Nemo

@Nemo@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is re-visiting a place of trauma a good idea? Have anyone done it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done it, I didn’t like it, can’t say whether it did me any good. But your trauma is different from mine, so don’t take this as even a faint endorsement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come NK doesn't just come out and say we are in trouble and need help? Like their lack of food and stuff? I really don't see a downside for a country admit they were wrong and need help⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that would result in regime change. The interests of the rulers and the interests of the country are not aligned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honking IS how you contact nearby vehicles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the damsel in distress trope just independent?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Real life is not math.

  Tell that to graph theory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, I’m glad you’re making advancements! I know your previous situation was very frustrating. I think setting expectations with your charge is good, but I’d avoid mentioning those two by name if you can. Maybe you can’t! But explaining your expectations and needs comes across better than saying “I can’t work with these two people specifically.” But you’re in the situation and I’m not, so do what you gotta and good luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What taxes are on a can of NOS in California?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah! IDK if it’s legal in CA but here in Chicago many small businesses used to charge the credit card fees to the customer. That was made illegal a year or so ago, so those stores switched to charging 4% higher prices but offering a 4% discount for cash.

  If it’s not every store, they might be charging you that CC processing fee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What taxes are on a can of NOS in California?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there sweetened drink tax?

  Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if a ready-to-drink beverage counted as prepared food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or the food shows like Man v Food or Everything on The Menu or hot dog eating contests annoy anyone else knowing the fact people are starving in the states and world wide?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People aren’t starving because of the food eaten by others. People are starving because of the food that gets thrown away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t bother with the pretext. They disappeared gays, Blacks, and political dissidents as well as Jews. No outgroup was safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a conductor’s baton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today, mostly play: Boards of Canada, soffmi muhod, or autechre?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  She wants advice as to which of these music options should be the soundtrack for her day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evangelicals in the US vs Protestants ib Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a bunch of what are called “mainline” Protestant denominations in the US, which typically includes Lutherans, Methodists, Church of Christ, and by tradition Episcopalians (among others). These churches are part of a larger denominational heirarchy that provides them support but also sets bounds on their doctrine or behavior.

  Evangelical churches are typically one-offs with no greater body of faith to report to, reducing accountability and oversight, and often no overhead organization providing funding, meaning they need to constantly raise money to be financially solvent. They also typically have a greater emphasis on evangelism, because they need to constantly recruit to maintain numbers, hence the name.

  Mainline churches display a gradient of attitudes on social issues, from very progressive (United Church of Christ) to the very conservative (one of the Lutheran synods) but typically a church professing that denomination will fall into the same stripe as other churches in the denomination.

  Evangelical churches are all over the place, though typically radical in some way. Most are very strict on sexual purity, but other than that it’s hard to predict. Some have women in leadership roles, some only allow men to preach. Some reinforce class heirarchies and some sel to abolish them. Some prioritize good stewardship if the earth and her creatures, some advocate dominion over it. Without a greater structure, it often comes down to the priorities of the founding members of that specific congregation.

  Now to compare with the Roman Catholic church in the US. The RCC seems to vary somewhat from archdiocese to archdiocese with some leaning more progressive than others. When they do lean more progressive, it tends to be in areas like economic justice, ecological protection, and defense of immigrants (who make up a lot of the RCC in the US these days). They are still very backwards on anything related to sexism, misogyny, and reproductive health.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the most popular conspiracy theories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ronan Farrow is the biological offspring of Frank Sinatra, not Woody Allen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not always! Half those relationships were shorter than eighteen months themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t been single for more than eighteen months at a stretch in my entire adult life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there really no stupid questions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are gross ones, those get downvoted too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is holly associated with Christmas because it's a holly-day?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  no, because it fruits at that time of year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Ghostwriters work? Does the person the book is about say to the writer I will give you 2 or 20 percent of the sales or is it a 50 50 split?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they’re usually paid by the word. They don’t get residuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s “dikes” in this case, and yes, you could use the stone for dikes or levees, but since most of it would be sedimentary rock I’m not sure how well it would work for the purpose: most sedimentary rocks are rather porous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The energy required to lift that amount of rock from the seabed to above the surface would be impractical. But good news! It doesn’t need to be from the bottom of the sea, just a part below the desired waterline. So we can dig these big holes you want right off the coastline and then, as a bonus, use the materials as landfill to raise or extend the current coastline. Still wildly impractical, but much less so than digging at the bottom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the deal with breakfast in bed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I brush after eating, never before.

  My face isn’t dirty after sleeping.

  The appeal is that someone else is taking care of you, to the degree of getting up hours earlier to cook for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do so many boomers and even some gen x believe so peristently that if you dressup and show up in person anywhere you will get whatever you went there for?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They believe that because that’s how it used to work (and still does in some industries). That’s their lived experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, just an uptick in complaints about it.

  Makes me pretty proud if my subscription list, honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does having to hold down a comment to open a downvote prompt make it less likely for you to downvote?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I already think twice before downvoting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aight. Let's be honest. How many of you dress for yourselves, and how many dress for others?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Third option: dressing for the weather.

  Myself, it’s “others”. I have a public-facing job, and the better I look the more I sell and the more I earn. At home I’m generally as close to naked as is practical, and as close fo all-black as laundry allows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because they’re PROFA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why do they force you to take the 3 national subjects in egypt?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of civics class isn’t to be useful to you, the individual. It’s to make you useful to civil society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because if we talk about guns and bombs we end up on a list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Street Racers "bad people"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YES

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people say "as sweet as canned beans"?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never heard this expression.