Swedneck
@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on I just learned 37% of Americans fear vaccinating their dog will cause the dog to develop autism. 😐 4 days ago:
this is slander, everyone knows dogs have ADHD.
It’s cat’s that are autistic - Comment on Beyond fucked up 6 days ago:
Same thing with social media, don’t fucking upload things with your kids’ faces in them god damnit
- Comment on And no paper towels to use on the handle 6 days ago:
go look up what dirt is made of :)
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 6 days ago:
that’s an insult to white trash, trump actively chooses to appear trashy.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 6 days ago:
what if we composted the rich?
haha just kidding, unless?
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 6 days ago:
Except Valentine was aware of how he appeared to people, iirc. Trump seems to whole-heartedly think he’s the coolest most powerful person on earth.
- Comment on President Trump shows President Zelenskyy and President Macron his 4 More Years hats 6 days ago:
I remember seeing him just barely reign himself in when trump and vance started complaining at him while cameras were rolling, that’s the moment i concluded he’s definitely an actual real person with normal emotions.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 6 days ago:
this ignores the fact that people tend to complain to those around them, and especially if they hear a friend is gonna buy a new car they’ll say “hey Bob do me a favour and buy anything other than a yaris, their ads gave me bowel cancer. If you show up with a yaris on my driveway next month i’m calling the fucking cops i swear to god”
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 6 days ago:
what i’ll never understand is why companies try to shoot for annoying people, rather than making them happy. Sure maybe something annoying with lodge itself in your mind, but something nice might also lodge itself in your mind in a good way, and you might share the ad with your friends because it’s actually nice.
I can’t recall any bad ads off the top of my head, but the good ones? Those are something that literally become a part of culture, something people 10 years later share with each other.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 6 days ago:
i have only a single kind of youtube ad that doesn’t go immediately into the mental trashcan, and that’s in-video advertisements that are short and chill and to the point, and contextually relevant.
Like a retro gaming channel that ends videos with a clearly stated ad for some reasonably priced NES controller replica that they actually hold in their hands and say “been using it for a few weeks, it’s nice, check it out, bye”.It’s not pushy, it’s something people might actually want to buy before seeing it, and maybe most importantly it should be a physical product.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 6 days ago:
as time goes on i’m becoming increasingly convinced that this argument only exists to convince people who pay for advertisements
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 6 days ago:
at this point i barely even register anything published by larger companies, every now and then i catch a brief glimpse of some new big release that is apparently being played by literally 3% of the entire global population, and that is the ONLY time i ever hear about it, never to be seen again.
It’s kind of bizarre
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 6 days ago:
this kind of thing applies to so much these days, another notable example being “oh social media sucks, oh i constantly get annoying notifications”
holy fucking shit just stop using the bad social media platforms, turn off your notifications, this is an extremely easily solved problem that can be tackled in an afternoon!
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 6 days ago:
which is why you’re able to downvote those segments
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 6 days ago:
people always say this, but at the same time everyone i talk to goes out of their way to avoid companies with annoying ads It really starts to just feel like propaganda at this point
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 6 days ago:
literally the only ad i can think of off the top of my head is that airline booking site with adorable kittens in stitched airplane suits, because obviously that occupies a significant part of my brain at all times
And i don’t understand how companies fail to realize that cute animals make ads infinitely more appealing, that gives me a reason to maybe actually continue watching it, because i gain something from doing so
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 1 week ago:
it’s neither bad nor good, it’s just a relative score. If everyone except you was einstein then your IQ would be 1, but that doesn’t magically make you dumber than you are now.
- Comment on Sent this to my friends flexing a "top 65%" score. The site didn't make it clear that's not a good thing. 1 week ago:
just play a snippet of that “what’s 9+10?” vine
“ya stupid” - Comment on Which Pipes to choose (Newpipe, Pipepipe, Piped Invidious...etc)? 1 week ago:
but then the things added by tubular are so vital that i just switch to newpipe while things are broken
- Comment on can i still consider myself to be a valid asexual? 1 week ago:
see, what you did here by explaining your sexuality, is how you should approach it in general.
