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- There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolationfedia.io ↗Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 78 comments
- Comment on Thoughts Around KBin's Current Status and the Importance of Community Migration Features 4 months ago:
Agreed. Moved from kbin to fedia.io and it has been smooth so far. I hope they continue to evolve the format though
- Comment on TIL about the 1968 Olympic 'Black Power Salute' and the white guy in that photo 5 months ago:
That made me resonate with that quote from earlier in the article
Smith admitted to being astonished, ruminating: “Who is this white Australian guy?
The whole thing is quietly heartbreaking. More lives needlessly diminished
- Comment on Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines) 5 months ago:
This is a particularly suited post for this magazine and the image just completes it
- Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom? 5 months ago:
That bit was regarding why they wouldn't do the same thing regarding one's father
Personally I think it'd be a power move to say I fucked you're dad
- Comment on Why is it a common insult for someone to say they slept with your mom? 5 months ago:
The whatever reason bring that they'd have played themselves because homophobia.
I imagine the potency of yo mama jokes that focus on banging her, as opposed to accentuating how ugly she is, comes from the discomfort of sexualizing someone that you want to not have sexualized given your intimacy with her. Reframing your mom as a sexual being rewrites the experience of affection with her, for example.
The ugliness piece devalues someone precious to you.
I also thinks it's just a rules of the game that people decide on and then forget. Participating in a game about who will gets upset, everyone implicitly agrees that this is something they can fall prey to having a reaction about. Sort of social game theory
- Comment on Americans say they need to earn $186K to live comfortably — but is it enough? 5 months ago:
Wow, yeah that headline gave me that nausea of despair feeling
- Comment on Honest Government Ad | AI 5 months ago:
Yup. Made some points I hadn't considered yet, like a few companies locking in a monopoly
- Comment on Are there any games you're planning to pick up during the Steam and GOG sales? 6 months ago:
Dead Space (remastered, I guess?). Only played a demo version that had 5 minutes of play, way back in the aughts, and have been meaning to try it since.
- 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 7 months ago:
Fellow Kids might appreciate the writing style
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 7 months ago:
I hear you on the resources needed for computers being scarcer. But this might still fall overall under human induced scarcity. If we lived in more communal ways, the whole approach to personal computers could change, for instance, in a way that increased access in a more sustainable way. In no way do I believe that will happen, ofc. Just as we're not likely going to go from every household owning one or more televisions to having, say, a shared theater in every neighborhood
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 7 months ago:
There is definitely human induced scarcity. I debated including that distinction.
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 7 months ago:
I appreciate the analogy
- Comment on Why is currency so essential? 7 months ago:
Going back far enough, scarcity is the answer. We technically live in a post-scarcity world now. But we are bound by the models we developed when it existed.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 7 months ago:
That's a cool model, at least at first glance
- Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved? 8 months ago:
There's a comic book for that: https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/we-stand-on-guard
- Comment on Morrowind is overly Morrowind 8 months ago:
I'm guessing there's a mod community somewhere to learn what mods to use? Like with Skyrim, I'd probably start with things that improve the overall look but sticks to vanilla for the story
- Comment on Morrowind is overly Morrowind 8 months ago:
Thanks! I'm happy to buy the game. Everyone here is typing me up on it lol
Can OpenMW be used alongside that, or is it a different route to the game?
- Comment on Morrowind is overly Morrowind 8 months ago:
I'm sold
- Comment on Morrowind is overly Morrowind 8 months ago:
I've never played this game. Is this stuff you're describing coming from mods or the original game??
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 8 months ago:
We stumbled in midway through a quarrel
- Comment on Is Lemmy growing or shrinking? 8 months ago:
Gotta agree. A good discussion will pull me in more than lots of posts
- Comment on We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA 8 months ago:
It's an interesting, useful analogy. My concern is that, like with nature, many fear the wild. The moment a rewilding of the internet might lead to a negative event, people would run and beg for the reinstament of walled gardens
- Comment on Welcome to the Golden Age of User Hostility 8 months ago:
Oh man, I wish we had that, paying a few pennies per article. Way prefer that to an ad
- Comment on How do I block all meme communities on lemmy? 9 months ago:
Also, block that thepicardmaneuver guy
- Comment on Can you live a fulfilling life with autism? 9 months ago:
This post covers two key points that are integral to the question and worth really taking the time to absorb: first, fulfillment might informed by comparisons but is ultimately and ineluctably a personal journey. Second, acknowledge and work with your "stats" (i.e. autism) but don't identify with it