Catoblepas
@Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on We've All Been Here 2 hours ago:
In the US some states call that ‘internal possession’, it’s mostly used so that they have something to charge teenagers with when they catch them high.
- Comment on The System does not work. 22 hours ago:
Case in point, all the “Kamala didn’t earn my vote!” dipshits who handed Trump the presidency on a silver platter.
That line has been dead for over a year, you need to find a new scapegoat.
- Comment on What do Centrists know about electability? 1 day ago:
In the sidebar listed under ‘our goals’:
Stimulating a massive wave of worker organizing in the United States and beyond.
It sounds like this is already a US-centric comm?
- Comment on What do Centrists know about electability? 1 day ago:
And they have a pedophile leading them, so I don’t think I’ll be taking cues from them, actually
- Comment on The System does not work. 1 day ago:
If you get along with them, nothing. But for a lot of people being able to live independently from their parents is literally life saving.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
I never said there weren’t. Art therapy, equine therapy, music therapy, there are plenty of options that aren’t ’sit on the couch and tell me about your mother.’ But for a lot of people who feel like they can’t talk about their mental health struggles, talking about it is exactly what they need.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 2 days ago:
My therapists helped me put my life back together after over a decade of spinning my wheels and struggling with PTSD. Sorry about your sister, and it’s not like I haven’t also seen shitty therapists, but that’s definitely not everyone and I think it’s a bad idea to discourage anyone from reaching out for help. People should leave therapists they don’t click with even if they’re not bad per se, because if you don’t like them or they don’t respect you then nothing productive is going to happen.
- Comment on I do this every time 4 days ago:
My husband forgets food if it doesn’t beep (ADHD). I am hypersensitive to the loud screeching the microwave makes to announce food is done (autistic). We compromise by leaving the beep on and he either gets it before it starts another round or I flee to safety (or get it myself if I’m near it, but I’m usually not).
- Comment on Expectation Vs Reality 4 days ago:
What are those for? To prevent drones from getting right up on them before exploding?
- Comment on Google joins the party 4 days ago:
I’d go as far as 100% of them being played up for PR, because it’s always that someone has intentionally or unintentionally left it with access to the internet and given it instructions to do the thing it’s done. Nobody has ever asked it for an apple pie recipe and had it try to hack a server.
- Comment on Hooaaaaaa!! 5 days ago:
God, America really did Monica Lewinsky dirty with how she was treated in popular culture for decades afterwards.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
That’s a coyote that knows how dangerous cars are. Smart ‘yote.
- Comment on To each their own 6 days ago:
The best thing I’ve ever spent money on in terms of quality of life:money spent was a washing machine on wheels, since the apartment we live in doesn’t have one. It’s the size of a regular washing machine, you just have to roll it over and hook it up to the sink for it to work. Every dish washed by hand is a travesty as far as I’m concerned. Free yourself if you can make the room for it.
- Comment on Pikachu 1 week ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1968
There was an additional one passed on ‘68, a week after his assassination.
- Comment on One Standard Yglesias 1 week ago:
You can always count on Matty to not just be wrong, but to go out of his way to find the worst way to be wrong.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
It’s okay to say you find working outdoors difficult, you don’t have to have a public doom spiral.
- Comment on When do we riot? 1 week ago:
I heavily disagree with this sentiment. Go work with your local conservation groups if you feel hopeless about the environment, God knows they need the help. You’ll be doing something useful and see that recovery and adaptation is possible. Endangered species can rebound, damaged ecosystems can recover, and societal views about our obligations to each other and the planet can change.
- Comment on For Us ADHDers (When You Don't Have Our Attention) 1 week ago:
I am completely focused, unfortunately a moderate amount of background noise, fatigue, or cross-talk will make everything you say immediately gibberish to me, as I’m standing there listening to it. After the second repeat I start guessing based on the words I’ve managed to pick out and hope I’ve either gotten it right or that it will cue them that they need to rephrase it or use more words or something. It’s quicker than explaining what auditory processing disorder is or that I have problems understanding speech even though I don’t look old (and technically don’t have a hearing problem).
- Comment on Amazon thought it would be a good idea to not include subtitles in a film made entirely with sign language. 1 week ago:
That’s called audio description, they do it for blind audiences.
- Comment on Well if it's low cost and easy to use.. 1 week ago:
I might do it once to see how strong it was. But I’d do it immediately, out of principle. I’m in here spiders georging up your data.
- Comment on modern classic 1 week ago:
If you’re from Western Europe I guarantee your ancestors’ countrymen and women were all up in here, too. Eastern Europe probably also, just a little later.
- Comment on I couldn't have articulated better 1 week ago:
Anyone else enjoy sitting in the seat in the middle of the joined section and feeling like you’re swiveling back and forth constantly? Just me?
- Comment on modern classic 1 week ago:
Anyone read that in Hank Hill’s voice? It even feels in character with how into that whole neighborhood parade of homes competition thing he was.
- Comment on Anthropic Confirms Claude AI Accessed Three Real Organizations During Cybersecurity Testing without authorization 2 weeks ago:
without authorization
[peels off sticker]
human unintentionally had it configured to go online
Every single time. This is panic-hype because if the public being enthusiastic about AI to juice the stock isn’t happening, maybe being pants pissing terrified and pretending it’s skynet will
- Comment on The only one country 2 weeks ago:
Nah. It’s only too late for anything when (general) you’re dead.
- Comment on The only one country 2 weeks ago:
>We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.
-Ursula K Le Guin
- Comment on How should we relate to language? 2 weeks ago:
perspectives.americananthro.org/…/Language.pdf
You might be interested in this, a chapter of an open textbook put out by the American Anthropological Society, that’s about language and culture.
- Comment on But boy could he play it 2 weeks ago:
And none of us questioned it, we just knew cool shit was about to happen.
- Comment on Its all about bonding 2 weeks ago:
It is! If you want to get real fancy get pasta that’s bronze cut, it’ll usually have it on the box somewhere up top as a selling point. It makes the pasta edges slightly rougher and makes sauce cling to it more. I forget if Aldi has any like that, but you can usually find it for maybe 50 cents to a dollar more (USD) in other stores. Very low cost, high reward.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Tangential: They used to be a website that used Google translate to translate a phrase back and forth between a bunch of different languages until it reached ‘equilibrium’ and stopped changing with each translate. You could get some really crazy stuff out of it.