mad_lentil

@mad_lentil@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You're so predictable⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Team apathy! 🙌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From the outside looking in⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s a mistake to write it off as recklessness. Some very few people will materially benefit from this chaos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendstions Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Great game. I’ve played it through several times and now am struggling to finish it on nightmare. It’s just so hard when you get down to like 2 health and have to creep around until you can find enough health to be bold again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If it would REALLY mean a thing?

  Yeah we’re on the same page. I might be a little more tolerant of imperfect or half-assed attempts at a solution is all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people using the "þ" character?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for the thun of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, I think something’s got to give if we’re to have any future worth living. Probably very many things should change. I’m a bit of an misanthrope myself, so getting used to more communal arrangements is painful.

  Would you be more likely to champion a less attractive option if it was part of a larger initiative to make a better world?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve got to invest in it before it gets good. You’ve got decades of car centric infrastructure inertia making cars the more convenient choice. All you’ve got to do is invest just enough to make alternatives actually possible.

  I don’t know the challenges of your specific infrastructure, but there are certainly improvements that could be made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With adequate public transportation, it becomes much more comfortable and convenient.

  My city installed a few additional bike paths, and added some more buses, and the difference is huge.

  I don’t even need a car except when traveling longer distances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨save the planet 🌎⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree with this take. It’s like yeah electric cars are technically better, but any advantage they have over combustion engines is blown away by things like public transportation, or designing walkable/cyclable cities.

  Our solutions can’t just rely on swapping out for “greener” tech. We need radical changes to how we are currently living in order to ensure a livable future.

  There is no future that is not radical. This gradualist, neolib (let’s make sure all the investors get a chance to divest from dirty tech before switching!) fantasy will fuck us. It’s been fucking us for a hundred years. It’s time to try literally anything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teddybears - Punkrocker⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But, Superman is such a good, kind-hearted hero that it’s basically impossible to be a good person and be anti-Superman.

  Right, the main complaint is that he’s so perfect it’s boring.

  And also that he has a pretty Western/USA centric sense of morality, which you think Western chauvinists like conservatives would eat right up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U can make a difference⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AHHHHHHHHHH

  Well done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The stand makes the difference⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve never seen these two together. Now this is cinema.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I first read this I thought the title was “tech illiterate” which I thought was a bit rude, but anecdotally true.

  Sure we’ve got healthy linux and programmers communities, but I think most people are just regular degular folx.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the wild swings in exchange value instantly preclude its use as a currency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? Like I don’t understand the mindset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Orgies still happen. Open relationships, too.

  If you don’t want to be exclusive then don’t enter into an exclusive relationship.

  I agree we could be less uptight about open relationships, but this is really about a rich filthy person being humiliated at a time when most of us feel powerless to stand up to money in any real capacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's get Physical⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this deep or am I just stupid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it makes sense when you consider there are many government workers who do not support the genocide of Palestinians, and would be more vocal about it if they the political capital that, say, a large protest nets you.

  It’s actually possible to end this with only the ingredients we have available right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Fediverse stalling?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yay I was included in a list!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And Offpunk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a little JS, as a treat?

  It’s fun for hiding little easter eggs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ththat’s different… you take it back!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thoughts in a contiguous sequence??!!? What utter bloat! Why even have a past or future when a pure consciousness need only experience the horizon of an infinite present.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  phpBBB??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve gotten to the point where you aren’t considered a real professional unless you start even the smallest projects with maximum technical debt.

  They’re just following the model laid out by the venture capital model, really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess all that’s left is to form a no-utf club.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, you kind of lost me with these metaphors. No offence, I’m just not sure what is supposed to represent what here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But if the guy who created the FOSS movement says something gross, then they and everything they stand for should apparently be shunned.

  They might mean that, but they didn’t say it. I don’t think they did mean it. I think they just don’t want people to forget the “problematic” aspects of someone before we go all worship mode on him.

  It’s like how my partner will interject–he’s canadian!–if I mention some actor. Like she just doesn’t want me to forget that context, but other than that, I can carry on.

  Maybe they did mean that, though and I’m missing some context from somewhere else in this thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s very evocative, you should be proud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have like a blog or something? Good bit of writing, this.