Adderbox76
@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive? 1 day ago:
Short answer: No.
As far as I’m aware, the first step in an autopsy is to drain the body of blood before any incision is made. You’d be dead long before you got to “see your insides”.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 5 days ago:
Ah. Gotcha. Makes sense.
From my initial read it sounded as though you were suffering from some kind of pop-culture FOMO, which is what I was responding to. If you’re just looking to find new stuff for yourself, than more power to you. But I still think you’re giving it a little too much thought. New tastes, new likes tend to come quite naturally without really hunting. Very much like you discovered Kendrick. You didn’t go out searching, it just came up.
To use myself as an example, at 48, most of my new music has come from just hearing something I like on the TV and looking it up. I discovered “The 88” through How I met your Mother and Community. I loved the theme music from Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and was pleasantly surprised to learn that not only was it an actual band with MORE music, but it was literally a side gig for a comedian that I had already been enjoying for years. (Valley Lodge, if you’re interested. They don’t get enough love.) I discovered the Decemberists and Hawksley Workman both because I was trying to impress a girl at two different times in my life, but it turned out I really dug it.
My point is, don’t go looking for what’s popular, just keep your ears open and listen for stuff you like. Just looking by studying what’s popular at the time would have made me miss most of the bands I just mentioned.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 5 days ago:
Just my opinion, but I feel like you’re far to concerned with being “current”. No offence.
I’m 48 and when I was younger I swore up and down that “I wasn’t going to be like my parents, stuck in my ways musically, blah blah blah.” But you know what, it doesn’t actually matter. Literally at all. It’s vapid pop culture stuff that in adult world, no one actually cares about. Your friends aren’t going to be your friends simply because you like the same music as them. You’re social circle isn’t going to rise and fall based on how “current” you are because outside of highschool, literally no one gives a damn.
Like what you like. Listen to what you want. and don’t worry about staying “hip” because the entire concept is subjective and meaningless in the actual day-to-day world. No one is going to shun you for not knowing what’s happening between Kendrick whats-his-face and The dude from Degrassi. And if they do, they’re not really the kind of vapid social media obsessed people you should be associating with at your age anyway.
Again…just my opinion.
- Comment on Archaeology 1 week ago:
likely yes. I was in university in the late 90s. My knowledge is very out of date.
- Comment on Archaeology 1 week ago:
Actually yes…it is.
Law enforcement often employs archaeologists for that very purpose. My professor in Uni for example would go help them out whenever they got a call about a body being found because there just weren’t enough murders in my part of the world to justify having someone full time.
The skill-sets are virtually identical, the bones are just fresher. Reading a crime scene and reading a archaeological site are basically kissing cousins.
- Comment on Archaeology 1 week ago:
From my time majoring in Arch, I’d say the rule of thumb is:
“Is the culture the body came from vanished or changed to the point where no one has a personal stake in it.”
So for example, vikings are long since gone. Modern northern europeans are generally a completely different culture, therefore not grave robbing. Same with Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, etc…
Indigenous tribes in North America and Australia for example, still very much around and still very much grave robbing (though that opinion is controversial)
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 1 week ago:
“willing victimhood” is certainly a thing.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 week ago:
Conservative Politics is about giving their base something/someone to be angry at.
LBJ summed it up the best:
“If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.”
Back then it was the african american population. Today it’s trans/lgbt/migrants/muslims/etc… Insert your group of choice here and that’s the Conservative political machine.
- Comment on Bees 2 weeks ago:
Remember when Johnny Depp wasn’t a parody of himself…?
- Comment on Calculus made easy 2 weeks ago:
but wouldn’t “the sum of all the little bits of x” just be… x? Like what the fuck Calculus?! Speak plainly.
- Comment on How do genocides happen? 1 month ago:
You begin by classifying anyone you don’t know as “the others”… They’re not like you. They don’t share your values. Their ways are weird.
If you use that language with your citizens long enough, it slowly seeps in that those people aren’t really people at all. Eventually, killing them isn’t killing humans, it’s just getting rid of vermin; poisoning rats or bug-bombing your home.
You see politicians doing it every day. They’re not humans…they’re “illegals”, is probably the most modern example. But it’s insidious, and pervasive. Slowly and deliberately inuring a populous to greater and larger acts of inhumanity.
