TheMinister

@TheMinister@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Political discourse⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Say what. No one I know has ever gone down that route. Anarchism is the furthest reach from ancap or sovcit.

  I guess I and my friends have the antidote: read some actual theory. You couldn’t possibly agree with theory then go ancap. Sounds like you’re describing YouTube anarchists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Political discourse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trying anarchism. Goes down smooth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Talking to Technology Executives Like They Have Anything to Say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But this kind of sounds exactly like the rationale these tech bros use to claim they know more than everyone and “these plebs just don’t understand”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Mainly my music. I’ve long thought about a dumb phone to avoid gps tracking everywhere as well as the spyware built in and the needless looking at it all the time. But music and podcasts need to come with me wherever I go. So I’d be carrying something akin to a smart phone around anyway. Doesn’t really side step the problem effectively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  With the right tools, yes. I could vape you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a whole genre! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in the lighting department! It’s pretty fun work. It’s a little wild and I don’t think it’s for everyone, but I’ve had a lot of way harder jobs that didn’t pay 10% of what I get paid now. The downsides are the incredibly long days, the strange way it works with getting hired; you basically get hired day by day by whomever you made relationships with. Like I’ve never had to “network” before but if you’re competent, pleasant, and willing to work hard, the networking mostly does itself. It’s definitely interesting work. Sometimes I’m in some really swanky private apartment of some really famous person, the next I’m lighting naked models as they writhe around in a bathtub, the next I could be on the street in the rain handling disgusting cables sitting in NYC gutter water, the next I’m working 22hrs in the park on a 100 degree day. It’s wild, but it works for me. I couldn’t go to the same place with the same people everyday. Whenever I did that I was never happy, but I’m pretty content with the amount of variety this work brings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I dunno your tastes, but some newer music that isn’t shit (I’m an album listener myself, so I judge by the whole album):

  Black MIDI - Hellfire Adult Jazz - Gist Is Billy Woods - all three of his newest (one is under “Armand Hammer”) Shellac - To All Trains Fiona Apple - Fetch the Boltcutters

  Those few albums span some genres and should cover a lot of tastes. I can add some more if you’re interested, those were just off the top of my head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is so much music today. To say new music sucks is wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a whole genre! ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who works in film, I don’t understand how people would be down with that. Our days are stupid long and exhausting. Everyone usually just wants to get home by the time we finally finish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No you’re just stupid or intentionally misunderstanding because either you’re a troll or your argument is so backwards and rotten that you can’t refute the point with anything legitimate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that in several US States, it's illegal to boycott Israel⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See, this is where the vitriol crosses the line into wrong. Oppose the genocide, speak out against Zionism. But when you start saying shit like this, you’re just as wrong as anyone who says they dont trust, say, Black people to handle their food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that hand sewing is a stupid cheap hobby to get into and reduces your impact on the environment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Johann’s the German version of Joanne’s?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So THAT'S where I parked my car!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always meth.

  And if you get bored of that, opioids

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See, you do understand. The farce that you don’t so you can label yourself ND is idiotic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spoiler alert: none of us actually care about how anyone else’s weekends were or how the other person’s kids are doing. You’re just being intentionally obtuse and tedious

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We all have to interact with people. That’s living in a community. But when you do, being nice is all it takes. “He’s a really nice guy, he’s just kinda quiet.” This isn’t an uncommon thing to hear about others. It’s literally a common type of person. But then there are assholes. The way you’re describing it you just don’t care to be nice and you’ve found an excuse in neurodivergence that you’re latching onto.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s ‘good’ I can ‘change’ if I so decide? but really, change, for what?

  Read some ethics philosophers, not a book about whether you being rude and off putting means you’re neurodivergent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been accused behind my back of being manipulative, uncaring, rude, and also a sociopath. Once this impression is given, it is impossible to make people change their minds, including management. I usually don’t fight it because, really, fighting gossip? that’s sticking to 5 year old level politics and what’s the point?

  Welcome to being an adult. We all think it’s asinine. Some people get wrapped up and completely engrossed in it. They make petty office politics their entire existence. Some people play the game but only to rise through the ranks. Some people stay out of it. You don’t really fit into any of these categories, it seems. It kinda just sounds like you’re a bit of a dick. That doesn’t make you ND, some people are just kinda dicks.

  And I don’t mean that as a slight. Some of my best friends I would classify as being dicks. But it’s everything else you bring to the table that matters. Are you so good at what you do that people put up with it? Or are you just kind of a dick with no redeeming qualities?

  Finding reasons for being unlikeable or off-putting doesn’t change the fact that that’s how people see you. You don’t sound ND, you just sound like you don’t care to change. That’s different

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm on the spectrum. How do I live the rest of my life?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the problem with self-diagnoses. There is a fine line between being uncaring and being unable to care. One is a bad person, the other person is possibly BPD.

  OP, until you get diagnosed with something, leave your excuses for being a dick aside and work on bettering yourself. Even if you end up being unable, it still doesn’t mean you have Asperger’s. Because bad people still refuse to change sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you got many explanations about people’s worries regarding the massive privacy and Internet freedom concerns…and you just decided they’re all addicted to porn? Makes sense you’re not on the right side of this issue if that’s how you reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s more possible you and the pro- movement are catastrophizing the effects of porn than the claim we might be catastrophizing the potential effects of the bill.

  We all grew up with access to porn. Whether that be nudie magazines that were somehow always found in the woods, or dial up Internet porn—hell, we all had access to rotten.com. That shit was far more scarring than any porn I ever found.

  Whether the abuse of these censorship powers actually turn out to be as bad as we all imagine, or whether it’s the next tiny step toward censorship, or the one after that…the point is that these are all freedoms we shouldn’t be fine giving up. We shouldn’t be taking steps down this road no matter if this is the straw or the next will be the one to break the camel’s back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think he'll respond?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean? I can’t even read that it says William Clark

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.

  At least tidal pays the artists more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sunken costs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m saying it’s literally a free VPN. But they’re q company. If they’re offering you free shit, you’re the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, OP. Ten million posts a month isn’t good enough for you?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How the fuck else do you think a for profit company is offering free tech?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst part about living in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Contrary to what would seem logical, you’re actually supposed to shake them side to side, canceling out the fizz. It’s best to open it up right afterward as well, while holding it under your nose. Old wives trick

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a periscopic girlfriend. She sticks her little eyeball up the to the surface so I can stay under the water cruising along and fire nukes and kill the Russians and Germans

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah minthi spikchur anadón likit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s a book on accents, its a phonetic book for learning English. I have one for learning French, it’s in English phonetic to pronounce French words. Just a different way to learn the language.