dandelion

@dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  omg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, yes I would imagine 🥵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, I do ☺️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the pharmacist add these little ticks/checkmarks with a pen on my medication box?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  maybe I’m just a pervert, but all that text is aggressively sexual

  what I’m saying is I’m ready to take Dr. Reddy’s hard, red pregabalin capsules

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  furthermore, it’s reinterpreted as a false flag or something that never really happened - there is never accountability

  ContraPoints did an excellent video in conspiracy theories recently: www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  sorry, I should have clarified that I was talking about active communities (where users regularly visit and interact)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Merging a western with eldritch horror, Blood West is awesome and now Steam Deck Verified⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of that Mythic Quest episode called “A Dark Quiet Death”, (spoilers ahead) about a fictional horror video game where users are vulnerable, have no way to fight the monsters, and only have a flashlight. After the video game is a surprise hit, the game studio increasingly crumbles to pressure to sell out, and subsequent sequels of the game increasingly cater to popular demands like that users can have a gun, then that users can actually kill monsters, and so on.

  Anyway, this video game claims to be an eldritch horror game, but it’s basically a FPS shoot-em-up with monsters in a western setting, the “eldritch” aspect is basically nothing more than superficial aesthetic at that point. Eldritch horror, like the video game in “A Dark Quiet Death”, is inspired by Lovecraft’s writing, which positions humans as defenseless insects relative to the horrors that are not only beyond human capacity to fight, but often even to comprehend. The role of a gun in a Lovecraftian context is mostly to show the hubris and futility of human attempts to overcome the horrors.

  All that said, this isn’t to suggest the game is wrong or bad, my thoughts are just about the deeper artistic ironies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Meaning there isn’t an instance for women, nor are there multiple communities - as far as I know there’s just this one community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this is a bit of how Blahaj works as I understand it, so it’s a good model - if anything I would think Blahaj might already be poised for this kind of instance-level protection of women

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  unfortunately I think this is the current answer, at least on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cerebral decomposition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, very pro body pillows, though they don’t have to be Japanese comfort pillows to be body pillows 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cerebral decomposition⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it helped me understand this better once I knew a dakimakura is one of those Japanese body pillows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I do think there is a tendency to condemn people from their associations, and that can lead to unfair characterizations - though I don’t think this is one of those cases.

  Actually watching some of the video, her comments align pretty directly with conservative talking points and builds upon existing conservative “arguments” and outrage about the influence of feminism on video games.

  I think nublung is basically suggesting we shouldn’t be sharing bigoted or hateful perspectives, which I agree with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The youtuber is claiming modern games have “masculinized” female characters likely in response to attempts to not sexualize some female characters in contemporary games. Representing this as “erasure of feminity” sounds like a conservative defense of sexism.

  Her right-wing views also explains why Asmongold, another streamer, is sending viewers her way. If you’re not familiar, Asmongold has right-wing views himself, and sexist views in particular, for example he was upset that a woman won a fan vote for an esports award, claiming it was a “diversity pick” and she only won because she was a woman. He claims she wasn’t a top streamer despite the fact that she was a top streamer with 6.5 million fans, etc.

  The “hate” is typical conservative bigotry, and while nublung’s comment points out the youtuber’s sexism, likely what they meant by “hateful garbage” was the overall ideology which aims at the usual targets:

  • women,
  • racial minorities,
  • political enemies (liberals and leftists),
  • sexual & gender minorities (LGBT+),
  • heathens (i.e. non-Christians, Muslims, etc.),
  • immigrants (example),
  • poor people (e.g. “welfare queens”, food stamp recipients, etc.), and
  • disabled folks (example)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  was going to say, the invasion of Mexico (like 1848 or so) was naked greed and caused some countries to doubt the U.S. was serious about its supposed founding ideals, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unsolicited advice, but you have to escape your - to make it not create a bulleted list.

  Lemmy uses markdown for its formatting, and this means - is has special meaning, it is syntax used to create bulleted lists with.

  For example,

  - Isaac Asimov will look like:

  • Isaac Asimov

  If you want it to look like

  - Isaac Asimov

  you have to escape the - character with a \:

  \- Isaac Asimov

  The \ basically says “ignore the special syntax meaning of - as starting a bulleted list, and instead treat it as a literal -”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  leaded gasoline was fun, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would an all loving god create hell?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No idea, tbh - I think you have a good question, I don’t recognize OP’s conception of hell either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would an all loving god create hell?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  presumably the OP is Muslim?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would an all loving god create hell?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be worth reading this: plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/

  If it’s too technical, you might try Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, feels like the pic is only meant to situate, like “I’m here in this situation”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if a majority if indigenous folks didn’t mind the label, it’s still a label born of ignorance. It’s not like it becomes just OK because the surviving oppressed minority incorrectly labelled that way by the colonists are OK with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, I’m not really doubting OP’s intentions, I’m just trying to clue them in to how others might see their post so they aren’t surprised if it gets flagged

  I think race issues were apparent to me as a young child, but it took the form of feeling insecure and unsure how to interact with racial minority peers of mine in school and so on, not wanting to make them feel uncomfortable but feeling fragile around them and thus accidentally introducing stigma. It was an awful feeling, and something that just didn’t happen with other students.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you also feel cringe about people making such a big deal about ethnicity?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a warning, your question might be interpreted as violating rule 5:

  Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

  That said, I don’t see why cringing about racism is controversial, if anything it’s the majority view that racism is bad.

  If you are genuinely interested in learning about where racism comes from, feel free to read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

  Aristotle for example argued that non-Greek slaves innately lacked a will and thus depended on their Greek masters as rulers the way children depend on their parents (he made similar arguments justifying the supremacy of men over women). These views have a long history, and it’s worth learning about. You might start with the culture you are in (not sure if you’re from the U.S. or not) and read a few academic primers about race and the history of race in your culture.

  You might also wonder what race is, and for philosophical questions about race I would start here: plato.stanford.edu/entries/race/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for personal cloud storage alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  rsync is not really comparable to syncthing, it’s like comparing Excel to C++ or something. I need to be able to get lay people to install and use it, and syncthing has a UI that allows this while even I would have to do some work to get rsync to do everything syncthing is doing for me right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for personal cloud storage alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  is there a more efficient alternative that isn’t centralized?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of us are so used to being monitored and told what to do/say/think that we prefer it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I live in America, people here operate in the opposite fashion of a hive - in a hive the organism is the collective, and the individual is just a part of the whole. In the U.S. many people refuse to take minimal actions to benefit others and even themselves out of the perception that it might be viewed as collectivist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of us are so used to being monitored and told what to do/say/think that we prefer it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  social politeness has gone too far \s

  tbh I have daily interactions with real humans in the flesh that make me think more people should be concerned about their actions and words than they are, lol

  though the habituation of state and corporate surveillance is disturbing and should be combated fr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of us are so used to being monitored and told what to do/say/think that we prefer it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  well you wouldn’t want to be caught doing / saying / thinking the wrong thing would you?