whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The government also ramped up the interest rates on student loans while universities increased the price faster than inflation, I paid around 3-4% in 2008, the lowest was around 2.7% in 2020, currently they are close to 7%. The whole thing should be covered by state and federal taxes we’re already paying to subsidize them, but it just keeps getting worse to squeeze every drop of blood from people who weren’t born with a trust fund.
- Comment on McConnell Defends Polio Vaccine, an Apparent Warning to RFK Jr. 1 week ago:
It is complicated to try to push something without a spine, no leverage to do anything but whine more
- Comment on NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’ 1 week ago:
“news”
- Comment on Memory is a fickle mistress 1 week ago:
The same people working for David Zaslav who pushed discovery and history to be almost entirely pseudoscience and low effort variety/reality TV are currently running HBO’s streaming service, Max.
- Comment on Standoff 2 weeks ago:
We used to have hominid cousins living at the same time as modern humans like neanderthals and denisovans. I don’t think there’s a consensus answer on what wiped them out, ecological changes over the last ice age reducing the availability of resources that they couldn’t adapt to maybe, or prehistoric wars maybe and only the most vicious and violent hominid group survived, or some combination of changes and fighting they couldn’t adapt to quickly enough.
- Comment on What gives you hope to keep going? 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say I’m completely hopeful or doomed, the world is filled with terror and beauty. There are no gods or kings it’s just people. Historic and scientific education can help reduce anxiety about the unknown, change your own beliefs and behaviors to improve the situation locally before joining organizations looking to make broader changes. Learn what your fears are and face them, otherwise it will cloud your judgement and influence your decision making process.
- Comment on What games have you put the most hours into? 3 weeks ago:
When I played on PC more EverQuest, counterstrike, TF2, wow, Skyrim
After playing more on console ff14, elder scrolls online, pillars of eternity 1/2, and souls games (ds2, ds3, bloodborne, elden Ring)
I also like to play Indies and smaller games but those are the ones I keep going back to
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 4 weeks ago:
"What can change the nature of a man?"
- Ravel, Planescape: Torment
- Comment on Why does it seem most people, mainly conservatives, against Trans people? Unless I am wrong I never heard of one shooting up a school church or whatever. The ones I have met have been pretty cool. 4 weeks ago:
Conservatives use fear to manipulate their constituents as their primary means to rally support. A minority scapegoat many of their supporters don’t know in person, like trans people, are easily demonized by politicians and clergy to pretend trans folks are pedophiles and sex assaulters projecting their own party and priest crimes, it’s the same thing they try to do with fear mongering homosexuals as a previous scapegoat to distract and deflect from their awful policy privileging the wealth class and harming poor and middle class people, they need someone to blame for their own awful behavior and choices.
- Comment on Boeing issues layoff notices to 400-plus workers as it begins drastic cuts 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t even need to be permanent, just enough time to replace the executives and board with competent people who aren’t just trying to borrow and bust the company. The regulatory body obviously fucked up letting the '97 merger go through and need to rectify the problem not just continue to let it fester.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 4 weeks ago:
Is half-life cyberpunk?
- Comment on USA President term limits 5 weeks ago:
You’re right, I thought it was hold not elected.
- Comment on USA President term limits 5 weeks ago:
If they followed the law as written it would go to the next person in order of succession, the congressional house speaker, because he would be ineligible to hold the office after the second term.
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 5 weeks ago:
Not just fast food, chains and franchises in general. Local only may be more of a quality gamble when trying things out but when you find that unassuming diner or small restaurant that takes pride in their daily soups, and doesn’t do delivery or apps, and closes at reasonable times for their workers, and is usually packed on weekends, you’ve found something special.
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 5 weeks ago:
This is literally what organized crime does, it’s like the cops for criminals.
- Comment on Sega is delisting 60 classic games from Steam, so now’s the time to grab them 1 month ago:
www.raspberrypi.com + batocera.org + yarr + a USB controller
- Comment on Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs? 1 month ago:
Maybe, but I think it may also be possible they mean the same thing but from different perspectives or maybe whether you are willing to cross some line like dying or killing for a cause. There was a disagreement around 100 years ago when WW2 ended between philosophers Sartre and Camus about how to be free and whether violence and murder can be justified for political goals. Camus supported the French in WW2 but did not support political violence outside of war, in The Rebel he rejects revolutionary violence as it undermines/betrays yourself and is utopian and absolutist. Sartre thought violence could be justified for the right cause like communism to build and maintain a system for justice and freedom until it was obvious the tankies had taken over during the revolution reaction in Hungary. Sartre became an apologist for Soviet revolutionary violence until '56 and Camus was an advocate for nonviolent rebellion. I don’t know what the answer is or if there is one.
- Comment on Is it okay to continue to work for a (non-defense) federal government agency under an administration hostile to my own moral and ethical beliefs? 1 month ago:
What is the difference between a rebel and a revolutionary?
- Comment on What can I do to help? 1 month ago:
Add ffrf.org to the list, I don’t suspect overturning Roe v Wade is the only change they are going to make that preferences faith based beliefs and feelings over objective reason backed by scientific evidence.
- Comment on Calculatable 1 month ago:
It’s solar powered so I just wait for night time to clear it then do the next problem in the morning
- Comment on If I threaten a politician to kill them like Trump did to Liz Cheney could I be arrested? If so how come Trump hasn't been arrested for it? 1 month ago:
It’s also a violation of his probation, check with his probate officer when the warrant will be issued
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Fascist big brother is always watching, loyalty is the only principle they value.
- Comment on have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Half as Hot 1 month ago:
30°C is 303.15K, half 151.575K is a nice and chilly -121.575°C lower than any recorded temp on earth by about 21°C.
- Comment on Don't Engage with Trolls 1 month ago:
Nobody likes Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi anymore, I guess he had a good run since around 820 CE.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 2 months ago:
A time, B time, and lunch time.
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 2 months ago:
If we were the aliens and came across two worlds inhabited by intelligent life I would probably be more weirded out by the one where nobody uses any mind altering substance like caffeine that are poisonous to other animals.
- Comment on Badgers 2 months ago:
No, this is wolverine:
- Comment on Scientific Method 2 months ago:
The first one
- Comment on Which great actor is overdue for a career defining role? 2 months ago:
Ben Foster was great in 30 days of night and the 3:10 to Yuma remake and leading in medieval, I just think medieval historic dramatization isn’t popular lately but he could be a headliner.
