wizzor
@wizzor@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 1 week ago:
Back in the day I lived in the outskirts of the city where buses would run rarely. Many times when I arrived home late a woman would also drop off. They mostly reacted in the same way as OP describes.
I tried to imagine having to be afraid like that all the time and it’s horrifying. The planet is populated by animals larger and stronger than you who might, or might not behave violently without provocation.
- Comment on ‘Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund, because they have a higher ‘general level of ambition’ 3 weeks ago:
Alternative wording: Europeans have better work-life balance than Americans.
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 4 weeks ago:
I think your point is valid, but my point is exactly that social skills can be learned, for non-neurotypicals that might require more help. The attitude of helplessness displayed by the poster is much more harmful, even more than splitting hairs about population edge cases.
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks ago:
I thought you were kidding but no, they do and the reason is otherwise they wouldn’t fit under environmental protection laws.
- Comment on Anon wants a cute girlfriend. 4 weeks ago:
What really baffles me is the fact that he seems to think looks and personality can’t be affected.
There are multiple industries which exist solely to make people look better, even without considering cosmetic surgery.
Learning social skills is equally possible. Many, many books and classes are dedicated on the subject. There are many non-physical aspects of attractiveness, and social skills and personality are some, but shared interests, type of humour, mentality towards life, values and goals also play a part.
The fatalism in the post makes me sad for him.
- Comment on Cool People Doing Cool Things 5 weeks ago:
Her happiness is contagious!
- Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US? 5 weeks ago:
Coin op skate sharpening sounds perfect for Canada.
I wonder if I could bring that to Finland…?
- Comment on Intervention as one in four school starters in nappies 2 months ago:
That explains a lot, thanks!
- Comment on Intervention as one in four school starters in nappies 2 months ago:
Thanks, is the missing context!
- Comment on Intervention as one in four school starters in nappies 2 months ago:
What do they mean by school? What age are these children?
Where I’m from, the typical age to potty train is 2-4 years, so 25% at age 6-7 sounds very high.
- Comment on Booper 2 Pooper 3 months ago:
My only question is, why are only amphibians measured this way?
- Comment on Hockey 4 months ago:
On behalf of all Nordic countries, I approve of this.
- Comment on Anon can't find a good match 5 months ago:
Thanks, this entire post makes more sense now.
Although I gotta ask, at that point is it possible OP also has some issues…?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
So what killed him?
- Comment on Which is which? 5 months ago:
Bees… Do both?
- Comment on Geography is neat 6 months ago:
A moist bint lobbing scimitars at people in the middle of jänkhä? Sign me up.
- Comment on Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol 6 months ago:
Someone thought me the concept of a legal fiction and I still think about it.
Land ownership, companies, nation states, citizenship: all exist because we agree that it does.
- Comment on Anon goes to the gym 6 months ago:
I can hear the dude shouting through the text. Love it.
- Comment on This Ace Attorney collection is about to disappear from Steam, so grab it while you can (and cheap, for the next week) 6 months ago:
I have never heard of this game, but the reviews are overwhelmingly positive and price is 10€.
- Comment on If it's not broken... 7 months ago:
Well, he did move to live on a remote island (no power, no other people, no access for 5 months out of the year without a helicopter) at age 72. Lived there for several years. Also grew much of his own food for a almost 20 years.
- Comment on If it's not broken... 7 months ago:
I can actually imagine my grandpa doing this. I wouldn’t call him a computer wizard by any means, but he has surprised me before. He will just go to the library, and have the librarians find printed computer magazines which would deal with various connectors, learn about HDMI and composite. Then proceed to find another magazine which has reviews of adapters and take a bus to the big electronics shop to ask about adapters and have them place the order for one.
He actually did this when he needed to digitize some tapes. Granted, he ended up with a firewire-connected external sound card and a tape deck from a hi-fi store connected to Audacity, when all he needed was my old walkman, a 3.5mm cable and Windows Recorder, but hey, it got the job done.
He used to be a researcher and he somehow sees these things just as requiring time to find the right source of information… And time he has.
I could imagine someone’s grandma being the same.
- Comment on Anon buys an air fryer 7 months ago:
Thanks for sharing this, interesting recipe too, I will try it. The cross section of the air fryer was cool.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 7 months ago:
Sounds talaxian.
- Comment on hats 7 months ago:
So that’s what a skull cap is.
- Comment on What does Lemmy do better than Reddit? 8 months ago:
No one on the platform side is incentivized (or capable) of controlling things, which is nice.
- Comment on "looks inside, individually packaged" 10 months ago:
Make it harder to steal is the most common reason.
- Comment on this was in my advent calendar (16th-18th dec) 11 months ago:
Little?
- Comment on Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed on directing new Star Trek but has returned to science fiction with Foundation 1 year ago:
I just started listening through the series and all I can think about is how epic the TV show would be.
- Comment on What more need be said about it? 1 year ago:
I know.
The permits, policies, regulation and political apparatuses which Rand so despises are legal fictions which allow a small group of people control, who gets to use what resources and how.
Currencies, fractional reserve banking, patents and land ownership are similar legal fiction, which allow a small group to control who gets to use what resources and how.
If I want to sell razor blades to a Gillette razor, I will get sued for patent infringement. Is their gatekeepping somehow more morally valid than the politician’s who gives a tax break to their competitor since their production line is in his city?
I was trying to humorously point out, that the quoted part of Rand’s text could be read almost as a socialist opinion, where the value created arises from the worker and not the owners.
- Comment on What more need be said about it? 1 year ago:
It seems to me this passage speaks against the bankers, intellectual property owners, monopolists, land owners and the like. All gate keepers of resources.
Perhaps Atlas is actually someone else than Rand thought.