JohnnyEnzyme
@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
- 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 day 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 day 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 3 days 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? 6 days 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? 6 days 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 week 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 week 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
*shrug*
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 3 weeks ago:
Fun concept. Related to that, I understand that our gut bacteria have some actual influence on how our brains operate.
- Comment on What is the probability that the atoms that I am made of once formed someone's penis? 3 weeks ago:
We’re all just borrowing recycled particles for a little while, before making them available for others, in future. Just that man started messing with that traditional equation when he came up with burials, and later coffins.
Not just that, but our living bodies are composed of something like ~50% bacteria and other organisms, and with mites living in our pores, eyelashes, etc. Fun stuff to think about, eh? :D
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 3 weeks ago:
Hmm… did the Tonight Show desk-format change from what Steve Allen originally set up, or the Jack Paar period, before Carson came along?
- Comment on Why do all night show hosts sit and have their desk to the left of the interviewee? 3 weeks ago:
Could be influenced by the way in English (and various Western languages), script flows from left to right, which has some influence in our scanning things left to right in general, such as imagery, comics, etc. In such a scenario, the host is like the familiar anchor at the end of the sentence.
Not saying this is the only or prime reason, but I imagine it plays a part.
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for explaining!
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 3 weeks ago:
We’re continually being defunded
Well, that’s the disaster happening in the States, but the time-stamp here suggests maybe you’re… in Western Europe? Shit, so what’s the trouble with lawyers, in this case?
- Comment on Has the scientific community ever reconciled with the fact global warming is going to happen and there is no stopping it? 4 weeks ago:
Uhhhh…. they’ve been warning us for many decades, now? (and sounding alarms)
There’s also the fact that Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius (and others) discovered key mechanisms of the Greenhouse Effect, and CO2’s key role in such, back in the 1800’s. So you know, want to know about a science issue? Maybe ask literal scientists?
It’s not the body of relevant scientists that are letting us down, Dafty…
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 4 weeks ago:
Agree with all that, but:
The problem is is Gene Roddenberry Is not who made star trek what it is.
He certainly was the one most responsible, though. Yeah, there was a huge issue of him taking credit for other peoples’ work, but it was indeed him with the vision, and him constantly perfecting scripts before he turned them over to the production team. Without him there is no Star Trek, period.
Humans are complex, and my read is that he was one of those ‘benevolent dictator’ types who was useful for a while, before everyone had enough of his shit. Berman was kind of similar from what I understand…
- Comment on Interview: Rod Roddenberry Has “High Hopes” For What’s Next For Star Trek, Says New Paramount “Gets It” 4 weeks ago:
I don’t even know what Star Trek stands for anymore. It just seems to be slogging on for money, for quite a while now.
Even in the original sense, Gene Roddenberry’s high-principled ideals was kind of sabotaged by how he actually conducted himself. That said, a lot of great stories and eps were produced along the way, IMO.
- Comment on I designed a board game (creative commons/open source) 5 weeks ago:
Can the board grow dynamically once a milestone is met? That could solve the early game issue?
Something definitely worth looking at, although it might add more complexity.
Since it’s in the testing stage, maybe add the option to start with a smaller board, even if it can become eventually cramped. I’m still trying to memorise what everything does, and a smaller board would help for testing purposes.
I haven’t tested this as actively as I’d hoped so far, but will continue to take stabs at it, here and there. My ambition is to give you better feedback and advice, as someone who likes testing games…
- Comment on what is this 1 month ago:
I was addressing OP’s need.
It’s up to Lemmy.World to determine how they want to handle the acct / community.
- Comment on what is this 1 month ago:
Every single post in that community seems to be like that.
Seems like it might be a bot acct just following… well, whatever script that might be for.
- Comment on Dinosaur Food: 100 million year old foods we still eat today 1 month ago:
Must be morphologically unchanged since its fossil age
That’s interesting. So, genetically it could be significantly changed, but shape-wise, it must appear the same? In any case, I’m thinking certain molluscs might work. Sharks also might fit the bill, altho AFAIK they don’t fossilize well. Or, are there other gymnosperms beside ferns and Araucaria that could fit the bill? I suspect so…
Now, feel free to hate on this, but I’ve found GPT pretty useful for issues like this. Evidently, there’s quite a few more candidates.
- Comment on What Lemmy/Piefed communities are YOUR personal favourites? 1 month ago:
I’d argue ‘laudibly active,’ typically involving multiple posts per day, usually with extra info as a comment. Can’t really ask for more!
The various comics communities are fun IMO. Some fine people making sure various dailies and small collections are shared, every day.
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 1 month ago:
My approach is to stay on both platforms, make a good-faith effort towards both, and work in Fediverse links, when possible.
Seems to fly pretty well under the Radar O’Reilly…
- Comment on I worked some prison and jails. They always put this big heavy green thing on you if your on suicide or solitary watch. My question is if Epstein was on watch then how did he suicide? 2 months ago:
…on the night he died.
The night he was garroted?
- Comment on what do I need to look for when buying running and pull up gloves? 2 months ago:
I’m no kind of expert, but I love my Bontrager (or other brand) fingerless riding gloves. I originally got them for cycling, but they’re so light and effective that I wear them year-round, pretty much. Unlike cotton (etc), they wick up moisture nicely.
https://www.google.com/search?udm=2&q=%22Bontrager%22+fingerless+riding+gloves
That said, yeah– when it gets much below 0°F, I’d say ditch the dang’ol riding gloves, lol.