grrgyle
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- Comment on We could have had it all 1 day ago:
Pigeons only unclean because they have to stand on our garbage
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 3 days ago:
Thank you jerk face!!
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 3 days ago:
Thanks for sharing, this is a better write-up than I would’ve done.
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 4 days ago:
I buy on Bandcamp Fridays, but am suspicious of that platform since they changed owners so often without any input from the community or musicians.
I’m keeping my eye on subvert.fm as a hopefully more democratic option.
- Comment on Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally 4 days ago:
Prepogrom
- Comment on Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally 4 days ago:
Wow what a wretched collection of individuals. These assholes can’t all possibly be in agreement with each other — don’t you wonder if they aren’t given pause by some of the company they’re stacked next to?
Like if I was giving a speech somewhere and Elon Musk, for example, had just delivered his I’d start to suspect I wasn’t on the right side of things, let alone in the best of company…
- Comment on My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW 6 days ago:
Rofl what a piece of piss website
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 1 week ago:
I’m sensing a pattern.
No but seriously, the psychopathic allure of leadership (Forbes, sry just the first link I found) is leading to civilization scale decisions which are 1) out of sync with what a reasonable person wants, 2) counter to general human flourishing.
Tech leadership wants us to worry about potential ethical “alignment issues” with a theoretical AGI, but we’re already in crisis if those leading us don’t share our basic human values.
PS. I’m not trying to say psychopaths nonghuman. They’re the same species and probably as conscious as I am. I just don’t think they’re an apt choice to decide matters for humans who do have empathy. Imagine a chef with no sense of taste running a restaurant kind of deal.
- Comment on Related: https://lemmy.wtf/comment/16937362 1 week ago:
Neighbours at least talking to each other
- Comment on Oh god 1 week ago:
Thanks, that is genuinely nice to hear. Was there any particular type of meditation that worked for you?
- Comment on Oh god 1 week ago:
Forgetting is second only to acceptance, yeah. Left to my own devices I’ll just fixate on the past, replaying the scenes and emotions over and over like that one Black Mirror episode.
I wish I didn’t spend so much of my time in the past.
- Comment on Oh god 1 week ago:
Me in the shower realizing I misgendered someone again
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
Ah yes, I could see that situation arising, although frankly I’m as surprised to hear of landlords competing for tenants as I would be to hear of them selling their properties for under market value. Not that I’m doubting your honesty–it’s just not been my personal experience.
I’ve heard too many personal anecdotes of landlords trying to hike up rates by seeking spurious evictions, or refusing to install climate control, for tenants who are getting a “good deal” at lower rates. Maybe there are rational markets out there, but I don’t personally hold out much hope for landlords to be reasonable in the face of the dual pressures of fear and greed.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s the vagaries of the housing market and valuation, which is why I said equivalent property.
There’s also no reason you couldn’t sell that house for 400k less. The value is just the value. It’s going to be the same whether you’re renting or paying the bank for the same property.
I also won big by buying prepan, but who’s up or down in the Canadian housing lotto doesn’t change the physics of paying a lord’s mortgage costing more than if you were paying the bank’s mortgage directly.
Nevermind that whoever gets to be lord keeps the equity.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
It’s a little nefarious
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
All rents cover mortgage, taxes, insurance, upkeep, and usually a percentage profit on top of it all. Unless your lord is renting to you at cost or below (in which case they’re losing money (not counting equity)), then there is no way the cost to rent would be higher on an equivalent property.
Like just imagine if you wanted to rent out your property for $1900/mo - you couldn’t do it.
- Comment on A conundrum 1 week ago:
How??!
- Comment on No one could make it out in one piece 1 week ago:
What is this animé?
- Comment on Y'ALL NEED TO WAKE UP!! 1 week ago:
YOUWANATOO
- Comment on Y'ALL NEED TO WAKE UP!! 1 week ago:
Me at any house party foolish enough to invite me
- Comment on Leaked footage of Human Head's long-buried Prey 2 reveals a cyberpunk shooter with a spring in its step 2 weeks ago:
Oh nvm it’s still dead
- Comment on Leaked footage of Human Head's long-buried Prey 2 reveals a cyberpunk shooter with a spring in its step 2 weeks ago:
Please I am begging, make this one about indigeneity and colonialism
- Comment on holup 2 weeks ago:
I get the feeling our winters are not the same. This would kill me lol
- Comment on holup 2 weeks ago:
It really helps I find. The warmer it is the more I expose. Generally something like
- foot
- feet
- leg
- arm over cover
- more leg
- back open to air
- upper torso
- entire torso
- legs
- nethers
- Comment on Me, whenever I see AI slop on my shitposts (original content I suppose) 2 weeks ago:
Glorious handcrafted OC thank you 😭
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah teeth is a pro move only
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
The alphabet is good advice, but more for finding the right “letter” for your partner and—this is crucial—sticking to it unless it stops working (sometimes things just shift and you gotta adapt).
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
What kind of animal just does counter clockwise.
- Comment on Im here to bring facts this sunday 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if I’m doing it wrong, but I soloed two dozen cons over the last two weeks, and my poop still just looks like poop.
I do remember this being a thing when I was a kid though
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
Yeah or they’re really introverted they’ll at least use their imagination to disassociate.
Like I used to look around and imagine little beings making their way around objects and walls. Or looking into the distance and imagining things farther away were right in front of me, but the same size — so now you’ve got a miniature waiter running around the table, trying to catch the little beings.
My ability to zone out probably masked a lot of brain problems, but it did also make me a champ at sitting in waiting rooms while having the time of my life.