imaqtpie
@imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The Wallace & Gromit joke that was too British for Netflix 3 weeks ago:
Americans sell themselves as these rugged individuals who won’t be easily swayed but then turn out to be absolute pussies when it comes to jokes foreign to them.
What a bizarre take.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think urbanised is a good word to describe that alienation. The urbanism movement has as one of its key goals the creation of more vibrant local communities. It’s more like suburbanism.
Urbanized is a great word to describe that alienation. The urbanism movement is trying to create more vibrant urban communities because of the fact that urban environments are inherently alienating, even if you ignore cars entirely. This is why your original comment was dumb. You are naively fixated on car culture as the source of all social alienation, to the extent of implying that cities would be egalitarian utopias if not for cars.
You’re the one who’s been talking around me this entire time, I’ve been making my points very clearly but you’re talking past me because you don’t want to admit you were somewhat mistaken.
the biggest thing that hurts local community feeling is car-dependent infrastructure.
No. Cities are hubs of specialization, which breeds inequality, which breeds resentment, which breeds alienation. No cars required.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Did you forget to respond to my point? Are you suggesting that cities were happy, egalitarian communes prior to the invention of the automobile?
Highways were constructed because it provided an economic advantage to do so. A city without car infrastructure is not economically viable. With more advanced transportation technology, we will eventually supercede the automobile, but to delude yourself into thinking that it was an arbitrary development is silly. There are many negative externalities caused by automobiles, just as there are many negative externalities caused by electricity. That doesn’t negate the advantages.
But regardless, the social dynamics of cities predate such problems; even if we reverted to a pre-car culture cities would still be lonely, violent places for some. They would still be the engines of inequality and hierarchy, because they are the hubs of the economic system.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Suburbia came into being as a result of urban decay. Cities have existed and had problems since long before cars were invented. People nowadays really love to blame everything on cars lmao, if only it were that simple
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
The urbanism movement exists to help remedy some of the downsides of urban living. One of which is social alienation and isolation as a result of the scale and diversity of cities.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 4 weeks ago:
French Catheters
- Comment on Oopsies 5 weeks ago:
My point is that technically you are still making decisions about what to do with some odors body parts without consent, as they can no longer consent. Is there really a difference?
That’s a good point, you’re right.
That’s interesting about the eyes, I’m honestly not sure what to say about that.
- Comment on Oopsies 5 weeks ago:
Wow, good source. 82% donor rate for the opt-out group versus 79% for the forced-choice is a smaller difference than I would have guessed.
- Comment on Oopsies 5 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure people do make their wishes clear regarding their funeral preparations. You can put that kind of stuff in your last will and I would assume it holds some legal weight.
I actually agree that organ donation should be opt-out, but there is an unavoidable argument against that. Namely, the fact that people have the right to opt-out at all implies that you have a responsibility to verify their informed consent before enrolling them in the procedure. At least, that would be the conventional wisdom according to the field of medical ethics.
- Comment on Oopsies 5 weeks ago:
That sounds promising, I think you’re right that it would be a significant improvement in donor rates over the opt-in system.
- Comment on Oopsies 5 weeks ago:
I agree, but it raises an interesting argument regarding the definition of consent. I don’t necessarily believe in free will so I like to mention it in situations where you can easily see that people are more accurately described as reacting to their environment than making any kind of conscious choice.
Simply by changing from opt-in to opt-out, you mostly reverse the observed behavior of a population. Lots of applications for this sort of thinking, like with voting for instance.
- Comment on Oopsies 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s interesting to ask whether people in the opt-out countries are really consenting. Can you really say someone has consented if you never actually made the request?
- Comment on Anon loves sunny days 1 month ago:
Ah, a fellow man of culture.
- Comment on ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ to Lose $150 Million to $200 Million in Theatrical Run After Bombing at Box Office 2 months ago:
Meh the director already got paid. Producers are taking the monetary hit on this one. Probably won’t be a good sign for the director’s career moving forward though.
