Warl0k3
@Warl0k3@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
iirc this was just an engine that could run on most combustible hydrocarbons, a small gas turbine I think, and the press really stretched a badlt worded explanation of how it worked.
- Comment on Mobile drone lighting system uses 288 LEDs to turn night into day 1 week ago:
Yeah but howitzers are even mote expensive :(
- Comment on Kawasaki unveils a hydrogen-powered, ride-on robot horse 1 week ago:
It is also – and don’t let anyone fool you here – absolute codswallop. The video is pure CGI, and even as a concept, this is as blue-sky as they come.
They evidently have a demo model that can “stand and pose” so that’s neat I guess, but sadly it is not real beyond that.
- Comment on Police shut down Minecraft movie screening after audience trashes theater - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Also, ya’ll, movie theaters have cameras in the theater. Usually they’re discrete but maybe make choices with this in mind…
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 1 week ago:
Short answer: It’s a turn of phrase the Incel movement popularized as a dehumanizing dogwhistle.
Long answer: In current American English, “Female” and “Females” are highly formal terms and really are only commonly used in situations like law and clinical literature (this is true of “male” and “males” as well, though there’s much less cultural baggage associated with those terms). People who use them in casual conversation instead of the much more common “Women” (or the diminutive, “Girls”) tend to be the kind of person that uses formal language to emphasize their own superiority over the common masses. Almost invariably this takes the form of explanations about why nobody wants to have sex with them, and it all goes downhill from there.
- Comment on ONE OF US 2 weeks ago:
(that was the joke, I think)
- Comment on How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious 5 weeks ago:
Idk, given all the time we’ve spent in the mid east I suspect we can in fact conceive of it quite accurately. It’d be a total fucking disaster for us, even without a third of the country actively supporting y’all.
- Comment on Mental health? In *this* economy? 1 month ago:
I think you may have misunderstood - this is not advocating inpatient mental health (esp in the US), this is just a dumb alternative term for having a day off to take care of yourself.
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- Comment on Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam 1 month ago:
So many of their most beloved features are crazily dev intensive to maintain, and critically they’re not static. Amazon never really updates their consumer interfaces, steam is constantly adding new features and reworking their old ones across all their UX. Its just not economically feasible to pop in and replace them if you’re a publicly traded company, the shareholders would look at the maintenance costs alone and faint
- Comment on Thank god "shit" is censored 2 months ago:
Or psych students feel about CBT…
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
Nah.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
I think the crux of the issue then might be what I am / you are calling disinformation. I see very little true disinformation on .world, and what I do see I either counter, or someone else beats me to it. It seems likely that our own idea of what constitutes disinformation is quite different.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
So you’d prefer the admins allow you to pretend they don’t exist? I know that’s not what you’re trying to say, but its not an unreasonable extrapolation of your position from the comments you’re making. You feel the need to fight for what you believe in because it’s right to stand up for what you believe in, but you would rather you didn’t have to. I think that’s probably the most universally agreeable statement I’ve ever heard, sincerely. I would, too, like for this to be the case. We just disagree on how to achieve that happy state of affairs, though it’s nice that neither of us prefers a solution like “round up all the .ml/.world users in a big camp” unlike, you know, real world opinions…
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
also, implying people are cowards for wanting to flee your hate instance is despicable and privileged ass-take. fuck you.
That was pretty clearly self deprecating. Who in the hell calls someone else a ‘base coward’, anyways? For that matter, who would even take seriously being called a base coward? I think you might genuinely be treating everyone else as hostile as a means of self defense, which while understandable is in itself incredibly toxic to interact with.
I have real comments here, along the lines of what you mean by promoting disinformation and the moderation standards you would prefer to see here. But come on, what’s the point in trying to have a discussion when you treat everything like an attack on you & yours?
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
Ah good, we agree then. There’s a certain necessity to engage with opinions counter to our own instead of pretending they don’t exist, even if it’s personally uncomfortable to do that.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
Ah, a blanket denial of everything I said. How glad I am that I’m above petty things like pointing out the stereotypical behavior of users from other instances. It’s nice up here, on the Mountain of Sarcastic Moral Superiority.
As an actual counterpoint, the primary way that new users get onto lemmy is always going to have the highest concentration of toxic users. Society is, if you haven’t noticed, incredibly toxic. Commonly espoused ideas, like trans people being human or civil rights being important, aren’t commonly supported by society at large (source: the entire world right now). The easiest way for people who support those things to find their way to instances where those ideas are popularly held is to join the most popular instance and see both the need for other instances with heavier moderation, and what those instances are. How many people hear about blahaj or sh.itjust.works before signing up to lemmy, vs. sign up there as their second account?Personally, I’m pretty grateful that the most toxic opinions are largely self-segregated into a place where people aren’t required to interact with them. It’s less pleasant, sure, but it’s also the best place in the fediverse to get an accurate idea of what the real societal opinions are. And if it gets to be too much, I can always just flee like a base coward and spend time under one of my alt accounts on a more heavily moderated instance like .ml.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
… Then why are you here, participating in that?
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
Isn’t that kind of… the point? That it’s an inherently broken situation?
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
no one would target me specifically for being a man
I think you’ve misunderstood. The commenter is not saying won’t jump you for no reason regardless of gender, that’s obviously true. But they won’t target you specifically because you are male, which is an additional source of violence that women have to deal with. I’d argue it’s even more common than women being targeted randomly - or even that random muggings/assaults are actually random. I mean, who’s jumping people that they think are a threat?
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
Unfortunately it’s very difficult to pull apart big data sets accurately
The actual fuck? It’s significantly easier to pull apart large data sets, especially to answer demographic questions like this. This is literally Stats 101, you’re just making shit up!
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 2 months ago:
This from a user on an instance that’s known for their open villification of any opinion that goes against the moscow and beijing dictated groupthi–
Wait, wait hold on. Could it possibly be that we both have deeply subjective views of the other large instances, because humans fall to tribalism faster than a kitten on a sock full of catnip? Maybe there’s a vested interest on every side to keep the early adopters of a decentralized social media platform infighting over meaningless stereotypes based on the letters that come after their username, making value judgements based entirely on dictated preconceptions instead of experiential conclusions and honest interaction?
… nah, it’s way more fun to just sling mud. Screw u, u commie scuzbucket.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oof.
- Comment on Turning myself in 2 months ago:
It seems like a real waste to put all those vowels in words just to ignore them.
- Comment on There's fucking ads in board games now 3 months ago:
They have been performing horribly lately, and so pretty much all of their product lines have had shit like this happen. Nerf, Wizards of the Coast, even their Marvel line has reslly dropped wuality to the barest minimum. It’s stunning, reallt.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 3 months ago:
Sigh… No, I actually meant to write 99th percentile. Which is also wrong, and is entirely symptomatic of me being ‘an idiot’.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 3 months ago:
I know many many artists, and none of them would resist an offer to do what they’re passionate about in exchange for lots of money.
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 3 months ago:
That one impotent downvote…
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 3 months ago:
Step three: Be incredibly lucky…
- Comment on I got into the wrong career lol 3 months ago:
My partner was in the top 99% of performers on onlyfans for several years (according to onlyfans’ metrics, which actually are surprisingly accurate since it involves reporting financial information). At the peak she was making about $100/month. The number of people who actually make any substantial amount of money on that platform is shockingly low.
