andrewrgross
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- Comment on Like there was any doubt 17 hours ago:
Which is a great, authentic answer
- Comment on Like there was any doubt 1 day ago:
This is kind of a misapplication of this meme format: Mark Hamill is the obvious favorite. The whole point of the meme is that the chosen option is overlooked. I didn’t even know DiMaggio voiced Joker.
- Comment on How do we stop people from defending billionares and trillion dollar companies? 2 weeks ago:
This. Arguing with people online is – with all due respect – a complete waste of time if your goal is to change the world.
Ignore the people who have dumb opinions. It isn’t as though if you win 500 arguments Elon Musk donates all his money to Socialism.
Go join a tenant’s union or a mutual aid society. Go build the alternative world that doesn’t transfer all our money upward.
(Also, though, if you do this long enough there will likely be a revolution. But that part comes after you feed and shelter enough people that it begins to become a threat to capital. It’s downstream. Either way, don’t bother trying to persuade strangers on the internet,)
- Comment on If I wrote a script for a movie and sent it off to a studio or whatever. What prevents the person who recieved it from claiming it as their own? 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re asking the wrong question. The better question is ‘How do I get my screenplay produced?’
I’m not an expert, but my understanding is that movie studios don’t really produce unsolicited screenplays anymore. You really need to produce it yourself, or be a known screenwriter who has prior relationships with producers.
If you don’t already have writing credits and an agent, you likely either need to produce it yourself – which means finding a director and actors and raising the money to pay for things – or you should try to publish it as a novel that becomes groundshakingly popular like The Martian or Dungeon Crawler Carl.
But the good news is that you can rest assured that having it stolen isn’t a risk you need to worry about.
- Comment on How come Pornstars don't teach Master Classes? So the average joe or joness can improve relationships and get better orgasms. Who would be better than pornstars? 3 weeks ago:
First, I think something like this does exist. I think I’ve heard adds for a service like this on the Savage Love podcast.
Second, anyone interested in this topic should check out a new document series on Nebula called Goonworld.
In Goonworld, video essayist FD Signifier explores America’s simultaneous obsession with both enjoying and punishing pornography, sex workers, and the performance of sex.
It’s on episode two, and it’s very good.
- Comment on How to deal with people who obtusely miss your point on Lemmy? 5 weeks ago:
Relevant:
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 5 weeks ago:
I think this post is just observing stereotypes about camping overall that are really just a reflection of the historical cultural imagination about who camping is for. It’s not really as true as we think it is, because this tendency has been present among black folks and hispanic folks, and asian folks and women and everyone else who have been camping all along, they’re just not featured in film and TV often.
- Comment on Celebratory Return to Online Meme 5 weeks ago:
What’s skin colour got to do with it?
- Comment on Why do celebs commit crimes and such like Tony Romo and his DWI? He had a 180 million dollar deal. Why not hire a driver or stay at home and buy ridiculous shit? 5 weeks ago:
Or: be weird but less creepy about it
- Comment on NX-01 Assignment Patch Tattoo 5 weeks ago:
Wow, that’s really sweet.
Who’s the artist?
- Comment on If you had procreated with an opposite-sex clone and produced a child, would that child also be a clone? 1 month ago:
I think this is mostly correct.
I think what you mean is that each chromosome has two paired arms that contain alternate versions of functionally the same content. It’s like if you had two cookbooks by different authors that had the same chapters and dishes, but different content. The two versions aren’t in the two strands of DNA, they’re in the two arms of each chromosome.
The problem is that during reproduction, each parent randomly contributes one of the two chromosomes. When each sperm and each egg is made, there’s a 50-50 chance that it gets arm 1 or arm 2 from each chromosome.
If you took a sperm cell that had received all of its content exclusively from arm 1 with an egg that contained content exclusively from arm 2, then I believe that when they fused they would produce what could be called a clone. Some might take issue and point out that the content from the arms gets mixed between the two during this process, so each arm isn’t identical to the first, but we can set that aside for now, I think. The offspring would have all the genes of the original person, and presumably would look identical to them, like a twin.
The problem is that if you were to engage in this exercise (which is tagged “selfcest” if you’re looking for erotic stories about this stuff) in real life, you’d encounter the same problem with incestual reproduction: unless the sperm and egg were prepared in a lab or using magic to ensure that each arm of each chromosome went into a different sex cell, you’d inevitably have cases where the sperm and egg both received their chromosome from the same arm. This means that the offspring wouldn’t have the full duplicated genome of the original parent; on those chromosomes, they’d have half of the parent’s full compliment of genes. And we rely on having two different copies as backups. This is why interbreeding produces birth defects and lower fitness: you miss out on backup copies.
To summarize, you wouldn’t faithfully duplicate yourself, you’d duplicate most of yourself with
So – assuming the offspring was viable – you’d kind of get a lower quality clone: the offspring would probably look like a twin of the original, but they might have worse eyesight. They might have thin, anemic blood. They might have oilier skin and hair, or dryer, itchier skin and hair.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 month ago:
It depends where you live.
