KombatWombat

@KombatWombat@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the classic to end it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  fed the chimney => fettuccini all fraid hoe => alfredo bone smack the teeth => bon appétit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He doubled down on it when it wasn’t really acknowledged. After he said he wasn’t paying, she responded with an explanation for why her friend was coming. I mean she did say ok, but that might be agreement or just a way to move on the conversation. Like, “Ok, but what if I told you…”

  It’s not clear if the new explanation was meant to change his mind, but the only change between that and the fake explanation before is his statement that he wasn’t paying under the first situation. So it may have been a negotiation tactic. Either way, if this was real she should explicitly agree that he isn’t expected to pay for her friend and he should obviously not be so crass about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeebuz Rode A Velocirapture⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s ridiculous. We would make terrible roommates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dinner is ready! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Has to be H, because I live there and if I had to get every meal imported to me that would be very annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am returning to Hollow Knight thanks to the Silksong hype. I had dropped it before because I was unsure where I needed to go to progress and was getting sick of running around the map trying to figure out which paths were actually available to me and which needed some equipment I didn’t have. Well, I did figure it out and basically have everything important unlocked so now I am enjoying it again.

  If you do pick it up again, I have some advice. First, there’s a relic in an area called the Hive that will give you passive health regen if there’s a long enough gap between instances of damage. This means you can keep messing up a platforming section and as long as you don’t rush it you can heal back after messing up without needing new sources of soul. Second, there are some sections that are traversable with minimal equipment but become trivial with more. Deepnest was really annoying to me when I went through it and I frankly would have probably enjoyed it if I had one really helpful item unlocked (or even just a bit more health). Third, don’t worry too much about money. Normal enemies don’t give you much from farming and I think I’ve run out of stuff to spend it on mostly from other sources. So don’t be afraid to let it go. If you’ve unlocked the fast travel thing, just head back to vendors when you’ve noticed you accumulated a decent amount.

  Like I said, I’m enjoying the game again after years away, but I really wish they had a better way of letting you know where you should go next and what isn’t available to you. Needing to go through zones again to check if something is now unlocked or not is tiresome. The pins help but they are not enough, and I didn’t think to reserve certain colors for certain types of obstacles the first time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A conundrum⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad someone mentioned the 2008 financial crisis. Banks need to be fairly confident the person they are giving the mortgage to can afford the payment now and for the next thirty years. There are plenty of unfair reasons why someone may not be able to buy a home today, but not being able to afford a down payment is not one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did a teenager actually just die from eating raw noodles?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is the right explanation. The dry noodles expand when put in hot water, and that I would think that includes gastric acids in the human body. The boy started having symptoms in half an hour and died soon after. That’s too fast for food poisoning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% vegetarian⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would depend on what definition of vegan you use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This feels like it could be turned into a poem without too much adjustment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Providing a counterexample to a claim is not whataboutism.

  Whataboutism involves derailing a conversation with an ad-hominem to avoid addressing someone’s argument, like what you just did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6's beta has only been running for a day, but it's already suffering from a FPS curse with cheaters breaking out the wallhacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s not supported for my system so I can’t even launch it. But I was watching some friends stream it and it crashed for three out of four of them within two games. I don’t think any of us will be getting it after release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stupid sexy apples⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not, but we still call non-dairy substitutes “milk” other than some countries that regulate the label. Language tends to go by what it resembles rather than the process to generate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨change_org⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We live in a society

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I was trying to say something like “slightly a victim” but it didn’t sound right. So I thought saying they suffered a small injustice was close enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ban the people obfuscating. Don’t assume guilt based on gender.

  Being discriminated from a community based on gender is a small injustice, but it is an injustice nonetheless. At the very least, it’s a policy choice worthy of discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s predominantly the men making shit comments, it should be easy enough to identify and ban them. Assuming they will make a bad comment based on them being a man is simply bad moderation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The analogy doesn’t really fit though. Houses and parties are presumed to be invite-only by default. That’s not true for lemmy communities that federate with the general user base. It’s more like being told you can’t buy anything from a store after seeing others being able to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Saying “you are not allowed here” is a step up from saying “this isn’t meant for you”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we are missing some context. Did a target demographics’ contributions get drowned out by others in this or a similar community? Or are you only worried it could happen based on the demographics of the platform?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect in most online communities if you made a post like “As a windows user, I am looking into linux and have heard that some common apps don’t run well. Is that an issue you all run into much?” or “As a console gamer, I find myself envying some of the mods I see through Steam/Nexus and am thinking about switching platforms. Is it hard to get controllers working well in most games?” or something similar, you would be welcomed by the people there. You just need to be respectful and on-topic.

