GreenShimada
@GreenShimada@lemmy.world
- Comment on the world 1 day ago:
Isn’t this the plot of C-SPAN?
- Comment on An alien describes human anatomy to his people 2 days ago:
“Luke, at that speed will we be able to pull out in time?”
- Comment on long live my iud🫶 2 days ago:
You’re right, though. It’s a baby scarecrow. A…scarefetus? That’s literally its one job, scare away fetuses from implanting.
- Comment on Rude 3 days ago:
It’s sort of like the “pick 2” option. Maybe only 1, but that’s fine, too.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
“Remain perfectly still, their vision is based on movement.”
“Nah, fuck this bird.” Kicks swan to the moon
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I hope what you’re implying is that swan feathers are a suit made to deceive humans from their obvious lizard people pet agenda, and that Big Feather needs to be held accountable. I’ve already booked guests for the podcast and have 17 articles in my substack,
- Comment on many have been saying this 4 days ago:
Many people think tribes are primitive and warlike, and that’s where the definition of tribalism you’re using comes from.
Maybe for you as an individual.
Meanwhile, on Earth:
I’ve spent most of my career in Sub-Saharan Africa, and use of the term “tribe” and related descriptors is commonly used in regular news headlines for things like tribal leaders (also called traditional leaders when they’re less tied to a specific ethnic group) and tribal conflicts - what academics would call “inter-ethnic conflicts” as well. Tribe literally means a distinct ethnic group with distinct cultural components. Example 1, example 2, example 3. It’s in common use today meaning the thing it always meant. It’s not archaic or disused or so loaded with racist baggage that is’ unusable any more than other alt-right abused terms like how “Globalist” actually means “Jews” to them, or “Traditional” meaning anti-LGBTQI+.
Another term, “tribal lands,” is more common term in the US to describe Native American lands (typically reservations, which are jails without walls for individual ethnic groups IMO). Not only perfectly valid, but it’s a term Native Americans use to describe themselves, as they are isolated and organized in their forced apartheid system by ethnic groups.
I had a colleague object to the word “indigenous” for similar reasons as you’re objecting to “tribe.” But for her it was personal. She felt it was pejorative as it was used as such by colonial oppressors, as opposed to “local.” I get that, but that’s also a widely used term. That was personal preference and how she thought everyone should speak more positively about themselves, as she had noticed little use of the term in the UK to describe, for example, locally made cheddar. But she was also conservative AF, so who knows how that will hit for you.
So, I will say sorry that a word you don’t understand or use correctly gives you feels that may have nothing to do with you. But also, the word “tribalism” is a valid, modern word that is perfectly acceptable even in academia. Tribalism isn’t even fully negative, but simply describes a loyalty to ethnic or ethno-cultural ties. Which is exactly how I used it.
- Comment on many have been saying this 4 days ago:
Yes, but “civilizationist” is a form of tribalism, isn’t it? It’s about ethnically similar people promoting or only tolerating their narrow definition of culture. Sure, once you add the cultural history of slavery and Jim Crow, then you get historical context they lean on to say “see? it worked, didn’t it?!” My racist family member would fall into this category, and while he thinks he knows what “Western Civilization” means, it’s his delusional imagined version.
Honest question, is this a subjective dividing line between us that is opinion? Or is there research or something that defines the two in a way where it’s a clear differentiation? If there is, I’m happy to be educated on the nuance and not keep being wrong.
- Comment on many have been saying this 4 days ago:
It can be in pockets, and the problem is when they get organized, they get emboldened enough to make their thoughts known. Especially in rural areas, people will have latent racists tendencies and go their whole lives without acting on it or mentioning it other than with other racist assholes. Then one day you find out Uncle Ricky has stored every racist idea ever put online in his head as “facts,” and is 100% in agreement with it all. But he would likely never go the extra step and join a KKK rally or get a swastika tattoo unless a small group of peers really pushed him to do that. White supremacist ideology doesn’t require you to have joined your local KKK chapter or biker gang unless you’re already predisposed to being an active asshole in life already, and that’s the specific way you decide to spend your time. Some people simply do crossfit.
A lot of it is simply tribalism in action, prodded along by fear and polarizing stuff online, and a lack of exposure to external ideas during formative years.
- Comment on big facts 5 days ago:
The irony of finding two other woo-tolerant Lemmites in this comm.
Once I learned that astrology points to themes of influence on a time frame, it made a lot more sense. Taking it literally and thinking everything is confirmation bias is how people dismiss it. There’s more than a few people that have correctly nailed a lot of big events, it’s more about technique it seems. Nick Dagen Best published a book I think in 2013 or 2016 that is hitting hard right now - totally called Trump 2 and stuck to his guns on that.
