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- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 23 hours ago:
Yeah, it’s not that people don’t like the lemmy.ml users, or even really their mods…
It’s (at least one of) the admins.
If they see something they don’t like on their server, they delete it and give a very very short ban. Because they don’t want those people gone. They want them enraged and chomping at the bit to come back.
It’s ran like a troll instance, and it’s not alone.
The only time they permanently ban someone, is when they see someone in a neutral place they can’t control talking about it. Advocate for people blocking them, and they don’t want anyone signed up to their instance seeing your comments
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts.. 2 days ago:
If it hurts the world wide economy collapses, because most “wealth” is loans against stock, which are then invested in stocks driving the price up.
I think we’re past a trillion sunk into the ponzi scheme just in AI stock, but if it goes down banks call in their loans triggering automatic sales of whatever collateral they used.
Billions and billions being sold automatically regardless of price would cause cascading crashes…
But if it works…
Corps can fire the majority of their employees and starving desperate people turn to Mad Max after a few consecutive missed meals.
- Comment on Something is very wrong with the HBO Max 4K version of Mad Men 6 days ago:
the new 4K transfer of mad men on HBO somehow does not have any of the post-production edits added in, which means you get stuff like this where you can see the crew member manning the puke machine after Roger has too many oysters lmao
Makes sense, that stuff was done after the master tapes.
So when they made 4k off the masters instead of upscaling, they forgot about all the stuff that was done.
It’s the reason Lucas changed shit on re-releases, they had to redo a lot of effects, so the older methods were more expensive then the modern standards, and once some stuff is getting updated, adding more stuff you couldn’t do back then doesn’t feel like a big deal, because it’s already different.
- Comment on Exclusive: jury in anti-genocide activist 'terrorism' trial 'told to ignore international law' 1 week ago:
Damn, that shits crazy:
The jury was then subsequently kept for three days without “meat, drink, fire and tobacco” to force it to bring in a guilty verdict. When it failed to do so, the judge ended the trial. As punishment, the judge ordered the jurors imprisoned until they paid a fine to the court.[35]
Four jurors refused to pay the fine, and after several months, Bushell sought a writ of habeas corpus. Chief Justice Vaughan, sitting on the Court of Common Pleas, discharged the writ, released them, called the power to punish a jury “absurd” and forbade judges from punishing jurors for returning a verdict the judge disagreed with
No wonder that dude founded Pennsylvania
- Comment on Exclusive: jury in anti-genocide activist 'terrorism' trial 'told to ignore international law' 1 week ago:
I tried googling if you all have jury nullification, but just got AI slop and stuff about America…
The most I know about the UK legal system is the cool wigs, and what I learned from Sherlock and Misfits.
But I’d assume a jury can do whatever they want. As long as you’re not self snitching, you don’t have to explain anything. And we’re talking about government support of an ongoing genocide, it’s hard to expect jurours to solely follow the letter of the law.
- Comment on Exclusive: jury in anti-genocide activist 'terrorism' trial 'told to ignore international law' 1 week ago:
International law guarantees an unequivocal right of resistance, including armed resistance, to people under illegal occupation. Legal experts say that UK terrorism legislation breaches international law by blocking this right.
- Comment on Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings 1 week ago:
But real estate agents complained they hurt sales. Some homeowners protested the scores and found there was no way to challenge the ratings.
The bigger problem is landowners lobbying to avoid official designation even tho it comes with funding to mitigate/prevent damage. It raises insurance and lowers home prices, so they just ignore it till the last second.
- Comment on how do plants in a green house get enough co2? 1 week ago:
Most oxygen produced on earth and CO2 consumed is done by algae.
Thats more because of total biomass, and the difference is we’re basically a ball of water.
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 1 week ago:
Wasn’t the studios fault
They fought to change the name since the beginning because they knew it would be impossible to deliver a real sequel and while this name might get initial sales it would cause blowback killing the game almost immediately…
Which is exactly what happened.
Like, they’d have loved to make Masquerade 2, but they weren’t given the time or funds to make it.
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 2 weeks ago:
Some people wanted it to immediately get huge…
Just so it can have all the other issues big social media has.
They didn’t want something different, they wanted to be an “early adapter” of the next reddit.
- Comment on If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving 2 weeks ago:
We are at this very moment evolving to adapt to an environment full of microplastics, to eating ultraprocessed foods, to look at screens for most of the day, etc.
That’s not how evolution works…
and only makes the next generations more adapted to the current environment
It’s random chance, there’s nothing I creasing the next generations odds, and most adaptions will have a negative effect
Just informing that this post contains irony and is mostly a joke
It’s not ironic…
You either fundamentally don’t know what you’re talking about, or are just repeating common misunderstandings as “just a joke bro”?
- Comment on If evolution is real, then why isn’t it happening now? An anthropologist explains that humans actually are still evolving 2 weeks ago:
It’s so weird the appendix isn’t the go to example instead of whiteness and milk drinking…
Up until a few hundred years ago it was vital as a reserve for gut bacteria when everyone was always getting dysentery and diarrhea. It still burst occasionally but it was a net positive. People without one likely died before it would have burst.
Then we got indoor plumbing and food safety, we stopped needing it so much which changed the evolutionary pressure. People without one never had it burst, so it flipped.
Then we discovered how to do an appendectomy ~300 years ago, and removed all the evolutionary pressure.
So it’ll stay a random percent where some people do and some don’t.
But everybody always wants to talk about whiteness and milk drinking
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 2 weeks ago:
I asked a genuine question and had replies that ignored the question I asked and insulted me and said my question was stupid
No you didn’t…
I asked a genuine question and had replies that ignored the question I asked and insulted me and said my question was stupid.
