LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 1 day ago:
Yeah I don’t disagree. However, in practice the tool is what it’s used for, e.g. guns. I’m pro-gun, but it’s foolish to not understand where the gun control people are coming from. Religion is the same.
- Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college 1 day ago:
Bruh it could’ve been me honestly, so sorry I tend to think when strangers speak to me I’m about to get scammed into something 😭
- Comment on I am serious, and don't call me Shirley 1 day ago:
I don’t get it, is it meant to be a joke about how the experts (most famously engineers) have terrible spelling (tbf in my experience it’s more so the grammar)?
…or is the joke that the man in the comic thinks everyone on social media who talks about a subject like they’re an expert is an actual expert which is seldom the case, despite the poor spelling giving away that they might be in fact just opinionated 14-year olds (or in a more contemporary sense accounting for birthrates likely senile 84-year olds)?
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 1 day ago:
Buddhist nationalists do genocide all the same, like in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_genocide
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 3 days ago:
Huh? I didn’t dismiss either OP’s or the other commenters’s experience.
But I’m not going to jump to conclusions blindly at your say-so or he-said-she-said or your insults, because when you look at statistics: consistently, across a decade, across all age groups, women are far more supportive of LGBT folks, even the T in the UK (TERF Island).
I know this is a popular go-to thought terminating cliche for “bothsidesbad” type people, but beyond empathizing, what do you expect me to do exactly?
I am sorry to hear you had shitty experiences with progressive women. I had only good experiences with women period, even those on the older side, and I’m a trans woman in the UK. It’s your word against mine unless we have studies and data and statistics, and unless you can demonstrate me some to support an actual argument, this conversation is pointless.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 3 days ago:
That sucks, I’m sorry to hear that.
Hopefully your experience is merely anecdotal. I’d need to have some numbers or a study before I change my mind personally though
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 days ago:
But it feels odd to single them out rather than who would really perpetuate.
You’re right, the difference is that I’m reading it in bad faith and you’re reading it in good faith.
- Comment on Anon thinks there is a bicurious double standard 4 days ago:
It’s definitely a thing but i doubt it’s progressive women who are perpetuating it.
- Comment on Nicolas Sturgeon book reignites trans row with JK Rowling 6 days ago:
Only in hours the Overton window is far to the right the BBC will just publish JK Rowling’s anti-trans propaganda just because a cis woman prime minister dare exist and speak about her character assassination.
- Comment on When Americans Fly Economy, They're Actually Paying for Someone Else to Fly Private 6 days ago:
Jesus Christ america
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Oh ofc we heard of it, but as I said, I don’t think I, nor the folks I know actually know what it really is, as in: what’s it about or what you do in the game, or if it’s a social thing and not a game etc etc.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That’s…wild. No one in my 27 year old age group of friends knows what Roblox really even is or has ever touched it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yes, but today’s industry problems are way different than collector’s editions with that, of anything that feels quaint enough to peak my curiousity
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You’re thinking of Gen Alpha. GenZ was born starting '97, most of us are closer to 30 than 13, they don’t play Roblox or know what that is. All they know is eat hot chip and twerk and cry for a world that never was yet feels was taken from us while watching old vine compilations and being able to recite them word for word with impressive if slightly concerning accuracy.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Just to add a contrasting perspective I feel like it’s been an absolute golden age of gaming for me lately personally:
No Man’s Sky still getting relatively fun updates. Cyberpunk 2077 was great on launch and arguably much better now.
The Last Of Us Part 2 on PC is incredible and I’m happy that the port exists so I could experience it. You haven’t really played the game till you replay it with both protagonists wearing their Hotline Miami shirts in all the cutscenes. PS4 Spider-Man on PC was prolly the best superhero game I’ve played.
MSFS2020 opened a whole new world of flight sims to me, especially when it comes to doing fun VOR2VOR navigation with littlenavmap charts printed to PDFs and attached in VR, and Assetto Corsa did the same for racing sims.
Speaking of VR, H3VR is stronger than ever. I have many fond memories of VRChat just a few years back.
Victoria 3 has a really fun thriving modding scene. Indie games like Sea Power, Flight of Nova, Stray, Ultrakill, World of Horror, Nuclear Option, Descenders and Crisis In The Kremlin: The Cold War have been a big timesink for me lately as well as classics of indie like Suzerain and actual art masterpiece DEFCON.
It’s also been great to go back and play old classics and PS3 emulation now that PC hardware is much cheaper after the crypto/scalper crises circa 2018.
Also, with Steam play and the steam deck, PC Gaming is easier than ever and just hassle-free.
I never played the popular junk so ig to me all this gacha mtx horse armor crap just doesn’t really relate.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This criticism is genuinely like 10-13 years out of date, gramps.
