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- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day ago:
Oh I thought thats what everyone was complaining about.
Everyone here has after market LED light bars or spot lights. Factory lights and evern high beams are no big thing but light bars have the fire of a thousand suns.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 1 day ago:
In regional areas the extra light at night is genuinely helpful.
However, thats on unlit roads with so little traffic that you only see an oncoming car once every 5 or 10 minutes.
On roads with more traffic theyre just not necessary because there aren’t any animals or other obstacles.
- Comment on Self sacrifice is honorable 4 days ago:
Yeah. Maybe call your lawyer before publishing the company code base so they can tell you not to do that.
- Comment on What is the deal with IPv6? 6 days ago:
Last time I looked into this i think my ISP hadn’t assigned a range or whatever theyre supposed to do.
I also didnt understand how it works but didnt invest any time trying to figure it out.
I think basically it hasn’t been necessary so I just haven’t implemented it.
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 1 week ago:
Its not me downvoting you LOL.
Ironically, the silly hand thing and the avatar likely has the opposite of the implication you’re hoping for.
Buddhists are very particular about the use of images of buddha, and wouldnt use one as an avatar:
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 1 week ago:
Has it really been a month without that weird hands emoji thing you do? Wow. I haven’t missed it if im honest.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 week ago:
Its funny i was thinking about this when I saw the post.
I can imagine if you posted that on truth social you might also get some downvotes, but perhaps not to that extent.
Any comment with the word tankie is going to get downvoted on .ml
- Comment on The secret to happiness is living in the moment and not fearing the future 2 weeks ago:
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge that it’s transient and fleeting and not really an objective, but something we experience at times along the way.
Any achievement you can think of isn’t the result of being happy, often quite the opposite.
- Comment on 🫡🫡🫡 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the irony of this kind of meme saying “I will not live in fear” and yet they quite obviously are living every day in fear of conspiracies. Anyone who has read a few sentences of commentary is aware that Hantavirus is not going to be a pandemic.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
I guess the metaphors break down in considering the mass of “governance structure” in the context of the stuff that requires governance.
IMO, the FAF is a top heavy absurdity. A layer of governance that serves no purpose.
Whether or not it’s foresight remains to be seen.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
Because, those thread is full of people saying that in practice it never looks like this.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
loads of commenters in this thread are saying that when cars part it doesn’t form “an uninterrupted lane” because inevitably there are obstacles, like people who don’t do it, or don’t leave enough room, or what have you.
shoulders aren’t really littered with broken down cars.
- Comment on When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances 2 weeks ago:
I dont get it.
Here the shoulder is traversable. Like its wide enough to drive down.
We dont do this because emergency services just drive down the shoulder.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
I agree, but thats not really what im getting at.
Theres this Fediverse Anarchist Flotilla which is supposed to be like an alliance of instances with shared rules and commitments and whatever. It just seems completely unnecessary to me.
Its like… 5 people catch up every week to drink beer and watch a movie. Its great and everyone enjoys it. Then one guy says you need a chairperson, and rules, and a secret handshake, and a versioning system for the rules, and a documented arrangement with some other guys who do the same thing at someone else’s house, and your own crypto coin for donations, and all the things.
Its all unnecessary.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
He’s the piefed dev.
Piefed is a 1 to 1 replacement for lemmy, compatible with other fediverse things.
I joined a piefed instance specifically to move away from the lemmy devs.
Now it turns out the piefed dev is a petulant fief lord.
- Comment on Hexbear is incapable of understanding hypocrisy 2 weeks ago:
db0 seems fixated on complex governance arrangements. We get it. You’re an anarchist. Amazing.
- Comment on MPs call for sunbed advertising ban to help prevent skin cancer 2 weeks ago:
In Australia these services are prohibited all together. You can still buy the beds for private use but you cant charge a fee to customers to use them. No, you cant wiggle around the rules by accepting a “donation” in exchange for their use or some such.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You probably spend that much on the military every few minutes, but that’s no the point.
If something is leaking $1m of water a year then it’s worth paying $6m to stop it leaking.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Even if there are no ducks, and lots of snails or whatever to eat sludge, it will still get full of that gritty dusty smeg that cities produce.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The paint might be but… it’s an outdoor pool with a huge surface area where ducks live. Previously the bottom was grey duck-pond-sludge color so you couldn’t see that it was full of grey duck pond sludge.
That is to say, the paint might be algae resistant but the shit that will be all over it will not be algae resistant.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Not trying to defend Trump but I don’t think that’s necessarily what’s going on.
Someone linked an article. The thing has cost heaps of money to maintain over the last hundred years. It leaks so bad it costs $1m a year just to keep it topped up with water.
The article says it’s the marshy soil, which makes sense. The whole thing has sunk quite a bit - article says 12 inches which seems absurd. Different areas would decompose at different rates so the joints would open up all the time.
Sounds like they decided to “fix” it with a spray on pool liner stuff, which of course is blue because swimming pools are blue.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Jenny from Forrest Gump did.
- Comment on Wonder why? 5 weeks ago:
Well ackshually…
Here in Australia our servos (seppo: gas stations) sell this little plastic flags that clip on to your window or door frame. Dickheads can easily self identify by attaching two of these to their fucktard conveyance machine.
I’m sorry to tell you that toxic patriotism technologies have progressed beyond flags in the backs of pickup trucks.
- Comment on Wonder why? 5 weeks ago:
Oh man. The US has lost its edge in everything. Its a real shit show.
- Comment on Why is the US so into Israel? 5 weeks ago:
This is the answer as i understand it.
They’re a strategic partner.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 1 month ago:
Interesting.
That particular example is often a subject of discussion in our house.
The preface is, im absolutely aware that an individuals experience is what matters, rather than my perspective. For example, if a 10 year old child says they’re very worried about a truck they left at the park, its not helpful or relevant that my own stresses and concerns are more impactful - like I lost my job and cant pay the mortgage, what matters is that the child is distressed.
That said, my partner and I often bicker about whether “it’s cold”.
We have twins, who are toddlers. Shes from the “fully dressed in warm clothes at all times” school of parenting, while my approach is… less prescriptive.
Obviously if a child told me they’re cold i wouldnt simply tell them that its not cold, but give them some warmer clothes.
Another point of contention in our house is the heater. We live in a temperate climate and the cost of heating is a significant component of the household budget.
My partner tends to run the heater more often than I would, but often times shes wearing a thin nightgown. Not surprisingly, the accepted approach in most households is to put on more clothes if you’re feeling cold, but of course you can turn on the heater if you’re still cold.
Im really just trying to figure out whether I am in fact a gasslighting asshole, given your example 😆
I suppose a disagreement around use of a heater is not at all the same as telling someone whether “its cold”.
- Comment on Walmart wants a fucking review of this common ass jug of milk. Go ahead shitposters, review the fucking milk. 1 month ago:
Satisfying homogenised mammalian excretion.
- Comment on Anon needs a good response 1 month ago:
I’ve never really understood gaslighting.
Yes I know the original definition.
Yes I know the phrase is overused to describe behaviour it really doesn’t apply to.
I just cant imagine someone actually planning to manipulate someone in this way.
- Comment on NSW premier told to resign after protest laws struck down by top court 1 month ago:
LOL. Who would want to live in Palestine?
- Comment on Hey... so, uh, whatcha doin' in there? 1 month ago:
It only takes me a few minutes to drive home from my office. Its good to just take a breath