Schmoo

@Schmoo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't envy the humans pre-dentistry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People generally have a sex drive, then develop an instinctual drive to protect their children after they are born. Of course, contraception allows us to sate our sex drive without it resulting in children, so you can choose to opt out of the evolutionary process before you develop an instinctual drive to raise children in the first place. Most people still have that instinct ready to kick in for a child that is not their own if such a situation arises, which is still evolutionarily advantageous for the group as a whole, even if it’s not for the individual.

  Of course in rare cases some people lack that instinct entirely, but that’s the exception not the rule.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Celebrating my 1000th comment. Here is a shitpost.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I started to make a long effort post detailing Putin’s rise to - and subsequent consolidation of - power, but then I came to my senses and realized it would be pointless. If I went through with it, you would just do what you’ve been doing already, dismiss all sources I provide as false and biased propaganda while engaging in ridiculous whataboutism. I decided it would be a poor use of my time, is this really how you want to be spending yours?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Celebrating my 1000th comment. Here is a shitpost.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Putin and Xi are dictators in the same way that Trump is trying to be. They consolidated power under their office, removing term limits and checks, and manipulate the democratic process in their favor (often with blatant ballot stuffing and crushing opposition, in the case of Putin).

  The US political system, as corrupt as it is, isn’t quite to that point yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨check it before you wreck it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shaka, when the walls fell…

  Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The boomer ellipsis drives me nuts. It gives me a very ominous feeling, like something is being left unsaid that I’m supposed to extrapolate. The only time I use an ellipsis in text is when I want to indicate that the thought is incomplete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were to point a spectrometer at something brown like a tree trunk you would see wavelengths corresponding to red and green light. That’s what I mean when I say brown only exists in our perception; there is no wavelength of light corresponding to the color brown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it isn’t “real” in the sense that it doesn’t correspond to a specific wavelength of light. It is impossible to produce a brown light; the closest you can get is amber. The color brown is context-dependent and only exists in our perception. To display brown on a screen you have to use orange, desaturate it, and make sure it’s darker than its surroundings.

  If you pull up a solid brown image on your phone and hold it against a darker background (you may need to turn off the lights), you will see orange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨listen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that the guy who was drunk and returning to his hotel room when the gravy seals mowed him down in the hallway? That video was so irredeemably fucked up that if I remember correctly the cops actually faced consequences. I don’t think I ever heard if those consequences stuck though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But ideologically, while not communist, I don’t see how that structure can’t be considered socialist.

  It’s not that it can’t be, I just personally don’t consider a state socialist unless it is a functioning democracy that enacts what is at least an approximation of the will of the workers. It becomes obvious this is not the case when a state is hostile towards workers who attempt to organize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only because the very concepts of ownership and the collective-individual dichotomy are necessarily vague and subjective. China considers themselves socialist because they equivocate the people with the state. If the people are collectively represented by the state and the state owns (some of) the means of production, then at least transitively the people own (some of) the means of production.

  As an anarchist I don’t believe the state adequately represents the interests of the people, nor do I think it could even if it were radically democratic and egalitarian, though I would still certainly prefer that to the existing status quo. Somewhere a line must be drawn arbitrarily and I prefer to draw it on the other side of authoritarian state control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It really is like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Socialism isn’t when the government does stuff for the people, it’s when the people take matters into their own hands and do stuff for the good of each other. Even if a state behaves in the most benevolent way possible, it is not socialist unless the workers have collective ownership of the means of production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mental Healthcare costs thousands of dollars and is hard to access? That's *crazy*!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re socks with grippy material on the bottom to keep you from slipping. They give them to you when you’re admitted to the hospital. The implication is that they were sent to the psych ward and put on suicide watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always a fan of simple instructions on how to do everyday things⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Autistic people deserve love too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim teaches a Lemmy user about fascist propaganda⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Skyrim was baby’s first RPG for a lot of people. Lots of people played it that didn’t really expect or were interested in engaging with moral complexity in their games, to the extent that it really existed in Skyrim.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon expects more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The anti-Muslim rhetoric comes out more in foreign policy discussions, and the degree to which more liberal-leaning politicians and talking heads let it slide unchallenged makes people not pay as much attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism nas gone too woke!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it though? Or is that just what racists who don’t think they’re racist like to tell themselves because they believe in pseudoscience with embedded racism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’m not a medical professional, and I didn’t speak out of an abundance of caution while making an offhanded comment on a shitpost. Sue me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And conversely, not everyone is you. Weed has particularly variable effects, I know it might not work for my grandma, but as I see it it’s worth a shot if the alternative is opiates. She’s only unwilling to try it because she grew up being lied to about cannabis and thinks it will make her crazy. She’s even afraid of CBD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And because you deserve it, here's one from the top shelf⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly wish I could convince my grandma that weed would be better for managing her arthritis pain than the opiates her doctor has her hooked on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buddy baka⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do people engage with anything that makes them uncomfortable? Horror? Tragedy? It’s just morbid curiosity. It’s not a bad thing, really. Any exploration of the human condition is incomplete without a look at the darker side. Some need more light in their entertainment to help the medicine go down, and that’s OK too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2: First Gameplay Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Use your ship log, it’ll remind you of all the clues you’ve found so far and how they connect together. But I agree it’s better to play continuously without large time gaps to keep everything you’ve learned fresh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water + hot oil⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worked in a few kitchens when I was a teenager and those industrial dishwashers usually have a sink to the right of them and a flat surface to the left so you can slide trays of dishes through them from right to left. The dishwasher itself divides the dirty and clean areas so there’s no cross-contamination. If one were set up so that you just slide the tray in and back out the same way I don’t think that would meet hygiene standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only watched the TV show so I don’t know the backstory, but if that’s the case it isn’t very true to life. Such strong social safety nets in a capitalist society could only ever be instated as a result of intense pressure from a mass social movement, and even then is unlikely to last. Automation will only increase productivity - which the capitalists will simply absorb in their pursuit of infinite growth - and never make it so that people can work less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨huehuehue⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tell that to the reindeer known for enjoying Amanita Muscaria mushrooms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I live in the green part⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is how I see the map. Didn’t notice CO was green until a comment mentioned it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Percentages⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Key word here is “infinitesimally.” Of course if you’re calculating the odds of hitting something infinitesimally small you’re going to get 0. That’s just the nature of infinities. It is impossible to hit an infinitesimally small point, but that’s not what a human considers to be a “perfect bullseye.” There’s no paradox here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't be a coward⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Raccoon paws and octopus tentacles both rival the dexterity of human - and other primates’ - hands in my opinion. They even have certain advantages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except all the liberals insisted they would vote for Biden’s corpse before letting Trump win. What does it say about them if an actual progressive is the real dealbreaker?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not colorblind friendly at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Thread] Mental Math⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder that as well, I have a false front incisor and haven’t noticed any difference in durability, but as far as sensation goes it’s practically identical, if a bit less sensitive to cold. Then again, the part that actually gets replaced doesn’t exactly have nerve endings, I still have those underneath it.