spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there any point for current US-based "skilled immigrants" to stay in the US? 50 minutes ago:
Friends and family. They might even like their local community. Tons of reasons.
- Comment on A re-edit of M Night Shyamalan's 'Trap' becomes a film about a frustrated dad at a Taylor Swift concert. 1 hour ago:
Fantastic.
The dad looking at his phone hit home.
- Comment on What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head? 3 hours ago:
That’s a good 'un!
Juntax? Who you want me kill?
It’s been a couple years and I don’t know how it was soelled, but that’s what I remember hearing. Loved playing the orcs.
- Comment on Just a little guy 22 hours ago:
Oh no.
- Comment on Why does the snow melt in this pattern? 22 hours ago:
The material underneath the top layer will impact how the material temp changes.
It looks like it has some underlying material that is in the square and X shapes that is either retaining heat at a different rate that the surface material or possibly absorbing heat from the warmer ground mass that isn’t as cold as the surface and it is enough of a difference for the snow to melt faster there than the surrounding area.
- Comment on I want a name for this 1 day ago:
I vary between spacing out, zoning out, or the already mentioned autopilot.
- Comment on Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers 1 day ago:
Yeah, at the time I assumed that the people intentionally spreading in game were just trolling because there was no actual danger to themselves. Reality proved that tons of people are fine with harming themselves as long as they harm others at the same time.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 1 day ago:
Yeah, forcing Trump onto the ballot despite the insurrection because congress hadn’t passed a law to enforce the constitution and then making the president a fucking king are a huge difference from 2016. Not to mention Trump appointed jusges throwing out his cases and his 34 felonies not being a sign that he should 't be elected again after his disastrous first term.
Yeah, this is way worse and the only hope is Republican infighting keeping the worst from happening again.
- Comment on You know what, fuck you [un-Jags uar icon] 1 day ago:
Making their logo ugly is going woke?
- Comment on What do you create? 1 day ago:
Waste that I expell in the bathroom.
I create hastily designed lumber creations that are used to organize and store things.
Every couple of years I create a world for friends to play tabletop games in for a shared experience.
Some days I get paid to create written documentation and shared understanding of complex systems used to collect and report data that someone else will hopefully analyze and use for improving the educational opportunities of children.
I love the reframing of the question.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 2 days ago:
Generally people tend to focus on one thing and don’t pay any attention to the side effects. Morons want lower taxes for themselves and don’t pay attention to the fact that the wealthy get the most benefit out of conservative cuts or that they just defunded the benefits of having a government. Or they care about abortion because they buy lies about post birth abortions and ignore the big picture. Or they just teally hate immigrants and want to be mad and don’t care that the party of hate works against their other self interests.
Many people are stupid. Like really, really stupid.
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 2 days ago:
I can confirm that touching graas multiple times a day does not fix the urge to shit post. It does make it more relaxing though.
- Comment on Reminder for all Lemmy moderators and admins. 2 days ago:
I live in grassland. The lawn is just the wrong kind of grass.
- Comment on Trumps all 3 days ago:
Yeah, there are a wide variety of card issuers with varying rewards systems and there are the occasional locations that only take cash. But we all still got one and even if we don’t actively use it the social credit companies are tracking it.
- Comment on Not voting for genocide, explained 3 days ago:
The party who funded the wholesale destruction of Gaza is somehow the “less genocide party”.
The funding was passed with bipartisan support, and always has. The funding is also supposed to have guardrails that limit it being used for genocide, and while the Dems are ineffectual at actually enforcing those guardrails Trump has already said that he wants Israel to finish the job and tends to follow through on his worst statements.
Anyone who chose not to vote for the possibility of less genocide (on top of a million other negative things that will come out of a Trump presidency) chose more genocide.
- Comment on If someone dies unexpectedly, how do you find out? 3 days ago:
Unless you have shared connections or know who they are to search for an obit, yes.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 3 days ago:
Human contact?
Ewww, no.
- Comment on Predator: Badlands will have the Predator as its hero: ‘the creature is front and centre’ 3 days ago:
Protagonists, they were protagonists. Only Glover as the cop in 2 was a hero.
