Manticore

@Manticore@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I figured it’s an issue with haggled that haggle for haggling sake, and not about the value of the item.

  If I want to sell something on marketplace, I put the price up, because I know somebody will ask for a big discount for a quick sale. I’m happy to move this faded couch set for $100, then I’m listing it for $200… and selling it for $100 to a person who offers to pick it up, too.

  It’s that kind of reasoning and makes haggling pointless imo, because sellers either don’t take your lowball or they knew you’d lowball and charged high to start with so they have room to negotiate.

  But as that one JC Penny guy accidentally proved, people love the illusion of good deals more than they love good value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of a story somebody shared on reddit years ago.

  An arborist, working with his team. One of his crew had the chainsaw kick and come back and severely main him. He’s bleeding so fucking fast. They need to get him to hospital, and they can’t afford to wait for the ambulance to arrive.

  The woman in front won’t let them past. She’s going slower and slower to make a point. They’re honking at her, but she lines up with another lane to box them in. That car slows down too.

  The guy is fading fast.theyre using his shirt to staunch the blood, but it’s not enough. After several minutes, they finally have an opening they can take. They speed past her little car, throwing the bloodsoaked shirt out the window to slap wetly on her windshield.

  They meet up with emergency services - first, a cop. The woman pulls over to talk to the cop about their reckless driving. While arguing, the ambulance arrives. The injured crew member, and the storyteller, are taken to hospital.

  It’s too late. He dies.

  …don’t fuck around man. You never know. It’s no worth it. Do the safe thing and slow down or pull over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear thats what European Truck Simulator 1, 2, and American truck simulator are excellent for. Driving around on long roads with meditative scenery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Contributions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Researchers dont get paid. In fact, they usually have to pay to be published on reputable platforms. Those platforms are the ones charging.

  As for why they publish there if they never profit, academic success is dependant on publishing (“published or perish”), so academics will pay to advance in their field, essentially to get funding for future studies.

  This is why if you contact a researcher directly, they’ll likely be willing to give you the finished thesis for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK this fucks with artists, not Spotify.

  Spotify doesn’t pay artists a flat amount per stream. Instead, Spotify’s profits are split between artists based on their streams.

  By playing a bunch of songs, all you do is give those artists slightly more, and other artists slightly less – at least in theory. In practice you’re probably not steaming enough to change overall percentages.

  So if anything, you are moving profit to support the artists that Spotify is promoting by putting in your ‘radio’. Which likely means instead of going to small undiscovered musicians, it goes towards popular established ones that Spotify assumes you’ll like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's too hot to think of why or how⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s us weirdos that like to eat 1-3 at a time by one sticking to our tongue like a frog

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨want to be a woman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it means anything, very very few people in this world feel truly attractive, women included. Body image, self-esteem, fashion, fat and muscle; almost every person on this earth is aspiring to standards they can’t reach and feeling distressed at what they perceive to be their failure.

  You believe being a woman means being inherently desirable because you Young women definitely get attention, but its commonly threatening and not validating. It likely wouldn’t be fulfilling for you because it’s people who see you as a prop for their own experience. Your value isn’t part of that.

  If what you want is to feel desirable, your odds are better if you’re attracted to women. In relationships, women more commonly value non-visible traits like communication, resilience, consideration, humour, and skill. Attraction is more holistic. I’ve known of at least two men getting married with almost no face at all (one taken off by a grizzly bear, the other obscured by large benign growths). Both had kids, too. In a healthy relationship, holistic desire grows.

  You believe being a woman means being inherently desirable because you are presumably straight and desire women. You believe you must beautiful to get that because that’s what you most desire in women. Neither has to be true of you.

  You are thirsty in the desert, and that’s awful. You fantasise about drowning in the lake because it looks like a solution to your problem, just as the downers desperately wish they could stand on the solid cracked earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨want to be a woman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m reminded of someone I know. He felt something similar for a long time. Ultimately he co clouded that, for him, what he really wanted was to feel attractive and desirable. And he’d concludes that only women could have that. And was wondering that wanting to feel beautiful meant he wanted to be a woman.

