PolarKraken

@PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A few years from now I’ll think for a moment, combine a few memories, and tell someone that I heard on pretty good authority that something to do with collected cow farts, arriving right there in the Bermuda Triangle, caused ships and planes to rock around violently.

  By which I mean, thank you, for the future confused glares from strangers, somewhere in my future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  That one I think was basically a late response to all the ways folks used to kinda find themselves on fire.

  Advent and proliferation of gas stoves, cigarettes, and cool new “space-age” (hyper-flammable) building and textile materials. Probably lotsa extra reasons and compounding factors, too, frankly there was (and is) a lot to figure out lol.

  You might even have found yourself on fire back then, too!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just a big toasty cinnamon bun that isn't fatally trapped in a crevice.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nearly died on a drive home from a rock climbing trip where we did tons of fun and wild (but safe) stuff on ropes, there was a car stopped perpendicular across part of a dark empty interstate in the middle of the night that we passed at full speed.

  Two carloads of people had a near-death butt pucker like nothing else we’d experienced on that trip (and no clue what was going on with that car, we were long gone by the time we recovered our wits and processed not being a mangled up paste of people). Your comment resonates with me cuz I understood driving that night, lmao. It’s wildly uncontrolled compared to rock climbing, with comparatively high risks of really bad outcomes in fully capricious ways. Can become a splat out of nowhere with barely a moment to consider the coming fact. Woof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rough date⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My now-wife hid me from police one of the first times we hung out, couldn’t agree more!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music just isn't good anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So. Rather than DM I’ll just be weird and ask here.

  How’d the listen hit? I actually enjoy any amount of appreciating AND shitting on any art in this space, so feel free to let it rip.

  Funny thing about heavy music, within the same space of humans, you get some of the LAZIEST people right alongside some of the gnarliest, hardest-working, most interesting music brains.

  Feel free to trash anything I ever recommend - with all sincerity.

  And now, with my conscience clear, I will ask - plz, gib. Lemme get 1-3 records from you I really gotta hear. Just cuz you think they’re dope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easy-peasy, first clock-maker set their metronome to 60 bpm, fiddled with the fiddly bits on the clock until no one could hear a difference. Said to apprentices, “see?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a true believer in SI units, nonetheless:

  When was it [the “second”, the smallest unit of time-measure under insanity-rules for unit hierarchy] defined as a constant, by whom, and against what reference?

  I have to notice, as a long-time student of being-a-person - for ~most folks, a “second” is reasonably close to the length of a single heartbeat. It’s imprecise (badly depending on lots of stuff), and so maybe I’m just finding coincidence that has nothing to do with anything.

  BUT if we’re talkin bout earliest references for attempting to “measure” ongoing time, I mean, look no further, fellow probable-human-with-heartbeat!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just better⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Florida is really more like a global epicenter of mental illness, unique and distinct, lol. Magnetically attracting the unwell of various stripes, concentrating and uhhh…cultivating that funk, which of course can’t help but radiate outwards, given the frightening densities of “wtf?”

  Apparently even tryna think about how to classify the place causes weird distortion effects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finished Mina the Hollower 100%! (Plus short review)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ivy’s whip in the Soulcalibur series is pretty gnar. But that’s not really what ya mean (I assume).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Title⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More carnage!

  the flopping is relentless…teams of medics rush the field, to no avail…not an injury to be found

  (I’m just goofing around to be clear lol)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Title⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All players in circle immediately flop and become massively injured, near dead. Cards flicker and flash, going rom yellow to red so rapidly, fans see flames and ignite their own (in the stands, just defensively, in case).

  Checkmate, goally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well done, all of you!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how I stumbled into your sjould right after you made me imagine the scramble-walk. Somehow my brain crossed circuits and when I read sjould, my imagined scramble-walker slipped on wet pavement and half fell.

  Brains are weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music just isn't good anymore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly same. This one goes hard tho!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music just isn't good anymore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ayyy 😎

  You’ve given me some work to do and I’m only half happy about it, hahaha. But a buncha those are familiar (lovely).

  To add a ridiculously great one, sounding both “newer” and “older” than I can really imagine a death metal record sounding today, as I like to call em, “The Sangui Boggi Boyz” (a la “The Soggy Bottom Boys”) -

  Sanguisugabog - “Hideous Aftermath”

  It’s gross and rad. Ya prolly already know lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music just isn't good anymore⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah, and forget even just individual songs, I tend to gravitate toward whole-album bangers and continue to find thoroughly dope and delicious stuff.

  Xoth - “Exogalactic” Clipse - “Let God Sort Em Out”

  Two (somewhat different 😅) ones I’ve been getting just hours and hours of cover-to-cover listening mileage outta lately, for reference. Even got the Xoth one (new folks to me) from someone on Lemmy 😎

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hail power!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MPAT…? Sorry boss I don’t think this one works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stress reliever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, just don’t share it then, this shit is pernicious in the same way “I don’t have anything to hide, what’s the problem guyz?!” is. Just normalizes the idea that really it isn’t a problem.

