Windex007
@Windex007@lemmy.world
- Comment on There was supposed to be a fifth Artemis II crew member 2 hours ago:
My idiot cat loves vacuums. Dives in front if them like they’re security taking a bullet for some VIP.
She wants to get vacuumed. Makes hair management pretty easy since she’ll enthusiastically let us vacuum the source.
- Comment on I'd listen to that 20 hours ago:
That is roughly the premise of Beavis and Butthead
- Comment on Annon is confronted with the pasing of time and the inevitablity of his incoming death 2 days ago:
2 successive generations at 20 years isn’t statistically typical in north America in the last 60 years.
The math checks out, but isn’t a median representation.
- Comment on If you have a sibling that's hogging all the wifi bandwidth, what do you do about it without leading ot a confrontation? 1 week ago:
As others have said, probably best to just enforce at the router level…
Before anyone goes to war, it’s probably worth even clarifying if it’s true or not. I had a roommate convinced I was “hogging bandwidth” but our internet was just shitty. Over copper. Very inconsistent. I had to literally shut off everything i had to convince them it wasn’t even me.
They swore up and down it was me. There was a pattern. It was the only explanation.
- Comment on What a nice blue and black dress. 2 weeks ago:
Id never seen this image before but it’s the clearest and most intuitive illustration of the effect I’ve seen.
- Comment on meat honey 3 weeks ago:
What do bees need pollen for? I thought bees just got bukkaked as an co-evolutionary repayment for the nectar they’re jacking?
- Comment on Trump kicks Tucker Carlson out of MAGA movement after talker’s Iran war criticism: ‘Lost his way’ 3 weeks ago:
I used to think that too, until the pattern emerged that he’s outspoken only when it’s about Russia or Russian-aligned countries. His “interview” with Putin really was the icing on the cake.
- Comment on Trump kicks Tucker Carlson out of MAGA movement after talker’s Iran war criticism: ‘Lost his way’ 3 weeks ago:
Iran and Russia are allies, Iran is pretty much the last one they’ve got in the region. It’s in Russias medium/long term soft power interests that the current government isn’t toppled.
The war itself isn’t improving Russias bottom line as much as Trump dropping sanctions. The global price of oil didn’t matter much as long as the price caps were in place.
- Comment on Men wanna be me, women wanna be with me. 4 weeks ago:
After overshooting and dinging the meat cooler, popping my 3 year old out of the cart and me squatting down to have a heart-to-heart:
“Look, buddy, I’m not blaming you. You’re still learning. We learn every day.
But the navigator is a crucial role here. I need you to to call out the distance and sharpness of the turns so that I as the driver can execute the maneuvers”
Him, nodding in agreement “Executing the maneuvers”
“That’s right buddy. We’ll work on it. What’s next on the list?”
“Beers for the boys”
“That’s right, buddy.”
- Comment on Trump kicks Tucker Carlson out of MAGA movement after talker’s Iran war criticism: ‘Lost his way’ 4 weeks ago:
Considering Carlson has ALWAYS promoted whatever view best serves Russia, I don’t know how anyone could not see this coming
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The difference between now and 18 months ago is that the shape of the dems had already formed. The groups on the different tracks were already tied down.
Who is the 2028 candidate?
There is time now to pressure the dems to pull Palestine off thier leg of the track.
It isn’t the trolly problem… yet.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 2 months ago:
Because I don’t understand correlation vs causation, I can only conclude that the monetization of X caused a steep decline in knife violence
- Comment on Anon meets the headmaster 2 months ago:
WEASLEY, SNEAKING OUT AFTER HOURS? CIRCUMSISRIX!
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
It’s incredibly one dimensional to say that people wanting to shop in a place where patrons extend basic human decency to one another would be only be popular because people want to … crush the poor.
If your only cognitive tool is a hammer, ever idea is going to sound like a nail.
I feel like you think I’m not understanding your position. I am. I hear it ad nauseum.
I’m challenging you to consider if your approach is so narrow that you can’t even comprehend the premise. “I don’t want to get mashed up by a cart” necessarily translating to “I want to suppress the poor” should be setting off warning alarms that you’re not engaging in the idea or discussion with a full toolset.
