice system wants to they can (and have) easily hit anyone who does with a charge for tens of thousands of dollars or years of jail time.
Will it happen to the vast majority of people who torrent media casually? No. But we currently exist in an environment where if you get unlucky enough or someone wants to punish you for it enough, you can essentially have this massive sentence handed down to you almost “at random”.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 7 months ago:
“Why would I participate in a conversation about the slippery slope of vague, easily exploited criminal rulings? That way I would have to think about it.”
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 7 months ago:
Yeah man. Even if you loan it to them you shouldn’t be charged.
Lmfao okay yeah sure man. No one is this year. See you in 10. I know it’s easy to want to retreat to kind of a naive “this would never happen to ME!” worldview, and yeah. It probably won’t. But you have to consider all the innocent people it unjustly will happen to in coming years.
Also, not what a strawman is. You’re not really good at this.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 7 months ago:
“Sorry bro. I’d love to go target shooting with you, but you started taking Vynase 6 months ago and I’m worried if you blow your brains out the state will throw me in prison for 15 years”.