ArbitraryValue
@ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Wrecked 'em 💀 2 days ago:
Only the foreign objects need to be removed. British rectums are for British objects.
- Comment on fucking French 2 days ago:
Once you’ve pulled the trigger for a three-round burst, your hand becomes free and you can change the mag while the first round is still being fired. Duh.
- Comment on life purpose 1 week ago:
easy work in an air-conditioned office
despair
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There’s a filter but it’s not necessarily a “sanity” filter. People on here generally seem to put more effort into learning and understanding the causes that they support than the average person on Facebook does, but those causes themselves are often far out of the mainstream and people’s understanding of why someone might disagree with them in good faith is often rather poor.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think blaming billionaires for this is incorrect. Look at Lemmy: this place is very much a silo. I’ve been actively participating here for over two years and in that time I have encountered one or two people who supported Trump (the ones posting in /conservative/ before it apparently got taken over). I routinely get called a fascist for being a mainstream Democrat. I’m not complaining (after all, I choose to be here rather than in a more comfortable silo) but clearly being a federated open-source non-profit isn’t solving the problem.
Some billionaires got rich by enabling people to join online silos, but those billionaires were doing what the people wanted already.
- Comment on Close your fuckin eyes 2 weeks ago:
kills fish
Stop staring at me with your dead eyes!
- Comment on Just in time 2 weeks ago:
How dangerous were women in the past, that you had to wear full plate armor when near them?
- Comment on Just in time 2 weeks ago:
I paid $15 a month to haul bulk cargo in a freighter.
- Comment on Cuddly gerbils 2 weeks ago:
You’re right!
- Comment on Cuddly gerbils 2 weeks ago:
Then why is there an odd number of gerbils?
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 3 weeks ago:
Even if not, it makes the refusal of Aragorn to use them again even more noble, which is the literary goal of their existence.
Maybe, but given that they were trapped in undeath for thousands of years because they didn’t hold up their side of the oath, finding out what would happen if Aragorn didn’t hold up his end of the same oath seems like a bad idea.
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 3 weeks ago:
They’re a limited-use item - once they do enough to fulfill their oath, they won’t keep fighting. Also, in the books it wasn’t clear that they could actually cause physical harm.
- Comment on Asking for a chocaholic friend 3 weeks ago:
Winning a Nobel prize causes one to consume enormous amounts of chocolate? Is that what the prize money pays for?
- Comment on The level of discourse in the US right now 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think Garfield or anyone is going to change an adult’s well-established sexual orientation, but the idea that children growing up in a society that normalizes homosexual attraction will be more likely to develop inclinations that otherwise would have been suppressed seems reasonable to me. It’s supported both by the prevalence of what we would call bisexuality in certain cultures and by my own personal experience - I distinctly recall being young and trying to decide whether an attractive character in a picture was a flat-chested woman (and therefore OK) or a long-haired man (and therefore not OK). I had internalized social expectations before I even knew what the differences between men and women were, and so from that point my sexuality developed to be strictly heterosexual, I think that I might have become bisexual if those social expectations had not been taught to me before that formative time.
- Comment on Why is the human body so incredibly bad at responding to colds? 1 month ago:
Some of those symptoms are caused by the virus as part of its strategy for spreading. They make you likely to spread infectious fluid from your nose and mouth. Meanwhile your body has to learn how to recognize a virus that has evolved to be hard to recognize (and do that without also accidentally “recognizing” some of your own cells and killing you) and then track down every last virus. And there are billions of viruses, many of which are hiding inside your own cells.
- Comment on Good evening. 1 month ago:
I saw a guy once with no gap between his beard and his chest hair.
- Comment on Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously? 1 month ago:
Hmm, it’s probably several of those things at once. The last time it happened was when I ate a bunch of pancakes for lunch while having a stressful day and not sleeping very well.
- Comment on Do you ever feel full and hungry simultaneously? 1 month ago:
Usually I feel a more normal “I’m full but I could eat more because that was tasty.” I have also felt “I haven’t eaten all day but the thought of eating disgusts me,” but that was definitely a side effect of a medication I was taking at the time.
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- Comment on Rust 1 month ago:
We’re not the first organisms to alter the atmosphere and cause a mass extinction. The first ones were microorganisms and the gas they released was oxygen. We’re descended from the survivors that managed to adapt to a high-oxygen atmosphere but to this day there are many microorganisms that die if exposed to even small amounts of oxygen.
- Comment on Don't 1 month ago:
- Comment on sorry guys i slept in 1 month ago:
Ah 2013, the year I got my first real job after grad school. That was fun. I miss being 27 - I didn’t have the “Oh shit, time is running out and soon I’ll be old!” feeling quite as much, although back then I did worry about turning 30.
- Comment on Anon goes to a steakhouse 1 month ago:
Pottery, art, kinesiology
I admit that I have a double standard because I want a woman who is interested in my nerd hobbies but I have zero interest in that girly stuff. What the hell is a kinesiology?
- Comment on irl shiny 1 month ago:
- Comment on how good are you at lying during job interviews? 1 month ago:
I’m not sure what the point of lying about a requirement that you have which the employer intends not to satisfy is.
- Comment on Ideal car 2 months ago:
I think that’s what I was actually thinking of but I mixed it up.
- Comment on Ideal car 2 months ago:
I read an article once about a guy who got a NO PLATE licence plate and ended up being automatically blamed whenever a cop wrote in that a car had no licence plate. I wonder what 0X00000 would do.
- Comment on Ideal car 2 months ago:
You can have equals signs on license plates? What do the cops do if they need to catch you? Do they put out an APB for emoticons?
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 2 months ago:
The elites don’t want you to know this but the flags of the USA are free you can put them on your packaging I have 458 flags.
- Comment on Anon goes on a diet 2 months ago:
Even when I got used to feeling hungry all the time while dieting, I never got used to the fact that I was constantly tired and sleepy. I was way less productive than I had been while eating as much as I wanted to.
It was different when I took medicine that messed with my appetite. ADHD medication pretty much made eating optional. I still enjoyed it when I did eat, and if I paid attention I would be able to tell that I was hungry, but if I was distracted by other stuff I would often just forget to eat all day.