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
I could get behind you on this if the post was saying that all grocery stores must have that limitation. In the subway example, it’d be like saying that the only labour that exists is being a subway driver. The calculus changes when, like you said, it’s mandatory.
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
Oh my god I’m still stewing over that exact same post. It’s been like a week.
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
Fine. The person operating the subway train. Should they be drunk? Should they have needed to demonstrate competency in operating a subway?
- Comment on What a great idea 2 months ago:
That’s entirely true.
But that’s still a double-edged sword we’re playing with.
If you want to run towards a an “inevitable conclusion” in the one direction (resegregation… undesirable… are you even alluding to genocide?)
I think it’s fair to do the same in the opposite direction too. Is there no lower bound for human interaction and behavior? Is it wrong to set boundaries for how people treat you?
I like how hyper aware people are for things that could be turned into an avenue for bad things. I think that’s actually more than half the battle. Doesn’t always mean you toss the idea outright, you just know that you gotta watch out.
I, for one, am in favor of a minimal demonstrated set of awareness and capacity to operate a motor vehicle. I also am in favor of not letting people drive drunk. Someone might say this will inevitably turn into a tool of racism. And guess what, THEY’D BE RIGHT! But, the solution probably isn’t to ban cars, or to let anyone drive with no rules of the road and drive drunk.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 months ago:
In university my entire dorm floor was in on insisting to my ex that it wasn’t “Big Bird”, but instead “Big Bert” (as opposed to regular sized bert)
It came up for the 100th time at a party, and I was like “go ahead, look it up” and was able to get in an edit JUST before the page load. “Big Bird (Or “Big Burt” for Canadian rebroadcast)”
It lasted for maybe 20 seconds, but it was all we needed.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
This comment is cursed
- Comment on That boy is all right 3 months ago:
I thought it required energy to process wood into charcoal?
- Comment on That boy is all right 3 months ago:
Carbon neutral?
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
I think we agree in principle.
I think if one conceptualize “deliciousness” as a “property that induces joy” and “not deliciousness” as a “property that induces suffering” as being distinct measures, then it makes sense to conceptualize puritan values as saying they don’t value “deliciousness”.
If you conceptualize “deliciousness” as having a negative axis, then Puritains DO value deliciousness, but along the negative axis, which is irregular and noteworthy, but still valuing deliciousness.
Same goes for suffering vs enjoyment. If you consider them independent vs as it being one measure with negative values.
I’m considering them as the same but with a negative axis. I feel like that’s where the gap is. I think ultimately we’re in agreement.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
I’m not sure if agree with your conclusion. You might conclude that they put great value on the deliciousness of thier food, but the relationship is inverse: less delicious = greater value.
People of of two cultures might both place high value on decorations, but one culture might view another’s style as tacky.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
I was picturing a culture for whom food was strictly for nutrition.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
Well, at the risk of being pedantic, you literally said:
food is just nutrition
I understand now what you intended to communicate (which is strictly different than what you said)
I got excited when I read what you said, because i thought you actually had an example of a culture for whom food is just nutrition. It’s a sci-fi trope that i find interesting because it is truly alien, and I’ve always wondered if any real culture fit that.
Even in puritan cultures that intentionally eat plain food to shun “hedonism”, food becomes a vehicle for virtue signaling. The suffering is a ritual practice. Food, even then, plays a critical cultural role.
I understand what you mean now. I’m just disappointed.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
Food has ceremonial and ritual value in all of those places, it is not merely a vehicle for nutrition.
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
You guys
- Comment on My culture also loves music, dancing and telling stories 3 months ago:
People keep making this broad assertion and then not following up.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, but if there are many cultures for whom food is merely nutrition, could you name one?
From an anthropological standpoint, I’d be fascinated.
Like, this thread is full of jokes about how some cultures have shitty food, but that subjective assessment is very different than the idea that food’s mere purpose is nutrition. It implies it has no ceremonial use.
So, of the many, just even tell us one.
- Comment on 🍺 🍻 3 months ago:
Yeah, that “EAT_ROADKILL” fellow is far too serious.