Whats_your_reasoning
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- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 3 days ago:
Cost to dispose of it is greater than zero.
I was looking for a comment mentioning this. If it’s a rural area, the local waste management facility might take a trek to get to. If you have to make multiple trips, or rent/hire a vehicle to get rid of something (like having to tow an old car), the time and cost can add up.
So if it’s not accepted with a typical trash pick-up, it’s still gotta be somewhere, even if you don’t want it anymore. Keeping it on your own property is at least more ethical than dumping it in the woods somewhere (though you’ll find plenty of that in some areas, too.)
- Comment on Having the ability to lie and manipulate with no remorse will get you much further in this world than having morals and being correct 3 days ago:
I’m starting to think of writing down the specific things job recruiters tell me, and bringing it to the interview. The last recruiter that reached out (and succeeded in hiring me) told me things that didn’t end up being true. When I got hired and was told contradictory information, the company said, “Oh, that is still true, but this particular case is an exception. We can get you a different case where that is true,” and then they didn’t get back to me for weeks. In that time, I’d applied, interviewed, and accepted a job elsewhere. Fuck lying employers.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 3 days ago:
Ugh, the “swipe” is the worst feature for every company to jump on. I get paralyzed between, “What if they just took a bad picture? I don’t know enough about them and dismissing them for a bad photo could mean missing out,” and “What if I’m swiping right on a creep and don’t realize it? Now they’ll know my picture, my name, where I live, and they’ll think I’m definitely interested.”
I haven’t used it in a couple years, but I did meet my current boyfriend on OK Cupid. I’m poly, and I met my girlfriend last year on an LGBTQ+ dating/social app called Lex. The cool thing with Lex is that it’s text-based, originally modeled off of old newspaper classified ads. You get to know people through them voicing their thoughts and asking original questions. No pressure to “swipe or get off the pot,” you can get to know someone through comments on posts before sending a message. It’s not for everyone, but if you’re in the LGBTQ+ community and sick of being forced to make snap-judgements about strangers who might end up being a massive part of your life, it’s a relief.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 5 days ago:
Rent costs half a month’s pay, so that checks out.
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 6 days ago:
I didn’t read it as an insult. If it was, then “lesbians” was an insult, too. It sounds like OP’s just using the hate-mongers’ own words.
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 6 days ago:
I’ve already bought a 2nd Order of the Phoenix to burn
Weird, you should be able to burn the same copy over and over again. Just wait for the first one to reform from the ashes.
- Comment on I worked at an escort agency. This is how it changed my attitude to sex 1 week ago:
When I worked in a nursing home, there absolutely were residents who tried to sneak off together. I don’t know if any sex actually happened (I doubt it, since these people needed assistance getting out of their wheelchairs), but people definitely got touchy-feely when they could.
There was a triad in one of the units. A quiet man, who rarely spoke and mostly chilled out by himself, managed to get two girlfriends. Sometimes they’d sit together and he’d hold each of their hands at the same time. The women would sometimes sneak a quick reach for other parts of his body, as he sat there with this big smile on his face.
I figured it was none of my business, and I guess the rest of the staff felt the same way. They were all consenting and they kept their clothes on, so if granny can cop quick feel, who am I to judge? I was just glad they had found a way to be happy while living in such a depressing place.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 1 week ago:
Trying to find a place to live where the rent won’t take over 50% of my income. I work full time and I make over $10 more per hour than my state’s minimum wage.
Yet for some reason, everyone takes issue when I say I’m ready to just move into my car. I’ve lived in a vehicle before, it’s not fun or easy, but it’s a roof I already own, and that’s the best chance I’ve got to be guaranteed shelter.
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 1 week ago:
I second Dr Mario. When I first went off to kindergarten, my mom and little brother would play Dr Mario together. It’s perfect for that age range, simple to play and control, with an option for two-player mode.
- Comment on CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings 3 weeks ago:
Also, people looking for answers famously love being made to talk to a computer instead of an actual human. A full-on “uncanny valley” AI pretending to be the boss is sure to go over just as well.
