realitista

@realitista@lemmus.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Listen, no one should knowingly and willingly put their countries through more pain just to “win”. I’m sure they calculated that the reduction in destruction was worth a try. They have levers to pull if it doesn’t, but it will just create a lot of destruction for all sides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile in America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is said trash can full or empty though? Those are two completely different scales.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We too often minimize the sacrifices parents make for us⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are the only 2 ways I can imagine having a child and not making some sacrifices, yes. Your insults do nothing to further your point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally any non-ml instance would be a way better choice. Also avoid hexbear. The rest are pretty solid. I’m happy with speed of Lemmus.org, but lemmy.world worked fine for me too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how they enforce the CCP’s social values.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So glad I suck dick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They are just trying to be like the CCP, their heroes. Wait until they roll out their social credit system in upcoming Lemmy releases!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We too often minimize the sacrifices parents make for us⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I understand this is coming from people who feel (probably rightly) that their parents weren’t good parents and didn’t do enough for them, and which may have said the things you mention.

  But even taking all of that as true, those parents, as bad as they may have been, still made sacrifices for their kids. I agree that this is a horrible thing to hang over their heads, but it doesn’t make it untrue either.

  I also agree you are signing up for this usually thankless job and should be ready for that. But that also doesn’t negate the fact that you are making some sacrifices to be a parent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We too often minimize the sacrifices parents make for us⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an expectation and a sacrifice. By having kids you made the choice to make some sacrifices.

  In the definition of sacrifice there is no provision for how much you wanted to make said sacrifice or what the motivation was. Simply that you gave one thing up for another thing you found more important.

  sacrifice /săk′rə-fīs″/ noun The act of giving up something highly valued for the sake of something else considered to have a greater value or claim. “Social activism often involves tremendous sacrifice.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We too often minimize the sacrifices parents make for us⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true for any sort of sacrifice. Volunteering, saving people from burning buildings, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We too often minimize the sacrifices parents make for us⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes I suppose you could apply that to anything and say sacrifice doesn’t exist for anything. But since we are discussing it, I don’t think we are in the mindspace you are proposing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We too often minimize the sacrifices parents make for us⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a good parent and making sacrifices are not the same. It’s impossible to be a parent without making sacrifices. It’s possible to make said sacrifices and still be a bad parent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We too often minimize the sacrifices parents make for us⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Try being a parent and get back to me. There isn’t a parent in the world that doesn’t make sacrifices. Even bad ones do. There’s no way to raise a kid without time and money and loss of sleep. Even if you do a bad job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We too often minimize the sacrifices parents make for us⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless they put you up for adoption or sent you to live with relatives, the fact that you are still alive disproves this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft doesn’t expect growth in their OS offerings. These days all their focus is on AI and cloud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish there was an uninhabited, autonomous zone for folks who want "freedom" to play out their dangerous ideas away from the rest of society⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course it wouldn’t work. That’s the whole point. But I say we just ship them there whether they want to go or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Birthday Gift⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know how you did that but thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Birthday Gift⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry I meant second from top

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great Birthday Gift⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s second one from bottom on 30?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If everyone spontaneously became the same race the world would realize that the rich are the real problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No we’d come up with something else. We need to gene edit everyone to edit out the tribalism gene and replace it with a “we’re all in this together” gene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah we had our sources too ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were a teenager again, I’d be headed straight to all the grocery stores in town.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The TV and stereo aren’t amazing for that time. I had better in my teens and twenties just from my restaurant jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had that TV back in the day. It was an amazing TV for it’s time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes that’s true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And how did the bank decide I was privileged? I don’t keep much money in the account, I’ve overdrawn it many times, I have no record of employment in the US for decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s hoping the farm work will make you straight again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well okay you’re not wrong, there is always some sucker out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I left the USA 25 years ago and still keep a bank account at my parents’ address. Not yet debarked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well they can identify you are the same person but not your identity… So it’s like a disenbodied fingerprint. I suppose they could potentially make some database and train an AI on it someday to match to actual identities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not gonna lie, it do feel this way sometime