VinesNFluff

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  612 years in the past
  In Brazil

  Well

  As a person from modern times – From AFTER the Americas came into contact with Europe, if I went near a person here in the Land of Palms (that’s what the natives called Brazil!) from those times we’d both get horribly infected and die a lot due to how antibodies work. Viruses did a lot of the legwork in genociding the natives.

  The place I currently live in is slowly turning into a desert, but was a deep jungle back then.

  … I think I’d just die? Become food for a jaguar or sth.

  Would love to indulge in the fantasy of giving the Guarani people guns and a warning to shoot white people on sight just to see how history would change, but that ain’t happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the point in getting married?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re looking for a rational argument for the big party or the religious ceremony or anything like that – You won’t find it. These things are meant to play to the emotional, and this isn’t a flaw, it’s the whole point. If neither you nor your partner give two shits about big parties or ceremonies, then y’know, neither of you needs to bother. If said partner does want this and you don’t, then y’know, maybe have a good chat about that and find a compromise. That’s how partnerships work.

  Being legally married is a separate thing, and is inexpensive in most countries (just a small fee so the bureaucrats can process the bureaucracy), and is often done weeks in advance of the big party and/or religious ceremony. To be legally married is to have you and your partner recognised by The State ™ as being a family unit. This has uses for a few situations in life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are popes always really old?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “why does this well known social-and-political figure tend to be a certain way?”

  “because of a social system” (said social system is older than capitalism and feudalism alike)

  “OMG HOW DARE YOU SAY CAPITALISM IS TO BLAME?!??!?”

  Bitch can you fucking read?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are popes always really old?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Gerontocracy is the true law of the land, and is older than both capitalism and feudalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only sickos don’t use their blinkers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there steam coming out of the streets in New York⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the Steamed Clams we’re having. Mmmmmmm, Steamed Clams!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Drink water until your piss is crystal clear and you’ll be doing 10 or more graves per day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pee on Kissinger’s grave?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “All of the above and more”

  Makes sense I suppose.

• Why DO credit card companies make a stink about adult content anyway?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What really separates a PC from a server? Mainly the hardware, but I guess software too.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A server can just be a PC left working in a corner, depnding on what specifically you’re doing with it. Hardware designed to be a server tends to have more power in the places that matter for that job and less (if any) power dedicated to home use stuff like graphics.

  I have a server for my family (WELL mostly me and my father). It consists of an old gaming PC with Linux Server Stuff installed on it. Doesn’t need to be anything more, it’s just Emby (media, mostly films) and NAS stuff.

  It’s mostly intent and what you run on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most religion talk about their GOD being male? Especially Christains and Muslims. Is there a prominent female god that as big as the other two that I am missing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shinto’s “head god” was Izanagi, who was very much a man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do transphobes mention pedophiles/compare them to pedophiles when most trans people (as do most people) hate pedophiles?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People who bitch about being banned/blocked are always the most blockable/bannable human beings imaginable, istg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Tech Companies Are Joining the GOP-Oil Alliance⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Insert SpongeBob clip of Mr. Krabs saying “MONIE!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke furry hijacks social media of right-wing group that published 'DEI Watch List'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am very sorry and promise to do better in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possible? Yes. Going to happen? No.

  If your authoritarian government wants you gone they don’t need to pull off Hollywood Hacker shit. They can get you for “drugs” (that they planted) or even just outright “disappear” you. They can get rid of you quietly, anonymously, and only your equally powerless kith and kin will care.

  This kind of evidence planting is only for REALLY FAMOUS PEOPLE, when they want to put them through courts and convince the peasantry that, actually, this guy deserved it, and don’t be like him, before putting them in an electric chair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woke furry hijacks social media of right-wing group that published 'DEI Watch List'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whow (basedbasedbasedbased)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “We made people we don’t like fucking miserable for a bit”

  Ultimately the kind of person that goes all in on a cult like MAGA could lose everything to shitty policy or because their great leader started a war or smth – But they’ll still reason it was worth it because all those <Slur>s were put in their place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people assume all immigrants are illegal and should "go back to where they came from"? Shouldn't that logic apply to all non-Native Americans?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Racism.

