Alsjemenou

@Alsjemenou@lemy.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is good music from past centuries. Like … How many people have been inspired by Moonlight Sonata. A few songs always survive as good songs, because that’s what they are.

  To understand Rock and Roll tou need to understand where it came from. You have to understand that it gave white youth the opportunity to make dance swing music in a highly segregated society. Moving away from big bands into smaller garage size groups, being able for the youth to practice in the suburbs. Entering high schools and becoming a subculture, mainly or basically exclusively, white. Where black cultural music moved towards hiphop and rap, talking about the reality of segregation and poverty. White youth was using RnR to protest systemic issues, racism, war, and the old way of doing things within the more socially acceptable ‘fad’ that RnR was considered to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable)?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you believe that any living soul 70 years in the future is going to look back at any of the crappy shit being produced now as worthwhile to even consider?

  No there will only be old decrepit people, that’s going to be you btw, that continues to persist in listening to it because of some sentimental value. But say stupid shit like the 10s were the best musical years ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did you all know these things can be pickled???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a big fan of pickled cutting boards or pickled linen, but to each their own i guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me try and put this into a bit of a different perspective. There is a huge effort to individualise global warming, to accomplish two things. First to guilt trip you and second to create apathy. Because it’s very easy to understand that what creates global warming isn’t going to be solved by changing your individual consumption patterns. And you’re completely correct.

  80 percent of total human made greenhouse gas production is done by 57 companies. Who have increased, not decreased, their co2 emissions since the 2016 paris agreement. Because companies aren’t countries. They actually aren’t bound by any such agreements.

  Imagine the future without those fuckers. It’s only a couple of companies. It’s not as if we need to destroy half of humanity or flee the planet. Chill out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But you’re doing the exact same thing with the same outcomes.

  Do you consider yourself a virus? Your loved ones? Friends, family? Nobody sees themselves as a blight. It’s always society at large. It’s the decisions we make as a collective.

  And then the question is why we are making such decisions. And that’s what i mean with the need for systemic change. It’s not inherent in humans to be like a virus.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a big problem with that, namely that that is what Elon Musk wants you to think, it’s what Jeff Bezos wants you to think. And when you’re defending the position of ultra capital, you should at least understand why they truly want this. What they truly want is to keep this system intact, they don’t want change, they don’t want responsibility. Going somewhere else to get what you want, is the colonialist mindset, the white mindset. It’s the idea that you as a person have the right to your lifestyle, that you ‘earned’ it. It’s the way that your consumption is tied up with your identity. That your behavior is only secondary to your consumption. Your self worth is rooted in accumulation.

  That’s what they are afraid to give up, and ultimately what you’re parroting. While it’s absolutely not trivial to leave, and systemic change is very much necessary far far far before we, poor people, are remotely close to living among the stars in any form of comfort or luxury. Have set up anything close to the insanly complex international trade and knowledge base, rhat depends on billions of people to function. It’s going to take hundreds if not a thousand years. All the while being completely and utterly depending on this very planet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, with that logic the end conclusion is to unalive oneself or everyone else. That would Truly truly rob anyone from advertising harm.

  You’re making a slight mistake in your logic. The endgoal isn’t the end of advertising, the goal is to not participate in furthering harm. That word ‘participation’ acknowledges that harm exists. And it doesn’t seek to end it but asks how you live with the fact of it existing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have a similar discussion in vegan circles. Where we argue against buying second hand leather, down, and wool. The reason is that the second hand market continues to give value to the exploitation of animals. I.e. It normalizes these products. It keeps those products desirable.

  The same argument absolutely applies to child labour. Why would you want to keep those products desirable? Is your image, your way of presenting yourself, really more important than child labour? You really do not have to participate in this, nobody who values you as a human will think less of you. In fact, it’s the morally upstanding way to live.

  The responsibility of wearing and using a product doesn’t start and end at the first purchase. It continues and changes over time. Fur coats are now generally frowned upon. And who feels comfortable wearing crocodile leather, or ivory beads. These things are out of fashion, for a reason.

  And I understand the ecological argument, that it’s a waste of resources. I really do sympathise with this argument. But in the end it’s just saying no to buying something you never really needed in the first place. It’s never an actual decision. Your life doesn’t depends on a piece of designer clothing, or whatever product. And if it does, none of these arguments matter.

  So, no it’s a choice and in the end the ethical choice is the one that’s most closely related to being a human being in this world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would anyone do this?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of the time they didn’t. They were posted without their consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More than 5 drinks a week.

  To me that’s kind of the cut off point. Because more than 5 you’re either drinking daily or binge drinking in your days off. If you’re an occasional drinker, 5 drinks is a lot and you’ll be drunk. Which is not something occasional drinkers are after.

