ZeroGravitas
@ZeroGravitas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
My favourite superpower? Critical Thinking.
- Comment on Ah, customer service 20 hours ago:
Inside of you there are two wolves. Yesterday and Today.
- Comment on Whoever come up with this monstrosity has to get a personal extra hot cauldron in hell 5 days ago:
Then I will expose it further by saying it looks like a DVD case, but I didn’t think people still cared about those in 2026. So I had to ask.
- Comment on Whoever come up with this monstrosity has to get a personal extra hot cauldron in hell 5 days ago:
What is it?
- Comment on Poor dumb bastards 1 week ago:
Dropkick my Murphys?
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 1 week ago:
Take a historical perspective. Even with the muppets currently in power in some countries in the world, this is still the best time to be alive in the history of mankind. 100 years from now, 47 will be two paragraphs in a history book.
How many people know about the life and times of James Buchanan? How many people care? What about Herbert Hoover? Or Andrew Jackson?
And at least you get to talk about it. Imagine life under Stalin in the USSR, when a neighbour could report you for sedition and you would disappear into a gulag the next week. Or Pol Pot’s Cambodia, where wearing glasses was a death sentence (yes, really).
I’m in Europe, and from where I’m standing, Trump looks like a giant unflattering mirror. If America doesn’t like what it sees in it, maybe work and fix it. On our side is the same: this mirror shows decades of complacent bureaucracy and infighting. So here’s the other silver lining: now we know what needs fixing.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What bad English? 😅
I saw this in the news today and remembered our conversation: www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/…/ar-AA1U9JZB
And frankly, I can’t blame him. After all, we’re wired to seek joy and fulfillment in our lives, and I guess it’s pretty clear where those lie for good ol George these days. My secret hope though is that he’s just giving us time to forget the horror show before he releases the true ending of the story.
Also, if I were him, I’d just kill Tyrion out of spite, and then in the stupidest way possible. Let him get randomly kicked by a camel and choke in his own blood (or equivalent) and let a 3rd rank, barely named character take the spotlight in his stead. Maybe Polk will discover he has a head for politics after all? Go wild!
- Comment on Would you guys and gals let me take over AskHistorians please? Hell the creator/mod is literally a karma bot 3 weeks ago:
We live in interesting times. We’re all historians on Lemmy.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I feel your pain. Truly.
George and Pat Rothfuss changed my reading habits, now I’m not picking up series unless they’re done. Plenty of great works out there, like The Last Kingdom or the Aubrey/Maturin series. Ditto for TV series, especially Netflix produced ones. Too many get the chop on a dip of viewership these days.
I half suspect George lost his will to write after seeing how dnd massacred the last 3 seasons. Who wouldn’t? Especially if they were mangling his book notes. Now he’s treating this series as a chore, and he’d rather do anything else.
- Comment on Protection 7 months ago:
Faraday was here!
- Comment on It must vex him 7 months ago:
Context:
- Comment on It must vex him 7 months ago:
And his name is Igor <falling pipewrench noise fist in the face>.