NarrativeBear
@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 2 days ago:
Yes, technically correct and I am not disputing your points.
But, we all know the cost of the tariff the local importer will need to pay the local government will be passed on to local consumers.
My distinction and argument is if the government said “we will increase taxes on all products at your local grocery store by 145℅” people would flip. But when the wording become we will tariff “other countries” people forget who actually pays that tariff.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 3 days ago:
Its insane that a tax is also charged on top of the already applied tariff.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 3 days ago:
Hopefully gamers get together and protest Trump out of office for artificially bumping up the costs of goods.
Tarrifs = Tax
A tax that working people pay, in the country that set the tarriff.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 3 days ago:
Thanks Trump for adding a 145% “tax” on my electronics. How am I supposed to afford anything now!?
Guess I may as well just go protest instead.
- Comment on Interesting logic 4 days ago:
The Orvil did a episode on that where they found a two dimensional universe with life in it. The bad part, three dimensional life cannot exist in two dimensions with a digestive track, it gets split into two parts.
I can’t imagine a forth, fifth, or sixth dimension or how a three dimensional being could survive it.
- Comment on Interesting logic 4 days ago:
Well put, this was my training of thought as well.
As a analogy, our body is the Universe. Our fingernails (the moon) do not experience themselves or have any awareness of their own existence. Our mind (a living thing) knows and experiences our fingernails and is aware of its own existence.
- Comment on Interesting logic 4 days ago:
Absolutely agreed, these conversations are generally very deep and definitely the Shit Post community is not the best fit for them.
That being said this one idea always resonated with me.
The idea that “we are drops of water joining to create the ocean”, suggesting that individuals are interconnected and form a larger whole, like drops of water merging to create a vast ocean.
Or how’s Ajaan, the Buddhist monk in season 2 of White Lotus phrases it.
“When you were born, you were like a single drop of water separated from the one giant consciousness. You are born, then you die to descend back into the water and become one with the ocean again. No more separated, no more suffering.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7cZAe3F3rQ
I thought this was beautiful put.
- Comment on Interesting logic 4 days ago:
I would probably ask, what is God if not the Universe?
I suppose the next though would be is God apart of the Universe, or do they reside outside of the Universe?
If God were apart of the Universe, did they create themselves and the Universe, or did God themselves come into being at the Universe’s creation? Is God the Universe its self?
That saying that God is all within us, at least to me seems to imply that God is the Universe, and since humans are “created of the stars” we have God within us.
Or alternatively if God resides outside the Universe? Would that imply there is more beyond the Universe or do we simply reside in a “simulation” of sorts.
- Comment on Interesting logic 5 days ago:
If humans are born of the universe, and humans are sentient. Is the universe not its self sentient.
The universe created life to experience its self. Or was the universe in its self already alive?
- Comment on Interesting logic 5 days ago:
What about the American people constantly complaining about aliens illegally entering their country? Explain this!
- Comment on Interesting logic 5 days ago:
Also given the scale of time of the universe. We as humans have only existed for a small amout of time on the vast scale of things.
Countless alien civilizations may have existed and destroyed themselves, and may others may have not come into existence yet.
- Comment on Golfing!! 1 week ago:
If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again.
- Comment on How to open a door - instructional video (1979) 2 weeks ago:
You use your hands?!
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 2 weeks ago:
This is a paper weight!
- Comment on Mini Metro -- surprisingly simple but compelling game mechanics and fantastic UI design 2 weeks ago:
Mini Metro and Mini Motorways
- Comment on infected by the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
/mnt/pnas
- Comment on A Weekly Occurrence at Work 5 weeks ago:
To shreds you say?!
- Comment on well you better go find it 5 weeks ago:
Is this a miscarriage cake? That’s awful!
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 1 month ago:
If the game is delisted and you have bought it is it still downloaded and playable.
- Comment on Low Budget Terminator 1 month ago:
A masterpiece, I can’t believe it was not nominated for a Oscar.
- Comment on America Has a Rogue President 1 month ago:
The current President can’t fathom that he is employed to serve the people. He thinks he’s king…
- Comment on No means no 1 month ago:
Any guides you recommend people should follow?
- Comment on I miss myspace 1 month ago:
cat, im a kitty cat, and dance dance dance and dance dance dance
- Comment on Seems like solid advice 2 months ago:
I prefer radioactive cleaning products, nothing says clean like irradiated.
- Comment on Seems like solid advice 2 months ago:
Take it apart, put the plastics in a soap and water solution. Clean the electronics with compressed air and a small toothbrush with isotope alcohol were needed.
Any yellowing of the plastics you can use peroxide with a UV light.
- Comment on I've modified the Alcoholics Anonymous plan 2 months ago:
This is a aspen tree. You can tell its a aspen tree because the way it is wow.
- Comment on The difference in men vs women priorities 2 months ago:
A pocket scale always comes in handy at the deli or supermarket. Bonus points if you also carry a abacus.
- Comment on Retribution would be not pulling out his teeth but his testicles 2 months ago:
Sorry to hear that, same boat as you where fillings needed to be replaced over the years, thankfully the new ones have been holding well (for now), no crown yet…
- Comment on Retribution would be not pulling out his teeth but his testicles 2 months ago:
Every part, 100% true.
People rarely get second opinions on their teeth. In Canada most dentist will recommend fillings for cavities that do not exist, then charge it to OHIP.
Most of my teeth have shallow fillings as a result because my parents believed what the dentist said. Never ate candy, drank soda or pop when I was a kid.
- Comment on Art site that reads your mind- This site lets you scribble anything and it will turn into what you are thinking 2 months ago:
The AI is pretty bang on, it knows exactly what I was doodling.