GreenBeard

@GreenBeard@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most of the US blame Saudi Arabia for the 9/11 attacks? Al-Qaeda may have been trained there but that doesn't makes Saudi's responsible does it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To the rest of the world, it is looked at that way. The only reason the US doesn’t consider their crimes “Their Fault” is the general sense of “American Exceptionalism” that saturates their cultural perception. You think the rest of the world doesn’t remember Haiti? Or Guatemala? Or the Philippines? Or the Alaskan Panhandle Incident? Do you think we’ve forgiven China for Tibet or the Uyghur genocide in Turkmenistan? Or Canada and Australia for their Genocides? The Germans still walk around starting every conversation with outsiders saying “Hi, yes I’m German, and we’re very sorry.” or something equivalent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most of the US blame Saudi Arabia for the 9/11 attacks? Al-Qaeda may have been trained there but that doesn't makes Saudi's responsible does it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it not be the equivalent of a what supremacist gang get into the army and get trained and do a couple tours here and there. Comeback home and all go to Canada and pull off a deadly attack? Should the US be blamed for training the group that messed up Canada? Or does the US get a pass because we are a hegemony?

  Oh, and this? This would absolutely an American attack on an ally. The fact it’s not officially commissioned by the DoD does not in any way absolve America more broadly of the crimes of the terrorists they produce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does most of the US blame Saudi Arabia for the 9/11 attacks? Al-Qaeda may have been trained there but that doesn't makes Saudi's responsible does it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That was more about Mohammad “Bone Saw” Bin Salman’s attacks on the free press, although given the fact that Saudi terrorists, commissioned by a Saudi leader (Bin Laden) trained in Saudi Arabia were the actual culprits of 9/11, it’s really hard to not consider the Saudi people at least somewhat culpable for fomenting extremism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we take physicality out and the tran debate. Doesn't almost everything boil down to a single choice? Like alcohol, tobacco, weed, heroin and other addictives. More inside.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Your opinion is not uncommon, but that also doesn’t make it right. The counter examples of what constitutes predisposition for addiction are plentiful, but I don’t really have time to go through all of them. There are elements of choice, there are elements of environment, and there are elements of biology in every case. You can ignore the other factors if you wish, that doesn’t make them go away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More? Yes. All? Probably not. Time will tell but I think the internet will fragment again, at least to some degree. It wasn’t healthy to have it all consolidated around a few mega-sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why are all social medias based around western values?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t want to talk to people with western values, find a platform in a non-western language. I doubt there’s a lot of western values on WeChat or Douyin. People are going to enforce the behaviour standards they’re comfortable with on their own platform. If you cant find one that fits your preferences, make one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it about Mark Zuckerberg's appearance or demeanor that creeps people out?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it’s a spectrum of course, as all these things are. No two neurodiverse people are neurodiverse in exactly the same way, we fit broad tendencies. But in most cases people can tell, especially if they understand the broad gist of the various spectra. Most of us wear behavioral masks to get through the day but they’re rarely perfect. Sometimes those of us on a spectrum are better at spotting it in each other than typicals, because we’re working overtime to try to notice and process subtle signals but it’s always there to varying degrees. When our masks slip, people tend to look at us like we grew a second head or something equally bizarre. Some people describe it as feeling alien, or fey-touched, or any one of a billion euphemisms and analogies across time and place.

  It is what it is, same as it’s always been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is it about Mark Zuckerberg's appearance or demeanor that creeps people out?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who’s also neuro-diverse, we’re all a little off-putting. We know we look/sound a bit off and it’s a bit uncanny for some people. People will attach all kinds of meaning to anything they can visibly identify as different. As a mildly autistic ginger atheist I feel like “Soulless” gets thrown around way too freely, but I feel it’s important to keep in mind there are much worse flavours of bigotry out there. Still it’s important to point out that just because Zuck is awful doesn’t mean it’s ok to hate robot-people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you feel if someone said you deserve cancer or to die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, and it’s everyone else’s right to wish it right back at you. I almost wish I believed in hell, because the idea of people who think like that slow-roasting for eternity is comforting. Unfortunately, the cosmos doesn’t usually do justice. That’s a human affectation. May you always find justice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you feel if someone said you deserve cancer or to die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t beat yourself up over being human. We all have our limits of what we can and can’t do, and a customer can only do so much. Stand up for labor, support unions whenever you can, I know that’s harder than it used to be, use your vote, and your voice when you’re able to demand better for all of us. Those are what you can do as a citizen. I know it’s abstract, I know they aren’t perfect solutions, but it’s better than where things are. And maybe we can all work on being better neighbours too. Remember, the most you can do is always working with others as a community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you feel if someone said you deserve cancer or to die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the “I had to suffer, so everyone else does too” mentality. Now I see why they wished the worst on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you feel if someone said you deserve cancer or to die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Friend, just be kind and respectful. Whether it’s a teenager asking if you want fries with that, a retail worker helping ring up your purchases or a service tech fixing something for you, having good manners, not actively wasting their time or creating headaches for them, and having a bit of patience when we’re both frustrated with a system that doesn’t make it easy for you or us is a delight. Do your best to raise your kids to do the same, and remember it could just as easily be them on the receiving end. Most people are just fine. You can’t fix other people. You can make it socially costly to be an asshole, so any chance you get, do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think all billionaires deserve to die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you can be a billionaire and be a good person. It is 100% true that if someone is that rich, and they tell you it’s from hard work, you should ask them whose, because no one gets that rich dealing fairly. Someone is getting rung out. A lot of someones. Do they all deserve to die? Hard to say for sure, but I see little to suggest keeping them alive is a wise decision, they rarely have much value to society beyond money at that point, and they’ve spent all of their humanity getting rich, so it’s not like it’s homicide ethically, even if it legally is. Still, I’m open to the hypothesis that there’s a human soul left in some of them, and if the evidence can be provided for such I’m eager to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you feel if someone said you deserve cancer or to die?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Happens daily to me. That’s life in a service industry. You deal with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is MMA and UFC "somewhat" rigged like boxing was in the Don King era?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s just too many ways for it to be rigged behind the scenes in ways no one can see for there to be nothing dirty going on. How much? No one is ever going to be able to answer that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are many living things in the world, most of which we don’t really care about. No one asks a tree if it wishes to be a plank of wood. No one feels bad for eating a potato, and only some would feel badly about training an ox to pull a plow. There’s no evidence sentience is a product of the number of neurons; there are creatures with many more neurons than us that are far less self-aware. Much like the circuitry of a chip, it’s not the amount of copper and silicon that makes it work, it’s how it’s arranged. The cells themselves do not suffer, they are fed and functioning and that is sufficient, no different than a bacteria. Beyond that, a neuron based processor is no more sentient than copper and sand unless we design it to mimic a living brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, this is a bad idea. 90% of life is getting through the things you don’t want to do so you can get to the things you do. Also you might want to cut back on the edibles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anyone or any part of the Trump Regime that is not actively bowing down to him?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone didn’t read project 2025.

