ameancow
@ameancow@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fck it, we ball 34 minutes ago:
any female born after 1983 can’t cook… all they know is leaf litter, curl they shells up, scuttling, lay eggs, eat rotten plant matter and lie
- Comment on Realistcly how much can be cleaned out of a house, as a child of a hourder? 7 hours ago:
Do not look at the mess and think about how much work it will take to clear it all out, that’s just going to overwhelm you and make you frustrated, so focus on your living space, wherever you sleep. Do some massive cleanout of your immediate area. Then the kitchen and bathroom(s) that you use specifically. Focus on yourself first.
As they say, always put on your own oxygen mask before helping anyone with theirs.
That’s it, just focus on having a clean room and hygienic bathroom and food-prep areas. You will face constant setbacks and every time you clear a countertop, there will be a new sack of clutter and bullshit placed there the next day. Learn to manage your frustrations and keep to the plan while you work on getting your own life together enough that you can move out and get therapy. You will need therapy.
If having a couple small clean areas inspires your family to do more, great. Just don’t expect it. Hoarding is a mental health problem that needs serious treatment and some level of self-awareness by the hoarder that they have a problem, so don’t expect to fix it, just try to carve yourself a path out.
- Comment on time for learn 4 days ago:
It’s making fun of the long-standing trend of using abstract generated imagery that fetishizes a technological view of the world while trying to talk about human issues, as well as the somewhat over-the-top literalism of AI art broadly.
There is also an “anti-meme” trend online that uses literal translations of imagery to make absurdist jokes.
- Comment on At least one of the 7 letters has still some relevance to my life. 4 days ago:
Nostalgia is not about the actual thing itself, but the person you were when you enjoyed that thing.
- Comment on Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO 5 days ago:
Translation: they’re going to make everything else more expensive, like they already do to offset hardware prices.
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 5 days ago:
This is no longer about what you want, we’ll just inject pineapple juice and rum in your other arm and bring you to party down with some vampire hotties.
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 5 days ago:
The short answer is most of life on Earth shares some basic levels of chemistry. That doesn’t mean it’s a perfect fit though, just that human bodies are resilient enough to make due with terrible substitutes at times.
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 5 days ago:
And bras for womenfolk stranded on the island.
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 5 days ago:
An unusual reaction to the prospect of having your life saved, but far easier to arrange than other solutions I guess.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 6 days ago:
This whole “why don’t you do it first” reply is no more intelligent than saying “I ain’t reading all that” or “the curtains were just blue” or other dumb thought-stopping exercises vomited out by a generation with no attention spans. I reject it, I block those who dump that like they’re somehow doing some good by trying to find hypocrisy in an idea that makes them uncomfortable.
- Comment on Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment" 6 days ago:
We are all going to have to start figuring out how to socialize face-to-face again.
Sorry guys, the internet broadly is dying for anything but corporate interests and people with rotten agendas trying to manipulate people. It brings you nothing but stress in your personal lives, why stick to it? Who is using it that you need to spend all day in discord to keep them company? Live for a better tomorrow with actual experiences, dust yourself off and start going out and experiencing the world while you still can.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 6 days ago:
It does get tiresome going to steam threads and seeing the same copy pasted “don’t ruin the game with woke shit” post up voted to the top.
I don’t think I’ve read a steam forum post in close to a decade, and even then it was a very niche thing I was looking for. I have long since stopped feeling any enjoyment or novelty in seeing completely random people’s thoughts, since in the last few years particularly, people have no intention to communicate and broadly just want attention, which has become monetized so the problem is far worse than it used to be.
Seriously, at some point we’re going to have to accept that the internet is dead or too close to death to be useful for interacting with other humans. I think we all need to stop communicating online on forums and discord and the like, it’s all become weaponized and not enough people are left without agendas and campaigns they’re trying to push. Let’s go back to how we did it for thousands of years and just talk to each other and make real-world friends, leave the assholes and shills and sock-puppets to fight among themselves.
- Comment on Nice horsie! 🐎 1 week ago:
That could have potentially been bred out for domesticated strains like we did with horses also, but we never even got to that point because Horse hierarchy and zebra hierarchy are very different beasts, and you can’t really tame a zebra matriarch and have the rest of the herd fall into line, because zebras don’t have that kind of matriarchal social system.
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 1 week ago:
I had to go through all of this so many times when struggling with a failed life and business.
I had ONE good agent who helped me and reminded me that I pay for all these programs, and the agent’s job is to help us qualify for them, not to judge nor moralize any part of it.
All the other agents judged and moralized to a degree that I eventually let my SNAP funding expire because I couldn’t keep going in there and facing the people scouring my business receipts for some implied wrongdoing.
Despite that, it’s still your right, you still paid for all of it, even if you don’t pay income tax, there is tax on anything and everything you buy and do, so you’re not doing anything other than collecting what you’ve loaned to the government. Hold your head up and look them in the eye if they ever challenge you, and apply for every goddamn program you’re eligible for, and if anyone gives you shit about it, you talk to their manager, and if they don’t help, talk to that person’s manager.
(One agent who was openly hostile and lectured me about “looking capable of working” and had a bad attitude through the whole process actually got fired because I complained, the manager of that DES office actually called me to let me know and to tell me they felt bad about it and that it’s not their job to be judgemental or invalidate others.)
