Apepollo11
@Apepollo11@lemmy.world
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 11 hours ago:
You start buying all of the new updated versions of the toys you had as a kid, of course.
Sure, you bought some for your own kids when they were younger, but now you can buy the more expensive better-painted versions from Japan for yourself.
- Comment on Does anyone struggle with spending money foolishly on prostitutes? 1 day ago:
I’m suspecting a troll account too. The repeated assertion that they’ve been reading the Bible is a weird point to keep making. As if it’s someone who has only the most superficial understanding of Christianity.
If there was some mention of actual verses, then that’d be one thing - but as it is, it feels like OP is just farming replies than actually after advice.
- Comment on Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me? 5 days ago:
Same - growing a beard helped massively too.
Once I started working, I used to grow a beard every winter - mainly because I got bored with shaving every day. I noticed that once I had my beard, I never got age-checked, when I shaved it off, I’d still be asked.
Mind you, I’ve had a beard for eleven years now - who knows how haggard I look underneath nowadays!
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 1 week ago:
The official line is that North Korea is thriving - it’d be political suicide for Kim Jong Un to accept help.
The comparison with the US isn’t unwarranted. The respective propaganda machines is the reason both countries are the way they are.
When people are told daily how their country is the best in the world, the ruling class can get away with an awful lot.
It’s 2025, and many places in the US don’t even have clean tap water. People are being “disappeared” off the streets by government agencies. People are dying from easily-treatable diseases. The wealthy ruling class live lives of luxury, while poor people work multiple jobs and still exist below the poverty line.
So, that said, do you think Trump would accept a deal that would allow better living conditions for his people. I think we both know the answer.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 week ago:
Boost shows that it was edited :|
In any case, it’s not outside the realm of possibility that I made a mistake in my original reply.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 week ago:
You’re not wrong.
I wish I could see the edit timestamps on Lemmy, because I’m sure that comment was different.
The stupid thing is, I’d originally written the comment with quotes to point it out, then chopped it back because I realised that I was massively overexplaining it. Those quotes would have been handy now!
Then again, it’s not impossible that I made a mistake then too!
I’ll leave my comment up, but strike it out so it’s not misleading, but this still makes sense.
- Comment on Has anyone ever read the book series “Biff, Chip & Kipper” as a kid? 1 week ago:
Same here - my kids had these, but I’m of the generation raised on Roger Red Hat
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 week ago:
I think people are downvoting you because there are two "effect"s in there.
The first is right, the second is wrong.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 1 week ago:
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The baby doesn’t understand English (although they can recognise the rhythm and sounds of language).
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The mother understands English
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The baby experiences the same emotions as the mother.
In conclusion, read something that will make the mother relaxed and happy. If that happens to be The Cat In The Hat, then great. I read Don Quixote when my wife was pregnant with our first, our second got Moomin and Hairy Maclary (by virtue of being there when I read to the first).
The most important thing is to keep reading to them, every day, after they’re born too. Buy tons of children’s books (for your own sanity), do the voices and have fun with them.
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- Comment on I would like to know about websites ending with .onion Is there anybody who can tell me more about this ? 2 weeks ago:
Nice try Gary Glitter.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I see two possibilities:
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You get paid for posting this kind of nonsense - in which case then I get it, everyone has to make a living.
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Your brain is actually broken
A quick run through your recent posts have shown that you’re actually the author of some of the worst posts I’ve come across on here, so kudos. But I’m afraid it’s now a “no” from me, and I’ll be blocking you from now on.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
20 - although that’s regardless of the season. I only ever wear pjs to bed if I’m ill.
- Comment on Any Engrish-like community in here? 3 weeks ago:
Here’s that insane t-shirt in all its glory.
- Comment on Any Engrish-like community in here? 3 weeks ago:
The one I encountered on Reddit (way back when) was more focused on occasions where slightly wonky translations led to funny results, rather than just making fun of bad translations, or the people who wrote them.
E.g.
- The now-famous “Do Not Want” meme
- The German translation section that included the Nazi flag instead of the current Germany one.
- The utter nonsense written on a t-shirt I bought last time I was in Japan “Nither down on some it own american films the innocent sucker dupe speak to me blow-in baited onself because this way. Chiken just pain sent I hope come together up on the naked out-colling Rizy up road a little fat-man. BEAT SOMEWHERE”
It’s like the posts showing unnecessary quotation marks on signs - it’s not about making fun of the people who wrote the sign, it’s funny because it now conveys something else.
E.g., a sign outside a farm offering Fresh brown “eggs” for sale.