  No dissenters. Period. That was the plan since Day 1. If you would not literally follow fearless leader into a wood-chipper, you don’t have a position in the Trump admin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the SCOTUS ruling on presidential powers say what he can or what he can't do? Or can he basically do anything? Like kill a person or multiple people shooting a gun from the whitehouse?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Short of impeaching the entire SCOTUS and running a do-over with justices that aren’t owned by a criminal (which would take not only the president, but the entirety of congress to pull off) there is no way to undo the SCOTUS ruling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or does it seem Google is either AI filled or becoming obsolete? Is there an up and comer that can be what Google used to be? Or are we stuck oogling stuff forever?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I recall correctly it queries the Bing API among other niche sources for indexing and acts as a proxy for ad purposes, so while there’s a lot of Bing results, it’s not one-to-one. Unless they changed things recently, it’s possible I missed a press release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or does it seem Google is either AI filled or becoming obsolete? Is there an up and comer that can be what Google used to be? Or are we stuck oogling stuff forever?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia are the two big ones that tend to come up in these kind of questions, although there’s a handful of smaller search platforms out there as well. Bing is even worse than Google at this point. If I recall correctly Ecosia uses a custom search algorithm but still relies mostly on Google’s index at this time, DuckDuckGo is entirely independent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I stand corrected. I was under the impression that expressed more in the 8-12 “Pre-Teen” range.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Targeting the cognitive level of the child is not the same as not teaching logic. Your hierarchy example works fine for some levels, not for others was the point. It’s a lot easier to teach a rote methodology than a hierarchy of trust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there’s a large body of statistical data that says most people do not behave rationally unless absolutely forced to. Children most definitely do not behave rationally unless deeply emotionally engaged. The idea of humans as “rational actors” has about as much evidentiary support as Luminiferous Aether and balancing humours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it feel like most art museums are for adults and most science museums are for kids?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, statistically the individuals most likely to frequent an alternative social media platform are those with a) the technical proficiency to do so, b) Weak social anchoring to the network effects of mainstream platforms, and/or b) people whose past social interactions have led them to no longer have access to those platforms, ergo by self-selection bias there’s a high probability of finding other high functioning individuals on the spectrum on this platform. Lemmy/Piefed’s primary use case is basically socially-awkward-networking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ever watch Robin Hood: Men in Tights where Little John falls in a little stream? That’s an accurate representation of the English. The Scots, Welsh, and Northern Irish have enjoyed watching this for centuries.

  Note: As a Canadian, I’m allowed to make that joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were in Jail would you stick withe bible or be interest in other religions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s the part you like, then you’d love the two battles of Mag Tuired. The absolute shenanigans the Tuatha De got up to fighting the Fomorians was legendary. Their analog of Tyr coming back with a silver hand that moves like flesh to replace his lost one and retake the throne of the gods was wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you were in Jail would you stick withe bible or be interest in other religions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think Loki is fun, you should try the Fenian Cycle of Irish/Gaelic mythology. You’d probably get a kick out of the kid raised by his aunt the druidess and her warrior-woman “Roommate” who goes on to fight a giant boar, become a genius by sucking his thumb while cooking salmon, and to become leader of the high king’s own mercenary company after discovering his divine heritage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prolly won;t word this correctly. But when did the idea of a woman subservient to a man begin? And how come it seems its lasted longer that most relgions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There does seem to have been a pretty widespread shift around 5000-3000 BCE (7000-5000 years ago) where a number of different populations across Europe, Asia, and North and East Africa all shifted in a relatively small time window to a patriarchal (literally “father-lead” for people who aren’t familiar with what the term actually means) social structure. Interestingly this also coincides with a rapid loss of genetic diversity in the y-chromosome suggesting it was highly hazardous to the health of most men when this shift happened. Some have speculated that this is the point at which we went from minor territorial disputes and some mild raiding to the emergence of organized “warfare”, though the evidence is circumstantial. While cultures still often went back and forth between being more egalitarian and more patriarchal, that seems to be a major historical turning point. In the (roughly) 300,000 year history of Homo sapiens, and the several million year history of the Homo genus, that’s a relatively recent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don’t tech bros wear suits?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The word professional is so ambiguous as to be effectively meaningless, bearing no resemblance whatsoever to its original definition.

  No one but the most shallow and superficial among us cares what you’re wearing. Thinking a suit does anything but make you look self-important and pretentious is an anachronism.