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- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 6 days ago:
the price point isn’t outrageous, but it’s not compelling when an Xbox controller can be bought for a third the price. Track-pads are nice, but people playing Steam are often sitting right next to a keyboard and mouse anyway.
- Comment on China so smart, big penis too! 6 days ago:
This doesn’t make any sense. China is running out of land? Solar panels are the thing taking up too much space?
Better to build the parking lots on water so that valuable land can be used for solar panels.
- Comment on Why doesn't Daredevil just get 'good' rich people to pay off judges and the anti-vigilante task force police, or get them to make sure Fisk doesn't get into office? 6 days ago:
Even when the wealthy are shown as wicked gangsters, like in the Sopranos, or Yellowstone, it’s still glorified.
- Comment on Liberals and Leftists should buy guns. 2 weeks ago:
To the gun-brained “progressives”: have you ever noticed that the elites, owners, and conservatives all promote and encourage gun ownership? Why do you suppose that is?
It’s bad enough that all the rednecks think their hobby makes them Daniel Boon without fools on the left thinking a fetish object can turn them into Fred Hampton. You’re just a volunteer gun salesman, congratulations. The NRA loves you.
- Comment on How did old-money people of color maintain their wealth through racist times? 2 weeks ago:
Black people of wealth maintain that wealth by exploiting labor.
- Comment on After 9/11 America was afraid of a Improvised Nuclear Something made out of used uranium. How would that work? Just get a piece of dynamite and some nuke dust and light the dynamite? 2 weeks ago:
A dirty bomb wouldn’t “work”. As in it wouldn’t cause any more damage or fatalities than the explosives would on their own. You’d have to hang out at ground zero for a while to get radiation dosages that are dangerous, and other than having to clean the effective area like a super-fund site, the explosives are still the dangerous bit.
The Chernobyl disaster was similar to a dirty bomb, and no terrorist could hope in their wildest dreams to get that much nuclear material. But even with the scale of nuclear release, and gross mismanagement of the event, today the site is contained and safe to visit.
Nuclear is just scary, that’s it. I’ve often wondered if the whole idea of a dirty bomb was to get the terrorists to waste any nuke material they found.
- Comment on Has there ever been a country who did not have an enemy or pick a fight? And was pretty much like all of you do you we will do us. kind of like isalationism but charitable when it counted? 2 weeks ago:
No, it’s like college football: when you get a new country you have to choose a rival. If you don’t, then it defaults to France.
- Comment on What tools do you recommend for me to start working as a cell phone technician? 2 weeks ago:
Take care of your eyes. That’s fine work and being able to see well will make everything easier. I’m not familiar with the gear specific to the task, but I notice Louis Rosman using jeweler’s lenses and different magnifying glasses.
- Comment on *squints* is that you? 3 weeks ago:
Yea, I talk about my balls! My eyeballs are shaped like footballs and I require expensive corrective lenses.
- Comment on Never liked the idea of getting free drinks some nights just because of your gender 3 weeks ago:
Bribing ladies to hang around men in shitty bars was a plot by big lesbian the whole time.
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 3 weeks ago:
I was getting angry reading this.
- Comment on Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs 3 weeks ago:
The idea that raising wages is inflationary is simple, elegant, easy to understand, and wrong.
it’s the biggest econ101 meme and refuses to die no matter how many times it’s been proven wrong.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 3 weeks ago:
PC players are always going to lead the trend because we have the most options. Microsoft and Sony are in a race to enshitify their ecosystems, while Nintendo is actively hostile towards it’s customers and fans.
Meanwhile I’m playing through what was originally a Playstation exclusive title that I got on sale on Steam, and run on Linux.
- Comment on Not to get political however How did J Epstein die? Usually suicide watch they put you in a specialized suit so it's impossible. So given if they did that like law says how did he commit suicide? 3 weeks ago:
Committing suicide in jail is common. Not as common as guards who neglect the welfare of their prisoners, but still pretty common.
The Epstein conspiracy theory has people out here arguing that incompetent prison staff doing medical neglect is suspicious.
- Comment on Is there any way I can study Marxist theory in a way that wouldn't seem too boring or dry? 3 weeks ago:
There is no reason to study Marx other than you find it interesting or because it relates to something your interested in. There is very little utility in knowing the theory.
Marx was a genius similar to Freud. They changed the way we look at the world and gave us new tools to think about the world. Beyond that, their particular ideals are often as wrong as two left shoes.
There is plenty of room on the left for people who reject, or are ignorant of Marx.
- Comment on Prolly won;t word this correctly. But when did the idea of a woman subservient to a man begin? And how come it seems its lasted longer that most relgions? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much from the dawn of societies. Generational wealth and progeny is extremely important, and women must be controlled so that provenance of her children may be assured.
