Pronell
@Pronell@lemmy.world
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 19 hours ago:
Hour by hour, my job evolved from taking calls from clients who owed us money, to then answering questions from agents who weren’t as skilled at it as I was.
In the process of being promoted, I was asked to join a daily meeting of over 100 people talking about the issues affecting our department.
Once in a great while, something came up in that meeting that gave me the heads up to prevent chaos in our department and stress to members.
There’s a whole shitload of cogs turning in modern corporations. There’s also a huge danger of people leaving and nobody understanding why the cogs are there.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
My Dad is a Buddhist, so I have some knowledge and respect for that philosophy/faith.
But yes, he was a hippy too.
And I think he would agree that this question is poorly formed at least. But then I’ve never heard my Dad talk about chakras either.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
There is a !Buddhism@lemmy.world community.
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 1 week ago:
I remember Knight Moves too! Christopher Lambert was never a great actor but I enjoyed watching him work nonetheless.
- Comment on Netflix’s Sci-Fi Series '3 Body Problem' to Film Seasons 2 & 3 Back-To-Back 1 week ago:
It was Heinlein taking the “only veterans should be able to vote” to a logical end. A society that’s always at war because the ruling class are all military.
The opening pages tell you the reality - land on planets and nuke the bugs, even if there’s intelligent life there. And use all those nukes, we don’t want to bring those back to the ship. It’s heavy and inefficient.
After that, we step into the eyes of a high school student being indoctrinated.
Heinlein wrote the book extremely well, but many fail to see the whole picture. He didn’t approve nor disapprove. He just took a stance his father had always held and crafted a world where that was the reality.
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 1 week ago:
“Bunny! Ball ball!!”
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 1 week ago:
Hudson Hawk.
Bruce Willis and Danny Aiello are cat burglars who synchronize their movements by singing, which does not seem at all subtle or stealthy.
It’s batshit insane. But it’s also very fun. I saw it in the theater.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 2 weeks ago:
Games have been around the $50-$70 mark my entire life.
It’s a sad reality, but I expect prices of major mainstream games to go up, regardless of tariffs.
- Comment on ‘A female Donald Trump’: how Gina Rinehart is pushing the Maga message in Australia 3 weeks ago:
And just like Trump, freaks out over a portrait.
- Comment on Rachel Reeves just doesn’t get it. None of us should pay tax on savings 3 weeks 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' 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, 2nd edition d&d was far, far more brutal than 5e.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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? 5 weeks ago:
Fight Club.
That Dust Brothers soundtrack stands well enough on its own.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb. 1 month ago:
“Because reasons.”
Fuck off. Reasons do matter.
- Comment on Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories 1 month ago:
That’s just eugenics with a shitty mask on.
- Comment on woolly mice on rice all nice 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
That guy is full of it.
- Comment on Split Fiction's Josef Fares says they'll never offer microtransactions: "Just make games. Period." 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Don’t work for China.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 2 months ago:
He goes back to Metropolis.
He owns The Daily Planet.
