richieadler

@richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s not true

  That’s how it’s perceived in the rest of the world, and USians are doing a lousy job of showing that the perception is wrong, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Without well adjusted and cared for children our society is fucked.

  Sadly I’d say that most of those who have children today don’t have a clue about how to raise such kids, because they’re neither well adjusted nor cared for. Some self-centered societies are much worst than others in that respect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would you forgive someone that poisoned your dog when they only offer bad faith apology ?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not.

  Most apologies are lies anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey is Sharing Luigi’s Manifesto on Social Media Actually "Glorifying Violence"? Because Reddit Said So 😭⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, advocating for common decency doesn’t work in the US. USians only understand arguments that use bullets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only one who feels uncomfortable about people making such big deal out of whether they're "black" or "white"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The victims feel worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your happiest Trek related memory/ies?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  TOS’ Dagger of the Mind and What Are Little Girls Made Of? made me know, at 10 ,that I really liked petite shapely dark haired women.

  Then again, years later, Dagger of the Mind made me notice that I liked mind control fantasies…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you die, what do you want to be done with you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On my country (AR) you can express your decision when you renew your mandatory national ID.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you die, what do you want to be done with you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We did this for my dad, amd my mom will follow, I think.

  Some burocracy (and educating burocrats, as the law allowing for this in my country 🇦🇷 is recent) but it’s worth to do something useful of oneself after death while not enriching the post-mortem mafia.

  Of course both my brother and I want the same for ourselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The free speech absolutism is useless in practice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, the ethos of those countries as a whole is different from other places like the US. Some places, I think, are inherently unsafe for euthanasia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump's eligibility⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because his voters didn’t consider the victims human in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump's eligibility⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Americans need to realise that Trump won by popular vote

  That mean that most USians are appalling people.

  As a Latin-American suffering for decades the consequences of US foreign policies, I’m not surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do deaf people play media with sound on?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The proper course of action would be to translate the foreign language and add those subtitles in italics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does "blackpilled" mean?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A relationship defined in their own learned psychopathic terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 🤷‍♂️ do users 👨‍💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t care anymore. I just use a few smile emoji, and the facepalm one, because I never found a satisfactory emoticon for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 🤷‍♂️ do users 👨‍💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same as emoticons did, now with Unicode Consortium approval! 😁

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always think these movies end being used as instruction manuals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Threshold worse than Code of Honor?

  I’d say it’s worst. Being racist is horrible, but it wasn’t until “Threshold” that ST became actively and willingly stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Is Showing More Love To Scott Bakula’s Enterprise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If not the most imaginative, certainly the most inspiring, and it evokes a strong insertion in our reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. Pulaski Appreciation Post⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think obvious that she would have sided with Maddox and disagreed with the ruling. I don’t think her capable of overcoming her prejudices against artificial life forms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This in particular is from Jack Chick, who also belonged to a group convinced that the KJV is the result of a new revelation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alls I can say is you’re listening to the wrong kind of music is you think all current music is vapid.

  And all I can say is that your reading comprehension is lacking if you attribute me saying that all music is valid. I said “mostly”.

  It’s honestly quite arrogant to think great artists stopped at our generation my guy.

  And I had said so, I would agree. I, however, didn’t.

  In any case, if music is your main focus, you could have used more prominence in the question, because your formulation seemed to indicate that there were other things you wanted to “keep up with” too. If I had understood that music was your primary focus, I would have abstained from participating. Which I will start doing right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you not believe that music, particularly the lyrics, is a snapshot in time of what the artists ideas and beliefs are?

  It once was. Now music is mostly the result of an industry churning sellable platitudes and blandness.

  As I believe music is the most emotive form of expression.

  When you have sensible artists who talk about things beyond their own petty and minimal experience, perhaps. This is less and less frequent.

  In any case, for me music is a very personal pleasure, I don’t compare notes frequently regarding what one “needs to like to be up to date”. I like what I like, and it’s not very transferrable. I rejoice when I find matches, but I don’t want to “learn what I must like” to be “modern” because that “gives me the pulse of the zeitgeist”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they want to keep in touch with and still feel like a part of their community?

  By keeping up with music? Come on!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is huge divide between generations from the elders and it’s usually due to ignorance or superiority and it achieves nothing.

  Preferred music doesn’t do much about it. Your focus in it was the main thing that confused me.

  If you had mentioned having discussions about ideas I would understood better.

  I honestly think your view is weird. Why wouldn’t you want to understand your fellow humans more.

  Again, you mentioned music, which for “understanding my fellow humans” is fundamentally irrelevant to me. Discussions about philosophy, ethics, or politics are much more relevant.

  Or maybe you just want to understand why they like the music they like and nothing beyond that, which is valid, but painting it as “understanding fellow humans” is a little too grandiose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’m wondering what I can do to keep in the loop with my younger brothers and sisters?

  The question is completely weird to me. Why do you care? Why do you think that is important?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m childfree and think that too many idiots procreate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  to promote stability and perpetuate humanity

  🤮

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do arranged marriages persist in many cultures?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand in theory the benefits. But I practice for me It would be a nightmare. Being unable to get away from toxic family members would be horrible. And being the outsider… I’m dating you, not your family. I find the idea of “entering a new family” worrisome and distasteful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people hate TV shows like The Biggest Loser and My 600-lb Life?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If said doctors participate in something that is oriented to appease the public of bullies, I don’t care about their good intentions – they’re accomplices.

  The producers don’t care about reducing the health crisis in the US. They care about viewers and the money they bring.