Fandangalo
@Fandangalo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 6 days ago:
This feels like a grave mischaracterization of what I wrote. I don’t think you’re a good faith actor. Have a good one.
- Comment on Is empathy based on a financial bell curve? 1 week ago:
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The pattern is poorer & richer people give more. The poorer people understand hardship & help one another. The richer people have more to give (and financial incentives to do so, such as tax write-offs).
The middle class gives the least, likely because they feel the most pinched on maintaining a quality of life that’s often becoming more expensive.
The poor, In my opinion, have the MOST empathy. They give a lot as a percentage of income & have the most to lose.
Your intuition is pretty much the opposite of the statistics.
- Comment on Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents 3 weeks ago:
This story is such fascist bullshit to read.
Germany in the 1940s “Open up! You’re harboring Jews!”
America in 2025, “Open up! You’re harboring political enemies!”
These people expedite the erosion of law. When federal agents don’t follow the law & the injustice is obvious, it’ll turn into anarchy, which is followed by a ‘justified’ police state / Marshall law. We’re no better than our enemies. We used to care about the optics, but now even that is dropped.
So disappointed by this country.
- Comment on Tech CEOs are using AI to replace themselves / CEOs from Zoom and Klarna used AI avatars while reporting earnings 4 weeks ago:
This just feels straight up lazy and exploitative given their salaries.
Also, if this is normalized across your company, what the hell would meetings be? A group of avatars talking while humans do other stuff? “If the CEO can do it, why not us?”
If we’re at that point, let’s go ahead to UBI, because the smoke screen is falling about how BS this whole facade is.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 4 weeks ago:
Out of the games I’ve been fortunate to work on, 1/7 require internet, and the 1 was my first industry job as QA. Everything else has been mobile, online required. 5/7 are no longer playable / removed from the internet.
It makes me sad because my kids will never play a bunch of things I made. I can’t revisit them nostalgically. If I had made something in the 90s, it would be preserved still.
I played the cards dealt to me to follow a dream and make a living, but I wish the industry wasn’t like this. The money has always been a role, but nowadays, it’s distorted so badly.
- Comment on We are so cooked 2 months ago:
- Comment on Blobfish 2 months ago:
Why not use both and turn it into a 2 panel meme?
Me when I have water Me when I’m a human living in the modern world
- Comment on NEW TAPEWORM JSUT DROPPED 2 months ago:
- Comment on Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China? 3 months ago:
I like this comparison to see how they were right about different facets together.
- Comment on Freedumb 3 months ago:
Thanks for sharing, homie.
- Comment on Freedumb 3 months ago:
John 13:34-35
34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.
35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’
This was said by Jesus before he was betrayed by Judas. This same notion is shared by many other holy prophets.
- The Buddha taught that all living beings experience suffering, and therefore, compassion should be extended to everyone without discrimination.
- The Prophetﷺ set a crucial example to the Muslims: that there is far greater value in forgiveness than in revenge. And that the remedy for injustice and the cycle of abuse is moving the community forward, as one whole, together.
I don’t want to give up on humans. I don’t want to be a bitter person. Maybe my morals will be my ruin, but if so, I know I will have lived a compassionate life of love.
As a human, I hate the actions going on in the US and around the world. As a spirit, I feel compelled to find love and champion it.
Peace be to you, homie. 💜
- Comment on Freedumb 3 months ago:
Matthew 25:35, separating the goats and sheep, outlines how Jesus would judge people at the end times. These are the questions:
- Did you clothe me?
- Did you feed me?
- Did you visit me in jail?
- Did you help me when I was a foreigner in a strange land?
We must show the modern hypocrisy and how people have fallen astray from their own values. They must be reminded of the values that got us here. If this book is how they truly ground their lives, then there is no way to deny it.
Either they accept Christ’s message or they don’t. I don’t care who asks these questions: they are good moral questions.
- Comment on Freedumb 3 months ago:
Revelations 16:2
So the first angel went and poured his bowl on the earth, and a foul and painful sore came on those who had the mark of the beast and who worshipped its image.
Matthew 23:24
Then if anyone says to you, “Look! Here is the Messiah!” or “There he is!”—do not believe it. 24 For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and omens, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.
If people on the Right want to claim a Christian high ground, then quote the book that matters most to them.
- Comment on is telling an employee how he has to speak micromanaging? Is it toxic? 3 months ago:
Real answer: if you’re communicating, you want to be understood at some level. Knowing the audience changes the dynamic to fulfill that goal. If you use big words and your audience is 5 year olds, you likely won’t be understood.
If someone gave me this advice, my first reaction wouldn’t be “You’re attacking me!” It would, “Hey, thanks for the advice. Can you unpack it further for me?” In work, I’ve done well by having a growth oriented mindset. There absolutely are bad faith actors, but listening to the advice of others has helped me grow.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 3 months ago:
A lot of people are discussing the legal or revolutionary frameworks, but there’s a very human story to all of this. The government is run by people, and people are human. They make mistakes, backstab one another, get sick. They compete for different goals & subvert. It’s politics.
Morality is about respecting other moral agents, but it’s also about self-defeating principles. If you constantly lie, then there is no trust. Without trust, there’s room for speculation, rumor, & fear. Everyone on eggshells constantly. That’s partially why these fascist systems aren’t sustainable. However, as the world has become interconnected, so have the global elite. Fascism isn’t just here: it’s in a lot of places. There’s likely secret (and not so secret) actors pulling those strings, not to sound conspiratorial.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction in physics. Like others have said, I’m not sure about my faith in the USA, as it is today: 50 states and some territories holding “together”. The culture and economy of the Northeast is vastly different than the Southeast. The USA absolutely had its hand in much of global politics over the last 100 years. Russia was the USSR in the 80s (~40 years ago); I think this is our “equal and opposite” moment of a world power fracturing. My expectation is the USA splits up, but I’m not sure what comes next. I don’t know if that’s “screwed”, but it’s not as it is today.
