Manjushri
@Manjushri@piefed.social
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 2 days ago:
Yep. In the words of George R. R. Martin
“You can write the most detailed, vivid description of an ax entering a skull, and nobody will say a word in protest. But if you write a similarly detailed description of a penis entering a vagina, you get letters from people saying they’ll never read you again. What the hell? Penises entering vaginas bring a lot more joy into the world than axes entering skulls.”
- Comment on Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising? 2 days ago:
Fans work well for me, but if it is humid in your house you it may not be as effective. Moving dry air can carry off a lot of sweat.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 1 week ago:
The trees have probably already exploded. It’s how they knew to warn those east of them.
- Comment on Your average Linux user 1 week ago:
On a woman it’s camel toe. That’s a moose knuckle.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You need some heavy curtains. Doing anything like you suggest would just get the cops at your door for creating a driving hazard or something.
- Comment on What should the next President of the United States do? 3 weeks ago:
Prosecute the current one for his crimes, but we all know that won’t happen.
- Comment on Can pets tell who's petting them without looking? 4 weeks ago:
Not always. I was at my sister’s house and her cat was not over-fond of me. That bothered me because cats normally adore me. At one point, the cat was half-snoozing on a stool so I reached over to give him a pet. At first he started to purr and stretched out. Yes! Thought I, finally making friends. Then he looked over his shoulder and saw it was me. He hissed and ran to the other side of the room and started cleaning himself. I’d have been hurt if his expression hadn’t been so funny when he realized that it wasn’t my sister petting him.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 4 weeks ago:
So, we need required classes, early, like in elementary school, that specifically teach problem solving, critical thinking, how to detect misinformation, and what I’ll call empathy.
Good luck. The 2021 Texas GOP platform specifically opposed the teaching of critical thinking skills. Needless to say, the entire GOP feels the same way to this date. Also, empathy is now considered a weakness or moral failing in those circles.
Face it. The federal government and the state governments of a large fraction of the states are diametrically opposed to our desires.
Don’t get me wrong. I think you’re correct about what our goals should be. But calling it an uphill battle to achieve them would be an understatement of epic proportions.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 1 month ago:
…additionally using unbelievable amounts of power so the environmental concerns go right out of the window at a time where we should do everything to not do that.
Don’t forget that the enormous energy usage is driving up energy costs for absolutely everyone.
Residential retail electricity prices in September were up 7.4%, to about 18 cents per kilowatt hour, according to the most recent data from the Energy Information Administration.
That’s on a national basis too. If you happen to live in an area with a lot of data centers, your energy costs have probably risen more than that.
- Comment on Gone too soon 1 month ago:
Maybe not completely. There were several references to AOS in Wandavision. For example, the Hydra Soap ad is believed to be a nod to the AOS Framework story line where Coulson was sure that Hydra was using soap to mess with everyone’s memories. Also, the Darkhold from AOS which was taken to the dark dimension by Ghost Rider, was returned from there by Morgan Le Fay in the Runaways series. Somehow, Agnes Harkness took possession of it after that and it appeared prominently in Wandavision.
- Comment on Alas! 1 month ago:
I think I really need this on a t-shirt.
- Comment on Are all dinosaur fossils 'replicas'? 1 month ago:
Most displays are likely to be replicas, I think. Few people would be interested in seeing a T. Rex hip bone in one display, half a triceratops horn in another, etc. Complete skeletons are a bit of a rarity so it would be tough to find all the parts of some species for all the different museums out there. Also, in order to build a complete display of a T. Rex or triceratops, you would likely use all replica parts because you would need to damage the fossils in order to connect them all together.
Finally, most of the actual fossils are valuable to researchers and putting them on display in museums would make them less available for study.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
Ah, oops. I should pay closer attention. I’ll leave the post and take my beatings.
- Comment on We can play that game too 1 month ago:
That’s a really dumb argument. A person complains about paying for something that they’ll never get, and the IndyStar’s response is to complain about paying for something that they’ve already benefited from, and that was paid for by others. I would further add, paying for schools is a great thing even if you don’t have and will never have kids. Without good schools, everyone else’s kids will probably grow up to be conservatives.
- Comment on unpossible 1 month ago:
It’s actually wokennews.com in the meme. Sadly neither wokenews.com nor wokennews.com seem to exist. Though wokennews.com actually says it is a private site and one needs to log into wordpress.com to request access. Too bad, really. I was thinking that whether a serious or parody site, it would be good for a chuckle.
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 1 month ago:
RFK, is that you?
