Whirlybird
@Whirlybird@aussie.zone
- Comment on Ian McKellen On Reprising ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Gandalf Character In Gollum Movie: “If I’m Alive” 5 months ago:
Why can’t they just leave it as it is? The lord of the rings movies were good but we don’t need more. The hobbit series was pretty terrible. I don’t think anyone is clamoring for more. Prequels are garbage that no one wants, and there’s nothing post trilogy.
- Comment on Am I doing HDR wrong? 11 months ago:
OP didn’t specify that they have an OLED model.
Generally if you’re switching HDR on and off and it’s not making any difference, you don’t have an HDR display.
- Comment on Am I doing HDR wrong? 11 months ago:
OP didn’t specify that they have an OLED model.
Generally if you’re switching HDR on and off and it’s not making any difference, you don’t have an HDR display.
- Comment on Am I doing HDR wrong? 11 months ago:
The screen on the steam deck isn’t HDR. You can only get HDR from the Steam Deck OLED if you output the display to an HDR display.
- Comment on Christopher Nolan Says Buy ‘Oppenheimer’ on Blu-ray ‘So No Evil Streaming Service Can Come Steal It From You’: ‘We Put a Lot of Care’ Into Home Release 1 year ago:
Buy overpriced physical media? lol no thanks.
- Comment on Stephen King blames Bill Maher for breaking the Hollywood writers’ strike 1 year ago:
I bet the staff wouldn’t be struggling so much if he paid them more in the first place
People struggle when they don’t get paid due to not working.
Writers, the ones complaining, get paid a shitload for their work. They get paid $100k for about 7 weeks work…and they want more… and they’ve somehow convinced the public who earn significantly less than them to stand up for them and fight to make them more money lol. One of the best grifts of all time tbh.
- Comment on Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries 1 year ago:
Apple?
- Comment on Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries 1 year ago:
So leave windows and go….where?
- Comment on 37signals Introduces "Once" - Buy software one time 1 year ago:
And announced……no software, no prices, but even an idea of what the upcoming software will be.
- Comment on Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries 1 year ago:
😂 Windows has been good, and the best OS choice for the overwhelmingly large majority of people, for going on 30 years. The “windows bad Linux good” Lemmy hive mind is insane.
- Comment on Bruce Willis’ Wife Gives Blunt Update Amid His Dementia Battle: “I’m Not Good” 1 year ago:
Dementia is the worst. I would take dying of cancer or getting hit by a bus over Alzheimer’s or Aphasia or other forms of dementia. Truly the worst way to live your remaining years, which often is decades.
- Comment on AITA for telling my husband to get a job? 1 year ago:
These people and stories can’t be real. OPs husband is a stay at home dad, has about an hours worth of housework a day, while also having a full time nanny?
Nah. Don’t believe this.
- Comment on AITA for not warning my brother not to drink my wife's juice. 1 year ago:
Drinking prune juice once doesn’t just give you the shits. It’s not a laxative like that.
I swear 95% of these situations are made up.
- Comment on AITA for preventing our office from going dog friendly 1 year ago:
Of course that person is the arsehole.
- Comment on Barbie and the conservative outrage machine 1 year ago:
Jesus what a stupid take, to actually believe that liberals are “experimenting on children”.
What would you call it? It’s using drugs for reasons they’re not approved for, to do surgeries that have massive lists of complications and even without complications will require literal daily care for the rest of their life. The long term effects of “puberty blockers” are unknown. It’s literal experimentation at this stage because there have been no long term studies. How is it not experimenting?
Surgeries, gender altering surgeries, are usually held off until 18, and if they’re not I really don’t understand why the government needs to have a say in something that a parent and child decide on.
“Usually” doesn’t cut it. You don’t understand why life altering elective surgeries shouldn’t be government regulated? A child cannot consent to these surgeries or treatments. They do not have the mental capacity to do so. Let me ask you this - would you let a 10 year old get a tattoo? What if they really want it, and their parents are ok with it? You think they should be able to go and get a nice big dragon tattoo on the side of their head?
puberty blockers have no long term effects
This has been disproven time and time again. You can’t just “pause” puberty and then have it pick up right where it left off, it doesn’t work that way, physically or mentally. The NHS changed their literature from “The effects of treatment with GnRH analogues are considered to be fully reversible” to “Little is known about the long-term side effects of hormone or puberty blockers in children with gender dysphoria.
Although the Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) advises this is a physically reversible treatment if stopped, it is not known what the psychological effects may be.
It’s also not known whether hormone blockers affect the development of the teenage brain or children’s bones. Side effects may also include hot flushes, fatigue and mood alterations.”. Other countries have now started doing the same.
To not have big government tell them that if they feel more comfortable wearing jeans and a tshirt over a dress that they should be allowed to. That if a child says “I don’t like playing with monster trucks, can I play with a doll instead?” that we can say yes, absolutely you can.
The problem is that no one is telling kids that if they’re a boy they have to play with a monster truck, but one side are saying “if you play with a monster truck you must be a boy, so if you’re a girl we should start you on puberty blockers right away!”. The “liberals” are the ones using stereotypes of “if you are comfortable wearing jeans and a tshirt over a dress you must be a boy”, not the other way around.
I really don’t understand why people think they need to have a say in how other people raise children.
Really? So you would be ok with parents teaching their kids that black people should be slaves, that it’s ok for adults to have sex with them, and that they can go and murder the next door neighbours cat if they want to?
Please, tell me how you want big federal government to tell us what to do.
So you’re just anti-government? Do you object to murder being illegal? That’s letting the “big federal government to tell us what to do” isn’t it?
- Comment on Barbie and the conservative outrage machine 1 year ago:
Unless they suddenly start accepting people for who they are
Ironic considering the people that won’t accept themselves for who they are.
Adults can be trans all they want, call yourself whatever gender you want - just stop experimenting on children with surgeries and drugs.
- Comment on Barbie and the conservative outrage machine 1 year ago:
You can think whatever you want about him, that’s not the point. The point was that the actual movie was basically him giving “experts” enough rope to hang themselves with, and hang themselves they did. It was about pointing out the absurdity of the situation, a situation where not even the people spouting the views could give answers.
- Comment on Barbie and the conservative outrage machine 1 year ago:
Not to mention the “progressives” reaction to Matt Walsh’s movie “what is a woman?”