AstralPath
@AstralPath@lemmy.ca
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 2 days ago:
Non-resident aggressively commenting on another country’s driving laws then shit talking foreign policy out of nowhere. Bold strategy, Cotton.
The fact is that a video call implies that your eyes are on the video. In this case while driving. Do you see how that’s problematic? Your argument is some weird whataboutism.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 3 days ago:
The bridge is 4.3 miles. Average riding speed for a 30-35 year old rider is 20.8 mph according to Strava data. Let’s say its 15mph instead.
That’s a 28 minute ride at below average speed; 20 minutes at average.
That is not too long, as clearly evidenced by the people that use the bike lane.
- Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car 3 days ago:
If their time is so valuable, maybe they should ride a bike instead of trapping themselves in traffic?
The average American commute is 41 miles round trip. I guarantee you that a large number of people stuck on that bridge every day have a much shorter commute, could ride a bike instead, and would actually spend less of their time commuting by doing so.
Those are the people you should be angry with because they’re the ones that are directly wasting your time with their frivolous driving trips. The more we get people riding bikes, the less problems those that are required to drive will experience.
Also, maybe if the average American car wasn’t a wasteful hulking behemoth there would be more room for more people on the roads. 🤷
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 4 days ago:
Sons of Liberty is the most cohesive entry in the series IMO. Best story too; prophetic, really.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 1 week ago:
If that was more than a year ago it might be tine to try again with Bazzite or Nobara; the latter being my personal choice.
- Comment on Thanks I hate it 1 week ago:
Which is funny because if your job requires you to touch those lids, it would be your fucking job.
This is just the work of lazy fucks or they’re truly dumb as a bag of rocks.
- Comment on Pretty but pointless 1 week ago:
“Do we like this?”
That’s the biggest cant-think-for-myself red flag I’ve ever heard.
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 1 week ago:
Add Nobara to the list too!
- Comment on Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar? 1 week ago:
I played in a Halo 2 tournament at my local theater when I was a kid. Got second place. Won a wristband 👍
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Drummers covering other drummers is a very popular scene on Youtube. Check out Alex Rudinger to start and just go down the rabbit hole.
- Comment on I'm intrigued 3 weeks ago:
It seems like you don’t know the definition of the word truth or you’ve been taught an inaccurate version of it. They way you write makes me think that you read a lot online and I’ve noticed in the last five or so years that there seems to be a push by some people (typically with ulterior motives from what I’ve seen) to dilute the definition of truth to accomodate the propagation of their worldview.
The truth of the conversation is that the guy was wrong. Calamari is not caviar = True.
This idea of adapting the word “true” to conveniently dodge outright wrongness on a topic is a problem. You’re using the wrong word if you’re saying things like “my truth” or “your truth”. It would be more accurate to say “my/your understanding”.
As I mentioned before, the truth is something that exists outside of you. You refer to facts to describe the truth to the best of your ability. No one expects anyone to have a complete understanding about everything. Incomplete knowledge is just fine so long as you accept when others fill in the gaps or correct you.
Its OK to be wrong. If people accept their own fallibility, they grow with every conversation they have.
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 3 weeks ago:
Nothing is eternal if you purposely limit the ability to preserve things.
- Comment on I'm intrigued 3 weeks ago:
How did you get that from what I said?
Here lemme flip the script on you. If you can’t listen to someone and absorb information without immediately conjuring negative assumptions about them, you might not be fun to be with either.
The point was that facts are facts. The fact that calamari is not caviar is not malleable (unless you’re in Estonia I suppose lol). It’s just a cold hard fact that outside of Estonia they’re two completely different things. In this situation there is no spectrum of rightness. You’re just either right or you’re wrong.
I’m not saying that its worth dying on the calamari hill in public. Handle that debate however you see fit.
- Comment on I'm intrigued 3 weeks ago:
Facts exist outside of you. Facts are already confirmed/researched and we just call upon them in conversation.
If an argument is based around a fact, there is indeed a right and wrong side. The accuracy of your recall of a given fact is the meaure of rightness in the argument.
