Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on mindset 1 day ago:
I didn’t think that making a post about women means you’re excluding men. I feel like excluding should only be defined as an active attempt to prevent people from associating with the post, rather then a failure to include men and enbies and every other gender in existence in the body of the post.
I feel like leftist spaces have gotten a bit too expectant that everything relevant to an individual must be explicitly stated to be as such, rather than encouraging people to simply find relevancy even in things that are not explicitly made for them. I’m a guy, and when I read this I felt a connection with it - I didn’t even think about how it only mentioned women, as if that should mean it can’t apply to me.
I would rather instill a mindset in all people that would allow for situations where, for example, a man can find relevancy in a post about women, rather then try to get all people to only share content that specifically addresses who all is intended to be able to relate to it. A woman saying things are hard for women isn’t making any comments about whether or not it’s hard for men, just like a black guy saying black lives matter isn’t making any comments about whether or not all lives matter.
- Comment on mindset 1 day ago:
I’m a guy, but I was born with a hand anomaly that I was mercilessly teased about when I was a kid. I had this realization when I was in kindergarten, and it gave me the confidence to be who I want to be for the rest of my life. It is indeed a powerful mindset if you can actually believe it, though it does make you a bit of an outcast when the other kids realize teasing doesn’t work on you. Even the kids that don’t tease their peers will think you’re weird for not reacting to it.
- Comment on ... right? 3 days ago:
Not really “turns out;” even our founding fathers understood that democracy isn’t flawless, and that one day we’d need another revolution. This is why the second amendment was added in the first place, they just didn’t anticipate how pacified we’d become as a people in 250 years. Not entirely our fault, of course - there’s a reason “violence is never the answer” was repeated to us ad nauseam for generations. I imagine many parties were held in various mansions when they realized we actually believed it.
- Comment on Spyro™: A Realm Beyond | Cinematic Announce Trailer 1 week ago:
Yeah, the wide open world with free flying and fireball breath has me concerned. Spyro is more of a puzzle game, where you have to figure out how best to use your limited abilities as a young dragon to navigate a level designed with that gameplay in mind. This looks more like an open-ended adventure game. Hopefully they were just showing off a particularly large level at a time when he happened to have some temporary powerups enabled.
- Comment on Aerosol 1 week ago:
Winner of the “most penis euphemisms in one name” award.
- Comment on If internet means wires, then how come my mobile phone gets connected to the internet ? I'm roaming everywhere with it inside my pocket. 2 weeks ago:
Internet is information. Information can easily be sent long distances through wires, so we use wires to cross the ocean, but information can still be sent shorter distances wirelessly through electromagnetic waves, so on land we build a bunch of towers and install routers in our homes to let us access that information wirelessly wherever we are.
- Comment on Just give me someone to vote for who is normal 2 weeks ago:
I know this is a shitpost, but I’ve seen people legitimately give this argument like it’s a gotcha. It’s like, okay? So if we get rid of the corrupt billionaires running the corrupt government, then the other corrupt billionaires will use their vast wealth to seize power for the billionaires again, so the problem is indeed the corrupt billionaires - we need to get rid of them all. It’s like taking antibiotics - you can’t stop when you start feeling better, you can only stop when you’ve gotten rid of the whole infection, or it’ll just come back stronger.
- Comment on Title 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 2 weeks ago:
We as a society just accept everything. It’s what we were trained to do. We get mad and make posts like this one, then go back to our daily lives, having changed little to nothing about our behavior or the behavior of others. It’s not necessarily our fault - it’s difficult for one person to make a real change, but that’s just the reality of our society.
- Comment on On the seventh day, god created uranium 3 weeks ago:
A kid in my neighborhood when I was growing up would always say the Devil did it to turn you away from God, but never explained how the Devil has that sort of power in the first place.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the world doesn’t run on “if everybody just did x” as much as we’d like it to. People don’t do what they need to do in order for resources to be fairly distributed, and people don’t do what they need to do to change that. What we can do only matters when we’re already organized enough to do it. For now it’s just a reminder that all isn’t quite lost, but people seem to use it as an indicator that all is well instead.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 4 weeks ago:
It’d have to be pretty reasonable. From the perspective of the people who have to pay, it’s just as easy to tell the plebs beneath them to come up with something even better that doesn’t require a fee. If they fail, it’s because they were lazy, not because you’re a bad leader, obviously.
- Comment on An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars 4 weeks ago:
This was objectively a bad decision, but regardless, none of us would be here talking about this streamer if it hadn’t happened. Most won’t donate, but the more people that see it, the more likely it is that someone will donate.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 4 weeks ago:
Why rely on someone else’s go-ahead if you can just do something different? They didn’t patent it for no reason - they want a cut if someone using it makes a bunch of money, and likely won’t give you the go-ahead without that guarantee.
