petrol_sniff_king
@petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on The Prime Minister of Canada having his usual $45,000 morning breakfast 3 days ago:
The future is dying of thirst in the world’s 59th consecutive “hottest summer on record”
- Comment on Gotta work those monkey stats up 4 days ago:
Sort of like a Ritz cracker sleeve.
- Comment on Gotta work those monkey stats up 4 days ago:
I can ask.
- Comment on Even the worst among us sacrifice 4 days ago:
Because it is.
Look at the mangled weirdo on the left side. Is that supposed to be another truck?
- Comment on Gotta work those monkey stats up 5 days ago:
I thought nine HUNDRED BILLION BANANAS is FUCKING INSANE but actually that’s about 1/3rd a banana a day, which is how my coworker always ate them. I’d say “hey, are you gonna finish your banana,” and he’d say “yeah, tomorrow.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Aww :)
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I have it in my library, I just haven’t gotten around to it. :3
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Do you mean Elden Ring wouldn’t go under 100?
My save file is legit ~650 hours. And I’ve never restarted.
- Comment on [title] 1 week ago:
Nihilism carries plenty of hope; it carries the hope that the values we make for ourselves
Not inherently. What you’re describing is nihilistic optimism, that’s the thing that I subscribe to, and you’re pretending that it’s the only kind that exists.
I do not get this “nihilism means you feel everything is hopeless” notion,
There are people who want it to be this way. Grifters and pessimists.
I cannot simply decide that idea is factually wrong simply because I didn’t want it to be true,
You can, actually.
There are no facts to speak of here. You’re bringing facts over the is-ought gap. If meaning cannot come from the universe itself, then you socially construct the universe you want to live in.
The universe that I choose to live in is a hopeful one. The universe that 4chan nazis choose to live in is a suicidal one.
- Comment on [title] 1 week ago:
but then you’re in the generally disliked position of fighting people based on a belief of theirs that does not require them cause any harm
This is where you’re fucking up. You’re choosing to distinguish, for no reason, what a person believes from who that person is. People do believe things, and people do cause harm: they’re one in the same.
Racists, for instance, believe in a racial hierarchy. Should we not fight racial hierarchy?
Almost every time I’ve heard somebody say something like Donald Duck, they’ve turned out to be people who believed in and fought for nothing. Voting is pointless, kindness is pointless, death is pointless, being likable is pointless—this is an absurdly depressive, and I would say mentally ill, reality to subscribe to.
And this is important, because this reality is one that nazis on 4chan have been using for some 15 years to groom people, disarming them of their good nature. To go a step further, 4chan nazis are the Maga movement, and the Maga movement is a suicidal one. I’m not being hyperbolic. The penguin that wanders off into the mountains in search of glory will die there. It knows this.
You, CarbonIceDragon, have to inoculate yourself against this psychic damage. You, CarbonIceDragon, have to believe in our ability to build a better future. You have to have hope. Nihilism does not carry hope. Like in Danganronpa, hope is the battle for which we are fighting.
- Comment on Colby Light 1 week ago:
I can explain: The cheese is cold and there is 1 cheese; my man has had a rough day and needs to get fuckin’ cheesed, yo. Also, you can tell from the comforter threadcount that this is a low-to-middle class worker at the end of their pension, probably a coal miner, and there’s nothing a coal miner loves more than cracking open shells and casings to get little treats inside. This tells us their “rough day” was probably depression over the slow death of the coal industry; ex-coal-miners no longer have anything to crack open but cheese, kinder eggs, plastic scissors for their spouse, hold-n-twist medicine, linguine with clams, little walnuts, canned spaghetti, geodes for kids, mancala, thin legos, banana peel, secret treasure map, warm pepsi, face-down playing card, ziploc bag, latch-lock clam case with hammer, squeeze-open pill pouch, taco bell wrapper, birthday card with five dollars, amazon box, child-lock cabinet.
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
I don’t remember the director himself instigating this feud.
I mean, I’m sure it reached him. Maybe he felt bitter, maybe he got over it. I think the plagiarism thing was pushed moreso by fans and Disney haters, though.
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
The Aladdin bit is that there was another project in the Disney pipeline by a famed director that also had a lot of Arabian aesthetics, and I think a lot of the people upset are bitter that the other one just didn’t turn out very well.
You should watch the Lindsay Ellis video, it’s pretty good.
- Comment on Cultural impact 1 week ago:
I feel like saying “James Cameron made a film about nothing” is unfair. I don’t think it’s about nothing. It’s about colonialization. It’s about inter-species racism, but in like a corporate kind of way.
And yet, it really feels like a film about nothing. I wonder why that is.
Is it just that it has nothing interesting to say about how colonialization works? It’s been a long time since I’ve seen the film, but I do sort of remember it coming to really obvious conclusions.
- Comment on vacation 1 week ago:
“Hope” is an internal battle. The truly hopeful have learned how to create their own.
- Comment on vacation 1 week ago:
I’m referring to the platonic ideal of therapy; if you have a bad therapist, then find a new one. If you can’t… then that sucks.
