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- Comment on Being Difficult 1 week ago:
There’s an old joke about quantum mechanics professors starting their first lecture with something along the lines of “right now, some of you probably understand quantum mechanics. By the end of the semester, if I did my job right, none of us will understand it.”
- Comment on irony is pressing 1 week ago:
I have a catch-all email domain, and this is exactly what I do. Walmart gets “walmart@example.com”, Target gets “target@example.com”, etc… All of them go to the same inbox, so I always know which email address they think I have. If I start getting spam addressed to walmart@example.com, I know Walmart sold my info. I can just filter anything addressed to that account straight into my spam folder.
- Comment on irony is pressing 1 week ago:
Yeah, that shit would get auto-filtered straight into the spam folder.
- Comment on Space Honey 1 week ago:
It’s even cooler than that: The esophagus can squeeze things towards the stomach against gravity. You can drink water while hanging upside down. You’ll also get a nose full of water because your sinuses would be below your mouth, but once it’s in your throat and you’re swallowing, it’ll make it to your stomach just fine.
- Comment on Full circle. 1 week ago:
It’s more than that. I’m friends with a diagnosed sociopath. Zero empathy whatsoever. And he is 100% without a doubt the most dependable and moral person I know. He always keeps his word, is always willing to lend a hand if needed, and is a champion for things like harm reduction as public policy - Gun laws, drug reform, police reform, bodily autonomy, etc… As a teen, he went through a satanist moral philosophy kick, and basically came to terms with the fact that empathy isn’t required for objective morality. Each person can choose to do good, simply because it is the right thing to do. I fully believe that he’d be a serial killer (or at least some high powered CEO who ruins lives for the people that work in his company) without that philosophy.
It actually makes him angry when conservatives do and say shit like this… Because he sees it as a complete moral failing on their part, not a lack of empathy. Basically the difference between “you’re doing bad things because you can’t understand others” and “you’re doing bad things because you refuse to do better.”
The former could be used as a crutch to explain bad actions, but he absolutely rejects that possibility because his lived experience has taught him that understanding or empathizing with others isn’t a requirement for morality. So he basically falls back to the opposite of Hanlon’s Razor, where he refuses to accept stupidity as a blanket excuse for malicious actions.
Stupidity can be used as an excuse for individual actions. “Oops, sorry I bumped into you. I wasn’t watching where I was going.” But it doesn’t work for explaining a long term pattern of behavior where the person has had opportunities to learn and improve. The headline statement is not an isolated incident where it can be explained away with stupidity or a lack of empathy. It’s more like “I go out of my way to shoulder-check people.” And that’s an intentional pattern of behavior, not an accident.
- Comment on Castlevania: Belmont‘s Curse Gameplay & Commentary Trailer 1 week ago:
I like both for different reasons. The older SOTN style ones are great for small detailed movement. Dodges are measured in individual pixels, not perfectly timed I-frames.
But I also love the faster paced movement on display here. Ori and the Blind Forest, Afterimage, Metroid Dread, etc are all great examples of solid movement-based games. Where if you’re sitting still, you’re not playing the game right. Fights are determined by your ability to time attacks and abuse counters/i-frames, quickly closing to striking distance and retreating before the enemy can counter.
Navigating in the latter games often feels much better. Simply walking from A to B tends to feel like a chore in earlier metroidvanias, because it’s a pretty simple thing to move around. At most, you usually have a double jump or dash, but that’s about as far as your movement options go. But with more movement options (and faster, more fluid movement,) going from A to B feels like its own part of the game. The Spider-Man games are a good example of how simply navigating can be entertaining.
- Comment on holy moley 1 week ago:
They only understand when it personally affects them in some capacity.
I keep this image saved on my phone, because it is relevant way too often:
Image - Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 1 week ago:
She was studying Japanese at Uni, and I am 90% sure she was writing fan subs for Death Note, as it was coming out.
Another solid data point for my “horse girl to elder emo pipeline” theory. My working theory is that all horse girls eventually evolve into (at least) one of the following two groups: Elder emo girls, or tail girls.
