Whats_your_reasoning

@Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's ads on an apple⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Obnoxious ads work to make me put a company on my “shit list” so I never buy from them. I’ve already got loads of places I refuse to shop from, so it’s nothing to me to add another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes I debate on making a comment, and sometimes I simply don’t have the energy to complete one. But sometimes, I think, “every comment grows Lemmy a little bit more” and decide, fuck it, I’ll say something. People might like it, people might not like it, but you never know what can grow from such a little spark.

  I appreciate Lemmy in this regard. We live in a world with many voices trying to drown out each other for a bit of public attention. It’s enough to make some people think their own thoughts aren’t worthy and to stay silent, discounting their potential contributions. Having a platform that’s low-stakes, where people aren’t chasing internet fame, gives many of us an opportunity to express ourselves for the sake of expressing ourselves. Having this outlet is vital for many of us. I’m glad to be a part of this community, and it is truly a community. I have no idea if anyone recognizes me, but I definitely recognize other frequent commenters. It’s almost like we’re neighbors, not in physical proximity, but with a shared gathering space to meet and share our thoughts.

  And I love that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do you hate AI?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Also not a tech person, but I am an artist. I used to consider going into digital art, but now I’m grateful I didn’t and instead have honed … I guess you can call it “manual” art? As a way to say things I make with my hands? Maybe “analog” or “traditional” art?

  Point is, I haven’t seen an AI create a pencil drawing or an acrylic painting. I get the feeling that as people tire of AI generated images, they may find renewed interest in these distinctly human-made art forms. I suppose we’ll have to wait and see. For now, AI may try to steal forms and ideas, but picking up a pencil or a paintbrush and creating something on a canvas are still out of its reach (thank goodness.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pioneer species⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an apparently-eternal rose bush outside my childhood home. My parents wanted to change up the landscaping decades ago and have tried to remove it several times since. Each time, it sprouted back up.

  My dad managed to dig it up from the root last time. Yet somehow, it still grew back!

  I told them - clearly, this house does not and never has belonged to you. It belongs to this rose bush. It has decided that it lives here and there’s not a damn thing you can do about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Earn 3 times the amount of a proposed rent? You’re golden.

  Earn below 3 times the amount of a proposed rent (but still enough to pay it each month)? Now you have to pay a guarantor to back you up. Last estimate I got was $800 for that service. You’ve gotta pay that before a landlord will accept you.

  So if you earn less, you’re forced to pay more. It’s so fucking backwards.

  Source: currently homeless, on numerous “waitlists” for low-income apartments that can take years to get through, housing lotteries that have 10s of thousands of people also hoping for a home, and attempting to scrounge the bottom of the barrel with tiny studio apartments (which, even if I apply to immediately, I’m behind others who somehow got to them faster.)

  The system is absolutely fucked. I’m just grateful I enjoy my job (which, yes, I work full time, and earn above minimum wage for. Modern US society has no mercy for any of us.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We shouldn't have to go to college in order to afford a house by 30.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you choose who the unlucky bastards are that get sent to the field to grow food for the people who don’t have to work?

  Preferably, they’d be people without disabilities that prevent them from doing that kind of work. OP didn’t say, “Nobody should work,” just that being able to live shouldn’t be dependent on working.

  For millions of people with disabilities, the difference between those two ideas is life-changing. It’s important not to conflate them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨green salad fingers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Minutes ago, I was hoping to get laid by the new person I’m texting. However, it’s past 9pm on a Friday and they went to sleep. Totally understandable, I think.

  Now, I’m laughing at an obscure history reference that I just learned through a community called “Really Shitty Copper,” and my nerd-brain is telling me, “This is better anyway.”

  Meanwhile, some distant voice in the back of my head is yelling, “Dooooork!”

  … Being in your 30s is fucking weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Instructions unclear. Now stuck on a cosmic journey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, they did show up at her door and asked to help her “come to Jesus.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You got it. I can easily assume, but I wanted to know for sure. Ingredient lists would’ve been far more helpful than Quora.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  bullshit options with shit ass quora usually at the top. Who dafuq uses quora?

  I wonder the same thing. I used it once, and only once, in my life. I had been trying to find vegan birthday candles and having no luck finding sources for the wax (since I was explicitly avoiding beeswax), so I asked Quora where I could find vegan candles. The answer I got?

  “Don’t eat birthday candles.”

  Uhhh…

  Apparently whatever fool worked there had no idea that “vegan” is a lifestyle, that goes beyond food. The question was closed and I had no way to appeal or add information. Fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been worried about that since all these fools started talking about “banning porn.”

  The sites that already broke the law (by hosting illegal content) were never going to comply with age-verification laws. If the more ethical porn options are law-abiding, then these laws create a feedback loop - sites that comply suffer from reduced traffic, while sites that ignore the laws become more popular.

