owenfromcanada
@owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 2 days ago:
As long as you don’t use a DE on it, a pi3 is great for experimenting with server software. I still use my 3b for plenty of things.
- Comment on Ya yeet! 4 days ago:
Assume spherical child
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 4 days ago:
Apparently cheetahs aren’t “big cats”, they’re just large versions of small cats. They share features like purring and meowing, and their temperaments are closer to housecats than a tiger or lion.
- Comment on steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? 5 days ago:
My general policy is to buy stuff from GoG that I will likely want to replay in the future and prioritize Steam for anything that I primarily play with friends (as that’s the main advantage of Steam for me). If it’s neither, I’ll default to GoG.
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 5 days ago:
Ah, the danger blep
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
That doesn’t sound like it would work. Ben would continue to treat Beth poorly, and your relationship with him wouldn’t improve in any way. Don’t ditch your principles for the sake of revenge.
Either distance yourself from Ben, or try to have a serious talk with him. Be the adult in the room.
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 1 week ago:
Department of War Crimes is at it again
- Comment on 1 week ago:
So… just the P?
- Comment on Oh no! 1 week ago:
Thanks for posting this! I’ve been looking to switch away from Swiftkey since MS bought it, and I love the easily accessible symbols on this (I do a bit of terminalling on mobile).
- Comment on Existential cowposting 1 week ago:
That’s a worse punishment than what they’d otherwise get.
- Comment on Existential cowposting 1 week ago:
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
My wife calls them her emotional support tabs.
- Comment on Why? 1 week ago:
Also during the time Lemmy was most excited about beans. One of the golden ages, to be sure.
- Comment on If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour? 1 week ago:
A couple things we can gather from these sources:
- Being near a banana is likely a much lower dosage. The BED article notes that eating a lot of bananas doesn’t give linear dosages, as the excess potassium is discarded. And if you’re not absorbing much radiation from it being literally inside you, I can’t imagine you’re getting much from having it further away (even at high quantities).
- According to the xkcd chart, we receive a yearly dosage of 390uSv from the potassium naturally in our bodies, and living in a stone, brick, or concrete building for a year results in only 70uSv. I’m not sure what the equivalent exposure would be for injecting those materials, but the picture I’m getting at this point is that external exposure to bananas would likely be less fatal than the sheer mass of what would be required to give a significant dose.
- Comment on If eating a banana is ~0.1μSv, then what is holding a banana for an hour? 1 week ago:
Relevant links:
Based on the chart, even if you got a full 0.1uSv dose from each of the 10,000 bananas, it would be 1mSv, which doesn’t seem fatal.
- Comment on I hate it when I have to do THIS 1 week ago:
Big Scarlett Johansson energy
- Comment on The Cellussy 1 week ago:
The micropenis jokes write themselves. Seems too easy.
- Comment on Where can I be explicit and dirty on Lemmy? 1 week ago:
The only thing wrong with this shitpost is that you seem like you put too much effort into it.
- Comment on It is permnent! You are become him. 1 week ago:
Finally
- Comment on ✌️🌽✌️ ✊🌽✊ ✌️🌽✌️ ✊🌽✊ 1 week ago:
It’s “delicious” and “edible”
- Comment on The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies" 2 weeks ago:
I wasn’t trying to say that being open to tankie arguments is the same as believing in a flat earth. I was only making the comparison to explain the sense of futility and exhaustion many people feel when they encounter an argument they’ve had so many times. There’s a point where you recognize a fundamental difference in worldview, and that any further discussion is pointless.
Personally, I think western capitalism is bad and needs to be replaced. But I also think that anyone who denies the genocides recognized by the majority of the world is being willfully ignorant. Many people seem to have a very limited ideology of “everything western = bad” and believe that brutal regimes elsewhere are somehow perfect utopias, despite well-documented evidence of the contrary.
As I understand it, the term “tankie” specifically refers to people who deny or defend the brutal tactics used by communist leaders, often denying genocide. If someone tells me they agree with tankie ideology, I don’t have much confidence that conversation about it will do anyone any good. So in that regard, I empathize and understand why the person you were talking to went quiet after that.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 weeks ago:
Holy generalizations, Batman!
My purpose in making the distinction isn’t to be pedantic, it’s to help clarify the nature of the class warfare we’re dealing with. I don’t care if you want to use the term “middle class”. I only bring up the distinction because of the nature of the original post, which was explicitly noting the false narrative of the “lazy poor”.
Tax the rich, restore the middle class, use whatever terminology you want. But understand that the poor are not the enemy of the middle class, and they’re not the villains. The rich people are.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 weeks ago:
Wealth does messed up things to our brains.
Nobody wants to believe they’re the “bad guys”, or “privileged”, or anything like that. So when you have more wealth than 99% of other people out there, you (consciously or subconsciously) come up with ways to justify it.
In this case, the multimillionaires believe they are the “normal”, middle-of-the-road class, because they compare themselves against the ultra-rich. And anyone who has less than them must be lazy, or bad with money, or some other moral failing. Because if the millionaires aren’t morally superior, the only other explanation is privilege or greed, and they can’t live with that.
There are a handful of wealthy people who haven’t succumbed to that as much. Dolly Parton is a great example–one article I read suggested she’d be one of the wealthiest people in the world if she weren’t donating 90 to 95% of her income for most of her career. But when you have empathy and a lot of wealth, you end up with just a little wealth and a lot of grateful people.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 weeks ago:
I mostly agree. They’re synonymous today, but I think there’s still an important distinction.
The term “middle class” is distinct from the “lower class.” But those two are more or less the same when compared to the “upper class” (what I would call the “wealth class”). Both lower and middle classes need to work in order to survive, while the wealth class has enough money to live without working (many of them still work, but it’s optional for them).
Any distinction between lower and middle class ends up harming both, and allowing the upper class to hoard more wealth. I generally try to promote the term “working class” because it doesn’t divide us, and more accurately portrays the differences between classes.
An illustration in this vein:
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 weeks ago:
This is a recurring theme in American politics in all sorts of areas.
I’m Canadian-born, and went through the process of a TN1 status, to a green card, to citizenship. There is an astounding amount of ignorance around how that works.
For example, the vast majority of Americans thought I would be granted citizenship when I married an American. Nope! The only advantage marriage gives is that you get to skip the green card lottery.
But the process still takes months, dozens of forms, and several thousand dollars (and I did the paperwork myself–those not fluent in English or not as confident in the paperwork will end up paying over $10,000 easily). And citizenship takes years and even more paperwork. People who think immigrants are just coasting along enjoying the easy life need to turn off Fox News and get out and talk to people.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 weeks ago:
You’re right, but that’s not middle class–that’s working class. Making minimum wage and having a comfortable life is working class. The concept of “middle” class was a method of pitting one half of the working class against the other, so the rich could move from millions to billions.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 weeks ago:
There’s never been a middle class. The illusion of the “lazy poor” is fabricated by the wealth class to divide the working class.
- Comment on The crusade against Lemmy devs, lemmy.ml, and so-called "tankies" 2 weeks ago:
Imagine you’re talking with someone about science, and after a while they say they believe in a flat earth.
At that point, it’s understandable to end the conversation. Because flat earth discussions have all been had, and anyone who believes in a flat earth in 2025 doesn’t believe in science. You’ve identified a fundamental principal on which you disagree, and there can be no productive discussion.
- Comment on When building a Time Machine is worth the effort 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Forget your sign, which potamus are you? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure, honestly. I didn’t have it when I was a kid.
