Adderbox76

@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  100% agree. I was just pointing out that the whole situation is not as black and white as people on both sides want it to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that’s sarcasm? But yes, I legitimately feel that our system, where the only person who has any “theoretical” power to make unilateral decisions without parliament is some old guy who is content to just stay out of it, is better.

  Imagine an America where they could tell Trump. “Okay, you’re king. Here…we’ll even put you on our money. Now go live overseas and fuck off”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because, and not to sound flippant, that’s just the easiest and most natural way to do it without a lot of extra paperwork.

  See technically, a "president* is meant as a drop in replacement for a monarch. A republic doesn’t get rid if its king, they just replace one who was born into it with one they chose and one they pretend to have a bit more control over.

  Canada’s equivalent to Trump isn’t Carney, technically it’s King Charles. And the U.S equivalent to Prime Minister would be who’ve leads the majority party in congress.

  Could we go through the constitutional rigamarole to change that? Sure. But why bother when he’s content to stay out of things.

  Essentially, a parliamentary democracy means that our “Trump” is a deadbeat dad who lives in another country.

  I’ll happily keep that buffer in place versus whatever the fuck the U.S had gotten themselves into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Republics give you Trump…

  What I mean is this:

  A Prime Minister is not a president. They are simply the leader of whichever party has he most seats in parliament and its therefore the “face” of the government in many days.

  Most importantly this means that there is no such thing as “executive orders” because there us no “executive” branch, per we. Meaning even if we (Canada) had fucked up and elected Trump-lite, Pollieve, his ability to do the same shit Trump or doing would be severely limited in that everything goes through parliamentary vote without exception (for the most part).

  A ruling party has something called the Emergencies Act, as that can, to a limited degree, allow them to enact a few things without parliamentary vote, but its use is generally highly controversial and is still very controlled by judicial review.

  Long story short (too late, I know) is that the tsunami of bullshit that Orange Hitler is doing is because he’s using executive orders enact things and then fighting congress in court when they push back rather than getting congressional approval BEFORE enacting it.

  Something that is far more limited in a governmental system where that much power HASN’T been given to one person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh believe me. I would be too. We’d buy ourselves a hell of a lot of time. I’m just pointing out that the solution is never black and white.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is coal and fossil fuels still used?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite the replies, the real answer is that it’s not as simple as “stopping drilling”.

  The fossil fuel industry isn’t just oil and fuel…it’s quite literally everything.

  • The vulkanized rubber in the tires of your electric vehicle…yep…petroleum based.

  • The hard plastic that forms the interior panels, and the side walls, the steering wheel and literally everything else made of plastic on the planet? You guessed it…petroleum based.

  • The lubricants that keep the chains chaining, the gears gearing, the whirligigs whirling and the moving parts moving…once again…petroleum based.

  • Much of the cosmetics industry, as well as chapsticks, lotions, sunscreens, etc… Yep…all have at least some petroleum based ingredients.

  Are you starting to get it?

  Hippies can complain all they want, and I ABSOLUTELY agree that we need to be moving away from the petroleum industry faster. But it’s not a matter of switching to electric cars because EVERY part of modern life is from the roads we drive on to the keyboard I’m typing this one, is in some way or another making use of a petroleum based product.

  We have a long hard road before that’s not the case anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, there really is no such thing as a “Sovereign Citizen” except in their own brain.

  They believe that there is some hidden loophole that only “smart” people understand that allows them to reap the benefits of being a part of a society without having to be subject to any of its rules; and that that cheat code is accessed via some combination of paperwork that the government keeps hidden from the public.

  Essentially, to them, the social contract (ie. citizens voluntary give up certain rights like the right to speed through red lights, the right to murder, etc… and subject themselves to laws of the state in exchange for that state providing them with roads, infrastructure, stability, prosperity and the right certain inalienable freedoms) is just for suckers who don’t know the correct forms to fill out.

  It’s absolute mind-numbing stupidity of the highest order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone knows what first aid is, but what is second aid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Canada’s conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in election collapse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly enough I wouldn’t even call it a collapse.

  Conservatives walked away with far more seats than they did in 2021.

  Yes…it’s a collapse from what they were projected to win before JT stepped down. But more than anything it’s shown that it isn’t necessarily the Cons that we have a problem with, it’s the “Trump-Style” Conservatism that Poppinfresh tried to inject into the narrative. Rhetoric, slogans, hateful dogma, gaslighting the voters to think that everything is broken and that “they’re” the only ones who can fix it, etc…

  It’s not a surprise that as soon as JT stepped down voters said “Oh thank god” because they could finally stop holding their nose and not have to vote for the one guy that they hated slightly less than Trudeau.

  If Conservatives don’t oust him as leader after it’s plain as day that HE is the hated one, not them, then they’re stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come id Software / Bethesda have never sued Bungie / Microsoft over the similarity between Doomguy and Master Chief?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the same reason that two boring white dudes can star in two different movies in the same year about the White House being taken over by terrorists

  Because similar isn’t the same. As long as they can argue that specifics are different enough, that’s all that matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since when is that allowed!? /s

  I’m fine with that. My bigger question was simply why am I seeing it in sports news instead of entertainment news all of a sudden? It’s not a sport. it’s a variety show sponsored by the makers of steroids.

• Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe a young Margaret Atwood witnessed the unveiling of her time capsule book in 2114 and then travelled by in time to complete the paradox loop by arranging the time capsule book in the first place.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of wave function collapse.

  Think of it this way:

  We live in a universe where we did NOT travel back in time to kill Hitler.

