milicent_bystandr
@milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
- Comment on Blobfish 2 days ago:
Are you reading this, ConcernedApe??
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 5 days ago:
I presume most Republican voters didn’t anticipate Trump wrecking the system of accountability and checks in government, or don’t understand what’s happening. I’m sure many think he really is destroying the bad that’s allegedly entrenched in the system, and a good one will settle in its place.
- Comment on Lost media detectives finally found the full original pilot for Family Guy 5 days ago:
Does that mean we found the media detectives again too? Or are they lost together?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 5 days ago:
If you want to understand them more, I think the problem is you’re seeing different aspects to what they do.
‘Large’ government with lots of power might sound more like totalitarianism, overseeing many aspects of life that - in the opinion of many - ought to be left to people’s freedom.
Running the government like a business, on the other hand, implies having pressures on it to do only what achieves its aims, and do that efficiently. And a CEO-president means the power to fix the government without being restricted by bureaucracy.
… Of course to me, by that point, it sounds like a king, exactly as you said. And running a government as a business sounds about as stupid as you can get. But these things aren’t exact, and understanding how a different perspective can make something look good helps us to understand the people with that perspective. It also helps us see things to improve that our perspective might be missing.
- Comment on I'm sure dolphins will fuck it up in their own special way. 5 days ago:
Don’t malign the whole species from some evildoers. ADAB - All Dolphins Aren’t Bad
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is that how land ownership works? You can move your parcel of land as far as you like but only diagonally and without jumping over any other bit of land? TIL.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But ditch the casinos. They ruin lives.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Sit on it.
It’s been three hours… Bored now, can I get up?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“I used to be a tourist like you, till I took an arrow to the knee.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Imagine you get like 200 of those bought at random across the land, and no more, then you try to do something with the remaining land!
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Any unpatched windows machine can be patched into a Linux machine.
- Comment on Multiverse 1 week ago:
I think you’re getting angry at the wrong things and taking me too far. I didn’t at all mean we can’t believe or trust physical reality. Neither do I doubt special relativity, or specifically the Lorentz invariance.
I wasn’t meaning to insult your intelligence, but now I feel you’ve done that for me.
- Comment on Multiverse 1 week ago:
What about a third option that reality exists and it is just nondeterministic?
There’s still a pattern in the results, so by one means or another we want to explain the results. Just calling it nondeterministic, if I understand right, would be just saying you can’t predict it from prior observations.
So, whatever language you use to describe this puzzling situation, the puzzling situation thus far remains.
since we know the universe is local
A priori? Or because it best fits with Relativity? It sounds about as strong as saying, “we know time is universal.” It’s obvious, has to be true, but apparently not how the universe functions.
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 week ago:
But neither is as efficient as a bicycle?
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 week ago:
You could have swappable parts that, say your hand attaches to (with, for example, a flexible grip by your hand). That way you could swap an enormous array of parts, using your hand as a universal adaptor.
Some of these parts could even by powered by your body so they don’t need an external power source. Like you could design a machine which, when attached to you by your hand, and powered by the rotation of your arm, could twist screws into the wall!
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 week ago:
Jetpack. Much more practical.
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 week ago:
You can get more raw strength out of a machine, but our biological bodies are something incredible, really. And when you need extra strength, there are machines you can operate with your body (e.g. with your fingers!) and leave behind when you don’t need them.
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 week ago:
I want my shit to go down the toilet, actually…
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 week ago:
Like Marmite.
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 week ago:
No ads, but I’m afraid we do have a lot of propaganda over here ;-)
But, if you don’t block them, we have opposing propaganda too so you can stay confused ;p
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 week ago:
Well, now you’re here, of course it is ;-)
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 week ago:
Yes!!
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 week ago:
I tend to browse all (or whatever it is here; just the main page my app gives me). It’s full with a lot of US political outrage, but the other posts dotted among that have some interesting ones that I’d miss if I just looked at subscriptions.
So I mostly skim down the big line of posts and click in the occasional one that looks interesting.
I imagine you can get into more of being a community if you subscribe to some ‘communities’ (what on Reddit were subreddits).
Feel free to post and comment. People are mostly friendly unless you question the political narrative - and even there we have friendly debaters and some opposing-sides-bigots to balance it out ;-p (mostly the drama between standard Reddit-esque liberal Dems supporters and USSR/PRC communism supporters known as ‘tankies’, mostly over on lemmy.ml and lemmygrad)
There’s fewer of us here, so you’ll see some names come up often, and don’t worry if your comment gets few or no votes, or just one downvote (there seem to be occasional people going round downvoting every comment of users they feel upset with).
You can also block users or communities, to filter out stuff. I tend not to, because even in the most ignore-worthy communities some good things float to the top sometimes. For the same reason some instances block whole other instances. This one, lemme.ee, tends not to block other instances from the server.
To use Lemmy there’s the website obviously, which I think has a couple of interfaces you can choose between, or various apps. I use Jerboa because it was already on F-droid when I started.
And some people have suggestions about sorting by new or top instead of hot. I haven’t played around with that. Lemmy doesn’t have a personal targeting algorithm, so the simple sorting it does have can be a bit more hit and miss.
Does that help a bit?
- Comment on The earth is a mitochondrion 1 week ago:
It is strongly force sensitive, but the force is always perpendicular to its trajectory around the sun, so that to a naive eye it seems not to be responding to any force.
It’s like Yoda force-pulling Windu constantly in a circle ready for a hammer throw.
- Comment on Science has not gone far enough 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I will not elaborate 2 weeks ago:
Pff, your generation…
- Comment on I will not elaborate 2 weeks ago:
Nah, that’s too cringe.
- Comment on The world's first basement. 2 weeks ago:
Every face was perfectly regular and identical.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Wow. The thought that your Bluetooth chip might be a planned attack vector for a remote exploit…
At least it should be hard to exploit without physical proximity, right? Which makes it a bit harder to use en masse or at will.
- Comment on How smart 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the marching song of Zeldastein.