galanthus
@galanthus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Death to Nickels 3 days ago:
Dying of dysentery is not a tradition, genius.
- Comment on Death to Nickels 3 days ago:
I can think of a president far more repulsive than any king.
Putting kings on coins is a very old tradition, originating in Rome. Culture is important.
- Comment on Always guard against living in the world of fantasy rather than undeniable facts 3 days ago:
Moral objectivism and Rand’s objectivism are two completely different things.
Rand’s philosophy is opposed to traditional morality.
- Comment on Death to Nickels 4 days ago:
This would be great. I love coins.
But your coins don’t even have a face of a king and cool latin words on them, so they aren’t quite as great as I’d like.
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 1 week ago:
Well, sorry for the accusation. AI usually gives these bullet points when prompted.
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 1 week ago:
Are these AI bullet points, lmao?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I read it as "robot that can eat orgasms for fuel. My version is better.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 3 weeks ago:
Acting is not about changing the appearance.
Race is relevant since it tells us quite a bit about someone and people of different races are and have historically been treated differently by society. Japanese people, for instance, were(still are) quite xenophobic.
Why not cast an african or a white person as the Emperor of Japan then? Can’t they act?
Let’s have a white Martin Luther King. Let’s make black people play slaveowners and whip other blacks around, surely they can act quite well.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 3 weeks ago:
How do you act like you have black skin, for instance?
- Comment on Nicole endgame 4 weeks ago:
Share it with us please please please.
- Comment on Pi Day Friday! 5 weeks ago:
Well, if you just made an apple pie you would have also made a universe that would consist of only the apple pie.
- Comment on Mr. Grey, can I go to the bathroom? 1 month ago:
I am sceptical of how one would be able to decipher Japanese as a European language speaker, it is very foreign. Also, just because in some specific cases the dub is of a low quality does not mean that it is always inferior. In fact, all things being equal I would prefer the language I can understand even if it is not tge original language.
Howewer, I just watched “Mars Express” in french to see if I enjoy it, and it was kind of nice. The subtitles did not always translate what was said exactly from what I could gather, but I rather enjoy how the language sounds. I guess it makes sense to watch it in a specific language for the atmosphere.
But now I feel stupid for not knowing french. Will have to start learning it I guess.
- Comment on Mr. Grey, can I go to the bathroom? 1 month ago:
What’s the point of original audio, if you can’t understand it?
- Comment on Mr. Grey, can I go to the bathroom? 1 month ago:
I prefer it as well, when I can understand the language.
- Comment on Mr. Grey, can I go to the bathroom? 1 month ago:
I believe this might have been an instance of so-called “flirting”.
- Comment on Mr. Grey, can I go to the bathroom? 1 month ago:
If you don’t speak Japanese, why would you watch anime in Japanese? Do you watch all films you do not know the original languages of with subtitles?
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
Ok thanks for the reply. When you said you had aphantasia and no inner monologue I thought you were a philosiphical zombie. I guess I was wrong, but there is no way to know I suppose.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
That’s interesting, I myself can sometimes think without a monologue. I did it just now, and I am not sure if I do not use words, but I do not actually hear them, but I know the thoughts are there somehow. It often happens on its own when I have a lot of thoughts at the same time or think really fast about something.
But usually I talk to myself in my head, this is either a monologue or a sort of dialogue, and I often tell myself to shut up out loud when no one is around. I also imagine music, and I can enjoy it this way, and I do so pretty accurately. I play by ear.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
I am sorry for the questions, this is really interesting.
What about maths? How do you do geometry? Do you have to have a drawing or can you manage without it? How do you understand geometry if you can’t see it’s objects?
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
And what happens when you read a description of something? Do you just have an idea of what it is, because if so, it seems to me that some of the value of literature will be lost. Do you actually feel anything when you read a description of something beautiful, for instance?
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
Interestingly enough, silent reading was historically uncommon due to the fact that literature was less common than it is now and, most importantly, the lack of separation between words.
The ability to read silently was considered very unusual.
- Comment on motherfu.... 2 months ago:
The first one is hotter.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Surely you can freely discuss this in blue states, right?
- Comment on Some eggs for my 'murican friends 2 months ago:
How else would you describe it?
- Comment on Some eggs for my 'murican friends 2 months ago:
What you described is the normal one. The american one does not have solid chocolate at all as I described.
- Comment on Some eggs for my 'murican friends 2 months ago:
I prefer the normal sized ones.
Or do you mean you will buy the american one?
- Comment on Some eggs for my 'murican friends 2 months ago:
If I remember correctly, they don’t even have chocolate in solid form, and the plastic egg splits into two halves, with one having the toy inside and the other some kind of white thing with two balls.
This is not really a kinder egg tbh, it is too different and loses the cool part about it which is the toy being inside the chocolate egg.
- Comment on Would this be a red or green flag? 2 months ago:
Where is this from?
- Comment on Would this be a red or green flag? 2 months ago:
Oh, that is sweet. I suppose I kind of get the reason why you did feel ashamed, but I do not think this way generally. I might feel pity for someone like that, but hardly guilt, since if they took the job out of self interest, it would be worse for them if I didn’t offer it. The only thing you can do to help them then is give them the money they want without making any demands of them, but all wage labour functions in such a way, that it offers a monetary reward for time and labour, it is hardly worse to work as a maid than to work in a factory. If you want to do charity, you do not have to fire your maid.
I am not quite sure: did you feel guilty because you was uncomfortable with hiring another person to do your bidding, or because you thought it was excessive to hire them and so it is wrong because making someone work to fulfil such an unnecessary need is unethical?
But I do not mean to say you were wrong to feel guilty about this. I am just sharing my thoughts on it, and I think that your sentiment was noble, in a way.
- Comment on Would this be a red or green flag? 2 months ago:
I see your point, but asking someone to value someone over themselves in such a way is a bit much. Charity to such a degree(giving away your money whenever you want to spend it on unnecessary labour/goods) is for saints.
A lifestyle of bourgeois decadence is something that is difficult to refuse. Are you sure you would be able to?