- Comment on How do you go about evaluating sources of information for truth/credibility/etc.? 3 days ago:
Credibility is earned by being consistently credible. A source that posts misleading or false articles can be assumed to not be credible, and I don’t trust them just like I don’t trust people who say stuff that ends up being not credible.
With newer information, concensus between difference sources us a good indicator as well.
What I am far more likely to use to dismiss something is checking out the purpose of the group. If they have a website and their description sounds like a weasel pretending to be a benevolent protector of a hen house then I just ignore them. Anything that sounds pie in the sky, like revolutionizing or disrupting an established industry is probably another Theranos and easily dismissed. If they say anything that sounds like conservative doublespeak, they get ignored.
It seems to be a pretty reliable system even if the occasional thing that is too good to be true slips in because I want it to be true. But having low expectations and recognizing potential being different from the results helpas a lot with being pleasantly surprised when things turn out better than they sounded.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 3 days ago:
Having one name is easier for social reasons. Going with the man’s name is easier for social reasons.
It all comes down to social pressure to keep the status quo. I even offered to take my wife’s last name and she declined and took mine instead.
- Comment on 'Coyote vs. Acme' Was Cancelled Before Anyone Even Saw It 3 days ago:
The article headline contradicts the article, which states multiple companies did see it and made offers that apparently were not high enough to meet the arbitrary floor that the Warner Brothers executive who did not see the movie had set.
People like Zazlov or whatever his name is can’t accept being wrong so there is zero chance of the movie ever coming out as long as he is in charge, even if someone offered more.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
An important thing to know is that all cultures have practices that involve shunning people, and that they are all applied to people who did nothing wrong and are not applied to people with enough connections or wealth. Some bad things that are almost universally punished but with differences in severity are being pregnant out of wedlock, not being a member of the dominant religion, being LGBTQ+, and speaking against other cultural norms. Exactly who is shunned does vary, but Japan’s is also pretty terribly implemented.
Almost everywhere the main coubter to shunning is connections and/or wealth. Royalty, high level politicians, people like Epstein, etc. are able to get away with stuff until they piss off the wrong people and lose their connections. Some may even make it to their graves without ever being punished.
The main people that suffer from being ostracized in practice are oppressed minorities. It is never fairly applied, even if some places do a slightly better job of mostly targeting the people who deserve it.
- Comment on Dogma 2 on the way from Kevin Smith 4 days ago:
Digital will be quicker while they do the work on the 1080/4k releases.
Exclusive releases on streaming or physical copies is bullshit. Everything should be available in all the formats.
- Comment on Dogma 2 on the way from Kevin Smith 4 days ago:
This sounds like pre-pre-pre-pre-production, not ‘on the way’.
- Comment on Anon tries to manipulate Tinder 5 days ago:
- Comment on Tom Hardy's Splinter Cell Movie Is Officially Dead 6 days ago:
Apparently the announcement was made in stealth mode.
- Comment on I have been told ever since I was a little shit that when you die you go to heaven first wait in line for St Peter to judge you at the pearly gates? Is this in the Bible? I thought god did judging 1 week ago:
Lucifer was cast out of hell for forming the first union.
- Comment on Here are some tips for making fried rice: 1 week ago:
That said, if everyone stuck to basic facts and focussed on clarity rather than content, the world would be a mega boring place.
I’m just saying they should be more clear about the content in situations where clarity is necessary. It isn’t like science is boring because the communication about black holes and nuclear explosions is clear and direct in those settings. Science is the best example of blending clarity where it is needed and humor/sarcasm/throwing shade for fun when clarity isn’t as important.
- Comment on Websites: Then vs Now 1 week ago:
It amazes me how accepting most people are of ads. I suspect Google’s going to win, and their ultimate contribution to humanity will be forcing ads into everything.
People just eat up ‘personalized’ things so whoever coined ‘personalized ads’ was an evil genius.
- Comment on Here are some tips for making fried rice: 1 week ago:
Also the vast majority of human communication, which is so full of implications instead of stating things directly to determine who is part of their in group or to avoid conflict that people have a hard time just being clear and concise when they really should be.