blarghly

@blarghly@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buckle up, we're learning the hard way.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats because Gordon Ramsay always has a sous chef to do the hard work for him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tru⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  Good judgement comes from experience.

  Experience comes from poor judgement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A real hot person!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  tbf, im pretty sure ooop is a shitpost. But Poes Law is in effect

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Slimegirl enthusiast over here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  we’re definitely dealing with a male here

  Using “male” as a noun to describe a person is dehumanizing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  So we aren’t allowed to sexualize Orlando Bloom anymore, then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey now - bikinis arent sexual. Only the male gaze makes them so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Amazon Prime overpriced in the Anglosphere demographic?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  As others mentioned, the main value most people get from amazon prime is free 2 day shipping - not Prime Video. So its competitors are other online retailers like AliExpress, Ebay, various niche websites, and physical stores.

  Also as others mentioned, prices are set as high as consumers are willing to pay. They are forced lower by competitive pressure. If consumers decide that the service is non-essential or that other competitors offer a better service for a better price for a price lower than what the company can offer the service for, then the service will need a constant influx of cash to keep running, and will eventually be ended if it cant turn a profit.

  I’ve never been to India or Japan. But my guess -

  Japan is an extremely dense and walkable country. A japanese person living in the city can easily find the vast majority of their product needs within a short walk of their home. And then, with space being at such a premium, their homes tend to be small, which produces a chilling effect on their desire to buy space-consuming knick-knacks. Finally, they are close to China, so AliExpress might be a larger competitor for niche products.

  India is also a dense and walkable country in some places. But it is also very poor and chaotic. The average Indian will consider a prime membership for free 2 day shipping a luxury they cannot afford. Also, the chaotic nature of… well… India, might make Amazon’s 2 day shipping promise significantly less tenable, further reducing the benefit for potential customers and driving down the price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese man tries to reminisce with his brothers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  WWII - not the Germans’ favorite topic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Boobs 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because your experience as a job applicant is not high on their list of priorities. Their job application portal was made by an intern 25 years ago, and has been updated in a haphazard fashion by other interns according to the whims of random middle managers who wanted X or Y information at some point through the years. How seamless and enjoyable your experience is literally doesnt matter at all to them up until the point where they start failing to attract mid-tier applicants because of it. If anyone is aware of how shitty it is at all, they don’t care, because fixing it requires time that that person could instead spend on (1) things that will look good on their resume to get a promotion or another job, (2) things they were actually told to do so they won’t get fired, or (3) going home and having a life.

  Why don’t they just use AI to read the resumes and categorize applicants? Well, because AI is often wrong. And because implementing an AI solution takes someone’s time, and (again) all those someones want to spend their time elsewhere.

  Job applicants that they actually want to hire don’t go through that portal. They find out about the job via networking, then their interview consists of a hearty handshake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a alternative universe a wife said no to her husbands request⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay. I will sit over here, a loooooong way away from you, and let you work. And then you can tell me how making sex toys for teens works out for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is essentially my take. A large part of human morphology is driven by sexual selection.

  If you (ie, your genetic code) are looking for a partner to reproduce with, health is likely the biggest factor to consider. You don’t just want someone who is healthy, but someone who has a long history of health. Having long hair allows your potential mates to check health history. So as other humans hair gets longer, if yours stays short, you are essentially saying “I don’t wanna talk about my health history”, which is a turn off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨belt tight around my neck being pulled back hard in doggy >>>⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ^ me and my current fwb frfr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As a cishet man, much to the contrary - the vast majority of my sexual insecurities come from shaming of my sexuality from more left wing spaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Me: has fingers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨most perverted men are actually very vanilla and run away when faced with a perverted woman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinky for me is to be tied down and have hot wax poured over me while I’m blindfolded. Or free use / cnc type stuff, being available 24/7 without word at literally anytime to be used as they please. Or ddlg / age regression with a daddy dom that extends outside of the bedroom.

  Idk, I feel like these are still pretty vanilla. At least as far as the people in this thread are saying “I’m soooo kinky”.

  Of course, this is all the societal hedonic treadmill in kink. All kink becomes vanilla eventually. But at this point I feel like it isn’t “real” kink unless it makes me queasy or say “what the fuck?” Like, furries, pet play, shit, piss, vomit, blood, asphyxiation, and sounding are “real” kink to me. Anything that boils down to basically “you’re in charge of me” or “you inflict pain on me” is pretty vanilla.

  And then I’ve heard of being set on fire and sensory deprivation, which seems less like a kink and more like a silly experience / party trick

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The One Tax That Could Fix The Economy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This redfin ad is exactly the kind of content I want to see more of on Lemmy.

  No, that is not a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the answer is that you simply stop viewing everything through the lense of politics and national identity. If all you do is think about your old country and how it sucks and how you wish people didn’t associate it with you, it will be all you are ready to talk about, and people will associate you with it.

  But if you are really interested in electric dirt biking, then you will be the guy who really likes electric dirt bikes. Your former nationality becomes mostly irrelivant.

  For example, I am from Florida, known throughout the world as a trashy dumpster fire with some pretty good cuban sandwiches. I can talk about it if needed - but mostly I talk about my hobbies or my plans or my job or my struggles or my friends or random funny bullshit. The most common comment I get is “you don’t seem like someone from Florida”, and my response is “well, I left for a reason”. And then we laugh and the conversation moves on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did he died yet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And Sketchy Andy, apparently :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyer here: I concur!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my first thought. Either the load will make it uneven, or the lack of load will. Also, very weird wind resistence at speed.

