TheLeadenSea
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- Comment on Is the Earth Song by Micheal Jackson a classic case of whataboutism? 10 hours ago:
It certainly says ‘what about’ a lot, but I don’t think that’s really what whataboutism is, that’s more like distracting from a problem by saying ‘what about’ another problem. But Michael Jackson isn’t really distracting from any specific problem
- Comment on Is the Earth Song by Micheal Jackson a classic case of whataboutism? 10 hours ago:
The lyrics, for those who don’t want to watch a YouTube video:
What about sunrise? What about rain? What about all the things That you said we were to gain?
What about killing fields? Is there a time? What about all the things That you said was yours and mine?
Did you ever stop to notice All the blood we’ve shed before? Did you ever stop to notice This crying Earth, these weeping shores?
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
What have we done to the world? Look what we’ve done What about all the peace That you pledge your only son?
What about flowering fields? Is there a time? What about all the dreams That you said was yours and mine?
Did you ever stop to notice All the children dead from war? Did you ever stop to notice This crying Earth, these weeping shores?
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
I used to dream I used to glance beyond the stars Now I don’t know where we are Although I know we’ve drifted far
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Hey, what about yesterday? (What about us?) What about the seas? (What about us?) The heavens are falling down (What about us?) I can’t even breathe (What about us?)
What about apathy? (What about us?) I need you (What about us?) What about nature’s worth? (Ooh) It’s our planet’s womb (What about us?)
What about animals? (What about it?) We’ve turned kingdoms to dust (What about us?) What about elephants? (What about us?) Have we lost their trust (What about us?)
What about crying whales? (What about us?) We’re ravaging the seas (What about us?) What about forest trails? (Ooh) Burnt despite our pleas (What about us?)
What about the holy land? (What about it?) Torn apart by creed (What about us?) What about the common man? (What about us?) Can’t we set him free (What about us?)
What about children dying? (What about us?) Can’t you hear them cry? (What about us?) Where did we go wrong? (Ooh) Someone tell me why (What about us?)
What about baby boy? (What about it?) What about the days? (What about us?) What about all their joy? (What about us?) What about the man? (What about us?)
What about the crying man? (What about us?) What about Abraham? (What about us?) What about death again? (Ooh) Do we give a damn?
Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
- Comment on Anyone want to co op split fiction for a couple hours with a slightly drunk partner? 1 day ago:
It’s in theory about 8MB/s, but it gets throttled fast if I try to download anything larger than a few GB
- Comment on Anyone want to co op split fiction for a couple hours with a slightly drunk partner? 1 day ago:
70GB?! That would take me all day to download, and my internet isn’t unusually slow.
- Comment on Being afraid of vaccines is literally childish behavior. 3 days ago:
I’m only scared of vaccines because they’re delivered via a needle. At this point I really shouldn’t be acted of needles any more after injecting myself every week for ages, but for some reason I am 🤷♀️
- Comment on If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save? 3 days ago:
It would have bothered me to the same degree, I don’t know about you. I haven’t seen anyone on Lemmy using ‘he’ as a ‘gender neutral’ pronoun yet, but I assure you I would correct it just as I regularly do in real life.
- Comment on If you save someone's life and then you save her life again next year, how many lives did you save? 4 days ago:
You saved one life twice. But is there any significance to this being ‘her’ rather than ‘they’? Did you have a specific person in mind?
- Comment on My Personal Original Poetry Community... 5 days ago:
Your stuff is pretty cool! I don’t speak Chinese so I’m sure I’m missing some of the depth, but the English is still very evocative
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Don’t go beating up random people. That’s why the state has monopoly on violence
- Comment on We're switching produce! 5 days ago:
They even helpfully have a “search by image”
- Comment on My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day 5 days ago:
In time, I want to be your best friend
East Side love is living on the West End - Comment on How might I aquire some 2C-B? 1 week ago:
🐝🐝🐝🐝
- Comment on The future of human gene editing is quite scary since they could add genes that makes people more obedient. Goodbye to freedom forever. 1 week ago:
And B12
And get rid of genetic diseases
- Comment on G-Assist is ‘real’: NVIDIA unveils NitroGen, open-source AI model that can play 1000+ games for you 1 week ago:
I guess you answered it yourself, for testing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
We do need a decentralised currency that isn’t controlled by Visa/MasterCard payment processors, and their puritan ideologies. I haven’t seen many that are so good, but maybe Monero? The main problems seem to be accessibility to the everyday person, ease of conversion between regular money and it (eg USD, GBP, EUR), and lack of it being accepted for normal payments.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 week ago:
From what I’ve gathered, neither of us are unusual in not ‘feeling’ gender. I’m trans (shocker!) and felt dysphoria with my physical body, and biochemical dysphoria in the form of depression, until I transitioned, but I wouldn’t say that’s really anything to do with gender. In a world without gender, I would still transition because it makes me feel more comfortable, and that would have absolutely nothing to do with gender roles, stereotypes, or labels.
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 2 weeks ago:
How have I lived with a Jewish family all my life and never heard ‘Kyke’, yet I was well aware of ‘Faggot’ after only knowing about gay people for much less time?
- Comment on One slur to rule them all 2 weeks ago:
Is the first one ‘South Mexican’?
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 weeks ago:
Not really, the Israeli flag prominently features the star of David. 🇮🇱 See?
- Comment on There are first person shooters and third person shooters, but what about second person shooters? 3 weeks ago:
What, that you’re the one being shot?
- Comment on Screw MS 3 weeks ago:
Just remap it back to control
- Comment on Love 3 weeks ago:
It’s encouraging that these sorts of signs are being seen across the US.
- Comment on How much money's out there? 3 weeks ago:
Money is really just a representation for resources, so if it was simple, the value of money should adjust to be equal in total to the total amount of resources on the market. However, then people go and make it complicated by buying stuff like services, money itself, lending money, and so on.
Value for things like services are also subjective, varying by the person and how desperate they are, or how loathe to sell their time and energy.
- Comment on The phrase "edited it" is soo weird to pronounce 4 weeks ago:
Now that’s a shower thought I like!
It did, didn’t it?
- Comment on OPSEC social media related question 4 weeks ago:
What type of organisation are you part of that you need to guard the OpSec (operational security) of? Are you sure you don’t mean PerSec (personal security)?
That said, please try selling your item in EBay before using Facebook, like, it’s not great, but Facebook collects so much more data, even on an empty device. Iirc they need to ‘verify’ your identity with an ID document.
- Comment on What do you feel lucky forabout? 4 weeks ago:
I just have to say I love your username :) 🐍🚀
Your comment is great, too, though
- Comment on What do you feel lucky forabout? 4 weeks ago:
Being light skinned in a first world country in the early 2000s
- Comment on [Research] At least 80 million inconsistent facts on Wikipedia – can AI help find them? 4 weeks ago:
I know everyone on Lemmy hates LLMs, but analysing large amounts of text to fond inconsistencies is actually something they’re good at. Not correcting them, of course, that can be left to humans. Just finding them.
- Comment on Someone probably invented the sandwich before the Earl of Sandwich did, but didn't think to tell anyone 4 weeks ago:
It’s been a tradition at least since the Korach sandwich eaten at Passover for millennia.
- Comment on 'tis the season 4 weeks ago:
On a dog, on a log, in a bog, eating eggnog
