pmk
@pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on A lesson for you 2 weeks ago:
Beginning of the end should mean that it’s still part of the end, just, the beginning of it, like “början på slutet”. To me “startslutet” sounds like the end of the start.
- Comment on Has a woman ever orgasmed by subwoofer? 3 weeks ago:
“If at least one of them never did what you proposed I’ll eat my hat.”.
The way this is phrased means that if there is 1 or more who never did it, you will eat your hat.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 weeks ago:
The Will to Change by bell hooks is the one book that made me feel seen as a person. Usually I open a feminist book with the suspicion that the author will be like “all men are evil” and that usually makes me care less about feminism for a while. But that book was a pleasant surprise, it spoke to me and not at me.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 month ago:
The “X” is the greek letter, pronounced like the ch in Bach. Knuth explains this in the TeXbook, think TeXnician, not TeXpert.
- Comment on Why do we humans love music so? 1 month ago:
Are we sure he wasn’t talking about condoms?
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 2 months ago:
My guess would be someone trying to make stone tools by banging rocks together, a spark fell into dry grass, etc. But, you know, just a guess.
- Comment on It is what it is 2 months ago:
For buying gifts, for example.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 2 months ago:
I genuinely believe that more empathy is needed in both directions for people to come out of their trenches. Problem is, it"s hard to feel empathy for those who have no empathy in return. It’s a locked position reinforcing itself with every bad interaction. To break out of this we would have to listen and show that we care, while not getting the same things back. It feels bad. Unfair. Again, this goes both ways.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
For some people, maybe behind the reason they seek these procedures is a wish that isn’t actually fulfilled by the procedures. I’ve never heard of someone getting addicted to transplanting kidneys or fixing cataracts.
- Comment on Am I too late to offer a nice Ed in this trying time? 3 months ago:
Aha, as I thought then, thanks :) (As a young kid I was afraid of a fictional character called Banarne, so I think I can relate to this feeling.)
- Comment on Am I too late to offer a nice Ed in this trying time? 3 months ago:
Maybe this isn’t the right place to ask, but what’s the story behind your user name? Not sure why, but for some reason I have always wondered. It’s ok if it’s secret.
- Comment on Am I too late to offer a nice Ed in this trying time? 3 months ago:
I love his art :)
- Comment on Am I too late to offer a nice Ed in this trying time? 3 months ago:
ed is the standard entertainer.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I actually had this thought once. Long time ago I was in this industrial workplace accident (don’t wear loose fitting clothes near huge spinning things) and to cut to the chase I ended up on the floor bleeding and I’m guessing the shock made it so that I couldn’t breathe for around a minute. I can hold my breath for a minute, no problem, but in the moment when you don’t know what is happening and you can’t breathe and there’s no way to just start breathing, that minute felt very very long. I remember thinking “well, this is it, I will die now, but… I guess it’s for the best.”
Turns out I had been depressed for a while, and needed some change in my life. - Comment on Fax machine 3 months ago:
The caring you describe is part of the helping.
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 4 months ago:
Hmm, but also construction workers building offices. How far does this rabbit hole go? An office worker involved in a project to hire construction workers to build an office for a construction company?
- Comment on The revolution will not be posted in shitposting 4 months ago:
As someone not from the US, what can we do to help?
- Comment on They should suffer 5 months ago:
This could be a Black Mirror episode. A sentient ad that felt pain when skipped fighting to avoid pain. It would have no option than to try to get around ad-blockers and be sneaky and feel bad about annoying users, but the alternative is pain.
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 5 months ago:
Danish?
- Comment on Real 5 months ago:
YAST will soon be deprecated though, but I hope something with similar functionality will come.
- Comment on Foiled again 😩 5 months ago:
Was the wish also to ride it?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
The follow up question then is, how do we deal with that as a species? If we assume that humans have tribalistic tendencies, I don’t want to say inherent, but, deeply rooted? Can education and external pressure make it go away? Can we direct it into something else? It seems like sports teams with their fans is an outlet at least preferable to war, for example.
- Comment on She would be proud 7 months ago:
I work with old people and can tell you it’s not just when they’re young.
- Comment on It's called semantic processing differences 8 months ago:
That type of pareidolia is common for me when I’m in a certain mood.
- Comment on Those who died are justified 8 months ago:
I always assumed it was a printer.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Depends on country, that would be legal in Sweden. Seen as suspicious and perhaps frowned upon, but perfectly legal.
- Comment on Water 8 months ago:
Going by the top Duck duck go results for “how many stars in our galaxy” and “how many trees in the world”:
“According to Jos de Bruijne, a scientist at the European Space Agency (ESA), the current estimate is between 100 to 400 billion stars.”
and
“There are an estimated 3.04 trillion trees in the world.” - Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 8 months ago:
What’s your favourite linux distro?
- Comment on Time is an unstoppable force 8 months ago:
Found Emil Ciorans lemmy account
- Comment on How many more flatearthers? 8 months ago:
It’s rare nowadays to see someone admit a mistake. We should all do it more.