Looking at the modlog, you had one comment removed for being flippant and not contributing to the conversation. Which is what you’re claiming doesn’t happen…
- Comment on What happens to cult leaders in prison? 2 weeks ago:
Kind of like asking what murderers or drug dealers do…
Different people do it different ways, but lots of high profile cult leaders are in jail, you can actually find out on an individual basis, but if you average them all up, you get no valuable data
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t matter what the creator of the word thought
Yeah…
That’s why I said:
You can just keep using his word, but not care about his rules.
Thanks for aggressively agreeing with me I guess?
Weird move, and I think it’s more likely you were just confused, it works better if you ask questions when you’re confused.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 weeks ago:
why the word “literally” doesn’t mean “literally” anymore and we literally don’t have a replacement word.
Literally still means literally, it just ironically also means figuratively now too.
But it’s literally always meant literally.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 weeks ago:
but did you want to answer the question
I did…
it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren’t good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to
Every reason why you can/can’t do something and be Vegan, is because the guy who made the word up ~80 years ago decided it should be like that
You’re acting like it’s a math or science, like it’s based on logic or something…
It’s not, so the answer to “why” is essentially “because the founder said that”?
Does that make sense now?
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 weeks ago:
You can do pretty much whatever you want man…
Like “vegan” isn’t even a century old yet, it was made up in the 1940s by some guy who thought vegetarians weren’t good enough, and he set whatever rules he wanted to.
You can just keep using his word, but not care about his rules.
Or you can make up your own rules.
People searching for labels they like and then conforming to every fucking aspect of that label and nothing else, doesn’t work out well.
So please, if you want to eat roadkill just do it.
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, English is the go-to example because the first people to run printing presses in English were Dutch and couldn’t really spell or speak English.
There was likely similar situations in Asia as well, I’m just not familiar with their history.
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 2 weeks ago:
In almost every language the writing was developed ventures or even millenia after spoken.
Writing is also more set, especially with the printing press it made changes very slow. So while spoken language keeps changing written lags further and further behind.
- Comment on Why do some people make such a big deal over ages of someone's account on here? 2 weeks ago:
Everyday there’s like 5-10 brand new accounts who quickly spam ~20 articles each and stop the same day.
It looks like someone hoping Lemmy takes off so they can sell aged accounts later.
- Comment on If dark matter doesn't emit, absorb, or reflect light, what happens when light hits it? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it just doesn’t hit it.
Gravity does work with dark matter tho, so we can’t really say “unaffected” because the dark matter would still bend the light due to gravity. I’m not sure if we can detect that bend, but I remember something relatively recently about how dark matter can interact via gravity, and I’m assuming bending light would have been the easiest way to test that.
- Comment on One Horror of Slavery That Until Recently Could Not Be Told 3 weeks ago:
As the African American studies professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. has written and I have experienced, people are often uncomfortable learning that Africans sold one another into this living hell. A common objection is that Africans had no way of knowing what conditions their captives would encounter. But they saw those captives being marched all but to death, sold like animals and penned into a slave castle hold. Black African slave traders had more than enough information to understand the fundamental immorality of the undertaking. If whites had seen even only what the Africans saw, we would not hesitate to judge them as unforgivably complicit in sin.
This guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about…
From the article this is one of those things he assumes no one knows and just personally found out.
The difference is slaves in Africa still gave birth to free citizens, that is what everyone assumed was happening. If they had known every one of their descendants were going to be slaves, there’s likely have been more resistance and at least higher prices if not out refusal of sale.
It was supposed to be a more moral option than killing everyone from a tribe you were warring with.
The author claiming to be an expert, but completely ignorant of the difference isn’t worth listening too
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 3 weeks ago:
With no mention of the roads they drive on every day.
They want toll roads too…
When you have a shit ton of money, you want everything taxed on use, not earnings.
Because you earn a lot and spend a very small percentage of that.
They view any individual that “gets” more than they personally pay in as a “taker”. Despite the entire reasons we have safety nets is statistically someone will need help.
But once no one anywhere benefits from it more than they paid in, it’s easy for the wealthy to convince us we don’t need it at all. Because it’s not benefiting anyone and has really becomes a waste.
It’s very basic manipulation.
You can’t argue “what about roads!” Because they’re argue for toll roads everywhere or a tax on actual miles driven. Don’t let them set the argument, point out how no one knows who will need it till they need it, so we all pay in and hope we’re fortunate enough to not need it. But if we do, we don’t have to die in a gutter.
Don’t tug on heart strings, explain it as risk management and they might start to see the value
- Comment on when are the upcoming political elections held in america? 4 weeks ago:
Federal office elections are on even years.
States/cities do whatever
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not hard, just gotta give it a lil chin wiggle
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 4 weeks ago:
Teach a man to attract women, and he’s not going to keep watching you’re shitty videos…
So you give bad advice, knowing that it won’t work, hoping the stupidest still come back for more advice, then pivot to “you’re great bro, it’s everyone else’s fault they don’t see it”.
And then you have a Stan that will watch all your videos, because everyone else calls them an idiot except the other people following that shit.
Like…
You say “conspiracy” like it’s some convulated crazy plan…
It’s grifting 101…
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 4 weeks ago:
It was a two step plan:
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Give young boy the worst possible advice
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Blame women for not liking it.
That how we got all these incels.
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- Comment on Soulja Boy is selling video game consoles again, and he's already being accused of ripping off an existing handheld: "He does not have permission to rebrand our products and sell them as his own" 4 weeks ago:
He’s not even rebranding them…
He just charges more than orders one and passes on the shipping info.
Like, he could have at least bought some up front and threw a sticker on there
- Comment on EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead 5 weeks ago:
Lol…
I don’t think this is as reassuring as EA thinks it would be…
It’s like if Comcast got bought by United Healthcare, but assured us their customer service would stay at the same level.