RoidingOldMan
@RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 22 hours ago:
Here are images of the moon’s surface where you can make out details like rover tracks.
- Comment on What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it? 2 days ago:
Some families are much more connected to their home country than others. Americans 3rd gen and beyond often have very little connection. The issue is where Irish culture is distinctly different from Irish-American culture, Italian different than Italian-American. You can’t go “back” to the home country and fit in. It’s not the same.
- Comment on An old excuse 2 days ago:
- Comment on (serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting. 3 days ago:
Without cars there would be A LOT more people on the sidewalk. In the past, before cars, there were so many more people on the street it’s not even funny.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 4 days ago:
So why was NOW the time? What’s the USA really gaining here with these strikes?
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 4 days ago:
It seems naive to think that you could accomplish regime change with only air strikes? America tried occupation, tried training Afghanistan, none of that worked.
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- Comment on Good point 1 week ago:
Enough people that he got AIDS?
- Comment on Good point 1 week ago:
Dude live a pornstar life and then he cured AIDS.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 week ago:
Does your friend consider themselves on the left or the right side of the graph?
Any graph like that where it puts their own beliefs as ‘smart’ and others beliefs as ‘dumb’ is inherently a pretty useless graph.
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 1 week ago:
No. Like men might shorten ‘muchacho’ to ‘chacho’ while women would be saying ‘muchacha.’
- Comment on Are there regions of the world where local men and women have divergent accents? 1 week ago:
Puerto Rican Spanish, the men speak a more ‘street’ less formal dialect, while women speak a more formal dialect. Heavily influenced by music.
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- Comment on My girlfriend found a cool vintage tube of lipstick 1 week ago:
You know it’s legit because it’s heavy.
- Comment on Are there any easy ways and methods for actually studying socialist theory and such? 1 week ago:
The old internet game Oligarchy
- Comment on too many creators not enough destroyers 1 week ago:
That’s censorship. Which I understand for hate speech, but it’s problematic if you censor stuff broadly.
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 1 week ago:
It was a leap forward in gangster movies. The genre had peaked in the 1920-30’s, then it flipped to becoming more detective/police focused. The gangster film was fairly dead by the 70’s. The entire vibe you think of as a modern ‘gangster movie vibe’ is The Godfather.
There’s a lot of movies that don’t exist without The Godfather coming first. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) was Sergio Leone’s attempt to do the same sort of thing. Which was meant to be 2 movies. Goodfellas (1990) also borrows a lot, but gives a significantly faster pace to the storytelling. The gangster film was pretty much reborn anew, all in the wake of the success of The Godfather.
If you tried to make any sort of gangster movie today, you might not even realize you were borrowing from it. It’s genre defining.
- Comment on K.I.S.S. 1 week ago:
Well he was cunning compared to his brother James Caan.
- Comment on At one time, a man seeing a female's naked knee was equivalent to a man seeing a female's breast today. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Now that the AMA has concluded we can get back to our usual serious business 2 weeks ago:
Janeway and Tom Paris’ lizard babies belongs at the top.
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 2 weeks ago:
It’s a little weird to see them celebrating the surveillance state that they are creating.
- Comment on Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online 2 weeks ago:
After years and years of complaining about ‘censorship online’ they’re gonna start arresting people for what they say online.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 25 comments
- Comment on I crock pot some stuff an usually takes between 10 to 12 hours. I have seen people smoke a pig which takes about 1 day. What were the rules of sacrifice in the ancient gods or the new one? 3 weeks ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wick_effect
Fatty animal + any amount of cloth = it’ll burn all the way down.
- Comment on How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on? 4 weeks ago:
Obviously it’s a limited sample of men’s fashion, but yes I think these overall trends of baggyness and hair length are similar to real life. These are athletes mostly age 19, up to age 21-22. Getting money for the first time in their lives.
- Comment on How come decades in the 1900s look fairly well differentiated but from like 2004 on feels like a giant run on? 4 weeks ago:
Just looking at how the NBA draft class has dressed for draft day. 2004 is extremely baggy. 2011 is significantly less baggy, and very limited color choices. 2018 everyone is wearing tight fitting clothes and lots of color. By far the biggest variety of clothing choices. 2025 is notably more baggy than 2018, color choices are a bit more limited, but lots of textures.
- Comment on LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux. 4 weeks ago:
ChatGPT is. That’s probably why it says dumb shit sometimes.
- Comment on LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux. 4 weeks ago:
When I was a child I’d go on Yahoo Answers and give bad advice and then vote myself as having the best answer. I was a ‘top answerer’ for several niche subjects I know nothing about.
- Comment on Every job that I was ever trained to do and every job when I trained others was like this 4 weeks ago:
Yeah this happened to me and then I got fired for doing things that way.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Richest man in the world things poor people are a bigger problem than all 0 people wealthier than him.