I honestly feel bad for the doomers in these kinds of comment sections who feel confused and aimless, like nothing is happening. I live in Oakland, California, and it’s clear to me that my community is not waiting around.
If you’re feeling adrift, let me know where you live and I’ll make suggestions. This sense of idleness is situational, and you can get involved in planning a revolution is you know where to look.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s a scary moment, but I’m very gently optimistic that it will set some good precedent, and that he might have a strong case to counter sue over the blatant infringement of his rights.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 1 month ago:
I’m kind of surprised how many people in this thread don’t seem aware of this. Are these gen-Z folks who weren’t around for the 90s, or did people not know this back then?
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 1 month ago:
This. They knew he was a satirist, they just didn’t expect him to bring weapons-grade jester’s privilege.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 1 month ago:
I think you’re confused. O’Reilly knew Colbert was mocking him in particular and hated Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. My recollection is thathe occasionally interacted with them by appearing on the Daily Show or hosting either because it was good for ratings, but he never left any confusion that he hated their parody.
- Comment on When Stephen Colbert had The Colbert Report did the right ever realize he was doing a parody of them? 1 month ago:
Do you have source for this?
- Comment on Would people like a "X posts per Y" rate limit for this community? 1 month ago:
Personally, I would prefer if this kind of function happened at the feed curration level instead of the posting level.
If I could adjust a “User post concentration” setting, I’d say it to down-weight posts by any user within 12 hours of their last post by 50%, and stack this for further posts within 12 hours.
Then I’d adjust the timing and weighing as necessary
- Comment on How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes? 2 months ago:
What’s your personal media diet? Do you like similar adventure stories that are more local, or is that just not your thing overall?
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 2 months ago:
I’ve never heard that before! It’s interesting.
I think it depends a ton on environmental conditions. Could combustion on planets with different gravity and pressure take place at different scales?
- Comment on Did Iran really strike first without a reason or is it BS (like I think it is) and the US is saying they struck first? 2 months ago:
What’re your recs? I used to sometimes check out the BBC but at some point they paywalled it. I like the Guardian, but I’d be glad for more suggestions.
I meant to say that Al Jazeera’s bais leans against the US, which is useful for getting alternative takes.
- Comment on Did Iran really strike first without a reason or is it BS (like I think it is) and the US is saying they struck first? 2 months ago:
I thought it was implied in my comment that I was saying that it’s biased in more or less the other direction, but I realize I should’ve written that out.
- Comment on Did Iran really strike first without a reason or is it BS (like I think it is) and the US is saying they struck first? 2 months ago:
I wasn’t really sure, so I went looking to Al Jazeera:
aljazeera.com/…/why-have-us-iran-strikes-resumed-…
According to their reporting, all sides have exercised some violence throughout the ceasefire, but the most recent clash was primarily initiated by ships traveling in an area that Iran had labeled a no-go zone. The ships refused to comply with orders to change course, so Iran shot at them.
In the future if you have questions about what’s going on in the Middle East and are looking for a version that isn’t heavily biased towards US propaganda, Al Jazeera is a pretty reliable source.
- Comment on Is it really possible that the Maggats will keep Mitch McConell on life support until the midterms? Or will they just let him die and try a sympathy vote? 2 months ago:
I agree, although I don’t think the solution is to just demand that they have to be there for every vote, even when they’re incapable of doing so. I think they should have second-in-commandd, like a vice president or lieutenant governor.
Sometimes folks get sick. Sometimes they have to travel. Sometimes they die in office! We should just recognize that and allow them to appoint a surrogate to do these things when they can’t.
- Comment on Is it really possible that the Maggats will keep Mitch McConell on life support until the midterms? Or will they just let him die and try a sympathy vote? 2 months ago:
Oh he dead
Joking aside, I think he’s alive, but probably is no longer capable of walking or taking coherently. But that’s fine, senators didn’t need to be able to do any of that stuff to serve their corporate functions. My senator was Diane Feinstien: she was basically a vegetable for something like her last two it three years in office.
- Comment on Is it really possible that the Maggats will keep Mitch McConell on life support until the midterms? Or will they just let him die and try a sympathy vote? 2 months ago:
Wha happen
- Comment on How does a teenager learn to "eat out" a women without doing it like a dog at a water bowl? 2 months ago:
- Comment on How does a teenager learn to "eat out" a women without doing it like a dog at a water bowl? 2 months ago:
Well then your doubt is misplaced!
You know what most people love? Receiving oral the way they like it. It’s not a hard sell.
- Comment on What should I do with boxes of old photos? 2 months ago:
What are they photos of? Who took them? This seems relevant.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 3 months ago:
Yeah, this. You schedule of days or you ask your boss if it’s cool if you come in at 10 so you can get a new glasses prescription.
It depends a lot on the work culture where you are.
This is also a big reason people get married. It helps a lot if you have two people juggling this stuff.
