Whats_your_reasoning
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- Comment on Anon is staying at a hotel 1 day ago:
I wish we had more information. Of course it could be a sting, but it could also be a safety thing. Maybe there’s a history of johns refusing to pay after services are rendered. Maybe there’s a history of violence against prostitutes in that region, and this is the hotel’s way of saying “If you try anything, we’ll know it was you.”
But we don’t even know how anon hired the prostitute, let alone where he is and what the local laws and attitudes are toward sex work. It’s possible he solicited an undercover cop and this was all a set up. It’s also possible the hotel knows prostitution happens within its walls and they’ll permit it, but they’ve seen things go south before and this is their strategy to avoid that trouble.
I don’t know, but it’s probably good that anon didn’t go through with the transaction. To me the sketchiest part isn’t any specific thing that happened, but the fact that anon wasn’t informed about what to expect. Which makes me think these are barriers the hotel put in place and acted on when they recognized a sex worker, not something the sex worker planned to deal with. But again, we just don’t have enough information.
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 3 days ago:
That is definitely funny. I was just thinking, “How many fads and fashions has this one tortoise seen in his life?”
- Comment on This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual” 3 days ago:
Do you have a source for that date? Those cars in the background don’t look like anything that would’ve existed in 1886. In fact the first car put into production was patented in 1886 and it looked like this:
Black and white image of the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, an early three-wheeled automobile
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 4 days ago:
That’s what you get for not buying the very latest edition of the textbook. /s
Seriously though, you’re clearly trying to actually comprehend the material, but even the professor was too checked out? I wish I were surprised, but that’s just upsetting. Nobody takes responsibility for education anymore, not the instructors, not the administration, and none but maybe a handful of students who get zero support from either of the above. I’ve learned more from reading on the internet for free than I have from any classroom. But learning for free on one’s own doesn’t give them a fancy paper that attracts employers. Gotta spend money to make money, yet again.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 4 days ago:
You’re right. The illiteracy is everywhere. It’s a very troubling sign.
I wonder, were there any other points in history, post-literacy, where a significant amount of people went to school yet still lacked literacy skills? If it has happened, would it even be recorded? Or is this aspect of modern society truly novel?
It’d be nice to know how such a situation would’ve been rectified in the past, but I get the feeling the solution would be the same thing I’ve been calling for since my own childhood - a comprehensive public educational system with a focus on critical thinking.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 4 days ago:
They probably didn’t do it by default because of Rule 4. However, I think there should be an exception when other users ask for links. (Maybe the rule should be, “No unsolicited self promotion”?)
For the record, I would also like to see this rant.
- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 4 days ago:
When search engines started putting lists of videos in response to every query, I fumed. Trying to find a solution to the game issue you’re having? Here, scan through this 10 minute video and hope you come across the part that discusses your specific issue! Oh, it didn’t actually talk about the thing you need? Lol well at least you watched some ads.
I think next time I have a game issue, I’ll be asking about it here on Lemmy. Yeah, the audience isn’t as big as on Reddit, but we’ll never know the depth of the knowledge fellow Lemmings have to offer if we never ask.
- Comment on carlos for scale 1 week ago:
Okay but is Carlos standing on a platform with a wall behind him, or is Carlos planking on a platform with the floor behind him?
- Comment on Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking 2 weeks ago:
Then when you factor in society’s approach to children who do think critically, it gets even worse. Kids in school are encouraged to stay silent and accept what they’re told. A kid who openly questions something a teacher says is liable to get into trouble, both officially by the teacher, and socially by their peers who can’t yet grasp the concept of an authority figure being wrong.
Teachers can share false information all they want, and if a student dares to call out an urban myth, the student can be sent away to the principal’s office. Now the teacher can continue spouting whatever non-fact-checked nonsense they like, the rest of the kids are discouraged from speaking out if they recognize something false, and the critical thinker is labeled a trouble-maker both by the administration and by classmates. It’s an authoritarian hat trick that keeps a lot of kids in line.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
The revolution will not be televised.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 3 weeks ago:
I feel the same way, but about places that sell coffee having an obligation to provide a public bathroom.