I guess robotic phone trees that demand you speak, yet constantly misinterpret what you say, simply don’t hammer home the amount of contempt CEOs have for the rest of us. I’ve found that repeatedly hitting the zero key usually makes those calls transfer to a human, but somehow I doubt a CEO’s AI clone would give people that option.
- Comment on When a person follows you and watches your every move, it's called stalking. When companies like Meta do it, it's just called collecting user data. 4 weeks ago:
This reminds me of when a neighbor reported to the landlord that we were smoking weed indoors. She claimed she could smell it in her own apartment. We weren’t (and weed is legal where I live, so it’s a moot point.) When the landlord came around, we let him come in and smell our apartment. He found nothing.
So we suggested that the landlord go smell HER (the narc’s) apartment to confirm how bad the smell is. Guess what? She refused to let him in.
If she ever attempts to complain again, the procedure now will be to investigate her apartment first. If she refuses, we won’t be bothered. So yeah.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 5 weeks ago:
Seriously, how many times have I heard the argument that CEOs should be making “the big bucks” because they’re taking on “the big risks”? Yet except for Brian Thompson, I can’t think of any CEOs who’ve ever actually incurred risks from their “gambles.” They always seem to make cuts to everyone and everything else before accepting a loss, or else jump ship with a golden parachute (and probably go on to fuck up a different company afterwards.) Of course, I can’t deny the possibility that CEOs who fail don’t make the news, and this is just survivorship bias (no pun intended.)
- Comment on What could go wrong? 1 month ago:
Yeah, what an awful mom for not knowing enough about the brand new technology her 14 year old discovered. How dare busy parents not know everything about extremely recent technological developments! Every parent should not only 100% know everything their 14 year old is doing online at all times, but they should also be at least as up-to-date on tech news as you are. Any less than that should be considered negligence!
Oh, but the company in control of the service doesn’t need to provide any sort of safeguards to prevent this sort of tragedy. It’s not like other mentally-ill individuals (children and adults alike) will get hurt by AI chatbots affirming their delusions. And if they do, there’s always someone besides the company that can be blamed!
- Comment on What could go wrong? 1 month ago:
We’re already there. Though that violence didn’t happen due to insults, but due to a yes-bot affirming the ideas of a mentally-ill teenager.
- Comment on Your majesty 2 months ago:
Pictured below: one kinky little fucker
- Comment on Liquid Trees 2 months ago:
I recently learned that there’s a group dedicated to planting 1000 trees in the city of Trenton, NJ, USA. I’m really glad to see a city working to bring back a little nature!
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 2 months ago:
Yes and no. A lot of the sounds are mating calls, but there’s so much more being communicated.
Some sounds are warnings, like when squirrels see a cat and start to chirp. If you watch them, you’ll see them run up a tree and pause upside down on the trunk, chirping an alert to others. Other squirrels in the area will repeat the behavior and amplify the “message” until the threat (the neighborhood cat) goes away.
Some sounds are intended to trick others. Blue jays mimic the sounds made by birds of prey in order to scare other birds away from their feeding grounds. It works really well - I’ve seen a jay clear a whole flock of starlings from my yard before. He then swooped down and plucked a bunch of worms from the soil.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 2 months ago:
“Arthropleura (Greek for ‘jointed ribs’) is an extinct genus…”
Thank fuck
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 2 months ago:
Did you read archive link with the full text? It talks about how the culture of 4chan started and then spread out across other social media platforms. Other sites weren’t always as toxic as they are today, yet 4chan began rotting much earlier on. The problem is that the rot, which originated on 4chan, has become mainstream. That’s why we see this shit everywhere now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s been years since I’ve crossed the Canada/USA border, so things may be different today. But when I went, the Canada side was more concerned about smuggled weapons, while the USA side was more concerned about smuggled drugs.
Apparently if you go from New Brunswick in the morning, spend the day driving through Maine/New Hampshire/Vermont, and cross into Quebec the next day, that’s suspicious enough to get detained for several hours and to have your entire car searched at the border. To me it just made sense to do a straight line drive through those states, since staying inside Canada between those two points would have been a much longer, more convoluted route. Silly me, being logical about my route without considering how others break international law.
