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- Comment on What would you do if you got message that says "do not look outside" 3 days ago:
stay where you are your children are sleeping they are asleep don’t move just stay where you are
please stop calling
don’t look outside it’s not them
weapons are ineffective they cant leave the trees
stay where you are
they are not your children
- Comment on In 2014, a massage therapist called Sylvie Berki accused Russell Brand of assaulting her. The High Court issued an extraordinary injunction that silenced her for the rest of her life. 4 days ago:
Bold of you to assume the local MP wasn’t a friend/fan of Russell too
- Comment on Ptah-Hotep 40 2 weeks ago:
Well, the Victorians called it ‘man sitting with his knees up’, but given that they were massive prudes and ancient Egyptians… weren’t, it’s possible it’s exactly what you think it is.
- Comment on Welcome to my first podcast episode! 2 weeks ago:
lol yes
That and the idiots that slap those gun decals with something like ‘we believe in the 2A’ or some dumb shit on their trucks. Which is basically just slapping a ‘free guns—break glass’ sticker on their vehicle.
- Comment on Anon isn't worried about population decline 4 weeks ago:
Elon Musk could end world hunger. Full stop. He wouldn’t even notice the dip in his finances. (He offered once, claiming if someone gave him a concrete number, he would pay it, and a nonprofit took him up on it. Surprise, surprise, the whiny little snit backed out.)
They totally could fix the problem. But to those rich shitheads, it’s not a problem. It’s a feature.
- Comment on France. If you don’t run when the police charge at you, they will retreat. 5 weeks ago:
That too! It’s a two-for-one deal
- Comment on France. If you don’t run when the police charge at you, they will retreat. 5 weeks ago:
See, that’s why US cops just shoot protesters instead.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 months ago:
Oh man, my cousin had a classmate that was shocked and confused when she learned that not everyone had, or could afford, a yacht. To her, that was just something everyone had, because they weren’t that expensive.
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 months ago:
No, but their preachers all talk Prosperity Gospel at them. And a preacher wouldn’t lie about the word of God!
- Comment on Rich people don't understand us at all. 2 months ago:
Well, very few people like to be told they’re the villain…
- Comment on New Delhi - during lockdown vs now 2 months ago:
The problem is mathematically it just doesn’t work. Humans are too good at reproducing. We’d be back in force before too long.
No, the only way is more death note style, taking out billionaires and some of their bootlicking buddies, and those who put profit over the planet’s health. It’s perfectly possible for the rest of us to patch things up—we almost did it with the ozone—until guess who decided they wanted to throw money around to force us to stop.
- Comment on Christmas is upon us 2 months ago:
JFC even Michael’s (which is a crafting store) doesn’t have their Christmas stuff out yet! And if you’re hand-crafting Christmas gifts for the whole family, sooner is better than later to start lol
- Comment on What's the origin of the many phrases that include a person's name? 2 months ago:
That one’s got two competing theories. Either from Petre, the Latin word for ‘rock’, or Peter (that is, St. Peter).
One goes that ‘peter’ most likely referred to saltpetre, the main ingredient in gunpowder, which was the explosive of choice in early gold mining. Seems the term ‘peter out’ was first widely used by US gold miners in the 1800s describing veins that had run dry.
On the other hand, there is some colloquial evidence to trace it back further, and to England, and a type of fishing boat called a ‘peterboat’ (which picked the name up from St Peter). Those were long low boats that once oft plied the Thames, and were narrow and pointed at both ends so they could easily go either way in the current. ‘Peter out’ referred to the thin sharp double-taper of the boat-ends.
- Comment on business is business 2 months ago:
Those are really nice! I especially like in the first one how you captured the city lights on the water and filled in that potential darker space on the left with the bridge span.
Of course, there’s scenic photography, which is basically having really good composition skills, knowing good locations, and timing, and then there’s people photography, which is… extra. I don’t blame photographers for charging more for that shit lol
‘I want our wedding photos to be the two of us on a cliff at the beach at sunset with really pretty clouds behind us!’ And you’re thinking, okay, drive time, waiting for a good colorful sunset instead of a cloudless or too cloudy or foggy one (always a fun game of roll-the-dice in Oregon at least), and they want their backs to the sunset, so that’s extra lighting (that you’ll have to carry to the location) and extra time in photoshop to be sure you can still see their faces clearly…
- Comment on Anon doesn't have a plan 2 months ago:
The issue is getting in. In smaller towns sometimes it’s easier, but for example in my city for electricians, there’s 3000 applicants a year, and the Union only takes 25-50 into the program.
