ameancow

@ameancow@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care if people use it, I cannot stand when people wave it around like a new teddy bear that gives them a smug sense of superiority for… checks notes …using a product that someone is selling to let stupid people do easy things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry my post didn’t have Subway Surfers playing in the corner with a popular streamer reacting to it so you could actually read it and understand it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not impressed by today’s AI and I also fully understand that the tech is going to completely upend society and will eventually be a part of our picture of utopia, or our picture of actual hell on Earth.

  The people who are screaming it’s wild wonders and benefits are at least as closed-minded as the people who think we’re going to be able to put the toothpaste back in the tube. The actual direction this tech moves is going to be far more like the discovery of radio, in that at the time of it’s discovery and early implementation, the people then had no idea the implications down the road and we’re at the same point. Except the big difference and why this is contentious is that radio was far less dangerous to society broadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spaceballs 2 | Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are more and more promising trials of life-extension drugs, procedures and genetic tricks, It seems like we might be only a couple decades away from extending human lifespans* by around 30% from conservative averages.

  I wonder how many of us are going to slide under that lowering Indiana-Jones door. And how many people are going to live on after seeing people they care for dying to a disease that we still think of as natural. and will look back at one day the way we look at how we lived before germ theory or antibiotics existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spaceballs 2 | Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Boys was great. For about 1.5 seasons and then became an expensive, repetitive, gratuitous mess that made no effort to keep changing the formula. I actually convinced myself it was okay enough to get through the whole series then looked back and thought “I can’t remember a single significant plot development that led to anything real beyond the first season.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spaceballs 2 | Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a feeling it will be a disappointment. Not because the quality of the movie will have changed, but because all of us have changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spaceballs 2 | Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We sort of do but it will be a nightmare abomination of stitched together dead things.

  (I’m talking about AI, not actual frankenstein tech, John probably would have been cool with that way of coming back.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spaceballs 2 | Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely thought he had passed several years ago, I had a real Mandela-Effect moment when I saw this trailer, I thought at first “There’s no way this will be funny without Mel leading it.” Then he appeared and seemed old but energetic and thought “there is no WAY they used AI to resurrect him, this is horrible!”

  It took a few minutes for me to figure out what reality I was in and I still have my doubts about Spaceballs remake, not because I don’t think it will be funny, but because the general population who discusses things and overanalyzes things get the loudest voice and review bomb movies that are supposed to be just fun and not a pointed social statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spaceballs 2 | Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You might be a tad on the young side. These kinds of movies were a product of their time and likely wouldn’t hold up for people who grew up in the age of Tiktok, Vine, youtube shorts, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We are a species of cognitive dissonance. I want to know how many of the people reading this story and feeling revolted or horrified were eating meat at the time.

  Also not a vegan per-say, but I have reduced my meat intake and try to buy local to avoid giving money to the nightmare hellscapes like Tyson and Perdue the like. That’s about the best I can manage in my current lifestyle.

  Everyone needs to reconcile and work out this dilemma. It’s amazing how many people are dishonest with themselves and others about their reasons for feeling the way they do about eating meat, killing animals, etc. It’s okay to say “I love animals but not enough to quit eating meat” and accept it in yourself. It’s not a worse moral failing than a hundred other contradictory ideas we all hold in our heads every day. It’s okay to say “I find this story distasteful because killing animals should be done behind closed doors to respect others.” That’s also a fine opinion to have.

  I don’t get why people have to do backflips to rationalize shit. We are irrational species.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luv Me Chips, 'ate Seagulls...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Factory farms and the entire livestock/dairy/meat does indeed suck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a guy's house⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t looked into the methodology but I would wager off the top of my head that it has to do with the large migrant population in America. (you’ve probably seen a little bit of news about it) California being a highly populated, coastal state with a booming economy means it has more of everything. It has the most problems and conversely it has the most high-tech, progressive ideas and industries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you take him for a walk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s barely a thing. Some parents with special-needs kids or parents with a lot to juggle in places like amusement parks sometimes use leashes or backpack-leads to keep their kids close, but nobody actually cares much, nobody is actually shamed, nobody laughs and points, nobody gives it a second glance.

  This is the kind of thing that’s played up for laughs or memed about because it’s objectively a funny concept depending on context, but don’t get lost down the rabbit-hole of internet users overthinking every goddamn thing and making everything into an issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you take him for a walk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t an issue, it’s used by some parents but hardly anyone actually cares outside of comedy skits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you take him for a walk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m all in favor of using unconventional methods for health and safety, but really outside of a few special cases like improving blood-flow in reattached limbs or other body parts, I’m not sure why we’re trying to put leaches on children, it seems like a bad idea, but I guess if you just keep leaches as pets and don’t have another blood source for them, maybe just ask your kids first. Smh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you take him for a walk?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a disconnected and medicated/unmedicated thought, but I’ll give it a pass because in America we really do seem to be doing everything possible to make our neighborhoods as lethal as possible.

  As for leaches on children, I guess it’s they’re used in some medical cases like reattached limbs that need blood-flow, but leaches are kind of gross and don’t serve much good besides those few examples, so I don’t know why we’re trying to use them again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a dream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dreams may or may not have anything to do with reality, but how you interpret your own dreams upon waking is absolutely grounded in the reality of your own mental state. A lot of people have dreams like this where they want to do the thing that’s fun but something gets in the way and we go “haha wild that dreams are always like that” and we don’t dwell on it.