- Comment on Never doubt the commitment of horse-girl fans: Umamusume cosplayers are having actual races at tracks around the world 1 week ago:
Umamusume is a gotcha game
Small nitpick, but it’s actually “gatcha” or “gasha” because it comes from the Japanese word “gatchapon/gashapon”. The word is derived from two different Japanese onomatopoeias:
Gasha - The sound of a toy capsule dispenser handle being cranked/turned Pon - The sound of a toy capsule landing in the output slot of the machine.Basically, you know those little coin-operated toy capsule dispensers that you can find in arcades? The ones that have little toys, stickers, candy, etc. inside? They usually look something like this:
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Yeah, these things are wildly popular in Japan. They’re colloquially referred to as “gatchapon”. There are massive stores full of these gatchapon machines. Brands will do promos for new anime, TV shows, band album releases, etc… Collectors spend a lot of money to get the rare collectibles from these machines, because not all the toys are the same rarity.And a gatchapon game is the same basic concept, but in a digital format. You get pulls/draws/{whatever the game calls them} via some method (usually purchasing them, because that is usually how the game makes money), and then those pulls are used to get new things. Sometimes characters, sometimes equipment, sometimes new outfits, etc… It’s literally gambling, because the best stuff is virtually always gated behind some hilariously small jackpot odds.
- Comment on Just a friendly welcome post 2 weeks ago:
Well you got an account made, and that’s a start! Lemmy’s UI may feel familiar if you’re an old.reddit user. There are apps like Voyager that feel like spiritual successors to AlienBlue and Apollo, so if you used those apps before they were killed, you’ll feel right at home.
The best way I’ve seen to describe the platform is to think of it like email. An @gmail account can send email to an @yahoo account just fine. The specific platform is agnostic because they all use the same email backend. That’s essentially how federation works, with a bunch of different servers/instances agreeing to use the same data sharing backend.
So you’re on lemmy.zip, so you’ll be able to see and interact with any instances that lemmy.zip is federated with. Federation is simply the decision to actively share that data. And defederation is when a server chooses not to share data with another instance. One of the biggest impacts your server choice makes is which instances it is federated/defederated with. That will determine which communities you can access, as you’ll only be able to see communities on local or federated instances.
The one big caveat is that defederating from an instance won’t stop you seeing posts from those users on another instance. For example, I’m on dbzer0. Let’s say dbzer0 and zip decide to defederate. You’d stop seeing communities on dbzer0, and vice versa. But if I posted to lemmy.world, you’d be able to see my post as long as you’re still federated with lemmy.world. The third instance (lemmy.world, in this example) essentially acts as a proxy to allow both to see each other. So defederation isn’t the same thing as a filter or block, as it only stops you from seeing things that are posted on that defederated instance.
- Comment on Just a friendly welcome post 2 weeks ago:
They’re only “really cool” because the ml admins are so heavy handed with moderation. From the outside looking in, it looks like calm waters. But dig into the modlog, and you’ll quickly discover that it’s only calm because the admins only leave a very small and tightly controlled window for discourse.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, “I’m cheap/broke” is a reason to pirate, but so many people shy away from admitting it. Simply because they feel the need to morally justify it in some other way. I guess because saying “I took this shit for free. I could pay for it but I don’t wanna” doesn’t feel good.
- Comment on What’s the difference between anarchy and libertarianism? 2 weeks ago:
Also, the comparison between the two is often confused by the fact that people tend to think of politics as a single left/right line. This is mostly because we as citizens vote for representatives, instead of voting for policies directly. And since we only get to vote for one representative, their different policies all get lumped together. In reality, the political spectrum is more like a 5D matrix, where things like personal freedom/authoritarianism, fiscal policy, religious freedom, etc exist on entirely separate axes.
One of the big differences between anarchists and libertarians tends to be fiscal policy and corporate regulation. Anarchists still tend to want things like public utilities, roads, trash collection, public art, universal healthcare, etc… They tend to see these as acceptable forms of government. Anarchists tend to be about collective action, and these things are an extension of that. They’re things that are too big to realistically build on an individual level, and they benefit everyone.
The “anarchy” part really comes into play when discussing personal freedoms, as anarchists tend to rebel against restrictions on what they are allowed to do. They tend to argue that individuals should have a lot more personal freedom, and local society should be correcting bad behaviors through social pressure (and use of force, if it comes to that). Break the social contract, and you’re punished by your neighbors until the behavior is corrected. They also tend to argue for heavy corporate regulation, because monolithic “too big to fail” corporations will be able to unfairly exert external pressure on local communities. An example of this in action is Walmart running a new store at a net loss until all of the locally owned grocery stores are priced out and forced to close, at which point Walmart is the only grocer and can increase their prices.