  After some time around sex-positive people, he had experiences that helped him feel desirable and attractive as a man. He realised that was what he actually wanted, and he’d just been taught beauty was a women-thing.

  Maybe that rings true for you, too. Maybe all you really want is to feel beautiful, wanted, desired. Maybe want you dislike isn’t your gender, but the role society has assigned you for it.

  Only you can really figure that out. I just wondered if my friends story would mean something to you… Being trans is a valid answer, but it isn’t the right one for everybody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨do you think freewill truly exists?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It absolutwly can be small talk.

  Small talk is a low stakes way to build rapport without exchanging any information that is intimate, vulnerable, or confrontational.

  Talking about the weather is boring small talk. I hate boring small talk very much, but small talk in general is important for building rapport with people you don’t know well enough to be vulnerable with.

  Talking about pop culture, like [TV SHOW] or [LOCAL TEAM], are also small talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps majority is the wrong word, rather she is the most popular with horny humans. Im not referring to humans in general but pointing out that I’m saying Lisa is no. 2 on a ranked list. People are freaking out over Maggie when Lisa is also right there and far higher.

  So I suspect they’re both on the list for the same reason, and Lisa is higher because her adult version is used way more often and is more familiar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Would have to be, Lisa is incredibly high also and I find it hard to believe that the majority of horny humans would choose a 9(?) Yr old. But she’s been depicted as an adult a bunch of times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Standing still in place for a few hours is waaay more uncomfortable than pacing and walking around. Shifting the weight on our feet really helps

  I can’t imagine how awful these would be, especially with how cramped they’d be packed in (otherwise they’re no smaller than chairs). God, you couldn’t even bend down to scratch your knee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I tell people I don't know the answer but where they can find it and they don't go and read where I told them to read.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a video. I fcuking hate when I’m trying to find a tutorial, or recipe, or some other help and the results are people recording their screens while they dick around with zero subtitles or chapter headings.

  I can scan text for the relevant part within seconds. I’m not interested in two minutes of WHATS UP LADIES AND GENTS, missing the crucial step because it looks so similar to the irrelevant steps either side, lack of subtitles for my poor hearing, or hard to see on my tiny phone screen etc.

  Videos are easy tutorials/references to prepare because you have all these channels of information you can use simultaneously. They are the hardest medium to find specific information in because they use so many channels of information.

  I think that videos are enjoyable to consume, but they’re not good at passing on information, especially if the recipient is resistant already (because you’re asking them to do extra work to support your point).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon gets a call from his past⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I’d be concerned if he was raped while drunk or unconscious. It is, unfortunately, not so rare. If so, then as far as she’s concerned that’s ‘sex together’. A lot of women perpetrators do no consider themselves rapists because it’s’non-violent’ or they believe theyre doing the man a favour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cash is expensive for stores to manage, count, and sort. That’s the actual reason they want it gone, not tracking. Sure, we’re being tracked, but that’s not the point. Thanks to our phones, our personal lives have already been completely disseminated.

  Cashless is about making things easier for businesses that struggle with handling cash. A cashless society acts like consuming goods from those businesses is the only reason money exists, and that’s wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cards themselves have been very useful. They’re much l8ghter and harder to steal money than carrying hundreds in cash in your pockets.

  It’s cashless that is a concern, not the existence of cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens when an abused person has to escape a partner/parent who controls all the money? Where do they go, what food and board are they getting?

  How do small traders set up garage sales and marketer stands, especially if they don’t want to give cuts of their money to Edtpos and Visa?

  How do those with impulsively/memory issues (such as ADHD, dementia, and teenagers) manage the abstraction of their money, leading them to accidentally overspending/overdrafts?

  How do you spot a stranger in need a bus fare home?

  How do we support the street artists and buskers?

  …I don’t like the idea of cashless. My country already uses eftpos and visa as the norm (so ofc we all pay those American copies their fees). But while wide accepting of the card is good and useless, true cashless has issues of usability. It’s not just ‘something something government tracking spending’.

