GreenShimada

@GreenShimada@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, what even is “standing still”? I’m sitting in a chair in a spaceship made out of silica, metal, gasses, and water traveling around 220km/s relative to Sagittarius A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s why the Romans didn’t use salt as a condiment, but fish sauce. The umami+salt is different and objectively better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Three questions:

  1. Zahi Hawass - was he just “on” as official national tour guide, or was he able to act like a real human, and if so, what was your read on him?

  2. While out and about in the Sahara, ever hear of or run into a guy named “Camel Steve”?

  3. Do you have a few JHMCS helmets with manufacturing flaws that you take home and let the kids run around with and play jet pilot?

  Also, thanks for being a dude with stories on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp!⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Good choices are still choices. Ride the high, you earned it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low beans⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  🎼 Swing looooooooow, sweet can of beans,🫘 coming to meme me home. 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but that’s cool and niche. Suave making people smell like the Cinnabon at the airport gives me the ick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, and thanks for being willing to discuss this. I guess, for today, dead internet theory is confirmed not true!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would anyone want to smell like this?!?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s literally a whole thread about this in here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair points.

  My underlying point might be that whatever site it is that the screencaps come from is silly bullshit. But the more important point is that when you let it stress you out, the censors are winning. They’re using fear to manipulate you off your baseline. And you’re not even a desired subject of their censorship! You are putting yourself under control by reacting with fear.

  Flashers do what they do to elicit a reaction of fear and horror. The reaction they don’t want, more than anything, is laughter. To have the insecurity that drives them called out.

  In this case, I’m asking you to think rationally about this and see it as an indicator or what you’ve correctly noted. But also laugh at it and understand that if you don’t let it force a reaction in you, that you can react to it when and how is bet for the goals you have. Then you are in control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, no one should be normalizing authoritarian styles of leadership. But that perspective is a relative luxury only afforded to privileged people not living in that situation already.

  Have you considered the possibility that whatever the source is of these weakly censored images is intended to demonstrate the ease with which anyone can circumvent repressive blocks? To mock them? That whoever’s account this is spends the time to minimally censor for the bots to ensure that, more importantly, the message gets out regardless of the rules? That posts like this demonstrate the futility and arrogance of the limp-dicked censorship, mocking its effects and demonstrating the paper tiger for what it is?

  That this post about whales having an argument demonstrates that censorship is flawed and brittle and fucking stupid. That anyone can get around it when it’s important to do so. That authoritarians, be they Zuckerburg or Putin, are foolish in their hubris.

  Or do you only see this for what it is?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand what you’re saying.

  However, if artifacts from a screenshot’s trip around the web is the worst thing that’s happened to you this week, maybe consider how lucky you are.

  Or maybe something bad has happened. Have you had a bad week or month and it’s coming out here? It’s ok to admit it when we’re scared or afraid. Fear is the mind killer, after all. Fear makes us act in irrational ways.

  Like calling a bot account that shares twitter screenshots a fucking coward giving in to bullshit censorship because a script pulls images from a site somewhere else that cares about that kind of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you really think the OP is actually on twitter, curating these fine screencaps for us themselves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to get all conspiracy theorist, but the poster does a lot of posting of twitter posts, usually screenshots that often show both light mode and dark mode. Indicating that they are not actually on twitter themselves, but are getting the screencaps from somewhere else.

  It’s far more likely that Lady Butterfly isn’t intentionally rage-baiting you by censoring words to foil text recognition, but is getting screen caps and posting them on Lemmy to our benefit from a source that is concerned with text recognition and getting an NSFW tag.

  This isn’t worth getting worked up about if you just think about it for literally 2 seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone blame the atomization of society, as Marx warned years ago?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  95% of youtube is people repeating what someone else said, or having an AI voice repeat what everyone else said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not racist, it’s specifically about Xi. Though the .ml people are the same people that claim not loving the CCP is racist. As if a political party or government also represents an ethnicity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean…I’ve very nearly been killed enough times that most of the time I just consider every day a bonus. Kind of the same thing, but not quite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair. If you’ve never had a swarm of pasty-pink round noise and smoke machines basically ruin a day at the beach, count yourself lucky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is that there’s a lot of loud people in the world. Really, most of the world is loud and only has an outdoor voice. I can hear my neighbors talking to her grandkids in her yard, 15 meters away, on the other side of a hedge and trees, with all the doors and windows closed in my house. There’s no change when she’s talking to me 1 meter away. I’m convinced it’s that a lot places like parties with deafening loud music and everyone has undiagnosed hearing damage.

  Stereotypes sort of rely on the stereotype being at least somewhat unique. Might as well say Americans eat bland food and ignore all the other places that also eat relatively bland food.

  However, congratulations on never having been besieged by Russian tourists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend, I’ll refer you to map #14, which holds true. There’s also a billion people living south of these maps who I can tell you from experience, make most Americans seem demure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being the level of asshole that would spend the time to do this. I’m not surprised, just…disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am definitely a bird me personally⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely hope this is the real answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reset⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we having a meme cultural revolution? Or is this MMMA (Make Memes Memes Again)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who have eaten since December 31st, 2025, why are you trying to start new shit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AH! I just realized I have 2025 shit still in me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza styles⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like a photo from the box of a frozen Uno pizza

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this true for Germans?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Somalia. There isn’t really a functional government to speak of, so if the people even acknowledged the UN-backed central government exists, that would be something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a long time since I smoked but if I opened the door to my fireplace and tossed in a kilo of pot and just let the smoke fill up the house will everyone in my house get high?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro, you could make 1 baby’s arm-sized joint and 30 of the strongest weed brownies ever made, plus a helping of weed-not-oregano pasta for dinner and do the job 100 times better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ID_10_ts⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the famously super-competent FBI directed by political loyalists who’s only qualifications are heavy plastic surgery and blind faith in an evil idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This also happens when people who love to cook at home get convinced to open a restaurant. There’s a reason why restaurants have cooks/chefs and managers that do the admin stuff, and loads of other delegation. Cooking food and giving it to people you know for free when they’re at your home is not the same as asking a world full of Karens to pay for your take on Mac n Cheese

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So ever since grad school, I have imagined scientists as people who are constantly overworked, underpaid, and depressed

  Uh… but you’re not that far off. Maybe not depressed if they really love their work, but some really hate writing up findings and looking for grants because it’s the admin part of the job that no one likes. It’s like every episode of Ologies where it’s a research scientist, she asks what the things they like least about their job is, and it’s always always always hustling for money and writing endless grant applications.