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- Comment on was made a moderator of community without asking and against my preferenc 1 day 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 day ago:
Always darkest before the dawn. And always seems too late till something happens.
- Comment on this is why nothing feels right 1 day 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 day 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? 2 days 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? 3 days 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? 3 days 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. 4 days 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? 5 days 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? 6 days 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] 1 week 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] 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 1 week 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.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 1 week ago:
It’s either Japan or Korea, I can’t remember.
But they have a powder that you sprinkle a little on used cooking grease. And it solidifies into a non sticky plastic like chunk that’s easy to dispose of in the trash.
But bacon grease? Chile just put that in a mason jar, you don’t waste bacon fat…
- Comment on Why are Kiwi Farms users being banned, despite their adherence to the instance rules? 1 week ago:
It’s much older than the internet…
Normally it’s done over weeks/months, but A Bronx Tale sped up the process for a five minute part of the movie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLji-iHgEb0
It’s exploiting “sunk cost fallacy” you avoid small indiscretions and count on basic human decency, but by the time the offensive group feels they have control, they take the mask off.
Then you have to deal with them, or let them have the place and hope they don’t completely destroy it.
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 1 week ago:
The diameter of the pipes from a toilet ate large enough to accommodate any poop that goes thru a toilet.
The diameter of the pipes from a sink often get very very small, which is why if you let a sink run long enough it may start to back up. But they have a large drain hole so they can drain fast.
For garbage disposals they’re usually fine unless you have a septic tank.
But the big problem is grease/fat. It’s liquid with hot water, but will solidly later and water builds up insulating the fat/grease so it remains a solid. When George Foreman grills were big lots of people fucked up their plumbing by always dumping the grease.
- Comment on Why are Kiwi Farms users being banned, despite their adherence to the instance rules? 1 week ago:
For years, members of the site created and operated by Joshua Conner Moon, 29, have congregated on what they call a “lighthearted discussion forum” to organize vicious harassment campaigns against transgender people, feminists and others they deem mockable. They gang up on victims and pool their personal details such as addresses and phone numbers in a practice called “doxxing,” spreading vile rumors and targeting workplaces, friends, families and homes. Another favorite tactic has been “swatting” — making false emergency calls to provoke an armed police response at a target’s home. Some people subjected to the group’s abuse have died by suicide.
- Comment on Why are Kiwi Farms users being banned, despite their adherence to the instance rules? 1 week ago:
The paradox of tolerance is a philosophical concept suggesting that if a society extends tolerance to those who are intolerant, it risks enabling the eventual dominance of intolerance; thereby undermining the very principle of tolerance.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The first time I punched a Nazi was outside of an under 18 punk show.
Him and his buddy were overly nice, offering drugs/booze in the parking lot. A few minutes after approaching my group tho, one said “check this out” and showed me a fucking swastika tattoo.
Didn’t even think, quick jab to the nose without even really putting anything behind it.
It was instinct.
Doesn’t matter if someone is acting polite and following the rules to ingratiate into a group, when they show you that they’re not just intolerant but openly support violent groups, you have to show them that they’re not welcome.
Otherwise they’re slowly take over the group.
On the internet you don’t have to punch a fascist in the face to convince them they’re not welcome, you can just ban them.
Then when they make a brand new account, you can them again.
- Comment on Cold Callers phoning during work hours and then not accepting your at work and can't spend 30 mins listening to their script. 1 week ago:
Meanwhile in America…
- Comment on Cold Callers phoning during work hours and then not accepting your at work and can't spend 30 mins listening to their script. 1 week ago:
rather than asking when would be a good time to call back
This is the most British response ever…
Please call me back and harass me later when it’s slightly less inconvenient
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 1 week ago:
Textbooks are a racket and not just for college students.
Most of the money spent on education involves grifts for stuff like that, not for actual important shit like schools or teachers.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Everybody is different, that’s why the standard method hits the main three.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know about other people but when I read a story, if it is well written I see it as a movie playing in my mind.
The best way to explain it is picture an apple.
Some people get a phot realistic image.
Some people get a cartoony representation.
Some get the equivalent of a 3d object in a video game.
Other might not “see” anything and just think of the abstract idea of an apple. None of these people will ever assume on their own that others experience something different.
There’s an argument that it’s not an inmate ability, but something that has to be nurtured and grown. But I’m pretty sure there’s been controlled studies and what people “see” is relatively independent of time reading/imagining things.
But there is a real difference between reading/listening, it engages different parts of the brain to take in the information. As does writing it down. It’s why the century old standard for studying is listening, writing/typing notes, and then reading the notes later. It’s covering all the paths to get the information into your brain.
- Comment on Kristi Noem Incorrectly Defines Habeas Corpus as Trump’s Right to Deport People 2 weeks ago:
It would be a good strategy to play dumb and essentially implement fascism as if by accident - “Well gee whiz… wouldja lookit that!”
What do you think “I don’t know if I have to follow the constitution” mean?
Motherfucker spent over a decade screaming that the last two Dem presidents weren’t following the constitution, but now he’s not sure if the president is bound by it?
They just don’t know what they can get away with and are willing to try anything to test the waters.
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 2 weeks ago:
Like waiting 6 months for them to panic over low sales and put on 50% sale?
Maybe, or maybe I’ll wait for the ultimate edition with all dlc to hit $40
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 weeks ago:
Asking the same question over and over for years…
Then just JAGing off (just asking questions) till the other person gets tired of explaining.
Like, if people want to insist on rehashing something from over a decade ago despite it being settled history at this point.
They don’t want to actually discuss it, they have an opinion they agree with, and want to scream at someone for valuing facts more than their opinion
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s what they want more than anything too.
Like, all the tools are baked in, but kids who don’t run into limits grow up to be adults who can’t recognize limits.