- Comment on Why do people hate coldplay? 3 weeks ago:
iHeartRadio is a cancer. They’re just consolidating everything like Ticketmaster did with venues.
- Comment on Reddit bought a giant ad in Paris, urging young french people to create an account 4 weeks ago:
Times Square had massive Mullvad ads last time I was there.
- Comment on It just hits different now 5 weeks ago:
This is me with watermelon.
- Comment on Nobody Cares If Music Is Real Anymore 5 weeks ago:
I still have my library of tracks from the mid 2000s on a drive in my PC. Hell, I still have my iPod Classic.
That said, I spend 99% of my time streaming music.
That said², I never ever engage with playlists. They only serve to poison the well that is my algorithm. I have a tightly curated Youtube video algorithm and, even though Youtube Music’s algorithm is dogshit compared to Spotify, I still protect it at all costs.
You can still be an active listener on streaming services.
I’m currently three quarters of the way through Decapitated’s Organic Hallucinosis record while I clean the house. For the last month straight I’ve been mainlining Steven Wilson’s solo records as well as Porcupine Tree records. Music is not dead for the active listeners in the world. The focus should be on encouraging kids to appreciate a good album every once in a while.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 1 month ago:
Personally, I’m not feeling that same vibe. I think the solidarity against the US is a very good thing, but the sheer amount of ways Canada is just “America Light” is very depressing. Its to the point that our flag has been so sullied by absolutely shit tier movements in the last 5 years that I can’t stand to see it anymore.
Every time I see a private flag pole, bumper stickers or anything kind of patriotic merch my knee jerk reaction is “I bet this dude’s a fuckwad.” I know that I’m painting with a huge and shitty brush but I just can’t even fight against it anymore. I know it’s wrong. I just don’t care, and that makes me sad.
I live comfortably here, but given even a minutely convenient reason to emigrate I think I’d take it.
Canada is a car infested, anti-human shit hole just like America. To paraphrase Steve Harris of Iron Maiden a bit "We oil the jaws of the
warcapitalist machine and feed it with ourbabiesimmigrants. - Comment on Royal Fuckup 1 month ago:
Who is this?
- Comment on I just saw that Mick Jagger is attending Jeff Bezos's wedding when did he sell out? 1 month ago:
That’s a pretty insane threshold. I say that as a die hard underground metal fan.
- Comment on LLM agents flunk CRM and confidentiality tasks 1 month ago:
Salesforce is so fucking AI-pilled its insane. I hate having to use their shit-tier CRM.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 2 months ago:
Black holes don’t just roam around looking for planets to snack on.
Don’t be so sure. There’s plenty of cases of black holes devouring entire star systems. There’s so many black holes just drifting around that you could make a case that they are just roaming around looking for their next snack.
- Comment on Is it wrong or uncommon to judge people primarily on their worst moments/acts? 2 months ago:
If I saw anyone harm any animal intentionally outside of self-defence, that’s an instant and permanent write off. I’d literally take any opportunity to talk shit about said person beating animals and would take pride in beating their ass if the moment was right.
Anyone hurting animals gets a big ol’ irrevocable “fuck you” from me.
There’s like 8 billion people on this planet you can be friends with. Don’t roll with or enable abusers.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Phobophile rules.
- Comment on I made a terminal-based hacker simulation game for CLI nerds. It's free. Feedback? 2 months ago:
Bitburner is pretty cool too.
- Comment on 007 First Light - Announcement Trailer | PS5 Games 2 months ago:
Yeah man, all of this except for the balls part. Shit’s a bit too much for me bro and I was there in the 90’s. You do you though, I guess. 🤷
- Comment on Talented child artist 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s what I was thinking too. At a certain age where they’re not just finger painting randomness anymore, why not let a kid run wild with their room. It’s not the end of the world if you need to re-paint the walls if you need to move.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Right? Dude just spurned one of the easiest ways to get a comment from a girl, smelling like something girls would likely choose as a candle scent or other aromatic. Dude would probably rather smell like aged free-range bull piss “for the pheromones” or some shit.
- 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 months ago:
Yeah, they were all stepping in phase with each other. Pretty cool physics going on there.
