brendansimms
@brendansimms@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 4 days ago:
Most of them are virtual groups - no need to leave the bed!
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 5 days ago:
You could try out a DSA book club. They sometimes read through fiction books that are much more entertaining than straight up economic theory (…for some) then everyone discusses. It’s a very approachable way to start understanding marxist/leftist socioeconomic ideas. Link: Reading Groups
- Comment on average red state university 5 days ago:
There was a shortformvid clip I saw some time ago that stuck with me: You can only ‘believe’ in something that does NOT have evidence for it (or at least not conclusive evidence), otherwise you would KNOW it to be true. Belief requires a certain amount of uncertainty. Note that I am in no way religious and in no way am saying people should believe religious texts, just sharing an interesting take on the concept of ‘believing’
- Comment on Starfield on PS5 Pro is the best it's ever been, but it's still Starfield | RPG Site 1 week ago:
I played it with mods that forced me to construct everything from scratch. Super-enjoyable that way; created a multi-system logistics network that moved all raw goods to a single planet, than created a massive manufacturing base. Got bored and just played Satisfactory, which is apparently all I wanted anyway. Also, Eve online is way cooler.
- Comment on Crying is a free action 1 week ago:
- Comment on Enshittification: Science and Applications (published by Nature) is hit with "pooptical power" 2 weeks ago:
I’m not an optics expert, but I don’t think that’s right. Sad state of things when this gets published in a Nature-adjacent journal. Unless pooptical is a thing, in which case … I want to know more
- Comment on Having to work during the apocalypse sucks 2 weeks ago:
you CAN effect change, major change. You choose not to, which is fine. But a single person can most definitely change the world.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 1 month ago:
then every MRI machine would be haunted
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 2 months ago:
just cover your drones in mirrors ciattbabingboomdone
- Comment on Student Parking 2 months ago:
At UMD, you have to buy a parking pass, but during basketball and football games you can’t use them and you can’t park there, because they’re selling our spaces for more money to sports attendees. Insane.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 2 months ago:
but…where are the gestapo and soldiers to harass the people?
- Comment on Just for you 3 months ago:
ya’ll done with the corn i guess
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 4 months ago:
bro this is the winner
- Comment on Shut up science!! 4 months ago:
Blue light being bad is a conspiracy theory by big eyewear to sell more glasses (I’m being tongue in cheek but I think its kinda true). I don’t have the link but I read some paper about how its more likely that the reduced blinking rate while watching screens is the real culprit
- Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies" 5 months ago:
Zelda is classically open world though - since the og nintendo
- Comment on It's official: Teamsters President Sean O'Brien is a **Class Traitor & Republican Stooge** - (Details in post body) 5 months ago:
I lol’d. I GUFFAWED at that third paragraph.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 5 months ago:
Thank you for setting the record straight. Von Trapp is punk af. His whole vibe is NAZI PUNKS FUCK OFF
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 6 months ago:
EVE ONLINE UNTIL I DIE
- Comment on How often do guys have a haircut? 6 months ago:
did you put mirrors on both walls?
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 7 months ago:
no. Snoop is a fucking idiot and this comment is stupid too. Watch this: “Same sex couples can adopt kids that don’t have parents of their own”. DONE. Your comment reads like it was copy/pasted from 1980 about how interracial dating is an abomination but you just changed a few words.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 7 months ago:
He’s on the front page of Fox News- they love him for it Image
- Comment on First time posters be like 7 months ago:
Obama killed reddit with that AMA and i will NEVER FORGIVE HIM. oh yea also the drone bombing was bad too.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 8 months ago:
Can you provide an example where “Most people … choose the non-human one because its significantly cheaper to the consumer of the product/service.”
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 8 months ago:
I see AI as a positive because it undermines the monopoly on intellectual property of capitalists I would contest that it does the exact opposite. Massive companies have been given free reign to legally steal (see Meta’s plagiarism/piracy court docs) from the entire internet. They then roll out the ai model, that they own, which can recreate things (art, writing, technical docs, etc) that are amalgamations of all the stolen work. They then sell subscriptions for people to use their ai, funneling people away from paying real artists.
- Comment on What do you call the first person with a new genetic mutation 8 months ago:
“A person”. Every single person has genetic mutations that differentiate them from every other person. Now if their mutation happens to be wings or something, then I don’t know, ‘Bird-Person’ probably.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 9 months ago:
switch to linux mint and all these issues poof away
- Comment on Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be? 9 months ago:
I guess its up to us
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 9 months ago:
there are very rich and powerful people who spend all of their ‘working’ time actively fighting against those things. They (clearly) would sooner support the construction of the fourth reich in america than give up profit streams like energy/housing/automotive.
- Comment on So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like? 9 months ago:
damn homie are you the heritage foundation
- Comment on We live wasted lives 9 months ago:
no i am.
