Whats_your_reasoning
@Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
- Comment on is this normal 5 days ago:
Is that what it means? Not sure if I’m out of touch, or just successfully avoiding cesspits.
- Comment on Dik Piks 5 days ago:
We know why they do it. That doesn’t make it any less appropriate. These guys don’t care who they make uncomfortable in their quest for validation. It’s like a kid that throws a fit to gain attention, uncaring about who they might hurt in the process. Except unlike a developing child, these men should be mature enough to know better.
- Comment on Anon's grandpa does his own research 6 days ago:
Just another reminder that there is no war but class war. The rich and powerful will try to split us by whatever arbitrary division they can, but the differences we have between each other are nothing compared to the differences between all of us and the ultra rich.
- Comment on NEW TREND JUST DROPPED 1 week ago:
And yet people deny that we’re decended from the same lineage. If humans didn’t wear clothes, I guarantee some kid would start a grass-in-the-butt trend too.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Damn, Uncle for the win!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Hey man, I appreciate your post for setting an amazing example of what being a father is. Some young men are reading this and seeing all these supportive comments, and that’s going to inform how they behave if they become fathers someday. So, thank you for posting your question. It’ll probably end up helping a lot more people than just your son.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I remember showering with my little brother. We would pretend we were puppies, taking turns “playing in the rain.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Contrast this to my mom, who taught me how to shave my legs but who forbid me from “shaving above the knee.”
That ended when I went to school in shorts and the bullies saw my thigh hair glistening in the sun.
It ended two years later, when I met a cool girl who didn’t shave if she didn’t feel like it, rocking her hairy legs without a care.
I’m still not that bold, but I found a balance that works for me. Nobody else’s opinion matters.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
My god, that sounds freeing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Seriously. “Excuse me, Mom. You put what into where?!”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If your son came to you asking for help, don’t overthink. Do the right thing and help him out, regardless of what he wants to shave.
This should be stitched into a throw pillow. The first sentence on one side, the second sentence on the other side.
- Comment on Anon has standards 1 week ago:
Music tastes can evolve. When I started dating my boyfriend, our music tastes seemed worlds apart. He’s a rap guy, and I’m a rock girl. There wasn’t much we could agree on when we put on the radio, yet we’re on the same wavelength for pretty much everything else.
But he still came with me to an Eagles/Steely Dan concert, and he said he liked it. Lately he discovered funk music for the first time, which is a genre I grew up listening to. Now we sing and dance together to funk while cooking dinner.
I think the bigger problem isn’t having the different tastes, but being closed-minded about trying new things.
- Comment on Plant Slurs 1 week ago:
Invasive species are something else. They can cause active harm to an ecosystem and are crucial to look out for, especially in sensitive areas. Just because “life finds a way” doesn’t mean destroying a niche habitat is okay.
- Comment on Anon does some online shopping 1 week ago:
Oh my fuck, my work has a website and I hate it. There are multiple fields to fill out on a page, and every time you fill one field, the entire page automatically refreshes. I can’t just tab from field to field and fill things out - I have to fill out a field, wait for the refresh, click in the next field, fill it out, wait for the refresh, click in the next field…. until I’m done.
Next, for some reason everything is a floating window and there is no scroll outside of it. Which means that if I click the page wrong, the floating window moves, and I can’t move it back. I lose all progress because the only way to fix it is to refresh the site.
Then there’s the speed. At the end of the day, when everyone is using this site, it gets extremely slow. You’d think this would be a predictable issue that the company could be proactive about, yet every day, right when we’re itching the most to go home, every one of us experiences the dreaded lag. I hadn’t seen lag this bad since I played Sims 2 on an old computer.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 week ago:
Oh, it’s absolutely possible, but only after experiencing such isolation that you come to prefer your own company.
The last straw for me came when I finally stood up to my so-called “best friend,” who acted perfectly sweet when we were alone, but who threw me under the bus whenever my bullies were around. Our families were (and sadly, still are) friends, so I’d known her since she was born and there was a lot of social pressure for us to hang out together. She abused me constantly and loved to fuck with my head. I figured that if that was the “best” friend I could have, then I didn’t need friends at all. One day on the bus home, shortly after she’d spread yet another rumor about me, I called her a traitor and a backstabber.
She immediately turned to the bullies sitting behind us (whose hobbies include talking about me, stealing my stuff, and putting gum in my hair) and said, “That’s so funny! She just called me a traitor!” Yep, I was done.
That was in my last year of middle school. Going into high school, I was resolved to not give a fuck what anybody said about me. I decided to stop trying to change myself to fit in. I embraced my own interests without a care what anybody would say.
And that first year of high school was when I ended up making actual, real friends for the first time. People who actually get me. The payoff was huge and still benefits me today, but it came at a great cost during my most impressionable age.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 week ago:
There is a way out, but it involves not caring what classmates think. That’s a high bar for a lot of kids, especially in middle school, and kids have to come to that conclusion on their own. No amount of adults telling them “you shouldn’t care” will change things.
