Pronell
@Pronell@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rachel Reeves just doesn’t get it. None of us should pay tax on savings 1 day ago:
They will never tax the rich without taxing passive income.
But of course they’re also going after the little guy first.
- Comment on 'Doctor Who' Star Varada Sethu Fires Back at 'Woke' Critics: 'It Means We’re Doing the Right Thing' 1 day ago:
Unfortunately his behavior continued on set. Creepy dude.
But his character wasn’t meant to be, and I need to remember that from time to time.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 days ago:
Just don’t watch the movie that followed the series. It’s not worth it.
- Comment on This watchdog is tracking how AI firms are quietly backing off their safety pledges 6 days ago:
Pledge?
It’s a cleaner. You spray it on and then wipe it off.
deep sigh
- Comment on The experiment requires that you continue 1 week ago:
I remember, Sammy Jankis!
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 week ago:
Yeah, 2nd edition d&d was far, far more brutal than 5e.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I should’ve given the full context - when I was a kid watching the news with my parents it was likely late in the Carter administration, or early in Reagan’s. So yeah, fully agreed.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And this is why the Left can’t win.
It’s too obsessed with purity and infighting to focus on the true enemy.
The fascists, on the other hand, focus on the true enemy, then focus on purity and infighting!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The gish gallop has gone mainstream.
What we needed, twenty to forty years ago at the bare minimum, were journalists who were willing to shut that shit down.
I remember being a child watching the news with my parents and seeing an oil company defender accusing the scientists of chasing profits.
Like what the fuck? How did that not end immediately with “And who is currently profiting?” is and always has been beyond me.
…I’m not sure that’s a great example of the gish gallop. Technically.
My point was that we now report the untrue claims rather than saying, from the start, “This candidate said something completely false and not worth repeating.”
For clicks, views, the algorithm, for profit. Nope. It was all to game the system in order to destroy it.
Sorry, this probably isn’t coherent but I’m tired and tipsy, and I’ve chosen to hit save.
- Comment on pain plant 1 week ago:
There’s a book called The Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan, which is about this. Looking from the plants eye view of things, they have manipulated us into growing them in a huge variety of environments. The book focuses on tulips, cannabis, apples, and potatoes, iirc. Fascinating book.
Two quick examples from the book:
Pot gets us high, now we grow it in closets, warehouses, yards, basements, attics, etc.
Apples don’t reproduce true from seed, so Johnny Appleseed brought readily available cider to the Americas. (You need a cutting of an apple tree to grow that type of apple.)
- Comment on 'Starship Troopers' Remake Set From 'District 9' Director Neill Blomkamp 2 weeks ago:
I’d love to see a movie that actually adapts the book. Heinlein has written that the book carried through to a logical end what happens when only veterans can vote: They find a way to always be at war with something.
Hence the war with the bugs, which are everywhere, different, and just scary enough.
An actual adaptation of the book will not detract from the prior movie, which nailed the propaganda but little else.
- Comment on What is your single favourite movie soundtrack? 2 weeks ago:
Fight Club.
That Dust Brothers soundtrack stands well enough on its own.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb. 3 weeks ago:
“Because reasons.”
Fuck off. Reasons do matter.
- Comment on Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories 3 weeks ago:
That’s just eugenics with a shitty mask on.
- Comment on woolly mice on rice all nice 3 weeks ago:
And it won’t be recreating the mammoth, just giving mammoth-like features to an elephant.
It’s a truly strange project.
- Comment on 'Mickey 17' Faces Tall Order at Box Office After $19 Million Opening Weekend 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been looking forward to it but don’t go to the theaters anymore really.
- Comment on Influencers people are finding their way to the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
That guy is full of it.
- Comment on Split Fiction's Josef Fares says they'll never offer microtransactions: "Just make games. Period." 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know his work but that background makes so much sense because as good as these games are, they are extremely rigid. There is only one plot path to success.
There’s a point in It Takes Two that some people might not want to take the action suggested, but you have to in order to move the story forward.
(Slight spoiler, it involves deliberately attempting to make their daughter cry.)
- Comment on BP to ‘Fundamentally Reset’ Strategy in Shift Back to Oil and Gas 5 weeks ago:
Which just means they were always waiting for any excuse to do so.
- Comment on This Industry Analyst Explained Why NetEase Laid Off Marvel Rivals' Studios In Seattle - And Japan 1 month ago:
Don’t work for China.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 1 month ago:
He goes back to Metropolis.
He owns The Daily Planet.
- Comment on I have reached my pumpkin spice breaking point. 1 month ago:
Well you’re in the UK now, so you’re finding out how they interpret our weird trends. I’d love seeing that kind of stuff. Not necessarily tasting it maybe.
But I have made a pumpkin soup before. With some warm spices and not much sweetness, it could be really good.
- Comment on Why do I laugh in my dream? 1 month ago:
Examples? I’m really curious!
- Comment on How are you actually doing today? 2 months ago:
Or we will pull through it, jettisoning the billionaire capitalist class and learning how to survive and thrive again.
Do I believe it? Fuck no. But it’s not worth discarding the possibility. I’ve spent my life trying to be better. Others can too. And enough people trying to be better might be able to pull through.
- Comment on How are you actually doing today? 2 months ago:
Stressed as all hell. My job depends on the things Trump is currently trying to block. If that goes, I dunno how to pay the mortgage.
So I’m exhausted, haven’t slept well in a week. Otherwise okay. I’ve got my family and my pets. Friends to play games with.
- Comment on Axel Rudakubana: 'Evil' Southport killer jailed for minimum 52 years 2 months ago:
He looks a bit sketchy.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 months ago:
When they get it back up and running, they should apologize for The Blip.
- Comment on if you've had or have anger issues, how did you become a better human? 2 months ago:
As an atheist, this.
Can I change it? No? Not worth my effort to fester over.
I can focus on those things I can change, and try to expand that area, but being upset that other people are wrong is endless.
- Comment on Hollywood Doesn’t Make Movies Like ‘The Fugitive’ Anymore 2 months ago:
As the one who said it was a remake of a show, I will give you that. It was peak adaptation of an older show. You’re very right there, it’s a damn good movie that stands on its own, regardless of where the idea came from.
I just liked throwing that typical argument back in the face of the writer. Hollywood keeps trying to recapture that lightning in a bottle, and gets criticized for it.
We just had The Fall Guy, too!
- Comment on Hollywood Doesn’t Make Movies Like ‘The Fugitive’ Anymore 2 months ago:
It was a remake of an old TV show.
I thought Hollywood was all out of ideas?!