LovableSidekick
@LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
Yeah I’ve had similar experiences, not with the meaning of life but thinking I solved some technical thing, but no memory of the solution. But I remember feeling great about having figured it out, which is what I think we actually dream about.
- Comment on This had to be a terrifying way to go 3 days ago:
Nature really is pretty cruel. The vast majority of animals die by being eaten alive.
- Comment on And forgot it when waking up 3 days ago:
My friend said he had a dream where he suddenly understood the meaning or purpose of life, and it was simple and clear, but when he woke up he couldn’t remember it.
- Comment on How hard/fast would a baseball have to go to completely pass through a pitcher? Like leave a hole through flesh? 1 week ago:
IMO if it was a baseball when you launched it, you used a baseball.
- Comment on How hard/fast would a baseball have to go to completely pass through a pitcher? Like leave a hole through flesh? 1 week ago:
That’s okay, an overestimate provides a bracket: human pitcher not enough, cannon too much. Then it’s a matter of reducing the parameters until they’re barely enough to put the ball through the pitcher.
- Comment on How hard/fast would a baseball have to go to completely pass through a pitcher? Like leave a hole through flesh? 1 week ago:
That’s an excellent analysis - nice find!
- Comment on How hard/fast would a baseball have to go to completely pass through a pitcher? Like leave a hole through flesh? 1 week ago:
That might be okay though. The ball doesn’t necessarily have to be intact when it hits the pitcher - if it becomes a stream of smaller particles they still might be energetic enough to do the job.
- Comment on How hard/fast would a baseball have to go to completely pass through a pitcher? Like leave a hole through flesh? 1 week ago:
asking for a friend
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
Very relatable perspective!
- Comment on A reminder 1 week ago:
Congrats to that teacher, but random events with astronomically low odds don’t refute everyday reality.
- Comment on It's never been about helping people 1 week ago:
idea: convince the food and necessities industries who would receive the $16k to lobby for this, against the prison companies who lobby for more prison time to increase their profits.
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 1 week ago:
That’s how I feel about moderation. I’ve followed reddit posts that had hundreds of comments and suddenly got removed because technically they didn’t belong where they were. Always annoying.
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 1 week ago:
Technically I think it is off-topic since it has nothing directly to do with work reform. Note, I said directly, so no need to point ouf correlations between work reform and racism or bad government in general.
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 1 week ago:
Gary, Indiana - let me say it once again.
- Comment on An American city has been without power for 2 weeks, unacceptable. 1 week ago:
Gary, Indiana. Let me say it once again.
- Comment on There are solutions to our problems... 1 week ago:
Just had a discussion about this. It’s not just religious “fanatics” it’s the general idea of the “right” family structure, especially in Christian homes, that specifies a Daddy who’s in charge, a second-in-command Mommy, and the kids who must obey them. The mom does some discipline but “wait til your father gets home” is the ultimate threat. Pleasing the father figure is the path to success, i.e. earning praise and avoiding painful punishments. Bad behavior is the path to failure and ruin. That’s a big reason why Christians find it easy to assume poverty is poor people’s own fault. Doing the right things assures success, therefore they must have behaved badly or they would have succeeded in life. Kind of like assuming if a black guy is carrying something down the street he must have stolen it.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 3 weeks ago:
Speaking of wealth and politicians, by the time Trump’s tax records were finally released after years of court battles, the public had moved on to other things and paid virtually no attention to the masses of inconsistencies - which would be prosecuted as tax fraud if other people did them.
- Comment on How to deal with people who obtusely miss your point on Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
And so began yet another thread where people take the opportunity to reveal they’re smarter or more neurodivergent (i.e. better) than everybody else.
- Comment on Does Israel have a right to your tax dollars? 4 weeks ago:
They can word it any way they like, but in the US “permanent” requires a constitutional amendment, and even those aren’t necessarily permanent.
- Comment on Does Israel have a right to your tax dollars? 4 weeks ago:
Israel has no right to anything of mine, but my senators and reps in Congress do have the right to decide to give Israel money (or not) since making those decisions is their job. It might not always go the way I want, but it doesn’t involve Israel having “rights”.
- Comment on Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone? 4 weeks ago:
Yes they’re made of pure trombonium.
factoid: Three toilet improvements were invented in the late 1800s by Thomas Crapper, including the floating ballcock.
- Comment on Trump implemented tariffs illegally, creating over $100 billion of profit for corporations selling foreign products, at the expense of American consumers. Your refund: $0.00 4 weeks ago:
And he did it all without making the Epstein files go away.
- Comment on Peter Lynch killed himself after being accused of racist comments, says inquest jury 5 weeks ago:
Srsly? I’ve heard of being sensitive to criticism but jeeez
- Comment on AOC vs Graham on Social Security. 5 weeks ago:
Thinking also of when Warren Buffet said his secretary paid a higher tax rate than he did.
- Comment on A simpler time 5 weeks ago:
Coolidge Jr got the blister playing tennis barefoot, and probably ignored it until the ensuing staph infection was well underway. People of that time (1924) who paid attention to their little injuries - wash with soap and water, hit it with some alcohol, cover it (i.e. don’t keep going barefoot on it) didn’t tend to die from them.
- Comment on A simpler time 5 weeks ago:
Mortality rate was higher than today but life wasn’t anywhere near that extreme. Most people don’t die from minor untreated infections - that’s what our immune system is for.
- Comment on Hypocrisy is their default setting 5 weeks ago:
Make it so, Number One.
- Comment on Hypocrisy is their default setting 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think they do these things as dry runs, but when somebody pushes an envelope all eyes are definitely on them because it redefines the envelope.
- Comment on Hypocrisy is their default setting 5 weeks ago:
For a moment he really believed he saw five ghosts.
- Comment on Hypocrisy is their default setting 5 weeks ago:
“Fuck 'em, I got mine.”