Zombiepirate
@Zombiepirate@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you think progressives understand the difference between legal and illegal immigration? 2 weeks ago:
Reactionaries don’t care about other people.
Even their family; they’re notorious for disowning their children for being someone different than they wanted. They treat their wives like slaves.
He’s fine with it, because it doesn’t affect him. There’s no more thought to it than that. It’s an inherently anti-social ideology.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 weeks ago:
Reactionary ideology is all about protecting privilege by demonizing marginalized people. They believe in zero-sum rights and privileges: in their view, expansion of rights for another group inherently means a loss of rights for them.
- Comment on I will take no arguments 3 weeks ago:
I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s aspirational.
- Comment on Exploring Kowloon Walled City in an Afternoon – Vlog (1991) by Suenn Ho 5 weeks ago:
Fascinating video!
I went looking for some footage of Kowloon a few months ago and I couldn’t find anything. I’m glad she recorded this while she could.
I watched the Jackie Chan movie Crime Story to get a glimpse, and they had some amazing scenes, but everyone had already moved out. It did have some crazy cool action scenes though with some long cuts.
- Comment on Dungeons & Dragons Rolls the Dice With New Rules About Identity 1 month ago:
Exactly! And then you can get the books even cheaper.
Besides, the last ten or fifteen years have been the most inventive (in terms of mechanics) in the history of the hobby. Something like Wildsea or Blades in the Dark will have a similar level of “crunchiness,” but uses those systems to empower the players and GM to improvise an adventure that is, to me, far more exciting than a D&D story and gives solid, transparent mechanical consequences for success or failure.
- Comment on Dungeons & Dragons Rolls the Dice With New Rules About Identity 1 month ago:
Some longtime players are upset.
So… The same thing that happens every time a new edition is released.
I don’t hate D&D (as a player; I’ll never run it again myself), but I do wish people would try the better offerings out there.
- Comment on Anon sees happy people 1 month ago:
Well I’ve had to deal with them my whole life, so you should too.
- Comment on I'll just wait for my doorbell to ring, thanks. 2 months ago:
I would have if I expected it to be delivered. It wasn’t supposed to be there for another week, hence my surprise.
- Comment on I'll just wait for my doorbell to ring, thanks. 2 months ago:
We have a parcel room.
They don’t use it half the time.
- Comment on I'll just wait for my doorbell to ring, thanks. 2 months ago:
Same thing happened to me.
I ordered an expensive instrument, and they said it’d be delivered the week after Thanksgiving.
Got an email that it was delivered to my porch the day after Thanksgiving, when I was all the way across town.
I didn’t want to leave a $1,300 lute on my doorstep for anyone to snatch, so I drove the hour home to secure it. It wasn’t there after all, so I installed their stupid app and it told me it would be delivered next week.
One of the worst buying experiences I’ve ever had. 1/10, would not recommend.
- Comment on I live in the green part 2 months ago:
Thanks, I could kind of tell CO by comparing to those around it, but that’s not an option the way DC is presented.
- Comment on I live in the green part 2 months ago:
The green is almost exactly the same in value as the red.
- Comment on I live in the green part 2 months ago:
Coding data in color is a pet-peeve of mine. As a colorblind person, maps like this are nearly useless to me.
- Comment on They used to be all metal too. Its time for a revolution 3 months ago:
Right? They were awesome.
- Comment on Time to go to the Soup Store 3 months ago:
Minestrone or Italian wedding soup are both pretty chunky.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 months ago:
I’d never seen this community before. Subscribed!
I’m terrible at keys, but I do like to play with 'em.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 months ago:
Yeah, there’s no use in speed-running Reddit.
Let’s make our own thing.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 months ago:
I wish instead that people would post in the general communities first, then spin off into a new community if there is interest.
Like, we don’t need a whole community for the new Dragon Age game or whatever, but we do have a games community that would benefit from the post. Then if there are 20 Dragon Age posts every day it could obviously support it’s own community.
- Comment on LA Times Refuses to Endorse Harris After Backing Biden, Hillary, Obama 3 months ago:
I know you crave my attention, but I don’t talk to you, remember?
I’m sure you can find the reason why with that big brain of yours.
I will not be responding back; you are worth only contempt.
- Comment on LA Times Refuses to Endorse Harris After Backing Biden, Hillary, Obama 3 months ago:
Is playing dumb usually a successful strategy for you?
I can’t imagine it would be.
- Comment on LA Times Refuses to Endorse Harris After Backing Biden, Hillary, Obama 3 months ago:
Because the billionaire owner told them not to endorse anyone; big money always aligns with fascism.
Keep linking the reactionary propaganda site that famously had a “black crime” section though.
Fucking gross.
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 3 months ago:
It’s a riff on an old meme.
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 4 months ago:
It’s actually illegal to cut those off.
- Comment on Shrinkage 4 months ago:
Ooh, the most fun size!
- Comment on Performance review show failing grades for Kamala Harris as lawyer 4 months ago:
Although Harris and her team got favorable ratings for her quality of work, creativity in her advice, and understanding of problems, they got less favorable marks for other important metrics.
Don’t you ever get tired of posting reactionary ragebait?
Why won’t they release the docs? How do we know what was her team’s score and what was her own?
Furthermore, have you ever had a job where performance reviews weren’t kept artificially low to avoid paying out more compensation? I guess I need to switch industries, because that’s been absolutely standard for every job I’ve ever had.
And finally, it seems like if you cared about scoring you’d wonder why Trump’s team threatened to sue his school if his grades were released. But I guess scores only count for shitting on Democrats, regardless of how dubious the metrics are.
- Comment on If Trump Wins, Could He Really Use the Justice Department to Jail His Rivals? 4 months ago:
SCOTUS basically told him to.
- Comment on Women in STEM 4 months ago:
Don’t forget Mary Anning!
Anning searched for fossils in the area’s Blue Lias and Charmouth Mudstone cliffs, particularly during the winter months when landslides exposed new fossils that had to be collected quickly before they were lost to the sea. Her discoveries included the first correctly identified ichthyosaur skeleton when she was twelve years old; the first two nearly complete plesiosaur skeletons; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany; and fish fossils. Her observations played a key role in the discovery that coprolites, known as bezoar stones at the time, were fossilised faeces, and she also discovered that belemnite fossils contained fossilised ink sacs like those of modern cephalopods.
Anning struggled financially for much of her life. As a woman, she was not eligible to join the Geological Society of London, and she did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions. However, her friend, geologist Henry De la Beche, who painted Duria Antiquior, the first widely circulated pictorial representation of a scene from prehistoric life derived from fossil reconstructions, based it largely on fossils Anning had found and sold prints of it for her benefit.
- Comment on Polling guru Nate Silver predicts Trump has 64% chance of winning the Electoral College in latest forecast 5 months ago:
Your profile says you’re a conservative and a fascist? @neuromancer said before they’re incompatible, and he’s a conservative.
He also says Lincoln was a conservative.
Why do you both say the opposite? Is conservatism so meaningless that such fundamental differences are just ignored?
Why do you think conservatives deny that fascists are part of their movement when they clearly are?
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 6 months ago:
The idea of someone trying to sell a Lemmy account is pretty funny though.
