Alsjemenou

@Alsjemenou@lemy.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨relax⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I AM RELAXED OK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hi do yall this my hair is red⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's a fun game.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Back to the dick

  Jurassic dick

  Honey I shrunk the dick.

  Teenage mutant ninja dick

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OK what is your Roman name?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Potatoes with mushrooms, brussel sprouts and tofu in a creme sauceius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why can't countries with vast deserts make solar farms to power the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Power can only travel that far. Electricity gets lost during transport.

  2. The sun shines everywhere.

  So given these two things there is always a point where it is cheaper to build your own solar system than to get it from far away.

  3. There are more renewable sources of power. Wind. Water. Heat.

  4. The desert isn’t an euphemism for empty. It’s a climatological zone.

  5. There is political power in having control over electricity/power needs. The wild swings in oil prices reflect this fact. Reliance and necessity makes it far more logical to maintain your own source of electricity/power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He was never in it for personal growth he was in it for financial gains. He was a mere grifter, his opinions were for sale. There is a lot of money in right wing grifting when you reach his level of notoriety. His personal beliefs conveniently always pointed in the direction of money. Worth about $12m when he was executed. He believed in his bank accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could AI be better than an encyclopedia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem will always be that you have to use an llm to ask questions in natural language. Which means it gets training data from outside whatever database you’re trying to get information from. There isn’t enough training data in an encyclopedia to make an llm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could AI be better than an encyclopedia?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s just circular reasoning, since understanding is needed for communication.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Name this minivan⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  on the vance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So THAT'S where I parked my car!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makegg gregg eggain⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if it quacks like a duck…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makegg gregg eggain⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ella is a stupid name for a salmon anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Two things, firstly the one thing that needs to be avoided at all costs is raising taxes. Since this robs working and succesful people from their personal ability to take care of themselves and their families. Secondly that there needs to be a class distinction between the people who take advantage of the system and those who don’t. That is to say that in their mind society is functioning in such a way that anybody can ‘make it’ through some effort. And that those who supposedly don’t put in the effort aren’t supposed to be cuddled and given handouts, as an incentive to put in the effort as well.

  There is perfectly fine education, care and protection through private parties. Just hire those. You can’t? Well I guess you aren’t trying hard enough. We can concentrate police presence in criminal neighbourhoods. We can concentrate care and education in the neighbourhoods that do function correctly.

  This is their ideology I’m describing, not my own, just to be clear. Im being sarcastic.

  Reality is ofcourse more nuanced than what im saying, after all the neocon ideology needs to exist in the real world and adapt to it. Which mostly seems to lead to populism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where has the tax money "saved" in uk austerity gone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are several dials that can be tweaked to balance the budget. A (neo)liberal is for low taxes, small government, and selfcare. So their cuts, when the governments expenses are higher then the incomes, are in public services. And they won’t put it back, because that’s against their ideology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% vegetarian⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but only if you got it from a civet that is roadkill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some sounds just become the thing they are supposed to represent. They aren’t used because there are no more sounds to be made. Two reasons.

  First. Directors won’t use a schnauzer as a guard dog in a movie, because they don’t portrait the intention of a guard dog on screen. For exactly the same reason you can’t use a gong as a laser sound, it doesn’t portrait a laser.

  Second. People have collected sounds and made them available. There are stock sounds, just like there are stock pictures.

  And so, certain sounds have become used for certain things. And the more they are used the more iconic they become. The Wilhelm scream, red tailed hawk, and many more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A small art gallery in Japan just happened to have these pictures next to each other. And then it morphed into a popular meme template⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have denied my personal reality and substituted it with yours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to pluralize titles.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Supermen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got mine after having a stable relationship and a partner without a child wish.

  i knew from a very young age i didnt want kids, and have always picked partners that shared my view. I also knew that I would make a great dad if it ever came to it. So i never got the snip until i was 39.

  I don’t think I would have mind if I did it earlier, but it’s also not as necessary as you think. If you pick your partners carefully and be open about your wishes. This shouldn’t be a real issue. If you are having fantasies about fucking around a lot, you should wear protection anyway. And as a matter of fact, not being snipped will help to wear that shit.

