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- Comment on Why Aren't there More Fem-Focused Werewolf Stories? 8 hours ago:
Tapping into another response her but adding on: there are a lot of bits of werewolf media that make little jokes about ‘the time of the month’ for werewolves. It’s an easy little joke to make. (Angua from the Terry Pratchett novels) But the other elements of werewolf tales are far less feminine. #notallwomen and all, but there isn’t a very prominent portrayal across all of fiction of women’s anger as savage or brutal the way there is with masculine anger. The most common portrayal of an angry man is shouting and open violence. The most common portrayal of an angry woman is the silent seethe or the shrill read-to-filth, rarely with open violence. The only sector I can think of that portrays women’s cycles as turning them into something to be feared is boomerhumor comedy about how wives and girlfriends become scary and irrational every month. There are older ladies who might have internalised that enough to identify with it but targeting them with that portrayal would be at odds with the demographic that seems most interested in supernatural fiction which trends young.
- Comment on Gaming industry right now 10 hours ago:
Long live the devs. Fuck publishers.
- Comment on Fucked up you can't be gay anymore 1 day ago:
Kame-homo-haaaaaaaaaa!
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 day ago:
Have you ever heard the phrase ‘walled garden?’ Apple makes their products to work very well together and with anyone else’s products they work in a way that is intentionally functional, so they can’t be said to be actually blocking interoperability, but mediocre, so you’ll get a better experience with their products. If you care about price, you aren’t using apple anyway, so it milks their price-insensitive customer base for more money while only really bothering the people who wouldn’t buy them anyway.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 1 day ago:
There does seem to be a kind of ‘big hat=important’ idea that might be kind of innate to humans. It’s a problem.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 1 day ago:
I suspect the influencer type wouldn’t know there was more than one kind of can opener. The well-off influencer lifestyle is a consumer lifestyle, paying others to handle work. The person they pay to make the food probably knows all about it, but their focus is on how best to make shocked faces for thumbnails.
- Comment on If something is in a state of flux like the transfer of energy, then is it safe to say the conduit or medium it passes through would also be in a state of flux? 2 days ago:
Not totally sure what you mean. What effect does the strata outside the pipe have on whether the pipe itself is in flux? Or are you describing a pipe carrying water vapor?
- Comment on If something is in a state of flux like the transfer of energy, then is it safe to say the conduit or medium it passes through would also be in a state of flux? 2 days ago:
I would say it depends on whether the flow is part of the carrier or not. A conductor carrying a flow of electricity is in a state of flux as the electricity that moves through it is part of it. A pipe carrying a flow of water would not because the flow is not part of it, merely limited by it.
- Comment on When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over? 2 days ago:
Part of it will be the ‘blank canvas’ look. When people want to sell a house, they are told to remove any trace of personality or uniqueness. It presents the idea of a ‘blank canvas’ onto which prospective buyers (if human) can project their imagination, saying ‘This grey is dull. I’d paint it blue.’ For some reason, painting walls, say, red tends to lead to them thinking the room is ‘finished’ with the red colour, so they think ‘I don’t want this house. It has red walls.’ You can paint both, but the unconscious brain is incredibly stupid.
The other element is imitation of wealth. Wealthy people have ‘clean’ (can be read lifeless) space as a show of wealth. Many people, especially Western European and American people, have a bit of a Calvinist bent that leads them to imitate the wealthy. Knockoff luxury items is a big industry.
- Comment on No room for romance when there's rising and grinding to be had! 2 days ago:
This is 2026. Poe’s Law has never been more relevant.
- Comment on How come late night hosts always seem to think every guest did good shit whether a movie or book or whatever? Why not just be honest and say I thought this sucked. And get in a real discussion.? 4 days ago:
For the same reason people in infomercials seem to find it so impossible to perform basic human tasks like pouring a drink without a special drink pouring handle. The whole show is staged to get you to buy something, usually a movie ticket or a book. Talk show questions are often given to guests ahead of time to consider answers or given to the host by the guest to make it easier for them to promote their product. Neither of them is speaking as themselves, but as improv actors in an unscripted commercial.
- Comment on Have you eat a purple potato? 4 days ago:
Yep. Tasted like a potato.
