Manticore

@Manticore@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨magic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Rubber gets brittle if it isn’t kept supple through flexing. The rest of the shoe last longer if given time to ‘rest’ from over-stretching or dry from sweat.

  So if you have multiple pairs of shoes, cycle through wearing them. All your pairs will last quite a bit longer: you’ll keep the rubber supple, and you’ll rest the sock/upper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, it sounds like he has your approval, and the approval of people in the privacy movement, who would use the term Hero. I accept that.

  As for what the word ‘hero’ means to you, and weather I value the same things, then the answer is yes:

  Do I think he did a moral act that aligned with his principles, motivated by compassion for others? Did he forsee what it would cost him and do it anyway because he believed it was the right thing to do, no matter how hard? Yes, and yes.

  …I just don’t use the word ‘hero’ to describe this. The word has become a simplified symbol to me, and if anything, feels less powerful than acknowledging the real sacrifice he made in the name of his principles.

  Without acknowledging that nuance, ‘Hero’ apparently puts him in the same category as housefire-puppy-rescuers, and what he did was much more considered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the difference in your hypothetical is that people would care that he tried. But inventing a scenario to put words in the mouth of a stranger has no relevance to the reality I’m commenting on.

  Think of me as you wish. I answered your question in good faith. That should be good enough.

  I don’t personally believe in ‘heroes’ and ‘villians’. I think it’s a very rudimentary way to view the world, as if through the lens of a storybook. We have deeply corrupt and selfish people causing harm, we have considerate and compassionate people fighting for their principles. Most people are some measure of both.

  Reducing people to Hero and Villain frequently excuses us any responsibility of self-reflection, as we can simply call ourselves ‘Good’ and justify unethical acts in the name of Goodness.

  If you believe that Hero is an objective trait one can achieve, but that social approval is not how one achieves it, we have very different views on humanity and ethics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Hero’ is a term of social worship for those that enact change.

  Do I think he did a moral act that aligned with his principles, motivated by compassion for others? Do he forsee what it would cost him and did it anyway because he believed it was the right thing to do, no matter how hard? Yes, and yes.

  But he’d only be a ‘hero’ if anybody actually cared enough to do anything about it, making him a symbol of social change that people would be grateful for him instigating.

  Instead, he falls victim to the same traps as those who self-immolate outside building to make a point: a sacrifical spectacle of sacrifice, exchanged for confused apathy from those he claimed to stand for.

  That really sucks. He was trying to make a real difference. He had to flee his home forever, because of the cost of him trying to save it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bone⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reject articulation; become dog biscuit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤭🤭🤭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Accidentally used my right foot, now a father of five

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  4 hours paid work, 1hr unpaid lunch, four hours paid work, home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unpaid 1hr lunchbreak. Pretty common today to work 8-5 in a 4:4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally, a real name for your penis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just enjoying every version of ‘[Word] Punch’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, am a pan of tofu in pan fries. I also use less meat and then bulk put with red lentils, chickpeas, or mixed beans. But the only pure-lentil protein meal I’ve managed to keep on is the Butternut squash curry, because the squash masks the chickpeas. The mealy texture of lentils makes them hard for me to appreciate solo (I can’t eat peas for similar reasons) so I tend to half-and-half. A single chicken breast feeds four people if bulked right.

  Unfortunately tofu is not cheap here, it costs about as much/slightly more than chicken. :( Regional pricing I suppose, I’m from an isolated farming nation so luxury goods have to be imported at large mark-up. Anything we don’t grow here gets priced to match :/ Lentils are cheap though, and you can also do a lot with a baked potato!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Much agreed. Humans are the only species were aware of that can make ethical considerations in their diet, and there are so many ways to do that.

