chumbalumber
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- Comment on ecologists be like 3 months ago:
Some plants the flowers are very pretty, but the whole plant isn’t practical to be kept indoors (e.g. roses), and they don’t necessarily flower all year round. If someone has a favourite flower or favourite colour of flower, it makes them feel special when someone thinks to buy them for them (they get a flower they love to look at for the next week, and they know that someone cares about them enough to buy them flowers, and keep the knowledge of which like).
- Comment on Anon gets pumped up 3 months ago:
Doctor Who be like
- Comment on Fastest animal 3 months ago:
GNU Terry Pratchett
- Comment on Adopting a stray cat 4 months ago:
America, given the spelling of neighbour!
- Comment on In celebration of Independence Day 4 months ago:
Today we’re preoccupied with getting rid of the Tories – so finally we’ll be able to unite in celebrating 4th July!
- Comment on Irresistible 4 months ago:
What about the comic made you think it was implying that?
- Comment on Casual reminder 4 months ago:
Yeah – has the commenter above seen literally any civil war ever? It’s the leftists that show up
- Comment on Left wing fact checker admits Trump never called Charlottesville neo-Nazis ‘very fine people’ 4 months ago:
OP’s username checks out
- Comment on Missing cold pizza 5 months ago:
But there’s no cigarette :(
- Comment on Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be? 5 months ago:
I think I’d still argue the free open source part is inherently left wing. Why would I, a right wing libertarian, lend my time to developing a piece of software that I am unable to make a profit from? I have no motive.
Something like bitcoin is the kind of tech project of that mould that i think attracts the right wing libertarian. Just my opinion though.
- Comment on Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be? 5 months ago:
Eh, there’s plenty of educated right wingers. Not fascists as much, but the kind of fiscally conservative economists who preach austerity are often as not highly educated, just lacking in empathy.
- Comment on Is it just me or do Lemmy communities tend to skew left wing? Why might this be? 5 months ago:
The philosophy behind FOSS is inherently left wing and anarchist; communities working together to provide and produce tools for the common good, without a profit motive. Coupled with the lack of advertising and promotion of the sites, people have at seek them out, leading to a self-selecting user population that skews left :)
- Comment on Right wing shit post 5 months ago:
They are kissing. Sloppy style. Boobs squishing etc.
- Comment on Waste not 5 months ago:
Now I want to try making corn bread with cider
- Comment on Anon gets unwanted attention 5 months ago:
Pretty victim blamey, NGL. Norms should be in place to ask for consent (tacit or explicit) before giving someone else
- Comment on Mushroom ID 5 months ago:
I’m UK based so not hugely familiar with US mushrooms, but I seem to recall a spore print being useful for checking for false parasol? Though it’s not the most obvious (e.g. snakeskin markings for distinguishing from parasol).
Btw I totally agree with your general point (I never use them, except to produce pretty spore prints for friends).
- Comment on Mushroom ID 5 months ago:
Scarletina bolete apparently tastes relatively decent. I haven’t tried it myself though.
- Comment on Mushroom ID 5 months ago:
Yah – and to add certain edible mushrooms or families of mushrooms are very distinctive (e.g. hedgehog fungi in the UK), and I would recommend novices start out with. Others I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole even if I was relatively confident with an id, purely because it isn’t worth the risk (e.g. miller Vs fools funnel).
- Comment on Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand 5 months ago:
FUCKING DOING OUR JOB AS TRANSPORT MODELLERS AND DOING A FUCKING COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS THAT SHOWS YOU’RE NEVER GOING TO GET FUCKING MODE SHIFT FROM RURAL USERS UNLESS YOU RUN A FUCKING METRO STYLE 10 MINUTELY SERVICE WHICH IS FUCKING UNFEASIBLE WITH THE FUCKING RESOURCES WE HAVE AVAILABLE.
IN THE FUCKING UK WE HAVE A LARGE NUMBER OF FUCKING ABANDONED RAILWAYS FROM THE PERIOD OF FUCKING COAL MINING THAT WOULDN’T HAVE ANYWHERE NEAR THE FUCKING DEMAND NECESSARY TO JUSTIFY SETTING UP AN EXPENSIVE AS FUCK SIGNALLING SYSTEM TO BRING THEM UP TO MODERN FUCKING SAFETY STANDARDS, ALONGSIDE REPLACING THE FUCKING RAILS, SLEEPERS AND BEDS.
