TheDoozer
@TheDoozer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Make the responsible financial decision 6 days ago:
And you’ll be paying student loans for the rest of your life, so…
- Comment on Tacos. 2 weeks ago:
Please don’t misunderstand. I was not saying that that was the be-all-end-all of religion. I wasn’t speaking against religion in general, just in regards to the irony of suggesting that religion makes people more good. At all.
- Comment on Tacos. 2 weeks ago:
Religion doesn’t stop a bad person from being evil. It can convince a bad person they’re still good (better!) when they do evil.
And good people don’t need religion to do good. But it can make them overlook the evil of other religious people and protect them, making them bad.
The best-case scenario is that religion can have no effect on how good or bad someone is. Good people stay good despite religion, not because of it.
- Comment on What is the longest discontinuous marriage? 3 weeks ago:
This is the type of thing that could be answered if people followed banal statistical data the way sports people follow sports data.
“This is the first time since 2017 they’ve scored over 30 points in the third quarter in a home game during the pre-season.”
- Comment on A while ago one of my old accounts got banned from r/news for saying I wouldn't bone some celebrity. Now if I forget and comment on a front page post with any account this happens. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, okay, fair ban.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Oops, missed the name, my fault. It sounded like MilitantVegan responding, so I didn’t check.
- Comment on I learned so much 5 weeks ago:
I disagree and offer Old Man and the Sea.
I get it, there’s a bunch of symbolism and blah blah blah… I could sum the book up in a sentence and not miss much.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Well that answers that, doesn’t it.
Then there’s your answer. Your memes get deleted and your comments get down voted because you aren’t trying to do any good, you’re just trying to flaunt how Right and morally superior you are.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I get what you’re saying, but the reality is if you are trying to do good, it doesn’t matter how “right” you are if you are a dick about it.
Take Doctor Ignaz Semmelweis, for example. He worked hard and found a way to dramatically reduce deaths of women in childbirth (and tons of others besides) by washing hands after autopsies. Instead of trying to convince other doctors and influence the medical culture, he confronted and shamed other doctors, even to the point the doctors who he had gotten to start washing their hands stopped. Could he have caught more flies with honey than vinegar? Probably. But he was right, so what did it matter the method he used?
What mattered is hand-washing didn’t get adopted. But I’m sure being right offered him some comfort when he was dying of sepsis in a mental asylum. Not to mention the women who died of infection.
The point is, do you want to Be Right, or do you want to do good? Because all this makes it sound like you want to Be Right.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
They threaded the needle on it, but they came back around to a point about the subject in the end.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I imagine that 90% aren’t getting their memes deleted.
- Comment on Bugs me when audiobook series do this 5 weeks ago:
Have you listened to his Mythos Trilogy? It’s a compendium of Greek Mythology. He wrote and narrated it and it is brilliant. I’m on Troy right now (the third book).
- Comment on Very understandable, have a nice day 1 month ago:
- Comment on New best friend for life! 1 month ago:
go in and make friends
These are some “draw the rest of the owl” instructions right here.
- Comment on can you help me formulate an answer to a colleague who is not my boss but feels entitled to tell me how I have to work? 1 month ago:
Immediately what I thought of.
You have to yell it, though, OP.
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 1 month ago:
Say it out loud.
“Do you like fish sticks?”
'Yeah
“Then you’re a gay fish.”
Kanye in the show didn’t get it and thought people were calling him a gay fish. So if real Kanye didn’t get the joke, and got mad because he thought South Park was calling him a gay fish… that’s just incredible.
- Comment on Probably shouldn't be talking to The rapist 1 month ago:
Therapist: And what do we say to people who want to get to know us?
Me: Not today.
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 1 month ago:
I live in Alaska, so… Basically just a pair of Xtratufs by the door. Sandals and running shoes get added during the summer. Big snow boots come out for the heavy snows.
