AbnormalHumanBeing
@AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
Some weird, German communist, hello. He/him pronouns and all that. Obsessed with philosophy and history, secondarily obsessed with video games as a cultural medium. Also somewhat able to program.
- Comment on Not sure exactly what they are selling 2 days ago:
!theyknew@lemmy.sdf.org would like this, too, I’m sure
- Comment on Winging it 4 days ago:
Fun fact: Those weird paintings of Jesus as an “adult baby” are actually intentional. This was an attempt at representing that in the interpretation of the time, Jesus entered this world already fully perfected/divine, without having to have gone through an “imperfect” phase.
- Comment on buddy of mine is in a horrible mood 1 week ago:
As literally an abnormie, I am appalled by that thought!
- Comment on MEGA PENGUIN 2 weeks ago:
Good that they provided both the Emperor penguin and human penguin for scale.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 2 weeks ago:
Probably, but I know that at least in the past, their philosophy was to uphold Windows as the one gold standard at all costs, and I doubt that has changed.
It might be one of those non-authentic quotes, but I heard that Steve Ballmer supposedly once said, that they’d rather have people pirate Windows instead of using another OS. No matter if that is an authentic statement - there is a real synergetic effect: If everyone is used to how Windows works at home (even if pirated there), then any potential employer will want to have Windows licenses for their IT and office stuff, which is where the main money lies. That’s one of the reasons Microsoft has been so furiously anti-competition, because their main advantage is being the de-facto standard, and being the only proper gaming system became a part of that strategy, with attempts to further lock-in any gamers into their ecosystem if at all possible (some of which thankfully failed).
So I think making an app for Game Pass for Linux won’t be in their interest any time soon, unfortunately.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 42 comments
- Comment on Anon discovers cigarettes 2 weeks ago:
Like many things, it’s an irrational decision to start at some point, and then addiction keeps you doing it. I have tried out a few drugs in my teenage/young adult years, including some “hard” ones, which ended up genuinely being one-off curiosity things for me. But the one that I simply wasn’t able to kick until last year was nicotine. It really is scarily addictive for something so widespread and legal. (Alcohol was also hard, but easier for me).
That, and the part about “no high” is just not really true, even after you develop a dependency/addiction (with rapidly diminishing returns, of course). But especially when first starting to vape/smoke, there are very much effects beyond placebo. It hooks into a lot of your neurochemistry, and like most things that do, you feel that. To the point that, e.g., many people that consume weed with tobacco, will think the initial wooziness they feel is already due to the weed, when really, it is a tobacco hit. The weed effects generally come afterwards.
Of course, the effect is not at all as intense as alcohol or other drugs, but there are effects. There are also, to my knowledge, some indications, that a lot of people with ADHD use it to self-medicate, since it seems to affect them differently, like other drugs do, too.
- Comment on I'm a bit freaked out 2 weeks ago:
It’s a shame this clip doesn’t have subtitles, but it starts out with the scene you mention.
Well, if this wasn’t a good use of my time, I don’t know what could have been: Fired up Kdenlive and my copy here, so now people can enjoy this scene without context but with English subtitles, if so desired.
- Comment on I'm a bit freaked out 2 weeks ago:
My favourite part from that one has always been the monologue about how grinding an animal down and putting it inside it’s own asshole is a mythological humiliation humanity has forced upon nature.
- Comment on How dare she! 3 weeks ago:
Now, if it had been three city bears - those fuckers would have deserved it, of course.
- Comment on The joy of going through pregnancy along with your sister 4 weeks ago:
Also, there isn’t even a way to tell if this is real. Sure, it could be, but chances are high someone took a picture of a couple that look kind of “white trash” from who knows where, and just used it to create outrage/superiority-circlejerk-bait.
- Comment on Saw this in a public women's bathroom. I didn't want to touch it, but I am curious as to what it is. 1 month ago:
!whatisthisthing@lemmy.world
- Comment on logs are for quitters 2 months ago:
In the same way biofuels are: Technically yes, but still not that great of an idea outside special applications. (One I could imagine would be someone wanting to live completely off grid using filtered frying oil in an old-but-ridiculously-sturdy diesel generator)
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 2 months ago:
Yeah, remember that German philosopher? Immanuel Kant, whose last name is pronounced “cunt”? Who ended up kicking off the whole process of modern and ultimately postmodern philosophy? Who most likely had autism (non-judgemental) and some really weird habits (mostly non-judgemental, don’t hit your servants, dude) and ideas (somewhat non-judgemental, if you’ve never seen a person with darker skin in your life, don’t write about them).