- Comment on The idiot mayor of Toronto extended bar hours to 4am so fans in Toronto can enjoy the World Cup no matter time the game is 4 weeks ago:
We’ll just have the leaving late-night crowd play against the arriving day drinkers crowd.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I assume it’s referencing how so many universities are bending the knee to secure funding from the regime.
- Comment on Mint 4 weeks ago:
I planted a blackberry plant 2 years ago, and it’s grown maybe a couple inches since I planted it. I’m annoyed - I wanted blackberries! The raspberries took off, so that’s nice. I just planted them all in the yard so I can mow down any that grow where I won’t want them.
- Comment on Boomer comics 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s like when people say they just gave 110%. Cool, very quippy, but really, what did you do?
- Comment on Just say no 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I meant a more malicious “first hit of this highly addictive drug is free, because I know you’ll be back for more after that.” Glad to hear things aren’t so predatory.
- Comment on Just say no 4 weeks ago:
Well, I do associate the phrase “first one’s free” with drug dealers trying to get a new customer hooked, but as someone who doesn’t do drugs, I’m not sure how common such a strategy is in real life.
- Comment on Gold 5 weeks ago:
Because the people who can afford them love how they were obtained by putting the “rabble” in their place.
- Comment on Anon meets a celebrity 5 weeks ago:
I remember I was a Kanye fan for about a week when I first heard Stronger. I thought the rapping was dumb, but the beat was awesome, enough to excuse the halfhearted lyrics. Then someone introduced me to Daft Punk, and I learned that everything I liked about Kanye’s song was everything he wasn’t involved with.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s a reason why they might choose not to change their minds, but often it seems that they don’t even think about it enough to get to that point. It’s not so much “I may be wrong, but I still want to get along with my friends who agree with me” as it is “I don’t know why you’re wrong… but I’ve decided that you still are.” The difference is that, even if they don’t have any groups anchoring them to it, people still hold tightly to their opinion.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I stopped thinking this way when I realized why the tortoise wins the race and not the hare. People often just… don’t do things they should do, even when they’re aware of their responsibilities, and understand how easy it would be. Like reassessing your beliefs when confronted with a fact you can’t argue with - it’s easy to do, but people just… don’t. This just didn’t click for me. For decades I thought everyone would naturally have the motivation to do something simple, maybe not right away, but eventually.
Slow and steady wins the race not because it’s better than being quick and nimble, but because the person who can do it effortlessly knows how easy it would be, and puts it off to the point where it never gets done. So the person who gets off their ass and gets things done will win even if they’re slow. The motivation to do things is more important than the skill to do them easily.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 5 weeks ago:
That’s a good point. I’m not using my degree at all, but I’ve got a great job that I got because a buddy of mine gave my resume directly to the hiring manager with his recommendation.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 5 weeks ago:
For sure. The price is completely egregious, and unfortunately likely outweighed the experience of college itself long ago, but it’s still important for people to understand that college isn’t just a degree at the end, it’s primarily the experiences found in the middle, which are valuable regardless of whether or not the degree is used.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 5 weeks ago:
Having a job may be functional on a practical level, but in today’s job market, employability is no longer a reflection of who you are as a person, and shouldn’t be used to determine whether or not you’re an “adult.” By “functional adulthood” I meant things like the ability to socialize, and the ability to think rationally about complex problems like politics and religion instead of just blindly following whatever your parents said was right. People don’t always learn those skills, but there’s a reason that republicans often think of college as “indoctrination,” because their kids keep coming back with different beliefs than the ones they left with.
- Comment on Not even a big melon 5 weeks ago:
The cost is a scam, and the current work environment is a scam, so if you think of college as only being useful as a way to pay money for a better job, then sure, it’s a scam, but it’s more than that. It’s about learning for the sake of learning, and taking your first real steps into adulthood with a group of people doing the same.
It sucks that boomers talked about it like it’s some sort of “get rich quick” scheme that doesn’t even work, but even during their own halcyon days of higher education, the job opportunities were only the secondary benefit next to college’s actual purpose of being a useful extra step between childhood and functional adulthood.
- Comment on Evolution 1 month ago:
Polaris is only up to about 70 million years old. So, technically it’s likely to be way younger than the rings of Saturn, but it’s still crazy to me to think that a star was just… not there until it showed up one day, and sharks were there well beforehand.
- Comment on Evolution 1 month ago:
And Polaris! (the North star)
