yakko
@yakko@feddit.uk
- Comment on Head of UK’s largest union says she doesn’t know if Starmer will remain Labour leader 5 days ago:
Normally that’s fine, but when the right to publicly dissent, already so tenuous, is being actively threatened it hardly matters what’s being delivered on. He could be handing out UBI, but if he was cracking down on the anti-UBI people I’d still be upset about that.
- Comment on Head of UK’s largest union says she doesn’t know if Starmer will remain Labour leader 5 days ago:
I like nationalised rail and all that. But then there’s Palestine, his pro-AI stance, suppressing dissent, the ID scheme, and the “island of strangers” thing. I know it was foolish to expect much better from a Sir, but still disappointing.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 5 days ago:
This is why representation in games is so important
- Comment on Russia denounces 'excessive' US military force in Caribbean, backs Venezuela 6 days ago:
If Russia told me the sky is blue and that somehow was cynically validating for them, I feel no need to smile and give them a thumbs up.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 6 days ago:
A lucid dream does not fully simulate anything, it is an altered state that includes the subjective apprehension of verisimilitude. Perceptions and apprehensions, even outside of altered states, do not constitute proof of anything.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
You say that as if women haven’t been treated like property in nearly every society ever since we learned how to farm
- Comment on So...I feel like there are a lot of elephants in the room, could i get some help? 1 week ago:
Your twenties is when your brain really starts to finally take shape as an adult. You’ll find yourself questioning things and occasionally having these overwhelming feelings of revelation.
It can be a rush, but try not to get carried away. It’s important to be humble and grateful every day, be kind every day. Stay grounded. You’re gonna make it.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 1 week ago:
Yes, and in the land of automatics no less, and on a '99 Celica GT. It was mom’s car, but I drove it like it was mine.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 1 week ago:
Picking up some groceries
Good god, y’all
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Enough horny can temporarily deactivate the part of the brain that doesn’t want to be gross and weird.
- Comment on Just up the production quality and they'll love it, Trust me bro 👍 1 week ago:
You’ll just have to look at sexy dudes to copy
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 1 week ago:
There does have to be a formal process to make sure the voters are being asked a question that is sane to begin with, and not merely being offered the chance to wreck their economy on behalf of moneyed interests. It’s a truism that when the questions are insane, the answers don’t matter. Whether it’s Brexit or smoking babies, there’s always an issue with vested interests having their own say on the matter.
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 1 week ago:
That’s what representatives are for, they hear the public and form a committee of experts, who then say no that’s insane, then we either go fuck ourselves or we riot. At some point down the line absolutely nobody’s happy, and that’s how you know you’re in a healthy democracy.
- Comment on Experts urge Government to ban supermarket bacon after link to 50,000 cancer cases 1 week ago:
It might not be so simple, it may depend on more detailed aspects of how it affects your system. Sort of like how different forms of protein have different actual effects on your macros based on bioavailability. It’s bio-sciences, so the answers can’t be depended on for simplicity.
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 1 week ago:
Honestly (their) opinion needs to die. Any time people mobilise in big numbers to participate in democracy is a good thing on general principles, and unless people are signing a petition by the millions to like, make babies try cigarettes, it’s almost always going to be a good thing. It’s nirvana fallacy from top to bottom.
- Comment on From the outside looking in 1 week ago:
Honestly if you’re sane enough to find that funny, asterisk, for the right reasons, they could use more like you
- Comment on Starmer lays out vision for much-criticised digital ID scheme 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the link. Signed it.
- Comment on eel butts 2 weeks ago:
So that’s why the eel made that face at the aquarium when I sarcastically said “nice tail, shitneck!”
- Comment on If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet" 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. You gesture at a truth that is out of reach, build and release tension in rising waves, foster an ambiguous apprehension of threat.
Horror is put to much rubbish by the fine arts, but crafting a real sense of horror is an exceedingly subtle art.
- Comment on If I were a waiter, I would describe the days soup as "Very hot, and very wet" 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’d just laugh like oh, this is clearly hilarious. Unambiguous. You would have to be way subtler to make me think my waiter had become dangerously unglued.
- Comment on Here we go again... 2 weeks ago:
It takes two to tango. If you feed people like babies, they will shit in diapers.
- Comment on Here we go again... 2 weeks ago:
Campbell’s work is valuable and interesting, but I like it better as a lens for modern media rather than as some grand unified theory of human culture.
- Comment on Three-quarter of Brits support a wealth tax, YouGov poll finds 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t we see a headline recently about Brits being wrong about everything? They must not have asked any questions as interesting as this.
- Comment on We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation 2 weeks ago:
Without a constitution, the US would have been at least this bad since the 1970s. Probably worse, and sooner.
- Comment on Here we go again... 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s part of it. That’s one specific mechanism by which our culture is in the hands of people with perverse incentives.
- Comment on Here we go again... 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, I’m usually funnier
- Comment on Here we go again... 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a medium take, most of human culture across its history has consisted of the same stories told anew. The only problem now is that the gatekeepers of our culture are moneyed interests, and the influence of shareholder interests and oligarchs means we end up watching the colour and life fade from our culture in realtime as capitalism declines.
- Comment on Why don't police use rubber bullets instead of live rounds? I get if someone is holding a loaded weapon. But wouldn't a rubber bullet have the same effect with out putting holes in another person? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of facts here, but I should add that since cops are being actively trained for escalation and cruelty, and the fact that they are not to draw their weapon without an intent to kill, the fact is that no “less lethal” gadget or ammo is going to fix their behaviour. And neither is the Democrat answer of “more training” because the training they end up getting is more murder indoctrination.
You have to eliminate police unions, to start. End the 1033 program. Hell, defund the whole thing. Build a new society around what police ought to be doing, rather than merely projecting authority, violently crushing dissent, bashing minorities and poor people, and serving moneyed interests. The problems with police are deep rooted, systemic, and metastasised around a corrupt ideology.
- Comment on engagement 2 weeks ago:
Up until recent comments, my emotions were mild irritation leavened with my own brand of slightly caustic humour. That clearly hasn’t worked out, and so I am reverting to a more neutral tone. No more jokes, just information.
My view on the matter has purely been a matter of taste, and different people have been trying to make it a matter of ableism. Other people have different preferences and tastes. I like jokes to be funny, and explaining them makes them suck in my opinion. I think that’s pretty self-explanatory, and I’ve done my best to be clear on this point.
You’ve been ascribing various untrue feelings, attitudes, and conditions to me in search of a way to litigate your own preferences. That is an unpleasant way to be treated. I’ve tried my best to be funny, and then civil, and my warning now is that we’re nearing the end of civility.
- Comment on engagement 2 weeks ago:
I already said right at the top - explained jokes aren’t as funny. De gustibus nil disputandem.
Perhaps a little disputandem though, in my experience…