Samskara
@Samskara@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Social media ads passing as posts: How advertising slips into Instagram 8 hours ago:
Instagram is a full on ad platform and has been for a long time.
- Comment on Seeing shit like this kills me. People are so ignorant. 2 days ago:
The Ten Commandments are in the Quran as well I would guess.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 2 days ago:
Lemmy doesn’t even have a fraction of the useful information you could find on Reddit across lots of topics.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 1 week ago:
You‘re harming people looking for help and support more than you harm Reddit.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 1 week ago:
Lemmy deletes the posts if a user is banned from their own instance or you delete the account.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Disco Elysium is not a fantasy themed monster slaying adventure game. It’s a detective game of narrative psychological exploration that uses RPG mechanics.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Yes, I successfully fought him as well. It held to think about fascism, be strong, and drunk.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
It’s about the exploring the story, the mind of your character, and lots of political and philosophical themes. The deep psychological exploration of the human condition is absolutely unique and fascinating.
Maybe you’re too young or otherwise not ready to engage with these themes.
- Comment on True Motivation 1 week ago:
It’s a common term for all stimulant users.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Half of Jews live in Israel. 80% of Jews worldwide are Zionists, if not more.
Among the anti-Zionists the words settlers, occupation, Zionist have different definitions. The most extreme use these words to appeal to moderates, who then think they are in agreement.
When Hamas speaks about settlers and occupation they mean all of Israel and all Jews living there. The naive western activist doesn’t understand that though and erroneously thinks it’s about the West Bank only. The idea of killing or pushing out the Jews/settlers/Zionists, which are used interchangeably in Arabic, and taking back their ancestors houses they still have the key to, is mainstream among Palestinians.
A similar thing happens when Jew is replaced with Zionist by extremists. Suddenly it become far more palatable even though most Jews are Zionists, as in believe Israel should exist. Antisemites love this little trick. The use of the word Zionist has moved the meaning a lot. It’s now closer to just mean evil Jew. Which is exactly how far right antisemites have used this word for decades in terms like ZOG.
Hamas also routinely uses the following argument: there are no Israeli civilians because they all serve in the IDF.
I agree that soldiers who have committed war crimes and politicians who ordered crimes against humanity should be brought to justice.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Drops Official First Look Teaser Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Looks decent enough. It will be attacked and this might also affect its success is the lack of a white blonde blue eyed European character.
Perceived ethnic/race breakdown:
- Caleb Mir: Human, light brown could pass for Arab, Pakistani, or mulatto
- Jay-Den Krag: Klingon, cliché dreadlocks wearing black with a very human first name
- Sam: Kasquian but looks human, black or mixed, big eyebrows
- Darem Reymi: Khionian but looks human, looks Arab or Mediterranean
- Genesis Lythe: Dar-Sha, looks human with wrinkly eyebrows, looks east Asian or mixed
All of them have dark black hair and dark brown eyes.
Granted the captain chancellor of the school is a white and blond lady.
This casting makes it easy to attack as woke and might limit its audience. Discovery always had Stamets and even redhair representation with Tilly.
A show about a military-esque academy with the values duty, honor, service should naturally appeal to conservatives. If that audience can get over the casting.
Three men, two women is a good balance. They refrained from having a token trans, genderqueer, or non-binary character, which is a good idea. Discovery didn’t handle theirs very well I think.
A character I would have loved here is an alien character that looks androgynous or female with pale skin, blue eyes, white or red hair. A platinum blonde blue eyed Vulcan ice queen would be cool to see as well.
It’s a school drama show. So there will be rival groups and cliques, which could have different ethnic compositions, ideological outlook, or style. Lots of potential there.
Overall the positive optimistic outlook of building a better future together is sorely needed at the moment. I deeply hope it can appeal across the political spectrum.
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 2 weeks ago:
The late 90s first VR wave was something to behold.
- Comment on Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I loved it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
80 % of Jews are Zionists.
Most anti-Zionists consider all Jews in Israel to be settlers. So you end up with half the Jews in camps.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You are advocating for putting more than 80% of Jews in camps.
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- Comment on ‘Not for everybody’: MDMA production for PTSD begins in Australia 2 weeks ago:
The high levels of security seem a little silly for a drug that’s easily available on the black market.
It’s great to hear the medical applications are making progress.
- Comment on Anon breaks up 2 weeks ago:
Accidental deaths from firearms can be reduced by making people get obligatory training and requiring storage in a gun safe, when not carried.
- Comment on According to one source Linux hits over 6% desktop user share 3 weeks ago:
How much of that is Chromebooks?
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 3 weeks ago:
Software for desktops sometimes have credits of the people who made it.
- Comment on Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
SPRICH
- Comment on British Slander. :) 3 weeks ago:
Yes, times were so much better when the Ottoman Empire ruled and oppressed the Middle East and beyond. Truly an empire of peace.
The Mughals were also welcomed in India as friendly visitors, as we all know.
- Comment on British Slander. :) 3 weeks ago:
As we all know wars, conflicts, conquest, exploitation, and oppression were totally unknown to the rest of the world before Europeans exported them worldwide. Coincidentally Europeans also removed all supplies of agency from the rest of humanity and hoarded it in the imperial core.
- Comment on I meant to do that 4 weeks ago:
TRAFIK
- Comment on Don't mess with me bro 4 weeks ago:
The whole esoteric space has a neo-nazi undercurrent.
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 5 weeks ago:
Ninth games have actual resale value. First party titles especially.
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 5 weeks ago:
You can buy it on a cartridge for Switch and later resell it.
- Comment on call of the void 5 weeks ago:
Everyone has moments in their lives when they are weak, dumb, and vulnerable, you included.
- Comment on nice smile 5 weeks ago:
You now know face mites exist.
- Comment on call of the void 5 weeks ago:
People will always find a way to kill themselves. Lots of ways to kill yourself with things in your own house.
Punishing people for attempting or committing suicide is pointless. People shouldn’t be encouraged to commit suicide. For most people the desire to do that will pass and they will find joy again in their lives. Suicide doesn’t only affect the person who dies, the people who knew them are affected mainly. The ones who lose a loved person and of course those who have to clean up the mess left behind.
Assisted suicide is a bit more complicated. People might be pressured into suicide by their family members or society so they are no longer a burden. The worst version of this is commercially available assisted suicide that makes a profit. Imagine literal „kill yourself“ advertisements offering services where they get rich the more people off themselves. Chatbots messaging depressed folks and nudging them towards suicide. There have been cults that committed ritualistic mass suicides. I don’t think these are good for society. So there needs to be pretty strict regulations around this.