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- Comment on What is this Iran War really about? 5 hours ago:
The same thing that it’s been for almost every war the US has been involved in since WWII: We want a government that will be good for US business and military interests. Iran in particular we’ve been fucking around with for over half a century. If the question is why now? It’s anyone’s guess. It’s Trump, he isn’t exactly the most sane president we’ve had, even amongst the evil bastards. Distraction from Epstein? Distraction from shitty domestic policy? Trying to create enough chaos to try to justify canceling elections? Israel pushing for it particularly hard? Trump just randomly losing it over something stupid? A spot opened up in our war calendar? Who knows?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Sounds pretty cooked to me.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 2 weeks ago:
Oh well.
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 2 weeks ago:
People in this thread talking about population issues and I ‘m just here wondering how they knew how to make more sexually attractive rabbit sex toys.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 2 weeks ago:
I have not. That looks good.
- Comment on Settle a debate can potato's and noodles go together and taste great with sauce and other things? (I say it can) However my mother says two starches should never be cooked because it's too much. 2 weeks ago:
Related: May I introduce you to the Japanese abomination known as “Yakisoba Pan?” It’s a fried noodle sandwich. Carbs with fried carbs on top. I honestly can’t believe America didn’t create this.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 2 weeks ago:
I guess it depends what you mean exactly. Hated by people now? Hated by contemporaries? Hated by specifically American voters vs anyone affected by them? Total number of people who hate? Proportion of population? Intensity of hatred?
There’s also the extent to which media plays a role in this. We’re constantly aware of all the horrible shit Trump is doing, but the average person probably wouldn’t know much about say, The Trail of Tears at the time and it’s hard to say if they’d care given the way natives were portrayed to them. As for how people today look back on these people… maybe it’s just recency bias, but people don’t seem to really emotionally “hate” historical presidents as much as you’d think they should just based off what they’ve done. Slave owners, war mongers, and genocidal maniacs. People mostly know about the big stuff but… they always seem kind of disconnected from the horror of it.
So Idk. Trump is definitely up there, but depending on exactly what we’re talking about, we could probably make a good case for a few other monsters of the past.
- Comment on What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here? 2 weeks ago:
Missed opportunity to call it the wrong thing so someone could correct it.
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the insight. That sounds pretty rough. I hope you can get better soon.
- Comment on What do you think of the posting of easily searched questions here? 2 weeks ago:
I think it depends, but it’s mostly fine. Like others have said, search algorithms have gotten enshittified and can’t always be relied on for relevant and reliable info anymore. There is of course some stuff that is so basically factual that you could probably just search the term and look at whatever pops up on Wikipedia, but most questions aren’t that simple and often require answers with context and nuance, ideally with the ability to ask follow up questions for clarification.
It’s also a bit of a social experience and sometimes you will get other related discussions growing out of the question.
However, as everyone knows, the best way to get an answer on the internet is not to ask a question, but to state the incorrect answer.
- Comment on What is it like being drunk? How much control do you have? 2 weeks ago:
I agree. I’m more wondering at what point the fault occurs. Is it the action itself? The decision to drink? The point at which you drank too much to be safe?
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- Comment on What exactly do some marketing terms mean? 4 weeks ago:
Oh. Apologies for the US-defaultism. That’s the context I see this in.
As for book stuff, do you have any recommendations of good recommenders? I’ve recently picked up reading novels again after kind of a while of just reading non-fiction. At the moment I’ve just been going to the library and grabbing something off the shelf a bit randomly.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 6 comments
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Idk about other people, but I just built snacks into my schedule. Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner, dessert. I’ve been told that spreading out your food intake like that is better. It all still adds up to the same calories each day and I’ve been slowly but steadily losing weight, so it’s been working for me and I don’t feel hungry much.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 4 weeks ago:
There were famines before the Soviet Union. That’s kind of how things worked before modern industrial agriculture.
As for Korea… just think about it for 30 seconds… I’ll give you time…
…ok: South Korea was allied with the US, which helped rebuild it and became a trading partner. North Korea is an enemy of the US and has spent it’s entire existence being blockaded and provoked by the world’s largest superpower. Gee, why might they have had different economic outcomes?
As for the central planning point: idk. That’s something to figure out. It’s not even really the important part of socialism/communism. The important part is making sure the state can’t be taken over by a ruling class. Capitalism absolutely can’t keep capitalists from taking over the state. Whatever we should do, we don’t get to choose until we get the government in the hands of the people.
- Comment on Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games 5 weeks ago:
Thinking in terms of “need” is wrong for a business. They aren’t there to make a good product and the money is just to cover all the costs. Their goal is profit maximization. If there’s profit they could be extracting, but aren’t, they won’t make the numbers bigger and the shareholders will be sad.
Ads are a gas. They expand to fill all available space. If there’s a place an ad COULD go, then it WILL go there eventually.
- Comment on Weird 1 month ago:
Yeah, the tech thing makes sense. I used to get really excited by new pieces of tech. My first smart phone, a new game console, etc. Now? I couldn’t even tell you off hand what model iPhone I have nor what the newest one is. When will I get a new one? Probably when my old one breaks.
I think on the gaming side of things, the turning point might be around the Switch. Basically the point where Nintendo stopped experimenting with weird new things for their consoles. They basically just joined MS and Sony in releasing a standard console that could play modern games with the exception of it still having the motion controls from the Wii. The other companies also abandoned trying to do gimmick stuff like motion controls.