Glares angrily at 7-11
- Comment on Consider the following... 4 weeks ago:
You were downvoted for making assumptions about the person you were responding to. All they did was make a lamentful comment about the state of nature, and you came in accusing them of having (or being supportive of having) a pesticided lawn with automatic sprinkler system. Then you seemed to doubledown on blaming everybody else of shirking personal responsibility, while conveniently avoiding answering the simple question of if the “we” in your quote “we completely fucked up the environment” also applied to yourself.
- Comment on Least extreme biophysics phd 4 weeks ago:
Having the testee measure their own penis is prone to error.
To be fair, testicles aren’t designed for that task.
- Comment on How come in most school in the USA (at least mine) they teach Spain Spanish instead of Mexico Spanish? Would not Mexico Spanish be an obvious choice to teach? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know about OP. I went to a public school on the eastern seaboard and we certainly weren’t taught “Spain Spanish.” The pronunciations we were taught would’ve been very different if that were the case.
If any specific dialect was taught in my old schools, it would’ve been because a teacher spoke that dialect natively. All of our teachers were either non-native Spanish speakers, or from somewhere in Central or South America. Maybe OP had teachers from Europe?
If there were regional differences for vocabulary, we were told about them. For example, for the English word “bus,” we were taught that “autobus,” “guagua,” and “camion” all work but in different countries/regions. To be clear, we weren’t expected to remember all the variations, but we were informed that they exist.
- Comment on What are some of the things someone permanently relocating away from the US should be aware of? 5 weeks ago:
Excellent comment and very informative!
Just a quick note on the last sentence: 1 yard = 3 feet, which means a yard is approximately one meter, not 100m.
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 1 month ago:
Ugh, I just had a flashback to middle school, when my very attractive friend (who was already a model) complained that she was ugly because of an itty, bitty little zit she got one day.
Meanwhile I sat there, a relative pizza-face, thinking: Seriously? If you are ugly, what does that make the rest of us?
- Comment on Ow ow ow ow ow 1 month ago:
I’m glad to be of service.
- Comment on Ow ow ow ow ow 1 month ago:
I always figured mermaids would be more like cetaceans than fish. Having scales on their tails would be inaccurate, but breathing air, growing hair, and having a horizontal tail fluke are all in-line with mammals/cetaceans.
Not to mention, it would mean mermaids have regular genitals (albeit hidden inside a genital fold, to increase hydrodynamics.) So that’s, uhh… a thing to consider.
- Comment on Anon wants to be a singer 1 month ago:
I work with preschoolers. Autistic preschoolers.
It would be a huge help if the makers of slime would go back to making unscented versions. Whenever I look in stores for these things, it’s like companies straight up stopped manufacturing anything without a scent.
I’m trying to discourage kids from putting toys in their mouths, especially sticky toys that tend to gather all sorts of oils and gunk through regular play. It would be so much easier if there were more unscented, nontoxic options.
- Comment on Hurry it along chucklenuts 1 month ago:
Please forgive them, such a concept is unheard of back where we come from.
- Comment on Hurry it along chucklenuts 1 month ago:
This, but at legal dispensaries.
Not even joking. I don’t know if it’s my state’s specific laws or what, but the dispensary cashier can either process your card like an ATM (they round up to the nearest $10, then give you the change) or they can process cash.
There is a third option, but it involves downloading an app specifically to pay for cannabis. Yeah, I’m not doing that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I can only ever somewhat begin to understand the amount of stress that my “not normal” existence has caused my normie mom.
Yet it must be a drop in the bucket compared to the amount of stress I experienced being raised by someone who cares more about what others think when they look at her kid, than by anything her kid is actually experiencing.
It sounds like this dad is at least trying. If my mom showed even this much ability to listen to my concerns, I’d consider it a win. Instead I just get shut down at Christmas when I respond to, “How are you?” with, “Not sleeping well, not eating well,” and when asked why, respond honestly with, “Concerned about my and my loved ones’ safety under the upcoming authoritarian regime.”
