AnarchistArtificer
@AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
- Comment on At last we know all his answers 1 day ago:
I respect these choices. Peak chaos shitposting energy
- Comment on "Autism is a modern epidemic" 4 days ago:
I find it weird to think about this sometimes, especially the fact that in a different time, I’d have probably been institutionalised, despite modern standards considering me “high functioning” that I got to go to university (where I met many other autistic nerds).
- Comment on Best starter hands-down 1 week ago:
And Charmander is just the basic pick. Picked by people who are 100% distracted by fire.
I cannot lie, this attack against me was super effective
- Comment on Cassette Beasts, my favorite pokemon-like, is 50% off. 2 weeks ago:
I have been meaning to hit up a friend to play the multiplayer mode with them. That was a new thing that was added since I played it
- Comment on Cassette Beasts, my favorite pokemon-like, is 50% off. 2 weeks ago:
I loved the types — the creativity in them really helped this to feel like the love letter to Pokémon that it is, rather than just a clone. It felt so new and fresh, almost like playing Pokemon for the first time.
- Comment on YouTuber Ms. Rachel accused of spreading Hamas propaganda 2 weeks ago:
I think stirring up antisemitic sentiment is part of the goal. An anti-zionist Jewish friend, who had lived in Israel for a few years, told me they were thrown off by realising the Israeli propaganda machine targets Israelis (and overseas Jews, to a lesser extent), by making them feel unsafe — this is Israel’s raison d’être. Many Israelis have been raised on a steady rhetoric of “no matter where we go, they want to kill us. Our only chance for the Jewish people to survive is to gather together and be prepared to defend ourselves”. It’s straight up weaponizing generational trauma.
If a Jewish person in the US is the victim of an antisemitic hate crime, then that person may be more likely to believe that moving to Israel is the only way to safely be Jewish. And even if not, that violence is more useful at propagandizing other Jewish Americans than anything Israel could directly put out.
I hate how much sense this dynamic made when it was pointed out to me. It is a well tuned propaganda machine. I wish they could fucking see that a fascist ethnostate will not make anyone safer, and this genocide is unjustifiable on every level.
- Comment on Movie reviews that had me laughing 2 weeks ago:
Most people I’ve heard from said that it wasn’t nearly as bad as they were expecting, but that this made the overall experience worse, because it wasn’t bad enough to be entertainingly bad. A friend described it as being so mediocre and bland that their head was constantly filled with the question “why was this even made?”. All of the live action adaptations have felt pretty pointless, but this one seems to be steeped in “inexplicable disdain towards the original work”, whilst having nothing new and interesting to say to warrant said disdain.
All this to say that it’s probably not worth your time
- Comment on The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets 2 weeks ago:
I had a similar experience. The video that helped me had pretty poor video quality compared to some of the other results, so I only turned to it when I was burnt out from basically every other video being useless for my task. Props to all the Indian educational YouTubers
- Comment on Today's lesson on threading a needle 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Meta faces £1.8bn lawsuit over claims it inflamed violence in Ethiopia 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, because the rest of the world is so great at responding to online mis/disinformation.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections. 2 weeks ago:
I already have it in a virtual machine: the past ✨
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections. 2 weeks ago:
I feel like there’s a joke in here about Linux users propensity to distrohop being like a ritual reenactment of switching to Linux for the first time (without having to defile one’s computer with Windows again)
- Comment on If restaurants just microwave their food can I just get the frozen version and cut out the middle man? 2 weeks ago:
When I visited Scotland, I had a deep fried Mars Bar. It was okay.
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 weeks ago:
I have to keep reminding myself of this. I’m in my late 20s and I still slip up when referring to myself sometimes.
- Comment on What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology 3 weeks ago:
Okay, but consider that the ultra-rich technofascists are a group that has had a disproportionate impact on the continued pillaging of the climate. They aren’t just opportunists wanting to make the most of the fragments of society that will remain after climate disaster, but people who have been working to bring that scenario into fruition because it’s profitable in the short term whilst positioning them to take even more power.
I cannot emphasise enough that they want this, and that this ideology goes further back than the current wave of them. The reality of climate change is unfathomably dire, but I hope you understand why it’s necessary to resist these people as part of whatever climate resilience we can build. I’ll probably be dead before shit really hits the fan, climate-wise, so my goal is to do whatever I can to support the people who come after me. If those techno-assholes are allowed to inherit the fragments of society, the entire planet is even more fucked
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 3 weeks ago:
(tangent to your question because someone already answered) I think that courtroom stenographers (people who type up what’s said) use special chording keyboards. I’ve also been to a few events where there has been someone transcribing things in real time for accessibility purposes, and they also use a cool looking chording keyboard. It takes some learning, but the max typing speed is way faster than any conventional keyboard could manage — which is why skilled people use them for transcribing stuff
A brand that I’m aware of that does them is Charachorder.
