whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 20 hours ago:
Is half-life cyberpunk?
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 days ago:
You’re right, I thought it was hold not elected.
- Comment on USA President term limits 2 days ago:
If they followed the law as written it would go to the next person in order of succession, the congressional house speaker, because he would be ineligible to hold the office after the second term.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 2 days ago:
Not just fast food, chains and franchises in general. Local only may be more of a quality gamble when trying things out but when you find that unassuming diner or small restaurant that takes pride in their daily soups, and doesn’t do delivery or apps, and closes at reasonable times for their workers, and is usually packed on weekends, you’ve found something special.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 1 week ago:
It’s solar powered so I just wait for night time to clear it then do the next problem in the morning
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have to not kill people to be an improvement, it just has to kill less people than people do
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
30°C is 303.15K, half 151.575K is a nice and chilly -121.575°C lower than any recorded temp on earth by about 21°C.
- Comment on Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk 3 weeks ago:
Surge pricing=price gouging, there is no difference
- Comment on Fruit Flies 4 weeks ago:
A time, B time, and lunch time.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
If we were the aliens and came across two worlds inhabited by intelligent life I would probably be more weirded out by the one where nobody uses any mind altering substance like caffeine that are poisonous to other animals.
- Comment on Badgers 4 weeks ago:
No, this is wolverine:
- Comment on Do animals feel love and emotion? 1 month ago:
You may be interested in a paper Thomas Negal wrote about 50 years ago called “What is it like to be a bat?”
www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/…/Nagel_Bat.pdf
It’s not just about emotional states, which we can observe the behavioral states of but don’t know what it is like to experience as other animals. It’s about experience and consciousness which I think speaks to the underlying question of when other animals experience an emotional state if we can relate it to our own phenomenology for similar appearing states.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
I used to be kbm exclusive but there have been some pretty good controller improvements made over the years, things like hotkey layers in Skyrim UI mods or the final fantasy MMO giving dozens of unique hotkeys on a controller, and new hardware with back buttons and shoulder buttons that keep both thumbs on the thumbsticks. Can’t beat mouse for precision, but there are tradeoffs for that.
- Comment on Ubisofts stock tanked this morning ahead of the markets opening 1 month ago:
AAAA stock
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 1 month ago:
When my insurance carrier stopped mailing cards they added a request to send the updated cards, pain in the ass but pretty sure most insurers are doing that now to cut corners because they aren’t legally required to send them.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 1 month ago:
At least 50
- Comment on stacked 1 month ago:
Everyone, or just the people who would call in to coast to coast am?
- Comment on under the ice 1 month ago:
Also Maccready’s hat:
- Comment on YouTube has found a new way to load ads | AdGuard Blog 1 month ago:
YouTube alternatives?
- Comment on Recommendations on casual GB/GBA games? 1 month ago:
Super Monkey ball Tekken 2 One of the street fighters Chess Crazy taxi Any Megamen Uniracers Doom 2 or 64 Most sonics Monkey Island if it runs scummvm games
- Comment on Weevil time 1 month ago:
Two bears fighting
- Comment on TV has failed us by not making a show about catching foriegn state actors and other online trolls in the act. 1 month ago:
I think I saw that episode of night court
- Comment on I wish we as a society would stop pretending that justice is blind, when it very clearly is not. 1 month ago:
The lady justice monologue from V for Vendetta by Alan Moore seems appropriate:
’ Hello, dear lady. A lovely evening, is it not?
Forgive me for intruding. Perhaps you were intending to take a stroll. Perhaps you were merely enjoying the view.
No matter. I thought that it was time we had a little chat, you and I.
Ahh…I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced.
I do not have a name. You can call me V.
Madam Justice…this is V.
V…this is Madam Justice.
Hello, Madam Justice.
“Good evening, V.”
There. Now we know each other. Actually, I’ve been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you’re thinking…
“The poor boy has a crush on me…an adolescent infatuation.”
I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn’t like that at all.
I’ve long admired you…albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child.
I’d say, to my father, “Who is that lady?” and he’d say, “That’s Madam Justice.” And I’d say, “Isn’t she pretty.”
Please don’t think it was merely physical. I know you’re not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.
That was a long time ago. I’m afraid there’s someone else now…
“What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!”
I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!
Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn’t it? You thought I didn’t know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything!
Frankly, I wasn’t surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.
“Uniform? Why, I’m sure I don’t know what you’re talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one…”
Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!
Well? Cat got your tongue?
Very well. So you stand revealed at last. You are no longer my Justice. You are his Justice now. You have bedded another.
Well, two can play at that game!
“Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?”
Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did!
She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel.
I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know.
So goodbye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman that I once loved.
Here is a final gift. I leave it at your feet.
The flames of freedom. How lovely. How just. Ahh, my precious Anarchy…
“O beauty, ’til now I never knew thee.” ’
- Comment on Why are people on the internet (and Lemmy) so quick to say someone "deserves to die" 2 months ago:
We judge others more harshly than ourselves or our friends and family, it’s often a tribal artifact of the environment our species grew up and evolved in through its infancy that has in part informed our acceptable behaviors as a social species who relies on groups for survival (justice, altruism, fairness, social contract, etc).
Sometimes it’s hyperbole, sometimes it’s incorrectly treating people different than ourselves as less than instead of different to, and sometimes someone violates common morality so abjectly that capital punishment is a popular acceptable outcome.
- Comment on Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies 2 months ago:
They could put you in the sun for several hours with no shade, ice, or water then pretend it wasn’t manslaughter when you die from heat exposure at 27
- Comment on You Should Show Grave of the Fireflies to Your Kids 2 months ago:
I think some folks are just opposed to thinking it’s good for all kids when obviously the material takes some amount of maturity and empathy.
- Comment on Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones' 2 months ago:
Yes, some people are uninformed idiots.
- Comment on "It's scary"- Scientists finding mounting evidence of plastic pollution in human organs 2 months ago:
It keeps my joints nice and slippery
- Comment on We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why 2 months ago:
Yeah I don’t want government or private monopolies. Competition in an open, well regulated market seems better.
