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Futility is resistant
- Comment on it's true! 7 minutes ago:
How do you deal with native fauna that lives in wild vegetation? Mosquitoes, flies, ticks, etc.?
- Comment on photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads 2 days ago:
The infuriating part for me is “some this is breaking Photopeia”, an euphemism for “we break Photopeia if you block ads”.
- Comment on Excuse the fuck me? 2 days ago:
I don’t think it’s instinct, but a calculated selfish decision. Will I profit from spending energy, time, and money in this person? If they die, it’s a net loss, so they bail.
- Comment on cox-zucker 3 days ago:
I wasn’t very curious since according to them, the primary point of the paper was making a joke. I’d supposed the algorithm wasn’t groundbreaking, just something to publish.
- Comment on What do you think the PPE is for 3 days ago:
Maybe an ordered table can’t have the element of surprise.
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 4 days ago:
I’ve never considered a mini pc as a serious gaming option, but there are very attractive offers with a good enough GPU for many use cases.
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 5 days ago:
Infosec folks that are not that into gaming to commit to a full-blown gaming PC, ¿gaming laptop or gaming mini-pc?
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 1 week ago:
And they KNOW humans provide sustenance on a regular basis, and protection, so I can’t believe they think we’re just giant hairless monstrous cats. They’d have to think everything else is a cat otherwise. Look at the flying cats, mom! I’m gonna catch and eat one!
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
I fully accept I have difficulty with using these pronouns. English is not my first language, and in my daily life I know zero nonbinary people, literally zero, so I don’t get to practice. I’ve only seen trans people on TV, or in discussions on the Internet, so I don’t get to practice those either.
I know a handful of people that are gay or lesbian, but they’re not into choosing special gender pronouns. So my only practice before this discussion was another online discussion more than a year ago.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
When I said Adira is a nonbinary girl, I meant she is female of sex and nonbinary of chosen gender.
it was a big deal when they announced her, but the treatment was milquetoast and timid. Same with the few non-cis characters, they were tokens, the show didn’t have the courage to depict a future where a diverse gender philosophy is widely accepted. They yellowed out of it and presented as if it was still our time. I don’t dislike the show for being woke, I dislike it for being shallow woke.
Same with the rest of it, it was 90% SFX and 10% writing. With long series like TNG you can afford the luxury of experimenting and fumbling the ball some weeks, it Discovery and Picard and massive productions that only have 12 episodes a year. They had to make every one of those count.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
Again, let me explain it as a metaphor:
a) You want to buy a new house, it’s beautiful although there’s a couple of leaks but the rest of the roof is solid. You decide like it.
b) You want to buy a new house, it’s beautiful although most of the roof has leaks. You decide it’s not wort the effort.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
Those are reasons to hate any show. Discovery made the mistake of being made mostly of that.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
You’ve said it, examples. All series have their flaws, but overall their qualities made them last. Who hasn’t heard of someone binging all of TNG? Who has heard someone say “Discovery was so good I’m rewatching it with my friends”?
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
If it doesn’t make you want to rewatch it whole years later, it’s bad Trek.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
Fans hated it because was different, that’s hardly a reason. They hated it because:
- For the first time, Starfleet officers were emotionally-stunted or plain assholes instead of well-adapted officers.
- The series revolved around a divisive character, hoping I guess that some people would become hardcore fans of Michael.
- It intentionally wrecked canon, even one of the producers proudly said he didn’t watch Star Trek to avoid preconceptions.
- Tech doesn’t make sense for its time. Practically none of it made any sense for a prequel, maybe if it had been a sequel.
- The forced linking of the main protagonist to Spock was unbelievable, more so because it somehow gave her Vulcan powers by osmosis.
- It promoted itself as progressive, but all it did was including a gay couple and a non-binary girl. The important characters were all cis, or left unspoken.
It wasn’t just different, it was bad. Really bad. It was like a vuvuzela in an acoustic song.
- Comment on Can't argue that. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen (and experienced in my fifties) that age does affect the working of your mind. I’d compare it to sleep deprivation. You know, when you’re young and reckless and haven’t slept well for a week, maybe pulling all-nighters for fun? It affects your concentration, your reflexes, and your general memory.
Age is like a mild sleep deprivation that gets a little bit worse each decade. It takes effort to stay lucid.
- Comment on Uh oh lol 2 weeks ago:
Oh no! We might not survive the collision to hundred fifty thousand years from now!
- Comment on Doot doot 2 weeks ago:
Crabs know what’s up too, that’s why they wear their skeleton as an armor. Can’t hurt you if it’s outside.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 3 weeks ago:
These organisms are doing their best, okay? They’re just too smol.
- Comment on How does the Chinese government even work 3 weeks ago:
That’s because people can take a lot before becoming truly desperate. A revolution means risking mass death, and few are willing to sacrifice so others can have a better life.
- Comment on "Behavioral Conditioning Methods to Stop my Boyfriend from Playing The Witcher 3" 4 weeks ago:
As a compulsive player who recently got caught in the Fallout 76 hamster wheel, I find this too relatable, but also beautiful.
- Comment on Disco Panic! 5 weeks ago:
Not OP, but correct link: wired.com/…/how-the-disco-clam-uses-light-to-figh…
- Comment on [Poll] What social media platforms do you know about? 2 months ago:
Email forums
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 2 months ago:
I felt this warning in my bones. I am weak.
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 3 months ago:
These comments are a shitshow. It has become not only acceptable, but the norm, to counter common sense argument with “your mom”.
Idiocracy was supposed to be a satire, we were supposed to be smart and educated, the kind of people that can’t be easily fooled. Every day we return to monke a bit more.
- Comment on he's SO handsome!! 3 months ago:
Became what he ate, one round mango birb.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
A guy from work (millennial) has smartphone, tablet, and gaming consoles, but no computers at home. He works in IT tech support, and is really good, but the only computer he uses is the one at work. WTF.
I suspect that from time to time, he does need things only a proper computer can do, but he simply uses the work computer.
- Comment on Especially during this heat wave! 3 months ago:
She’s manifesting against self care, obviously.
- Comment on Moon Dust 3 months ago:
I think moon dust doesn’t qualify as an allergen because breathing sharp glass dust is not something people are supposed to do without harm. IIRC ithings that are intrinsically irritant, like smoke or pepper, don’t qualify as allergens.
- Comment on How do you do? 3 months ago:
How young a child? My cactus could outthink any newborn.