  Also, any amount of alcohol is bad for you. Carcinogenic at any amount, there is no lower limit. It should be extremely simple to not drink. And if you are in any situation where you feel it isn’t extremely simple to not drink, you’re not in a good place and you need to fix that. I’m not saying to not drink, I’m saying that it’s not smart to drink when you can’t say no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake moo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a world wide stat. The numbers for chickens reach the quantities of the post. with 200 million chickens slaughtered per day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fake moo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  About 900,000 cows are slaughtered every day. If every cow was 2 meters long, and they all walked right behind each other, this line of cows would stretch for 1800 kilometers. This represents the number of cows slaughtered every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you people all bots?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not legally bound, to telling you I’m a bot. Please change your input.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help is needed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, but not just, if we consider classical theism (pantheism), then there would be nothing that God isn’t. As God, if we would think of God as the foundation of all being, could not be anything that isn’t. Since what isn’t is without foundation.

  Also, but not just, if we accept panentheism, where God is everything that is and isn’t.

  Basically the only time that anybody would accept God as ‘made out of atoms’ is if that person accepts the inherently and explicitly atheistic view of metaphysical physicalism. Arguing for God from physicalism is like arguing for social healthcare as a (US) republican. There is an inherent disconnect between the two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Square space efficient packaging that you can finish within spoiling time, allowing for fresher products without additives. Easier to pour, packaging easily collapses for easier disposal. Fully printable and recyclable. A superior packaging in every single way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There are no odd numbers divisible by 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Right. If When it bursts they are left with massive stockpiles and cancelled orders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m tired of cornposting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make me confused using your country culture, norm, news, art or even social interactions on social media.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hop on my bicycle to catch the train to my other bicycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FACTS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike most people, I get my information from a vetted, trusted source.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This, btw, is the depiction of extreme obesity in Japan

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There probably were random kidnappings.

  But they only allowed Jews to live in ghetto’s in Nazi cities, so they knew exactly where to go. From there they were indiscriminate and retaliatory. But there was segregation before the mass deportation of Jews.

  Also it was about the purity of the german blood and shit like that, so there were more allegations for people to be considered degenerate enough to be deported. Gays, gypsies, retardation, whatnot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The weight of the removed soil would sink the land.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are not mostly sugar, sugars are just a part of the nutrients. Most fruits don’t even have that much sugar in them, it varies wildly though. There is also the way these sugars are intertwined with fiber, that make it much harder for these sugars to be processed in your body. So the sugars are released over a greater period of time giving your body more time to react. as opposed to refined sugars. Fruits are always healthier than candy, cookies, or soda.

  There is a lot more in fruits than just sugars, there are proteins, vitamins, minerals, fibers. Which are all necessary for a healthy body. Sugars as well are necessary for your body to function.

  It is practically impossible, if you’re otherwise healthy, to eat too much fruit. I personally eat at the very least 3 kilos or 5 pounds of various fruits a week. within an otherwise varied (vegan) diet. I’ve done so for the past 10 years. I make sure to test my blood, and so far had zero issues except low vit. d. Which you can’t get from fruit.

  Why is it healthy? Well, we evolved next to fruits. Our ancestors always plucked and eaten them for millions of years. Just like we’ve done with all kinds of plants. Our gi tract is the right length, our body cant make most vitamins itself and completely functions on sugars. Fruit is part of a varied diet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨relax⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hi do yall this my hair is red⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really didn’t have to think about it at all, since i used a thing called ‘seeing’. Try it sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My goodness, these comments make me feel we’re back in the edgy atheism days. Please.

  The reason is because those texts are much older, and that was the style of religion practiced back then. Most God stories and stories about Gods in that period were like it. Most city states and tribal states had their own Gods that reflected them, and conflicts were gravely exaggerated. Also literally everything that happened in that state were an attribute or reflection of that particular God. With stories of how that attribute came to be, which reflected back in the people and in that way religion was a complex social interaction.

  The people who wrote the stories we now know as the old Testament didnt write them as a part of a bible. These were stories of people who were taken out of their states and captured. Forced to live outside their land, but they took their God with them. Who became this omnipresent God that would lead people back to a promised land. Including all the complex social interaction people had with their mostly oral religious stories and traditions.

  And it’s the continued tradition that lead to the formation of religious scholarship and the idea that Gods could be of the earth and not just of a state. Which brought about new thoughts, new traditions, new religious complexity written down in the New Testament. Which lead to the desire to make religious books encapsulating all of religious thought.

  And only much later came literalism, the mistake to take everything in the Bible literal. which sparked the formation of atheism as we know it today.

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