Doc_Crankenstein
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- Comment on After trying them in the mountains, I think Carbonated Beverages were better closer to sea level. 2 days ago:
Agree. I don’t know if it’s reality or if my mind is making things up, but carbonated beverages have a lot more of that fizzy feeling when closer to sea level, and that is the entire reason I drink them over other beverages.
I have lived both in the mountains of Appalachia and below sea level in New Orleans.
- Comment on Always wanted to do this 1 week ago:
Yes. It’s why there is an entire genre of comedy based on it: slapstick.
Any other pointless, moralistic virtue signals you want to add or ya done?
- Comment on Always wanted to do this 1 week ago:
“Yes. Do you require a demonstration?”
That usually works to shut em up.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 1 week ago:
Its up to the employee to ensure they do not get away with it.
This is literally victim blaming.
You literally do not understand the mechanisms behind systemic exploitation.
The original claim wasn’t that they will simply just “refuse to pay”, it is that they will take advantage of the convoluted system in order to exploit the vulnerable and desperate workers they are responsible for.
Trusting the legal system that was designed and run by capitalists to uphold the interest of workers is braindead bootlicking. Literally. Fuck off your naive bullshit.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 1 week ago:
You don’t get paid daily, dipshit. What gives them the impression they can get away with it is because they rely on a convoluted system to obscure their fraud against vulnerable, such as the youth who do not fully understand their rights as workers, and the desperate who are taking bottom of the barrel jobs to make ends meet and don’t want to risk putting their lifeline in jeopardy to stand up for their rights. A legal battle takes time, but rent is due and the fridge is empty right now.
Jesus Christ, you are naive. Holy fuck you’re not even worth talking to. Fuck off with your myopic victim blaming rhetoric.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 1 week ago:
Got a love all the victim blaming going on in this thread right mate? I seriously don’t get these people who bend over backwards to lick capitalist boots.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 1 week ago:
Placing the blame on the victim to not be taken advantage of instead of blaming the one who is taking advantage of others is myopic as fuck.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 1 week ago:
Bud you think fraud doesn’t happen? How naive are you? Businesses will happily commit fraud if they think they can get away with it. And they do, routinely.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 1 week ago:
You assume the business isn’t committing fraud by not reporting accurate tips and/or aren’t taking advantage of the naive and vulnerable by convincing them it is in their best interest to not report accurately.
Wage theft is the largest and most common category of theft in the US, after all.
The only real solution is a general strike of all wage staff that prevents these businesses from operating until things change. But that would require massive unionization efforts before it would even be remotely possible.
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 1 week ago:
The Business Plot never ended, they just regrouped. All those fuckers involved should have been hung.
The way to fight it isn’t a FDR-style party that will just give concessions to staunch the momentum of the working class, which was rallying behind communist ideology through unionization efforts, that was threatening the capitalist status quo at the time. That status quo is the entire root of the problem. The only way to fight it is to dismantle the system that gives them their power and build something new, not to continue enabling the very systems that keep us on our knees.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
As a Louisiana resident. I feel ya neighbor.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
As someone in wildlife conservation, this doesn’t work for everyone. For me, it just makes me hate talking to people. They will be confidently wrong and nothing you say will convince them otherwise. Doesn’t help that I live in one of the worst educated states in the union.
Also, the 'tism puts me at a disadvantage out the gate. So I might be biased.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
is that when prompted with something they don’t know, they will spit out some randome bullshit rather than say they don’t know
This is just the majority of people, not specific to any generation. Our minds are predisposed to use inductive reasoning to explain the world around us. We see something new and our brain immediately begins to make inferences based on prior information we believe we know (I say it this way cause our memories are incredibly faulty) that we think is relevant or comparable.
It’s essentially the Dunning Kruger effect: we think we know more than we do and, because of this, believe we can simply assume correctly about other things we know nothing about.
It’s an incredibly bad habit that is supposed to be trained out of us through our education systems but we all know how incredibly faulty those systems are.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
I’m assuming they mean “Normal” as in “the general public being completely oblivious to the inner workings of the things they utilize in their daily lives”, not “people going back to having an easier time with tech”.
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 1 week ago:
Tone down the misogyny bud. You’re oozing it.
- Comment on Anal probing doesn't seem that bad 1 week ago:
That or just an indictment of how pervasive homophobia and xenophobia was in the zeitgeist of that era.
