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- Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"? 1 hour ago:
If you’re actually being sincere, you might want to ask people how to articulate your view, you’d have to let them know what your view is though. Or ask for peoples opinion on the question.
- Comment on Live Updates: Senator Is Forced to Floor and Handcuffed After Confronting Noem in L.A. 3 days ago:
“confronting”…
He asked a question
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 3 days ago:
This would be insane and quite a claim.
As opposed to surviving with only a slight limp and blood from wounds that stopped bleeding almost immediately with no medical attention…
Because that would be completely normal and not noteworthy
Anyways, do you need a new watch? I could sell you Big Ben for 20 quid, comes with a deed and everything!
- Comment on British passenger in seat 11A survives India plane crash, reports say 3 days ago:
Not just survived…
The article has a video that supposedly him after the accident. He has a slight limp and blood/dirt on him but not bleeding.
His proof is a plane ticket, but like…
It’s waaaaaay more likely dude missed his flight and is pulling a stunt compared to be virtually uninjured and walking into a busy area before rescue crews were out.
It’s like a 1 in billions chance if he was really on the plane
- Comment on Why do fancy cars look fancy and cheap cars don't? Can't you just slap a Lamborghini-style chassis onto a lawnmower engine if you want? 4 days ago:
but why don’t manufacturers of basic cars just put a fancy-looking exterior onto them?
“Kit cars” are a thing…
Not sure what’s popular these days, but for a while people were putting Shelby Cobra bodies on Miatas.
It’s way more than a Miata, but way less than an authentic Shelby.
So people who just care about the looks have been doing this for decades now.
But when it happens as a production, people don’t buy it because other people recognize it for what it is, look at the PT Cruiser.
So if a couple people do it, it passes as expensive. If a lot do it, it comes off as tacky and becomes a joke.
- Comment on Can we defederate hilariouschaos yet? 4 days ago:
if they are on lemmy, that to me points towards them wanting to establish a community here. why? no idea.
To get attention…
Commenting on their posts to tell them they’re wrong, upvoting people who already have, or even downvoting the post is all “engagement” which shoves the problematic community down every one else’s feed. Even making those “community spotlights” fairly regularly.
I mean, you’re flat out saying you don’t understand, I’m putting effort in to help you explain why not to feed the trolls…
This isn’t new, this is basic internet literacy.
- Comment on Can we defederate hilariouschaos yet? 4 days ago:
I tend to agree but I’m sick of giving stupid people a voice
You’re not “giving them a voice”…
You’re feeding the trolls
Like, it’s fucking Lemmy, you’re not out there protecting millions of people from misinformation. You’re the reason they’re doing it in the first place
Without people like you, they wouldn’t still be doing it.
So I’m gonna take my own advice
- Comment on Can we defederate hilariouschaos yet? 4 days ago:
It’s not exactly a secret, but neither is that .world really wants to federate with everyone.
You can block the whole instance yourself, as well as individual communities.
But anytime you see one about “conservatism” it’s gonna be a troll community. Either trolling everyone else, or to troll the handful of conservatives that are on here
Don’t get hung up on idiots using the internet, just block them and move on
- Comment on Is a parent expressing regret of giving birth to a child directly to that child a normal thing that parents do? 6 days ago:
I’m guessing the other person meant “the way it should be”
That’s a pretty safe guess considering they explicitly said that…
But I don’t think I’m going to make much ground explaining to you why they’re wrong either
- Comment on Is a parent expressing regret of giving birth to a child directly to that child a normal thing that parents do? 6 days ago:
Normal is something that’s basically the way it should be,
That is incorrect
- Comment on Is a parent expressing regret of giving birth to a child directly to that child a normal thing that parents do? 6 days ago:
Not normal, just uhhh… maybe common.
Either you don’t know what normal is or common is if you think they’re different things…
- Comment on Why do so many people delete their posts? 1 week ago:
Usually (but not always) if a mod removes it, it shows up in the mod log.
But lots of people don’t get the answer they want and delete it. Part of that is you can’t disable replies. A month from now someone might see this post for whatever reason and you’d get a notification.
That’s probably playing into it
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Because of the autistic community, there are a wealth of information on airports and what happens.
So I’m pretty confident that you can look up your specific airports and find out everything about them.
The layover is a good thing. It is incredibly unlikely you miss the connection when you have two hours. So you’ll be fine, but look up videos on the airports to reassure yourself.
- Comment on Why do americans assume they invented the internet? 1 week ago:
Because the first long distance use was kids at Stanford using it with kids from UCLA…
I don’t know if it was the very first thing. But it was almost immediately used to sell weed.
And the first use that used at least two nodes was a dude in NYC.
Where do you think it was invented?
- Comment on was made a moderator of community without asking and against my preferenc 1 week ago:
I mean, just close it?
It’s really weird it took OP 9 months to notice, but I don’t know how their instance displays it.
- Comment on this is why nothing feels right 1 week ago:
Always darkest before the dawn. And always seems too late till something happens.
- Comment on this is why nothing feels right 1 week ago:
Yep, video kind of touches on how neoliberalism has led to the same thing:
was that in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working, knew that it was corrupt, knew that the bosses were looting the system, know that the politicians had no alternative vision. And they knew that the bosses knew that they knew that. Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal.
