DudleyMason
@DudleyMason@lemmy.ml
- Comment on No one could have seen this coming 13 hours ago:
Both of these statements are correct. And if you blame the locked cases on shoplifting rather than blaming the shoplifting on the fact that greedy, soulless merchants will jack up their prices in response to sunrises, sunsets, or passing fancies, then fuck you along with capitalism.
- Comment on who came up with this plot? 2 days ago:
We’re going backwards. If Gen Alpha pushes social norms around sex backwards at the same rate Gen Z has, then kids in High School in 2060 will be getting detention for their slutty capris showing off their wicked ankles. If the Genzers don’t manage to bring back Scarlet Letters first.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I thought that and looked in to it. It’d take years to pay for itself (even if soda is the only thing you drink), and you also have to get a commercial ice maker and keep the ice bin on the soda fountain full, bcs none of them actually chill the soda, it gets chilled when the water is piped through the bottom of the ice bin. It’s easier and cheaper just to buy the Costco 36 packs and an extra fridge for them.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 4 days ago:
“There are plenty of ADA compliant buildings, don’t get hung up on the ones that aren’t”…
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 4 days ago:
Everyone who is opposed to difficulty sliders should be forced to spend 200 hours on each game using a controller that simulates dyspraxia by randomly adjusting every movement of the sticks by a random degree and lagging every button press by a few microseconds before they’re allowed to play it normally.
Add an additional 400 hours if they also say smug shit like this when pretending their ableism and elitism are just devotion to artistic integrity.
The devs who make games without difficulty sliders should never get their undoctored controllers back.
- Comment on three cheers for fate! 1 week ago:
not-yet-convicted murderer
Using lethal force to stop a mass murderer from continuing their spree isn’t murder.
Even if he’d done it (which he didn’t), it wouldn’t be murder, he should be given a public commendation, not a jail sentence.
- Comment on three cheers for fate! 1 week ago:
Fair. My only reason for not doing more is that not enough people would join me to make it anything but a fancy way to commit suicide. Someone let me know when the vanguard starts to assemble!
- Comment on three cheers for fate! 1 week ago:
I’ll cheer for date when it stays pumping this numbers up. One a year? What rookie bullshit is this?
- Comment on Hrmmm 🤔 3 months ago:
I believe the correct answer to OPs question is "an object lesson in the difference between correlation and causality.
Or proof he doesn’t understand that difference, whichever applies.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Love it when people prove they have gotten themselves into an argument way over their heads with someone who clearly knows a great deal more than them. They always start to act like actually addressing the points being made is beneath them. It’s the easiest to see who actually knows about a subject vs who is just good at regurgitating the tropes they read in billionaire-owned western media.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Then actually engage with the points they made and debunk them if they’re so ridiculous. All this is doing is making it obvious you don’t actually know enough about the subject to even have this argument.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
If those neolibs could read anything not set in Hogwarts they’d be very upset.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Go ahead and make the case for that without quoting anyone who has a CIA handler. We’ll wait.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’m sure all the slaves the CPC freed from the Lamas agree, as do the people who suffered under British Imperialism in HK. Also, Taiwanese separatists are a shrinking minority, Taiwan is part of China, everyone agrees with that, the KMT only disagree on who is the rightful government.
Try reading some news sources from outside the US/EU empire, you’ll learn a lot.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Lol, somebody’s never had a coked out bathroom hookup and it’s kinda sad.
Sex can involve that kind of intimacy. So can a really deep conversation while cuddling. Sex doesn’t have to involve that kind of intimacy, and would be far less likely to as a whole if idiots would stop teaching children it’s a special and magical thing that should be sacrosanct if not being used for “creating a stable pair bond”.
This kind of thinking is one half a step removed from “sex is so special and magical that people who have it in a different way than me are perverts and should be imprisoned or executed”, or the flip side of that same impulse: “sex is so special and magical that the women I want to have sex with should be held in a gilded prison guarded by eunuchs to ensure only I ever fuck them”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
So my question stands. I knew what you meant, now explain why sex is a special sphere of human activity that is materia different from any other human interaction without resorting to magical thinking.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
If two parties agreed to it under no sense of duress
As long as monogamy is considered the default and something most people wouldn’t ever consider getting away from, it’s impossible to enter a monogamous relationship absent coercion, because the coercion is societal.
Just like there’s no such thing as voluntary employment under a capitalist system, there’s no such thing as voluntary monogamy in a world dominated by Western, Bronze-age sexual politics.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
only if you essentially do not view sex as any more sacred, or complex and meaningful, than food…
Why on Earth would anyone who isn’t indoctrinated into a religion ever think that sex is more sacred than any other form of human interaction?
- Comment on About to lose my shit 3 months ago:
God would never say that. Only vile little job-replacing clankers that exist solely to show how much contempt grocery store managers have for their customers would say that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Read more, watch fewer videos. Bonus: books cannot contain unskippable ads.