Nangijala
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- Comment on Saw this on another instance and knew it belongs here. 5 days ago:
It’s effective outrage marketing. I didn’t know about this company until people began sharing their Billboards around. It’s not the first time I have seen these either.
There’s an article/blog post on their website where they share their process behind the campaign and how and why they did what they did. It’s very interesting from a marketing perspective, even if I personally think outrage marketing is in bad taste.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 6 days ago:
Backwards mindset to say that censorship will never bring good.
You okay with child porn too? How about all the naughty words that we aren’t supposed to say? Or encouragement of violence toward others? That shouldn’t be censored and removed?
And honestly, I find it disturbing to say that if people want to kill themselves, they should just do it. Most suicidal people are stuck in a very dark place mentally that they CAN get put of if they get the right amount of help. Suicide isn’t always the correct solution. In most cases it, in fact, isn’t. It can be a desperate stress induced decision in response to a very difficult period in time for someone. Something where they seek relief in the moment, vut later are grateful they either didn’t go through with it or were saved. Have been in that dark pit myself and I’m so happy I didn’t go through with it even though I wanted it all to end for years.
There indeed are areas where censorship goes overboard and that is something we will have to discuss and adjusted together in society forever as times passes. But censorship isn’t an all bad thing. It is absolutely insane to think that censorship of any kind online is bad. I don’t think you actually agree with your own statement, if you think really deeply about it. Unless of course, you have no morals or care for the safety and wellbeing of others.
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 6 days ago:
Haven’t seen it, but I’ll put it on my watch list! 👍
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 6 days ago:
I think Togo won in the end, because Balto and his sled team basically became freak show animals and later live museum exhibits, chained and starving, like they weren’t living creatures at all. They were later rescued and ended their days as zoo animals. After Balto died he was stuffed and put in a museum.
Meanwhile Togo and his team went on tours, were given gold medals, continuing their lives as sled dogs and Togo got to retire in a nice kennel where he was bred and lived well until he was euthanized at the age of 16 due to health complications.
Don’t feel bad for Togo. He may have been largely forgotten to history, but he sure as shit won the life lottery compared to Balto.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah. There seem to be a lot of people like him in politics these days. They will drop their bombs on our lives and we will have to clean up their messes afterwards. I guess this is what happens when humans become too comfortable 😅
I knew (and still know) fuck all about British politics so most of what I know about UKIP came from the lolcow corner of the internet, where we were all just eating our popcorn while watching the shitshow. All I know is that before Sargon joined UKIP it seemed to be talked about as an actual serious political party and after Sargon joined, it became a total clownshow in media.
Glad to hear that to those who are savvy in British politics, farage was seen as a clown already. Still too bad that he succeeded in screwing over the UK and then placed out when the consequences came his way. I’m sure it’ll be the same with trump, if he lives long enough until next election, lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
He wasn’t even alone. Count Dankula also joined, and later left because he found the party to be unserious and cringe. He made a video about it at one point. I don’t agree with Dankula about every opinion he has, but I do find him to be smarter and more level-headed than most of his peers.
Sargon of Akkad went from being a youtuber who was a bit full of himself, to getting a minor god complex once he joined UKIP and spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to impress the infamous internet troll Mister Metokur, which is a whole saga in its own right. It was fucking hilarious to follow in real time.
Meanwhile, the press did what the press does and dug up all kinds of stupid shit that sargon had been saying over the years and, well, he quickly became a liability.
I had been pretty pissed with Sargon since the Candid scandal that most people seem to have forgotten since, so I was just enjoying the show, watching this dumbass making an utter fool of himself. I think a lot of UKIP’s bad press and failure as a party can be traced back to Sargon because when he joined the party, they were still somewhat seen as a respectable party that you could take seriously even if you disagreed with their politics. After sargon, they were seen as a clown show and I also think Farage left the party shortly after - unless I’m misremembering. It’s been awhile.