  Ya post plenty of content, this shit can fuckin goooo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please the overlords⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, a cryin shame, no one down there is even going to find it useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please the overlords⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be noted it was fully functional, just probably scratched, maybe the handlebar slightly misaligned.

  Impressive stuff no doubt, well done mate. And how did the scooter fare?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kids not having phones at school (or not having access to them or similar) does address huge problems with phones at schools.

  I’m not advocating anything like ID verification and have no idea what the pouches are about.

  Self regulation is great and the only true solution. But roughly no kid can self regulate under current conditions, as we see. They need an environment conducive to learning those crucial skills.

  And I hate the retreat to “well the parents should do more!” which is just an unsympathetic blamey way to say “what we have is as good as it gets I guess” because if it’s largely the parents needing to do more, that’s what we have. The status quo. Not a great recommendation.

  If parents doing more was a viable strategy would we need to regulate use of car seats? Would we have seatbelts at all if some flavor of “people making important but annoying decisions correctly all the time” was a good way to achieve healthy societal outcomes?

  “Kids probably shouldn’t have cell phones in schools” does not seem controversial, given the evidence, the specific nature of school and kids and those devices, and the blatant obvious evidence we see everywhere we look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Couldn’t agree more, oddly enough to understand what they are saying you have to zoom way out, see what’s not being said, see how phrasing is implicitly shaping their narrative, etc. All the subtle techniques eventually produce enough evidence to sum up one’s observations into a really big and gross elephant. Standing right there. And somehow kind of invisible to many. Formerly to oneself.

  It’s difficult, and I mean, big surprise lol, they’re basically engineered to be that way, it’s all so tiring like ya said.

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  No hate to elephants, elephants are fucking great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay got it, sounds like I just kinda jumped down your throat then. “How dare this person not dunk on those folks as hard as I think they should!” (that’s me lol)

  Cheers. Thanks for the info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we do, and I appreciate you pointing out what you did! I’ll be the first to acknowledge I never would have known those things had you not posted them (and I’m sure that’s true for tons of folks who saw your comment, so truly, thanks).

  But to me even “taking this with a grain of salt”, though, that’s just way more credulity than documents coming out of those orgs will ever merit. So I don’t know, your comment struck me as really strange, you point out the bombshell facts you did, to me those utterly destroy any assumption of good faith investigation/analysis, and then you go essentially “so I’ll take it with a grain of salt and wait for other experts to weigh in”. But…why?

  Apologies if you’re simply using neutral language as a way to reach more readers. But the damning epistemological facts about the document make it ineligible for taking seriously. To make an analogy it’s like you said “we can see this bread is half-baked (white paper), and it actually comes from a mold factory (Bezos, Waltons), not a bread factory. So I’ll have a little, not a lot, and then see what other bread experts say about it too”. Which would be a crazy course of action, given the preceding description.

  Again, sincere apologies if I’m mischaracterizing your POV, that’s how it reads to me though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Preach!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, I’ve read through your other comments and you’re right, I misunderstood and misrepresented your POV, I apologize.

  For the record, just like there is a large contingent of online “leftists” who don’t do much but whine, there’s an accompanying group of folks who also habitually just whine, but they whine in the ways I attacked you for doing, some flavor of “if they’d only have voted (for Harris/Clinton/etc) then we’d all be at brunch!”

  But that’s not what you said, and given your other comments, you probably don’t like those folks either. So yeah, I saw what looked like that and had an allergic reaction lol.

  Anyway, my bad, cheers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay. Again, from the standpoint of how to get at what’s knowable - my complaint here with The Guardian is that they aren’t pointing out the things they should be, at all, and that the white paper nature (from such “sources”) merits exactly nothing. No further draft on any such topic from such sources could ever be credible.

  Your “typical / atypical” is you getting to my point for me, or maybe we just agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In practice that doesn’t work, for the same reasons education hasn’t been either. Too few teachers to students, plus the things (phones) are greasily addictive. And we’re talking about the youths, lol dumb-kid brain, most exemplified by teenagers of course. The phase of life that specifically combines “rules are actually just stupid, did you ever notice that?” with “so anyway (I forgot about what we were talking about or any other thing)”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just on the epistemological tip, how is it being a white paper more relevant than having Bezos, Walton, and more sponsors?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet, is he treated by other gigantically rich people and institutions as if this is true?

  You’re arguing the pedantic point, something like “he doesn’t really have that many dollars, you said dollars!” while (I guess deliberately ignoring?) the OBVIOUS, clear way him and others like him wield influence and power.

  Everyone who makes him actually powerful, by lending to him and facilitating it all, understands his net worth better than you do. Kinda de facto, by being in his spheres in the first place.

  What is it you think you’re adding here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If only we got more of those DNC ghouls in office they could have slowed down some of this a bit!

  Couldn’t be that the “other party” just absorbs every complaint, atrocity, demand for real change and delivers none. It’s probably those annoying leftists who are messing up progress!

  FWIW I vote as often as I can. It’s not hard for me to tell who is more evil and what levers are available to me at the moment.

  Your take sucks and smells like a real Reddit-ass analysis of why things are going badly.