To make a bad metaphor: An anarchist believes the government should pay for the neighborhood’s road using taxes, but the local neighborhood gets to decide what the speed limit (and other various rules of the road) should be.
All of those public works I listed in the second paragraph are things that libertarians would prefer to remove from the government’s purview entirely, by saying that a private company should be able to take over them instead of using taxes to pay for them. Libertarians are definitely more in the “every man is an island” basket. They tend to see public services, utilities, etc as frivolous government overreach. They tend to think that people should pay private companies to do these things, instead of paying taxes to have the government do them.
This stems from the idea that a private company will be more efficient than the government, which would conceivably lower costs while improving quality and agility. If you don’t like how a company does something, you can use the free market to find (or create) a new company instead. Essentially, under libertarianism, you’re not beholden to whatever the government decides to do, and libertarians think that extreme personal freedom should extend to corporations as well. They tend to argue for market deregulation and fewer government programs as a result.
To extend that bad metaphor: A libertarian thinks each neighbor should maintain their own section of the road out of their own personal effort/funds, and each homeowner gets to decide the rules for using their section of the road.
- Comment on Why don;t more presidents put stuff to a national referendum like Clinton did a couple times? A person would get time off work to vote, show what americans actually want and so on. 3 weeks ago:
There is no national referendum in the US. Whoever told you there is has misinformed you.
Also, you think Americans get time off work to vote? Lol. Lmao, even. Americans don’t get time off to vote. ~40% of Americans didn’t vote at all in the last presidential election, and that has the largest turnout. And you think they’re going to take time off work for a (non-existent) referendum vote?
One of the biggest reasons that America’s politics skews right is because the rich and retired are the ones who have time to reliably vote, and America’s rich and retired demographics both skew conservative. Democrats have much higher numbers when you look at the raw numbers, but democrats also largely don’t vote because they’re poor working class people who can’t afford time off (or can’t set their own schedule to ensure they have time).
If a minimum wage cashier works an 8 hour shift on Election Day, you think they’re going to drive all the way across town (because conservatives
closed“consolidated” all the polling locations in liberal areas) and spend 4 hours in line to vote after their shift? No, they’re going home to crash, because they’ve been on their feet all day and they’re exhausted. - Comment on ‘The era of invincibility is over’: the week big tech was brought to heel 3 weeks ago:
That is $375M to a single person. This wasn’t a class action. This was a precedent-setting case that opens the floodgates for future lawsuits. Until now, actually getting courts to agree with plaintiffs has been impossible. But since courts use precedent, this allows future plaintiffs to refer to it when filing their own lawsuits.
- Comment on My friend is 31 and is constantly breaking out in acne. She also gets very irritated/argumentative before her period. Is this normal for her age? 3 weeks ago:
+1 for the anti-dandruff shampoo trick. I keep a bottle in the cabinet for when I work outside in the summer. It’s the only thing that prevents massive breakouts (all over my chest and shoulders) after I sweat a lot. Use it like a face/body wash, and let it sit for an extra minute or two (however long the bottle says) before you rinse. For particularly bad/stubborn spots, I use it like an overnight spot treatment. Dab it on directly and let it dry before bed, then rinse off in the morning.
It will only make a difference if the acne is actually fungal. But if it is, your friend will likely see a world of difference.
- Comment on If someone opened a store and just sold stuff at cost, which undercuts every other competitors by alot. Would this not for the big corps to come way down on their prices? 3 weeks ago:
This was basically the concept behind Cost Plus Drugs. Mark Cuban realized he could sell generic drugs at a basic 15% markup and $10 pharmacy+shipping, and drastically undercut the competition. Their drug prices literally list the breakdown of manufacturing cost, 15% markup, $5 pharmacy labor, and the $5 shipping on each page.
He has been blunt that the business isn’t really about lowering drug prices. That is certainly a bonus, but he’s not doing it to be magnanimous. He simply realized that the markup on drug prices was so mind-bogglingly absurd (oftentimes over 2500% markup) that he could undercut the market by thousands of dollars and still make a tidy 15% profit.
Patient drug prices in the US are insane, and he is simply exploiting that fact to undercut everyone else on the market.