- Comment on Is there a medieval equivalent of the youtube channel "Primative Technology" 4 weeks ago:
I was about to suggest the same guy. His stuff is brilliant.
- Comment on What is your age range for dating? 🤔 😮 4 weeks ago:
Or something went wrong and they somehow seduced an entire nursery.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
100% recommend these.
You can get remastered versions on Steam (Full Throttle and Grim Fandango are both excellent).
Simon the Sorcerer is also in this genre, very funny, and voiced by Chris Barrie from Red Dwarf.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 5 weeks ago:
I’ll roll out
“What about the good things Hitler did?”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Well if you really don’t have a preference for one or the other, it might be worth keeping an eye on the future.
People’s jobs, especially expensive jobs, are going to be replaced by software.
So ask yourself:
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What does an accountant do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?
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What does a lawyer do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?
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What does a doctor do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?
From where I’m sitting, medicine seems the safest bet.
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- Comment on Are most people who avoid turn signals do it to feel more normal? (Imitating their parents, avoiding perceived stupidity of using turn signals when it seems useless, etc) 5 weeks ago:
Ah, so you have BMWs in the States as well?
- Comment on How do you charge an electric car without a credit card? 5 weeks ago:
They were doing so to find out which country you lived in, since you neglected to provide that information yourself.
I’m British, I charge my car at home, and on the few occasions I use public chargers, I interface with and pay for them through apps.
Knowing that you are from the US, though, means that YMMV. Your home electric supplies have significantly lower voltage than here in Europe, so home charging might be a less viable option.
They weren’t being creepy, they were trying to give you a helpful answer.
- Comment on is white light "white" because that's what our start emits? 1 month ago:
Yes. Kind of. Probably.
What we have is an issue with terminology. The thing is, “white” only makes sense when specifically referring to human vision.
Our eyes have cells (cone cells) that are tuned to specific wavelengths in the EM spectrum. Three different wavelengths - one set of cone cells peak at 560nm that we see as Red, one at 530nm that we see as Green, and one at 420nm that we see as Blue.
“White” is just our interpretation of a strong signal in these three frequencies.
If, everything else being equal, our cones cells responded to higher wavelengths that our eyes can’t currently see, then our “white” might easily be what we see as “red” now, because we’d be also seeing the infra-red that we’re currently not.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 1 month ago:
I love your commitment to spelling “hampster” with a “p”. At first I thought it was a typo, but now I see it’s crucial to the thing.
- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 1 month ago:
I want to be sympathetic but alarm bells are ringing with the immediate juxtaposition of “that’s all fine but I genuinely begin to develop feelings for her” and “I just don’t really care all that much for a friendship”.
If the issue was that painful to be around her until you can work the feelings out, then that wouldn’t be half as bad as saying that she’s not worth keeping as a friend if you can’t date her.
- Comment on How does AI-based search engines know legit sources from BS ones ? 1 month ago:
At the end of the day, isn’t that just how we work, though? We tokenise information, make connections between these tokens and regurgitate them in ways that we’ve been trained to do.
Even our “novel” ideas are always derivative of something we’ve encountered. They have to be, otherwise they wouldn’t make any sense to us.
Describing current AI models as “Fancy auto-complete” feels like describing electric cars as “fancy Scalextric”. Neither are completely wrong, but they’re both massively over-reductive.
- Comment on Are their any romance movies where there is a male protagonist who is a part of the manosphere? 1 month ago:
So kind of like Taming of the Shrew but more so?
Instead of it being a man cleverly trying to win over a woman through manipulation and abuse, it’s a woman-hating man cleverly trying to win over a woman through manipulation and abuse?
Even if it did exist, I’m not sure it’d be that watchable. Taming of the Shrew is pretty dubious as it is, but it was written over 400 years ago, so it can be excused somewhat.
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 1 month ago:
Username checks out…
- Comment on what’s the difference between “he died” and “he’s dead”? 1 month ago:
Functionally, in conversation they’re the same. But, that said, if I was talking about somebody the listener was close to, I’d use “had died”, rather than “is dead”.
Why? Because it’s slightly less direct, and I’m British so that’s the path we take.
Pointing out that someone “is dead” directly alludes to them being a corpse right now. Saying that they “had died” merely references something that they did.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This. It always baffled me why the BBC legitimises it by including it in the newspaper summaries. Might as well have included the Daily Sport.
- Comment on What are the ethics behind purchasing a book from an author you don't agree with? 1 month ago:
You could just buy the book second-hand. Authors don’t get any of that money, and you’ll be able to get it for much cheaper than new.