I don’t watch reality TV because I have the internet and it’s lolcows. The fact that these politicians allowed sargon of akkad into their party without doing a proper background check is fucking insane 🤣 they allowed him and Dankula in their party to catch the attention and support of their followers and they paid dearly for that, lol. In ignorant theory, it seems like a good idea to try and utilize influencers to further your party’s cause and reach a younger crowd - potentially - but back then, politicians did not understand internet culture nor how fucking insane it is. Overall, politicians seem a tiny bit more aware today, but they are still not getting it. That mixing brain dead entertainers with your cause could possibly backfire. Especially if your party appeals to the more reckless among us in society.
Of course, there could be many more factors as to why Farage decided to leave UKIP and for the party kinda falling apart at the seams other than just Sargon, but it is incredible how fast shit hit the fan after thel let Sargon join their party. Everybody who knew about Sargon knew that this was gonna end badly and we were all there for it. Rightwingers as well as leftwingers. Joined in harmony, laughing at the circus.
Somehow still more entertaining than when Kanye West hired Nick Fuentes and Milo Yiannopoulos as his campaign managers.
At some point you can’t do anything but laugh.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Same guy who thought it’d be a good idea to have Sargon of Akkad join UKIP.
It used to feel weird when my niche internet obsessions started bleeding into the real world, but nowadays it’s become so common that I barely react when some obscure internet drama that I think is funny, suddenly blooms into real world politics and I’m just sat here like “oh… again, huh?”
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 week ago:
I’ll never know, but I trust your judgement xD
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
My brain immediately skipped to that episode of Friends where Monica learns that Chandler got advice from Joey about licking the alphabet.
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 3 weeks ago:
I was the weasel all along.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 weeks ago:
Stupid question, but what genre is space? :b
Also, I don’t mind getting more bands and artists to listen to so feel free to share if you want :D
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 3 weeks ago:
Indeed. You literally never know these days. The astrology stuff is so fucky to me. I remember when people began getting serious about it and it completely ruined horoscopes for me as some fun, stupid past time shit to do once in awhile. It made me feel gross, like I was lumping myself in with a bunch of nutty people when I was just trying to have a bit of fun, you know.
You can have a convo with someone nowadays and think both of you are just joking and then you realize, no, I’m actually talking to an anti-vaxxer right now. 🤣 shit like that has happened to me more than once with all kinds of random topics I thought were common sense shit.
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 3 weeks ago:
That’s pretty funny. Even funnier if there are people out there who actually believe in this magical thinking nonsense.
- Comment on makes more sense than this shit 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s a joke, but I mean… there were signs way before 2016 that things were heading in a weird direction.
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely adore Agalloch. We listened to one of their albums a lot in my office for awhile. In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion is one of my favourite songs ever. Everytime I want to give examples of amazing lyrics within black metal, I turn to this song.
Not sure I have heard of the others you listed, but I’ll look them up! Thank you. I’m assuming they all belong in the simping for nature category xD
- Comment on The least problematic early black metal band 3 weeks ago:
Black metal is, in my opinion, the most poetic and beautiful subgenre in metal. I stayed away from this subgenre for almost two decades because I was scared of all the bad press, but when I finally decided to listen to some bands and artists, I fell in love instantly.
The best part of black metal, for me, is how the vast majority of the songs I have listened to are basically lyrical simping for mother nature. I fuck with it.
Also have a soft spot for DSBM and how it both puts a spotlight on and gives an outlet for deeply depressed and suicidal people. Almost therapeutic for some of them. That’s so beautiful.
As for all the controversial stuff, I find it to be both very interesting from s historical perspective but also incredibly cringe. Especially when it comes to fully grown men still running around with the mental maturity of 15 year olds.
I also remember being kind of shocked that the original Mayhem related crime cases were all committed by teenagers. When I was a teen myself, I guess I thought it was like grown ups in gangs ala Hells Angel’s, running around being nazis and burning churches and killing people. But its was really just a bunch of bored loser kids with mental problems.
Still, I dig the music. They did something different both in terms of sound and presentation and I can’t hate them for inventing a new artform within a genre of music that is basically modern day classical music.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 3 weeks ago:
That explains the platypus.