Pick whatever label gets the basic point across (sounds like demisexual is the most apt, but since it’s quite niche to know what it means “ace” might be more useful), and then if anyone actually needs to know the precise details you simply explain it to them like you did here.The label doesn’t define you, it’s just there to summarize your unique experience.
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 2 weeks ago:
i was gonna say “what about pineapple leather” but yeah nope, it’s got PLA in it…
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 2 weeks ago:
correct, iirc it’s from absurd quantities of cyanobacteria in the oceans around when life got started.
Trees turned into coal, specifically trees from before fungi had evolved to decompose the wood, so it was able to just accumulate.
- Comment on Most of plant based leather uses a lot of polyurethane 2 weeks ago:
are you taking the piss or being serious?
- Comment on Can someone break down the real differences between kbin, mbin, Lemmy, and PieFed? I know they're all in the Threadiverse, but I'm not sure what the draw is to use one over another. 2 weeks ago:
i just want to point out that “threadiverse” made me flinch like an abused dog, that’s associated with facebook and thus tainted by original sin.
The proper term is “fediverse” which just means “anything that uses the ActivityPub protocol”, which yes means it includes things like mastodon, but that’s because despite their differences you can in fact interact with lemmy stuff from mastodon, so it makes sense!
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 weeks ago:
Most things we do are anarching tbh, like just the simple act of meeting someone while walking on a narrow path means you have to directly communicate with them to get past each other, there’s no higher authority involved that decides who goes to which side, or punishes you if you shove them out of the way.
- Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 weeks ago:
anarchism isn’t against structure, it’s against a few people holding power.
I’d in fact argue the whole point of anarchy is to put structures into place that make sure no one person gains too much power. - Comment on How would an anarchist society work? 2 weeks ago:
all of us, that’s what culture is. There are so so many things we only do because we’re brought up to consider it normal, a popular example being how you put back the shopping cart.
No one is going to punish you for just leaving it wherever, hell you could bring it home and it’s almost certain no one would really even care much about it, but yet most people put the cart back simply because it’s the right thing to do and we’d get a very strange and uncomfortable feeling in our stomachs if we didn’t.
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 3 weeks ago:
obligate <whatever> doesn’t mean you can’t eat other things, it just means that’s the vast majority of the diet. Cats are obligate carnivores but very much enjoy eating some grass now and then, and when catching things in the wild i assume they’ll end up eating the stomach contents of their prey (which will be plant matter).
And of course there’s those infamous clips of herbivores casually eating meat, because food is food. (they just won’t eat a lot of it, because that would make them sick). It’s like how we can eat a couple strands of grass, but if we try to make it a regular part of our diet we’ll get constipation. - Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 3 weeks ago:
the term is nonsense, but the brain stem obviously exists and handles low-level functions that directly keep us alive.
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 3 weeks ago:
I’ve specifically tried to get in touch with my body’s feedback over the past few years, and i’m 100% convinced that the ability to sense what nutrients you get from food and then want that food when you need those nutrients, is a fundamental thing to any animal that can actively seek out specific foods.
My recommendations to get in touch with this ability is to limit snacking and try to get as hungry as possible before eating (so you have a chance to calibrate yourself, feel the difference between eating things out of habit vs actually craving them) and to try as many foods as possible even if you think you don’t like them, in as many different ways of preparation as possible.
There are so many things i thought i didn’t like until i tried them in a specific way, and there are many things i thought i liked but i’ve realized it was a very surface-level enjoyment. These days when i follow my cravings i’m filled with a borderline spiritual feeling of well-being, the food really feels like it’s good for me (and that includes desserts/sweets, because i’m very specific about which ones i like and how much of them i eat).