MonkeMischief
@MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
- Comment on Anon blames millennials 2 days ago:
Nailed it. When casino and packaged goods marketers and executives started malignantly metastasizing into the games industry.
- Comment on Whenever a beast is shown on screen 3 days ago:
Well if we’re listing all that, you forgot Predator! :p
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 3 days ago:
Peace is finally an option.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 3 days ago:
I hope they checked his pockets before the MRI violently pulls a bunch of rings at dangerous velocities!
- Comment on it's making the frickin frogs gay 1 week ago:
- Nanobots?
- Sorcery?
- Hotel?
- Trivago
- Comment on Kanyes new album 2 weeks ago:
Thank you. Every single time I read a comment like this, I don’t feel so alone. You get it.
I’m a Christian anarchist myself. There are lots of us scattered believers out there of many philosophies, even in the U.S, who understand that Jesus is love and He is for everyone, and we are called to love even our enemies.
Sadly, it’s harder to find us. We don’t have wealthy benefactors and think-tanks and politicians and mega-stadium churches, where sermons are more akin to conservative feel-good self-help seminars than Bible study.
The Gospel of Christ has been warped and co-opted by the rich and powerful to make them feel good about themselves, and to lure the masses to want to be like them, instead of like Jesus. They want Bibles closed and wallets open.
It’s one of the most ongoing and successful false flag operations in history: The americhristian cult has done so much damage. Indeed, how can one worship Jesus and money? Or a flag?
But we’re still out there trying to just be the best people we can. I appreciate it when people of any belief acknowledge the existence of flawed-but-trying Christians who will gladly ally with you to the death against this cult of hatred and lies.
- Comment on Kanyes new album 2 weeks ago:
I always thought of the repeated “Lord” almost to be like, a mocking repetition of those who come running to you for advice or wisdom and then disregard it entirely when you don’t instantly solve all their problems.
Like “Oh yeah sure, you kids come running ‘Dad, dad!’ when you want something, but where are you when I need help in the garage?”
But there could be other interesting explanations. Never really thought of that!
- Comment on Bet 2 weeks ago:
Suddenly tempted to send the image without context to a random phone contact. Just to make their day weird. :D
- Comment on Rock Auras - Not just for Hippies anymore 3 weeks ago:
“Magician’s Brick!”
- Comment on You are beautiful 3 weeks ago:
Taht “Donald Duck Butt” posture puts so much unnecessary compression on one’s spine. 💀💀💀
- Comment on God is a dick. 3 weeks ago:
“Space. It seems to go on and on forever… But then you get to the end and then a giant gorilla starts throwing barrels at you.”
–Fry, “Futurama”
- Comment on nature is music 3 weeks ago:
There’s a fun open source app called WhoBIRD that identifies birds by their calls in real time!
It’s actually really impressive and a lot of fun identifying the local birds. This is a use of learning models I can totally get behind. :D
- Comment on thanks mom 3 weeks ago:
If that’s not a New York Times Best Seller book jacket I don’t know what is!
- Comment on Bubble Wrap! 4 weeks ago:
once I quit a major source of stress.
Job? Like 95% of my mental problems disappeared right after quitting that job…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I think we’re saying a similar thing, but I understand your point better.
I have read plenty of research essays where you can feel the emotion, you can surmise the position and most of all passion of the author.
Exactly! That’s what I mean. There’s so many subjects I expected to be incredibly dry, but the writing reminded me it was written by a person who obviously cares about other people reading the text. One can communicate any subject without giving up their soul.
But that’s what I meant by cardboard as well, I think we might be in agreement:
We expect to see a lot more writing that comes across like “This is what writing should look like, right?”
Writing that understands words, and “averages” the most likely way to convey information or fill a requirement, but doesn’t know how to wield language as an art to share ideas with another person.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This is how I was taught to write up to highschool. Very “professional”, persuasive essays, arguing in favor of something or against it. (Assignment seemed to dictate LOL.) Limit humor and “emotional speech.” Cardboard.
I was taken aback in my first political science course at the local community college, where I was instructed to convey my honest arguments about a book assignment on polarization in U.S politics. “Whether you think it’s fantastic or you think it sucks, just make a good case for your opinion.” Wait, what?! I get to write like a person?!
I was even more shocked when I got a high mark for reading the first few chapters, skimming the rest, and truthfully summarizing by saying it was plain that the author just kept repeating their main point for like 5 more chapters so they could publish a book, and it stopped being worth the time as that poor horse was already dead by the 3rd chapter.
It was when it hit me, that writing really was about communication, not just information.
I worry about that these days: That this realization won’t come to most, and they’ll use these Ai tools or be influenced by them to simply “convey information” that nobody wants to read, get their 85%, and breeze through the rest of their MBA, not caring about what any of this is actually for, or for what a beautiful miracle writing truly is to humanity.
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 1 month ago:
More studies are required before we come to any certain conclusions. We require concrete evidence…and rebar evidence…maybe carbon fiber evidence…or…
- Comment on Fossils on Fossils 1 month ago:
…something like 50% of our calories are going to our brains.
Dang, I’ll have to remember this next time my ADHD pushes me to hyperfocus and I risk skipping meals again. O.O
- Comment on DR HANKS 1 month ago:
Yeah, Etymology! How’d you know?
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 1 month ago:
To be fair, records show that this wretch emerged from some sulphurous stinking hole that appeared in South Africa somewhere, so surely some of our friends there might know the incantation to send him back?
- Comment on The billionaires and politicians did it 1 month ago:
Of course the financial economist types gotta say “It’s a big 'ol mysterious mystery.” They’ve got their lives tied up in stonks that are supposed to quadruple in value every single quarter forever and ever.
How can they do that if workers get paid? Lol
- Comment on The billionaires and politicians did it 1 month ago:
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
“But I em le’ tiiiired…”
"Zen take a nap…ZEN FIRE ZE MISSLEZ!!
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
I love the quote by Victor Saltzpyre in Vermintide 2:
“Do not be tempted to compare evils, lest you be tempted to cleave with the least of them!”
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
America sure does love its extra, pointless middlemen. Lol
- Comment on fuck this asshole 2 months ago:
That’s why he wears that stupid bright red hat all the time, so even a rookie would know what to line the dot up with.
- Comment on LIVE! 2 months ago:
Metroid be like: "You found the morph ball! Press B to conglobate .
- Comment on fireflies 2 months ago:
Me neither!
… Although I live in a desert and haven’t seen fireflies anywhere else in ages… Lol
- Comment on nets 2 months ago:
This but in Oregon you’d get yelled at for doing it yourself. :p
- Comment on GARBAGEOLOGY 2 months ago:
And I think it was Blair before that. XD
