Nemo
@Nemo@slrpnk.net
I like American music. Do you like American music? I like American music, too.
Other versions of me:
-
@Nemo@midwest.social
-
reddit.com/user/nemo_sum
-
metafilter.com/user/324647
- Comment on Why are there so many Christmas songs, yet hardly any New Year's ones? 4 days 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? 4 days 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? 5 days 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? 1 week 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 1 week ago:
That’s a problem you should fix.
- Comment on why is fossil fuel still used? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week ago:
two big reasons:
-
we don’t have replacement energy sources at scale (this is of course party caused by inflated demand eg. data centers, always-on electronics)
-
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.
-
- 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 ? 1 week ago:
Daley Plaza, same place we assemble for everything else.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, pretty much. Twitter and the Less Wrong forum.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 2 weeks ago:
or ecology!
…or have ADHD
- Comment on How come there is not a pope without grey hair? I mean a much younger pope like 30s 40s. Really can't be that hard. You got an ocean of cardinals and priests who pretty much tell say? 2 weeks ago:
The Pope rules for life. If they elect a bad one and he’s seventy, oh well, won’t be long. If he’s thirty… that’s two generations growing up under a bad Pope.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Virginity isn’t real.
Sleeping with someone should be about the two of your doing it. Don’t sleep with person A because of your feelings for person B, that’s fucked.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
Oh, I like chaos fine. With me it’s… fear of loss? I have to close all unnecessary tabs myself so I don’t lose track of and accidentally close the few important ones.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
I suspect they lack whatever visceral reaction makes me start to panic if I have more tabs open than fit neatly across the top of the browser.
- Comment on Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop 3 weeks ago:
Anti-homeless antics are neither recent nor limited to America.
- Comment on Why put a no trespassing sign on a bus stop 3 weeks ago:
charge them with a crime
- Comment on Is there an optimal home/apartment size that most people would be happy with? 3 weeks ago:
Our house is ~100 m², but legally that doesn’t count the cellar or finished attic. It feels small for a family of five. So maybe 20m² as a minimum, even counting communal bathrooms and galley and laundry.
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 3 weeks ago:
In the year 2525, if man is still alive, if woman can survive, we may fiii-iiind 🎶
- Comment on Assuming humanity last another few hundred years; How many human languages do you think are gonna be left in 100 years? In 200 years? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a victim of an intentional extermination campaign, isn’t it? So maybe not Cantonese.
- Comment on Is there a word for when someone is not capable of, or doesn't try to understand verbal communication in a language, they are fluent in similar to functionally illiterate but for speech? 3 weeks ago:
If they can’t understand or express themselves in that language, they are by definition not fluent.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Publicize it and use my fifteen minutes of fame to snag a tech security gig.
- Comment on What are some good RSS feeds that I should follow? 4 weeks ago:
If a more social criticism bent with a dash of surrealism doesn’t turn you off, then, maybe Cat & Girl? She’s had some hard-hitting comics recently. Like xkcd and SMBC, they’re generally standalones and not reliant on specific characters.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s a dealbreaker for me. I only want to have sex with someone who wants to have sex with me. I don’t just want a yes, I want a YES! with the exclaimation point.
- Comment on What are some good RSS feeds that I should follow? 4 weeks ago:
If you like xkcd, you might also like the Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics. More jokes about sociology and philosophy, fewer about engineering, almost as nerdy and if anything slightly more prolific.
- Comment on Why does a community called no stupid questions allow comments that say the question is stupid? 4 weeks ago:
Moderation isn’t instantaneous. Reports help make it faster.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 4 weeks ago:
That’s closest to mine, honestly. More of a beige and black hounds tooth, though.
- Comment on Do you think there would eventually be technology to delete/replace memories (like the *Men In Black* device). How much do you fear such technology? (like misuse by governments/criminals) 4 weeks ago:
So, memories are pretty malleable, and there are already techniques to influence how people remember things. It’s frightfully easy for a trained interrogator to ask leading questions that cause the interrogatee to alter their own recollections.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 4 weeks ago:
Over the day, not all at once!
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 4 weeks ago:
your life is very different than mine