Dasus
@Dasus@lemmy.world
- Comment on how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres? 14 hours ago:
I have some pictures of a squadmate feeding me chips while I sleep and me just hoovering them up even without waking up.
But they’re on Facebook, I almost logged in but Cuckerberg has decided my options are either paying them 10€ to use the site without them using my info for ads or using it free but giving consent to do whatever.
So I’ll just actually fucking pay some day and take all my data and then quit.
Anyway… well, I would’ve liked to link the picture and go “oh you mean like this”? But fuck Facebook. Actually now that I’m reading up on this it looks like they’re using it already anyway. “We receive this information whether or not you’re logged in or have an account on our Products”
Grumble grumble
- Comment on how are some people able to fall asleep anywheres? 14 hours ago:
When I was in the army I was able to do that, but in civilian life, nope.
Not even when I’m tired to that point. I won’t fall asleep, I’ll have a seizure.
But in the army with a break of more than 5 minutes meant a nap.
- Comment on Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores 2 days ago:
“It’s crucial we get free labour so we can keep making record profits for no work at all.”
- Comment on Stay on the designated path 3 days ago:
You’re ranting about furry hentai to someone who made a joke about there being a bird species which is called “tit”.
You wooshed. Hard.
- Comment on Stay on the designated path 3 days ago:
Woooosh
- Comment on Not only is this not how anyone writes, I do not understand why anyone would want to read anything that sounds anything like this 3 days ago:
And “it’s great in especially places like Florida”, so he clearly has to move around quite a lot.
What a hectic life, poor fellow poster.
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
Males of average height have about 4 grams of iron in their body, females about 3.5 grams; children will usually have 3 grams or less
300 * 3g = 900g.
300 * 4,5g = 1350g
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longsword
and weighing approximately 1 to 1.5 kg
It’s close enough, I’d say. OP’s maths that is.
- Comment on Tomb Raider TV Series Written By Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge Ordered By Amazon Prime Video 5 days ago:
Fuck yeah
- Comment on Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy 1 week ago:
Fixing the problem isn’t necessarily easy, but the solution is simple.
- Comment on what's a good way to stick a laser leveler to the wall? 1 week ago:
I think made more sense without.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 1 week ago:
We literally didn’t.
The information that existed 3000 years ago is more or less the same as it was, except ours is better, because we have tve concepts of fact and fiction, and we know the Trojan Horse was a mythical wooden horse in a real historical war.
If you watched Band of Brothers 1000 years from now. They will still know that WWII was an actual war and that Band of Brothers was a dramatisation that was produced decades later. The difference would be that you’d also have access to the imdb from which you can read it’s history.
Just like the Odyssey was written years after the Trojan War. Back then myths and reality weren’t as distinct as they are today. That’s why we still tell kids stories about humanlike animals acting this way or that. It’s not that it’s “not real”, just because humanlike animals are fictional, as it still teaches real life lessons.
Just like the Trojan Horse might be symbolic for the Greeks outwitting Trojans.
If our civilization falls, there’s no guarantee that our common knowledge survives. It could very well be that people see a lightsaber and think that we had the technology to build one
Sure, yeah, people “see” a lightsaber… where? A toy? In the movie? So they’ve lost the understanding of what toys and movies are? I would really like to hear a short synopsis of the scenario in which you think this is plausible.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
“we’re sorry that we got caught”
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 1 week ago:
How many in fifty years can?
Why on Earth would we lose the ability to read simple magnetic discs?
Yes, I can read data off floppy disk today due to having a floppy drive somewhere in my storage. And even if I didn’t, it’d cost like at most 5 euros to get one.
It’s rather trivial. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_storage
And what data exactly are there on floppy disks that isn’t on other media? Like… globally culturally significant data.
Can you read ancient Greek? I can’t, but I still know about the Trojan Horse. I can’t read Biblical Hebrew, but I know about the ten commandments. How?
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 1 week ago:
I never said Homer authored the stories he wrote.
