Adderbox76

@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Flirting is chatting with more intense eye contact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people develop feelings for someone?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are most people here left-wing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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”.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like many Americans have an arrogant personality trait?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The U.S. is like any other country; it has its share of assholes. But I generally avoid painting everyone of however many million people with the same broad brush.

  There is a somewhat obnoxious level of patriotism to Americans in general that comes from simply being the biggest economy and a net cultural exporter to the rest of the world; think blue jeans and coca-cola, metaphorically. (I’m sorry, Americans, but it’s true. Put on your big boy pants and deal with the criticism like adults, please.)

  But it only rises to the level of arrogance in those people who think that the rest of the world only exists because of them and should behave as some sort of client state to American hegemony.

  That’s not all Americans. Heck, I’d say it’s not even most Americans. But they’re just really really loud and drown out everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a thousand years, will historians regard today as the digital dark ages?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My oh my. Check out Mr. Optimist over here thinking that they’ll be time to be “historians” in between scavenging for scraps and battling the nuclear mutants for the last bottle of fresh water at the bombed out Tesco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez to go to space on next launch from Jeff Bezos' rocket company⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On a brighter note, I’m pretty sure Katy Perry’s boobs would look absolutely fantastic in zero gravity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨telecommunications dish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why’s your aardvark wearing a cone?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be his best book since Name of the Rose

  My personal favourite is The Island of the Day Before. Though I haven’t read either in years and it might be nostalgia because that was my first introduction to Eco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most Americans use an iPhone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketing.

  Convincing stupid people that their self-worth is based on how much they spend.

  Not a thing that is exclusive to Apple, of course. It’s how society has been since the 80s and Reaganomics, with Nike and other running shoes being the first really noticeable marketing push in that regard.

  Where Apple paved the way is that, even back then, a company would make a product, assign a profit margin to it (traditionally about 30-40%), and sell it at that price…

  Apple came along and said, “the only limit to a profit margin is how much you can convince stupid people to pay. We’ll use billions of dollars in advertising to convince people that they’re sub-human if they don’t agree with it. If the consumer is dumb enough to pay 250% profit margin for a phone device that costs us literally a couple hundred bucks to make…than that’s on them and their own stupidity.”

  So in short, profit margin is no longer a relatively stable number dictated by market forces and the relative strength of the economy, and (thanks to Apple) instead has become a function of marketing. How much can you convince suckers to spend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Best review of it I read was:

  “DFW is a perfect example of what happens when people think they are above editing.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve honestly never made it through the whole thing.

  Tried to, back in the day. It’s one of those things that’s expected of you if you want to be a proper turtleneck wearing, pretentious literati as a university student. (I was a douche, okay…I admit it…it’s the same reason I fought my way through War and Peace and Foucault’s Pendulum) But I’m much better now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a pretext for invasion. Just like invading Afganistan was to intervene in order to get Al-Queda. Or invading Iraq was about getting the Taliban… etc… etc… etc…

  If America wants a war with someone for oil/economic pressure/etc… (really whatever reason they choose to make up) they simply say that there are terrorists there.

  I’m calling it now and saying that in two weeks he declares the Quebec Sovereignty movement a terrorist organization for reasons…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite retro racing game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes me feel old to admit it’s retro, but Gran Turismo on Playstation.