  If we then jump backwards in time to kill Hitler, we create a tangent universe in which we DID travel back in time to kill Hitler.

  Its not the act of killing Hitler that creates the tangent universe, its the act of going back in time itself. We are moving from a universe in which we DIDN’T go back in time to one in which we DID.

  If we then travel back to before our initial jump backwards, yes, we are travelling back along the original universe, but we are automatically creating a tangent universe starting from THAT point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe a young Margaret Atwood witnessed the unveiling of her time capsule book in 2114 and then travelled by in time to complete the paradox loop by arranging the time capsule book in the first place.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think time travel is possible, but you can only change things from the perspective of the person who travelled back. The original timeline just keeps on going.

  Person (a) travels back in time to kill Hitler and succeeds. That new timeline exists now without Hitler, but in the original timeline is already written in stone. There is no changing it. The moment that person travels back, they’ve created a new timeline. It’s both impossible for them to change the original timeline, and impossible to ever return to the original timeline because if they go back to the future they’ll only be travelling along the new timeline.

• Maybe a young Margaret Atwood witnessed the unveiling of her time capsule book in 2114 and then travelled by in time to complete the paradox loop by arranging the time capsule book in the first place.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people develop feelings for someone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Flirting is chatting with more intense eye contact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people develop feelings for someone?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, “like”, “love”, and “in love” are not separate emotions. They’re the same emotion resonating at different frequencies, for lack of a better metaphor.

  “Like” and “Love” are largely hormonal as far as I can tell.

  • You get along with someone and you want to hang out together, the chemicals in your brain say “hey…this person gets me and I’m happy being around them. I LIKE them.”

  • You get along with someone, and you want to hang out together, and you’re sexually attracted to them. The chemicals and hormones say “Hey…I really really want to be alone with the person and tell them everything and share my intimate self with them. I LOVE them.”

  “IN LOVE” is the one that takes work. Because “IN LOVE” happens long after you’ve started in that relationship. You know their goods. You know their bads. You know what makes them tick and what annoys them. You know what they do that annoys you, and yet you STILL have gotten so addicted to having them as a part of your life that you wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s like the old saying “Yes, we fight. But there’s noone else I would rather fight with.”

  They are all one and the same emotion, and where it lands with any one particular person depends on the individual circumstances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MAGA is pretty much entirely a cult of personality. Take out the Jim Jones, and they tend to go back into hiding. That’s the only hopeful part of all of this is that when Trump finally dies (by any means necessary), I’d bet everything that MAGA goes with him. Or at least as a political force. Hillibillies are still gonna hillbilly, but without Trump to embolden them, they’ll go back to ranting about 'libs after finishing up fucking their cousins and nothing more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised it hasn’t been taken care of already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You think the allure of being fully independent and having your own instance would be right up their alley given how they value independence, but nope.

  Because it’s not about freedom of speech for them, it’s about freedom to force people to listen. Having their own server where they can shout at each other all day doesn’t serve their purpose. Their panties get wet by forcing others to listen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most realistic fictional movies ever made?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  • Children of Men

  • Gattaca

  Both feel like extremely realistic portrayals of possible near futures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you pronounce "centaur" and why?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I pronounce it “Phil”. And he would appreciate it if you would stop staring at his missing eye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no such thing as a “non-harmful” pedofile.

  Either you’re actively molesting children (yes…even teens), or you’re consuming the CP that is the result of OTHER people abusing children by forcing them to participate and worse.

  You don’t get to say “its not repulsive to consume the product as long as youre not a creator of it”. Consuming the end result is still participating in it.

  I can’t believe that even has to be pointed out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would make one hell of an ugly woman…

  I was an archaeology major, hence the history thing. And I’m fascinated by the psychology of crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m far far far from a younger consumer, and I find that I too have moved almost entirely to online content, mostly in the form of True Crime podcasts and YT channels, History Documentaries, etc…

  Especially in non-fiction content, there’s pretty much nothing that paid TV can offer that Social Platforms cannot. It’s the only place where I think this whole internet experiment is actually working as intended; the democratization of knowledge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X88B88 is the word "voodoo" with a reflection.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking it would make a great book title for a novel about an underground cult of Voodoo practicing Nazis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal's Meredith Whittaker says AI agents doing tasks on users' behalf pose security and privacy risks and refers to their use as “putting your brain in a jar”.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a “block party”! </dadjoke>

  I’ll show myself out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dear republicans, what's the point of alienating every single ally of the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is indeed dangerous to rely on any one country for too much

  Cries in Canadian

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What was your favorite shareware game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Spending every lunch hour on the library computer with three friends in 1994 playing this is probably why I didn’t have a girlfriend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After setting up emulators for both the PS2 and PS1, I’m amazed at how little I actually turn on my xbox one S anymore.

  Games from that generation just hit differently for me. Especially my favourites like Final Fantasy X and XII. It took me a while to get why I felt that way, but it’s the combat systems in modern games have become to frenetic and button-mashy. How am I supposed to strategize what my team mates are doing at the speed that the combat now wants to take place at.

  And that’s not just with the Final Fantasy series. God of War both went down that “let’s make combat as fast and frenetic as possible” route after the PS2 generation.

  I’m also going to give an honourable mention on PS2 to the last Stalwart alternative to the EA NHL series; that being NHL 2K10. I really enjoyed the things that it did differently to EA Sports, like the ability to set two of your team-mates to hassle an opposing player. I wish 2K had kept it up. But it seems they gave up the NHL and EA gave up the NBA. Fair trade I guess.