skeezix
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- Comment on Is being an "Incel" a new thing or new terminology? If so what were they in like the 70's or 80's? 2 weeks ago:
GenX here. We had a plethora of other names: nerd (before it was desirable to be labeled that), dweeb, dweeblet, dillweed, dillhole, dork, dorkwad, goober, he-hasnt-had-pussy-since-pussy-had-him, dolt, bozo, numpty, schlub, git
- Comment on Female passenger arrested for 'taking off pants and performing sex act' mid-flight 2 weeks ago:
Quizzed the passenger.
“What’s the gestation period ratio of marsupials by size?”
- Comment on I know we're on something else right now but I just wanted to share that I'm making beans and corn 2 weeks ago:
Gonna need to cordon off your bathroom pal.
- Comment on Name me country which has better food than England 2 weeks ago:
It’s England. So that is rat dropping ravioli on hardened mulch bread slathered with an aged goat secretion coulis.
- Comment on assuming the world is undergoing a complete and radical transformation at the moment, what is preventing more people from "waking up" and seeing the trends happening? 2 weeks ago:
The world has been radically transforming for 2000 years. The rise of agriculture, the dark ages, the printing press, the discovery of the new world, the renaissance, isaac newton, the industrial age, the combustion engine, the atomic age, etc. There’s no evidence that current transformations underway are any more or less radical. It is a constant and uninterrupted transformation. We are biased: current transformations feel more profound to us simply because we are living through them.
For all the benefits of a cerebellum, humans are wired to focus on their immediate needs: food, shelter, water, sex. Yes, the higher brain can put a man on the moon, but that doesn’t put dinner on the table tonight, or pay the rent this week.
With limits to our energy, time, and attention, we (statistically) each focus on the here and now. Anything “down the road” (like climate change), is “tomorrow’s problem”. It’s not malevolence; it’s our wiring at a biological level.
The development of a cerebellum on top of our lizard brain was necessary to assure survival. But it came with some critical drawbacks that needed mitigation: We became aware of the nature of our mortality. We could spend precious energy consumed with tasks that gave future benefit (like farming or making tools). The equation stood to be unbalanced. The squirrel who spends his energy collecting nuts still needs to eat today’s meal. Humans couldn’t stand around helplessly fearing their own eventual death. We were therefore gifted with the ability to easily ignore transformative changes around us, and ignore knowledge/wisdom that our cerebellums deduce; instead simply adapt to whatever our environment gives us.
This manifests mostly as procrastination and avoidance. Inaction does not imply ignorance. We are behaving as we are currently designed to behave. All the wars, violence, theft, torture, and cruelty are manifestations of our lower brains, and evidence that they retain control. What humanity doesn’t grasp in its smugness is that we are not finished yet. Our evolution is not complete. It will require perhaps a hundred thousand more years for the slow hand of evolution to winnow out the petty behaviors that drive us. If we survive that long, we will become altruistic beings motivated by rational thought, acting to effect both our short and long term needs.
Until that day, the space aliens will do what they always do: have a quick look then turn around and go home.
- Comment on Star Trek Is Officially Rewriting ‘Strange New Worlds’ Winning Formula for Season 5 3 weeks ago:
Snw sucks pal. Get over it.
- Comment on Simple. Elegant. Fashionable, even. Become the envy of the airport. 3 weeks ago:
The thing in the image is too big to be a carry on
- Comment on If Q-Tips are not for ears what are they for? I use them to clean each individual key on my laptop from time to time. 4 weeks ago:
Dont be a waxpacker.
You need to slowly spin the q tip as you push it in. And at the same time spiral the walls like a basketball. These combined motions serve to wick the wax onto the cotton rather than packing it in.
- Comment on If Q-Tips are not for ears what are they for? I use them to clean each individual key on my laptop from time to time. 4 weeks ago:
Wtf do you need a q-tip for “outer ear stuff”? A qtip is a very inefficient tool for outer ear stuff.
- Comment on Will an ISP get on to you for downloading porn? Or will it just be a generic DMCA strike? 4 weeks ago:
I just checked your download log and I dont see any videos that would set off alarms.
- Comment on If I wrote a script for a movie and sent it off to a studio or whatever. What prevents the person who recieved it from claiming it as their own? 1 month ago:
Nothing. Happens all the time. Your best bet is to file a copyright in the work and subtly state that in the script
- Comment on Preview ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Soap Opera Episode With 6 New Photos And Trailer From “Like Chronitons Through The Hourglass” 1 month ago:
The answer requires an essay. But the cruxt of it is that the studios think this is only type of writing that people are willing to watch. They’ve concluded that society is too adhd now to watch long format drama.
- Comment on A couple mates and I run askhistorians.lemmy.world. How can we get more people to post instead of myself all the time? 1 month ago:
Which couple mated?
- Comment on Why is the world's "oldest profession" still illegal ? Instead of being better managed? 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
A strip of a dr scholl’s odor eater
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 month ago:
Fuck yea!
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 month ago:
867 5309
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 1 month ago:
Shame that guys’ #3, 4, and 5’s loads hit a wall and withered away slowly in the dark.
- Comment on People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom. 2 months ago:
Everything is trivial for gen X. Both the older and younger are clueless
- Comment on Judge Rejects Suit That Sought Professor’s Emails on Climate Law 2 months ago:
Loginwall, sorry cant read. Will get news elsewhere
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
We have a racist shitposter putting this all over lemmy
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Don’t make it bad
- Comment on Redundant 2 months ago:
To be fair they zip tie the wheels locked
- Comment on Trump’s popularity worsens with Iran ceasefire falling apart 2 months ago:
Its been 37% forever
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 months ago:
How can you argue with this?
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 2 months ago:
- Comment on What is with America and the #9? For example stuff cost something like 9.99 or 3 payments of 39.99 or 9 out of 10 doctors or dentists or whomever agree? 3 months ago:
Retailers learned decades ago that marking a price at at 39.99 gets much more sales than selling it for $40. It’s basically textbook chapter one of psyop capitalism.
- Comment on Fuck yea bro! 3 months ago:
Your girlfriend could use it as a bra.
- Comment on He's an arborist 4 months ago:
Since the internet began it’s been known that you always measure asshole to tip.