It’s a collection yes, much like the national epic of my country, Finland. Those epics are still considered to be written by the person who actually… wrote them.
It doesn’t matter though whether Homer is a single person or many, real or fictional. What matters is that we’ve not lost the context of the story.
In your argument, it’s more like a 1000 years from now people would be consider George Lucas to be the creator of the Mandalorian. It wouldn’t be correct, but it wouldn’t be too far off the mark, and most importantly, nothing important to the context of “what is a light saber” would have been lost.
The point is that writing hadn’t even existed too long by the point that we managed to preserve stories to last until modern times.
Our current technology is undeniably far superior, and there are dedicated institutions and people who preserve important information, especially culture. Star Wars is undeniably a part of that.
There is pretty much no situation in which we’d lose the context of what a light saber is, except pretty much the destruction of the entire world, all media wiped out somehow (despite that meaning the destruction of literal nuclear bunkers) and the extinction of anyone who knows about Star Wars.
The scale of destruction would need to be such that humanity itself wouldn’t survive it.
It’s more than likely that Star Wars will outlive our species.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 1 week ago:
We have no form of long term preservation of information any more.
Which keeps better, paper or a hard drive? Exposed to the elements, that is. A literal metal disc or a collection of paper fibers?
The sheer amount of copies of Star Wars in all it’s forms is mind-boggling, and again, literally global. We also have people and institutions dedicated to archiving significant things.
There are very few imaginable situations which would lead to humanity losing the concept of what a light saber is.
Like please, propose one.
This is unlike earlier cultures which stored information on physical media which continue to exist long after the culture that created it is gone.
You’re seriously suggesting cultures 3000 years ago preserved information better than we do? Seriously?
Simply untrue.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 2 weeks ago:
They might have, and despite being more than a thousand years from the printing press, they would’ve been more or less right.
It’s a myth that the Library of Alexandria was the only collection and all sorts of information was lost. Sure, there were a lot of books that probably didn’t have many, if any, other copies. But for the most part, most of the books in that library had copies in other similar (if not [all] as grand) libraries.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Histo…
The Library of Alexandria was not the first library of its kind.[3][12] A long tradition of libraries existed in both Greece and in the ancient Near East.[13][3] The earliest recorded archive of written materials comes from the ancient Sumerian city-state of Uruk in around 3400 BC, when writing had only just begun to develop.[14] Scholarly curation of literary texts began in around 2500 BC.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria#Decli…
Burning by Julius Caesar
Scholars have interpreted Cassius Dio’s wording to indicate that the fire did not actually destroy the entire Library itself, but rather only a warehouse located near the docks being used by the Library to house scrolls.[88][82][8][90] Whatever devastation Caesar’s fire may have caused, the Library was evidently not completely destroyed.[88][82][8][90]
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 2 weeks ago:
Yeah.
We still know where the Trojan Horse is from, despite literally thousands of years of culture, stories, translations and a complete lack of printing technology. I also know what the context is for a burning bush.
With our far superior technology, literally global popularity of Star Wars and the fact that we haven’t lost stories of even much smaller scale from much earlier on, how would we ever lose the context of what a lightsaber is?
It would require pretty much the complete destruction of all media and the extinction of most people and if even one of the survivors was even slightly predisposed being a writer…
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, ton of obsolete media. If there’s lack of preservation, there’s probably a reason for it.
I daresay there’s enough copies of Star Wars that they’ll found on hard drives for the unforeseeable future, and even if they weren’t, the story isn’t lost.
I’m sure all the original copies of the Odyssey have long since perished, but I still heard about Odysseus and the Trojan War growing up.
Literally the entire world is aware of Star Wars, more or less.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 2 weeks ago:
Which evolves arm in arm with piracy, luckily.
I haven’t watched ads or paid for content in like 15 years. Well, most of the time. I do frequent the movies and that at least is paying for content and there’s no way to adblock in the cinema.
- Comment on In a thousand years teachers will have a hard time explaining the origins of one of the most dangerous and ill-conceived weapons ever invented: the lightsaber 2 weeks ago:
Why?