  I have zero doubt that, right now, there are people wandering onto truly harmful and disturbing material that they never would have discovered if they hadn’t been pushed to explore the fringes of the internet in search of porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw, actually I did have pet cockatiels as a teen. (Sadly, not for long - my parents didn’t know how dangerous Teflon was, and my babies paid the price.)

  They didn’t care to be held like this, but boy did they love face scratchies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piping mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who knew that even birds could be fans of bondage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨mercy merci⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, I expect all penguins to have that name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe it’s because it’s still night where I am, maybe it’s because I’m on the autism spectrum, but those blue lights feel like an assault on my senses. I had to scroll it off my screen to type this because it made my eyes hurt. I can’t imagine having to deal with that every time I have to pee in public.

  I also can’t help but wonder where people go to do their makeup. I don’t use makeup, but I often see others using the mirrors to touch up this or that. I can’t imagine blue lights are helpful for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I work from home 10-20 hours a day.

  That’s fair. Drinking at one’s workplace is usually frowned upon anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to subscribe to your rants. This was an exquisite post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about the entirety of the country, but I do know that around me, the only affordable homes being built or sold are for people 55 years and older. It’s like a slap in the face when you’re looking for somewhere to live and oh, whoops, you’re 20 years too young!

  Is the baby boomer generation even buying those places? My experience is only anecdotal, but I don’t know a single baby boomer who’s moved to a seniors-only community. It’s something my grandma did, but my parents? They’re moving to a state with a lower cost of living and getting a bigger house than the one I grew up in. 😑

  Meanwhile, my best chance of having an affordable apartment requires winning a low income housing lottery. Yes, a literal lottery. That’s what decides if I’ll be living in my car or not next year (or, dread of dreads, doing what my mom keeps telling me to do and uprooting my entire life to move to a southern state like she’s doing. I told her that if I have to move, I’d rather move out of the country. I also told her that I don’t want to live anywhere where I may be left to die if I end up with an ectopic pregnancy. She’s too detached from reality to understand.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helpful guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, I think of the lyrics as describing the way a baby or toddler feels when looking at the stars. They don’t know what those bright lights are yet, they just know they’re shiny and too high up to reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arborholing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If all the yeast in our bodies’ microbiomes could coordinate together to take us over, we’d be so screwed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, what? Where’d you hear that from? I’m on .world and my home internet is hard wired to a VPN. I’ve never had a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i enjoy high fructose corn syrup too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t common in the US, but I was lucky enough to grow up with it as a staple in my dad’s garden. Funny thing, our family referred to it by its Polish name, so I didn’t know the English word for it until I was a teenager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There needs to be something about so-called “junk DNA” added to this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If sexuality is a spectrum, does that mean one person is the gayest?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh snap, you’re me.

  As an agendered pansexual, the wildest thing to me about the trans/cis divide is actually feeling that strongly about having a preferred gender. I simply can’t fathom caring hard enough to care. I default to “female” because I was AFAB, but if someone calls me by a different pronoun, it’s whatever to me.

  Now let me be clear - just because I don’t feel gender for myself, doesn’t mean I can’t respect and support those who do feel strongly about their genders.

  Bonus mini-rant

  I wish I didn’t have to make an announcement pointing that out. Something changed in the past decade or so, whereby if someone simply states a non-standard experience or quality about themselves, people now assume that they must be “against” the standard experience/quality. It’s frustrating and unconductive to conversation when people assume every comment must be a prelude to an argument. There used to be an assumption that people were conversing in good faith, but lately there’s been a shift. To agree with those different from you is no longer treated as the default, and I find that very troubling.

  And as a reference to this comment, this post was fueled by unmedicated ADHD and cannabis (and a bit of frustration, since I accidentally closed the window after the first time I wrote it, so I had to write it twice.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't argue that.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This one little paragraph just explained my mom, myself, and the reason the relationship between us is so contentious.

  She grows ever more closed-minded every year, while I attempt to learn a new skill every year. We never saw exactly eye-to-eye, but we’re now at a point where we might as well live in different universes. :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We must not posthumously sanitize Charlie Kirk's hateful life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you only ever needed to hit them with words and facts

  Oh, sweet summer child…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come butthole scratches doesn't get infected with poop bacteria ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A politician with a proven track record of actually cleaning shit up?

  They’ve got my vote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Naked Hiking Day!!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nightmare fuel right there. I don’t even have a dick, and I still cringed in horror.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bruh, it sounds like you and OP are both on the same side. Like the point of this post is to kind of -nudge nudge- that “disobedient” thought that’s teetering on the edge of realization, without making a direct call for action. You call for it one way, they call for it another way, but both of you seem to be attempting to conjure the same idea.

  Why in the world waste time complaining that your teammate isn’t using the same tactics as you? We all have the same goal, we should be aiming together. We have to stop letting arbitrary shit divide us.