- Comment on How come the US does not welcome the so called "immigrants" and when they get a job or are waiting for their green card just tax them some more until citizens? Would solve many problems. 4 days ago:
The US is not a monoculture. Many areas broadly accept/promote immigration. Many areas do not.
- Comment on Glad they're looking out for me 1 week ago:
It’s absolutely for your benefit! Oh, wait, did you say user? I thought shareholder. No, you can get in line for the rectal probing with everyone else.
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 1 week ago:
It was half joking, but realistically, the cat is basically innocent, stuck in the care of a person who refuses to listen to reason in favor of their irrational beliefs, like a kid raised by a religious zealot. I won’t actually say the poster should go commit whatever crime cat kidnapping is, but I would say their friend may not be capable of making sound decisions, which inherently makes them untrustworthy, which makes their friendship dubious. If you can’t trust someone, they’re not really a friend.
- Comment on Now with more privacy!* 1 week ago:
VPNs help your privacy against ISPs, not cookie tracking and malware like Facebook.
- Comment on Is there hope for humanity? Or are we just destined or designed to wipe our own selves out? 1 week ago:
Complete wipe? Probably not. Change on a scale so deep and wide as to render their relation to what we are currently as relevant as our relation to a nautilus? Yeah. Pretty much guaranteed. Deep time has seen more worlds made of this planet than you could ever imagine surviving.
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 1 week ago:
Where is my grip on reality (not socially comfortable consensus delusion, but reality) failing?
- Comment on How do I get the damn cat to understand I can feed myself? 1 week ago:
Take the cat. Be the Cat Protective Services the cat needs. Then find real friends who aren’t so delusional they probably shouldn’t be considered legally capable of giving consent.
- Comment on The President of the United States gave a speech today 1 week ago:
That’s probably a joke for legal reasons but I have to wonder how often someone like Vance thinks the phrase, ‘One little push…’
- Comment on The President of the United States gave a speech today 1 week ago:
Not until after the trial.
- Comment on Do black people actually want to be called Black with capital B? 1 week ago:
Never seen that anywhere before. I don’t think your ‘we’ is the same as our ‘we.’
- Comment on We have brownouts in the summer and Kevin O'Leary wants a Data Center built here. 1 week ago:
Pepperidge Farms brand is owned by the Campbell’s Company. Here’s an article about how they’re embracing AI.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 1 week ago:
Also, what is that… what appears to be a baseball, but green with red stitching?
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 1 week ago:
Second. Someone did the United Healthcare guy already.
- Comment on Was Alex Jones right about anything? 1 week ago:
In the same way a lot of bullshitters are. He’d say 105 things a week, many of them being mutually exclusive, and then when one of the random guesses happened to have turned out to be true, he’d crow and preen to say he was right and play a clip editing out the parts where he’d said all the other nonsense.
- Comment on Apple that makes eunuchs 1 week ago:
I imagine it’d be more like the kind of removal one gets from other natural causes, like frostbite or a bloodclot. I.e. painful and necrotic
- Comment on Why do companies require you to submit a resume but also put the same data into their forms? 2 weeks ago:
It means getting paid a special check equalling the amount extra you would have been paid if you had gotten the raise last year.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 2 weeks ago:
One of the biggest issues in society is education, but it’s not limited to any one area. It’s fundamental to our language based systems. There is something fundamentally untranslatable and intransmissible about knowledge. It even goes beyond philosophical qualia. People innately classify chunks of reality and then are trained to classify them in even more complex ways, usually based on their affordances, but the possibility space contains near infinite variety we map into a finite, and in some cases extremely crude conceptual space. So much of social existence is based upon the recognition of distinctions that exist as sub-classes to the sub-classes to the sub-classes to the classes delineated so long ago they are part of the ideological foundations to the maps themselves.
Humans are not capable of comprehending the unintelligible infinity of reality at any age.
- Comment on What hot af take do you have that you think you will be HORRIBLY executed and shunned from society for? 2 weeks ago:
Think it one step further. Why are they trained to accept the ‘power’ of the libido? What do they get out of it? Answer: they get to satisfy, or at least titilate the libido.
It’s the old paradox of society and desire. Individuals want to feel good. Society cannot function if individuals only seek their own pleasure. How do you satisfy both goals? By twisting them both until they can suffice to get you through to tomorrow.