Tyfud
@Tyfud@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon needs help responding to his coworker 10 hours ago:
My man. This is not the way.
- Comment on oh shit 2 days ago:
That’s not how people work in these situations. Neither pay is going to act reasonably here, I can pretty much guarantee that from personal experience on both sides of that scenario.
- Comment on I don't understand why underbaked borderline raw cookies are such a popular trend. 4 days ago:
Except for the fact that it makes a bunch of money you mean?
- Comment on Pancake rolls 1 week ago:
Looks like pancakes wrapped around an opened package of Rolo candy.
Ngl, that shit looks deliciously diabetic
- Comment on Anon tells the tale of the Garfield phones 1 week ago:
Totally agreed. Unfortunately I don’t see it happening in our lifetimes.
Would love to be wrong here though.
- Comment on Anon tells the tale of the Garfield phones 1 week ago:
It happens semi-regularly. Unfortunately it doesn’t turn out like you’d think.
The company immediately bankrupts itself, but all of its assets and funds are protected by S-Corp and LLC chicanery; so they end up paying less than they would have if they stayed afloat and got fined, and now they’ve got a “new” company with the same people doing the same thing that’s protected from lawsuits.
Because that’s how we designed the system.
And by we, I mean the oligarchs that keep us fighting among ourselves instead of at them.
- Comment on dataisbeautiful 1 week ago:
Or they took it really, really well.
- Comment on Platypuses 1 week ago:
Evolution was all like: Ok, so which mutations would you like to advance? The venomous thing? The aquatic thing? The electrocuting enemies thing? The no stomach hack? The “Fun at parties” hack?
Platypus: Yes.
- Comment on Léon: The Professional: The Unconventional Cult Classic at 30 1 week ago:
Dicaprio over here taking notes
- Comment on Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet 2 weeks ago:
Press ALT + F4 to open up the administrator window.
- Comment on I think I am socially ostrasized, what should I do? 3 weeks ago:
This is good advice. I was going to type something up, but this pretty much covers it. Listen to this person please OP.
- Comment on Why does trump try to alienate black voters than expect them to vote for the dickhead? And why use Kamala's race as even a talking point let alone even a thought? 5 weeks ago:
I think that’s a well established worry at this point
- Comment on Bringing this one back for today... 5 weeks ago:
Nobody knows who they are either.
The only thing people in this thread know is that Selena is not Batman.
- Comment on Anon has trauma 5 weeks ago:
I’m not disagreeing with you in any way, but things like ejecting a person out of a vehicle before it bursts into flames, where they woke up and the vehicle was on fire, and they would have been unconscious and burned alive in other scenarios.
Same with the drowning argument of being unable to get out of the seat belt due to panic.
In every one of these scenarios, it’s extreme and the possibility of it happening is so remote it’s not worth considering. But it still comes up in the “argument” (speaking from experience arguing with someone who was anti-seat belts for years).
All I was highlighting is that if we’re going to be able to argue with the people who believe this stuff, we have to acknowledge the extreme edge case view they hold as theoretically possible under the most absurd conditions; and then that allows us to move forward in the conversation to convince them that the odds of something like that happening to them vs the seat belt saving them are so remote they may as well plan to win the lottery 8 times in a row.
I say this from experience, that’s what finally allowed me to break down the walls of my anti-seat belt acquaintance over months/years of arguing. He’s wearing a seat belt now, even though he still snarks about it. But it keeps him safe, and deep down, he understands that now because I took the time to acknowledge that.
- Comment on Anon has trauma 5 weeks ago:
There are some extreme scenarios where this is true, and it gets inflated and conflated when arguing against seat belt laws.
It’s all a game of numbers at the macro level, and seat belts save far more lives than they potentially damage. The math has checked out and been backed up over and over and over again for 70+ years and the result is always the same: Seat belts overwhelmingly increase your chance of surviving a car accident.
The edge cases, while there, are not worth risking a surefire death or dismemberment under the vast majority of conditions.
- Comment on So it begins... 5 weeks ago:
Agreed, but the reason this is done to him from my understanding is that he does this sort of ad hominem attack on others and is a bully, generally, so why shouldn’t people point out his superficial flaws as well? Especially when he continually tries to rewrite history that none of this happened because his ego is so fragile?
If he was a standup billionaire (heh, oxymoron there), people wouldn’t feel like attacking things like this were acceptable.
But because he’s a gigantic douchenozzle who regularly bullies people for things exactly like this, including his own family, it’s game on.
- Comment on Wet Time 1 month ago:
I upvoted you, but I wasn’t happy about it.
- Comment on I've heard it clears up again after the first wave of divorces 1 month ago:
Not all of the kids have to be theirs.
- Comment on 8 Minutes 1 month ago:
That was an intuitive way to think about it, thank you.
- Comment on Mamma mia 1 month ago:
You raise some fair criticisms of my response and have given me some things to think about and consider.
- Comment on Mamma mia 1 month ago:
You understand that prejudice has a specific malicious intent behind it, correct? That it’s prejudiced “with intent” for something nefarious that’s being hidden behind the veil of racist remarks.
Go ahead and tell us which one of those racist behaviors is on display here.
If Italian people were offended by this, or this limited their upward travel potential in the professional world, or was a way to hide derogatory behavior that people found undesirable by “dog whistling”, then it would qualify.
Unless you can point that out in this case, I think your sense of social justice is misplaced for what is just normal, tame, cultural fun poking.
Here, we’ll include Americans in the meme:
Amer-E-cans: The police were called to handle a domestic disturbance at a nearby home. There were no survivors.
- Comment on Mamma mia 1 month ago:
Looking at the downvotes, it looks like everyone disagrees with you.
- Comment on Mamma mia 1 month ago:
Italy walks the talk with its own stereotypes. And they take that quite seriously.
- Comment on Elon Musk Shares Manipulated Harris Video, in Seeming Violation of X’s Policies 1 month ago:
God. Damn.
- Comment on Anon's gastric emergency 2 months ago:
It’s likely UC. Symptoms fit.
- Comment on Chemists of Lemmy, how accurate is this likability table? 2 months ago:
I think it’s framed in the context of: “How dangerous would a single molecule be to a human?”. In that context, I would say
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is safe, only because our body naturally destroys the radical oxygen molecules every day that we create with our anti-oxidants.True, in a larger quantity than our body can handle, it’s extremely toxic; but a single molecule would probably not be too bad.
But I do agree, it shouldn’t be Green. It should be Yellow at least.
- Comment on Anon has a question 2 months ago:
Like French fries
- Comment on History is written by the victors 2 months ago:
That is correct. That’s what it’s like living here every day. Though largely it’s just two categories.
The people your meet are either ignorant religious nut jobs, or they’re not from the south.
- Comment on Dandelions 2 months ago:
To follow up on this, you’re right. I checked into it. That picture is fake, generated or photoshopped or something, but he does all his own stunts and does not use stunt doubles, so I was mistaken and misled :)
- Comment on Dandelions 2 months ago:
Iirc, they’re his stunt doubles