It was all in the name!
Speaking of philosophers and licking cunts.
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- Submitted 2 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Going on Reddit today be like... 2 months ago:
Wow, I guess they have now literally reached the earliest one they could do a live action remake of. Good to know that even while things have been heating up globally, the underlying current of absolute boredom in this dystopia is going strong.
- Comment on Going on Reddit today be like... 2 months ago:
What is this about? This?
Haven’t been on reddit and am notoriously often living under a rock when it comes to news outside my personal interests.
- Comment on If you think that you are always right remember you could actually be stupid and not know it 2 months ago:
CW: Discussion of death, potential existential dread, potential sophistry by a weirdo
So, okay, the former sentence is something that always fascinated me, because I think it’s actually even more complicated. To make it easier to parse and write, consider all of the following with an added “I think” or “I believe” or smth. attached to each sentence: There is no “you” any more that could know or not know, the very core of subjectivity has vanished. “I will be dead”, for example, only exists as a meaningful sentence within language, and the logic of language in reality - there is no “I” that can be dead. I think that foundational contradiction is also at the core of why in psychoanalysis, the idea is, that the unconscious is incapable of forming a reference to your own death. (Related this, the Lacanian thesis, that the unconscious has the structure of language). The result is: Death does not mean a transition into “nothing”, as “nothing” is still “something” - at least as something like a semantic unit. Instead, it is the transition into “Less than Nothing”, where the logic of language which is at the core of our ability to fathom reality ceases to exist. The “you” referenced is only existent within references made by others, but any subjectivity that could “not know”, “not suffer”, “not exist” is gone.
- Comment on Win win 2 months ago:
Teslas are jampacked with cameras.
Which will show a masked figure of weirdly indeterminate height (possible wearing hidden plateau shoes) setting fire to it in the middle of the night, how curious 🤔
- Comment on Nicole endgame 2 months ago:
Oh, that is almost comforting to hear, because a clear profit motive that can be linked to the original messages would indeed be pointing towards scam instead of weird stalker. That being said, it sadly would not on its own completely do away with the theory.
- Comment on Nicole endgame 2 months ago:
The current most likely theory of the people that dove headfirst into this seems to be, that she was a small streamer on peertube and other platforms (hence the many different webcam images, too). Looking into the chat of the stream on her peertube account reveals at least one person, that had all their messages removed by her. The linked accounts on the most common spam messages feel more like doxxing attempts, too - with ones like this asking for money most likely being copycats, as in the original messages and linked communities, there was a suspicious lack of asking for money or trying to start contact for a romance/catfishing scam.
This would all point to some kind of crazy stalker trying to doxx this woman for whatever reason, in a pretty weird way. Maybe they hoped it would get us all riled up and hating on her? Maybe they thought by just seeing her, we’d react in some way? Maybe they just wanted the feeling of power to doxx and intimidate her, and no real plan beyond that?
Whatever it is, it really looks more like creepy shit than scam shit at this point, from what I have gathered in the community research that has been happening.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 2 months ago:
Makes sense, it’s most likely an ongoing arms race - I’m probably coasting under the radar a bit from running an instance with effectively only 3 people to target at the moment.
- Comment on Is anyone else getting failures to generate reports when reporting the constant spam from "Nicole, the Fediverse Girl" which originates from a different, new instance every time? 2 months ago:
Some admins have been developing and sharing solutions, from regex filters to going down into the databases itself.
For my small instance and personally, I haven’t seen any new messages in a while now, after adding this regex to the slur filter mechanism:
(.*(\n)*Hi.*[nN]icole.*[fF]ediverse [cC]hick(.|\n)*)Sadly my brain is blanking which instance admins I should credit for that, but it was shared around somewhere.
- Comment on Comrade Krasnov is just a follower of Leninist tought ! 2 months ago:
🫡 Comrade Trump 🫡
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 2 months ago:
While this is very funny, and definitely representative of a sort of ignorance/arrogance commonly found in ideologues - I recently learned that most people talking about the effect have, in fact, been Dunning-Krugering themselves.
Insightful video on the topic.
What most people expect the effect to look like:
ImageWhat the actual results were:
Image - Comment on What lives in the DEEP OPEN OCEAN? 2 months ago:
What’s an animal, though it’s barely in motion?
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 3 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Oh no, it got deleted, that is unfortunate ):
- Comment on There is no method to this madness 2 months ago:
Aw shit, here I go, this meme just reminded me, that me thinking “I’ll take a quick break from working on my mailserver integration stuff” was 6 hours ago.
