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- Comment on Pfft 6 days ago:
In the context of they sorts of literary analysis done at the high school or early university level, there does end up being a right and a wrong. Maybe that’s what turned me off to that sort of discussion: the downplaying of my experience with a work in favor of the “right” interpretation.
- Comment on Pfft 6 days ago:
You’re obviously levels beyond me understanding and analyzing literature, and I defer to what sounds like your knowledgeable position. Maybe I always missed the point, maybe I had teachers who weren’t that great, or maybe I am just not wired for it. Analyzing a fictional character’s motivations seemed like asking why grass is motivated to be green.
Honest question: if I was interested in expanding my mind on this topic could you recommend some reading? Or is this the sort of thing only years of study would help?
- Comment on Pfft 1 week ago:
I got smacked down so hard when I suggested that instead of identifying symbolism and metaphors in the writing we should be looking at the author’s intent in the context of their time.
- Comment on epic_prank.gif 2 weeks ago:
Can’t get the video to play in Voyager 1.3.4. Bug report submitted. Marked ‘urgent’.
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 4 weeks ago:
Would watch.
- Comment on Impressive 5 weeks ago:
Fastest way to a man’s heart is through the what now?
- Comment on OpenAI admits it didn't disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident 1 month ago:
I wish you were right.
- Comment on OpenAI admits it didn't disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident 1 month ago:
Calling “bullshit”.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 1 month ago:
Revolution? Civil war? Which I guess brings us back to your original solution.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 1 month ago:
While technically this solves the problem it doesn’t prevent new idiots from being made. That takes much harder, structural changes including education and new policy guard rails.
- Comment on Meme check point. 1 month ago:
- Comment on Always bring an Emma 2 months ago:
Legend
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t walk up/down stairs with my hands in my pockets anymore. Seems unnecessarily risky, like running out into traffic without looking or stepping into the ring with a hungry lion.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Crawling around a claustrophobic attic in a heatwave recently and I had a panicked moment where I decided I had better get out before hyperthermia made it so I physically couldn’t.
Pretty sure there is a parallel universe where firefighters are cutting holes in the ceiling to extract my rotting corpse from behind an aging air handler.
- Comment on Bro didn't understand the assignment 2 months ago:
Turn on sound.
- Comment on Rate My New Gaming Chair 2 months ago:
Hemorrhoid Approved!^TM^
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- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 2 months ago:
“Rise in the number of part time employees surges as employers exploit this one loophole.”
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 months ago:
Went to court. Judge ruled in my favor. In the meantime I had contacted the Consumer Protection Bureau (US). Back when they had teeth and funding. BofA must have had a whole department that dealt with CPB because that shit got resolved quick. Took more than two months and around $1500 to get it cleaned up.
My credit is locked at all three agencies now. Highly recommend everyone do it. The fact it isn’t locked by default is asenine.
- Comment on "Digital Signatures" just ask you to type your name into a box now. Am I right in thinking this almost-completely defeats the purpose of a signature? 2 months ago:
Had my identity stolen. Thief bought a car with a loan they got online. Forged my signature at the dealer half a country away. I hired a lawyer because BofA are fucking criminals.
Me: “This is clearly not my signature on this document. Doesn’t that mean anything?”
Lawyer: “Nope. Not a thing.”
WTF.
Now anything asking for my signature is squiggles unrelated to the written language.
- Comment on No Enforcement ⚖️ 2 months ago:
Might makes right. We forgot for a while. We’re remembering.
- Comment on modern classic 2 months ago:
Needs a railing, is what it needs.
- Comment on When you can’t upload an image to Lemmy, is it… 2 months ago:
Goddamnit
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds 2 months ago:
Isn’t Nintendo the company who gained notoriety for having a 50-year strategy? It was hailed as promoting long term vision over short term profits and focused on creating intergenerational fanbases and lifelong brand loyalty.
What part of that involves shooting your customers in the dick?
Legally, they’re probably in the right. But imagine being the one gaming company that issues tariff refunds and continues to create physical games that emphasize quality gameplay and rich storytelling with optional but engaging couch co-op multiplayer that brings people together over technology instead of tearing them apart.
Guess not if it would impact Q3 2026.
- Comment on Jimothy skittering into our hearts 2 months ago:
This thing will haunt my nightmares. I think it is the face. The videos of Jimothy show him with an adorable face and arched back. This thing looks like it will crawl out of a nest and skitter after you until you trip and fall and when you roll over to confront it - too late, it’s gnawing in your larynx.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Came to say “culture”. This is the thing most average Americans struggle with. We’ve had capitalism drilled into us from birth. Want something better? Pay more. Full stop.
Somehow we miss there is so much more to being a society than just transactional interactions. Not that the open source community doesn’t have its problems but it fundamentally is approached differently. With no profit motive why would you spend a single minute of your precious time doing anything for another person, especially a stranger?
That is at the heart of it, but you can decompose it into leadership (or a lack of it), misaligned incentives, intercompany politics, atrophying innovation, and on and on with the corpo buzzwords.
- Comment on Alternative medicine 2 months ago:
“only objective understanding”
Too late. Should have started with that, dumbass.
- Comment on Dumbass 2 months ago:
Has anyone heard someone blame Canada as if the nation of Canada was personally attacking them?
Had a relative do that yesterday and it was a reminder in a moment that should have been a low stress, loving moment with family a rage inducing reminder that we’re fucked.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 2 months ago:
From the Trump Account website:
You can elect to open a Trump Account for your eligible children using IRS Form 4547. You can fill out and submit the form right in the Trump Accounts app, when you file your taxes, or through the secure IRS website called Individual Online Accounts, or IOLA.
Nor can I find anything making them mandatory.
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 2 months ago:
The “majority of Americans” are fucking idiots. “If only we owned more of their stock we could direct how the tech is used!”, they decry, completely oblivious to the scam being perpetrating upon them to shift the downside risk to the “majority of Americans”. Never has more blatant propaganda hit my eyes.
You know how I know? Because we already have a mechanism for directing the actions of our institutions, forged in two centuries of nation building. It is called legislation and regulation, mother fuckers.
Now, I’d forgive you for recognizing that the power of the law is at an all time low, at least in living memory. So maybe the “majority of Americans” “seizing wealth” by their corrupt government owning more of the company stock seems more tangible and maybe the “majority of Americans” believe there is a future upside to owning all that yummy stock that will eventually make gas cheaper and lettuce not cause explosive diarrhea. But, see my first sentence.
sigh And now I am off to my job to keep my healthcare and keep a house over my family, and to pretend we’re not sliding into a fascist, racist, mysoginist, elitist hellscape of our own making.
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 3 months ago:
Fast and the Furious?