- Comment on Weird 1 month ago:
Something similar has been hitting me recently. I’m 30. So I was born is the last millennium, but you know, not by a lot. Most of my life has been the 20XXs. But even though it’s been 26 years of that, it just all feels so recently. Like it’s hard for me to call anything that happened after 2000 “old” because… old was last century/millennium. “That can’t be old, it happened just a few years ago!” Checks when it happened: 2012, 14 years ago…
Thinking about how we perceive the time we live through is weird. When you think about it, the lives of everyone alive today has been radically different than the vast majority of human history. There were times when things might not meaningfully change in your whole lifetime, maybe even several generations of people living the same way. Post-industrial revolution everything has happened so fast. Tech and culture changes so often that we conceptualize each decade in the 20th/21st century as being it’s own thing. (Obviously that wasn’t entirely the case, there’s all sorts of bleed over, but I’m just talking about how we think about it.) We talk about almost any other time in our history in terms of centuries and some key historical turning points.
I have now written way too much for a comment on a shitpost. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
- Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S 1 month ago:
Well, except for small, unimportant things like sending people to another country to go kill people.
- Comment on Is there any such thing as "edutainment" shows for adults? 1 month ago:
To add to the anime recs, there’s a whole sub genre of “Cute girls do the author’s special interest” that can be a fun way to incidentally learn some stuff you’d never have thought to interact with otherwise.
The one that comes to mind at the moment is “Ruri Rocks” which is about geology.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 months ago:
I haven’t really felt the need to upgrade since I first got a gaming PC. I’ve only ever replaced it when the last one was broken enough to not be worth trying to repair.
The funny thing is, these days maybe 85% of my time gaming is spent playing games that absolutely don’t need all the processing power I have. It is nice to be able to play the occasional AAA game, but all of them have looked fine to me. I haven’t really thought “damn this could look/run so much better if I spent another thousand dollars or so.”
I’ve actually been joking with friends about the unnecessary level of detail in some of these games. I was streaming God of War Ragnarok for them and we zoomed in on Kratos’ head and we joked about how some guy had to model the wrinkles on the back of his head/neck when it never matters and you only notice it when you’re going out of your way to zoom in on the details.
Games have reached a level of detail that is more than enough to convey any gameplay or narrative sufficiently. There’s nothing to keep pace with and I’m just hoping this one lasts long enough to avoid the price spike.
- Comment on Why don't people complain about Gary Stus? 2 months ago:
Others have good answers, but I wanted to add something that’s overlapping with this topic, especially since you mentioned anime.
I’ve watched quite a bit of anime since college when my friends got me into it. Recently I’ve been showing some anime to my mom based on things I like and which I think she would like. She commented that she thinks anime seems to have a lot of women in it.
To some extent this is skewed by my selection of shows for her, but it got me thinking. At least from my own personal experience, there do seem to be a lot more women in anime than you see in western media. There are many shows with female protagonists or all female cast and even the ones with a male protagonist frequently feature a prominent supporting cast of women.
While they do tend to get over-sexualized, there are plenty of shows where that isn’t the case and even when they do get objectified, there are a lot of them in strong or at least traditionally non-feminine roles. This is a medium where magical girls, battle maids, lady knights, female professionals and leaders are fairly well worn tropes. There are also definitely a lot of them that could be described as Mary Sues because they are just super powerful/competent at whatever they do.
At least from what I have personally observed, I haven’t seen nearly as much misogynist complaining about the prominence of women in these roles. But maybe that’s just the discussion sites that I visit. I also haven’t really done any kind of rigorous counting of shows with predominantly female casts, but they do seem to make up A LOT of the shows I have watched and enjoyed. So maybe this observation is just the result of a bias of my own viewing habits.
idk. I’d be curious to see what others have observed and thought about this. Maybe I’m way off base.
- Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder? 2 months ago:
Oh yeah I saw the whole Theranos thing. I know a lot of this stuff isn’t possible for now at least. I was just curious if in principle there are physical things stopping this from ever being reality or not. I remember part of the thing with Theranos was something about the machines not even being big enough for the size of the things they were looking at or something like that.
- Comment on How plausible is a medical tricorder? 2 months ago:
I guess the portable part is less what I was interested in than the possibility of being able to diagnose more things just by waving some sensors over the body instead of needing to cut someone open or stick a camera in them or take some blood, etc.
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- Comment on What do you think realistically would happen the moment we meet extraterrestrials? 2 months ago:
Die of some random common illness we don’t have any antibodies for.
Hopefully a species advanced enough to master interstellar travel would be mindful of that kind of thing though. I suppose at least they would probably be protecting themselves against that, so maybe it would go both ways?
- Comment on Why do I not see the same posts on the browser and on Voyager? 2 months ago:
Where do I see the filters on the browser? I haven’t touched them yet, so they should just be the default.
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- Comment on How do I drink more water? 2 months ago:
The advice about keeping water nearby is good. I do that. Although I still sometimes forget anyway lol.
Besides that: Is flavor the problem or do you just not like having to drink period?
If it’s flavor: Add a tiny bit of a drink you do like. I add maybe like 5-10% apple juice to my water at meals. Just enough to get some of the flavor without adding too much sugar.
If it’s the 2nd: There are others sources of water. Most fruits work and they also come with fiber, which is also important for hydration.
Also, unlikely to apply here, but worth mentioning: When I was having problems being dehydrated, I talked to my doctor about it and we figured out that one issue was that I was mostly drinking filtered water, which will lack a lot of the electrolytes you normally get in water. I fixed this by getting a powder to add to my water. (Filtering bc of town water supply issues.)