- Comment on know the chain of command 4 months ago:
This is solipsism, which I’m finding more believable as time goes on.
- Comment on David Bowie has been dead for almost a decade. 4 months ago:
Both of them are idols for me: they were enigmatic musicians who defined themselves and loved by the world for doing it. They bucked against fashion trends. They spoke openly about their views.
I did drag for the first time that year because I didn’t want to be on my deathbed with regrets for not doing it. We raised money for kids with HIV. It was super fun.
I miss both of them.
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 5 months ago:
I’m not a big Linux person, but the steam deck NOT being windows seems like a plus generally. >_>
- Comment on Silhouette in Passage 5 months ago:
Reminds me of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_of_the_Blessed
Bosch‘s piece is sometimes mentioned in near death experience survivors as “feeling accurate” to their experience. I like to imagine it’s our individuality returning to a oneness.
Thanks for posting.
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 5 months ago:
The answer depends on your religion, but in the monotheistic traditions of the major religions, the notion of God might be better aligned with “oneness” or “integration” than a personification as we think about them. In that way, God is “everything” (including the contradictions) which would also mean emotions. To say God feels things, it means “God has the capability to feel, because God is all powerful.”
Whether God is impacted by those emotions or their reasoning changes because of them, I think the realities and contradictions are a part of faith. If it all made sense, faith wouldn’t be necessary. You’ll find reasoning similar to this in someone like Kierkegaard.
I’m a UU (raised Catholic, was an atheist for 20 years, followed Buddhism for a few years). My internal conception of God has changed a lot over that time: mostly expanded and includes more grace about this “grand everything” rather than “Old man in a cloud who can be sorta weird and spiteful.” I like the UU lets me ask questions and develop my own faith.
- Comment on They're trying to charge Luigi with terrorism! Imagine that! 5 months ago:
As a person who grew up in American schools post-Columbine, with kids in schools now, and none of us are CEOs, this is probably the take that saddens me a lot. It’s our kids, and the argument used to be about freedom. Soon, we won’t even have that. What was the fucking point? (Rhetorical: profit)
I know we’re all alive at a special time in humanity. We think we’re so civilized. Then I look around, and it’s the same history playing on repeat. When do the monkeys figure out it’s one species? (Rhetorical again: 😬)
- Comment on What do people who promoted the "FEMA camps" conspiracy theory think about Trump's mass deportation? 6 months ago:
“Bidens should have let happen”. Come on. Pew research shows immigration rose, but not to some new peak. The world is going to shit due to everything.
I don’t think facts will dissuade you. So here’s a national landmark instead:
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
Statue of LIBERTY. Hopefully it’ll still be up & relevant in 4 years if we don’t destroy one another…
- Comment on What do people who promoted the "FEMA camps" conspiracy theory think about Trump's mass deportation? 6 months ago:
I honestly think it’s lead exposure…There was lead all over until 1978. Baby boomers had this shit everywhere around them, and no surprise, they have chronic issues. I feel like many baby boomers really struggle with empathy… most seem angry at a base level.
- Comment on Percentages 6 months ago:
In game design, it has to be stated whether it’s multiplicative or additive. Sometimes a logarithmic function is used as well, with increases in efficiency as 1 / ( 1 + bonus ). This allows you to always add more bonus, but there’s diminishing returns.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 6 months ago:
I was an atheist for the last 20 years and recently converted to Unitarian Universalist.
I would say that in the west, this characterization tends to be true. But I do think there are honest faith communities acting with good intent. Unfortunately, there are few.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Does everyone single human need to be put into neat little categories without any grey room at all? It’s always good vs evil! Yeah! Exactly how life works! No complexity! 🙃
I’m a Bernie supporter. Pretty liberal. I wish no one died, the shooter included. I hate Trump, but stop cheering. Why are we celebrating the end of our species? We’re all human. It’s someone’s son, or brother, or family, or friend.
#ScreamingIntoTheVoid
- Comment on Sitting and shitting on my high horse 11 months ago:
Which came first? The AI image could be a bad render of the original picture with low quality.
There’s issues with models pushing back source material with minor modifications, which suggest they were trained on some copyrighted material. It seems like it could be the case here. Or, as you suggest, it’s a lowering of the AI quality to add a more realistic appearance.
- Comment on Silkbulb Test's demo is a fun quiz game as long as you ignore the noises and don't look behind you 1 year ago:
I couldn’t find the game’s link in the article, so here it is for others: store.steampowered.com/app/…/silkbulb_test/#:~:te…
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 year ago:
Starting off with “we’ve heard your feedback” is something I’ve never heard from an abusive parent?
- Comment on Scared the shit out of me ngl 1 year ago:
Many things are designed for engagement, so what’s your point? Some people use Lemmy like Reddit and care about internet points that don’t matter. “The rising number is designed to explode your behavioral patterns and enforce your engagement.” Instead of daily, it’s multiple times, but the point is you can paint many business models like this.
People download the app to get better at a skill. It’s designed to be effective at doing that. It’s a skill people want to learn. How is that exploitive or manipulative?
Full warning: I’ve worked in game design and F2P for like 10 years. I know there’s some personal bias, but there are much worse examples of this stuff than Duolingo or whatever. Painting good actors as bad actors is not correct.
The anecdote part at the end is irrelevant for both of us. I have the opposite experience and don’t even use this app: a bunch of my friends seem to all use it for learning languages. /shrug