IF INSTEAD YOU CAN HAVE A FUCKING PUBLICALLY OWNED FLEET OF FUCKING ELECTRIC ‘MINI TRAINS’ THAT PEOPLE COULD USE FOR INFREQUENT BUT NECESSARY TRIPS, THAT COULD REMOVE A FUCKING SIGNIFICANT BARRIER TO MODE SHIFT, WHICH WOULD BE PRETTY FUCKING RAD
- Comment on himbos 5 months ago:
Carpenter bees are mostly solitary.
- Comment on Girl power 5 months ago:
do you think the responder is serious. do you.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 6 months ago:
Yeah, agreed.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 6 months ago:
I disagree with your sentiment, and think the examples work. If your aim was to run a coffee shop forever and you quit, then yes you have failed. If, on the other hand, your aim is to enjoy and have the experience of running a coffee shop, then doing so for two years and stopping is a success. Similarly with a relationship. You can have succeeded in having a mutually fulfilling relationship that you both have happy memories from, even if you then grow apart. It succeeded in its aims of spending time enjoying being a relationship.
- Comment on Smooth 6 months ago:
Sung to the tune of Iron Maiden’s ‘Hallowed be thy name’
- Comment on 400,000 species 7 months ago:
Just want to say I entirely agree with you and that I’m really not sure why the other person doesn’t get it. Any musician knows tone/timbre is really important. I play the violin; you can play really fast and that takes skill, but there’s also a hell of a lot of skill involved in getting a nice sound out of a sustained note.
- Comment on 400,000 species 7 months ago:
I don’t know quite why you seem to be so hostile to the blues, or anyone that wants to defend the skill of the musicians that play it. If you want to see a skilled blues guitarist doing all the twiddly bits, then I’ll happily point you in the direction of Gary Moore, or blues-adjacent Steve Vai.
And if you’re a metal fan, then maybe you’ll find Metallica’s respect for Gary Moore persuasive.
- Comment on I'm guilty, lol 8 months ago:
My personal sign off is :)
- Comment on Let's goooooo 10 months ago:
My personal view is that you should always be wary of people asserting “this is how it is”. We’re in a science sub; we know that the purpose of a hypothesis is to rigorously attempt to disprove it and find counterexamples.
To discuss an area that I know some specifics about and can be more confident on: the historiography of the French revolution. Starting with George’s Lefebvre, the Marxist historians had a clear idea of what the revolution represented: a movement from the feudal mode of production to the capitalist, and so while their work is incredibly important and academically worth studying, they also tend to go into their work with a clear idea of what they wanted to find. So when the revisionists (starting with Cobban) come along, they find a lot of inconsistencies; the facts of the period don’t directly align with what the Marxist narratives wanted it to be (his disagreement is that he thinks the feudal mode was near extinct by the time of the Revolution, and that it was more a political conflict than social).
Bringing it back to your question: I disagree with the narrative I put because I think reductive narratives aren’t helpful, and cause us to miss a lot of nuance. The nuclear family was dominant in England from the 13th Century onwards, but to leave it there misses a host of interesting social structures and changes (e.g. the role of the church and monasteries as social institutions that exist wholly separate from the family).
As for reading, Foucault on how we like to categorise everything is quite interesting. If reading isn’t your cup of tea, the Thinking Allowed podcast from the BBC has an episode on Foucault that covers him that’s worth listening to.
- Comment on Let's goooooo 10 months ago:
It’s a very interesting article. I broadly think its argument is sensible, but there’s a couple of places I’d offer some dissent:
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I think the idea of greater socialisation of child raising is framed as avoiding turning back the clock to a time when the nuclear family was stronger. I’d disagree with this framing of the suggestion; in many ways this is a return to tradition. Capitalism and the autonomy it represents has led to a loss of the kinds of community the author is describing. It has allowed the destruction of the ‘village’ in the idiom ‘it takes a village to raise a child’. There is now enough wealth for parents to leave the extended family and the local community to form their own, isolated nuclear family, which I personally think can be damaging for children’s socialisation.
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I think the author makes a good point about ‘gay’ and ‘lesbian’ as identies having the space to exist as subcultures with the greater autonomy afforded under capitalism, but I would take issue with the suggestion that queer identities are only able to exist as a result of capitalism. There are numerous examples of historical transgender and homosexual identities, not just behaviours (e.g. two-spirit people in Native American culture).
Overall I think it’s an interesting narrative and a good point about the distinction between homosexual behaviour and desires, and queer identity.
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- Comment on Let's goooooo 10 months ago:
Thanks – I’m familiar with some of Engels’ analysis on it, but will have a look at this. Seems interesting!