dream_weasel
@dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 2 days ago:
It’s the style, or more specifically what it is turning into. Seems like when I got my first tastes of hip hop in the 90s it was more… musical / music forward? and now it kinda feels like just another rap flavor.
Same with greatest rapper and greatest country singer of all time: I would be inclined to steer clear since it’s just generally not my thing.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 3 days ago:
I don’t know how to help you, but I’ll tell you that I have the opposite perspective. The two artists I’d most like to avoid are the ones you mentioned, so if there was a way I could eliminate suggestions from anyone who was like “fuck yeah Kendrick and Drake” I would absolutely do that.
Taste over time is totally divergent and you’ve probably got your work cut out for you to find your exact niche :).
- Comment on Ripperonis 3 days ago:
I prefer to think they just sang the song over and over again on the round trip and the movie just splices it down to one time through the song.
In reality, these tortured souls rode through the frigid sky with no food or sleep for days on end and only the words of “a whole new world” to maintained their sanity. Their love was obviously forged through shared suffering.
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 week ago:
You have simultaneously also described why you can’t easily unite a left-leaning base. My issue is obviously the most important (and so is everyone else’s to them) at every moment. Also if you are a rep you are honor bound to resign and recuse and be a perfect parent of the children in the other camp.
Yes, we can walk and chew gum, but you can’t chase every car in the lot at the same time and you can’t shoot yourself in the leg out of honor when the competition is going to shoot your other leg for spite.
- Comment on Soup 1 week ago:
Probably by some deal of interest on a trust that is forfeit if the tech exists and they don’t get reanimated. Money and a protective cocoon of law and beaurocracy gets it done. I am sure they (or their lawyers) had already considered your argument.
- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 1 week ago:
I usually use the heel of my hand and hit it right on the 57.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
If the question is why do people hate XXX, doesn’t it matter who is the most critical of lifestyles? It seems to me that if you provide an unprovoked critique, unless the subject of the critique agrees with your perspective they are likely to… dislike said critique or the person providing it, yeah?
Hence the relevance of who provided the first critique: right or not, people might not like it.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I would absolutely agree with you if there was only one surefire way to making earth uninhabitable, but luckily we’ve got several of those on the table at once.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
As a thread reader here (not really contributor for this part) I see your point and I appreciate it, but I don’t know if it actually helps your case?
Basically you have established a moral high-ground and visceral reaction from the perspective of the non meat eating type and I can empathize with it, but doesn’t every group have this? Like if you said “Oh but it’s not just about birth control it’s about intentionally thwarting human life” as an argument for Catholics being against birth control… I can understand it but it isn’t an argument yeah? It’s an argument if I agree with your perspective, but otherwise I don’t think you’ve done anything different than the guy you replied to from a purely argumentative standpoint: you both gave a perspective and neither of you met in the middle.
From a debate perspective he’s got you by the short hairs because, even though he may not be absolutely right, you’ve made yourself look a little dickish to the rest of us.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
What if I told you the quiet part loud? I don’t think every life is fundamentally created equal.
I’m a farm boy turned liberal and if you’re going to argue about climate change and the benefits of a vegetarian diet in that respect, you’ve got the right of it and I’ll eat less meat (I’m trying). If you’re going to say “cow abuse is child abuse!” I will personally come murder a cow for you and eat it with you (or against you, I guess?).
You are barking up the wrong tree and have missed the point whenever you come to this argument. Plants and animals grown for food ARE. FOR. FOOD. and you will not turn me to your way of thinking by crying foul about their treatment. I would love to minimize animal suffering / I am not into animal torture, but you’re just not going to get there unless you’re literally demonstrating widespread suffering for sport of livestock animals. If there was a raccoon outside right now screwing with my dog or my kid or my house or whatever I would absolutely end it and not lose a second of sleep, without considering it’s children or parentage or treatment.
