myrmidex
@myrmidex@belgae.social
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 1 day ago:
We are seeing ‘the fix’. It took some years since Occupy, but this is the capitalist response.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
When do you reckon a right truly exists?
When it’s been enshrined into law? I reckon it would take just as much (or little) effort to get it back out.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
If we’ve learned anything in these last decades, it’s that rights are easily taken away. Not sure whether can be called dystopian exactly, it’s hard to see where the line is. Some argue we’ve arrived at dystopia already.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Can confirm. Every vacation in my younger days, mom brought these along. Horrible crinkly plastic. I’ve never bought disposable cups ever, I do reckon it’s because of these.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 weeks ago:
Yea that could also very well be, that it was pre-existing and had no impact during evolution. I could see there being an evolutionary advantage to hair smelling bad. That’s as far as my confidence and knowledge reaches on the matter. Very interesting nonetheless! :)
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 weeks ago:
Ah I misread it.
I reckon it’s not so much about noticing in absolute terms (to notice vs not to notice), but rather about the smallest difference that smelly hair would make. Amplify that over millions of years and smelly hair has a good chance of being everywhere eventually.
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 weeks ago:
Does the subject’s awareness of the selection matter?
- Comment on What's the evolutionary advantage of very long hair on human heads? 3 weeks ago:
You had it: people whose hair didn’t smell when burning died more often, skewing the chances of survival towards smelly-when-on-fire hair.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 4 weeks ago:
I did that for 10 years and it was great indeed, but it was a cushy job though. I reckon I couldn’t do manual labour or serious thinking for 12 hours a day. Just to say, it’s probably not optimal for any profession.
- Comment on Why do we have alcohol advertisements. We don't allow cigarettes to advertise 2 months ago:
/thread
- Comment on Lincoln wrote he loved to relax while sitting on his porch and smoking that sweet help. Back in those days how potent was it? Is there anything to compare it to today? 2 months ago:
Ohhh heMp
- Comment on What are some drugs you think will make a comeback like qualewds or thai sticks or window pane? Does history always repeats itself apply to drugs? 2 months ago:
Made me wonder what combination is behind Maalox.
The acronym ‘MAALOX’ refers to the solution’s compositional elements: magnesium and aluminum as oxides.
Damn, not as interesting as I’d hoped.
- Comment on If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on? 3 months ago:
Came here to say that. Cell rejuvenation more specifically. Telomeres and such seemed all the rage 20 years ago, haven’t heard much about it since. I wonder what the newer approaches are.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Luz, that coat cost more than your house! Oh, that’s how we joke. She doesn’t even have a house.
I love Lucille :D
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 4 months ago:
Imagine a non-FOSS time machine
We’ve successfully transferred your right foot to 2005! Please subscribe to our Premium plan for a full-body transfer.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Wouldn’t Arrested Development fit in here too?
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 4 months ago:
Yes, it absolutely is, but I don’t think it was ever purposefully designed that way. More like it grew out of the single root account on a server. But I could be wrong.
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 4 months ago:
Also the ideology of a nsfw community is a straight-forward issue.
What does this mean? I’m talking about how an instance should or can be governed. Poster before me indicated an instance should be managed by a community, which drags politics - thus ideology - into the conversation. It’s hard to create community governance on a platform with a single root admin. This is also the case on git repo’s in terms of governance. And when that is the case, moving away seems the only option - unless the developers feel adventurous enough to implement a whole community-as-root-account feature, where they will then run into the questions I’ve mentioned.
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 4 months ago:
Then it gets ideological rapidly. How to come to an agreement: majority vs consensus? Once a conclusion is reached, can all press the button or just one delegate? It brings so many questions.
I think it’s much more elegant to just abandon one server in favor of the other.
- Comment on What's up with "Plex Servers"? 5 months ago:
I love wireguard for this. If they can’t get that working, then no jellyfin for them. Filters out the PEBKAC people wonderfully.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 5 months ago:
They have 20~25% in Belgium so far. Let’s hope Trump sufficiently shows these voters that fascism isn’t all that great.
- Comment on How did Zohran Mamdani win conservative voters over without using the terms "socialism", "communism" or "capitalism"? 5 months ago:
A book I’m currently seems to agree:
Obama began his re-election year with the certainty that he knew the name of all 69,456,897 Americans whose votes had carried him to the White House. Of course, these votes had been cast secretly, but Narwhal’s data was so detailed that the analysts were able to identify the Obama supporters in every district. Each elector was given a probability rating between zero and a hundred. Zero meant they would vote for Romney. A hundred meant they were a guaranteed Obama supporter. The trick was to ignore those voters and focus all the campaign’s resources on voters in swing states with scores betwen forty-five and fifty-five.
- Comment on Are hierarchies inherently bad in all aspects? or are there domains where heirarchies are good to have? 6 months ago:
Perhaps the lower strata of the hierarchy experience nothing but downsides, whereas the top likely experiences minimal to none. This might be where narratives come into play to make the lower tiers believe the hierarchy is good for all.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 6 months ago:
Ok I’ll bite: en.wikipedia.org/…/United_States_invasion_of_Pana…
- Comment on Best "screwing around" Game Request 7 months ago:
Anything Elder Scrolls kept me busy much longer than the main story, most notably Morrowind. Also, I replayed GTA IV last week, was heaps of fun, especially compared to GTA V which I played a few months back. Read Dead Redemption 2 is a good one for this list as well, I enjoyed that one immensely, but I mainly focused on the main quest during that run-through, so this is a good reminder to myself to pick this up again soon (sadly I fell back into the pull of Satisfactory so it might be some weeks/months/… before I get to it)
- Comment on If Marx was alive during the Cold War and beyond, how would he react to the communist states that rose to power? Would he approve or disapprove of them? 7 months ago:
Judging by his behavior during the First International, I reckon he would have approved of Lenin’s vanguard and applauded the rise of the Stalinist empire.
- Comment on Google tool misused to scrub tech CEO’s shady past from search 11 months ago:
I had big Gavin Belsom vibes with this one
"Why is it that when I type my own name into my own company search engine, the fucking Internet rains shit‑bolts down on me? I want this to stop!”
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 11 months ago:
One app maker told the BBC it had seen an 1,800% spike in downloads. “Many of these free VPNs are riddled with issues,” said Daniel Card, a cyber-security expert with the Chartered Institute for IT (BCS).
“Some act as traffic brokers for data harvesting firms, others are so poorly built they expose users to attacks.”
He told the BBC despite posing a range of potential privacy risks, such apps “end up in the hands of kids trying to watch age-restricted content”, or adults “trying to get round blocks”.
Ah yes, there it is: won’t anyone think of the children. I expected that argument higher up.
- Comment on When will we have reached enough productivity? 11 months ago:
As soon as a capitalist has enough money.