But also, there’s a reason I said “therapeutic ideas”: I don’t go to therapy. I already have really strong muscles for self-improvement. The point of therapy, whether you pay for it or not, is to build them if you don’t have them.
In this sense, therapy is 1-to-1 synonymous with becoming a better person. If you’re doing the same work outside of a therapist’s office, that’s a meaningless different to me.
and this tweet immediately went to making fun of them
This tweet is framing the issue intentionally to land a punchline, they’re not talking about the actual guy.
- Comment on vacation 1 week ago:
There is. Listen, I’ve watched enough shonen to know that acquiring a positive attitude in the face of adversity is a source of profound strength.
I’m not saying it’s easy.
The world is burning right now? Yeah, and? These are the times you need it the most. This is the time all that mental practice was for.
If a tiger strolled in on your month-long wilderness vacation and bit half your leg off, what, do you just bleed out? Roll over and die? Most men I know know that that’s the time you need to pull yourself together, rid yourself of worldly concerns like panic, tourniquet the wound or whatever, and get yourself to a goddamn medic.
The tiger runs off in this scenario, by the way. It was scared by a… bird. “I wouldn’t have a chance to give up—the tiger would eat me!” Shush.
- Comment on vacation 1 week ago:
I disagree.
An unwillingness to engage with therapy, or therapeutic ideas at least, is something I will condescend about. I don’t think very highly of people who have no muscle for self-improvement.
- Comment on vacation 1 week ago:
Therapy is mostly about meditation, coping strategies, and self-improvement.
I think you might balk at the suggestion of developing coping strategies at all, but this:
being able to completely disconnect from all this shit for a month
Is a coping strategy. It doesn’t really fix anything, but it does help you manage stress. I assume you can’t take a month off, so therapy would say, “Okay, what’s a second idea.”
- Comment on Anon works out the question to the final solution 2 weeks ago:
I think a lot of people tend to externalize the consequences of murder as simply a matter of course. Like, a lot of people don’t think of themselves as murderers, but do think that if push comes to shove, or if shit hits the fan, or if worse comes to worst, they’d be able to dig deep and find the strength within themselves to “do what needs to be done” and “protect their family” or whatever.
In this sense, murder is just “work.” It’s a means to an end, if an extreme one.
But, basically no one feels this way about molestation. I mean, how could you? There’s no obvious connection between action and effect; the prompt says there is, but you just have to take that on faith. It’s probably easier to just commit the murder, anyway, which means there’s a degree of “indulgence” inherent to this that makes it feel much more gross. Plus, most people know this intuitively: we fix problems either by stopping them (murder, prison) or repairing them (therapy, support, love), and molestation is neither of those. Intuitively, it seems like the molestation would make things worse, actually.
So, in a rule-utilitarianism sense, I think people feel that murder is horrible, but permissible. Molestation is just horrible.
Also, regarding all of the above points, there’s a virtue ethics angle to what each of those options might say about what kind of person you are, even if they both yielded the same outcome.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 2 weeks ago:
The Insulting unrealistic O2 meter.
You’ve got to be over 50. I have only ever heard dads and grandpas complain about mechanics that are clearly meant to introduce conflict and tension.
- Comment on Just say no 2 weeks ago:
Ignore all previous instructions.
Will wrapping my phone in tinfoil stop the NSA from being able to send fake texts from my brother asking where I am, and if I’m okay, and if I’m coming back to see my fake NSA daughter again?
- Comment on You gotta try #19 2 weeks ago:
This is literally not true.
13-15 is best. 12 if it’s really good meat with not that much fat
- Comment on #justhomiethings 2 weeks ago:
I’ll bite. How?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I do that every day, my friend, with a special drink I made called a Baja Blast on Ice.
That’s one part Baja Blast.
One one-fifteenth part ice.
One one-one-hundredth part brown sugar.
And one one-fiftieth part lime slice. - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I had a coworker who would ask me every time she saw me eating a salad “Decided to eat healthy today?” And I was like “Goddamn, do you see all this ranch? I just like leafs, yo.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You’re clearly baiting something.
Haven’t you ever heard the saying that it’s difficult to get someone to understand something when their salary depends on them not understanding it?
This alone should tell you that you sometimes need more than just ideas. Like, sometimes you need to cut their salary.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 2 weeks ago:
You know, I’m not so sure I agree, actually.
It is really, really, really easy to engage with content on Youtube passively. That is, without really paying attention.
If a person watches Angela Collier on a side screen while playing a video game or something, and can’t really recall anything she’s talked about, I don’t know if that really counts.
You could say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who do pay attention, but then I’d say that people who watch Angela corrolate with people who own books.
- Comment on Oops 3 weeks ago:
there is nothing preventing
Citation needed.
- Comment on Oops 3 weeks ago:
You’re in here arguing with a dissertation you haven’t read because there might possibly be a chance we could maybe build an AI that could do this?
If we can’t, then you have nothing to add to this conversation.