I am who you are dealing with and who you are trying to convert. The “proper way to live” has nothing to do with it. I grow food, I eliminate pests, I eat the food I intended to raise. Cow, corn, pig, dog, cat, unicorn, etc: it gets to grow and flourish as much as I can provide, then it gets harvested to eat, unless it is invasive then it gets summarily removed.
It’s not about callousness or disregard for the beauty of life, my situation has just been fundamentally different than yours unless you also spent childhood raising your own food.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
I mean, you are basically always in a group that is fucking the planet or society to some measure or another. Tell me about your religious choice, your political affiliation, your operating system/ phone / perspective on privacy, your opinion on nature vs nurture (or education vs indoctrination), and your perspective on micro- and macro-economic policy and I’ll be happy to tell you were and how you’re a giant irredeemable piece of shit.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
And who, in your estimation, threw the first rock?
- Comment on Found this great deal on a new chair for my living room. Almost 50% off! 1 week ago:
So the other one for $100 and boom free chair
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
It’s a form of targeted religious fairness testing for sure, but I wouldn’t call TST a protest org. Nobody really stands outside and holds a banner as much as just filing lawsuits.
- Comment on This is not a stereogram. If you look at it a certain way it will not resolve into anything. 1 week ago:
Swordfish or shark? Hard to do this on mobile.
- Comment on we must go back and fix this 1 week ago:
Damn it, hitler.
- Comment on we must go back and fix this 1 week ago:
Who do I have to kill to stop the genre in the cradle?
- Comment on Yep 2 weeks ago:
Peak television lol
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 2 weeks ago:
Shoot, I guess it was worth the wait even though I didn’t.
- Comment on Yep 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Which is the best Lemmy app for mobile? 2 weeks ago:
Idk if jerboa even has instance blocking in app yet. I switched to Voyager because it seemed always behind.
- Comment on Which song is forever linked to a movie for you now? 2 weeks ago:
Can you feel the love tonight.
- Comment on Woaaaaa 2 weeks ago:
Cool band name
- Comment on I learned so much 3 weeks ago:
I always thought my English teachers were really insightful… then I realized most of the insight was from the teacher’s guide :/.
- Comment on I can’t see anything other than cockring 3 weeks ago:
Orc King!
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 3 weeks ago:
What century is it if the year is 500? First century. What about if the year is -500 (500 BCE)? It’s the first century BCE. You have now arrived at US numbering of “floors”. Now which century is zeroth? It doesn’t make sense to ask, just like having a floor numbered “zero”. This might be why the ground floor is not special to us.
Are we on the number line, or counting the spaces, or counting additional layers? It’s an arbitrary question or distinction, but it seems like it should be labeled somewhere in the elevator!
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 3 weeks ago:
If you’re presuming ground is zero then you’ve told us the answer you want already. Are you numbering the floors or numbering the stories? That’s the real question.
What century is it if the year is 500? First century. What about if the year is -500 (500 BCE)? It’s the first century BCE. You have now arrived at US numbering of “floors”.
Now which century is zeroth? It doesn’t make sense to ask, just like having a floor numbered “zero”. This might be why the ground floor is not special to us.
- Comment on How many floors are under an apartment on the second floor? (No basement) 3 weeks ago:
So to preface this, it’s all arbitrary so there isn’t a right or wrong as long as it’s consistent.
The question might be better phrased this way: are we numbering distance or counting spaces?
If the year is 2024, what century is it? How about if the year is 700? How about if the year is "-700” (700 BCE)? Now which century is the zero century? 🤔 It doesn’t make sense to ask I don’t think.
So really the US System counts the spaces up, then the spaces down as stories. Ground is the same as 1, and Basement is same as -1. I have never ever seen a building (or elevator) with a number line in it or with negative numbers. NOW if you put altitude in the elevator in, say, 10ft increments or so, I would have no choice but to agree with your strange European ways.
No storey is special, no one is special.
- Comment on life pro tip!! 5 weeks ago:
This is not how calorie content is measured…
- Comment on Have you ever seen coal in real life? 1 month ago:
I had a hookah for a long time, so yes.