bucho
@bucho@lemmy.one
- Comment on Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved? 1 year ago:
… Ok, fair. 11,000 years was the wrong cut-off date. 12 - 13,000 years would have illustrated my point better.
- Comment on Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved? 1 year ago:
Not even anywhere near that long. There have been humans for probably more than 200,000 years. Probably more. It gets confusing when you go back that far. But our written history only accounts for maybe 10,000 of those years. So 5% of total human history, if we take the minimum estimate of what it takes for us to be human. We have no evidence to support the fact that human advancement even lasts as long as written history. I mean, shit… the Romans had central heating and cement, and then they died out and we forgot how to do those things for 1,000 years. Our knowledge, and the acquisition of same is not exactly linear. Lots of fits and starts over the course of the various human civilizations that have occurred.
- Comment on Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved? 1 year ago:
What happened 11,000 years ago? I mean, we’ve got some pottery fragments. Other than that, ???
- Comment on Do our human accomplishments have a long-term, universal significance, or when the world ends, do we all end with it, including what we’ve achieved? 1 year ago:
Depends on your definition of “long-term”. The biggest accomplishments of Man have been acknowledged for maybe 10,000 years at the very extreme limits. 10,000 years is not even a drop in the bucket of geological or celestial time. So it very much depends on your perspective.
- Comment on Why are you here at this very moment in your life? 1 year ago:
'Cause I’m drunk on a Thursday (Friday very early in the morning), and I’ve lost control of my life.
- Comment on Does anyone know how to cite this in a research paper? 1 year ago:
MLA format would be something like this:
Maneuver, The Picard. The Delusion. Picard, 2023.
Then, in your paper, to reference it, just write “(Maneuver 2023)”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Nah, your weird attempts at persuasion via stilted language
I’m not sure you know what the word “stilted” means.
are real fuckin tiring already and I just joined this conversation.
Ok. Well, you’re under no obligation to post. Thank you for your contribution, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Ok, so I guess we can add “poor reading comprehension” to the list.
I did not make excuses for nazis. The person that I was responding to made an incredibly slippery slope argument, and I was using hyperbole to point that out. If you don’t understand that, I suggest you take a remedial class in English at your local community college.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
No, I had very good reason to insult them. If you would like to know my reasons, I’m more than happy to discuss it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
So, does that mean that you cannot articulate an answer, or just that you don’t choose to?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Everyone that disagrees with @bucho@lemmy.one is insane and deluded, a bedtime story for smug crybully liberals.
Well, I didn’t say that. You did. And I disagree with it. What I said is that “hexbearians” are generally delusional, and I feel pretty vindicated in that assessment by the many, many posts by them in this thread. As an example of delusion, you decided that you know enough about me to infer that I believe that everybody whose opinions differ from my own must be delusional, despite very little evidence to back that claim up.
Fucking rich that you cry about “combativeness” when you lead with the above post.
Pointing something out that is true is not crying. And yes. You’re very combative.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Uh… how’s that, then? Don’t worry - I don’t work as a road paver.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I agree. Your mods suck.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’ve seen that in a lot of threads, and there never really seems to be a common definition for what that actually means. Could you enlighten the class?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
… Ok. You’ve already contributed several times to the “delusional” pile of evidence, but more is always appreciated, I suppose. Thank you for your eagerness.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Well, that post is actually where I learned about you lot. Granted, I’d heard quite a bit about tankies beforehand, but just never realized how far divorced from reality y’all actually are. Then, I was greeted with a whole horde of absolute morons with such incredibly braindead takes that I felt compelled to ask a couple of them if they had suffered brain damage as a child. It was that question which got me banned, actually. Asking if they had been dropped on their heads as a kid.
And it made me realize that in addition to being delusional, y’all are also generally crybabies to boot.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
That’s a mighty big leap there, skipper. The nazis also occasionally paved roads. Does that mean that all DoT workers are secretly nazis, too?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Seriously though, you are the one saying that we are not “sane” because we don’t believe in your liberal delusions.