- Comment on Tuition fees are rising again and nobody is happy – it’s time to actually fix our broken university sector 2 weeks ago:
Oh it’s time now? Wasn’t the time before? I don’t think it’ll be time again.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
I see AI as a positive because it undermines the monopoly on intellectual property of capitalists, but I don’t like it because it seems to be making people braindead consoomers of “content” that doesn’t seem to cultivate the intellect
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
I think that’s also a pretty valid framework for examining it.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
That’s absurd, we’d never build a civilization if everyone was at this level of dysfunction or anywhere near a majority, nevermind one with such rigid specific rules.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Interesting! Thanks.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Except this isn’t how language works, “Why do all the Asians wear black jeans?” invites both questions, unless the former is explicitly stated as a fact. It is obvious that any such thing is an unfalsifiable observation.
People aren’t robots. “you’re making everyone do extra work” - not how people work, not how reasoning works. Viewing something through a framework of even incorrect assumptions can provide unique insight. That is inviting speculation.
On the other hand - you’re continuously asserting my claim is false but have provided no proof of this.
You have only questioned the proof of my claim, which yes - is anecdotal only, pure observation, as I readily admitted, and was never intended as a fact.
- Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills 2 weeks ago:
I have literally never been on “a vacation” in the way boomers seem to mean it - where they go somewhere.
it doesn’t mean I don’t take PTO, ofc I do and it’s not that I couldn’t afford some sort of cheap holiday package if I had to - I’m sure most of the holiday prices I’ve seen advertised are a total scam because the economics just don’t make sense and there’s all sorts of hidden expenses, but even if they’re that cheap, it’s a large enough sum of money where I wouldn’t spend it unless I had to.
“Driving to Arizona” requires a car ($$$), a driving license ($$$), food ($$$$), and a place to stay while there ($$$$$$).
So why would I ever do any of that, when I could just stay in and watch a movie with my gf, all of which is free (as in - no additional expenses), and then next month I might be able to pay down bills, or worry less about paying down rent?
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 2 weeks ago:
Idk about the US but there are definitely both online and evening lectures schedules available at university. At my CompSci BSc it was more common to just not go and watch the lectures later.
Bear in mind our higher ed doesn’t have any “general” education classes, only ones related to the degree, and we don’t really have the same system of a wider selection of courses and it’s the name of the institution that matters, like it seems to be the case in the US, in the UK, if you have a degree, you have the degree, there’s no explicit difference between one at QMUL and UoW.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
And you reckon asking why something is true isn’t the same as asking if something is true?
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
No, that’s not what I asked. I get bored as well, but I don’t seek out explicitly this content, they seem to - why?
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 2 weeks ago:
You’re being downvoted because I think they think you’re a Tankie - but as a Russian - you’re 100% correct about the ideology bit.
This image is from 2023. Everyone who has a brain and some grasp on historical truth should immediately find this deeply absurd, so let me explain.
Imperial Russia and RSFSR (Russian Country in USSR) are two opposed entities who would sooner let Germans make gains on their territory than take men away from fighting each other, and if you think about it - it makes perfect sense, and is also quite literally what happened.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_Revolution en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Civil_War
So why are the three flags together?
Well, imo - Putler’s Fascist Russia is nationalist first and foremost, which is inherently very right-wing, but of course a lot of their glory days were at least under the pretense of leftism, and plenty of Russian nationalists wish for Soviet revival, when in reality they’d be first in the gulags for being rightoids, or if for nothing else - optics.
So putler has a choice, just memoryhole Russia at its most successful as RSFSR both in evil (imperialism, authoritarianism) and good ways (science, technology, welfare) and embrace Romanov lineage Revanchism, or attempt to work in the optics of the soviet union into the national imperial image.
Unfortunately for everyone, Surkov, Dugin and the lot chose post-truth. The Russian “Federation” has no ideology, other than power and maintaining the economic and political capital of its oligarchs and their ability to steal from the Russian people and anyone else unfortunate enough to get in the way.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
It’s an observation, not a conclusion ya nitwit.
The absence of scientifically rigorous, high sample size experimentally proven, well substantiated, documented reproducible conclusions does not render the observation wrong in and of itself because they’re just not in the same category.
Observation is the first step to formulating a theory, which leads to a hypothesis, which can be experimentally tested.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Yes I understand.
But what I don’t get, is why are neurotypicals so inclined to look for “something mindless to distract them, thus the emphasis on mindless scrolling over guided or curated content.”?
That’s like the entire question no one has answered ITT.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah most of those people aren’t on amphetamines that they require to do basic functions, are they?