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Someone said it best describing Destiny 2, that it’s a perpetual feeling of building towards something that’s always just around the corner, but when you get around that corner, it’s just more grinding and pushing premium content, just around the corner. It’s gonna huge bro, I promise. Big stuff coming. Just ahead, just buy one more season bro.
I notice it’s a reoccurring theme for people to go through stuff like that with MMOs.
I think we all have our check-out bottom we will fall to when life hurts too much, some people will just rot in bed and some will watch old movies and some will camp in the woods. We have breaking points in life, and sometimes an online game where people seem to be having normal lives just feels like being someone still connected to the world. When I was little and my parents would go on week-long drug benders and spend the whole time screaming at each other, I would check out into comics and books, so it’s probably where I learned how to do it inadvertently.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
The shot reminded me of Elder Scrolls Online at first, and I had that very real PTSD.
When I was going through the worst part of my life, losing everything, burying my family and pets, closing down my business and having my home foreclosed due to family medical issues, I played Elder Scrolls for a couple years for no other reason than to spend time with someone I cared about. I hated the game, it was exciting for the first couple hours until I realized how far it deviated from the actual franchise and how limited the gameplay really was, how everything was just a funnel towards premium content and skins.
I drank like a fish and laid in trash watching my life fall apart as I sat in Elder Scrolls listening to people chatter and watching them duel, because I didn’t want to be alone because I didn’t trust myself to be alone.
I did start over and everything is a lot better now, but holy shit, that game ruined Morrowind, Skyrim and the entire game world for me.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There are a lot of serious laws in the US about owning, transporting and storing explosives (thank you Anarchist bomber movement last century) as well as requirements for permits and the like, so you would have to prove it was a “gift” and not intended to be used for anything, but even then you would not only face negligence charges/manslaughter if someone was killed, but also various kinds of “aggravated” charges related to public safety. I am not a lawyer but I have a feeling the prosecution would make a pretty heavy case to make an example.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 1 week ago:
No you’re right, and part of the problem in the US is our absolutely batshit, contradictory social conditioning around sex, nudity and the body.
We are utterly archaic in social attitudes here. We had a full-on national crisis when everyone saw a nipple at the super-bowl one time. Yet we sexualize anything remotely female and young to a sickening degree.
This kind of weird paradoxical attitude designed to make you feel shame and desire together has completely ruined any chance of healthy attitudes around sex for millions of young boys who grew up in this media landscape, and had no idea how to deal with it and fell down the incel pipeline, and millions of young girls who only see a world of predation and those angry incels and want nothing to do with dating or boys, driving the wedge further and further.
This utterly baffling societal attitude has empowered people like Epstein and his affiliates since way back, and made it a lot easier for people to commit sex crimes, particularly against children. 🙈 🙉 🙊
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Ah, so your idea is a dead-man’s-switch, clever.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
Like I said, they don’t actually need to. You’re going to have your own silent buddy watching everything you do!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It would absolutely, 100% go to trial, and the prosecution could easily prove an intent to harm.
As much as the Better Call Saul kinds of legal arguments look clever on TV, in reality the law is much more about vibes and how people interpret what happened.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Extremely, there are explicit laws against booby trapping your own property and you can face full prosecution even if it harms only burglars.
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 1 week ago:
go step on a partially melted ice cube in your socks.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
Why not. If we’re stuck with sketchy, lawless apps for chatting we might as well go back to the OG sketchy, lawless chat app.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
I’m sure they’re very sowwy and have learned their lesson and your face and personal, private browsing habits will be perfectly secure, and even the AI bot that will “monitor your habits to decide your implicit age” will be very quiet with all your sensitive personal details and not give it to anyone even if they ask very nicely for it.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
“Regular” content and spaces are untouched.
They are also rolling out something like an AI that monitors your chatting and browsing habits that can determine your “implicit age” as well, this isn’t exactly shocking, but it’s gross how it’s being promoted as a handy feature.
The entire thing is a state surveillance project and yes, they are working on desensitizing the population to having no privacy or personal lives.
Sure hope our government doesn’t collapse to a fascist oligarchy or authoritarian surveillance state, sure could bite us all in the ass when the armed deathsquads get ahold of both our identifications, faces and our ideology and the names and faces of all our friends and family members.
Or would be a shame if all the people who use discord to communicate with other marginalized people suddenly had all their personal information revealed to friends, family and schools, including what chat channels and servers they visit, what games they play, who their friends are and so on.
Oh well, I’m sure the company and the government will be completely fair and transparent about all of our online identities.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
One of many massive security leaks!
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
Dark Tom needs to rise to kick the internet’s ass and create a new, old internet that has no algorithms or bots.
I guess we would need some way to confirm the users aren’t AI or bad actors so we would need to use kind of face reco- oh, I see. We’re trapped in hell.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
I am never going to convince my younger family members to change platform, they literally keep discord on 24/7 with their friends and SO’s and keep lobbies open around the clock to wander in and play games and stream and thrive in the social space.
It’s horrifically un-secure and I hate so much about the whole thing from a safety standpoint.
I will likely kill my main account and delete all my personal data and messages, for whatever good that will do, and just make a dummy account to received messages and say hi to family. Same as I did with facebook and other social media.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
There are lots and lots of companies that use discord the same way they use facebook, just a place to promote and gather “feedback” and such. They likely mean they ran the official company server, not that they use discord to chat between teams.
Although I’ve done that before too.