dukeofdummies

@dukeofdummies@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF is a rural town in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Americans tend to describe locations more by density and arrangement rather than population. Kinda similar to how we refer to distances in time rather than distance. In a city you have a LOT within 5 minutes of you at any time. Within a rural town you have… maybe 5 neighbors within that same span of time walking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antony Starr had to knock down 'The Boys' fans glorifying Homelander: 'This guy is not the hero'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, his targets are usually so vile that nobody questions his methods.

  For anybody that wants to be the punisher though… like honestly if the punisher has gotten pulled into a problem he’s less an angel descending from heaven and more of a fire burning through absolutely everything.

  Like everything needs to be in a state of fucked for him to get involved. Absolutely fucked. Isn’t it better to avoid that in the first place?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon discovers cigarettes⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides the chemical addiction part, it’s also a genuinely social one as well.

  Smoking areas are designated places where strangers talk to each other. Asking for a light or offering one is a super simple way to break the ice. My dad quit cold turkey several times but he always fell back into the habit hanging with his friends

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Well, a lot of people jumped ship from other platforms because of politics. So they’re gonna be here.

  2. It’s a time where politics are fucking with all of us, so it’s topical.

  3. reddit still exists and has a larger base, so if you want to talk about stardew valley, just by the nature of numbers that’s where they’re gonna gather.

  4. There are a lot of “lurkers” here, not a lot of posters. Seriously, notice how often The Picard Maneuver, or Stamets keeps popping up.

  God I hate to be the guy who says this especially because I am ABSOLUTELY being hypocritical right now, but you gotta be the change you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … I mean, a lot of these words are pretty tame aren’t they?

  Chat? Rizz? Anime words and gestures? No pumpkin?

  Seems like a desperate attempt here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even know if it’s that.

  Gen Z didn’t give up on dating, that would imply that they ever tried it to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Historically only men showing up

  2. Only desperate people showing up

  3. Has anything good ever come from a speed dating event? I haven’t heard of one.

  They just don’t have a great reputation in general. I went to a speed friending event once and, ugh, that was not fun.

  To make matters even crazier, younger generations are also just… not even trying to hook up. Some studies are showing 45% of men age 18-25 have never even approached a woman romantically.

  Not succeeded, just even tried.

  Dating be incredibly fucking weird right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is worried about men⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s starting to change. It’s hardly the norm but speed dating events in New York, LA have had shortages of men.

  Especially with the terrible press and stories coming from them… men are starting to just not attend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Admittedly, charging ports are the first to break on any electronic unless it has a joystick. Wireless charging is a lot more robust, more water resistant, and allows you to do sleek shit without a weird hole in it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly the flaws I have the biggest complaints about is the God awful UI.

  Incorrect tool tips, no drag and drop, no ui for city connectivity, no renaming cities, disappearing entities.

  It’s genuinely painful at times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the ages thing grew on me. It was way too common in other civs to just snowball early and dominate the rest. Any modern civilization was just bad, because by the time they got online it was over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “well, Trump said he’d fix the economy and I don’t like woke.”

  I mean, I feel like you’re being a bit derivative. I would put it more towards desperation than stupidity. Why does someone stay with an abusive partner? Biden was of the stance that “things are getting better” and… they’re not.

  I always considered trump’s victory as sign that the democrats were just… that flaccid and unpalatable. It’s like you have a partner who sucks. They pay their share of rent, they expect you to do all the cooking and cleaning, they don’t even bother to understand you and get pissy that a random bouquet of whatever flowers on sale doesn’t magically fix an argument and make your loins quiver.

  You fall instead to this gorgeous individual who knows how to flirt and makes you feel like the world can be easily fixed and now you’re locked in their basement about to lose an arm.

  It’s desperation that makes people take risks, listen to people they shouldn’t listen to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mickey 17 is a big middle finger to space-obsessed strongmen [Review]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but the concept also has a LOT of space to play in but most writers play it safe. Way too many just treat is as a handwavy checkpoint system and move on with the plot they care about.

  Soma (video game, not a book) was a really horrifying dive into being able to save and upload a consciousness. Not a lot of stories try to dive into how do you know if a “copy” of you is truly a copy. It’s like a Turing test on steroids trying to figure this out. Being able to practically test just how different someone can be from a single different event.

  It’s one of the things I really enjoyed about the Bobiverse series (although apparently later on they added the idea of a soul, which just kinda seems like a cop out to me)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a pattern for right-wing people to attack films, series and animations with protagonists from minority groups? Or is this an exaggeration?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In their defense, there are no stupid questions in this community.

