Carrolade
@Carrolade@lemmy.world
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 week ago:
Thank you for writing that out.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 week ago:
Are we really that sure that tv did not actually “rot people’s brains” to varying degrees? I would be interested in a more rigorous study of this before we dismiss all entertainment influences as simple culture war bullshit due to the genuinely overwhelming overuse of culture war arguments.
- Comment on So which is it? 1 week ago:
…egg salad?
- Comment on So which is it? 1 week ago:
tbf, salad can come in many forms, and is often served in a bowl. Wrap is a bit of a grey area, but a salad in a wrap is a thing.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 1 week ago:
I’ll second this. I’ve never tried dumpster diving, but I have been an employee that helped out before.
If there is no store policy against it, it’s not much trouble to sort the still-decent stuff into a particular bag, and leave that one bag outside the dumpster instead of throwing it in.
Just go in when its slow, buy something preferably, and while you’re there ask an employee if it’s okay with the store if you do some diving and that you won’t make a mess. If they seem friendly, you can ask when/how would be the best time to do it. Probably works better with a smaller, locally-owned place than a big corporate chain. I’d recommend a small coffeeshop or bakery.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Very fair. My core point remains that it’s all about that
in many places
though. If you live in a region with more than a handful of vegans, you find very differently. It’s a personal pet peeve of mine when people try to paint their own experiences as “most people”, and all of any group as being just like those members they have met and are thinking about. It completely ignores several distinct internal mental biases, that are themselves making our world shittier because they lead to inaccurate conclusions, and are fairly natural unless you’ve received training to be made aware of them.
Statistical selection bias, confirmation bias, etc.
Because of this, it’s less a joke to me, and more just a pain in the ass. And I’m a happy carnivore that also does not like being preached to.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
That’s just incorrect. It’s pretty common not to find out until you’re talking about what to eat. I would imagine you’ve met vegans that you simply don’t know are vegan yet.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
That’s only true in select places. Most people in one place can have different experiences from most people in a different place, due to the places being different environments with different populations.
The majority of the internet is definitely among the places you’ve described, though.
Source: I’ve lived in both types.
- Comment on Just How Dangerous Is Europe’s Rising Far Right? Anti-immigration parties with fascist roots — and an uncertain commitment to democracy — are now mainstream. 2 weeks ago:
“You can no longer rely on saying, ‘This is evil, because look what happened in the fascist past,’” said Nathalie Tocci, a leading Italian political scientist. “You have to have an argument for why those ideas are bad today.”
Most important line in there. The answer to it is fascist incompetence. By reducing modern flexibility and freedom in favor of more rigid, ideologically-based control, authoritarian states are fundamentally less competent and competitive than free societies. Their hierarchical, top-down approaches, devoid of trust, deprive lower ranking individuals the flexibility necessary to adapt to the specific conditions in their immediate environment. Their ideological constraints run counter to the freedom to ask hard questions and come up with new ideas that may be necessary in a world of changing situations.
There is a reason that the one single thing they are supposed to be best at–warfare–ends up being a litany of repeated failures with few exceptions. Look no further than Russia, where a large and supposedly mighty country has catastrophically failed to defeat a much smaller, less populous neighbor despite throwing an immense amount of force at it.
An additional argument is how fascist selfishness tends to preclude genuine cooperation, and replaces it with distrust and a competitive desire for each individual fascist leader to want to be the one on top.
A third is that without a democratic system, there is no way to reliably combat corruption. Fascism relies on blind faith, a simple-minded trust that the top dog will try to do what is best for the country, instead of simply using the resources of the country to stamp out internal competition and secure their position, to the detriment of the populace.
- Comment on Damnatory Arbitration 2 weeks ago:
Anti-consumer rules…? What are those? Sounds like communist propaganda to me. All hail the
corporate overlordsjob creators! - Comment on [Dimitri Monroe] “Gamergate 2” will FAIL and it will be YOUR fault. | 'Optics' Never Matter 3 weeks ago:
Something something women something? But further empowered by the ease with which conservative and/or fascist nutjobs can support each other globally now.
- Comment on How does DNA decide the shape of the body? 3 weeks ago:
Good question. Might do better in a dedicated science community though. Also might just get answered with links to textbooks, since the actual explanation, to get to full understanding, is probably at least a years worth course of study that cannot be easily summarized. It likely involves a whole bunch of different individual chemical interactions, starting with “how proteins make structures”.
Not everything is summarizable, unfortunately.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
This makes me want to devise a tiered, inclusive classification scheme for space objects.
We could start with orbital objects, any object that normally experiences regular, periodic orbits with minimal deviation. So, everything in the galaxy would be one except potentially Sag A, and the galaxy itself. Perhaps the next branching subsets could be things undergoing continuous fusion somewhere in their body or not?
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
So, “homo” is better than “sapiens”? And “animal” is better than homo sapiens?
