Furbag

@Furbag@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wife changing money⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I always tell people. A bitcoin or etherium or dogecoin or whatever they have is essentially valueless because it can’t be exchanged easily for goods and services. 100% of it’s value is derived from how much real, useable money you can exchange it for and nothing else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨not being able to experience a full-body-orgasm is just another example of the sad male reality.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Male here, you totally can. I’ve had events where I had multiple orgasms back to back with no refractory as well as events with full body orgasms that make all my muscles twitch.

  I don’t know what the secret sauce is, I just try and enjoy the moment and I appreciate when I do get those rare extreme orgasms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨should the BBQ cover be put back on after every use ... or just once at the end of BBQ season⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s still protected from precipitation, but if I close it all the way wasps inevitably build a nest in there.

  This sounds like a problem that has a solution already baked into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to tell a kid that their dog died?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an uncomfortable, sweaty-palm conversation that needs to happen. Sugarcoating it isn’t going to help in the long run.

  When I was a kid I had two cats. One of them, the older cat, got run over by a car one day. My parents told me about it that night. I was like 8 years old and it absolutely devastated me, but knowing what happened allowed me to grieve properly and let all of my feelings out.

  My other cat just disappeared one day, and although I suspect that she also died in a similar manner, not knowing the truth always gave me hope that one day she would show back up on my doorstep meowing to be let inside.

  My point is that if you try to obfuscate the subject, the risk is that your kid won’t properly understand what happened until much later in life and all the unprocessed emotions can cause trauma. Bluntness might seem cruel in the moment, but you have to do it. Ask for their full attention, sit them down, and tell them what happened, and offer comfort in whatever way you can. The news will hurt them, and they will possibly lash out at you, but eventually they will recover from it and go back to feeling normal again.

  Good luck, OP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miss me⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  getting ads

  Can’t relate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fur sure⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet and savory do seem to be pretty complimentary flavors, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this was delicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump reformed the gov so much he made himself a King. What recourse would americans have? How would we fight at considering all gadgets and armed forces would be his?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first way we could fight, and probably the most likely to be successful, is an economic attack. General strikes, mass protests, and civil disobedience still have the chance to sway those in power that if they want to keep their status, they need to side with the masses and not with a megalomaniac dictator. Historically, we have seen great results from strikes and protest - organized labor is a powerful force to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, labor unions are at their weakest they’ve probably ever been because the U.S. government and large corporations have been colluding to make unionizing as difficult as possible. That’s not to say it can’t work in a spontaneous and unorganized way, but that requires people to give up a lot of security and comfort, and those who are not marginalized or are actually happy about the whole Trump crowning himself king would not be likely to show any kind of solidarity with others. It’d be an uphill battle, for sure.

  The second way, is by abandoning the fight altogether. At some point, people will decide that throwing their lives away for the American Dream, the way of life that hasn’t existed since they were kids, if it ever truly existed at all, is not worth it. Emigrating to another country willing to accept them, or in other words, mass flight from an oppressive regime, is more likely to happen than the third way.

  The third way is revolution, a violent and organized militia that forms to overthrow the government and start a new one. As you’ve correctly guessed, it’ll be very hard for a force to fight against a fully-actualized surveillance state complete with the most well funded military on the planet. We’re not there yet, but if the goal was to make it impossible for any kind of resistance to organize and strike at the heart of the regime, they could have that system in place before the end of Trump’s current term. Now, the one saving grace is that the present day U.S. military has zero experience fighting on their own soil, and modern warfare has shifted dramatically from having armies meet each other on the battlefield to asymmetrical warfare, where the under equipped side employs tactics that are difficult to counter or predict in advance - guerilla warfare, hit-and-run strikes, drone attacks, electronic warfare, cyber attacks, suicide bombings, etc. A civil war fought on American soil would be an absolute bloodbath for both sides, but not an easy win for the mighty U.S. armed forces. I wouldn’t count on the armed forces siding with the anti-government faction, either. At least not in any quantity that would matter.

  I suppose there is a fourth way, and that is for the state governments to balkanize and secede from the Union. This would ultimately end up in one of two ways - either Trump let’s us go and those former states become countries of their own, possibly banding together to form a new coalition or democratic state. Or, more likely, Trump will go to war with the secessionists and probably win unless those now-sovereign entities can get help from some other country. America won independence from Great Britain thanks in no small part to France, and something like that could happen again if, say, all the west coast states formed their own country and then allied themselves with the Chinese government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Joys of Motherhood⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The kangaroo baby is also like the size of a jellybean when it comes out into the pouch. Very easy birth for the mum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meanwhile in California⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Diesel is over $7/gal, it’s fucking wild out here.

  I got a big pay bump last October and I felt like for the first time since the 00’s I was finally out of the “just getting by” pay curve for Bay Area California and then this Iran war shit happens and now everything including gas is more expensive, clawing back all the gains I’ve made.

  At least there’s a chance things might go back to normal if this shit ever ends, but I expect that prices are going to stay high long after the justification for raising them vanishes, just like with inflation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Save me from going down a dark path⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong answers only… who hangs outside Sexual Compulsive Anonymous?

  People handing out coupons for free entry to the local strip club.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asmeinkampf⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Athene is and always will be a better WoW player than Asmongold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It works better if you put it in your mouth first.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, this is one i actually know. I wish I could find the exact YouTube video where I learned it, butnuclear waste disposal is a massive long-term problem.

