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- Comment on Introverts Rock 54 minutes ago:
50% of lemmy is mostly normal high functioning autists who have crippling social anxiety about the idea that anyone might find them creepy.
The other 50% are creeps
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so financially strained they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Black Friday and Cyber Monday 13 hours ago:
Smart.
Sure, if a factory job is available, why not pick it up for a bit? But terrible job security, as we’ve seen over the last few decades, so don’t count on it for a career. You can’t offshore a plumber.
- Comment on Dude's rock 17 hours ago:
That’s like saying Atticus Finch isn’t a hero in To Kill A Mockingbird because you, personally, are racist and don’t think fighting for the rights of black people is a noble persuit. A character is a hero in a story if they are good according to the morals implicit in the story’s world.
- Comment on Dude's rock 17 hours ago:
Also, I don’t usually see these questions asked in an overly critical sense, but rather with a sense of humor or with an eye towards world building. It’s about having fun
- Comment on Throw enough spaghetti at the wall and some is bound to stick 2 days ago:
Its not even trolling. It’s just british level deadpan
- Comment on "Defeat the Backlog!" community 2 days ago:
I thought this was gonna be, like, a comminity for clearing out you life todo list of various chores… but nope. Vidya 😮💨
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 days ago:
DADADUH
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 days ago:
Imagine being so difficult to deal with that someone would rather swim across an entire sea than interact with you…
- Comment on Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice 2 days ago:
Mr Bushby, who wants access to a service tunnel separate to that used by the trains, said: “If I have to swim across, I obviously will. But it will be colder than the Caspian.”
I mean, obviously
- Comment on I feel like I will want to live completely alone in the nature at a future time in my life 3 days ago:
You don’t.
I mean, maybe you are different. But I’m someone who loves spending time in nature, and who does pretty well alone. I’ve thru hiked ling trails alone, including the OHT, during which I saw maybe 3 other people the whole time. I’ve solo’d big wall climbs completely alone. I’ve taken solo bouldering trips where I wandered the forest alone for days at a time.
The thing I’ve found - being alone, in general, fucking sucks. Simply from a practical perspective, you have no one to turn to to say “hey hold this for a second, I need another pair of hands”. If an animal or bad person attacks you, you’re fucked. If you take an unexpected fall and sprain your ankle, you’re fucked. If you become ill and are too weak to travel, you’re fucked.
Then add to this the psychological issue of being alone. The world takes on a ringing hollowness. You can go through the motions, sure, but with no one else around to reflect your experiance back to you, all your actions feel empty.
You might think you enjoy being alone because you can go days at a time talking to no one and scrolling the internet. But that isn’t really being alone. Being on the internet, playing video games, watching tv, all scratches the social itch you have. Not perfectly. But it scratches it. But strip that away, and being alone suddenly takes on a new meaning.
Not to say that you shouldn’t do this. Sure, go ahead and go backpacking solo for a weekend. A week. Maybe two. I think it is a good experience - both the good and the bad parts. But just don’t mortgage a little cottage in the middle of fucking nowhere until you’re really sure that’s what you want.
- Comment on Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users 4 days ago:
Tell me how I am wrong - how else am I to learn?
- Comment on Study reveals that dark web users show significantly higher levels of depression, paranoia, suicidal thoughts, self-injury, and digital self-harm compared to surface web users 4 days ago:
Unsurprising.
The dark web exists to serve criminals, subversives, and paranoid people. Why else would someone go to the trouble of accessing a part of the internet with a worse user interface that requires additional work to access? There is a pre-existing filter for people who are mentally unwell.
- Comment on How much money's out there? 4 days ago:
People are enslaved through debt or sword. Money is tokenized slavery tokens.
This is… fucking stupid. The entire modern world is able to function without a central planner because money allows people to buy the things they want and need via markets. There are all sorts of arguments to make about how fair markets are, how they can be reformed, how various incentives or government programs can be implemented to combat poverty, etc. But large scale, non-monetary economies are few and far between, and there is little evidence that they provide better living conditions for their residents than monetary economies, nor that their systems are replicable in other locations and cultures.
Wealth inequality, I think most people here would agree, is a bad thing. But money is a tool, and is a good - or at worst, neutral - thing. You may as well argue that shovels are evil because sometimes innocent people get bashed over the head with them.
- Comment on they know what they need to do 4 days ago:
This doesn’t make utilities cheaper. Utility prices are almost universally set, in one way or another, by the government. If the government wants to lower utility prices, they can do so easily by just voting.
This ignores the issue of how we actually pay for the actual cost of utilities. That’s a whole other thing. But long story short - NO, you should not expect utility prices to come down if your government builds solar capacity.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 4 days ago:
I believe this is an idea most legitimately championed by Nick Bostrom. Here is a video explaining his perspective.
I feel like, at least from the stance of abstract philosophy, he makes some good points. And I’m not enough of a philosopher to refute them (though I’m sure some have). Personally, my stance is “I’ll cross that bridge when I arrive at it” - I expect to die before that happens.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 1 week ago:
Tbf, a lemmy user is far less likely to be a bot, so… yes?
- Comment on Which countries combine high quality of life and strong equality? 1 week ago:
I’d recommend researching quality of life metrics and cross referencing with nations’ gini coefficients.
- Comment on How come there is not a pope without grey hair? I mean a much younger pope like 30s 40s. Really can't be that hard. You got an ocean of cardinals and priests who pretty much tell say? 1 week ago:
One more thing that hasn’t been mentioned - the pope is the figurehead of the church, and needs to look the part. Why does the pope have grey hair? Because people expect the pope to have grey hair. Stable symbolism is important in an institution like the church, as much for followers as leaders. Electing a pope who doesn’t “look the part” could cause defections and schisms.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 1 week ago:
I mean, I 100% agree with you that there are other, better options. But those other, better options aren’t represented with a molotov.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 1 week ago:
I mean… maybe burning everything down would mitigate climate change. But the collapse of global supply chains would lead to billions losing access to sufficient food, clean drinking water, internet, electricity/modern heating, medicine, etc. We would see mass migrations, war, famine, disease, and ecological devastation, all on a scale never before seen in the history of humanity. Ie, all the things we are trying to stop climate change in order to avoid.
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 2 weeks ago:
He would probably react by finding a relative of one of his long-dead rich friends or family, and try to convince them to fund his next treatise on the stage that happens after communism (aka, buy him more beer)
- Comment on Update: Clinton says that Trump tried to stick finger in his butt during trash felattio extravaganza. (Read more) 2 weeks ago:
His silence is deafening
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 2 weeks ago:
Always was
- Comment on Radon 2 weeks ago:
I do things
- Comment on Radon 2 weeks ago:
Imma fucking idiot
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 2 weeks ago:
I mean, the problem isn’t that OP’s question was stupid. The problem is that it is rude to question people’s religious practices.
- Comment on Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking 2 weeks ago:
Roll the bill into the fabric. Forms a crescent moon shape. Shove it under your belt
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 weeks ago:
Lots of people like to use things like antlers or skulls as decorations
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 2 weeks ago:
Also that!
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 2 weeks ago:
- You can already do this. There are tons of nonprofits that lobby the government for x, y, and z.
- But these non-profits don’t tend to engage in much explicit bribery, because the people working at these organizations and who donate to these organizations think outright bribery is wrong.
- Finally, if you started a gofundme to bribe a politician, they would 1,000,000% not take your money. When you bribe someone, discretion is part of the deal, and with a public gofundme, you’ve already broken that discretion.