AskewLord
@AskewLord@piefed.social
a big gay heterosexual trans-cis ladyguy
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 1 day ago:
yep. my folks basically thought if you spend more than two hours in the city we were gonna get car jacked and murdered. they were terrified when i moved to the city and lived in it.
my older siblings never lived in the city, they lived in suburbs their entire life and still think cities are full of rapists and murderers. they also watch nothing but TV news.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 1 day ago:
because they hate the city.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 1 day ago:
my barbers commute in from 2 hours away, and bitch about bike lanes and progressives destroying the city.
- Comment on What’s a reasonable tip for a barber? (America) 1 day ago:
25-30 but i like my barber.
i also stopped going and I cut my own hair now because paying $50-60 for a 10-15m haircut is just insane.
- Comment on What's the thing you're supposed to be doing right now instead of scrolling? 2 days ago:
nothing. i don’t use the internet to avoid work. i use it to fill in the void between things at work.
- Comment on What's your excuse for the current state of affairs? 2 days ago:
yeah no shit. this place desperately needs folks who aren’t constantly dooming and blaming the world for their personal woes.
- Comment on What's your excuse for the current state of affairs? 2 days ago:
my life is great.
not responsible for anyone else’s choices. and sick of weirdos who try to tell me i am.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
life is subjective. you can steer it away from that all you want, but personal accountability is the name of the game for everyone, disabled or not.
no, they are officially diagnosed and had lots of professional support. you know what the differences between their failures and successes were? putting in the effort. when they studied and practiced, they got good grades and succeed. when they didn’t, they failed.
it’s almost like learning things is about making the effort to learn them.
according to your philosophy here, nobody can ever run a marathon if they aren’t already athletic. that isn’t true. almost anyone can do it, they simple have to train their body to do it. and if they are disabled, they use a wheelchair or other accessibility device. they still need to train.
- Comment on Why does Lemmy load slowly when logged in? 3 days ago:
because their servers are unreliable and slow.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
i know people who have all this problems in my family.
you know how they over come them?
by making an effort.
weird how that works!!
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
those people can learn plenty well.
it just takes more time and effort.
- Comment on Would people like a "X posts per Y" rate limit for this community? 3 days ago:
that would destroy new content on the fediverse.
like 2% of the users here are posting 90% of the posts.
- Comment on Would people like a "X posts per Y" rate limit for this community? 3 days ago:
No. I just block the folks who spam and ask stupid stuff.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
There are different kinds of stupidity and ignorance.
And yes, there are lots of differences. Often the stupid person is the person who expects other people to not be ignorant of what they know, and makes other people feel stupid, and thus destroys any chance anyone has of learning from each other.
Lots of stupid people, can’t admit their ignorance. And lots of people can’t admit they made a mistake, and thus remain ignorant.
- Comment on What's the difference between ignorance and stupidity? 3 days ago:
inability to learn is a choice.
they do not want to make the effort.
whether or not that effort is worthwhile, however, is the question.
I am learning Russian. lots of people I met recently, love to tell me how stupid it is because it’s not a ‘useful’ thing to learn.
- Comment on Why do some people identify with a political party even if many of their views don't align with that party's platform? 4 days ago:
because we are better than them.
people like having a team to root for and be a part of and to beat the other guy
- Comment on Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps? 1 week ago:
isn’t that because they are using FAT file systems on their local storage?
- Comment on Where has the "www." gone? 1 week ago:
browsers didn’t auto-complete it like they do now, so it was necessary for users to type it.
- Comment on America and it's racism and Israel? 1 week ago:
i mean, that’s gospel for everyone. including the other religions and the atheist. everyone hates everyone who is different than them and thinks they should be exterminated.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Vote for Democrats.
- Comment on America and it's racism and Israel? 2 weeks ago:
Methodists are chill, they are like, less hippie Unitarians.
- Comment on America and it's racism and Israel? 2 weeks ago:
American Christians aren’t a monolith. They are a coalition of fundamentalist leaning sects, that are often far more right-wing of the more popular and mainline versions of Christianity. Fundamentalist Catholics have more in common with fundamentalist Baptists than they do with mainstream Catholics, etc.
They align mostly with the hard right in Israeli who are also majority supported my fundamentalist sects of Judaism.
- Comment on America and it's racism and Israel? 2 weeks ago:
Yep, a lot of them support ethnic cleansing going on in other nation as well.
- Comment on America and it's racism and Israel? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that many people, population-wise.
It’s that they are very vocal and they spend a lot of money lobbying and on propaganda.
- Comment on Can an Swedish style draft work in the US? 2 weeks ago:
huh, i never knew about the civil defense force, but that makes a lot of sense. Homeland Security was such a cluster fuck of an idea.
- Comment on What happened to nuance? 2 weeks ago:
the issue is most people just emotionally react.
there is no processing or reading involved.
- Comment on What happened to nuance? 2 weeks ago:
Short answer, people are stupid assholes.
Long answer, because nuance is a skill that you have to learn, and we live in a society that doesn’t value it and basically hates it. Nuance has no place in 15 second video clips, that THE dominant form of media consumption for younger people.
The only place I find nuace is in long-form media. But most folks don’t consume it anymore, so it’s not a part of their life anymore.
- Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 2 weeks ago:
because it’s taught.
- Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 2 weeks ago:
americans love violence, yes.
- Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US? 2 weeks ago:
the vast majority of americans live in cities dude. only 20% of the population is rural.