Everyone else at the table: Knows exactly what I’m talking about. Offers understanding and support
Mom, and only Mom: “Hey we shouldn’t talk about politics at a party, it makes people uncomfortable.”
Everyone else at the table: Acquiesces
I mean, we picked the discussion back up as soon as she left to go home, but it’s still disheartening to know that my mom would rather appeal to “not offending” imaginary people who aren’t even at the table, than to listen to the valid concerns that threaten her own child. Even my dad came up to me after this and offered tangible support. It’s just my mom, my “apolitical” mom who truly believes “bOtH siDeS sAmE” and refuses to entertain the slightest political thought.
It doesn’t surprise me that fascism is winning, when I consider that there are millions of people across the U.S. who view “politics” through the same lens she does.
- Comment on 🎵 🎶 🎵 2 months ago:
Black bird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life, you were only waiting
For this moment to ariseLet us never forget the reason why Paul McCartney wrote the song Black Bird. He wanted to write a song that inspired hope for those involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
Just some trivia that came to mind, might be good to know.
- Comment on spidey senses 2 months ago:
Spiders are always welcome in my garden. They come with free pest control.
- Comment on Anon pumps up the crowd 2 months ago:
Well obviously, the first thing he should do is move to Milwaukee (if he doesn’t live there already.)
In all seriousness though, if they can isolate that clip, they should make it something we can download as an alarm. I don’t know who designs alarm options, but some of it is too gentle and I can sleep right through them, or repetitive to the point it can seep into the sounds of my dream, but not be enough to wake me (if I’m sufficiently sleep-deprived, or if I took a sleep aid.) I mean, I have options that work, but a metal scream like this - that would definitely wake my ass up. No doubt about it.
- Comment on womp womp 2 months ago:
Some fools will reflexively downvote any time they see the word “vegan,” yet I wouldn’t be surprised if knowledge of egg alternatives ends up making a difference in times like these.
With agricultural workers being deported and tariffs increasing the price of food sourced from abroad, Americans are going to have to get creative and flexible with their food habits. We don’t know yet how our grocery store shelves will end up looking, but if someone needs a substitute for an ingredient in a recipe, chances are a group of people already avoids that ingredient has the knowledge of how to work around it. They may be vegan, they may have food allergies, they may have religious restrictions, or they may simply dislike a particular ingredient. Regardless of their reasons, the point is they’ve already experimented with recipes to figure out what works, which means the rest of us don’t have to trial & error everything ourselves.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 months ago:
I recently ordered some parts for an e-vape online. At the payment page it asked for a tip. I was in disbelief. (I didn’t take a screenshot, but in retrospect I should have.)
No services rendered, no food being made, nobody personally delivering it to my house. But it still wanted a tip, with the explanation that it was “to support our team!”
Where to even begin…
- Comment on Why do smokers specifically seem to be disproportionally bad for littering? 2 months ago:
The fact that you’re thinking about others’ perspectives at all is a good sign. Sometimes, when I can’t understand the mindset of someone toxic and I get frustrated, I take a step back and consider what would happen if I did start thinking like them. The fact that it’s difficult to imagine goes to show that I’m wired against certain shitty mindsets. It sounds like you are, too.
In trying to understand others, you’re showing more thought and empathy than a lot of people bother to practice. It’s frustrating and can be confusing at times, but you’re not broken for being unable to view things through the eyes of someone that doesn’t care about doing the right thing.
- Comment on Anon has casual sex 2 months ago:
For an attentive lover, coming second means winning first.
- Comment on Megaladon't 2 months ago:
I hope it brings you joy to know that “dinosaur” kids are still memorizing these ever-growing lists. I work with kids, and the big dinosaur fan is still teaching me new dino things almost every day. We recently learned of a dinosaur that is basically another student’s name +saurus. That was a cute discovery.
