blind3rdeye

@blind3rdeye@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This gay tortoise is older than the word “homosexual”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh. I just spent half a minute squinting the dark trees in the background, looking for the outline of a car. I didn’t realise the picture was swapped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps this is what Musk means when it says that empathy is bad.

  If your goal is to maximise your own personal wealth, then empathy really is a hindrance. But I put to you that maximising money is not a goal worth devoting a lifetime to. And perhaps not scamming dumb people is a valuable way to act regardless.

  (This is essentially what motivated the Quakers to push for set prices for goods rather than constant bartering. They believed that dump people should still be able to go to a shop and buy stuff without getting ripped off. I’d say that moral position has made the world a slightly better place.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make gravity your bitch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But that will never happen, because electromagnetic forces haven’t learned the power of friendship and co-operation. Gravity always works together, but the other fickle fundamental forces just can’t decide if they are pushing or pulling or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨logs are for quitters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, but there is far more energy to gain by fusing hydrogen compared to carbon. I’m not sure how it compares to uranium though. I suspect it might be similar. (I mean, obviously in practice you wouldn’t / couldn’t actually get the energy from fusing carbon - but we can still compare hypothetically. … also, I’m sure we could get a clear answer by looking it up; but this is one of those things where thinking about it is probably more interesting than knowing the answer.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨logs are for quitters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking the same thing. It’s unfair compare chemical energy to nuclear energy. Coal still kind of sucks, but the hydrogen in the others could definitely be used in fusion…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's little cousin plays with MLP toys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re saying it is fake, and gay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨jared⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ads make everything worse. Block them without hesitation or remorse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to love⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Repeat yourself? Why?

  I’m confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Making porting gog to linux a priority which has by far the smallest market share for computer gaming is the dumbest thing anyone in this thread is saying

  Building a bridge across the river is totally stupid, because no one crosses that river to get to where they are going.

  Building a house on that hill is dumb, because no one lives there.

  Creating that new type of device is a waste of time, because no one has ever bought one like that.

  …

  You see the point, right? Not that I’m trying to give business advice. I’m just saying that these things aren’t necessarily as stupid as you seem to think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For example, I bought some beer a couple of days ago, and after I paid the guy said “have a good evening and enjoy the beer”; and I said “you too”…

  I guess I hadn’t processed the second part quickly enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just come back from a holiday which involved lots of hiking in mountains and woodlands. It’s rare to see bins out there, and yet somehow the places are clean. But please tell me more about human behaviour. Getting insulted by strangers on the internet is so fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on board with this. Don’t bring rubbish into woodland areas; and if you do bring it - take it back with you.

  I’m sure the bins were very convenient - but its a convenience that only helps you leave trash in the woodland for someone else to collect. And as others have pointed out, the rubbish can cause problems even if it is all put in the bin.

  So yeah, I can see that it is mildly frustrating - but I don’t think ‘take your rubbish home’ is too much of an ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SHUT UP ABOUT NICOLE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does Nicole like that movie or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All things have a right to grow. The blossom is brother to the weed.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, me too. Fortunately that has never ever happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here is a recent Lemmy post highlighting some of the issues that women common face in academia in US universities. It’s largely about inclusivivity. Lots of good progress has been made in recent times to fix problems of that type, but there is still some way to go.

  Unfortunately, the new US president is strongly against that kind of progress. He has gone out of his way to roll back and block anything that might look like an inclusivity boosting program. Quite clearly, the USA is now moving backwards in these issues.

  So that’s what the comment in the post is about. Note that we’re just reading some random guy’s off-hand comment about an advertisement. So it isn’t an in-depth analysis. It’s a highly simplified message. But I hope you can at least see what we’re talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you honestly not get it, or are you just trying to push back against a message you don’t like?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just happy you thought it was funny, dear⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean the memes about the small misshapen orbs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome, new users!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use to dislike lemmy.world, because I kept seeing divisive posts from them trying to stir up hate against other instances. I find that kind of unprovoked unnecessary shit-stirring to be ugly.

  But then I realised that these negative posts were always coming from the same couple of users, every time. So it wasn’t because lemmy.world had that attitude, but rather there were a couple of zealots who happen to be on that instance.

  And I think of that whenever someone says bad stuff about other instances; because it’s probably a similar situation - just a couple of people giving the instance a bad rep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do tell!!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sound is better than light for that kind of test - but also still not good; because there are many things that block sound but don’t block wifi, and visa versa. (eg. a well insulated double-glazed window is good vs sound, but doesn’t stop any wifi; and a metal mesh can block wifi while stopping very little sound.)

