SpookyBogMonster
@SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
- Comment on The radical woke subliminal message in Bad Bunny's halftime performance 6 days ago:
Aoc didn’t do the DK64 stream, someone else did she just showed up at one point
- Comment on lightbulbs 1 week ago:
I don’t mind a daylight bid for overhead lights, but they have to be supplemented with warmer lights elsewhere around the room
- Comment on This American dude on his way to his Japanese fluency decides to talk to a local Japanese grandpa 2 weeks ago:
It’s hard for Americans to understand life outside of the big cities in Japan
I saw Non Non Biyori, it’s like that /s
- Comment on PSA 2 weeks ago:
You shouldn’t. The person your thanking is promoting bigoted Pseudoscience
- Comment on PSA 2 weeks ago:
Eat shit, get your pseudo-scientific nonsense out of here
- Comment on Noooooo 2 weeks ago:
My mom does this, but she says it in the most foreboding way imaginable.
“Call me as soon as you can…”
I’m thinking someone has just died, but no. She just wants help with the lawnmower or something
- Comment on Finally, the FPS I keep asking for: Deep combat, classic modes, and an honest-to-god server browser 2 weeks ago:
Praise the developers who actually made the thing
- Comment on Poor Jeremy 2 weeks ago:
So this is why Gezebelle Gaburgably likes snails so much
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I look 10 years younger, after having been on Estrogen for a couple years.
This guy’s attempts to look younger have culminated in him getting on some Picture of Dorian Gray shit
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 4 weeks ago:
I love checking Lemmy in the morning, and seeing all the German language Memes. I can’t read them, since I don’t know German, but I like knowing that they’re over there, doing their thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on the year of the linux desktop 5 weeks ago:
They meant the verb, not the noun
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
Sure, in some instances that was the case, but it’s wrong to assume that indigenous north Americans didn’t have cities or large scale agriculture.
[Agricultural practices in Cahokia],(www.uapress.ua.edu/…/feeding-cahokia/) for instance, wasn’t a European style monocrop. Rather, “Farming at Cahokia was biologically diverse and, as such, less prone to risk than was maize-dominated agriculture” ^(see link above)^
And Cahokia was, for a time, the political and economic center of much of indigenous north American, with the city itself being of comparable size to many European cities in the same period.
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
So, there were indigenous societies that were highly class stratified, or did bad things to the environment. No one is denying that.
But generally speaking, indigenous peoples in say, the Americas, developed methods of agriculture and other forms of production that were more economically sustainable than the European methods that settlers brought, and then revised to be more extractive.
The dust bowl, for example, didn’t just happen. It was a product of Colonialism. A region which was relatively recently colonized, had its forests and grasslands ripped up, in favor of shallow rooted monocultures that couldn’t sustain drought conditions.
There weren’t dustbowls for the millennia prior to colonization, but a sudden shift in the mode of production, to a highly extractive one, artificially produced an ecological disaster
- Comment on Humans are part of the ecosystem. 5 weeks ago:
There’s another layer of complexity here that you’re glossing over, I think, and that’s class dynamics within the Maori population.
It can both be true that traditional Maori lifeways were more sustainable, and that modern, Maori owned fishing companies are over fishing.
The coming of the white man didn’t ruin the sustainability of fishing, because of something ontologically bad with white people, but because they enforced an extractive, capitalist, economic system onto the region.
Colonialism pulled the Maori into a broader world system which generated a group of Maori with enough capital to, say, found fishing companies, and a wide swathe of Maori who can’t.
And paradoxically, that capital generation from unsustainable, capitalist, fishing practices is probably one of the things that allows Maori communities to have a degree of sovereignty, all the while said fishing practices are undermining their ability to continue to sustain themselves.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Post hog, loser, I bet my girldick is bigger than yours
- Comment on Rushmore 1 month ago:
Yeah, for any gringos with a limited Knowledge of indigenous history, imagine if ISIS genocided 99% of the world’s Catholics, and then built a giant statue of its founders on top of the ruins of the Vatican.
That’s what Mt. Rushmore is
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 1 month ago:
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 1 month ago:
Yeah? Well I blew into your mom’s mold last night!
- Comment on Barn Spiders 2 months ago:
God forbid women do anything
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
While that specific scenario is unlikely, I do hope that Plaid Cymru and the Scottish National Party succeed in dissolving the UK
- Comment on Asking the difficult questions 2 months ago:
I saw the title, and hoped someone was summoning Demons from the Key of Solomon or some shit. Like they were worried about their dog getting possessed.
But yeah, “am I hurting my dog’s brain with a card trick” is pretty funny too
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 2 months ago:
It’s a proxy server that works kind of like an Advanced version of the Wayback Machine. So old PCs like this, can connect to something like what the internet would’ve been like when they were first made.
I have the Protoweb browser on my Linux mint machine, running through wine. It’s fun to poke around at, and great for internet archaeology
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 2 months ago:
Run protoweb on that bad boy, and keep it alive 😎
- Comment on Anon asks out a girl 2 months ago:
Well, I’m taking estrogen, so they’re about to become real
- Comment on Change my mind 2 months ago:
You’re missing “Arguing on Facebook” followed by, “Still Arguing on Facebook, after Zucc replaces all your friends with robots”
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 2 months ago:
I find that a lot of straight liberals will practically foam at the mouth to identify a Bad removed that they can be homophobic towards.
Remember all of those homoerotic images of Trump and Putin that libs loved to be openly disgusted by?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Ok but those Call of Duty games for the DS were always so interesting to me. The attempt to take such a bombastic console experience and squeeze it onto a handheld often produced janky results, but it was a charming kind of jank
I was on a forum, back in the day, focused on weird, or otherwise niche DS ports, and those games were easily the most popular.
They even had tournaments with the Developers, which was neat
- Comment on Sounds about right 3 months ago:
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism”
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 5 months ago:
Even then, Jerry was always the weakest link on Seinfeld
- Comment on Something we all can agree on 5 months ago:
Really use your noggin for this one.
Why would the Russian and Chinese governments want to influence a small collection of web forums with no real influence on the wider world?
No, they’re not here, they’re on Reddit. As are the US and Israeli governments, for that matter. Online influence campaigns are carried out by governments in places where they’ll be most effective, and by more than just your spooky oriental despotisms.
Now, why might .ml users, in general, be generally pro-china? The people who made Lemmy as a platform, and the folks who were first to adopt it (instances like Lemmygrad and Hexbear), were ideologically Marxist. Specifically, Marxist-Leninist. Marxist-Leninists, generally, support the existence of actually existing socialist States, as being socialist.
Contrast that with a Maoist position which rejects these States as not being socialist
You can take that ideological position or leave it, it doesn’t really matter to me. But what’s the more likely explanation here?
That the people who made, and first adopted, Lemmy as a platform tended to have a certain ideology, and so the early instances, like .ml, have people with a broadly shared opinion on a certain topic?
Or that the Chinese government, who probably had no damn clue what Lemmy is, is actively devoting money, and hundreds of people to influence a tiny speck of a Web forum where some nerds circle jerk about Linux, instead of focusing on influencing Facebook or Reddit.