Nemo
@Nemo@slrpnk.net
I like American music. Do you like American music? I like American music, too.
Other versions of me:
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@Nemo@midwest.social
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reddit.com/user/nemo_sum
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metafilter.com/user/324647
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 23 hours ago:
one at a time
- Comment on Is ice heavier than water? 6 days ago:
Ice is generally not full of air bubbles, so no, the same mass of water does not get heavier when turned to ice. The water just takes up more space in crystaline form, taking up more volume at a lower density.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 6 days ago:
It is, and the thought that someone would be annoyed by it shocks me
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 6 days ago:
no, they’re literally 25% grape juice
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 6 days ago:
whaaaaa?
I confess, I mostly expected this post to contain things that also annoy me about my fellow Americans, but here I am now, rocked to my core
- Comment on If God (or any creator of the universe) exists would he be made out of atoms? 1 week ago:
I’d rather doubt it. I tend to think of God as the original uncaused action.
But the most important thing is to have a healthy scepticism towards anyone who claims to have definitive knowledge of God.
- Comment on What would happen to a werewolf in space? 1 week ago:
Bone density loss?
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 1 week ago:
It won’t be fun. It will be work. I was saying that from the beginning. It’s a task without end, but still worthwhile.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 1 week ago:
Some heirarchies (my personal opinion now) are both natural and desirable: parent and child, teacher and student.
Many are harmful, and should be removed, no matter how “natural”.
I wouldn’t say “hardwired to create heirarchies” so much as there’s a tendency, in any case.
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 1 week ago:
It’s so frustrating. Neoliberalism is explicitly a postliberal ideology.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 1 week ago:
Of those two? Christian Democrats, I guess. But there are ideologies far to the right of anarchocapitalists (eg. neomonarchists) and far to the left of libertarian socialists (eg. communists), and anyway political ideologies don’t map well to a single- or even dual-axis graph. You need axes for economic model, rights vs. authority, and stability vs. innovation at a minimum.
- Comment on If libertarian socialists are on the left and anarcho-capitalists are on the right what ideology is in the middle? 1 week ago:
There’s a natural tendency towards heirarchies, but “natural” doesn’t mean “necessary” and it definitely doesn’t mean “desirable”. To create and maintain a better world takes work, and part of that is dismantling “natural”, but harmful, heirarchies (eg. the physically strong dominating the physically weak).
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 1 week ago:
I’ve had a personal blog since the previous millennium. My primary subs on reddit were “Ask” communities, two of which I was so active in I went on to mod them. I post under my real name. I am not shy.
I don’t put anything online I wouldn’t say out loud in real life, though. That’s my limit.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 2 weeks ago:
I wash them after three uses and use them until they fall apart.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 2 weeks ago:
I teach English and Math and do manual labor on the side.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not safe, but a lot less unsafe than acetaminophen.
do I have to
Not at all! But tacos de lengua are basically the perfect hangover food.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
In my life, I usually bounce them out of the bar and tell them not to come back.
For you, give him some ibuprofen (NOT acetaminophen) and lots of water and put him to bed. Serve him a breakfast of braise beef tongue and hope for the best.
- Comment on What happens taste-wise if you add some seasalt to a milkshake? 2 weeks ago:
If you want that, add some rosemary or other herbs as well as salt.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
are you the chicken or the egg?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
They say in heaven, love comes first!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
in the future
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 3 weeks ago:
For other non-X-mas winter songs, consider:
The Head & the Heart — “Winter Song”
Dar Williams — “February”
Tacocat — “Snow Day”
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 3 weeks ago:
Semisonic — “This Will Be My Year”
The Mountain Goats — “This Year”
Counting Crows — “Long December”
Kutless — “Vow”
- Comment on Why does everyone put celery in soup stock? 3 weeks ago:
I love celery and hate water chestnuts. Everyone’s different.
When I make soup my wife always tells me I put too much celery. I never feel like it’s enough.
- Comment on to any EU federalist, why do you believe you can make a federation out of 27 different countries with different languages and cultures? 4 weeks ago:
The early US was culturally and linguistically fairly heterogenous. That’s why they chose a federation instead of a unary government, and even that wasn’t the first choice, they tried a much looser confederation (not dissimilar to the EU) but it didn’t work well enough.
Consider yourself proven wrong.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 4 weeks ago:
That’s a problem you should fix.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 4 weeks ago:
that’s rude
- Comment on When a parent's primary/preferred language differs from their child(ren)'s primary/preferred language, who should have the most "obligation" to learn more of the other's preferred language? 4 weeks ago:
Obligation isn’t a useful reference point here. Any party interested in communicating must make the effort to both understand and be understood.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 4 weeks ago:
two big reasons:
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we don’t have replacement energy sources at scale (this is of course party caused by inflated demand eg. data centers, always-on electronics)
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energy production is heavily subsidized in that so-called external costs are paid by the public instead of the companies
Until we can both reduce demand and increase supply, while also making corporations pay the cost of the pollution they produce, we’re stuck with this shit.
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- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 4 weeks ago:
Daley Plaza, same place we assemble for everything else.