  My preference is towards sustainably and environmentalism, as limited by my income bracket. So I love mushrooms, love vegetarian dishes, eat in season; but still eat eggs, dairy, and cheap meat for affordable protein. But I prefer sustainable farming practices, and using low-cost cuts like sausagemeat that might otherwise be wasted. I can’t afford most plant-based alternatives because they’re considered ‘lifestyle’ luxuries, so I have to have whey protein instead of pea, etc. But eggs are cheap enough I can splurge on free range with SPCA cert, and I love me a sweet-potato-mushroom burger patty if I can afford one. Nut mince is also great for nachos.

  This means I support insect farms for future protein sources, since they use far less resources than even plant-based alternatives and are much cheaper and more land efficient. That makes me different from most vegetarians and vegans it seems, but I don’t consider our philosophies to be in conflict. Ultimately we share a common goal in maintaining more ethical diets that limit the harm we cause, and there are several approaches to do that. Every step we can affordable maintain is progress to a kinder and more sustainable world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your point about the tick is correct, but I’m not sure if that counts as veganism? Theres a significant difference between vegetarianism and veganism beyond the diet itself.

  Vegetarianism is a dietary restriction around consuming flesh, whereas veganism is a philosophical restriction around animal suffering/exploitation. But even that philosophy can have different interpretations (what counts as suffering? What counts as exploitation?).

  Thus vegans having a reputation of being inflexible, because eating nonvegan is a violation of their personal principles; whereas most vegetarians won’t care what you eat so long as you still provide something they can eat.

  Therefore I’d expect vegetarians don’t eat lab meat (it’s flesh) but many vegans may (if they believe it is developed ethically, and doesn’t incentivise unethical practice).

  But IMO both of the terms are pretty absolute and inflexible. An increasingly large number of people ate ‘vegan except for X’, or vegetarian [98]% of the time’, and we don’t have words to distinguish them from those who don’t plan to reduce animal products at all. I’d like if there was, to encourage people to have more varied diets without seeing it as ‘all or nothing’. Significantly reducing animal intake is still an environmental win even if they can’t eliminate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Vegetarian is fine, there is no flesh. Vegetarianism is typically a dietary restriction, rather than a philosophical one.

  Vegan: it depends. Cultivating figs may be seen as expotation, like bee’s honey is; regardless of the insect’s actual life or wellbeing. Each individual person decides what counts as vegan.

  I don’t see the point in this level of specificity, because by eating anything at all you consume fungal spores, tiny mites, microbes etc. Plants are also alive. So there is clearly a line where life is permittably consumed.

  If ‘experiencing suffering’ is that line, insects do not seem capable of it, only responding to basic stimuli. I once watched a one trying to eat its own partially severed head, turning it in its front legs while its mouth parts rapidly twitched. It evidently had no comprehension.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spoopy figs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the vegan you’re talking to.

  Wild figs may be but as soon as you’re cultivating fig varieties that require the fig wasp, you are artificially increasing the wasp population specifically to perish, in order to sustain human horticulture. Much like honey or milk, the fact you don’t eat the animal’s flesh might still defy the spirit of ‘no animal exploitation’. Most pollinators do not explicitly perish as part of pollination; figs are one of the foods vegans may disagree on.

  The good news is that there are a small number of fig varieties that can be fertilised without the wasp (either by hand, or self-pollinating clones). In a lot of countries this is the variety that may be grown because importing wasps could be ecologically dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨dating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf she made zero effort to converse with OOP either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Must be the title of their new book, they’re on a press tour

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winner takes all⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn this dude already looks like a political caricature of himself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t exactly disagree, it’s just that bad faith AI games will inevitably use this possible interpretation to excuse using AI much more extensively. If you want to flag AI use for like… googling stuff, then we should differentiate it from those who use AI assets in their final product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m OK with that tbh. If we normalise disclosures for any use of AI, ever, the some AI vibe-code slop gets declared the same way as a meticulously crafted game (but the devs used AI for research/brainstorming), or even ‘devs used Google and they may have been inspired by the search AI’ etc

  I think AI as a tech is pretty cool. I think using AI is less cool, since it is using far more resources than we can afford to give it, so I avoid using AI at all, even if I think the tech itself is morally neutral.