- Comment on Are there any Lemmy/Mbin instances by women for women? 2 months ago:
I’ve mentioned this before in other threads that seek a women-centric Lemmy option, but there was at least one secret community on Reddit like that. Invitees’ post histories were vetted before an invite was sent, both to find women specifically, but also to prevent trolls.
I don’t know exactly how they did it, all I know is that I got an invite one day and found the most open, comforting community I’d ever seen online. It was a place where we could talk about anything from silly stories that made us smile, to complaining about specific issues with bras, all without fear of trolls hijacking the thread, or turning an ordinary thing for us into something sexual.
I miss it.
- Comment on Okay, who had Trump loyalty pins for Apocalyptic-Bingo this Sunday? Games just getting started, stay tuned! 2 months ago:
What a ugly pin design. Luckily, I got a better one:
- Comment on One Piece Director Megumi Ishitani Calls For Legal Action Against OpenAI: 'Can't Stand Ghibli Being Treated So Cheaply' 2 months ago:
Late-stage capitalists are attempting to reap infinite resources from a finite pool. They’ve got influence in both major political parties and don’t fear consequences. They’re going to continue to push the limits of what they can get away with until they’re forced to stop.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
That’s what you get for not buying the very latest edition of the textbook. /s
Seriously though, you’re clearly trying to actually comprehend the material, but even the professor was too checked out? I wish I were surprised, but that’s just upsetting. Nobody takes responsibility for education anymore, not the instructors, not the administration, and none but maybe a handful of students who get zero support from either of the above. I’ve learned more from reading on the internet for free than I have from any classroom. But learning for free on one’s own doesn’t give them a fancy paper that attracts employers. Gotta spend money to make money, yet again.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
You’re right. The illiteracy is everywhere. It’s a very troubling sign.
I wonder, were there any other points in history, post-literacy, where a significant amount of people went to school yet still lacked literacy skills? If it has happened, would it even be recorded? Or is this aspect of modern society truly novel?
It’d be nice to know how such a situation would’ve been rectified in the past, but I get the feeling the solution would be the same thing I’ve been calling for since my own childhood - a comprehensive public educational system with a focus on critical thinking.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 2 months ago:
They probably didn’t do it by default because of Rule 4. However, I think there should be an exception when other users ask for links. (Maybe the rule should be, “No unsolicited self promotion”?)
For the record, I would also like to see this rant.
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 2 months ago:
When search engines started putting lists of videos in response to every query, I fumed. Trying to find a solution to the game issue you’re having? Here, scan through this 10 minute video and hope you come across the part that discusses your specific issue! Oh, it didn’t actually talk about the thing you need? Lol well at least you watched some ads.
I think next time I have a game issue, I’ll be asking about it here on Lemmy. Yeah, the audience isn’t as big as on Reddit, but we’ll never know the depth of the knowledge fellow Lemmings have to offer if we never ask.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 2 months ago:
As long as they can identifying that “we win” is the same as “I win,” that’s fine. I’d invite them to join us for cooperative games.
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 2 months ago:
Legit, I think this is why board games are a great activity when getting to know new people. No one wants to play with someone who’ll either gloat when they win, or flip the board when they lose. If someone’s willing to behave that way over a game, imagine how they’d be over something that’s actually important.
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 3 months ago:
Then when you factor in society’s approach to children who do think critically, it gets even worse. Kids in school are encouraged to stay silent and accept what they’re told. A kid who openly questions something a teacher says is liable to get into trouble, both officially by the teacher, and socially by their peers who can’t yet grasp the concept of an authority figure being wrong.
Teachers can share false information all they want, and if a student dares to call out an urban myth, the student can be sent away to the principal’s office. Now the teacher can continue spouting whatever non-fact-checked nonsense they like, the rest of the kids are discouraged from speaking out if they recognize something false, and the critical thinker is labeled a trouble-maker both by the administration and by classmates. It’s an authoritarian hat trick that keeps a lot of kids in line.
