zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on New Xhitter policy just dropped 1 day ago:
Yeah, this is just hearsay. Unfortunately, a lot of people will believe this without evidence because they hate Elon so much. (Which he deserves, to be fair.)
- Comment on New Xhitter policy just dropped 1 day ago:
Yeah, I have to wonder why they created their own protocol when ActivityPub is right there.
- Comment on New Xhitter policy just dropped 1 day ago:
Bluesky people
don’t know how to take a proper screenshot?
- Comment on Million dollar idea 3 days ago:
You are allowed to say sweary words on the Internet.
- Comment on Black owner here.... without context that sounds really bad 4 days ago:
What about those freaky-looking bald cats
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
Stein was on enough ballots to win. You’re thinking of Claudia de la Cruz maybe.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
Do you have a better idea?
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
The Democrats didn’t turn out to vote for Kamala, so yes, you can still blame the Democrats.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
And this is exactly what’s wrong with the Democrats, and why Biden never should’ve run.
Biden was there to beat Bernie.
There is no party in the US to fight for regular people, so they didn’t vote.
Greens are still here! I think we got 600,000 votes this year.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I could see Georgia banning masks, but not because of racism.
- Comment on Proud globohomo 4 weeks ago:
Cybertruck owners are already being punished.
- Comment on The 1900s 4 weeks ago:
Nononono, that was 30 years ago. Can you believe it? Don’t you feel old?
(It actually feels like 60 years ago to me, but I’m weird.)
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 4 weeks ago:
There are non-biting mosquitoes. Those would just fill the same ecological niche.
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- Comment on Artifical Intelligence 1 month ago:
I recently saw a photo on some website. It was from a Trump rally, and people had these freaky, ecstatic looks on their faces. Somebody commented that it looked like AI. Other people soon agreed; one of them remarked on the bizarre, “alien” hand on one of the babies in the crowd. That hand did look weird. There were too few fingers. It looked like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle hand.
The problem was that this image was originally from a news story that was years prior to ChatGPT and the current AI boom. For this to be AI, the photographer would’ve had to have access to experimental software that was years away from being released to the public.
Sometimes people just look weird and, sometimes, they have weird hands, too.
- Comment on It's important 1 month ago:
Abuse doesn’t have to be physical, though. It can also be emotional.
I’m not saying to drop your friends and family at the first signs of negativity. There are people, though, who are not good for you, and nothing you can do can change that. The sooner you figure out who those people are and get them out of your life, the better.
My friends are not MEANT to make me happy. They are meant to be there when I’m unhappy.
What if they make you feel worse when you’re unhappy?
I mean, it looks like we agree that friends should, if not make you happy, at least make your life better in some way. I’m talking about the people who are making your life worse.
Sometimes they’ll have to “make me unhappy” to make me realize my mistakes. That’s what friendship is all about.
What if you don’t agree that they’re mistakes?
- Comment on It's important 1 month ago:
Would you really maintain a relationship with somebody who made you unhappy? Somebody who abused you? Somebody who didn’t respect you? And if so, why?
People can help people, yet lately they only think of themselves.
Why “lately”?
It’s not only thinking of yourself. It’s thinking about yourself and the people who aren’t fucking you up. If somebody has a history of toxic behavior, then you have to take that into account. If you let that affect you, you’re A) harming yourself and B) are less able to help the people who actually do love you and respect you.
- Comment on It's important 1 month ago:
“Going through a mental crisis” doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re treating your friends like shit. If you treat your friends like shit, and that drives them away, whose fault is that?
There are, of course, exceptions, but those have to be people whom I care for and love very, very much. And even then, if the toxicity is too damaging to my own mental health, I have to cut them off for my own good. At the end of the day, all human relations rely on a cost/benefit analysis. If I’m losing more than I’m gaining from this relationship, why should I continue it?
I also don’t think you’re doing that person any favors by ignoring their bad behavior.
- Comment on When somebody backs up their argument with a 90-minute video 1 month ago:
Or, worse, the essay doesn’t support their argument at all. Because they didn’t actually read it in the first place.
- Comment on When somebody backs up their argument with a 90-minute video 1 month ago:
You should be able to explicate your own argument, though. “Read this book” isn’t convincing on its own.
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- Comment on Bitey 1 month ago:
Me, I now do not recommend anyone in the world ever leaves the premises of their apartment.
Based on my experiences, it’s not a good idea, and should be avoided if possible.
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- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
Okay, how was the truth stretched here?
EDIT: Fun fact for you, in the USA in 1970 8% of stem workers were female. Today, its 27%.
It should be 50%.
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
They gave the Nobel Peace Prize to a war criminal.
- Comment on Women in STEM 1 month ago:
In what ways?
- Comment on I have no idea how to react to this. 1 month ago:
The more you look at it, the more wrong it becomes.
