ParadoxSeahorse
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- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 day ago:
Where the Trump-as-Master Chief post is merely cringeworthy, the Homeland Security message is flat-out dangerous. Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it’s also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and “cockroaches” in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the “other” so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government’s messaging was not subtle.
You might think that using imagery from one of its best known videogames in a call to “destroy” immigrants would prompt Microsoft to action, or at least to express some small modicum of disapproval. For now, at least, you would be wrong: Rather like Nintendo, which eagerly picks copyright fights it knows it can win but kept its mouth tightly zipped when Homeland Security used Pokémon to promote violent immigration raids, a representative told PC Gamer that “Microsoft does not have anything to share on this matter.”
Unexpectedly good political commentary from checks notes PC Gamer
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 days ago:
out of touch
no longer conversant with facts; not aware or realistic
Smells like ignorance, which isn’t ageist
- Comment on Soup 5 days ago:
marry someone who says:
- i love you
- i’m proud of you
- i’m grateful for you
- yes we can have more jasmine rice
- no 3 rice in a day isn’t too much
- yes i can make you jasmine rice again
- no 12am isn’t too late to have jasmine rice
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 5 days ago:
Autistic people of Lemmy: THEY’RE DOING LANGUAGE WRONG!!!
Also autistic people of Lemmy: ÞEy’Re DoInG lAnGuAgE wRoNg chortle
Non-autistic people of Lemmy: Hahahahaha sorry that’s the joke
- Comment on How to Make Movie Theater Popcorn At Home: The LAST Popcorn Video You'll EVER Need! 1 week ago:
TIL in some countries movie theater popcorn is beta carotene yellow. Ours is just white
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
I mean he was a pretty shit Jew. Fellow Jews tried to stone him to death “for blasphemy, because [he], a mere man, claim[ed] to be God” (John 10:33).
I think the hating Jews thing has nothing to do with Christianity, though, it was always just an excuse. There’s no reason Abrahamic religions should get on or not based on any scripture, it’s all just politics of the time.
For eg. having different holy days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday was all so they could share a place of worship, this is largely forgotten or covered up (literally, in some older buildings).
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 1 week ago:
I follow your logic, and it does make sense, but I think the problem might be that those arguing against you are American, not Scotsmen /s
Can we agree that there can be good and bad, or perhaps generous vs selfish Christians? Another issue is “Christian” is sometimes used adjectively, “that’s pretty Christian of you”, which is generally used to mean generous, but has nothing to do with someone’s belief in God, Jesus etc.
Probably a person’s belief in supernatural beings has nothing to do with their ethics, morality or generosity, it’s just that in some societies at certain times there are perceived correlations, and irrespective of whether these reflect reality or not, they, through deliberate conflation of religion, morality, politics etc. can color people’s opinions of those belonging a specific religion.
- Comment on Sunlight special 2 weeks ago:
What pillock has turned a tin of chopped tomatoes on
- Comment on Sunlight special 2 weeks ago:
BREAFAST
Not a great endorsement
- Comment on Bank, seriously 2 weeks ago:
Bank… Again!?!
- Comment on Tabletop convection oven 2 weeks ago:
can crunch up fried chicken quickly after thawing it with microwave
I would warn this is something you can actually go to hell for
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 weeks ago:
2B || !2B
- Comment on Tell me why! 3 weeks ago:
USBC came out of NBC and ABC and is the largest public service broadcaster in North America, and was once the largest broadcasting company in the world. Once publicly owned, it is now funded by a mixture of private interests and taxes, and has a government-appointed board of directors.
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 3 weeks ago:
Look why is the 2x2 at a larger scale the the 4x2s
- Comment on Can't have my glizzies 3 weeks ago:
Can’t help but wonder how many individual animals made up those hot dogs, and whether their living conditions were any better than that drawer. Not vegan just an intrusive thought sorry
- Comment on She's got the talent 3 weeks ago:
Do we think advertising has helped evolve processed food through engendering false beliefs
- Comment on #freepenisman 4 weeks ago:
Palo Verde paint fumed Penis Man artist army
- Comment on #freepenisman 4 weeks ago:
Shomer, who called the incident a “cop overreach,” later claimed he wasn’t the only one responsible, telling reporters at the time, “I’m not the original. There’s a whole Penis Man army out there.”
The penis thickens
- Comment on #freepenisman 4 weeks ago:
Ballengee isn’t the first person linked to the “Penis Man” graffiti in Tempe. In 2020, Dustin Shomer faced 33 charges, including criminal damage, aggravated criminal damage, and trespassing, after spray-painting the same phrase on buildings throughout the city.
Tempe police arrest man suspected of ‘penis man’ graffiti
Heroes
- Comment on US presidents are getting younger over time 5 weeks ago:
It’s actually flattening out rather alarmingly
- Comment on The bullet engravings as per WSJ 1 month ago:
I read “Autocoroner”, putting the “auto” in “autopsy”
- Comment on It's a process 1 month ago:
Can we talk about this top
- Comment on cycle 2 months ago:
They should combine the cycle tracking with the hookups! Next with smartwatch!
…actually fuck no nobody steal that dystopian shit fuck pretend you never saw it unvote
- Comment on two sides 2 months ago:
The collar is flipped colors, so increasing his amount of melanin was really unnecessary (unless it’s lampshading)
- Comment on la cars 2 no es canom. 2 months ago:
I speak two words of Spanish but this makes perfect sense
- Comment on bmw 2 months ago:
Smoking gun
- Comment on I love bpd girls 2 months ago:
I pujish myself enough tbh
- Comment on I love bpd girls 2 months ago:
My personal experience is that doctors and institutions (ie. hospital, work, university) are just far more friendly towards the dual diagnosis. ASD is treated as, I don’t necessarily accept “disability”, but special circumstances, and is generally well catered for given enough back and forth with the correct departments. And PTSD is quite favourably treated as things that happened to you rather than because of you, which it always feels is kind of the assumption once people hear the BPD diagnosis.
- Comment on I love bpd girls 2 months ago:
I have a theory, BPD = Autism + PTSD
Once you address them separately, they realise problem behaviours that fall under A) don’t need changing, “it’s just me” for the most part, and B) can be improved if the trauma(s) is/are addressed therapeutically by a professional, ignoring BPD diagnosis bs, and using trad PTSD techniques.
This is because PTSD is far more diagnosed in men, so it is “fixable”, and medical professionals have generally no fucking clue about Autism presentation in women, so they’re under-diagnosed, probably just mentally ill / fucked, ie. BPD.
Generally, I would compare mental illness to the personality theory of temperament (in this case flavour of neurodiversity) + experience, but psychology is insanity so.
This may all be bullshit, just anecdotal
- Comment on BE NOT AFRAID, MORTAL 2 months ago:
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