skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts! 23 hours ago:
So you’re just going to skim over the guy having a child bride?
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 days ago:
The narrative of the Pacific theater still being an intractable or unbeatable long-term conflict in 1945 was hugely overstated, and also leant heavily on racist notions of the Japanese being “brainwashed”.
Also, most wars could be ended more quickly by committing war crimes, we don’t allow it as a justification when it’s done by the losing side.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 days ago:
“The atomic bombings were necessary” was something we were expected to internalize as an indisputable hard fact, like gravity and oxbow lakes.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 5 days ago:
Obviously nobody is saying any of those things. The meaning should be obvious when read in context of the original post.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 5 days ago:
Fair enough, I may have been extrapolating from posts others made on the same lines.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 5 days ago:
the US has stolen foods
Lots of people in this thread seem to be labouring under the bizarre notion that only the US is allowed to count immigrant cuisine as their own.
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 5 days ago:
That’s only true if you apply a definition of “from” to the US that you’re not allowing any other country to have.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 1 week ago:
I promise I’m not a bot. People really don’t seem to like it when you say you like something huh.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 1 week ago:
I think it’s good for people who don’t like taking drugs because technically it’s not a drug; its mode of action doesn’t rely on altering your body chemistry. It’s more like a powerful nose flush.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 1 week ago:
I’ll admit I’m a sample size of one with no counterfactual, but I started using Vicks First Defence about 4 years ago and in that time the few colds I’ve had were much briefer and milder than they were previously.
It’s a kind of mega-mucus spray that performs the same mechanical action as snot to physically get the virus out of your body, only a lot more aggressively. It’s briefly unpleasant to use but usually worth it. (I am not paid by Vicks)
- Comment on Alpha decay go brrrrrrr 1 week ago:
Who measures uranium in pounds? I feel like if you’re not using metric you probably shouldn’t be handling uranium.
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 1 week ago:
…5 years ago, which is presumably why you chose to crop out the date before reposting.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 weeks ago:
Cameron’s government passed same-sex marriage. Starmer’s Labour are engaged in open war against trans people.
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 2 weeks ago:
Once every 2-3 years I forget what they’re like, see a box on the shelves, and think hey they actually look quite fun.
Then I get it home and the contents look fuck all like the picture on the front, and also it tastes, not bad as such, but disappointing and definitely not worth the calories.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 weeks ago:
I think they’ve had the exact same bunch of weaselly data analytics people in that the US Democrats did.
Both parties have been conned into believing the Moneyball data superintelligence that says the best chance they have of picking up votes are from “centrists” whose main priorities are hot-button culture war topics.
They’ve let themselves get dragged down into mud-wrestling with the pigs because a computer told them they should.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 2 weeks ago:
It’s both despairing and frankly suspicious how suddenly Labour have shifted hard right.
They’re further right than David Cameron by now, and I’m not exaggerating.
- Comment on Practical Magic 2 weeks ago:
Nah, they’re gonna be more like the “Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Together From Behind a Tree” meme when they realize how much they can jack up their prices on Etsy now.
- Comment on Practical Magic 2 weeks ago:
Three Nazis will be removed from their lives as well.
- Comment on Can anyone identify this colony formation? 2 weeks ago:
I think they’re just doing a bit. Nobody is actually that dumb.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 2 weeks ago:
I thought there were no good Nazis, but he just proved me wrong.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 2 weeks ago:
Can someone explain this? I don’t understand
- Comment on observes your slit 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, those dumbasses. It’s obviously a monkey.
- Comment on Only way that you're happy here... 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and his former fanbase was exactly the sort of educated professional that isn’t likely to tolerate his White Nationalist conspiracy theory bullshit. It’s remarkable how suddenly Dilbert went from being pinned onto the cubicle walls of every office in the Western world, to this meme right here being the first time this year I’ve seen a Dilbert character anywhere.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 3 weeks ago:
I think the most pathetic aspect of crushing on an AI is that they’re notoriously sycophantic and will support whatever dumb shit you say, so to fall for that you’d have to be really desperate for a level of validation that no real person would ever give you.
- Comment on The USA prided itself on a nation of immigrant, heck even the Statue of Liberty says it. When did immigrants (US citizens from the old world) become anti immigrant and why? 3 weeks ago:
So it turns out that the Statue of Liberty never represented the opinions of all Americans to begin with
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 3 weeks ago:
Yeah 2005 was good.
It felt like maybe the 2nd Gulf War was starting to wind down a bit, and there was some hope that maybe both the US and Al-Qaeda/Islamic State were going to chill their boots a little.
The internet was at its peak in terms of usefulness versus not having been taken over and enshittified by a tiny collection of megacorporations.
TV was getting pretty good as well.
Yeah, the 90s were still best, but 2005 was the best year since then.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 4 weeks ago:
Looks like you got downvoted by 9 pedophiles
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 4 weeks ago:
I’ll raise you Image
- Comment on mmmm yes undoubtedly 4 weeks ago:
also, dentistry is more accessible in the UK; free treatment is available to a bigger chunk of the population, and private dental care is cheaper as well.
So, in terms of severe complications stemming from lack of dental care, the US is worse, but the obsession with straightening & whitening means that people who have got it together enough to appear in the media generally have superficially nicer teeth.
It’s like most things in America - if you’re doing ok then it’s great, and if you’re not then the rest of the country just pretends you don’t exist.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 5 weeks ago:
Sure but (and this goes to the other person who replied with much the same thing) there’s an order of magnitude of difference going on there, plus usually when someone says something wrong on a forum others usually show up to correct them.
AI responses have so far been very clearly a step down in reliability, so don’t be treating it as a binary.