  But fine at low speed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True or false: reading and studying socialist theory can help unrot your brain from ChatGPT and other AI chatbots.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no real scientific evidence that using AI has a real negative impact on your brain. Like, there literally can’t be - it only became really available in the last few years. Science doesnt work that fast.

  And if there is any kind of “brainrot”, it is likely not AI-specific, but is rather related more generally to overuse of tech. 10 years ago, was it “brainrot” to search for an answer to a question on google instead of sitting down and thinking about it real hard and maybe looking it up in an encyclopedia? Maybe. But I would say the issue isn’t really the use of a piece of tech, but the development of a reliance on it, or the formation of a unhealthy habit.

  Do you generally have a hard time coming up with answers to your problems? Or paying attention for long periods of time? Well, maybe reading could help you with that. But I doubt reading about socialism will help any more than reading something else that is intellectually challenging. And if you are currently reading nothing long form, you would probably get 90% of the benefits by reading some fun, rompy fiction that you will probably enjoy (and actually keep doing), rather than grinding through page after page of run-on sentences written by a 19th century philosopher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dating apps metaphor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk, I get human girls messaging me somewhat regularly. Never the ones I want to see, but still…

  The difference between bots and humans is that bots dont go on dates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fitness experts: You can't out-exercise a bad diet......The entire U.S. military:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People commonly lose weight during basic training in the US military, even as they are fed a terrible diet of extremely calorie dense processed foods. This is because basic entails consistent exercise from sun up to sun down, with extra exercise assigned as a form of punishment.

  After having this experience, many servicemembers keep the mindset that diet doesnt matter as long as you exercise enough, so the military has a culture of excessive drinking, eating, and exercise.

  The problem is that, unless your whole job is exercise, it is difficult to burn that many calories in a day - so you start gaining weight as soon as you get a desk job. And also, constantly pushing yourself like this is a good way to get an overuse injury, which many people gain as part of basic itself. And since it is difficult to train hard with an injury, you gain weight.

  Also, I am gonna go out on a limb and say that this sort of culture is probably pretty universal across world militaries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Farms use more water than Al data centers" OK, I'll go without Al and you can go without food and we'll see who lasts longer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, assuming we are discussing the US where almost all datacenters are being built -

  the real thing to realize is not that datacenters are bad (I’m kinda ambivalent), nor that meat is bad, but that poorly written water rights laws are bad. Which is why we grow some of our most water-intensive crops in some of our driest areas and some farmers end up just flooding the desert with water for no reason each year. Restructuring water rights would massively reduce water usage while maintaining food production for the simple reason that then we would stop growing alfalfa in Pheonix

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dont worry, that’s the same look you would have if you could read it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is unimpressed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So my snickers bar wrapper won’t last 100,000 years?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that this is generally the case, but it isnt the case here on Lemmy. Lemmy has a disproportionately large number of people across the left side of the political spectrum, from people who are as you describe, to actual semi-reasonable socialists, to tankies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Your phone is a better distraction machine than a book. The idea that most people who read, or who read in the past, were reading for the noble pursuit of being more knowledgeable or cultured is a myth. Most people read because it was the best form of entertainment available. In the time before electronics, you had no tv, no radio. Your options for entertainment were books, the newspaper, or going to the pub to drink and listen to somebody plunk on a banjo. Or, yaknow, talk to people.

  As soon as radio became a thing, lots of people started filling their time listening to music or serials or the news. Then tv came and drew more people away. Then the internet. Then the internet in your pocket. Then Tiktok. Every step in this process has been an improvement at tickling the parts of the human brain which desire novelty, drama, humor, and general stimulation. You are not especially “bad at reading” - while general literacy has gone up in the last 100 years, the quality of literacy among the literat has gone down.

  Now, I think that reading books is good. Especially in this day and age, I think that being able to whip out a real, physical book and read it is a great way to expand your world, improve your attention span, and relax without distractions. But at the same time, I don’t think that you should jump right into reading the Great Books. If your metric is “I must be enthralled by 1984 or else I am bad at reading”, then you are not in for a good time. Often The Classics^TM^ are simply not that enjoyable to read. They were written in another time when people spoke in weird ways. They were written for an audience that had a different cultural context than you. And we keep lauding them not because they are the best books for the averge reader today, but because they broke new ground in their time (see: Seinfeld isnt funny).

  And, to be frank, most of the people who these books were written for had much longer attention spans than modern people - hell, read Ovid in the original Latin - sentences will run on for three pages. I think 1984 is a good book that can be enjoyable to read for the modern reader. But you need to build up your capacity for book reading to enjoy it. Similar to how you need to build your running capacity up before you will really enjoy running with a friend in the park. So if you want to be a better reader, I suggest starting with things that are easier. Things that will be fun and easy to read. Things that were written not to be a “great book”, but simply to be a fun, rompy adventure, or a steamy romance, or a wish-fulfillment fantasy. Read harry potter or the hunger games or the girl with the dragon tattoo. Young adult fiction is great for this, because it tends to be written just for sake of being fun enough to get kids to read. Or you could also try reading some fun short stories - something to build the habit of just sitting down for 10 minutes and opening a book to read just for fun. Or you could read a book club, and have other people create a bit of social pressure to actually pick up the book and read it, with the reward that you get to discuss what you read with friends afterwards.