  If you’re mentally unhealthy, have wrecked self-esteem, or battling depression, anxiety, other issues, you’re probably going to find a lot more meaning from very small things than someone healthier. These kinds of things are a wake-up-call that you need better self-care, and that can include just learning to not ruminate on your feelings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a dream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not about “her” because “she” doesn’t exist.

  This is about self-esteem, not sex or consent. It’s not even about his dream, because plenty of people have dreams where they don’t get what they want. It’s about how he views himself. I’m confused how this post is like, 3-dozen comments about consent and relationships when it’s one kid viewing himself through… himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon has a dream⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was his dream. She’s not real. She is a reflection of his own subconscious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns happiness is simpler than he thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very hard to see past the marketing, the social media and the fakeness that we swim in every day to realize that “average” is exceptional when it comes to people you have connection with, and realistic is beautiful when you’re happy with someone.

  Very hard to pass this message on to porn-addicted boys right now, part of why it’s hard to talk sense into this current generation of man-o-sphere babies who rather be helpless victims of progressive politics than admit they’re just horny kids who need to talk to real people more and get a handle on their rumination.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns happiness is simpler than he thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to being old, fellow oldie. How’s oldness olding up for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns happiness is simpler than he thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t sell books to teenage boys and 20-somethings by telling them they need to be more appreciative of small blessings, not when they’re so horny that they can’t think straight. You gotta sell them the idea that they can embrace all the same toxic traits that are making them miserable, but with a branding that sounds legitimate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns happiness is simpler than he thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Most young dudes who subscribe to “stoicism” think it means getting a square jaw from the square jaw store and then not showing happiness about anything. Like they already do, but now with self-help terminology backing it.

  I’d love to see a new movement where guys learn to express overwhelming joy at small things in life and can be genuine with each other about literally anything rather than making every moment together the Sarcasm Olympics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon learns happiness is simpler than he thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lost everything in my life at one point, started over.

  Now I live by post-apocalypse rules for happiness:

  Roof? Check. Food? Check. Not bleeding? Hell yeah, gonna be a good day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Talented child artist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I might even commission this artist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a guy's house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isolated incidents of ignorance are common, but I have seen a clear shift on a larger scale. There are a lot of statistics that back up a larger-scale decline in cognitive abilities in Americans in particular.

  A lot of people start thinking real fast when they have to face the consequences of their actions.

  Our population only “thinks” when they’re struggling, trying to overcome an obstacle,

  I’m not talking about my isolated incident, I’m noticing a larger issue, isolated incidents are becoming more common, that’s what I wrote out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a guy's house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’m more forgiving if it’s literal kids, like teenagers and younger, at least they have the excuse of not having fully formed brains yet and are always distracted anyway, any generation.

  My worry is the people I referenced in my anecdotal lament are well into adulthood, and it’s not isolated. I clearly remember a time when things were different. Everyone is acting like distracted teenagers through conversations, business calls, work appointments and using services. When your primary view of the world is through the lens of the broad internet, it can be easy to miss because there is the slimmest barrier of entry to get to a site like “Lemmy” but now most average internet users just scroll the home-screen on their phone or use social media apps that aggregate content. We’re at a 20% functional illiteracy rate for the US and this should be some kind of alarm that goes off and locks the entire country down when seen in at the same time as a 500% increase in reported "air rage incidents."

  We’re heading for a zombie apocalypse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a guy's house⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My less cheeky advice for not doing it, is that it’s also very dusty there, and leaving water pooled on the floor anywhere basically just makes thin layers of dust/skin concrete that build up over time, it will be a gross pain to clean someday and will provide a nice little starter-ecosystem.

  It’s all fun and games until you see your first monster scuttle out from under there during a monsoon season.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a guy's house⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a relative, full grown adult, they threw away a big-gulp cup almost entirely filled with ice into my trash. I do not have industrial trash-bags, I am not a mall, we do not have wheeled bins to collect solid and fluid waste at the end of the day. I have flimsy dollar-store trash can liners, because like most people, I am but a human of limited means.

  I grabbed the cup and asked them why they did that. They stared at me without a hint of recognition or understanding. I pressed.

  “The cup full of ice, why did you throw it away in the trash? The sink is two feet away.”

  Still puzzled. “So? it’s just ice.”

  “WHAT IS ICE MADE OF?”

  They shrugged. I sighed and let it go.

  This story doesn’t end there though. Because it led me to the most depressing epiphany of my adult life, which is that people broadly are not thinking. And I don’t mean it in an edgy “I’m smarter than everyone” way, because I realized I am equally unthinking about a vast number of things, it’s just that most people run on autopilot through their entire day, their entire week, their entire lives. You can be very, very smart and educated, and still not think.

  So what is thinking then? It’s conscious narrative exploration of current events in one’s head, using language, using questions, using tools to rapidly explore the world around you as you move through it. I realized that I do that constantly (and that’s also considered being on the spectrum.) It’s why I don’t throw full cups of liquid into other people’s trash bags, but it’s also why I’m miserable and overthink everything and have severe anxiety. No filter, no autopilot.

  Our population only “thinks” when they’re struggling, trying to overcome an obstacle, and for most of us, our obstacles are so abstract and hard to quantify that we just ride through our days. Capitalism has fueled an incentive to seek comforts and conveniences, so the vast majority of our day is in pursuit of comfort and conveniences, so we can stop thinking. The reward we seek is also our doom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a guy's house⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your default response to things on the floor is to kick them out of sight, then you probably have those worse issues.