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- Comment on One good thing about getting into a new relationship is that you get to re-tell all your best jokes and stories 1 day ago:
Reminds of that retirement home orderly who abused dementia patients. And he thought it was the perfect crime too.
That is, until he took an ethics class and chose to write his final paper on whether there’s any real difference between abusing someone with no memory and abusing a simulated character in a video game.
He still does it but now he’s racked by the guilt. Philosophy: Not even once!
- Comment on One good thing about getting into a new relationship is that you get to re-tell all your best jokes and stories 1 day ago:
Reminds me of that big, famous movie where they use the time loop mechanic as a metaphor for dementia. Can’t think of the name of it right now, but it’ll come to me…
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kareem Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy! 1 week ago:
I liked the series, even though it felt like its own thing. But when I finally got to the Jay-Den focused episode the whole thing immediately gave updated TNG vibes. The adults in the cast are excellent philosophy-heavy mentors and I find myself repeatedly rewinding their scenes to recontextualize their pearls in terms of my own life. If I had one gripe it’d be all the YA aspects, but I immediately retract that as I want the series to also appeal to the yutes. Tawny Newsome is my hero.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kareem Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy! 1 week ago:
I’m jaundiced so I’m never confident whether I’ve left urine in the toilet. Tis a tough life.
- Comment on Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air Rep. James Talarico interview out of fear of FCC 1 week ago:
The joy of his Colbert Report is finally returning to him.
- Comment on Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me. 1 week ago:
Yeah, intelligence is a continuum. Animals have varying degrees of intelligence (esp. corvids, cetaceans, cephalopods, other “c” animals…), but that isn’t the same as saying they have human-level intelligence. AGI and ASI are the important thresholds.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 2 weeks ago:
Butt chugging: next season on Hot Ones.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 2 weeks ago:
Ginger is one of seven times spiciness has independently evolved: gingerol, allicin (garlic), capsaicinoids (chili peppers), allyl isothiocyanate (mustard, horseradish, wasabi), piperine (black pepper), eugenol (cloves) and alkylamides (Sichuan peppers, which are distinct from chilis). They’re all functionally pungent, but chemically distinct: meaning no single shared class.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 3 weeks ago:
Ah TIL
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 3 weeks ago:
Loved this Gilliam banger as a kid. Robin Williams, Uma Thurman, and Gilliam’s Monty Python alum Eric Idle are in it for those who haven’t seen. As an adult I see a lot of parallels with that movie and Tarsem’s “The Fall” (2006). They’re giving hopeful yet melancholic fairy tale energy.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 3 weeks ago:
Or why not load them linearly into a single barrel. It’d shoot out straight but would likely develop asymmetries and build up a moment of inertia eventually resulting in the bolas motion they’re likely intending.
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- Comment on Do people actually do this? 1 month ago:
Just use a mirror to unlock their phone using their “face”.
- Comment on we need more users 1 month ago:
I don’t like how broad Lemmy assumes default interests are, though then again showing everyone the average interests may statistically be the best initialization point.
Every time I’m shown a community I’m totally uninterested I make sure to go in and block it from my feed. Likewise with aggressive or otherwise pathological users. It gets better.
- Comment on we need more users 1 month ago:
My two cents is that more users oughta establish new communities when they find the absence of one. Even if they don’t have the time to devote for moderating it, as people join the responsibilities can be allocated among the early adopters. Especially those with strong political and moral backgrounds (to mitigate abuses of power like those infamously cultivated over at Reddit).
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- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 1 month ago:
I like this. It’s like giving ourselves the tools of power in case the people need to reclaim them.
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 1 month ago:
The FOSS community needs to expand outreach to UX Designers then.
- Comment on Zootopia 1 month ago:
Can anyone tell me what Jim Rash has been up to in the past decade of so? I’ve got an itch for some Rash.
- Comment on Roach Motel 1 month ago:
And remember: kink shaming is bad, but fetishization is also bad. 😮
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- Comment on Fare thee well 1 month ago:
Sam Jackson never did an in-movie ad for roast beef sandwiches.
- Comment on Fare thee well 2 months ago:
I expected that to be another instance of The Simpsons did it first.
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- Comment on for ranked smoking only 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Word. 2 months ago:
I expected Lemmy to be less repost-obsessed than Reddit yet here we are.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 months ago:
If anyone’s interested, languages follow similar differentiation patterns as species in evolution. Ways this occurs include: allopatric (barrier separates past equivalents), peripatric (migration), and sympatric (subcultures), etc.
It’s the same reason Matthew Rhys can do a spot-on American accent despite having an outrageous Welsh accent irl: people are more likely to grow up on the media of more mainstream languge so it becomes the lingua franca. (love Rhys to clarify)
- Comment on I browse. 2 months ago:
That’s the founder of MS13 right there.