Aliens are different, so they must be wanting to do bad things to us ^cause it is what I would do in their shoes^ What are some bad things they could be doing to us? Sticking things up our butts ^which is something I’m terrified of happening to me, cause what if I enjoy it and it makes me gay!^
- Comment on Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was. 1 week ago:
US already does so in some states. It just isn’t federally mandatory… yet.
- Comment on Americans have been trained to hate foreigners by Fox News, owned by a foreigner. 2 weeks ago:
Billionaires and reactionaries are the state. They are the ones who created it in order to control others for power and out of fear of what they don’t understand, respectively.
People need to abandon it and unite under our own social structures that aren’t built on the ruling class’ hierarchy of wealth and perceived status.
- Comment on "Wario" is a Japanese portmanteu of Mario and "warui" (bad), but in Finnish "Wario" is also a homonym of "varjo", "shadow". 2 weeks ago:
Bro… Bizzaro is a character from the Superman comics… xD …it ain’t got nothing to do with being Italian.
- Comment on "Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill - Season 2" New Character Visual 2 weeks ago:
Oh most def not a complaint.
- Comment on "Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill - Season 2" New Character Visual 2 weeks ago:
Legitimately surprised to see this get another season. Thought this was just gonna be another one-n-done.
- Comment on Spy x Family Season 3 debuts first teaser trailer ahead of October 2025 release 2 weeks ago:
🥜🥜🥜
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Just finished Infernax
Amazing dark, medieval-fantasy, retro, action-platformer with some Metroidvania elements, very reminiscent of OG Castlevania, and some player choice elements that allow for multiple endings, of which there are 5: 2 basic good/evil, 2 completions good/bad, and a “redemption” route. Even has old school secrets like special characters if you input the right name and cheat codes you can find. Putting in the Konami code at the title screen even has something special.
Has a classic mode that is very unforgiving, must save at in-game stations (one at each town and every dungeon entrance) lose everything if you run out of lives and try again from the top or try to [exit the dungeon/make it back to town] to save your progress. Plus a casual mode that gives some leeway like pitfalls not being instant kills and a checkpoint in the dungeons you can save at.
Gameplay is just good old school gaming. You hit, you jump, you duck and hit low, you can find some utility spells, you talk to NPCs that have cryptic sometimes-useful-sometimes-not dialogue to figure out what to do next, all the bells and whistles.
Warning: it is very gore heavy and even though the artwork is more retro styled, it is still things like guts spilling out, faces getting crushed, limbs being ripped off, etc… So not for the squeamish.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
It is 100% capitalism’s fault. Those scientists are doing a job because we live in a society that necessitates having one to meet our basic needs.
We don’t know their individual lives or circumstances that could be forcing them to take on a position, but we do know that those circumstances only exist due to the overarching system they live under.
Your take is simplistic and just assumes that they simply have to be bad people instead of understanding the complexities of systemic forces that dictate our society.
Please, for the love of God, learn to look beyond the surface of something.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
None of it was because the scientists thought that dinosaurs were amphibians. In the lore of the books, DNA from reptiles, avians, and amphibians were used to fill in gaps in the dino DNA.
The book explains that the DNA used to fill those gap was chosen specifically for certain traits that would make for more attractive or durable creatures for the theme park, highlighting how what was being done “in the name of science” actually had nothing to do with any real scientific progress or discovery.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
Sam Neill, the actor who did the scene, has been asked about the scene before and confirmed it is 100% unintentionally foreshadowing.
It was just supposed to confirm that Grant is in fact a Luddite who struggles with tech of all sorts.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
It is bad science because there’s no reason to be doing the science at all
This just rounds itself back to capitalism being the problem because the science was being done for a reason: to generate profit for Hammond.
Bad science is usually always conducted to suit the ends of someone trying to use the results for manipulative/exploitative purposes.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
Majority of people rarely engage with any media beyond the surface to actually analyze it and come to those conclusions about the deeper themes. Most just think “well, that’s just people being people” and fail to see the social commentary.
- Comment on Bring them back!!! 3 weeks ago:
In the books, and movie iirc, they used DNA from all three, not just frogs, to replace missing segments of the dino DNA.
It was just that DNA used from a specific species of frog had the unintentional side effect of allowing some of the dinos to change sex (which is a thing called sequential hermaphroditism)
- Comment on Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus • Seishun Buta Yarou wa Santa Claus no Yume wo Minai - Episode 2 discussion 4 weeks ago:
It’s kinda translation thing. It isn’t referring to puberty itself, more the mentality of someone who is pubescent.
The word it is being translated from, Chūnibyō, more accurately refers to a specific mentality which is a delusion of grandeur having hidden, supernatural powers that is common among teenagers.