driving_crooner
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- Comment on I'm glad psychedelics entered my life before entheogens became popular. Today's psychonauts are mostly imposters looking for a free ride and social status. Psychedelics aren't meant to be frivolous. 2 days ago:
Unpopular opinions is in the next room.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 2 days ago:
You can get great discounts if you delete system32 from your PC.
- Comment on Swiss government urges people to ditch Microsoft 365 and others due to lack of proper encryption 3 days ago:
They want to spy on their people and protect their corporate interests.
- Comment on Uhhh... It's a work phone 5 days ago:
There was a guy I worked with years ago who did the same. He always had the best android and the best iPhone. He liked to be the go to guy when you wanted a new phone or something.
- Comment on YSK that giving kids a laptop doesn't improve their academic performance. 6 days ago:
Iirc from the abstract. It’s talking about a pretty specific laptop made from the OLPC project. That notebook was pretty bad and closed. Argentina had a project like this, but they gave Dell notebooks or something like that with Windows and the most savi kids could hack them and install Linux on them. As an anecdote, one of the most important artists of Argentina started with a computer from that project and a pirated copy of fruity loops.
- Comment on This is Jared Birchall. He is the right-hand man of Elon Musk. He also manages his wealth. Jared hates when people see his face. 1 week ago:
I don’t care about the wife, she’s old enough to know what kind of man is married. But the kids are not at fault of what family they born into.
- Comment on Population Growth 1 week ago:
Missing immigration
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 2 weeks ago:
I miss my RiF keyword filters.
- Comment on Scandal 3 weeks ago:
Remind me of this clip
- Comment on Scandal 3 weeks ago:
It’s Milky is better?
- Comment on Scandal 3 weeks ago:
People arguing about the “pee tapes” while Putin could be sitting on something way juicier
- Comment on My impression of the americas (based on nothing but prejudice) 4 weeks ago:
Better than Brazil because is smaller with less population. If you take only São Paulo (unfair in its way) it’s way better than chile, or Santiago (for a more fair comparison).
- Comment on The real tragedy of the culture war: the right fights for something that never existed, the left for something that will never be 4 weeks ago:
Just today finished this podcast episode about that same topic
Citations Needed: Episode 157: How the “Culture War” Label Is Used to Trivialize Life-and-Death Economic Issues
“Let the Culture Wars Begin. Again,” The New York Times announces. “How the ‘Culture War’ Could Break Democracy,” warns Politico. “As The Culture Wars Shift, President Trump Struggles To Adapt,” NPR tells us. “Will Democrats Go on the Offensive in the Culture Wars?” Vanity Fair wonders.
Over and over, we’re reminded that so-called culture wars are being waged between a simplified Left and Right. Depending on who you ask, they tend to encompass issues under very broad categories: “LGBTQ rights,” “abortion,” “funding for the arts,” “policing,” “immigration,” “family values.” While there is some validity to the label of “culture war issue” – say, Republican opposition to an art installation, or tantrums over the gender of M&Ms – most of the time, the term is woefully misapplied.
Despite what much of the media claims, LGBTQ rights, police violence, abortion, and so many other issues aren’t just “culture war” fluff in the same league as the latest Fox News meltdown about a cartoon character. Nor are they both-sides-able matters of debate. They’re matters of real, material consequence, often with life-and-death stakes. So why is it that these are placed under the “culture war” umbrella? And what are the dangers of characterizing them that way?
On this episode, we discuss the vague nature of the term “culture war”; how this lack of clarity is weaponized to gloss over and minimize life-and-death issues like police violence and gender-affirming healthcare; and how the only consistent criterion for a “culture war” seems to be issues that impact someone other than the media’s default audience, i.e., a white professional-class man.
Our guest is The Real News Network Editor-in-Chief Max Alvarez.
Episode webpage: …libsyn.com/episode-157-how-the-culture-war-label…
Media file: dts.podtrac.com/…/CN157_20220309_culture_wars_Alv…
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 weeks ago:
Silksong is also native on Linux
- Comment on Microsoft's cloud admin portals appear to be down worldwide 5 weeks ago:
Or maybe services that had aws as a backup being overwhelmed by the excess of demand
- Comment on Velma can't math. 5 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed Velma. I didn’t really care, but wanted to show it to my terminally offline wife to see her honest reaction and she loved it from the first scene and we continued watching it.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 1 month ago:
Are those smaller houses in the room with us?
Lmao, like in 95% of the US people can’t build anything but single family houses.
- Comment on Dead Cells dev says its controversial sunsetting was "a good thing for players" 1 month ago:
Didn’t they release a dlc last year? It’s OK to let people work on other projects.
- Comment on Gauss-Markov-Style meme 2 months ago:
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 2 months ago:
I work with statistics and joined a wind power forecast project, so I have been reading papers on wind power generation for the past month. There’s other more complex formulas that the one shared on the link, but that was the first I found not pay walled.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 2 months ago:
Its cubic actually
thundersaidenergy.com/…/wind-power-impacts-of-lar…
I don’t understand the physics, but every model of power output from wind turbines uses V^3 for the formula
- Comment on Hue hue hue 2 months ago:
Bet oil companies are going to be look not our fault see it?
- Comment on FYI r/IThinkYouShouldLeave is destroying Lemmy at shitposting 2 months ago:
Steal the best memes and share them here.
- Comment on tall tails 2 months ago:
They always use mammals for that kind of comparison. Show me a reptile with that kind of muscle/fat composition.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 2 months ago:
If I don’t pass that ant zone on silksong I’m going to shoot something.
- Comment on At least he is happy 2 months ago:
Big ant goth girl when?
- Comment on Behold mortals 2 months ago:
Finally, a new worthy picture for my WhatsApp pfp
- Comment on Love when they shit post 2 months ago:
Let me make a chart from the expected time to dead depending on the species of mushroom you ate
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO 2 months ago:
Some rich people shit to avoid paying taxes or something like that.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
Like watching a movie in 720p vs 1080p in the notebook, you don’t see the difference. Once you try the same in a TV you notice how the 720p looks like shit.