- Comment on Open Safety In The Auto Business: Renault Shares Its Battery Fire Suppression Tech 1 month ago:
I wonder if this might have been why they shared it. Sort of like “We’ve got an idea that we think is good, but it also clearly needs work”
- Comment on Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying 1 month ago:
I hadn’t noticed this until you pointed it out, but yeah, their logos are fire
- Comment on Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance 1 month ago:
I’m just an internet stranger, but I’m proud of your growth. Many people in similar positions would’ve spent those years digging themselves deeper, because confronting the cognitive dissonance is not easy (you may well have spent some of that time digging deeper, but you made it out, and I’m glad you’re here with us)
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 1 month ago:
I think it certainly helps with flavour if nothing else, but I don’t think the extra degree or so in temperature would make much difference.
Though saying that, I’m now wondering to what extent rice cooking would be affected by high altitudes — I had a friend who lived somewhere high altitude in South America for a while, and she said that the low atmospheric pressure meant cooking certain foods was difficult because the water boiled at a lower temperature (I wish I could remember more specifics)
- Comment on Good afternoon I choose thoughts you've never had before. 1 month ago:
That seems wrong to me. Adding salt doesn’t increase the boiling temperature much
- Comment on Meta admits Instagram error flooded Reels with violent and pornographic content 1 month ago:
That’s a pretty facetious reply. Lemmy has tons of ways of curating your feeds and that’s one of its big strengths in my opinion.
This isn’t about seeing the occasional bit of NSFW material (which I still see occasionally on my Lemmy feed, despite having blocked a bunch of NSFW communities). This latest Instagram debacle involved people’s entire feeds being full of not just pornography, but also heavily NSFL gore stuff.
However, the real crux of this issue is clear when I imagine how I’d feel if a problem like this happened with Lemmy — I’d be unhappy, but I wouldn’t flee the platform, because I trust various admins to not bullshit me about what had happened and what was going to be done in future. Meta has burned through any goodwill it might’ve once had, and the only thing that’s transparent about them is their bullshit
- Comment on He said WHAT just 6 months ago? Oh nvm that because you see.... 1 month ago:
Cognitive dissonance is one hell of a drug.
- Comment on I don't have to worry about saying the wrong thing when I'm alone in the basement. 1 month ago:
I hope that some day, you’re able to be a part of a community where it feels safe to be maximally weird
- Comment on I don't have my shit together 1 month ago:
If you’re reading this, I want you to know that I’m proud of you. I know that I don’t know you, but I don’t need to know you personally to know that things are a lot right now, and have been for rather a while. If this comment makes you feel sad because simply existing is taking so much out of you that you feel like your life isn’t much of an achievement, then I’m especially proud of you, because that’s where I’m at, and it’s hard.
Being very familiar with the cycle depicted in the OP is why I’m writing this comment: I know how hard it is to be kind to yourself when the world is bent on wringing you dry. Indeed, it’s only through recognising our shared plight that I’m able to be kind to myself. Solidarity.
- Comment on Cool Dog 1 month ago:
Ooh, thanks for this link. I’m not a podcast person, but I have a friend who would love this
- Comment on This rock bottom has a basement 1 month ago:
I have a disability that gives me quite a lot of pain, and my 1-10 pain scale doesn’t actually go up to 10; I will never say I’m at a 10/10 pain, because that’s saying it’s the worst it could ever be, which is asking for trouble
- Comment on i'm your god now. 2 months ago:
To be fair, the ones that I often come across in my home are literally called “house spiders” (Eratigena atrica)
- Comment on USA | Doctors say they’ve unfairly taken on job of preventing patients’ medical debt 2 months ago:
I think a big problem arises when a doctor says a particular medicine or procedure is medically necessary, but the insurance company disagrees and tries to bullshit their way out of covering it. Doctors shouldn’t be having to spend so much time arguing against these situations, but many of them feel like they have no choice, because if insurance doesn’t cover it, the patient just isn’t going to get the medication.
- Comment on Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub 3 months ago:
My understanding is that it’s not necessarily porn addiction that causes this, but a particular style of masturbation that some people refer to as “death grip”. Source: a friend of mine who used to masturbate every night before bed to sleep better, but this began causing issues with his partner due to ED. He eventually solved it by using a different grip while masturbating.
In short, if you feel like you’ve come away from this conversation with things to reflect on, then that’s great and I’m glad about that. However, “porn addiction”, as a term, describes a whole bundle of stuff that is still pretty poorly understood, because it can be hard to discern between symptoms and causes