  I imagine that community probably has frustrating behaviors that men do as a common topic. Having men reply about why they would do a particular behavior or the sorts of strategies that could get other men to stop it would be not only acceptable, but valuable. Silencing their voices without cause then does a disservice to not only those users, but to the community as a whole. By not letting men reply, you’d be criticizing a large group of people while also preventing any member of the group from having a chance to defend themselves.

  You can try to justify discriminating a place, but it is a high bar to clear, especially on a core part of someone’s identity like gender. It’s akin to preemptively banning someone based on that characteristic. There’s a difference between “this is not for you” and “you are not allowed here”. I can only really think of that much restriction being necessary in a very private community where content can reasonably identify someone or the members are very vulnerable.

  IIRC, r/BlackPeopleTwitter had country club threads where only users the mods had verified were black could participate in. So there’s probably a compromise to have restrictions on a post-by-post basis. As it stands, if they’re primarily banning the users that include “as a guy…” in their replies then they are really just selecting against the ones that are being upfront about it. I really don’t want to see another r/FemaleDatingStrategy develop and a big contributor for that toxicity was silencing diverse opinions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US education⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had never seen that before, thank you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon breaks up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From the Wikipedia page, emphasis mine:

  In the United States, a red flag law (named after the idiom red flag meaning “warning sign“; also known as a risk-based gun removal law,[1]) is a gun law that permits a state court to order the temporary seizure of firearms (and other items regarded as dangerous weapons, in some states) from a person who they believe may present a danger. A judge makes the determination to issue the order based on statements and actions made by the gun owner in question.[2] Refusal to comply with the order is punishable as a criminal offense.[3][4] After a set time, the guns are returned to the person from whom they were seized unless another court hearing extends the period of confiscation.[5][6][7]

  Intuitively, it makes sense the police would not be able to search someone’s home for guns without a judge’s permission. It would be hard to say that there was a compelling emergency just from going through things that someone had said or things that had been said about them.

  I didn’t see a federal supreme court case that ruled on red flag laws specifically, but it sounded like there were some state supreme court rulings that found them unconstitutional. So it is at least contentious whether they meet the strict scrutiny standard or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon breaks up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  C’mon, he probably is leaving important details out, but “if people treat him badly, he must deserve it” is hardly fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon breaks up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The government is allowed to suppress your constitutional rights in cases where it’s narrowly tailored to a legitimate government interest (the strict scrutiny standard). This may seem suspect, but it allows the government to do things like prevent people from bringing guns into schools or planes, or spreading private information or harmful lies about others, or being overtly loud when their neighbors are trying to sleep. It does require a high burden of proof from the potential violating body, so it’s not done casually.

  For red flag laws, I imagine temporarily seizing the guns of someone who a judge is convinced is a significant danger to themselves or others would meet this standard. From what the other commenter said, it sounds like it isn’t done casually in practice. We are missing parts of the story that may make it seem prudent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'd need to calculate the compound interest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  5 million years, because bread tastes better than key

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨moderation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  21 Every living thing that moved on land perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind. 22 Everything on dry land that had the breath of life in its nostrils died. 23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cool Chickz⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  my ducks barn owl chicks? in a row. ordered. disciplined. behaving predictably.

  your ducks kestrel chicks? scattered. in disarray. waddling aimlessly. desperate for a leader to impose structure.

  pathetic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dune Awakening is Funcom’s fastest-selling game ever as new MMO crushes the studio’s previous records⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is an unstuck button. It’s in the bottom left if you hit esc iirc. I’ve used it a few times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your approaches to donating?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I second this. I am in a similar position as OP and now I donate to a fund through GiveWell (which is used by many people engaged in EA) directly since the start of this year. If you want your money to do the most good, look into them. They research and audit all kinds of charities and publish their findings on their site.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the #1 most butthurt response you've had on here?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was defending someone who had their comment removed from Palestine@lemmy.ml for saying the governments of both Palestine and Israel had failed their people. Someone replied with

  Leave it to a .world liberal piece of shit to rules lawyer in defense of a fascist collaborator

  and later

  Not in a community for the oppressed people, you fuckwit. Just from your comment I can tell you’re a white liberal male who has never had to deal with any sort of discrimination or oppression. Get the fuck out of here with that centrist “both sides” bullshit. You disgust me.

  I wasn’t even being provocative or anything, so the personal attacks seemed out of nowhere. The only “rules lawyering” I did was saying criticizing a country’s leadership isn’t racism. And the so-called “fascist collaborator” spent more time criticizing the Israeli government than Palestine’s.