  And I think the way we’re using AI is horrifying. Not just how companies push it, but the common use, too. People are outsourcing their thinking and comprehension to AI, and their own personal development is stagnating. This is particularly terrifying in children and college students. Would I rather than a doctor/social worker/financial advisor that gained a degree through AI and couldn’t adapt to real world struggle? Or none at all? Hmm.

  I think there is a space for devs to use AI and not have it undermine what they’re doing, is what I mean. And so I don’t want to label those people the same as the ones who’ll get AI to do everything. Otherwise, with how much AI is used on our behalf even without consent, the AI label will become the norm… at which point, it ceases to mean anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah each times Sean does this shit, forums and chats are filled with people mock-angrily ranting that now they need to f8bd som more friends to buy it for lol

  And that meme of the dad with the belt? There’s a version on the reddit sub of Sean’s avatar “ITS FREE UPDATE TIME” (sometimes they put the update img on the belt), and the cowering kid being like “SEAN PLS NO! I have money”

  Warframe is also the only f2p model game I’ve ever actually felt fairly treated in, they’ve even changed systems when they noticed they were ‘too’ profitable and didn’t feel comfortable with how that was affecting the players paying for them. Warframe is a live service game by design, but it also has a community of players happy to pay for it because they love it and want to show that to devs, rather than being strong-armed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda insane what No Man’s Sky is doing, too. They recently pushed an update to design and build your own corvette-class spaceships. NMS isn’t even a live service game! Wtf Sean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know the study you mean and you’re misrepresenting it. It asks people who identify as lesbian whether they have experienced domestic abuse at all, and concludes they’re more likely to than straight women.

  But remember lesbians often date men before coming out. When asking whether the perpetrator was male or female and separating the data, the stats shifted. Lesbians experienced less DV from their female partners than straight women do from their male ones.

  Women are also capable of abuse of course, but a large amount of the DV lesbians received was still from men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a bot⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. It’s definitely not what is was, for sure. But while search engines (especially Google) are so fucking bad, adding ‘reddit’ to your search is still the best way to get answers to your actual question and not just irrelevant sponsors and paid plugs.

  Ofc that’s probably a big reason why reddit has swarms of bots for grass roots advertising… it’s a vicious slippery circle of slop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Yawn*⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You read the word Yawn several times in a meme, guess what

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew it wasn't Monica⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats the second living president.

  (Deadass I read the title literally and went looking for the second one, immediately locked eyes with Busty McPresident)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ANTI PEE PAINT⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Europe charges to use them though, whoch i find weird. Imo they should be funded by public budgets the way libraries, school buses, roads etc are.

  Like, of ya gotta pee, ya gotta pee. If you gotta pee and you don’t have any Euros on you, what else are you supposed to fucking do?? Literally what are your options at that point?

  I’m sure some people would do this anyway but I suspect a lot of them can’t/won’t pay for a public toilet and aren’t close enough to a private one. It’s a UX issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eel butts⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably doesn’t need as much intestine as we do, so the length of that tube is sufficient. Or perhaps most of the ingestion is done in the stomach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is propped up by investors. Always promising the.next big thing is just around the corner. The money is pouring in from other wealthy people…let’s be real us common folk rarely if ever pay for AI. Its businesses doing that

  but one day those investors will expect a return, so AI is being shoved in everything in the hopes of finding a use case that is actually profitable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's all a game for them and we are always the losers⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the ‘we’ in ‘we allow’ is also congress

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon breaks up⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They were talking about the dangers of negligence. You countered with how guns can be relatively safe if one follows safety guidelines.

  The ‘negligence’ part is referring to those that don’t follow guides. By listing all the guides and rules to make guns safe, they probably mean you prove their point by showing the burden of responsibility guns require (and thus the risk when iiresp9nsible people don’t meet them).