Unlike in history, we don’t really lose information anymore. Not trivia about a massively popular fiction like that anyway.
For instance, Homer, the writer of the Iliad and Odyssey, is still well known. He lived almost 3000 years ago. He was known by the ancient Norse as well, so it’s not like it’s one of those things that was lost to history and discovered in the modern age.
But… I guess you might be trying to make a point that maybe by that point there are real light sabers and perhaps even have been for centuries. It’d make it sort of like the origins of the modern taser, which are also in sort of in scifi. Sort of. Loosely.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taser#History
Jack Cover, a NASA researcher, began developing the first Taser in 1969. By 1974, Cover had completed the device, which he named TASER, using a loose acronym of the title of the book Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, a book written by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the pseudonym Victor Appleton and featuring Cover’s childhood hero, Tom Swift
- Comment on Aged Like Milk 2 weeks ago:
It’s not contentious at all, there is very clear consent, and you’re a troll or a moron, possibly both.
Seriously, there aren’t words severe enough for me to express my utter contempt of people who actively endanger others because they’re too dumb and lazy to read, but have an ego so big they can’t admit that to themselves, so they read badly written simplistic conspiracy theories to make themselves feel special.
Utter. Fucking. Disgust.
- Comment on Aged Like Milk 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s not. Youre clearly looking for some, probably trolling on purpose, thinking it fun, but misinformation like this is actually dangerous.
I’m not American, and our government had a sensible reaction without antivax reactionaries and that’s probably a reason I still have my grandma.
Your reasons for doing this don’t matter to me. I reiterate what I said in my first comment; sealioning antivaxers disgust me.
- Comment on Aged Like Milk 2 weeks ago:
can we come to agreement
Definitely not, you whacko.
- Comment on Aged Like Milk 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people were severely ill, a lot of people died and the hospitals were overwhelmed.
I honestly don’t have the words to express my sincere disgust with antiscience antivaxx nuts who still always pretend they actually understand any of the science, because they don’t understand how ridiculous it is when they claim that despite their utter lack of understanding on even the basics of the science.
- Comment on There can only be one! 2 weeks ago:
“I’m a doctor, not a time-lord!”
- Comment on It definitely *was* a good idea though 2 weeks ago:
*Us
- Comment on The Palestine experience 2 weeks ago:
Propaganda bots like you fucking disgust me
- Comment on The miracle of childbirth 2 weeks ago:
Probably just “regular” mammals.
Mammals have a lot of weird dick things. Some bats have gone from penetrative sex back to just like touching genitals because their dicks are so huge they literally don’t fit anymore.
livescience.com/…/bats-with-weirdly-giant-penis-h…
So having a impractically huge dick was more important for some reason.
Guess something similar happened with hyenas vis-a-vis having become matriarchal at some point.
- Comment on KHAAAANNNNN!!! 2 weeks ago:
Drizzt Do’Whoorden
- Comment on Trust issues 3 weeks ago:
Have fun arguing with positions you’re making up for yourself.
Oh the irony.
I haven’t laughed at that sort of philosophy larping this hard in ages. “Cringe”, I believe is how the youth refers to the feeling that accompanied my laugh.
What do you find so very incoherent about “the internet was not better in 1994”?
You implied that the person I’m talking to isn’t ignoring reality they know exists, like the average speed of an Internet connection being 14kbit/s in 1994. Of course the internet was worse in 1994, and the “wild west” applied to ads and malware as well.
It’s funny how big words you try using though, after not being able to even spell “gonorrhea” and not having the wits to check how it’s spelled when you write it and doing with “gonerea”, and, have, such weird, punctuation that makes, reading your, text very, weird. :D which makes the logical fallacy larping all the more hilarious via it’s pretentiousness.
Your argument is essentially “people don’t remember bad things”. Mine is “people would prefer to ignore bad memories”, which is why he is “wearing rose coloured glasses” as I’m sure he still understands what the internet actually was like in 1994, and willfully ignores the negatives.