  That’s i t.

  That’s literally it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking called it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games you like that most people hate and/or were panned by critics?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fable 3

  It got a lot of flak back then, mostly because people were sick to shit of Peter Molyneux promising THE WORLD and delivering, like, JUST A GAME.

  But here’s the thing. I didn’t follow gaming news. I didn’t know what a Peter molyneux was. I just know I got a fun little action RPG where I get to be royalty, and that scratched a very specific itch for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone who was supposed to prevent this and had the power to do so either tried and failed or didn’t bother.

  Right now the objective is “Survive”, the bad guys have already won.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I avoid communities on lemmy.ml?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on how you feel about communists

  As far as far left instances go, ml is actually pretty unspicy, despite the bee in their bonnet people got.

  So like, if you can’t stand hanging out with em pinko commies, avoid it. If you’re fine with that, don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As I understand it (thanks technology connections), the sockets linked to light switches are made that way in case you want to have like a floor or desk lamp and turn it on when you enter the room

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's Rednote and why is "everyone" talking about it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You know this human instinct, when if told we can’t have The Thing, we start wanting it even more?

  The American government told its kids that they can’t have The Thing, the thing in this case being tiktok (a Chinese-run social media app)

  So they found out about an even MORE Chinese social media app (tiktok was openly courting the west, had an English language app etc, while Rednote is made by the chinese for the Chinese and doesn’t even have a client in English) and went there, which slightly miffed the Chinese userbase suddenly having to deal with all those weirdoes who wanted them to stop speaking mandarin and start speaking english.

  It’s just a trend. People are trying to ascribe deep meanings to it because conspiracy thought is entertaining, but really, it’s just a bunch of people following what’s trendy, and either way for any eagle burgers pearl clutching about the red menace, Rednote is covered in the ban because it is a blanket ban on any “apps run by a foreign adversary”. You’ll be safe behind the great american firewall soon.

  Ofc, I doubt it’ll be enforced for things like temu and wish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do you think elon musk would be if he wasn't born into wealth?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. There’s plenty of cis bigoted dudes in the Furry fandom (and Musk would absolutely be a furry if he didn’t have every eye ever watching him).

  And on the fediverse for that matter, you just don’t run into them as often here because most major instances ban (at least the more egregious) bigoted talk, and are also defederated from all the far-right instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do you think elon musk would be if he wasn't born into wealth?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, if he wasn’t born wealthy he wouldn’t be who he is,

  Musk wasn’t always as completely off his hinges as he is right now, and I feel like at least half of the reason he got as bad as he did, is because he is constantly, 24/7/365, surrounded by yes men who do nothing but say how great and smart he is (and he has the money and power to ensure this always remains the case)

  Like he was always a bigot and kind of a dumbshit, but he didn’t become unhinged until a few years back.

  Which is why I think a hypothetical middle-or-lower-class Elon Musk would be just.

  … A mediocre internet user. Holds some bigoted opinions. Gets into fights on webforums and social media. Has a low-level job in tech doing something no one cares about for a company everyone hates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do you think elon musk would be if he wasn't born into wealth?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (I think they are asking about what level of wealth he’d be born into in your imaginary scenario – I wrote my post assuming ‘my own’, which is to say ‘comfortably middle-class parents in a rapidly crumbling economy, guaranteed to be poorer than his folks’)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do you think elon musk would be if he wasn't born into wealth?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Statistically?

  Here. Not this very thread, but the fediverse in general.

  He’s very autistic, but if he weren’t a billionaire the material conditions that made him a fascist wouldn’t be there. (Although being from South Africa, he’d probably still be a massive Racist)

  This means there’s a 93.4% chance he’d be a smarmy Linux guy. Nowhere near as intelligent as he thinks he is and honestly pretty obnoxious, but harmless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🥚-xactly.