Catoblepas

@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Generational differences⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Very glad that my dumb ass probably has like 10% less plastic in my brain than most people my age because I never smoked out of cans. Thanks, paranoid teen me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'About Us' page locked behind a paywall⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mindlessly shoving a paywall on every page on the site is both lazy and indicative of their priorities. Nobody has to do it purposefully for it to still be shitty and revealing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so glad I left completely (minus the random search result with no other leads, but no browsing) when the API fuckery started, corporate social media sounds like an absolute hellscape now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit has streaks now??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relatable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve never sneezed and thrown your back out, count your blessings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beachfront property⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s basically what Angels Flight in Los Angeles is. Locals got sick of walking up the fuck off steep hill and built a 300 foot rail to go up and down it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISPs and robocallers love the FCC plan to “delete” as many rules as possible⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% anecdotal, but I’d say the spam callers aren’t even waiting. I’ve had more in the last 2 months than the previous year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even his doctors are full of it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I was gonna say whatever is going on with his spine might be hiding a few inches. You’d be amazed how many inches you can lose to curvature without looking like Quasimodo.

  But I doubt he was ever 6’3”. That sounds like a number he picked years ago because someone he hates is 6’2”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On lemmy, a ban can be a few different things:

  1. Banned from the instance your account is on. This means you have to make a new account, usually on a different instance.
  2. Banned from a different instance than the one your account is on. This means you get banned from communities you’ve participated in on that instance, and that instance will no longer federate with your account. You might participate in new communities on that instance, and people not on that will see your comments, but people on the instance you were banned from won’t see them. From the perspective of that instance you don’t exist anymore.
  3. Not banned from any instances, but banned from individual communities. You can’t post in that specific community but can still interact with the instance that community is on.

  Like someone else said, clear as mud, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry you had to deal with that as a kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marten, I know that guy!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a Pokemon for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Federal Lab That Tracked Rising S.T.I.s Has Been Shuttered | The United States can no longer keep tabs on drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other infections, scientists said.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember to wrap it when you suck, I knew a guy that got gonorrhea that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caught Slacking⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a test kick! I’m very well hydrated!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Long boi⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They fucking deflated him 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We had a deal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Becoming a local meme on local internet had to be so much worse than it is today. No gen alpha child will understand the pain of getting dunked on by all 10 of the people that had a computer near you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unleash your humanities⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And now you’ve moved your goalposts; first it was ‘convince me philosophy deserves government funding,’ now it’s ’philosophy isn’t a hard science and can’t show me on a graph why abortion is wrong’.

  If you just don’t like the humanities receiving government funds, just say so instead of doing this song and dance about how it’s really about science and equality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unleash your humanities⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re pretty sure based on what? Even self-proclaimed pro-life philosophers admit their position is rare. Ethics itself easily argues in favor of abortion but not against it, which is one reason it’s available in virtually every secular state.

  You are starting from your conclusion (philosophy isn’t worth funding) and working backwards to make that fit any new evidence presented to you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unleash your humanities⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Applied ethics is not ‘what feels like it would be the most correct thing to do?’, it’s writing professional codes of conduct, establishing criteria for who should be allowed to get an organ transplant, who should be considered for parole, what scientific experiments should be allowed to happen, if I listed everything affected by the study of ethics I’d be here all day.

  I don’t want a random schmuck who’s never thought about any of this for more than 5 minutes writing any of that, and I sure as shit don’t want people voting on it. That’s how you end up with abortion bans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unleash your humanities⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want anyone other than priests advising government officials on ethics? Then you want philosophy majors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same for Bic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pain plant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, we’re not resistant, we’re just crazy enough to like the pain. Birds are resistant and don’t feel it at all, they can eat chilis like fruits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So jussi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun fact: it’s actually a Mexican brand, that’s just the American branch logo. According to Wikipedia:

  The name was formed as the combination of the Disney Bambi and Dumbo films names, which were the favourite movies of Marinela, Lorenzo Servitje’s daughter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the long run, shutting up won’t save you from fascism. Every inch you give is a foot they take, and they will take and take and take if you let them.

  If you’ve never wondered whether people living under dictatorships regret not exercising their rights more when they still had them, now’s the time to start pondering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Check your local library and city/county department of health, they may run free or low cost group therapy sessions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you considered going outside and asking people your questions in order to only get answers from ‘mentally healthy’ people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans, How do you pour soda into a cup with ice without the soda going flat?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I’m thankful when someone puts the red flag above every comment themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No link shows up for me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Studio Ghibli's "Princess Mononoke" is being remastered in 4K and re-released in IMAX on March 26th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Alas, the closest to me is 3 hours by transit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yall guess who showed up in my dms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely spam, people are just joking about it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This queue for the new swasticar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And playing games with overtime numbers to maximize taxpayer drain.