JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- Comment on Is MMA and UFC "somewhat" rigged like boxing was in the Don King era? 1 day ago:
There’s all kinds of gamesmanship going on in plain sight. The size of the octagon can be altered to benefit a title fighter’s style, legitimate contenders are passed over all the time for more profitable matchups, the UFC brass can put a lot of pressure on a fighter to compete on a certain card or else they’ll be punished in various ways, and fighters who are continuously committing violations and and/or are just legitimately terrible people can be treated with kid gloves, like Jon Jones. To say nothing of fighters routinely gaming drug tests and so forth.
As a long-time MMA watcher, I do think it’s very rare to see someone taking a clear dive, so I’ll give credit to the UFC for not indulging in that, but otherwise they’re a deeply-disturbing org that routinely rips off their fighters, not compensating them fairly for the accumulated brain damage.
I became a fan almost 20yrs ago, and now I can barely stand the UFC. And Dana White truly is a despicable human being who routinely lies and bullies people around him, such as members of the press.
- Comment on Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it? 3 days ago:
Ah, okay. I guess plenty of podcasts and sponsored stuff do include those.
I’m just using vanilla AdBlock for non-Chrome browser to view mainly shorts. Thanks for explaining.
- Comment on Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it? 3 days ago:
You’re seeing ads on YT? oO
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 1 week ago:
Yes, but I’m not just talking about porn, and I do think some sites enforce age checks regardless of local or international law.
But… that’s just an impression, and I haven’t done anything remotely like a full test, so far.
(see the sibling comment)
- Comment on So, has age verification really become the new normal? 1 week ago:
But don’t you still have to pass various websites’ internal checks in order to access their protected NSFW content?
A VPN far as I know is useful for avoiding regional restrictions when it comes to content viewing.
- Comment on Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user? 1 week ago:
We all have our basic reactions, s’all good.
- Comment on Why do I lose my temper if I'm blocked from a community or by a user? 1 week ago:
Don’t take this the wrong way, but it’s probably arrogance.
How could someone ’not take that the wrong way?’ Mate, that’s a hell of a rude leap right there, and I’d never just assume that shizzle.
Fact is that internet structures (as with all other aspects of civ life) are filled with people inordinately ‘drunk upon their little bit of power,’ who tend to enjoy the trip of using it for their own ends, not strictly because of whatever the place is nominally supposed to be about, and how it’s supposed to be moderated.
That all said, it’s entirely possible that OP has indeed engaged in toxic behavior in such places, just that so far they we don’t know about such?
Anyway, like others here have suggested, here’s a recco to just treat all this stuff as mainly a big bag of us casuals interacting. Very few people are putting much on the line or risking their reputations, so it’s probably good to think of all this as consisting of a healthy proportion of fun, casual bullshit talked amongst a big group of strangers, each from their own situations, with their own motivations & priorities.
Altho, yes– for sure, to me, one of the AWESOME things about our collective group chats are the number of functional experts and fascinating people, contributing to our talk. And me, I’m not fully off of Reddit, but the ‘Reddit experience’ (which now includes The Fediverse) in general has seriously leveled me up in all kinds of ways. (bah, as long as I don’t doom-scroll, godamit…)
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 5 weeks ago:
Also I would say Atilla is usually called Atilla the Hun
Good point, and I think I whiffed a bit on that one. “Atilla” is actually a name still used sometimes today across Europe, so “the Hun” definitely adds some helpful context.
Also since Caesar became a position/title we still say Julius to specifically refer to him.
You mean, in Italy?
In the States, I feel like it’s pretty clear that “Caesar” without further context refers to either a leader / dictator / emperor of the Julio-Claudian line, or more commonly to Julius himself. The point being that if you’re referring to one of the emperors, it’s usually necessary to name them, i.e. “Caesar Tiberius,” etc.
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 5 weeks ago:
That’s what I’m saying, above.
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 5 weeks ago:
Caesar, or Charlemagne or Attila.
Well, those are fairly uniquely-identifiable names in the scheme of things. “Caesar” isn’t just the guy at your local pizzeria, but THE Caesar of Caesars. “Charlemagne” is a combination of the common name “Charles” and <"great"> as with Alexander. “Attila” is a rarer name, already with a certain stigma, so quite unique in that sense.
“Alex” / “Alexander” is still a pretty common name today, so it makes some sense that there’d be a qualifier. Not unlike with Peter the Great , Catherine the Great, etc…
- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve found seven such words / phrases so far, which might be knit together in to: Future Common Logic– Why Prince’s Fun Weekend?
Oh well, it’s a start.
- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 5 weeks ago:
Lol… that’s too much. Pretty soon we’ll be able to construct ordinary sentences out of nothing but pop stars & rappers names, I guess.
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 5 weeks ago:
Oh, entschuldigen Sie bitte!
- Comment on Is it possible to not know who a famous person is? 5 weeks ago:
Ariana Grande or The Weekend
Uhhh… the first one’s a pop singer I’ve still never heard a single song by, and the 2nd one’s how we spend our SAT & SUN’s?
Heh, am I close?
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 5 weeks ago:
I suppose that’s an interesting point in general, Gandalf, but I was speaking to species-wide instances. If you have a more efficient method of framing such things, then please be my guest…
- Comment on What’s the difference between communism and socialism? 5 weeks ago:
This is an excellent question IMO, and I’m sure you’ll receive plenty of excellent (and energetic) responses, but I do want to point out something which chronically gets overlooked, as part of these discussions. Ready?
