blackbelt352
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- Comment on We all know it's true 3 days ago:
That’s the way it is with every platform, you only have a comparatively small proportion of people who do a huge share of the posting.
Reddit has the advantage of being absolutely massive that the power posters is also still a huge number. I’d imagine even the biggest of entire Lemmy instances is smaller than some of the major subreddits, which personally I’m fine with. This emmy instance isn’t some major corporation beholden to growing value for shareholders at all costs, but on the other end it still doesn’t mean the admins can do everything without monetary or labor support from us.
- Comment on Energy drink can used for scale, yet fruit used as unit of measurement 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that it’s hard to learn, it’s that we don’t have a strong intuition. It’s not that difficult to know there are 12 inches in a foot and 3 feet in a yard or that metric is entirely based around factos of 10. But its the intuition of what an inch looks like, what a pound feels like to hold in you hand. Most people wouldn’t be able to pick up an object and say, “that weighs about a pound” or look at an object and say “that’s about 3 feet long” but a lot of people do have an intuition what an energy drink can looks and feels like and can imagine getting hit by one, a lot of people have picked up a pineapple at the grocery story, people have the intuition of how big a football field is or how big a city bus is.
- Comment on Energy drink can used for scale, yet fruit used as unit of measurement 2 weeks ago:
We do such a shit job at teaching our own actual measuring system that nobody has an intuition what a pound feels like, what an inch and a foot look like and how to scale those up. So we resort to objects and comparisons instead of actual measurements.
- Comment on Destiny 2: The Final Shape | Launch Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s been a thing since the Witness was first revealed in With Queen just over 2 years ago.
- Comment on If all humans died, when would the last light go out? 4 weeks ago:
Depends, a lot of satellites are close enough to Earth that there’s still barely enough atmosphere to cause drag and deorbit the satellites given enough time, and they all need some flavor of orbital maintenance. Although there are the various probes we’ve sent out and the rovers too, possibly with some flavor of blinky light on them.
- Comment on Just catching up now, but apparently this is the source material for most Generation A cultural milieu. 4 weeks ago:
Basically the skibidi toilets take over and start a war in a city, the cameramen form a resistance group to fight against the skibidi toilets. Both sides keep escalating coming up with new counters to gain the upper hand. The cameramen also team up with speakermen and the tv people in their fight against the skibidi toilets.
- Comment on Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas! 5 weeks ago:
Because our perception of ninja is based around kabuki theater and not historical accuracy. Kabuki theater stage hands were always dressed in black to blend into the background. When an ninja assassination would happen in a show, the “stage hand” would do the assassination because the audience knows to kinda ignore the stage hands during the production.
IRL ninja would just look like normal people, waiting for the right opportunity to strike at someone.
- Comment on Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas! 5 weeks ago:
I see it as they’re like master painters, just because you can see their brush strokes on the canvas, doesn’t mean it wasn’t masterfully done.
The CIA wants people to know what they’ve done but without giving away what they’re doing now and that’s what the CIA is really good at. It’s why things like Trump taking the classified documents with him to Mar a Lago was such a huge deal, because they contained secrets that are still in use today and has led to a number of our own agents getting captured or killed.
- Comment on I hate being 10. I wish I was 7 again 2 months ago:
There’s legitimately good twists and turns to it as well.
- Comment on I hate being 10. I wish I was 7 again 2 months ago:
Its a high effort, high quality shitpost and honestly a good example of storytelling without any dialogue or text, told completely through action.
- Comment on Listen, libs... 2 months ago:
I’ve usually seen this meme used as the generic old white guy cosplaying as a blue collar worker.
- Comment on Carol of the Bells 2 months ago:
TSO turning Christmas music into boss music since 1996
- Comment on Several indie studios tease the "iii initiative", including Darkest Dungeon/Slay the Spire/Vampire Survivors devs 3 months ago:
Maybe like an indie game publishing coop sort of thing. Sort of like what Nebula does where the content creators also have ownership in the company.
