stickyprimer
@stickyprimer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Close enough 2 weeks ago:
Well unfortunately most of these are.
- Comment on Close enough 2 weeks ago:
If they’d made it “pedophiles and racists” it would be more complete description of the US and Europe and then Canada would also fit.
- Comment on Close enough 2 weeks ago:
Interesting… I never thought about this but the Middle East are insane about drugs. Cut off your hand type penalties. And maybe this is because they are religious. Or maybe it’s because the oil trafficking cartels (aka their governments) don’t want the competition of drug trafficking cartels. It’s the same reason that some dictators have banned religion: they don’t want any other institutions with power around that they don’t control.
- Comment on My shopping list: Coal 2 weeks ago:
Just don’t go at 8am because you’ll be stuck in all the slow moving wolf packs of elderly.
I used to think that old people went grocery shopping at 8am to avoid the crowds but now that I’ve seen my dad struggle to sleep past 4am, I think I understand that for a lot of them, 8am is like high noon - their day has been underway for hours and they’re just waiting for the world to wake up.
- Comment on type shit 3 weeks ago:
Maybe you don’t lose an inch of penis length, but perhaps you do lose an inch of skin.
But I agree this is stupid because 99.99% of people are going to think “penis length.”
This is perhaps the dumbest circumcision awareness sign I’ve seen. And I support the cause.
- Comment on cool cool cool 3 weeks ago:
I like the light.
- Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
Hah I can believe that.
I’m not technically synaestehtic but I do have strong associations between numbers and colors, days of the week and colors.
Saturday has always been blue. Sunday is red. Number 4 is green, 3 is yellow, etc.
For a time I lived in an Islamic country where Friday is the holy day, not Sunday. So the weekends were Thursday-Friday and not Saturday-Sunday.
Was weird is that my red/blue associations with Saturday/Sunday shifted onto Thursday/Friday after a long time of living like this. And then I left that place and my associations shifted back.
The “nineness” of a thing, as you say, is hard to describe.
- Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
I grew up with a Betamax tape player under the family TV. It had a 24 hour clock and it was the timepiece in the house that was in the right spot to tell us all that it was bedtime. As a result I have an intuitive feel for the 24 hour clock. But if you haven’t used it regularly, which most ordinary Americans don’t, then yeah you just have to stop and do the arithmetic before you can connect 21:00 to your sense of time.
- Comment on America 4 weeks ago:
He did say it always fucks him up :D
- Comment on When I die maybe they will also stuff me and put me in a museum 4 weeks ago:
Heh. I’ve had this thought many times, that we used the floppy as a save icon for longer than we even used the damn floppy, and for almost that whole time, there were tons of people coming online who’d never used floppies and would get no help whatsoever from that icon.
Recently I notice that the bookmark has become the metaphor for “save.” Literally an icon showing the end of a bookmark hanging forward. But is this actually an improvement? Does anyone fucking read books anymore??
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 4 weeks ago:
I hate people who consider trees nothing but problems. Such people should be cut down.
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 4 weeks ago:
I understand and am very burned out about it all myself. But I will never have the audacity to complain out loud that anyone is ruining my escapism as long as people out there are suffering with no chance of escape. We’re bombing the fuck out of 80 million people right now.
- Comment on Ups and downs 5 weeks ago:
I’m on great terms with my wife and make my own fucking breakfast. These things may in fact be related.
- Comment on Easter diagram 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t it almost universal that as long as resources are plentiful, organisms drift toward larger sizes?
- Comment on Iran's shitposts were obliterated, too! 5 weeks ago:
You’re starting to get it. Politics is not just a very boring television channel. It’s power transactions at the highest levels and it affects basically every thing. To even be able to whine about having to pay attention to politics is a great privilege.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Idaho about that, actually.
- Comment on omg hes just like me 5 weeks ago:
…where we all come from and where we’re all going!
- Comment on omg hes just like me 1 month ago:
Okay but you could still do step 1 without revealing anything personal. Tell us: what even is a “reason to exist?”
- Comment on omg hes just like me 1 month ago:
Kinda like a one stroke engine. The fuel and the exhaust all just mix.
It’s gross, but I can’t see any reason this disqualifies it from being on the tree of life.
- Comment on omg hes just like me 1 month ago:
Okay, we’re listening. First establish some framework of “reasons to exist” so we understand what that even means, and then tell us yours. Centuries of philosophy haven’t gotten past the first step and you probably won’t either, but I won’t stop you from trying. Okay, go.
- Comment on Americans be like: 1 month ago:
I wish capitalism was allowed to operate in its pure form so that people could truly see what things actually cost. Meat and gasoline and corn syrup are so heavily subsidized it’s ridiculous. The amount of blood and treasure we’ve wasted trying to keep gas prices low is similarly ridiculous.
- Comment on You're cured! 1 month ago:
I understand chiro quack shit the same way I understand crystals and essential oils quack shit. It’s all just quack shit.
What I don’t understand is why insurance actually pays for chiro, at least sometimes.
- Comment on Guess this is where I’m at now 1 month ago:
Wow there’s a way to prepare for it? Please share the details. I’m still on “stumble out and get blindsided by it all again.”
- Comment on Which government he might be talking about 🤔 1 month ago:
Why he gotta speak ill of the potato