FridaySteve
@FridaySteve@lemmy.world
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 5 days ago:
Depending on where they are and how much they want to pay, they can get it.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 5 days ago:
You should have said that. If I can’t access banks, it’s a way different picture.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 5 days ago:
Compounding that is the notion of privilege, which exists. I’m a cisgendered white male with a university degree and I speak English natively, I don’t have a persistent mental illness or a chronic disease, and I don’t have a physical handicap. The deck is stacked in my favor no matter where I am in the world. Taking away enforced regulations on housing, employment, and banking makes things easier for me, not harder. It’s way, way, way different if you belong to a group with less social power.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 5 days ago:
The phrase has been corrupted from its cold war origins to mean (putting it politely) the “developing world”. Whereas I’ve moved countries seven times, I’ve seen a lot of places, and I can say from experience that outside of specific prejudicial circumstances (being a woman in Iran, Uyghur Muslim in China, being anyone in North Korea, for example) there are paths to success everywhere.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 5 days ago:
It’s cute that you assume I wouldn’t. OP never said anything about that.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 5 days ago:
Spend my dollars on an apartment and a house cleaner, start networking with other folks, get a job. It’s not hard.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 week ago:
If you want a government with the kind of regulatory power to “put all this nonsense on hold” why not use that regulatory power to generate cleaner energy and solve the problem? The current clean energy sources we have right now are cheaper than what’s currently being used for energy generation. They’re also faster to get online and can be put in more places. The reason we’re not using those sources right now is because of politics, not economics or technology. The solution to environmental damage caused by energy production is to use cleaner energy. Stopping people from using technology on the user level won’t do much of anything.
- Comment on I'm gonna need a walk-in shower soon enough 1 week ago:
Nope.
- Comment on What is the problem here? 2 weeks ago:
My ender 3 wasn’t my first printer, it’s not my only printer, and some days it’s my best printer. It’s actually underrated as a platform.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 2 weeks ago:
Me too, I often skip it and my soups are fine.
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 2 weeks ago:
They do it bc that’s how they learned it in culinary school / that’s how the recipe goes. It adds a bitter flavor to balance onion and carrot. You don’t need it and you can replace it with something else.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine having trouble understanding that word but let me know if you actually need clarification.
- Comment on People around the world are trying to learn English because it's the Lingua Franca, but imagine if the Lingua Franca of the world was a Tonal Language and the writing system was Logographic. 2 weeks ago:
what are the pussy two specific things?
My question exactly.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 weeks ago:
I’m really waiting for this idea to catch on. I got online in the late 80s to get away from normies and their boring, repetitive normie mind-viruses. Back then it was just nerds talking to other nerds. Nowadays you can’t even talk to your friends here. This whole thing is for people to get angry about politics and buy products. The sooner all these people leave, the sooner we can get back to what originally brought us here.
Hopefully soon, going on social media will be seen as a bad antisocial habit like smoking.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who buys gold online should have a tester, and there are reputable bullion companies like JM who don’t charge a lot of markup. If you’re on ebay trying to buy gold bullion there’s a chance it’s probably fake / silver wrapped with gold and stamped. There’s videos on the internet of folks cutting those bars in half and seeing what’s inside.
A way to increase your chances of buying real product is to buy coins that are in bad enough shape where there’s no numismatic value left. Whereas every country that mints coins has strict laws against counterfeiting them and you can go to prison for doing it, making “novelty” gold bars and rounds is perfectly legal and there’s almost no risk if you get caught scamming people with them (most often just a platform ban).
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 weeks ago:
In the event of a collapse like you describe, I’m going to need something I can eat or wear, something tangible I can trade. If you can get enough people together that agree gold is a valuable bearer instrument then you’ve got a government. That’s not really a collapse.
- Comment on The Fuck Jar 3 weeks ago:
Imagine the jar you can’t open is the swear jar and you yell out FUCK and put a dollar through the slot and try to open it and then yell FUUUUUUCK and then put in another dollar…
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 3 weeks ago:
Popular platforms have big expensive algorithms that monitor user behavior and present content they’re most likely to interact with when they’re most likely to interact with it. Participation in those platforms isn’t a deliberate act anymore.
- Comment on I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know if you realize this, but when people say things like “I don’t talk about politics” that’s just a short form of what they really mean, which is often:
I don’t want to talk about politics here.
I don’t want to talk about politics with you.
I don’t want to talk about politics right now.
I don’t want to talk about politics like that.
Surely you have to have seen the changes over the past 10-15 years in online discourse that has resulted in politics invading every available space. It used to be quite easy to avoid political conversations online. And still, a lot of people don’t come online for that and that’s okay.
They aren’t insane. They’re trying to tell you to calm down. Please take a hint and change the topic when someone says something like that.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 4 weeks ago:
Maybe you just didn’t understand the answer. It seems pretty clear to me.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 4 weeks ago:
AI have no use case.
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 4 weeks ago:
It sorts data and identifies patterns and trends. You may be referring only to AI enabled LLMs tasked with giving unique and creative output which isn’t going to give you any valuable results.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 4 weeks ago:
Wow, that offended you so much that I’m on your blocklist? You’re so deep in at this point that you’d rather engage with literal Nazis than someone who is just suggesting that you check your behavior?
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 4 weeks ago:
Buddy, I grew up on USENET. If anything I saw on the internet ever upset me, I’d either be totally desensitized to it by now or I’d be irredeemably mentally ill. Take my advice and get off here. Your family needs you.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 4 weeks ago:
You came here to be enraged and express your rage. What’s the point of telling other people not to respond to you? This is how you’re choosing to spend your time, responding to people who enrage you. If you don’t want to hear from people, put your phone down and go do something else.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 4 weeks ago:
Nope.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 4 weeks ago:
Do you realize that what you just described is internet bullshit and you wouldn’t be angry at all if you didn’t come here to see it?
As for me, I’ve been here since the beforetimes. I was here before you, and I’ll be here long after you get bored and go away. You came here to be judged or you wouldn’t be on this social media site, so I don’t understand why you’re getting so offended by my judgment.
- Comment on It's been a while, which Lemmy instances should I be on? 4 weeks ago:
Buddy, you’re on fire this morning. What did you originally get on the internet for? Was it deliberate or did you just use the services that came with your smartphone? Do you think what you’re doing right now is healthy? Do you think you’re spending your time in a healthy way right now?
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
There’s a lot to be said for watching sports. Before covid I never watched a baseball game all the way through. Now I’m into it. It’s a fun thing to talk about and enjoy socializing around. I’ve watched all kinds of sports from different countries, all around the clock, with people I’d never interact with otherwise. It really brings people together in a community.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
In the early 90s in sex ed they told us all, as a group, that men are only looking for sex to get a load off and women are nothing but submissive cum dumpsters except and of course obviously your life partner who you submit to on your wedding night and stay with forever. Literally we were taught this in public school. It’s no wonder people view sex and gender the way you do. Nowadays thankfully we view both sex and gender as individual.
To respond to your original idea, it sounds like a compromise. When you find the right person (and there’s someone for everybody) you won’t have compromise on that core, basic level. That’s what sexual compatibility is.