Or do I have it backwards, and “lower” ranks are better? So, “pinus ponderosa” would be better than “plant”?
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
Every celestial body fits into a specific classification too.
- Comment on You are in this solar system, but we do not grant you the rank of planet 3 weeks ago:
You know, this post made me realize something. Some people are viewing it in terms of “rank”, instead of an arbitrary scientific classification designed to efficiently communicate ideas in a clear and concise way.
It’s like … mythology or something, and the planet(oid) being anthropomorphized.
Do people also view kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species as “ranks” of some sort, with some intrinsically greater value being given to some over others?
- Comment on What Began as a War on Theater Won’t End There 3 weeks ago:
I don’t ask for much from billionaire philanthropic organizations, but you’d think this would be right up someone’s alley. Carnegie’s name is heavily associated with the arts, I’m sure the Bezos name could sit right alongside it.
- Comment on Dwindling Ammunition Stocks Pose Grave Threat to Ukraine | What few munitions remain are often mismatched with battlefield needs as the country’s forces gird for an expected Russian offensive 1 month ago:
Estonia has also recently found an anonymous supplier willing to part with a large stock of shells, and needs to begin fundraising initiatives for it.
Nothing wrong with a little anonymity, being a major supplier of a warfighting country is not always the safest thing in the world to do. I’d laugh my ass off if one of these suppliers is just Turkey or something though.
- Comment on The original party god 1 month ago:
- Comment on A Pivot to China Saved Elon Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing. 1 month ago:
Quite possibly, but it’s not even necessary to explain his behavior anymore.
- Comment on A Pivot to China Saved Elon Musk. It Also Binds Him to Beijing. 1 month ago:
Y’know, I was always just assuming there were some ties with Russia, but this makes a lot more sense now.
- Comment on Thrill seekers 1 month ago:
Frankly, asides from supporting local business, there isn’t much reason not to get tea from online specialty purveyors these days. It’s not terribly expensive to ship the stuff.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
The people are the society, society is not something outside of you. That said, I agree it is an attempt at treatment. Just not a very wise one, it’s comparable to a drug addiction in its likelihood of actually improving a person’s situation in any concrete way.
So, I guess I’d describe it as an offshoot disease, that stems from another disease.
- Comment on What do you see that you wish others saw? 1 month ago:
How gamer culture is heavily based around the ability to have an accessible and more real-feeling power fantasy in your imagination to fill in for a lack of power in real life, and the damage this is doing to our societies.
Games allow you to feel like you’re very good at something. You used to have to earn that feeling in some way, but no longer. Now it’s purchasable for $40.
- Comment on Mmm yesss 1 month ago:
Basic animal physiology for common animals is pretty well nailed down, I presume you could look that up. We probably also know how big their internal organs are, on average, just as an example.
Also note, for free vs no reward are not the same. Being cited as an author of something, anything, is important for advancement and recognition in your field. Students seldom get much financial compensation for the research necessary to graduate, for instance.
That said, I’m guessing. I am not in biology or any of its offshoots.
- Comment on gottem 1 month ago:
It’s hard, but don’t blink. If you blink it gets under your eyelids. If you don’t, the tears just continuously wash it down.
- Comment on Mmm yesss 1 month ago:
Probably nobody. Study like this wouldn’t cost much, you’d just be reviewing footage of penguins looking for them to shit. Easy way to get an authorship credit.
My guess anyway, I haven’t actually checked the methodology.
- Comment on Favourite developers 2 months ago:
I’m going to go a little unpopular here, and say Paradox Interactive.
Their milking of their properties with DLC is the stuff of legends, but at the end of the day, nobody else is even close at modeling rich, complex and hugely broad historical simulation the way they do. They’re everything I ever wanted when I was a kid, playing Koei strat games. When you’re that good at what you do, fine, make money. Whatever.
Oh, look. Another DLC… sigh
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“They” is the traditional English-language pronoun when an unknown person could be of either gender. “Mommy, my teacher said a funny thing at school today!” “Oh? What did they say?”
Teacher is singular, but assigning a gender would feel awkward if one doesn’t know, so “they” is used instead.
- Comment on ‘He Lost Me’: Why 10 Voters Who Backed Trump in 2016 and 2020 Have Moved On 2 months ago:
Really remarkable illustration of how foreign propaganda can influence the mindset of an average middle-American. They don’t even have the ability to see their own bubbles.
Something like “nobody knew about fake news before Trump” was just … wow.
This stuff can be undone, though. It just needs to be done carefully, you can’t bludgeon someone out when they’re fully immersed into a worldview. You’d literally be trying to break the whole basis of their personhood, the things that underpin their understanding of how the world works, why things are how they are.
Better to just open a door for them, introduce them to a service like Ground News or something, leave breadcrumbs they can follow if they want to eventually navigate out of the dark forest. But without challenging them in a way that simply alienates and angers them. It’s a tightrope walk.