pmk

@pmk@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love his art :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I too late to offer a nice Ed in this trying time?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ed is the standard entertainer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The caring you describe is part of the helping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone not from the US, what can we do to help?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They should suffer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Danish?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  YAST will soon be deprecated though, but I hope something with similar functionality will come.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Foiled again 😩⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Was the wish also to ride it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That type of pareidolia is common for me when I’m in a certain mood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who died are justified⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always assumed it was a printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on country, that would be legal in Sweden. Seen as suspicious and perhaps frowned upon, but perfectly legal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your favourite linux distro?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time is an unstoppable force⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Found Emil Ciorans lemmy account

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many more flatearthers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s rare nowadays to see someone admit a mistake. We should all do it more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How old is the average open source programmer?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m at my age now and I’m just starting programming. My plan is to never do it for money, only because I want to as a hobby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are fax machines still used by medical systems?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Where I work, the fax was a way to ensure that information could be sent in multiple ways, if one way would fail. In the medical field (at least where I live) we must have systems with backup systems in a few layers. We have a nice digital medical chart system, and I still have to print out many things and put in a binder that no one ever reads. Because the internet could stop working, or electricity could fail. We even have routines for which types of pen and paper can be used if we need to write things by hand while electricity is gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I swear to god⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The torso is a tricky concept, there’s no good anatomical definition that makes sense. Is the pelvis included? The whole axial skeleton? Everyone knows the general idea of where the torso is, but it’s hard to define with precision.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the first time I saw the movie Trash Humpers (2009), I was thinking to myself: is this a good movie? It isn’t. But, the beauty of that movie is that it exists. There’s no deep hidden symbolism, it’s a bunch of old people in long awkward scenes where they literally hump trash. The lack of a coherent plot adds to the question why they do that. In this world of endless choices and struggling, these people are trash humpers. And that’s respectable in a whole aspect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hej⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Switzerland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we all have mayonnaise in our fridges instead of béarnaise sauce?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After reading this I was at the local grocery store and counted 17 different kinds of bearnaise sauce they sell. Sweden loves bearnaise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why limit immigration?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how I think about it too. I guess the original description was a bit vague, what they did to the americas. It includes both. First invasion, then immigration.