yesman
@yesman@lemmy.world
- Comment on Some important facts to always remember 4 hours ago:
Anybody who laughs at this uses Yahoo for email.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It’s hard finding out that you’re not one of the good ones.
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 2 days ago:
Every single Zionist excuse falls apart as soon as you apply it to Zionists.
An example: Zionists are a little worse than the KKK because at least the KKK are honest about their Islamophobia.
This trick really does work on all their talking points.
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 3 days ago:
Firefighters and EMTs get a little extra glorification to make up for their salaries.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 4 days ago:
Crazy times to live when you see the FBI go from Darth Vader to Dark Helmet.
- Comment on do you consider joking about dying and killing oneself a sign that the person saying it is troubled? 4 days ago:
Joking about suicide is a red flag. As in an indication that something might be wrong. It can indicate that suicide is something that’s on their mind often.
I would avoid these jokes in a professional setting because loosing someone to suicide is common and you’re likely to crack a joke in front of someone who will not appreciate it.
- Comment on Did I used to be homophobic? Am I? 6 days ago:
In my opinion, bigotry is more like a cognitive bias than a wrong idea. That is it’s extremely difficult to get that stuff out of your head, and the effective strategy is to acknowledge that you’ve got bias and try to correct for it.
- Comment on Round of applause please 1 week ago:
Scientifically, if you’re dead you can’t be happy or know it.
- Comment on Age check 1 week ago:
It’s suspicious when someone has strong opinions about consent laws. But not as suspicious as someone who’d white-knight fucking Bill Clinton because, wait for it, their concern for young adults being treated with respect.
That math doesn’t add up friend. Who do you think your fooling?
- Comment on Chirp in Fahrenheit 1 week ago:
I was trying to think of any situation where this would be useful and the only thing I come up with is a way to keep kids occupied during a camping trip.
- Comment on Reginald Fried Kentucky Jr 2 weeks ago:
I’m not talking about personal responsibility as in “don’t smoke cigarettes”. I’m talking about “ultra-processed foods are the mono-cause for all human disease”.
These people don’t believe in health-risks. They believe that everyone who ever gets sick could have chosen not to.
we have a personal responsibility to be as healthy as it is possible not only for our own good but for the greater good of society
Ironic how fast “personal responsibility” becomes “you owe your body to the State”. But even if we ignore the totalitarianism of your system, it’s still wrong.
Smokers and the Obese incur fewer lifetime health costs than joggers. So by your reasoning, it’s suddenly patriotic and prosocial to smoke, be a couch potato, and eat potato chips. People who work out are selfish and hate America.
- Comment on Reginald Fried Kentucky Jr 2 weeks ago:
RFK is the best illustration of the difference between informed skepticism and ignorant denialism.
The throughline of all his ideals is that health is a personal choice. Right wing people accept this because it means that we are not responsible for each other. Health-nut people accept this because it means that their quality of life is always going to be under their control.
Both of these ideas is so utterly wrong that it’s no wonder that people who accept them say and believe such silly things.
- Comment on Looks like she's making it official...! 2 weeks ago:
Why does everyone make fun of the May partner in May-December relationships? He’s the bigger fool. Doing way more for her than she does for him.
In a world where Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos count as business geniuses and inventors, this woman is a self-made millionaire.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 2 weeks ago:
I feel like it’s OK to demonize narcissism in ways that would be unacceptable ableism if you were talking about other neurodivergents or personality disorders.
It’s just as blanket and vague as calling someone an asshole.
It’s become such a pop-psych phenomena, I think it’s time for clinical people to abandon the term to pop culture. When a diagnosis becomes an insult, it’s time for a new term.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 2 weeks ago:
The title implies that teens without preexisting mental health issues exist.
- Comment on Asleep at the switch 2 weeks ago:
Just remember: these are the same people who assembled the rides.
- Comment on What is "human husbandry" called 2 weeks ago:
Some seem confused so: There was no organized effort to selectively breed enslaved people. While the slavers did get to decide who would have children with whom. And they no doubt chose individuals with “desirable” characteristics. This isn’t the kind of multi-generational project that could possibly hope to select for traits.
The brutality of slavery may have had some selective pressure, but that was unintentional.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 2 weeks ago:
I hate this argument. “You people can’t exist in public because I might have to talk to my stupid kids”.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 3 weeks ago:
I think of analog time as kinda a pie chart telling me how much of the minute and hour that’s elapsed. So I don’t see 13:45, I see 75% past one o’clock.
Does that make sense?
- Comment on hawk alignment 3 weeks ago:
IDK why so many hyper-pedants waste their time on the internet when they could be studying to be taxonomists.
- Comment on Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally ) 3 weeks ago:
At that price point, you may as well get a laptop, desktop, or just a frigging XBox (with some games).
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 4 weeks ago:
Calling Cain Abelist is some funny shit.
- Comment on Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive? 4 weeks ago:
Boy, you’ve obviously never seen Precious (2009)
- Comment on Refreshing to occasionally see an honestly written obituary 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s wise to keep in mind that outrage and moral condemnation of mothers abandoning their children is often the chain that keeps women in bad situations. It’s also a double standard that rarely applies to the legion of men who abandon their families every day.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 4 weeks ago:
“War of the Worlds” 2025
- Comment on Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Player Spends $32,000 on NBA 2K25 in Just Five Months 4 weeks ago:
Don’t think of this as an individual making stupid choices with a game. Think of this as a game with thousands of players designed to target and take advantage of the neuro-divergent or those susceptible to problem gambling.
Micro-tranactions are a predatory gambling mechanic and this person was robbed of this money.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 5 weeks ago:
Every Zelda game is a sisyphean adventure where you never really defeat the evil or restore Hyrule, you just reset the board for the next evil apocalypse.
- Comment on Isn't Batman's questioning Superman because he is an unknown entity basically the same reason Lex Luthor has against Superman? 5 weeks ago:
Unlike Bat or Super, people like Lex exist. Lex doesn’t hate Super because he’s powerful, he hates him because he’s loved.
Lex’s whole worldview is that the people who are smart and cunning should rule over those lesser. Super’s existence contradicts this by serving the interests of people who are his inferior.
Lex must believe that Super is a fraud who doesn’t deserve his position because otherwise Lex is the pretender.
- Comment on Uncovering the Deceptive Logic That Exposes Jordan Peterson - YouTube 5 weeks ago:
I think the difference is that scientific theory exists even when nobody believes or is even aware of it, while religious faith is dependent on people believing it.
If humanity lost all knowledge, but didn’t go extinct, we’d eventually reconstruct chemistry, but the doctrine of the trinity would be lost forever.