  I want to mention lastly, please don’t get into a deep lasting relationship with a person who has a child wish. It will end badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally i can get my jacuzzi!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody gets one [choose wisely]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah great, I would like everything i ever would need to buy ever, always be on super sale. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay. Let me give a sane outsider take.

  First thing you have to understand is that there is a big disconnect between the conviction of Epstein and the influential connections he had. All the conspiracy talk about the island being a childporn hub for elites is nothing more than that: conspiracy fantasy. His suicide fueled many more ideas about the elite killing him, but again no evidence at all.

  However, there is a strong public pressure to research the connections between Epstein and the elites he knew. This has most likely been done in the background, since Epstein did shady finances. But Trump has campaigned heavily on the popular sentiment. And it lives in the minds of people a solution to lock up all the elites/draining the swamp.

  So now there is a big problem for the maga populists, there is a ‘list’ of connections to epstein. But there is no further evidence (yet) that those people did anything illegal, or is entirely complicated financial crime. The list probably includes just about the entire political spectrum includes donors and includes Trump. So everybody wants to handle this the correct way, including those donors. Nobody wants their name public because they spoke to a shady financial advisor. And any case against a super wealthy person needs to be watertight, they can afford a legal team.

  Is it possible that there was deeper predatory connections? sure. Epstein had easy access and no question that he was willing to share. Is that going to be written down in a list? absolutely not. Epstein did finances the shady way and that’s more likely the reason so many rich people were interested in his business.

  So this isnt a political issue. Of course, now it is. But that’s because Trump made it one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar powered personal umbrella with battery?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not add a bluetooth speaker and some search lights, maybe a perfume dispenser and a toothpick holder. fucking genius.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still remember?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  '99 Renault Megane scenic 1.9D

  it was dangerously slow. And I failed my first test because of it. I was supposed to merge in front of a truck, but i simply couldn’t get up to speed in the space i had. The exam lady refused to believe me that it couldn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, there are a lot of people willing to die for their country as it is. As soon as people are willing to give up their lives, you’re not changing shit. These people didn’t grow up like you and me.

  Secondly, there is a world of difference between stepping in and stepping in. One of the main reasons that North Korea is so isolated is because of sanctions. That is also a form of stepping in.

  Thirdly, we already saw war and foreign meddling in that area. That’s exactly why America is the great evil opponent of North Korea. That’s not a coincidence or just because Kim Il Sung, Kim Jung Il or Kim Jung Un hated “freedom”.

  Now you ask, what other solution is there?!

  Well, a lot of people are actually working on that. By launching information campaigns and spreading Western/foreign music into the country. Real change comes from within. But please remember that this country is now lead by the third generation of absolute leader.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You learn something new everyday⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The numbers for 1993 werent in yet?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you gotta go, you gotta go law.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Restcloset*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If this is you your priorities are all screwed up⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh shut, thanks for the wake up call op.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In a sense it is done. That sense is being a beacon of progress. All presidents before Trump understood the relationship America had with the world as being a world power. While there always was a conservative voice in America, conservative presidents were always able to mask self interest under the flag of progress, bringing democracy, peace and free markets. Now ultraconservative fascist are no longer masking, Trump and Musk are literally not smart enough to understand. The USA played a very important role in the world order and the current administration is basically giving that up.

  Trump and Musk, because they really aren’t smart (i can’t stress this enough, they lack the mental capacity), are not considering the value of that role, the services the US provides. They only think about the value of things and of money. More rockets, tarifs on goods, expenditure… And see these as things along which progress is measured.

  While that does, to a small extent, captures progress. It forgets the foundations of progress, peace, education, financial security, social cohesion, to name a few. Sorry, i say forget… But really what i should be saying is dismantling. They are also clueless about the value of services and the service economy. Which is, or has become, another measure of progress.

  Anyway the point is, the US can’t maintain their position in the world order. They can’t maintain a government that understands their responsibility in that order. They abandoned their classic role without providing the world with a new/better one.

  The US has been degraded to a trade partner.