By high school I found social success after not caring what others thought. But I had been bullied my whole school experience up til that point, so by high school I had run out of fucks to give. In other words, I learned the hard way, but that’s something every teen has to figure out for themselves.
- Comment on My son got Nikes so he doesn't get teased. 1 week ago:
I remember when high tops were in vogue. Granted, I hung out with kids in the “alternative music” scene, and Vans sponsored Warped Tour so much that “Vans Warped Tour” was just a normal term for us.
- Comment on Fun bites 2 weeks ago:
Even if all the original copypasta were true, they’d still be more useful and less harmful than billionaires. So if you still need something to throw rocks at…
- Comment on Jupiter 2 weeks ago:
This is a really good question. I suspect the color in the image has been enhanced. I’ve been trying to find a scientific reason that the clouds could appear blue, but haven’t found anything conclusive.
However, I did find a NASA page with raw images of Jupiter.
Here’s a raw image: Image
Here’s an image that’s been color-enhanced: Image
It’s not uncommon for space images to be color-enhanced. On the one hand, it may feel less authentic. On the other hand, the visible light levels in space may be insufficient for our expectations and uses anyway. Although I don’t know the origin of the picture at the top of this page, I know that it’s common practice for space photos to be enhanced. In fact they’re often taken in non-visible spectrums and fully converted to something humans can see and comprehend. Ever see beautiful photos of galaxies? They were probably taken in X-ray and colorized in processing. You wouldn’t see those colors in real life.
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 2 weeks ago:
Cost to dispose of it is greater than zero.
I was looking for a comment mentioning this. If it’s a rural area, the local waste management facility might take a trek to get to. If you have to make multiple trips, or rent/hire a vehicle to get rid of something (like having to tow an old car), the time and cost can add up.
So if it’s not accepted with a typical trash pick-up, it’s still gotta be somewhere, even if you don’t want it anymore. Keeping it on your own property is at least more ethical than dumping it in the woods somewhere (though you’ll find plenty of that in some areas, too.)
- Comment on because of the implications 2 weeks ago:
I have no opinion on this, but I know someone else who does:
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 2 weeks ago:
Ugh, the “swipe” is the worst feature for every company to jump on. I get paralyzed between, “What if they just took a bad picture? I don’t know enough about them and dismissing them for a bad photo could mean missing out,” and “What if I’m swiping right on a creep and don’t realize it? Now they’ll know my picture, my name, where I live, and they’ll think I’m definitely interested.”
I haven’t used it in a couple years, but I did meet my current boyfriend on OK Cupid. I’m poly, and I met my girlfriend last year on an LGBTQ+ dating/social app called Lex. The cool thing with Lex is that it’s text-based, originally modeled off of old newspaper classified ads. You get to know people through them voicing their thoughts and asking original questions. No pressure to “swipe or get off the pot,” you can get to know someone through comments on posts before sending a message. It’s not for everyone, but if you’re in the LGBTQ+ community and sick of being forced to make snap-judgements about strangers who might end up being a massive part of your life, it’s a relief.
- Comment on Anon has a warning for incels 2 weeks ago:
Whenever there’s a post about a protest, or a politician actually works to block a Trump bill, there’s always someone who pops into the comments to go “iT wOn’T cHaNgE aNyThInG.”
It’s pretty clear who’s never taken any sort of political action before in their lives. Those that participate in activism know that change doesn’t happen in one big event, but momentum snowballs over time. Discouraging people who put effort into change only works to empower those who oppress us.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 2 weeks ago:
Rent costs half a month’s pay, so that checks out.
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 3 weeks ago:
It’s so backwards too, since the ultra wealthy are the ones who most dodge paying their fair share of taxes.
- Comment on Anon watches The Whale 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes I laugh because it keeps me from crying.
Sidenote: I am often told that I laugh too much.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 3 weeks ago:
It makes me happy to see the phrase “lightning bug” used so often here on Lemmy. I grew up calling them lightning bugs, yet I felt like it’s been ages since I heard or saw that word. Then I started coming here, and I see it in every post about this topic. The term brings me back to my childhood, picturing the way my parents’ backyard used to light up every summer evening.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 3 weeks ago:
Ha, great observation. For those that don’t know - the fireflies/lightning bugs known to the east coast don’t live on the west coast.
Apparently there are species that live west of the Rocky Mountains, but they are active during the day, and even at night the light they produce is too dim for the human eye to perceive. So the west coast doesn’t get the beautiful light shows that the east enjoys.
- Comment on improbability and impossibility 3 weeks ago:
Jellyfish that sting swimmers are just exercising their castle doctrine.
- Comment on improbability and impossibility 3 weeks ago:
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