Homo sapiens is traditionally a tribal, social, and clan-based animal, not unlike our cousin chimpanzees, and others such as wolf & dog packs, elephant herds, parrot flocks, and a couple other examples. Our organisation upon such likely goes back at least 2.4Myrs, when biologists and those in related fields first classified “Homo” as a distinct genus. But arguably, such goes back perhaps as long as our common ancestor of chimps, maybe 7Myrs ago or so. Or earlier!
My point is– modern humans’ natural state is to exist in smallish, commune-like situations, and that is a fact. That’s literally in our DNA upon a multitude of levels, and literally spans the entire length of H. sapiens ~300Kyr history.
Meaning? That we’re naturally communists of a kind, and my take on “socialism” is that it’s roughly an attempt to make our traditional style work, when organised upon regional and national levels.
THAT SAID: I think it’s good to also observe how things happen in the wild. For example, my mentors Robert Sapolski and Jane Goodall famously observed our fellow apes & monkeys being total assholes towards each other, amidst hierarchy-type situations. It’s a complicated discussion, anyway, and maybe not hard to imagine why so many of our fellow rich, needy, powerful human monkeys are such total, narcissistic assholes towards everyone else.
- Comment on Is there a way I can become Baptized a Catholic without going to school or memorizing all the saints I am 37? Always thought it would be an honor to be Catholic. Like being knighted. 5 weeks ago:
From some quick lookups, it seems that you can commonly do so after some months of guided preparation. No need to memorise a bunch of shizzle, but being baptised is more of a ‘participation award” in such cases, if I understand rightly.
Of course, YMMV when it comes to various Eastern Catholic churches, or even sect-like groups.
- Comment on When in time did America gave up trying to be great? Gave up as the example for the world? And now we are on our backs and refuse to get up like Bender off Futurama or a turtle? 1 month ago:
America has never been “good” or moral.
Super-important major realisation.
- Comment on When in time did America gave up trying to be great? Gave up as the example for the world? And now we are on our backs and refuse to get up like Bender off Futurama or a turtle? 1 month ago:
Damn, that’s perfectly correct, but… I was anticipating a bit of white-washing??
Natives, always…… please leave us alone?
- Comment on Galaxy Quest Live at STLV 1 month ago:
That’s a super-awesome graphic. oO
- Comment on Prolly won;t word this correctly. But when did the idea of a woman subservient to a man begin? And how come it seems its lasted longer that most relgions? 1 month ago:
women are physically weaker on average. there was a time when physical strength was hugely important
That’s only a small part of the equation, and is by no means the main reason for “subserviance,” altho I think @yesman@lemmy.world answers it pretty nicely, here.
In reality, the “subserviant” thing is probably an extremely recent development out of the ~300Kyrs of modern human history and ~2.4Myrs of genus Homo history. It’s certainly not universal across the history we do know, but AFAIK is indeed heavily tied to concepts of agriculture, property, and the accumulation of lucre.
For example, if you look at the other Great Apes, you won’t see anything resembling what humans have spiraled in to in terms of such control. Nor across most (or all) of the other observable animals.
So the idea that this “subserviance” idea is traditional for humans is technically true across a very short time period, and near-complete nonsense on the whole. It’s mainly the controllers and elitists who have always always been trying to push that idea, from what I can tell.
- Comment on Does anyone know about pope Leo's past in Chicago? Was he a little hell raiser who went straight? Kind of hard to believe someone from Chytown leaves without cause a little shannagans? 1 month ago:
He seems to love baseball, and has gone to a lot of games. Hard to believe he wasn’t doing the wave and making plenty of crowd noise at times, FWIW.
- Comment on How come they don't put out episodes of like Invincible, Simpsons, or whatever doing a side by side of the actor speaking into the microphone while watching what happens the cartoon? 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure there are already some examples of that on YT, etc, but I don’t really see why anybody would want to see a whole cartoon like that. Seems like it would get tiresome and distracting, pretty fast.
- Comment on Bought a bold Barbie Star Trek 50th anniversary head 1 month ago:
I love the 2nd pic, which goes right back to the original ST pilot (do you know what that is?), and I love the first pic, as a PEZ candy fan!
Dude, you’re super-PEZ! :D
- Comment on What's wrong with Ellen DeGeneres? 1 month ago:
A couple things I know of related to her talk show: 1) She kind of ‘showed her true colors’ by being snarky and mean-spirited ("haha, it’s all just fun") towards many a guest, even making some cry or weirdly putting them on the spot when talking about a traumatic thing in their lives; 2) She was seemingly revealed to be a toxic a-hole behind the scenes to her staff and others. This is evidently not unique at all among talk show hosts, but paired with #1, it kind of sunk her reputation, it seemed to me.
- Comment on Has society or scientists ever solved definitively the Chicken and the Egg theory? Or is it just like a whose on first thing? 1 month ago:
Yes, based on a quick lookup, it appears that the first (internal) egg was produced by sexually-reproducing animals over 600m yrs ago. Later, shelled (external) eggs seem to have appeared about ~315yrs ago.
So basically, the egg was a very ancient, fundamental innovation in complex life that appeared well before galliforms (chickens and relatives) did, ~85m yrs ago.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 2 months ago:
Well it’s all ‘shit’ from the moment we start eating, if that’s how you measure it.
- Comment on Why do some people (i.e. white conservatives) think all Spanish speakers (especially native Spanish speakers) are Mexican? 2 months ago:
The US has been drowning in assholes & idiots for the longest time. Now it’s official, from the top on down.
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 2 months ago:
*shrug*
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 2 months ago:
TBH, I’d be pretty shocked if the arrangement actually originated with The Tonight Show. In Western-languages cultures (and others), I’m thinking it probably goes back close to the origin of a guest & a host appearing in front of an audience, which could go back… many thousands of years, really.
All things being equal, I would suspect TV simply borrowed from a traditional arrangement that came long before.