- Comment on I've been wondering for some time 7 months ago:
George Orwell: Hey Karl can I copy your homework?
Karl Marx: Sure just change it enough so it doesn’t look like you copied it.
George Orwell writing 1984:
- Comment on She's Thawing! 7 months ago:
Same here, I actually like the Maria Carey song, it’s a big happy wall of sound and she’s just pure vocal talent throughout the whole song, but it’s entirely too overplayed.
- Comment on She's Thawing! 7 months ago:
Don’t forget the third in the trifecta of holiday mood souring. Christmas Shoes.
- Comment on Why are there so many conspiracy theories regarding soy beans? 8 months ago:
Oh yes, I’m quite familiar, the first university I went to was surrounded by corn and soybean fields.
- Comment on Why are there so many conspiracy theories regarding soy beans? 8 months ago:
I’d wager its also got a lot to do with how prevalent soy is used in various Asian cuisines, so like anything even remotely tangentially related to China is also a commie plot to take over The West™
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Exactly this. People often use “female” because it’s a dehumanizing word.
- Comment on Already planning for how to survive in jail 10 months ago:
Raised catholic here too, maybe catholic guilt but personally I think it’s more so the pervading idea that people implicitly aren’t allowed to exist in a space outside the home or offices unless they spend money and by walking out without buying anything bypasses the normal routine of going to a store to get something and going through some kind of checkout process.
- Comment on Reality for thee, not for me 10 months ago:
While good, indictments are only one step in the legal process, they are not the end result. Most people were not confident we would even make it this far into the legal process with how much the justice system favors those with money and power and this situation has literally never happened in our history. We have never had a former president indicted for crimes.
- Comment on We Recreated the Nuclear Explosion from Oppenheimer with Zero CGI 10 months ago:
Man it’s almost like we had a specific military doctrine where nobody wanted to pull the trigger on launching nukes and risk immediate nuclear retaliation, destroying everything. We could call it Everyone Definitely Dies.
- Comment on Why uppercasing every single word in topics became so popular? 10 months ago:
It something that always has been. Ben Franklin’s Poor Richard An Almanack from 1739 uses title case. It was used in illuminated manuscripts written by monks
You’re asking something that probably comes from a wide array of reasons that dates back literal centuries, even millennia.
- Comment on Not sure... 10 months ago:
Maybe if you ignore the Grand Wizard of the KKK does have a Twitter account and a fairly large following.
- Comment on Capitalism indoctrination in progress. 10 months ago:
Hey if that’s your jam go for it, personally I’d like to live in a world where someone can elect to do that sort of work and not have to worry and stress about housing, food, bills etc or take on that kind of work despite hating it in order to put food on the table.
- Comment on Don't you find it disappointing that people apply Herd Mentality for upvoting top comments, even if it's not the best one out there? 10 months ago:
This is still valid within the “use it as a last resort” framework. That doesn’t mean don’t use it, it just means think through the ramifications of using it before you do use it. If the admin comes to the conclusion that nothing else can be done, then defederate.
- Comment on Don't you find it disappointing that people apply Herd Mentality for upvoting top comments, even if it's not the best one out there? 10 months ago:
While defederation is a valid tool, it’s also shouldn’t be the first choice if there is friction between instances. Instance Admins should talk to each other see if the problem can be resolved through various means, if not then defederation becomes a more reasonable option.
- Comment on Capitalism indoctrination in progress. 10 months ago:
If needing to pay for basic necessities weren’t a factor in people getting jobs, I highly doubt the majority of people would work the kinds of jobs of today. I don’t know a single person who is excited to go into their retail job and deal with shitty customers all day or sit in a bland cubicle all day making spreadsheets that nobody really cares about.
I know more people who would much rather devote their time to learning and playing instruments, or making something with their own hands, or writing stories, or spending time raising their families.
- Comment on Not sure... 10 months ago:
Considering the kinds of people he’s been appealing to, not nearly as much of a stretch as you’d think.