In the Bible you constantly see themes that don’t make sense until you understand how important that stuff was. Abraham was asked to sacrifice the thing most precious to him: his son. God killed the first-born of Egypt. Lot’s daughters had sex with their dad because that was the only way to ensure that their ‘pure’ line continued. Calling back to Abraham, God himself sacrificed what? His son.
Pre-agriculture societies were probably pretty egalitarian. And the idea that hunting and gathering was segregated by sex doesn’t have much evidence besides “common sense” and vibes.
- Comment on No cap Fr Fr 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I would watch that ngl 4 weeks ago:
The meme drag pedophiles so hard, you barely notice that it dehumanizes immigrants to the same degree.
- Comment on Always funny to hear the young try to figure out stuff from the past. 4 weeks ago:
A coworker saw me using a terminal and educated me that computers used to just be just a terminal with no mouse.
- Comment on I was very much looking forward to hearing his riveting opinion on this matter. Oh well. Maybe next time. 4 weeks ago:
Every time I see a white dude pilot on my flight I get a little nervous. I hope he’s qualified and not just here because his uncle owns the airline.
- Comment on The throne 4 weeks ago:
AI slop.
The lid is wildly bigger than the seat, and not aligned in any way either. It’s also interesting that the seat is hinged in the back, and fused with porcelain in the front.
- Comment on How did Greek or Roman choose their gods besides the big name ones? I mean did they have a god of shoes, god who relieves constapation, or one for there squeaky door? 4 weeks ago:
I’ll just point out that monotheism creates some interesting and silly problems too. The Pegans can just assign fertility to a female god for example. Without that option, monotheists have to shoehorn the concept of fertility and birth into the patriarch god.
This is the genesis of the idea of men’s spunk being referred to as a “seed”. It was “common sense” in Western civilization from Roman times to the 18th Century that sperm contained fully-formed little people. Women were just the dirt where you planted those little guys. The inventor of the microscope studied sperm first. And he fully expected to find homoculi in his spunk.
Meanwhile the “primitive” people’s of the world would have found this to be insane. Babies come from women, stupid.
- Comment on Like groceries 4 weeks ago:
This would almost be funny if the sign wasn’t intended as double-entendre in the fist place.
- Comment on I used to be a fan 🤦♂️ 4 weeks ago:
When is the last time he updated his material? He’s out here still spewing that new-atheist line like his mind is powered by Reddit circa 2013.
Ricky is his persona. A dim man, in a fortunate position, over his head. He’s a stuffy old “ya dad” medium-level bigot like Archie Bunker; he’s only able to get a laugh by being the joke.
I once saw a podcast or something that had Ricky, Dave Chappelle, Jerry Seinfeld, and Louie CK. Now Ricky wasn’t the only shit-head at that table, but he did stand out sharply when back-lit by all that talent.
- Comment on If I got in a collision with a car from the 70s with a car today, would not the 70s car win out since it would primarily be metal? If so why don't people buy more 70's cars? 4 weeks ago:
I saw a post where a Cybertruck got T-boned by like a Nissan or something. The Tesla didn’t look damaged badly at all and the other car was modern art. Tesla people were bragging about it until someone pointed out that the Nissan driver walked away while the driver of the Tesla broke both legs.
- Comment on Must be 4 weeks ago:
What is up with all these puerile jokes lately? Lemmy is turning into a cafeteria table for preteen boys.
I was thinking about commenting on misogyny, but I’m not sure the people making these jokes are ready for tall-talk.
- Comment on What would you personally consider a shitpost? Basic definition below. Let me know how your definition varies. 4 weeks ago:
I think the spirit of shitposting is in opposition to the spirit of taxonomy. And it’s super ironic to argue over the definition.
Precisely defining shitpost would annihilate it’s meaning and we’d be forced to use another word.
If you pay attention, you’ll notice that English is actually pretty bad at keeping slippery meanings contained inside her words.
- Comment on I poured milk on my pussy but it didn't help 4 weeks ago:
Had a friend who did this with poison ivy. I’m still laughing decades later just thinking about it.
- Comment on You're welcome, babe 4 weeks ago:
I’ve never understood secure drop-off for used drugs. My mother gives everything to second-hand stores when she’s finished, but when it’s time to throw away pain pills, she jaunts off to the drug store like Jason Borne, to keep the drugs away from junkies.
I keep meaning to tell her that a junkie who discovers her oxy is going to be so much more grateful than whoever finds her old Capris on the rack at Goodwill.
- Comment on What actually is the 10-point proposal from Iran which Trump said is "workable basis on which to negotiate"? 4 weeks ago:
You should keep in mind that this is a negotiation position, and it’s normal to ask for the world at the beginning so the inevitable compromise may be more in your favor.