  …Although yeah that is hella repetitive. If I’m looking at their history right they haven’t talked about a single other thing for the last 3 months. Not even comments or a random

  You uh, you doing a study or something Hickak? There an answer you’re looking for specifically?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if USA invades Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really struggle to see a unilateral mobilization and that the US military truly goes through with it.

  Especially when foreign assets are getting absolutely left stranded by Trump, programs are getting gutted (he hasn’t touched the VA, yet) and everyone who helped after 9/11 were getting shafted by their government in terms of Healthcare.

  If you take away the rather potent motivators of “national security and safety or preventing terrorism” I think you’re gonna get a lot more of a strike from soldiers. Unless you can somehow believably apply that to canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any non-zero possibility Musk was not doing a Hitler Salute?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s twice, it’s not a random twitch or awkward wave. He sieg heiled the front and the back

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always a huge fan of Deep Rock Galactic, Moonring, Rimworld

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, both ties are too high, definitely prefer the bow tie though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Lee - How I Broke up with Adobe [An animator with 850K subscribers talks about using Adobe alternatives and switching to Linux]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … I don’t know what to say.

  Here’s a guy that seems to finally start following some of your worldviews. Starts preaching a bit of your gospel, and your first reaction seems to be.

  “You’re too slow. You’re clearly fake because a true linux and open source user would’ve sacrificed themselves to a pipeline that did not work for them.”

  Why can’t you just be happy and smug right now that a creator has moved away from corporate and into the open source realm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Lee - How I Broke up with Adobe [An animator with 850K subscribers talks about using Adobe alternatives and switching to Linux]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because now this stuff is in a better working state.

  Linux now supports most video games (successfully played elden ring, drg, and Balatro this weekend) open office is far more reliable.

  The options now WORK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with male loneliness?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even think it’s an exclusively male thing. It’s just getting harder and harder to meet people and mingle. Men are just feeling it harder and sooner.

  It’s harder to meet people now. I think part of it is:

  1. That people used to be bored. You would make entertainment where you could find it, and two bored people can rapidly get entertained. Now you have a phone that makes you not bored, and de-incentivizes face to face interaction.

  2. There used to be more places where people interacted. Masons, elk lodge, unions, they would often serve alcohol at events, for dirt cheap. They were known as third places, somewhere other than work and home. One thing I hear from a lot of smokers is that the smoking areas are where people hang out to talk, and they do. It’s where conversations happen at a club. It gives you something to do when you’re not talking, a reason to stand somewhere close to people, and a perfect excuse to jump into a conversation. It’s kinda infuriating that it also shaves two minutes off your life -_-.

  3. People have less time. Younger generations are working multiple jobs, gigs with unpredictable hours, often times having commutes of an hour which turns a 9 to 5 into an 8 to 6, and spending all their vacation hours on the shit that has to be done on a weekday like the DMV or the like. How are you supposed to make a friend when schedules differ so much that a spreadsheet is required to make it work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly it was only 4 years ago. But Iowa does feel like that sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IMDb's Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh god it’s a live action remake??? This is depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IMDb's Top 10 Most Anticipated Movies of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah 28 Years Later I could see potential with. the rest I’m kinda… meh.

  Although there have been titles that surprised me the last few years. Puss in boots 2 in particular. I expected nothing from that and found an amazing gem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes to therapy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus Christ, that tops the worst thing I’ve ever heard a therapist say.

  I heard a tale about a therapist in Iowa who after talking about issues with anxiety recommended eating brains shaped foods like, broccoli and walnuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ordinarily I would agree, but there are a few issues with that.

  For one, he’s not just an actor. He’s also credited as one of the 13 producers and co-producers. That producer hat does not disappear once the director yells action. That alone should open up a door for all 13 of these guys to get charges applied if they ignored warnings about safety. Not saying it’s an open and shut case, hell maybe he’s only producer in name for bragging rights and never attended a meeting, it’s a valid argument he can make. But I think it definitely opens the door.

  Secondly, the amount of star power he has does give him some power in this film. If people are complaining about safety and he’s domineering over people going “Shut up! I need filming done in 3 months so I can move to x film, give me the gun lets go”. He’s culpable in my eyes. He actively silenced and ignored concerns in that hypothetical and proceeded to roll the dice himself. Again no idea if that happened but it would absolutely open the door for charges.

  The fact that the case is being dropped suggests that maybe they thought they had a case in these two veins, but ultimately couldn’t make the argument to a reliable degree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that was my first thought… but would there be a measurable difference?

  I mean lets be clear, with a fan you’re adding like 8 mph to something going 299,792,458 meters per second. You won’t notice anything.

  But like, vacuum vs glass vs glass moving half the speed of light, could be an interesting what if. Relativity is always where my mind glosses over in physics.