Or as an old classmate told me in college: the platypus is proof that nature has a sense of humor.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but the obsessive focus on econimic growth is directly responsible for their birthrate plummeting to a disasterous level. And well, they may still have a democracy and some CEO’s may see jailtime there, but I have personally heard a few too many stories about the rich and powerful over there getting away with shit. Plus the country is pretty much owned and run by Samsung.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 4 weeks ago:
Can’t blame them! I’ve never been to turkey, but have visited some of the Greek Islands very close to turkey and I love the nature there. Generally, I have a weakness for subtropical climates. The pale, brittle mountains and the herbs growing on them and scenting the air. It’s awesome. Still hot as hell, but very pretty. The place in the middle east I visited was 99% desert and murderous heat. I think one of the days we had 50C+ heat. It was like breathing in oven heat. 8’D
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 4 weeks ago:
There is something so ironic about this post xD what about the other continents? I have been told they have people with internet access too xD
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 4 weeks ago:
South Korea.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 4 weeks ago:
My condolences. The middle east is a friggin inferno this time of year. Visited a middle eastern country a few years ago and I did not know heat until I spent two weeks in the month of July down there.
Was so fucking relieved when nighttime came and the temperatures lowered to 38C. :'D
I legit don’t know how you guys deal with that heat. I’m in awe.
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 4 weeks ago:
Nope. Only America and Europe have internet, silly.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 weeks ago:
Thank you for your list! I haven’t forgotten you, my friend! I have started compiling a list of films, but will probably not send it before the weekend when I have the mental capacity to sort through it without being distracted by work week stuff, lol.
I really hope I have something in my arsenal that you haven’t seen and that will make you excited to check out xD
- Comment on Be nice 1 month ago:
Ngl, the thought of ever getting to own my own home is still so far out of my reach that I just don’t think about it as a possibility most of the time.
- Comment on Be nice 1 month ago:
My rent
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 month ago:
Sure! If you tell me a little bit about your tastes and interests I’ll probably be able to throw something at you that you may or may not have seen before, but probably do like!
What are some of your favourite movies, games, books etc? What are some of your hobbies and interests? What subject(s) lights a flame in you and makes you passionate? Could be anything from entertainment, to career to lifestyle etc. I don’t need much more than the broad strokes and only share what you’re comfortable with, of course. Then I’ll look through my letterboxd and see what I can find. Haven’t watched every movie ever - far from it, but have watched quite a lot of films and know random shit about many films I have never seen as well. Some genres I’m more well versed in than others, but can probably still point you in some kind of direction that will work for you. 😊
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 month ago:
Most areas where I excell are largely useless to the general public, but if ever you’re in need for a you-tailored list of movie recommendations, hit me up. I have a pretty good track record of recommending movies to people.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 month ago:
I work in a completely different field, but you last paragraph mostly sounds to me like a typical young person entering the job market. There is this false sense og confidence, pride and know it all when graduating. I’ve just seen it a few too many times and I remember how confident and skilled I thought I was when I got out. At the same time, there’s some anxiety and fear of doing a bad job and admitting fault may make you seem weak or unskilled and you want to impress the mentors and blah blah blah.
It is a bit funny to remember how I thought I was going to be helpful to colleagues who were way more experienced than me and then years later I’m being talked at by soon to be graduates who are trying to be helpful by sharing tips with me that I already do on the daily or don’t do because I learned years ago they don’t work. And when I try to give them advice or instructions it’s like they just space out and hear what they think I mean and then do something completely different from what I ask of them, haha. I can’t be mad at it, because it’s just a part of learning and growing into your career. I think it would be a mistake to think that a newly graduated person in any field will be able to hit the ground running without any hiccups.
Maybe I’m just a bit of a softie when it comes to young people, but I just remember how eager I was when I was in their shoes and how incorrect my assumptions were when it came to what my elders expected of me. It all came gradually as I learned how to be a professional and how to solve tasks and find my rhythm. I imagine new generations on the market can’t be much different from myself in that regard. 😊
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, my fair tech-literate maiden. I, a tech-dyslexic, am here to bring down the collective IQ and make the chamber echo less. You can thank me later, for adding some much needed intellectual diversity to the mix.