That is some nazi shit.
See - this is a perfect illustration of the “delusional” aspect I mentioned. You are so far up your own backside that you believe everybody who doesn’t believe the specific set of things you do are nazis, or reminiscent of same. It’s why no sane, rational person should ever take you seriously.
I applaud you, actually. You jumped to provide concrete examples backing up my thesis immediately. Super bro move of you.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Again, an incredibly illustrative example of someone who is both delusional and combative.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Case in point.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
For an illustrative example of why every sane person who has had contact with “hexbearians” is exasperated by them, just look at any comment made by a “hexbearian” in this thread. Y’all are delusional af, and combative to boot.
- Comment on Would it make sense for a person in a "privileged class" to move from a red state? 1 year ago:
I mean, I’m a fuckin’ weirdo who loves both heat and humidity. So I’m not really the target audience for that particular argument. But I get that I’m a weirdo, and most people don’t like living in the desert or a swamp. Personally, I’m much more turned off by their politics than I am their weather.
- Comment on Would it make sense for a person in a "privileged class" to move from a red state? 1 year ago:
Gotta go with what works for you. But as a fellow cishet middle-aged white engineer, you could not pay me enough money for me to want to move to Texas. Or Florida. Or most of the middle of the country. If I were in your shoes, I’d be out as soon as I had the means to leave.
- Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration 1 year ago:
And how did you come to that conclusion?
- Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration 1 year ago:
Yes, I got diagnosed with ADHD as a child, but I don’t get why you would think that’s necessary to comment on.
I wasn’t commenting on your ADHD. I was commenting on the fact that you said “Try sitting still and reading a book for more than 10 minutes, and you will find that it can be exhausting to do.”, and pointing out that being exhausted after reading for 10 minutes is not normal. If you meant to imply that activities that are purely mentally focused can be draining, well, I agree. But you didn’t do a very good job of conveying that with the sentence you chose, so your meaning wasn’t clear to me.
I don’t think it’s fair to compare states in 50 years like this without mentioning the time lost from school and research + the better overall life quality that comes with more money.
Why not? All work is trading parts of yourself in exchange for money. Sometimes, that part of yourself is your mental focus, sometimes your physical health. I am well aware that people in STEM-type jobs have an increased incidence of depression and burnout. Hell, I stopped working for 5 years because I was depressed and burnt out.
But you know what? I was able to stop working for that long because I made a really good salary before leaving the workforce. And what I did was in no way more difficult than someone loading boxes into trucks in a hot warehouse, or remaining focused on traffic conditions for several hours per day then interspersing that with delivering those same packages to people’s homes and offices.
So, my job wasn’t harder, but it paid better. My back isn’t sore, but my mental health took a toll. The reality is, everybody suffers. And even if the UPS delivery guy got paid twice what I made, I still wouldn’t pick that job because my chosen field is easier and still pays ok.
So I’m not chuffed in the slightest that they potentially got a bump (it still has to pass a vote). Good for them. They deserve it.
- Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration 1 year ago:
Bro. I’m an engineer. Have been for more than 20 years. This guy, talking about how his job is harder than someone who delivers packages for 10 hours a day is fucking lying. Either that, or he’s completely divorced from reality.
Yes, you need more schooling, and yes, solving puzzles all day is mentally draining. But you know what? I’ll take being mentally drained over having my body completely fall apart by 50 because of the toll my job took on it. Being an engineer is in no way harder than any blue collar job I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration 1 year ago:
To get a base salary of $170k you know you need to work hard as an Engineer, this sucks.
LOL - this motherfucker talkin about hard work. You actually think sitting in an office for 8 hours a day is working harder than the guy delivering packages? GTFO with that shit.
- Comment on when you accidentally select MEET AT DOOR 1 year ago:
Terrifying.