Pandoras_Can_Opener
@Pandoras_Can_Opener@mander.xyz
- Comment on The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate? 4 months ago:
Somebody should whinge about the unborn being aborted via carpet bombing or similar. I’d like to see the cognitive dissonance.
- Comment on launch him anyway 8 months ago:
Same.
- Comment on I'm a US citizen, people in other countries, what do you think when you read stories like these about the US health care system? 8 months ago:
In Europe the US healthcare system is seen as a joke and medieval. Same for most social services I’m the US. Like somebody else said I stopped feeling sympathy a while ago.
- Comment on the agent's argument in the matrix 9 months ago:
I find my perspective changing a bit as I age. As a species I still think we are a net negative, at the very least since industrialisation started. But no cog in the wheel individual holds responsibility for the species. The big decision makers, the big polluters, yes that’s different. And I think it’s our duty to hold them accountable as much as we can. Obviously the system is stacked against accountability. Difficult position to be in and no easy answers.
On an individual level tho there are also a LOT of humans who do a lot of good. Collecting plastic, renaturalising wilderness, combating the various poverty related issues, improving medical procedures, advocating for human rights, inventing new ways to connect and learn… There’s a very long list.
For myself, I’m chronically ill. I can do some limited waste reduction, attempt as ethical a consumption as possible and love my rescue cat. I don’t have the energy for much more. But I’ve found it helps to follow people and focus on projects that do good rather than what can’t be helped. If you have the ability and capacity to volunteer or donate all the better. Holding yourself accountable and living the best life you can life is really all you have control over after all.
- Comment on The Chinese calendar is 4721 years old. Did it have the same problem as the Julian calendar with an imprecise number of days per year? 1 year ago:
Is there a lemmy best of where thus can be reposted? It’s that awesome.
- Comment on if it turned out there was a sentient AI capable of running the world would you accept it or rebell against it? 1 year ago:
I don’t get the sci fi arguments in this thread. Somebody wrote a fiction about science that usually wasn’t invented yet. These books tend to be decades+ old. Why would the fantasy of somebody count as an argument? If anything if means developers are on the lookout for the social/emotional dimension.
As for myself. Errrr depends on the AI? I’d like to test it’s decision making process against human decision makers.
- Comment on Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used? 1 year ago:
German with a scientific background. I can deduce the meaning of the words but I’ve never seen them used. I’m not even sure these units of measurement were mentioned when these were discussed. Most stuff is ton, kilogram, gram, miligram, microgram; kilometer, meter, centimeter, milimeter, micrometer. Rarely decimeter are thrown around.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 1 year ago:
I think humans tended to do such epic face plants for a lot longer. But these days every idiot and their dog has a smartphone to record everything and an internet connection to share it to the world. You look a lot more silly with your epic face plant if it’s captured in 4K and broadcast to the world.
Random side note: if you want to hear about a rather epic historical face plant there’s a good video on the Erfurt latrine disaster on YouTube.
- Comment on They tried 1 year ago:
Infowars tells you Nazis are something you disagree with? Haven’t heard from them in a while. Would habe thought they’d quietly drop the Nazis are evil thing.
- Comment on They tried 1 year ago:
Also from Germany. Some american news and media sites do that.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 1 year ago:
The thing is your electorate let itself be manipulated like that and as you said the perpetrators are still very much at large. It follows they will manipulate the electorate again and there’s no reason to believe the same demographic won’t easily fall for new lies. (Unless they died off.)
This sucks for the Brits who knew better but it also means the EU would let an unreliable partner back in if nothing changed. It seems the pro Brexit crowd will need to learn the hard way that no really you were lied to and you still have to bear the consequences of your own actions (vote).
Being lied to isn’t an excuse to accept racist fearmongering and plainly suicidal economic reasoning. Nor is it an excuse for the project fear slander that happened at the time. They were lied to and were also told the truth. They need to learn to accept ownership for their own guilibilty.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 1 year ago:
Yup. And the rerendum wasn’t even legally binding.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 1 year ago:
I really would like to see reactions from France if Britain makes moves to rejoin.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 1 year ago:
Also your mates and family don’t really get his your marriage worked and didn’t like your ex’s politics for confused reasons.
- Comment on Can someone explain the boundaries around 'people pleasing'? 1 year ago:
There’s a nice saying in the community of people who heal from childhood abuse: don’t set yourself on fire to keep others warm. I always found it to be a powerful and succinct way of describing toxic people pleasing.
- Comment on Are straws an unnecessary (but convenient) invention? 1 year ago:
Huh, neat. I’ve heard of pasta straws in private use but an Italian restaurant, that’s cool. Yeah wooden and metal straws get cleaned. Tho wooden straws would eventually be burned I assume. And metal maybe remelted?
- Comment on Are straws an unnecessary (but convenient) invention? 1 year ago:
Chronically ill person checking in to mention people with my autoimmune disorder died a slow painful death in the past or ate pig thyroid. And people with endometriosis just spent their days in intense agony (some/many still do because current medical treatment doesn’t work for them).
- Comment on Are straws an unnecessary (but convenient) invention? 1 year ago:
In Germany plastic straws are forbidden these days. There’s straws made of metal or wood still. Can’t comment on the larger question tho. I’ve never used straws to begin with.
- Comment on Why is there so much hate against children here? 1 year ago:
And maybe report.
- Comment on How common is it for atheists to be against homosexuality/abortion? 1 year ago:
I’ve been born to people who didn’t really want kids. I admit this colours my perceptive n greatly but yes I’d never condemn a new life to not being wanted/going into the foster system. The damage that you do to someone by not having a good caregiver is immense and I dearly dearly wish I had been aborted. I think it’s sad that so little of the debate centers around the needs of the child once it is born.
- Comment on Trying to revive r/aaaaaaacccccccce here on fediverse. Come visit us if you are Asexual and/or aromantic, or just love our memes and humor. 1 year ago:
Nice! It’s so great to see my reddit niche faves slowly migrating.
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 1 year ago:
And evolution. And maybe climate change.
- Comment on What are good examples of cute as a look for men/masculine folks? 1 year ago:
I think many male idols in kpop manage to pull off cute very well. Taemin from shinee for example.