  It boiled down to answering the question of - how do you prevent people from digging up all your buried nuclear waste for the tens of thousands of years it will continue to be radioactive? It was a super interesting watch, so I’ll see if I came find the vid after I get off work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨optimal amount of syrup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This image is cropped so poorly. I’ve seen the uncropped version recently too…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend Charlie is back....⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar trick I learned, just get out of bed and stand up on it. It’ll go away in ~10 seconds and then you can hop back into bed. Works pretty much every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon notices some fan service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who wrote this shit

  Bruh, were you not paying attention to the name HIDEO KOJIMA appearing on your screen at the start and end of every single mission? He really wanted you to know it was his idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re getting a lot of the same comments in here, and I don’t feel like I need to add to the cacophony of voices decrying just how bad things have gotten (or, if you prefer, how bad they have always been and how they have only just now become more visible to us) so I thought I would chime in with one that still holds true today.

  The United States has some of the best national parks in the world. If you are someone who enjoys nature and being in the great outdoors, whether that’s hiking, hunting, fishing, birdwatching, climbing, caving, exploring, etc. the experience you can get here really can’t be matched anywhere else in the world. We have the most diverse range of biomes anywhere on the planet - deserts, mountains, valleys, forests, badlands, swamps - you name it, we’ve got it and it’s probably contained in one of our many national parks scattered across the countryside - and the best part is that access is free for everybody.

  Now, the big caveat, and one that kind of deflates this selling point quite a bit recently, is that a lot of the national park land and nature reserves are under threat right now by the Trump administration - there have been big moves by the executive to reclassify lots of federally protected land in order to expand oil drilling/fracking operations, as well as a push to force non-resident visitors to pay for entry, both of which are being fought tooth and nail by conservationists and environmental activists.

  So, there’s something. We can debate on whether or not it’s a good thing to have national pride over things that we have little to no control over, but at the very least we can say we enjoy what we have now and take pride in the fact that our forebearers had the wisdom to use the law to protect the land and it’s precious resources and that we continue that effort into the modern era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like, based on his own words, that gamers were absolutely right about DLSS 5. At least as far as I can tell.

  We don’t want GenAI horseshit in games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It wouldn’t be so bad if our government weren’t absolutely ratfucked by the two party FPTP system. There’s no incentive to not pick an extremist who aligns with your political ideology if your political party holds the majority of government offices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much brainrot can you handle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Bonewheel Skeletons: “Look at what they need to mimic even a fraction of our power!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Palworld is going to be the survival crafting game everyone always wanted" and "people will be shocked" at how big 1.0 is, says Pocketpair publishing lead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo alleges that they plagiarized their assets.

  The thing is, there was a solid argument to be made that some of the meshes for certain Pals were too similar to that of some Pokémon models to be a coincidence, but Nintendo didn’t bring any of that up in the lawsuit. They opted to go for the much more flimsy “riding a character” and “summoning a character by throwing a ball/sphere”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Comatose

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi, I upvoted your post, so when’s the wedding? 😏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every kid who owned this set tried to take it into the bathtub and realized immediately that it did not float 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I owned that exact set as a kid.

  Stings a bit knowing I could have sold it for a down payment on a house 30 years later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are the people who are about to win the console wars once Microsoft throws in the towel with Xbox.

  PC gaming hopefully about to have a third golden age soon! 🤞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh fuck 😨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh fuck, I forgot that’s what you’re supposed to say!

  FSM, please forgive me for my apostasy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh fuck 😨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Al’dente 🙏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨commitment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is little risk of you consuming a 15lb pizza in one sitting.

  Silence, mortal!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s fine if people believe in ghosts and spiritual stuff. My wife believes in ghosts, genuinely and fervently. I don’t really care to battle her on this because regardless of what she believes and what I believe we ultimately end up doing the same thing in the end - nothing. I think it’s a bit childish, but it’s no more or less unreasonable than faith in a god or a higher power and people will fight you over that.

  I think the delineating factor is how much belief in ghosts or the supernatural play into your decision making and your worldview.

  If a person believes ghosts are real, but never really act on that belief, it’s harmless.

  if a person believes ghosts are real and alter their behavior in meaningful ways as a result, it’s maladaptive.

  For example, say you hear a creaking noise in the middle of the night that startles you awake. Person A, Person B and Person C each check to ensure there’s no intruder in the house and determine that all the doors and windows are still locked and there are no signs of forced entry.

  Person A comes to the conclusion that it was just the sound of the wood joists expanding or contracting as the temperature fluctuates and goes back to bed.

  Person B comes to the conclusion that the sound could have only been produced by a ghost and therefore their house must be haunted, and so they call an emergency priest to come exorcise the house with holy water and they stay up all night clutching charms and wards to fend off spirits.

  Person C comes to the conclusion that the sound could have only been produced by a ghost, says a quick (10 second) prayer for protection/guidance for the lost spirit and then goes back to sleep.

  You can see how Person A and Person C have conflicting views about the origin of the sound, one which relates to scientific explanations for real phenomena and the other that delves into spirituality and faith to explain it. Regardless, they are both able to resume their normal behaviors (sleeping) afterward, while Person B shares the same view of the origin of the sound as person C, but their view is extremely disruptive and illogical. Their belief in ghosts requires them to take extreme measures to feel protected against them, but there is no evidence that anything bad would have happened as a result if they had chosen to do nothing instead. Nor would there have been a guarantee that something bad would not have happened anyway if they did all of the “proper” things to remain safe from ghosts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The script is mysterious and important.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither does The Matrix, but it’s still firmly planted in the realm of science fiction.