teslekova
@teslekova@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I’m personally just not a fan of Busch 2 hours ago:
No no, we can make a big deal about it, that’s free speech too. 😄
- Comment on I agree with don 5 hours ago:
Yeah, but if you forget and don’t tuck, pee goes in your jeans.
Solidarity, fellow acorn bro.
- Comment on Saving 18 hours ago:
When I changed over to Bazzite a few months ago, after using nothing but Windows for 30 years, I was so goddamn happy the first time I opened the file manager (to export an MP3 in Audacity).
It was just… Right there. Simple. No bullshit.
One of many sighs of relief from my Linux experience.
- Comment on Saving 18 hours ago:
To get some light in the place, make it feel more open, y’know, get a nice view of the garden. See how the weather is.
- Comment on The way my partner eats avocado. 21 hours ago:
Huh. That’s oldschool. 😄
- Comment on why do rich people like marrying their cousins so much? 21 hours ago:
Well, if you’re rich, you like easy stuff. And your cousins are right there! You have them within easy reach at family gatherings! You can keep your precious money within the family! You can groom them from a very early age if they’re younger than you!
For a person with wealth-induced empathic deficit, it’s got no downside!
- Comment on Patrick Stewart Reflects on 'Star Trek' at 60: Why He Wants More Spinoffs 2 days ago:
Saw a great idea in another thread. Daystrom Institute: in the field test division.
- Comment on Dare to dream 2 days ago:
Goddamn. This is a brutal nailing of an entire class of people. Even though I am way too close to being in it, I cannot but applaud.
- Comment on Dare to dream 2 days ago:
I want pics. Explicit upskirt pics of this struggle.
- Comment on Anybody? Thought I'd ask here. Poor little guy 4 days ago:
Nah, that’s the rumba. This poor little guy is a rhombus.
- Comment on Beatboxing 5 days ago:
Huh. That’s all stuff I need! You’ve sold me, I’m gonna find some and smoothie em. I have taste buds that like strong tastes, that bit won’t be a problem. What do you find they go well with?
- Comment on It’s always too little or too much. There is no in between 1 week ago:
Oooo, did not know that. Cool.
- Comment on It’s always too little or too much. There is no in between 1 week ago:
No, you’re fine doing it on pasta you’re keeping as leftovers. The oil thing you don’t do is add it to the water while cooking, because it floats on top, does absolutely nothing and just wastes oil.
You are right to do what you’re doing. I like this idea. My fridge sphaghetti always sticks together unless it’s mixed with the sauce, your way don’t need no sauce, I likes it.
- Comment on Take that Aussies, USA #1! 1 week ago:
Kiwis would have too, if the indigenous people in question hadn’t been the toughest motherfuckers outside the Zulu nation.
- Comment on Take that Aussies, USA #1! 1 week ago:
Thance! Nice. Never seen that one before.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
If you exclude the essential social nature of a human from your scenario, and somehow anonymise them… Where exactly does this apply? I have been in a survival situation with strangers. We all just worked together to do the right thing, and make sure everyone was safe.
If your proposed essential human selfishness is so limited that it means they mostly do the right thing…
- Comment on Every fucking time 1 week ago:
Well, the original post was proposing that we make that happen somehow. I propose that we use laws. There are lots of laws regulating the interior of a supermarket already, this is one more, although a potentially complex one.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
I disagree with your entire assertion, because there have been plenty of studies done that do not support it.
Humans are a social species by nature. We help each other on an instinctual level. We evolved that way, because it happened to be more effective for survival.
The people who behave in the way you describe, helping others only when it benefits them, are called sociopaths. They are unusual, and not the majority. Indeed, one of the ways in which they exploit us for their own gain is that normal humans feel good when they help someone.
Perhaps you do not feel this. Perhaps you have a bit of sociopathy. This does not necessarily condemn you, btw, most sociopaths do not become monsters, due to the benefits of cooperation that you describe.
I simply mention it because it may explain why you believe something which is inaccurate.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 1 week ago:
Ah, I see!
I apologise for my insult. I grievously misunderstood what you were saying, and mistook you for someone who did not care enough about the problem.
You believe that ridiculing these people actually gives them power, rather than taking it away, yes? Makes them seem less threatening? Which perhaps reduces our inclination to fight them?
I can see the merit of that argument. (If I have missed your point, please correct me.)
However, I do think ridicule has a role to play in fighting fascism.
Alone, clearly, it is not going to do the job. The form of the ridicule matters. For example, late-night hosts often express derision by pretending disbelief that someone really believes what they say, like they’re merely mistaken and can be bullied into shamefacedly correcting their own behaviour.
This is a demonstration of how those shows tend to follow the interests of centrist politics, just because it’s easier to do that when you are owned by a corporation.
However, if we call these self-entitled white tiki-torchers fools, while combining that with a frank expression of how these fools have been made loyal to fascism and cannot be simply convinced to change but must have their power taken away, it serves the purpose of maintaining our own morale.
You can see this phenomenon in the pop culture made during World War 2, most iconically in the Looney Tunes and Donald Duck propaganda cartoons. The fascist enemy is shown to be brutish, stupid, and pathetic, while the system they occupy is shown as an incredibly dangerous war machine.
If you take the OP’s shitpost in context, and if we also keep in mind that these assholes are currently winning the fight and that we cannot wait for someone else to fight them for us, it is not a bad thing.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
If I’m hard-wired for greed and self-preservation, why do I let people go ahead of me in traffic? Why do I give money to beggars? Why do I vote for people who will raise taxes on me?
And why do so many other people do these things? If they are hardwired for greed and self preservation? Are they not human?
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 1 week ago:
You think you’re the only racist developed country in the world?
Nah, mate. It’s capitalism. Capitalism, as a system, always needs a powerful country to be its base, where capital can politically defend itself and control the political system to keep the corporations strong, and wield that country’s military against any foreign country that refuses to accept the domination of the corporations.
It was Amsterdam at first, then Britain for a long while, then in the 19th century it started moving to the USA, where it prospered mightily.
Capitalism cannot let the people be the priority. It must hold profit above all else, it’s the nature of the machine. This is not a decision made by a person, this is how the system of capitalism works.
- Comment on Thoughts and prayers for them. 1 week ago:
They run the country now, you absolute fuck face.
- Comment on Every fucking time 1 week ago:
Yeah, but fuck them. That’s why we have laws.
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 1 week ago:
That’s an interesting situation, isn’t it? You own a house, but because you need to generate income to keep it, you have to either become a landlord and live somewhere else - perhaps using part of your income to pay the mortgage on another house - or sell it and draw down your new wealth by paying rent.
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 1 week ago:
That’s great stuff, are you in marketing?
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 1 week ago:
We’re not all bears. We’ll, I am, but my hips don’t let me squat so good anymore.
- Comment on Discovery phase 1 week ago:
That is perhaps for the best. These other people telling you they are totally fine have probably not seen what happens to someone who took them who never should have.
I value every trip I took, they made me a better person, but my mum literally had one of her friends jump out a window on acid in the 70s. I always thought that shit was an urban myth.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
Um, that is socialism. Bad example, mate.
- Comment on I am el french 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, that sucks, that is toxic behaviour. I wouldn’t enjoy hanging around people like that either. If that’s all I had to choose from, I’d probably learn to enjoy solitude more.
- Comment on I am el french 2 weeks ago:
It’s all about the context. Dumb cunt is an insult, because of the dumb part. Can be meant with affection, if you say it right. But it may get you a punch, from someone other than me. 😄