dukeofdummies
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- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 5 days ago:
The sad thing is there’s not a lot of good advice right now.
The world is VASTLY different than 50 years ago. No you can’t just talk to the boss of the building and ask for a job.
The insane numbers game that job applications have become is so opaque that any advice in it is about as useful as sacrificing a goat.
Every company wants to remove as many humans as possible from its payroll. Covid and AI have proven this beyond a shadow of a doubt, loyalty means absolutely nothing now.
Just surviving in this current environment is a brand new challenge and field.
- Comment on Why are ghosts never racist? 5 days ago:
Mostly because when you’re writing a fictional story, you need to remove everything that isn’t necessary for the plot. Is your story about racism? Then your ghost being racist makes sense. Otherwise unless it’s a gag it slows down the plot.
If we wanna get REALLY picky though…
Most ghosts probably aren’t speaking modern English either. A LOT changes in 200 years, how much slang rose and fell in that time? How much did accents change?
The concept of time was massively different too. Keep in mind before trains visiting a state could be weeks not hours. Could explain why ghosts are so patient though.
There’s also just vast differences in priorities, imagine a life where water is a constant mental calculation like your battery life on a phone. If they’re old enough that was the norm.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 5 days ago:
What you’ve described is every complaint I’ve had with centrists and neocons in the democratic party. I don’t really know where the progressive part comes in.
Bernie did amazing with men to the point where “bernie bros” were being mocked in media, so has Mamdani in NY in polls.
If anything, I would argue that the Democratic party should be more populist and progressive. Focusing on things that pull up everybody, because everyone is struggling right now.
- Comment on What are some good places/activities where a middle-aged man can new make friends? 1 week ago:
there are actually lots of groups that attempt to rectify this exact problem.
Pathfinder is a tabletop RPG that has a large following and focuses on the ability to jump in and out of groups and games.
Find your nearest game store and see what hobbies show up there. There might be a Warhammer group, DnD, starwars miniatures, magic, or maybe just random board games.
- Comment on What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy? 1 week ago:
Oh it’s a classic meme.
Basically it was this one moth that uncharacteristically posed for a photo outside a window, then it kinda morphed into a “transform any meme into one about lamps” and add the moth.
Dunno if you have moths or not where you live, but moths LOVE light. They usually smash up against your window or porch light or fly at your face in a well lit place. Terrible for anyone who hates bugs, which just adds to the humor. Adding a mostly annoying bug to your feed.
It’s the same idea where the saying “like a moth to the flame” came from. The idea being the moth flew into the candle and gets burned. You’re going straight into something bad, but you just can’t help yourself.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 2 weeks ago:
Well a good chunk of it is that older games only had ONE way they were played. ONE framerate, ONE resolution. They optimized for that.
Nowadays they plan for 60, 120, and if you have less too bad. Upgrade for better results.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 2 weeks ago:
Went perfect. Although I had a friend who went same weekend. It did NOT. Couldn’t peel the first layer of the eye.
Otherwise I have full 20/20 vision. No side affects.
It was so WEIRD though. I felt like I was on an assembly line. The process was so fast.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 2 weeks ago:
I did it because I was blind. Hella blind. -6 and -9. When covid hit I suddenly realized that if supply shortages ever hit hard and I lost my glasses, I was absolutely fucked.
I could not drive, I could not use two monitors, I would be functionally blind… I always joked I would be dead weight in the apocalypse but in the midst of a hurricane, a wildfire, I could be absolutely fucked. With months before a replacement pair could be acquired. And with all the shit that went wrong with covid… I just wanted to hedge my bets.
- Comment on How do I easily create gif- or video-memes? 3 weeks ago:
Checks out
- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 3 weeks ago:
One other somewhat bizarre option is that I’ve heard there is a large deaf community in VR Chat and they actually have a modified sign language that they use.
I don’t know exactly how “modified” it is, but for learning any language the best way is to find people to talk with. Might work as a good springboard if you have VR.
- Comment on Is it possible to basically not snore at all? 3 weeks ago:
It’s totally possible. It’s also possible to snore only sometimes depending on head position, food eaten, age, and alcohol taken.
I have positions where I snore, where my wife then has to smack me in the middle of the night, I re-adjust and then I usually stop snoring.
Apparently she also smacks me when she needs cuddles, and apparently I understand the difference in smacks while I am asleep.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 3 weeks 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' 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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] 1 month ago:
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Well, a lot of people jumped ship from other platforms because of politics. So they’re gonna be here.
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It’s a time where politics are fucking with all of us, so it’s topical.
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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.
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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.
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- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
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Historically only men showing up
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Only desperate people showing up
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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.
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- Comment on Anon is worried about men 2 months 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] 3 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? 3 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? 4 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? 5 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 5 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? 5 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] 5 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?