  Vulnerable people fall through the gaps, and it means people make a lot more consumer transactions and a lot fewer personal ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is more accurate, but for most people it probably makes it more work. If most [Group A] need [Item A], it gets labelled that way so they can be sectioned that way. It probably would be better, especially for more uncommon shapes, to use measurements. But most people don’t want to do that for everything, they want an easy answer so they can go home. A lot of women I know have never bothered to get their bra size professionally measured, and that’s a readily available service that saves so much literal pain.

  Reminds me of mens/womens deoderant. IIRC the real difference is that one is creamier (for body hair) and the other is powdery (for shaved skin). So sometimes men might want women’s deoderant or vice versa, and the labelling CAN obfuscate that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend re-lacing. Autocorrect changed it to ‘replace’, but changing how your shoes are laced really helps. I have a very high arch, and found that I didn’t actually need much arch support in the shoe itself, I just needed the tongue not to be pushing down on it. Feel like giving it a try?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s normal for men to have wider feet, with a wider and longer toebox compared to the length of the foot. Length is only one dimension of several. (Though a lot of people don’t think to replace their shoes for arches.)

  It’s unclear how much of that is upbringing. The two box length is gendered, but toe and foot width go up wen spending a lot of time barefoot, and toe width goes down in pointed shoes that can eve n make toes ‘tuck’ and cause bunions.

  A women’s 9 1/2 double-wide fits me about the same as a plain Men’s 7. Women’s dress shoes are rarely in wide, and NEVER double-wide. Though I’ve found success with Aussie brands because going barefoot is normal there and so the shoes are often wider for everyone. We’re also seeing the toebox become a more slanted natural foot shape, instead of the weird point symmetrical one.

  Bodies can be complicated, and one size/shape isn’t for everyone. The way we live and dress absolutely changes the shoes we need, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pens in Space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Inflame was the original word for ‘to ignite’ (or flare up). But given English uses the un- and in- prefixes and modifiers, ‘flammable’ has been deemed less confusing, especially if English is not your native language

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Is Just Craigslist Now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My cpuntry doesn’t have Craigslist, the ‘eBay’ alternative that used to be mainstream has become a dropseller’s market. Marketplace is the only secondhand market platform here, basically. Warts and all. Though some people will create Facebook groups to buy and trade in, for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK people really do backflips to justify why their version of gender/sexuality is the best one so I can see why the top person exists.

  But the bottom one HAS to be satire, right? “Reproductive sex is forcefem” cannot be a real viewpoint. They’re mocking the top person, by baiting them into abstaining from sex outright.

  Right…? I hate that I’m not sure anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I remember thr same thing. Everything else was suppose to be a package update.

  But back-end technology and usage expectations change, and there’s a limit to what front-end changes an existing user tolerates. That was never a promise they could keep.

  It has lasted a really long time, though. I don’t decry 11 existing. I’m upset they’re sunsetting 10 without giving us a chance to wait for 11 to get better, let alone for ‘oops we fixed the fuckups’ W12.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, will probably avoid 11 as long as I can though. I have an Mvidia card (drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux). And I need professional design software for work (as it industry standard: Adobe or Affinity).

  But I put 11 on my laptop to try it and I hate it. So many terrible UI changes, UX noticeably worse. Like they changed stuff just to say they changed stuff.

  I considered going Linux for personal use and development, and then using another machine or dual boot for Mac for design software. But i learned about the Nvidia issues after I upgraded my card :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pee was stored in the balls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what he said, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pee was stored in the balls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God doesn’t make mistakes 😇🙏 that’s why butt stuff 🍑🤛💦 feels so good 🥴😩💯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pee was stored in the balls⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it feels like a weird way to say that humans still have vestigial signs of a cloaca. It’s understood that evolutionary ancestors did, so humans’ ancestors would need to have separated the functions during their evolution… I guess the news is that there is still genetic evidence even today.

  Alternatively, creationists can take this as a sign a creator considers butt stuff to be natural sex also 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big sausage boie⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like somebody tried to recreate and taxidermy a dog after somebody swapped the skull for a crocodiles.

  Neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube cracks down (again) on ad blockers.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, starting getting this with ublock Lite.

  I’ve noticed if you click the button to "make an exception’, and refresh the page, you can watch the video anyway. But it’s possible that their server can record you doing that several times and might eventually suspend you.