The short answer is that it doesn’t just happen. It’s a culmination of a process that ends with one group of people completely rejected the very humanity of another group. After that, who cares if they die.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
I have a mastiff. Truly clean will never be a thing again.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
As a Canadian, I still find it shocking that people don’t take their shoes off inside. That’s just gross.
- Comment on Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program you run, and when and where you ran it 1 month ago:
I’ve said for years that the very last power we have as consumers is the ability to turn off our internet and still be able to use our devices. That is my minimum expectation of any company.
Fridge needs an internet connection, fuck you. TV won’t work unless it’s connected to the internet, fuck you.
But most especially (and this is why I moved to Linux originally), computer needs to always be connected to the internet even if all I’m doing is opening an office program that has nothing to do online? Go fuck yourself.
The ability to unplug my ethernet cable and still be able to use 99% of my computer with the exception of email and a web browser is the absolutely most basic human right left to us.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 2 months ago:
Less “playing” and more “bug testing”. In the final stages of developing an aircraft for XPlane 11/12 and have been putting in a lot of hours in flight looking for graphical glitches, system bugs, etc…
- Comment on Looking for emotional game recommendations 2 months ago:
This War of Mine
- Comment on Why has the world gone to shit? 3 months ago:
Corporate capitalism.
Profit before people in literally every facet of modern western society.
Years of believing the adage that “we j should be happy just to HAVE a job”, which have carte blanche for companies to treat their employees like line items on a spreadsheet; something to be minimized as much as possible in order to squeak more pennies into a stock price.
Literally every bad thing today is the wholly expected endgame of 80s trickle-down economics.
- Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI 4 months ago:
Sadly true.
- Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI 4 months ago:
The Extinction level meteor can’t come soon enough.
Time to pack it in and give some other microorganism a shot at the evolutionary big-leagues. Maybe they’ll do better.
- Comment on Duolingo Fires Translators in Favor of AI 4 months ago:
Sayonara, Duolingo.
As a writer on the internet with no power to stop these companies from scraping my work, you now want to teach me using someone else’s stolen words and teach someone English using mine. Go fuck yourself.
- Comment on The Downfall of Amazon: Dangerous Products, Fake Reviews & Vanishing Brands - Louis Rossman 4 months ago:
I don’t think “Downfall” means what this dude thinks it does…
- Comment on Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 1 - Official Trailer | Prime Video 5 months ago:
Not necessarily. But as someone already said, The Americans was really really good.
And Amazon Prime originals are kind of noteworthy for being “just like (insert title here), but cheaper looking.”
Lord of the rings and wheel of time, just like Game of Thrones, but cheaper looking.
Electric Dreams, just like Black Mirror, but cheaper looking.
It should be noted though, that that’s a fairly recent development and it’s certainly not limited to Amazon. Old Prime, when every streaming service was pouring unlimited money into their originals, we got The Man in the High Castle, which was brilliant.
But the well has largely dried up financially for streaming originals. we’ll never get back to the old days. The Americans benefitted from being in a world that wasn’t putting out as much content as humanly possible to compete against other services.
That’s all I’m saying. It might be perfectly fine, but I’m almost positive it’ll be “Like The Americans, but cheaper looking”.
- Comment on Mr. & Mrs. Smith Season 1 - Official Trailer | Prime Video 5 months ago:
Soooo…The Americans…but likely worse.
- Comment on In The Empire Strikes Back, why does Han significantly outrank Luke? 7 months ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that making him a “general” was a negotiation chip used to get Han to stick around.
I don’t thinks that’s written anywhere. But that’s my head canon based on the characters as we know them at that point in the story.
- Comment on EBAY Prices 8 months ago:
For some reason, no Motorola phone I’ve ever owned has played nice with Android Auto over the cable for me.
It’s a known issue, but I’ve not been able to make any of the random fixes floating around actually work. Multiple phones in multiple vehicles using multiple cables. The only common factor is Motorola. Which is a shame because other than that, Moto has been a solid mid-range choice for me all these years.
- Comment on Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology? 9 months ago:
Because they’re generally religious in name only. To them, religion is a tool to be used to get ahead. Networking through your church, appealing to other religious people in order to get votes, etc… etc…