Inside I just wear socks. If I need to pop out, I pop the xtratufs on.
I can’t imagine not taking shoes off and just wandering around the house with shoes on, tracking the outside in everywhere. I don’t even know anyone who does that.
- Comment on English, old 1 month ago:
When in April, with its sweet showers, The drought of March had pierced to the root, And bathed every root in such liquor Of which virtue engendered is the flower.
Basically, it’s setting the scene for the coming story (it’s the introduction to The Canterbury Tales), and talking about in April spring starts to see rain dispelling the drought of March and filling the roots with sweet water.
It goes on to talk about the winds and the birds, where the sun is in the sky (directly overhead), and then to pilgrims starting their pilgrimages, as a sort of “And this is where we begin our story” thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
The difference is that this is verifiable, and the idea about what better is, is ending the war on drugs because it was blatantly wrong to begin with. It didn’t even have “good intentions,” and it does nothing but harm now.
MAGA is where it’s at because they hate for the sake of hate. There’s no “better” for them, unless it hurts others. They’ll “believe” whatever is convenient, because they just want to be angry, whether or not there is any truth to what they’re mad about.
There are mountains of difference, and to “both sides” every time the left points out a legitimately bad thing is sheer obfuscating nonsense.
- Comment on Exception implies deficiency. Am I the only one who sees this? 2 months ago:
I think you are confused about the source of the deficiency.
When we make an exception for a particular gender, race, religion, etc, we imply that an exception is necessary for this class. Which is to imply that there is a deficiency, but not that it is inherent to that class.
The deficiency being corrected is in society. How society has treated that class is a failing in society itself, and an exception needs to be made to correct (and fix) that deficiency. To take an example you made of handing a crutch, the crutch is going to society to help get their leg (that class) healthy again after what they had done to it, so it can be whole. Ideally, the crutch would be a temporary thing until the body can heal its leg, but the crutch isn’t the solution in itself.
Broadening that out, society has a deficiency as it mistreats, say, trans people. Trans people exist and should be an accepted part of society treated the same as everyone else, but bathrooms, sports, etc, have excluded them or mistreated them. That may not be able to be fixed immediately, but while we work toward a society where bathrooms, sports, etc, are inherently inclusive of trans people (I can’t sat for certain how that would look), exceptions must be made to keep society functioning reasonably while it heals its deficiency (like a crutch for a person who broke their leg).
I hope that clarifies things for you. Your assumption that the deficiency is inherent to the marginalized group is what is faulty.
- Comment on the fuckgraph 4 months ago:
…within the previous 6 months.
- Comment on the fuckgraph 4 months ago:
It’s interesting that only one out of the lot of them was (at least within the last 6 months) gay. All the rest with same-sex relations were bisexual (at least within the last 6 months).
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 4 months ago:
We had gotten rid of our TV remotes and when we had to upgrade our phones, we didn’t realize that feature was gone until we got home and tried to download the TV remote app we were using… which was unavailable on our phones. Because it lacked the hardware.
We were upset.
- Comment on Cant play monster hunter 4 months ago:
Yes. Super comfortable just sitting holding the controllers, but my hands ache if I use them attached to the switch.
- Comment on Anon makes a dating app profile 4 months ago:
OH! Man, can’t believe I missed a Doctor Who reference.
- Comment on Anon makes a dating app profile 4 months ago:
Yes, but there’s a lot more land than river, so if you’re standing in a forest and casting randomly, there’s a tiny chance you get a river. If you are fishing at a dock, though, the likelihood of casting into water (and catching fish) is… well, significantly higher.
- Comment on IT support work be like 4 months ago:
Can you recommend a good, safe password vault?
- Comment on Anon makes a dating app profile 4 months ago:
Fetlife, my man. You’re fishing in the forest, man. There’s a chance your hook lands in a river, but you’re better off hitting up a dock.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 4 months ago:
I have Ryobi’s battery powered power supply, so… kinda!