yakko
@yakko@feddit.uk
- Comment on everyone agrees 10 minutes ago:
Oh, dear. There’s been a huge misunderstanding. You’re thinking of objectivity. Jokes are not objects, they’re sub-
Look, I can’t do everything. Dear reader, please look into this and report back with your findings.
- Comment on everyone agrees 42 minutes ago:
Exactly, that’s… That’s exactly how subjectivity works. Is there a problem?
- Comment on everyone agrees 12 hours ago:
I really don’t care to litigate anyone’s comedy, it’s the reaction that damned him. The simple truth is that if someone doesn’t like your joke, they’re right.
Nobody has ever seriously defended our explained a joke so well that it eventually became funny, and every professional comedian knows it. You either spin it into a different bit or apologise and move on. You’ve got to be a real prick to be that rich, privileged, safe, and still think you have to defend a joke that hurt someone’s feelings. “Sorry that one sucked, no hate.” How hard is that?
If a veteran comedian like him chooses to get serious and defend a joke, that tells me they weren’t joking or they have a different motive than mere entertainment. Trust is built slowly, quickly lost. Especially among persecuted groups.
- Comment on everyone agrees 15 hours ago:
Yeah you are, you’re fucking off!
- Comment on everyone agrees 15 hours ago:
His older work stands up mostly, but lately he has thrown in with the wave of “anti-woke” comedians, repeatedly doubling down when criticised for making transphobic remarks.
A comedian these days has a very difficult choice to make, it must be said. I fully admit it! They have to do a lot of emotional and mental labour to make light of the very dark times we live in, or they can just side with far-right billionaires and culture war reactionaries and just make easy punch-down jokes about people who already face incredible violence. It’s got to be so hard!
- Comment on smoooooth 18 hours ago:
By then we’ll have had every iota of fun imaginable, and some fun that yet remains unimaginable. You’ll have to nihilism harder to bum me out.
- Comment on everyone agrees 19 hours ago:
If you like Ricky Gervais
you can fuck off
- Comment on smoooooth 21 hours ago:
“Life finds a way” is a threat, people just forgot that part. Life itself is unstoppable.
- Comment on Anon changes his strategy 22 hours ago:
That’s really sweet.
- Comment on happy valentines day❤️ 4 days ago:
I think they win this one
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 days ago:
Hottest pick-up line imaginable tbh
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 5 days ago:
Possibly, actually, and other adverbs.
- Comment on Tier list tier list 5 days ago:
Hot as in like, schizophrenic?
- Comment on Anon hangs out with a coworker 6 days ago:
Bosses and landlords? No wonder he’s depressed, keeping company like that
- Comment on Highguard Developer Makes Layoffs Affecting "Most of the Team", Two Weeks After Launch 6 days ago:
The innovation of high guard is so profound that it’ll spawn a whole genre of games. They’ll copy everything, even the name, but they’ll use a thesaurus like high to over and guard to watch, that sort of cheap knock-off style of game you know? But gamers are too savvy for that kind of chump move.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Jokes
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 1 week ago:
Some people can’t help but look at the common human endeavour and think, “this tower is getting too tall, God should punish our teamwork.”
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 1 week ago:
It’s a tributary cover of the Akira film soundtrack in the style of ambient witch house.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
We do
- Comment on How does this thing work? (wrong answers only) 1 week ago:
They already tried that, but the power exchange of heat to motion dangerously interacts with conceptual hotness and you just had kinky human icicles falling from the sky.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 1 week ago:
This was a fun read, thanks.
It could be some people digest capsaicin more than others. I’ve had my fair share of the (I want to say) second highest types of spicy. Your ghost peppers, your birds eyes, Thai red chillis, etc. Hardly anything over a million scoville. I get the afterburn from some of it. But one time, I got a Nashville chicken sandwich from a hole in the wall place that popped up during COVID. It was so hot I was running around the room for half an hour, and for the first time in my life, I felt the spice in my urethra when I peed afterwards. I’ll never forget it.
- Comment on So how would you handle this? 1 week ago:
I know right? I felt like I must be losing my mind reading some of these comments
- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 1 week ago:
Slavery under the 13th amendment has been quietly accepted for over a century. Maybe normality itself is to blame.
- Comment on The dream! 1 week ago:
Yes perhaps, but once my family has their UK citizenships sorted out, getting rid of our US citizenship is going to become a realistic option.
- Comment on The dream! 1 week ago:
Yo for real though. Even though I was born with UK citizenship, I didn’t grow up here and I don’t really fit in. It was hard at first, but life immediately made more sense when I mentally dropped the expat thing and started fully thinking of myself as an immigrant. I never did fit in in America anyway, so I have the mental framework in place already.
- Comment on see, no one 1 week ago:
Clever.
They’re right though, it’s the gen z equivalent of a laugh track.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 week ago:
I’m no expert, but it seems IDing me for a seam ripper hasn’t solved the issue.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 week ago:
You’re good. I don’t mean to downplay the importance of tackling knife crime, but my view is just that it ultimately stems from economic inequality, rather than it being too easy to get knives or whatever. People in jail get stabbed too, after all.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 1 week ago:
Almost. The thing with the conservative mindset (referring to right wing authoritarianism generally, not Tories in particular) is that they are motivated by fear of others. Sorry for causing confusion, I’m not from here originally and I don’t even make sense back home, sometimes.
The graph illustrates a divergence between real knife crime and fears about knife crime on X (where the blame is seemingly laid on monetisation of posts).
The dot I’m connecting mentally here is that preferential treatment is being given to fear-based posting about crime and minorities, which is exactly what you would do as a billionaire who wants to buy a mass media platform. A tale as old as semaphore, that.
So, the idea of a right wing Londoner getting spooked by suspiciously boosted, factually misleading scare content promoted by an even richer, more right wing bastard kind of makes me laugh. They’re driving each other crazier and crazier all the time, and ultimately it’s not all that funny.
- Comment on Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster 2 weeks ago:
Ball gang rise up. It’s iconic, and dismembered men in formations wholesale, and knocked them down to boot. There’s usually no need for the rest of these innovative horrors, they just seem unsporting.