- Comment on Asked LA Fitness to cancel my membership, they offered to freeze it for $10/month instead 3 weeks ago:
Fair warning, Bowflex dumbbells are under an active recall. You should check and see which model you have.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, Japan was actually surprised when American game devs started using X for confirm. They never even anticipated that it would happen, because the X/O symbolism is so heavily engrained in their society that it was glaringly obvious to them that O was confirm. Their original intent was always to use the Nintendo layout for confirm/cancel, but then western devs misunderstood the buttons and swapped them.
To them, an O is like a checkmark or thumbs up emoji. Imagine if an American console maker developed a console with a thumbs up button, and Asian devs started using the thumbs up button as Cancel. You’d probably be pretty fucking confused too.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 3 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, how does it compare to EmuDeck? I haven’t personally used RetroDeck, so I was wondering if it had anything that would make me switch from EmuDeck.
- Comment on A communist and an anarchist walk into a bar.. 4 weeks ago:
It is extremely heavily moderated in favor of communism, so it is a very big echo chamber. Everything seems very calm and respectable as long as you don’t dig too deep, because any dissenting opinions quickly get removed. So there isn’t a whole lot of argument that happens among .ml users. But checking the mod logs tells a very different story.
Also, it’s the only instance that the lead Lemmy dev uses, so anyone who wants to stay up to date on lemmy’s development is forced to federate with .ml. There have also been some controversies about the dev putting dev donations towards running the instance, which ruffled a lot of feathers from people who want to support the dev but not the instance.
- Comment on This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian 4 weeks ago:
It’s funny seeing the massive divide between Lemmy and Reddit on Brave. On Reddit, Brave is continuously praised as the go-to browser because they ran a massive astroturfed campaign and got a bunch of redditors to switch. But on Lemmy (where they never ran that astroturfing) Brave is pretty widely hated.
You can always tell when someone is a recent Reddit refugee, because they’ll mention Brave and immediately get shouted down. And sure enough, the person’s account is only like a day old.
- Comment on This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian 4 weeks ago:
Ghostery was involved in some weird info-selling controversy, weren’t they?
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 weeks ago:
Some of us are old enough to remember when your games would sound different depending on which sound card you had installed.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Guessing you’re German? It is used in place of the Palestinian flag, because it has the same colors. Since Germany is terrified of being labeled antisemitic, (and Israel immediately jumps to “you’re an antisemite” whenever anyone disagrees with them,) the German government has their tongue all the way up Israel’s asshole. So the German government labeled it antisemitic, (and started trying to propagandize their population to believe so as well, by equating it with Nazis) because they don’t want any Germans making headlines by using the emoji to support Palestine.
- Comment on Share this with 5 people or it gets ya 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Number 1 🏥 5 weeks ago:
My wife has epilepsy. She has a medical alert bracelet for it. If she has a seizure in public, she doesn’t need an ambulance ride unless she hurts herself or is actively seizing for more than 5 minutes. But that won’t stop some well-intentioned bystander from saddling her with a $5000 ambulance bill while she’s unconscious. Because a seizure leaves you confused and disoriented for ~45-60 minutes afterwards.
So even if her seizure only lasts 2-3 minutes, she’ll be out of it for a while afterwards. And EMTs can 100% use her disorientation to justify throwing her in the back of the truck, even though she doesn’t need it and the hospital won’t do anything for her. But that won’t stop them from billing for the ambulance ride anyways.
- Comment on Reporting an absence 5 weeks ago:
Nope, it’s unfortunately not that easy in the US. Not only can police use your property for this… They aren’t liable for any damage they cause while doing so.
Lech v. City of Greenwood Village is a relevant national case. Basically, police demolished a neighbor’s house while executing a warrant, and then refused to reimburse the neighbor. There is a Takings clause of the 5th amendment, that says the government can claim eminent domain and take private property, but they must provide just compensation for the property that was taken… The homeowner tried to argue that the demolition fell under the Takings clause, and therefore he was entitled to just compensation. The Supreme Court ruled that the police had no obligation to reimburse, as long as the damage occurred due to official police power. The SCOTUS essentially ruled that official police powers (like executing warrants, chasing suspects during an attempted arrest, or standing standoffs) do not invoke the Takings clause. Even if the powers were not directed at the person whose property was taken. So cops have carte blanche to use your shit as long as they can justify the use as part of executing an official police power.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 5 weeks ago:
Being trans only bars you from service if you’re actively undergoing treatment (like HRT), so no it isn’t as “simple” as you make it sound.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 5 weeks ago:
Fragging. It often isn’t done with literal grenades.