I especially love how they bragged about building a training center capable of teaching several hundred students… and still only take 25-50 in.
- Comment on I need an adult 2 months ago:
Because ‘orange’ was covered by the word ‘yellow’ until that pesky fruit made it to England and became fashionable.
- Comment on I need an adult 2 months ago:
In Japanese it’s the reverse; ‘blue’ is used for blue and green; designating green as the different color is relatively recent for them
- Comment on What's one cliche "Moral of the story" in media that you hate more than anything else? 2 months ago:
Give Undercover Blues a try. Sort of a mid plot, but the acting elevates it. The main characters are a loving married couple that continues to love and respect each other throughout the movie.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
TBF it’s technically a Daoist philosophical treatise, rather than a how-to on war. To really understand it you have to look at it from that perspective.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
And people wonder why they like to pal around with American conservatives.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
‘Those people were awesome as long as they agreed with me’
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That’s fair.
But I also don’t think they did anything whatsoever to ‘let people know’ about the blocklist like they claimed. In fact, it seems to me from how much they tried to hide it that they never intended to share that they had one, at all.
As far as the death threats… meh, who knows? From all their comments, and their attempting to defend themselves in the third person using alt accounts, they seem to be quite a drama queen with only a loose connection to reality. They interpreted lots of rather rational comments back in the beginning of all this saying ‘dude, you can’t just force people to use your blocklist’ as vicious attacks against their person and character, so I can see them interpreting more aggressive ‘how dare you tell me what to do’ comments as actual threats against their person.
On the other hand, negative self-centered people tend to attract negative, self-centered people, and I can imagine that some of those might take… poorly to finding out they’d ended up on his blocklist for disagreeing with him. Especially if they had thought they were on the same side.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Lot of the same energy there.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
That still doesn’t excuse the DDOS.
And given how well he hid it, it’s obvious that he never intended that anyone see that list but him. That’s most of the ‘how dare he block so-and-so’ that I’ve seen; people mocking him for blocking them, yes, but they almost always tied it back to the fact that he was censoring the feeds of others without any kind of notification or opt-out for his users.
Saying ‘here’s my blocklist; if you don’t like it, you can toggle it off, or find another frontend’ is curating, and that’s okay. But deciding what others get to see because ‘you know best’ and hiding that list of people and instances you blocked so no-one can find out what they’re not being allowed to see is censorship, and it’s not okay.
- Comment on Is there a fediverse service that access most fediverse networks? 3 months ago:
There was some drama recently relating to hism deciding to make instance block content creators from engaging too much. Probably related to that.
- Comment on Beware Beans! 3 months ago:
I wouldn’t say all of them. My parents’ last cats… well, one got chased all over the house by a squirrel, and once lost a fight with a mouse. The other made friends with the birds that landed on the roof.
- Comment on knew a few guys like this 3 months ago:
Sadly yes. I think he lost himself in his stage persona.
- Comment on knew a few guys like this 3 months ago:
Y’know, sometimes I forget Chris Rock used to have a functioning brain.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 3 months ago:
Ahem. From the article:
This is what Hambrecht and Parsons are doing with their male-only gyms. They’re spreading conspiracies about morality and traditional marriage that cast women as dangerous. They’re promoting men rising up as warrior-kings who are ready to fight evil, and they’re getting rid of women who they claim are ruining everything.
- Comment on Badge of Honor 3 months ago:
Sorry. I tend to use Lemmy as another stand-in for fediverse, same as people say Kleenex for facial tissues.
But you still seem to think this ban on interacting too much with people is a good thing, which I just can’t fathom.
No-one can vote on a post more than once, and the votes are meaningless anyways. Plus, the more content and interactions, the better the fediverse is. So why stop people from voting to their heart’s content? The admin even flat-out said he thought too much interaction in the fediverse was a bad thing, which is like… that’s why we’re here? To interact with people?