For almost as long we haven’t viewed capitalism as a fair system that works for everyone, it’s a set of rules filled with loopholes and the goal is to abuse loopholes in anyway possible to maximize personal resources.
It’s not a new idea to say capitalism faces the same problems.
The entire point of monopoly was to show business success in a capitalist country is mostly just luck and random chance. Even if we start equal, one person will eventually accumulate all the resources to the detriment of everyone else:
In 1903, Georgist Lizzie Magie applied for a patent on a game called The Landlord’s Game with the object of showing that rents enriched property owners and caused tenants to be impoverished. She knew that some people would find it hard to understand the logic behind the idea and she thought that if the rent problem and the Georgist solution to it were put into the concrete form of a game, it might be easier to demonstrate.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Monopoly
Instead it was used to instill capitalist drive in generations of impressionable children… Under a system where no one could seriously argue we all start on the same square.
Like, we’re essentially joining a game after one player has already bought up all the properties.
There’s no path we can “win” even if we cheat, we’ll never be able to actually win, just delay losing a little longer.
- Comment on this is why nothing feels right 1 week ago:
This reminded me of when I was in the US military and had been talking to a German military psychiatrist while out to sea for a few months
Dude listened to what was going on, the environment I was in and what life was like…
Then acted all surprised that I was surprised how my body was reacting.
I was in a stressful shitty environment that there was no way to get out of. Doc said everything I was going thru was completely normal and natural.
And honestly, that helped more than anything else could have. Just having someone evaluate what was happening and to say “shits fucked you’re right”.
American psychiatric care is molded after mental health meaning doing anything possible to get as much resources as possible if you can’t get resources it’s a personal problem.
But in today’s America, it doesn’t matter who you are. You likely just can’t get enough resources and shits not going to get better soon unless we fix it. We’re at the point where an American not being depressed is a real sign of mental illness.
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- Comment on How do you gently tell someone you only want to keep seeing them if it's on a dating level? 1 week ago:
100% do it.
No woman should ever take an ultimatum like that, but it’s better for her to know who you are then you creeping around her and growing resentful while she thinks you’re legitimately a friend.
This way everyone goes their separate ways. Eventually you might learn that it’s not an either or thing and good relationships are friendships.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 1 week ago:
Everybody is different.
I can’t metabolize most painkillers, they do literally nothing to me because I’m missing a liver enzyme. I could eat a handful of percacet every day for months and quit cold turkey easy, because I was never really getting anything out of to begin with.
There are countless reasons why people react differently to medication, that’s why doctors just try random shit till something seems to work.
It might be educated guesswork, but it’s still guesswork. And there’s very little effort put into why/how one thing worked over others, if it works that’s the end of it.
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 1 week ago:
Might be neuropathic.
If so, they give gabapentin out like candy, it is addictive tho so you may want to consider it “as needed” even tho they’ll want you to take it on a schedule.
- Comment on I am having a weird experience on the Fediverse. 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure world stopped federating with that instance because it’s all rightwing trolls…
- Comment on How can I properly learn deaf sign languages? 2 weeks ago:
Contact a “deaf school” most cities have them, and have programs for friends/family of the hearing impaired to learn ASL.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 2 weeks ago:
Treat them like anyone else by default and make accommodations if you need to and it’s reasonable.
You’re asking with good intentions, but the best answer for any group will always be that. Shit, not even by groups. On a human by human basis just do that, there’s a crazy amount of human variation and it’s not always obvious.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
OP faked the screenshot
www.youtube.com/@tutorialsbyluke/videos
The last video was from 7 years ago, but the 87 subscribers is legit for some reason
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Like every other post OP makes, yes, it’s obviously to get people to play their game.
I searched the channel expecting it to be the only video and also OP:
www.youtube.com/@tutorialsbyluke/videos
But instead they just faked the acreenshot, it’s not even a real video
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 2 weeks ago:
Yes, sounds are waves that go thru a medium, usually air.
Think of it like one person speaking in a gym compared to 1,000
The different sounds add up, that’s easy everyone just has to talk. But you don’t get silence, you get a cacophony.
To produce opposite sounds to cancel each other out though, that would be impossible, and becomes even more impossible as you scale up.
It helps if you can see it to visualize what I mean by alternating waves:
askamathematician.com/…/Noise-Cancellation.gif
I didn’t think of it till I looked for a diagram, but yeah, it’s exactly how active noise cancellation works
- Comment on Does noise from different nearby sources 'add up'? Or do the different sources cancel each other out? In any case, please provide a formula and an example 2 weeks ago:
You can cancel out one sound wave an equal and opposite one.
Doing so outside of a controlled laboratory setting would be effectively impossible for real world noises.
But if you got two speakers in a completely soundproof room playing equal but perfectly opposite oscillating and repeating sound waves…
Sure, it’s possible.
- Comment on Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow? 2 weeks ago:
When you “claim” the prize it will be a “steam key”.
Anyone can then use that “steam key” to add that game.
So what is normally done is someone creates a post saying the name of the game and you have a free steam key to give away, and whoever replies first, DM them the code.
On reddit there were bots that scrapped codes
On Lemmy you might be able to just post it, but whoever redeems it first gets to keep it.