  I remember one time I spent ages trying to debug a wifi problem with my laptop. I was messing around with computer settings and router settings for ages trying to work out why my wifi had stopped working. But in the end, I found that it was entirely due to where I was sitting. I sitting in front of my desktop computer’s very large monitor, and the router directly behind the monitor on a shelf in the room next door. The monitor was blocking the wifi. If I move the laptop or the monitor, it worked fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do tell!!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah? Well I know shit all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What movies have you watched this week?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched:

  • The Wild Robot. I was hoping for something along the lines of Wall-E, and was disappointed. The Wild Robot doesn’t have that kind of broad appeal. It’s aimed at children only, and it’s pretty shallow.
  • Heretic. Very good mood building and pacing. Good acting. I enjoyed it, but I didn’t quite feel like the last parts held together well. Pretty good movie though.
  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. A bit of light-weight fun. This kind of movie doesn’t demand the kind of precision that Heretic needs - which is good, because certainly don’t have it! But I think it did a decent job of being what it was trying to be; a good sequel to the first movie. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would based on what I’d read.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The opposition party could obviously be better, but I think they were strong enough that “no preference” wasn’t the right choice. (After all, choosing not to vote is essentially a vote that says “I don’t care who wins”.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuck this asshole⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Previously I thought almost all of them were, but then I found out that someone I’ve known for years hold that view. Any mention that maybe voting for the democrats would be a good idea results in an angry speech about genocide; which somehow (I’m not sure how) even has them lean towards Trump.

  I appreciate the staunch opposition to genocide. But its kind of weird to see someone take a single issue so strongly to heart that their reasoning ends up inverted such that the candidate they favour is worse even on their one issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a couple games with stats like that; and I do play them a lot… but I think a big slice of the time is that I often leave the game open basically all day while dipping in and out to do other things.

  The play time is ticking up, but I’m having lunch, or doing laundry, or clearing the house or whatever; and I come back to the game when I’m done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Civ is a bit exploitative in that they deliberately release a half-arsed base product with glaring flaws, charging big $$$ for it; and then release a chain of expansion packs to flesh it out and make it complete.

  I was on the beta team for Civ 5; and it was a real eye-opener to see that this is a deliberate strategy. It isn’t just that games are hard to get right. They deliberately hold back to squeeze more cash out. I haven’t bought any civ game since then.

  But yeah, I agree that it isn’t the same type of exploitation as gambling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on enjoying your life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One must be careful with this kind of reasoning, because often the time is not a cost - but actually a valuable part of the experience in its own right. Walking to the corner store is slower than driving - but can be a worthwhile experience for its own sake - as it give a bit of time for quiet reflection, and light exercise, and fresh air. Depending on your tastes, a similar thing could be said about doing some maintenance work on your bike vs paying someone to do it for you.

  Getting too bogged down in time vs money can potentially lead to miscalculations and stress. Is it better to give someone a quick blowjob for a bit of extra cash so that you can pay someone to vacuum your house? Perhaps the calculation is not really one-dimensional.

  For me, simply spending less time thinking about money is worth quite a bit of ‘wasted’ money & time; because I value the headspace that would otherwise be consumed by that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon visits a bookstore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amusing greentext - but doesn’t match the bookshops that I was in recently. There are some really good bookshops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The one drawback to walking at night⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry it bothers you like that.

  I personally don’t feel alienated or attacked at all by the kinds of comments you are describing. When I see a comment like “men murder women”, I think of it in the same kind of way comments like “humans are horrible” or “Australians are racist” or “young people have no attention span”… That is to say it describes a trend or someone’s perception of a tendency but does not refer to any specific individual.

  People aren’t saying these things to attack you. They are saying them to communicate their own feelings of being unsafe. And to be frank, feeling that you shouldn’t go for a walk at night because it is too dangerous is a pretty serious thing which has obvious negative effects - and the concern is based in reality. It isn’t just a perception problem. So we should take these comments seriously - not just complain about the people saying them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wobble Wobble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we’re past the point of humour on that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They just don't understand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  some cables can lose some signal strength after a few years of usage

  Roughly how many years are you thinking about? I’ve been using the same 10m ethernet cable for more than 20 years. And my expectation was that only physical wear would damage it (eg. rolling and unrolling it to deploy in a different place; possibly closing a door on it accidentally… that kind of thing).