- Comment on ELI5 why I logically understand McDonald's food is low quality and bad for me but I crave it like crack? 1 month ago:
There is a chemical in your brain called dopamine which is an important part of how we feel pleasure. Use of recreational drugs and alcohol causes a rush of this chemical and that is part of the pleasure we feel from using them. The problem is that regular use of such chemicals causes us to have lower levels of dopamine when we are not using them. We end up feeling a desire for the drug or booze to get our dopamine levels back up.
Diets high in sugar, salt, and carbs also causes a dopamine rush. When you eat that food regularly, it lowers your normal dopamine levels, just like drugs and alcohol do, if not to the same level. That is why you feel that craving. Eating such food occasionally is fine, but if you do it to often, you can literally get an addiction to it.
- Comment on What browser(s) should I use? 1 month ago:
Yes, as I said, “In other nations…”
- Comment on What browser(s) should I use? 1 month ago:
Different countries write dates differently. In the USA, 11/20/25 is Nov. 20, 2025. In other nations, it’s written 20/11/25.
- Comment on Assumptions 2 months ago:
A lot of herbivores are occasional opportunistic carnivores. I bet that thing’s molars would make quick work of a human’s bones.
- Comment on Assumptions 2 months ago:
You can have a cuddly dairy cow, but that’s not universal.
Far from universal. About 20 people die per year in the USA from attacks by cows. They are huge powerful animals that don’t generally don’t give a shit about people (they’re used to them, for the most part) but if they decide you are a threat to them or their calf, you’re fucked.
- Comment on Not to get all religous but was not Jesus pissed for people making money in churches? Didn't he flip tables and everything? Then how do churches nowadays explain the collection plate? 2 months ago:
All that means is that a person named Jesus may have existed. But that has no bearing on events described in the Bible. It’s like saying you found a birth certificate for a Clark Kent from the 1930’s so that means Superman really existed.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 months ago:
…and crows and vultures and eagles and bears and assorted rodents and foxes and beetles and many, many more. There is actually a rather robust eco system out there, you know. And when you gut part of it, you are just asking for trouble.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 2 months ago:
OP has a point. You might be surprised how little money it takes to influence legislation. ABSCAM showed just how cheaply political favors can be purchased.
From there, our investigation led to southern New Jersey and on to Washington, D.C. Our criminal contacts led us to politicians in Camden who were willing to offer bribes to get our “business” a gambling license in Atlantic City. Then, when we expressed interest in their suggestion to get the sheik asylum in the U.S., these corrupt politicians arranged for us to meet some U.S. Congressmen who could make it happen with private legislation. For a price, of course: $50,000 up front and an extra $50,000 later.
When the dust settled, one senator, six congressman, and more than a dozen other criminals and corrupt officials were arrested and found guilty.
Admittedly, this was $100,000 in 1980 dollars, but even today, lobbyists don’t give millions to politicians to get things passed.
Occupy Wall Street rounded up $400,000 to wipe out $15 million in medical debt not that long ago. I would think that a concerted effort by progressive organizations could collect millions to lobby politicians to write and pass progressive laws. I’ve often wondered why this doesn’t happen.
- Comment on Christmas goatseings 2 months ago:
I’ve seen that one. Here.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
Um, I hope you don’t mean that literally. A gallon of water is 3.79 liters.
Symptoms of water intoxication tend to start appearing after you consume more than 3 to 4 L of water in a few hours.
Potential symptoms include:
* head pain
* cramping, spasms, or weakness in your muscles
* nausea or vomiting
* drowsiness and fatigue - Comment on This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots 2 months ago:
Let’s devote the full force of modern technology to create a tool that is designed to answer questions in a convincing way. The answer must seem like an accurate answer, but there is no requirement that it be accurate. The terminology and phrasing of the answer must support the questioner’s apparent position and the overall conversation must believably simulate an interaction with a friendly, or even caring individual.
Yeah, in a world of lonely people who are desperate for human contact and emotional support and are easily manipulated, this is in retrospect, an obvious recipe for disaster. It’s no wonder we’re seeing things like this and some people even developing a psychosis after extended interactions with chat-bots.
- Comment on me_irl_conflict 2 months ago:
If you think about it, it kind of has to be. If it wasn’t expanding, gravity would make it all fall together already.
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 2 months ago:
Oh, Poem for your Sprog. I remember that one. Users like that are one of the few things I miss about Reddit.
- Comment on Where do you typically leave/read reviews 2 months ago:
Yelp is shit. I used to be a small business owner and they would call me trying to get me to sign up for a paid account strongly suggesting that they could ‘help’ with bad reviews. To me that means that businesses can just sign up and get bad reviews removed or pushed out of regular view. What good is a review site if the business can hide bad reviews?