- Comment on big facts 5 days ago:
Some of the more storied and out there reports of what happened with the remote viewing program in the 80s and 90s pretty much get close to this.
- Comment on women 5 days ago:
It’s really not that strategic. It’s that ignorant people don’t see the value in education. So school boards get filled with loud asshole people who barely made it out of high school, shouting at each other “muh kids don’t need tuh know how anything works, cuz I don no how nutn works an I’m OK!”
Undereducated people rarely act in their best interests, but they act all the time because they’re filled with fear and unable to rationalize or plan their way out of it. It’s a spiral, not a strategy.
All this does is return to the old ways of private schools operating as class-based-Jim Crow. Sort of sad, we had 2 or 3 generations at most that really benefited from American public schooling before it all wobbled apart from second and third-order effects.
- Comment on Remember when the whole family had to share it because you only had one 6 days ago:
priced at around half a year’s salary
So the current price of a MacBook adjusted for inflation?
- Comment on sales =/= quality 1 week ago:
“The drives! They’re making the CDs gay!”
- Comment on sales =/= quality 1 week ago:
This was easier to figure out with CDs
- Comment on That acronym tho 1 week ago:
I hope Congress discovers their inner charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 1 week ago:
Can we (vegetarian/vegan or NOT) all agree
So…find a position in the middle - one might say, the center - of two opposing positions on a spectrum of subjective opinion where both sides can agree?
- Comment on It makes me shudder 1 week ago:
Not kink-shaming, but I think this transcends anything short of genuine torture.
- Comment on What's "email"? 1 week ago:
To the disease part? Or the waking up when the rooster crows an hour before the sun rises to start your day? or still paying taxes by feeding a landowner with all you make?
But don’t worry, you can’t read, so you won’t know what the meme says.
- Comment on What's "email"? 1 week ago:
“Work in the morning? We are not Lords, our work starts long before the sun rises!”
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 1 week ago:
When looking at the process, it’s actually bonkers in a totally differet direction.
Any laser shot from Earth ends up spread out an area of about 26km diameter on the lunar surface. So you need a high-power laser pulse to get any sort of concentration of photons to hit the lunar surface that are detectable there. Then the reflection gets spread out over a similar large area on reflection to Earth, so you’re trying to detect a few photons from the original laser pulse of 10^17^ photons (or whatever the actual number is).
So to your question about sighting - actually not necessary. But you’ve turned the laser pulse into a photon shotgun, which is equally bonkers. You’re shooting a pinpoint laser that still spreads out to the size of a large city just to hit a meter or two-sized target. Then the same thing again just to get the reflection.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 2 weeks ago:
extremely interesting
Just say “distracting” we all know that’s what you mean
- Comment on "Moon landing" photo where the angles of the shadows are all off. 2 weeks ago:
Just tell him small-minded people can’t comprehend big things and see if he even gets it. Which is true, but also a dick thing to say like that if he is smart enough to understand the slight.
Sadly, apparently bouncing a laser off the moon via the reflectors left up there by Apollo missions isn’t hard exactly, just expensive to get the right equipment to do it right.
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 2 weeks ago:
In my eyes you’ve done nothing wrong
But in my eyes, I have crusty things because I just woke up.
Thanks, and have a great weekend as well.
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 2 weeks ago:
Ahhhh, ok. Thanks. Sorry for not picking it up. FWIW, “sideline” as a single word, and seeing this prior to having enough coffee to resume normal brain activity, is what threw me. Also, not being smart probably played a role.
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 2 weeks ago:
Ah, ok, so it’s gross-weird?
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 2 weeks ago:
It’s amazing, and Sammy’s story has stuck with me for decades for this very reason. I probably read the book a dozen times as a kid.
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 2 weeks ago:
It’s a genuine question. I’m only familiar with Twilight as a few clips from the movies with RiffTrax comments over them. And I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer and read most of the Season 8 comic, so the “weird stuff + vampires” bar for me is already set high.
- Comment on GEORGE GAME! 2 weeks ago:
George IS the prize
- Comment on My father the tween literary critic 2 weeks ago:
As a kid I read a book about a school with 30 rooms built sideways, so an oopsie tower, where each chapter is about a student or the teacher.
Sammy, the odd student from chapter 14, is a dead rat in many raincoats, and being a dead rat, Sammy is thrown in the trash.
Twilight is weirder than this?