spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 16 hours ago:
Yeah, forcing Trump onto the ballot despite the insurrection because congress hadn’t passed a law to enforce the constitution and then making the president a fucking king are a huge difference from 2016. Not to mention Trump appointed jusges throwing out his cases and his 34 felonies not being a sign that he should 't be elected again after his disastrous first term.
Yeah, this is way worse and the only hope is Republican infighting keeping the worst from happening again.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 18 hours ago:
Making their logo ugly is going woke?
- Comment on What do you create? 18 hours ago:
Waste that I expell in the bathroom.
I create hastily designed lumber creations that are used to organize and store things.
Every couple of years I create a world for friends to play tabletop games in for a shared experience.
Some days I get paid to create written documentation and shared understanding of complex systems used to collect and report data that someone else will hopefully analyze and use for improving the educational opportunities of children.
I love the reframing of the question.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 19 hours ago:
If they were spread between other instances they would have the same total jerk time.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 19 hours ago:
Lemmy world has more users and therefore more likely to have more jerks when the jerk to not jerk ratio within an instance is the same.
There are a few instances where staying with their registration is worthy of assuming the worst about them.
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 23 hours ago:
Amazing how terms of service apparently carry the same weight as laws, yet can be changed arbitrarily by businesses on a whim.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
It is read like lead, not read like lead.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
Don’t get me started on ough and ead.
The lead soldier kneaded dough in the bough brush while they read the book that they previously read while taking a furlough in the rough.
- Comment on It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking 1 day ago:
Only online and since I hear the words I read it is really fucking annoying.
- Comment on How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.? 2 days ago:
Credibility is earned by being consistently credible. A source that posts misleading or false articles can be assumed to not be credible, and I don’t trust them just like I don’t trust people who say stuff that ends up being not credible.
With newer information, concensus between difference sources us a good indicator as well.
What I am far more likely to use to dismiss something is checking out the purpose of the group. If they have a website and their description sounds like a weasel pretending to be a benevolent protector of a hen house then I just ignore them. Anything that sounds pie in the sky, like revolutionizing or disrupting an established industry is probably another Theranos and easily dismissed. If they say anything that sounds like conservative doublespeak, they get ignored.
It seems to be a pretty reliable system even if the occasional thing that is too good to be true slips in because I want it to be true. But having low expectations and recognizing potential being different from the results helpas a lot with being pleasantly surprised when things turn out better than they sounded.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 2 days ago:
Having one name is easier for social reasons. Going with the man’s name is easier for social reasons.
It all comes down to social pressure to keep the status quo. I even offered to take my wife’s last name and she declined and took mine instead.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
An important thing to know is that all cultures have practices that involve shunning people, and that they are all applied to people who did nothing wrong and are not applied to people with enough connections or wealth. Some bad things that are almost universally punished but with differences in severity are being pregnant out of wedlock, not being a member of the dominant religion, being LGBTQ+, and speaking against other cultural norms. Exactly who is shunned does vary, but Japan’s is also pretty terribly implemented.
Almost everywhere the main coubter to shunning is connections and/or wealth. Royalty, high level politicians, people like Epstein, etc. are able to get away with stuff until they piss off the wrong people and lose their connections. Some may even make it to their graves without ever being punished.
The main people that suffer from being ostracized in practice are oppressed minorities. It is never fairly applied, even if some places do a slightly better job of mostly targeting the people who deserve it.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 days ago:
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 3 days ago:
Closer would have been actually being grazed by a bulllet…
- Comment on Has Bluesky’s moment arrived? 3 days ago:
I was commenting mostly on this one user having posted three articles about bluesky to Technology in about an hour.
- Comment on Has Bluesky’s moment arrived? 3 days ago:
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 3 days ago:
He got nicked by some shrapnel that did so little damage that you couldn’t even tell it ever happened when his ear diaper came off.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 3 days ago:
Trump is appointing a pedo to be Attorney General.
Trump is a pedo.
One is a lie is based on projection and the other is pointing out that pedos are pedos.
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 3 days ago:
Probably because Trump hates real dogs.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yup, killing 99% of the population leaves 8,00,000 people, many of which won’t develop cancer fast enough to keep the population from continuing.
- Comment on a peaceful place 6 days ago:
I’ll bet they don’t mean crying due to dropping a case of soda on a foot though.
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 6 days ago:
People hated him because he spoke the truth.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
Clearly Musk wants people to die.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
Aren’t Tslas the ones with glove boxes that have to be opened through the console menu?
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 1 week ago:
You have to pop off the speaker grills
Oh yes, the obvious thing to do when trying to escape a fire.
- Comment on Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely' 1 week ago:
Yup, same bullshit they tried to use to justify forcing it on HD2 after release.
- Comment on AI Elections 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI Elections 2 weeks ago:
Ararizona.
- Comment on AI Elections 2 weeks ago:
NWA winning Pennsylvania would be awesome tho.
- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 weeks ago:
I am fairly confident it was a joke.