- Comment on Anon tests something 2 months ago:
No, it’s just a surgeon who lacks personality and operates in a machinelike fashion.
- Comment on Anon loves his firetruck 2 months ago:
Lol! Nice one
- Comment on Paddington In Peru will nod to Werner Herzog’s Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo 2 months ago:
Paddington. I’m not very familiar with Herzog but I don’t think wholesome would be the correct descriptor for his work 😅
- Comment on Paddington In Peru will nod to Werner Herzog’s Aguirre and Fitzcarraldo 2 months ago:
Yeah they’re quite nice. Not trying to do too much, just well-executed, wholesome, pleasant films.
- Comment on Posting the shopping cart theory because people had questions in a separate thread 3 months ago:
God damn I just read through this whole thread and people are actually frothing at the mouth about returning shopping carts to corrals. What a sad and pathetic existence to live, where you judge other people so harshly over the most insignificant things.
Lemmy can be really fucking weird about certain topics. People here should probably touch grass more frequently.
- Comment on ocean depth 3 months ago:
The scale is very misleading. 0-200m is the same as 200-1000 and 1000-2000m is like 1/8 of 0-1000m.
Doesn’t really capture the insane depths of the Mariana Trench. This website visualizes it better. Albeit without the Saddam lying at the bottom.
- Comment on Anon works out 3 months ago:
Yea I wouldn’t block it if I were you. Thanks and same to you
- Comment on Anon works out 3 months ago:
You would probably enjoy this community more.
sh.itjust.works/c/wholesomegreentext
FWIW, I totally get the way you feel about greentexts in general. I think it’s a very natural reaction, and those of us (myself included) who enjoy these posts without reservation are actually the unusual ones who have been desensitized by a lifetime on internet forums.
There’s a certain jaded callousness, seasoned with a sprinkling of cynicism and misanthropy, which allows one to most fully savor the fruits of c/greentext 😂
- Comment on Anon isn't a fan of Judas 3 months ago:
Yea this was a good thread. Except for your comment, which is off topic 😉
- Comment on Anon wants to go to Nuuk 3 months ago:
There are plenty of small towns away from the world that aren’t in Greenland 😅. I get the sentiment but Nuuk is total overkill if anon is just looking for a peaceful small town
- Comment on Anon visits New Zealand 3 months ago:
The Maori were Polynesian navigators who were the first humans to settle NZ around 1300 AD. New Zealand and Hawaii were two of the last places on Earth to be reached by humans.
Then some of the Maori left from NZ and colonized the Chatham Islands around 1500. Due to their geographic isolation, they diverged culturally from the Maori, adopted a pacifist way of life, and came to be known as the Moriori.
In the mid-1800s, some Maori tribes, armed with muskets obtained from trade with Europeans, invaded the Chatham Islands and committed a genocide for nearly 30 years against the Moriori, who did not fight back because of their belief in pacifism. This is known as the Moriori genocide.
- Comment on Twitter 3 months ago:
Lol. Nice one, I never heard that line before.
- Comment on That's how we do it 4 months ago:
- Comment on Two stupid questions. How can I message the mods of a certain community? And also why are most of my communities say subscribe pending? 5 months ago:
Click on their profile. There is a “Send Message” button right at the top.
Subscribe pending is just a visual glitch, you’re already subscribed but it just didn’t update visually. Posts from those communities are already showing up in your Subscribed feed.
- Comment on The Code 5 months ago:
It is different, but tbf academics are also reliant on external funding sources to conduct research. It’s not absurd to think that the grant writers or university administration might have some stipulations about the free distribution of research they paid for.
Have we forgotten what happened to Aaron Swartz? With the state of the world today, I naturally expect everything to be monetized, regardless of whether it makes any rational or ethical sense.
- Comment on Whales 5 months ago:
Yeah I guess, but that doesn’t really help. Humans already killed most of the whales so rubbing in our technological superiority is quite gauche.