aesthelete
@aesthelete@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's your favorite poker hand in Balatro? 1 day ago:
Flush
It’s almost always playable
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 4 days ago:
Are you calling for people to eat milksteaks boiled over hard?
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- Comment on Paper Planes 4 days ago:
Still a great song
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 4 days ago:
Bonus points if it’s a Linux course
- Comment on Trump, in blue, sleeping at Pope Francis' finera;l 1 week ago:
Drowsy Donnie is what many people are calling him
- Comment on Do you understand how many people 350 million is? How did this worm ridden ball sack float to the top? 1 week ago:
He’s like a walking uncanny valley.
He’s the uncle in the zombie flick that swore he wasn’t bitten and is starting to turn.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 week ago:
I agree that they’re athletic, but they simply aren’t competing in an athletic competition while pretending that they are.
I think your comparison to the Globetrotters is on point. In the ballet and other examples, the difference to me is that they’re not pretending to be in a ballet competition while dancing the ballet.
There’s no doubt that what wrestlers do requires skill, and talent (and in most cases athleticism) but it’s “fake” in that what you’re watching isn’t an athletic competition despite its self-constructed thin veneer that it is.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 week ago:
The outcome of the match is predetermined while the participants pretend that it isn’t. That is why there are constant arguments about whether or not it’s “fake”.
- Comment on Find a circle that is going places 1 week ago:
I’m 40+ and I wanna go get drunk in a parking lot with you guys.
- Comment on Do you really have to let everyone know 2 weeks ago:
I feel like most social media is the online version of this.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 3 weeks ago:
Eh, they’re perceived as more “lefty” than most of the stereotypically “patriotic” corporations of the US.
There are a couple of reasons for this: (1) Steve Jobs has/had a “crunchy granola” reputation (despite likely being a crypto fascist) due to likening himself to civil rights leaders and other “woke” people, and (2) they have a large amount of usage by people in the creative arts such as music producers, visual artists, and other people who the right would call “woke” without blinking an eye.
I think it’s all perception, and they are easily just as fascistic as the rest of the corporations. But they try to stay on the good side of a lot of people that care deeply about eroding democratic norms, and the removal of people’s rights – or at least claim to – that produce a lot of the cultural artifacts the right largely hates, but are broadly-speaking massively popular.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 3 weeks ago:
Probably market cap
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 3 weeks ago:
Yes they are that lazy. The average office worker also has the attention span of a gnat.
- Comment on Max pulling THIS shit every time I finish watching Last Week Tonight 3 weeks ago:
Things you may absolutely hate
- Comment on I used to really like that one 4 weeks ago:
Japan’s sending PlayStations
- Comment on LinkedIn’s cofounder Reid Hoffman says seeking work-life balance is a red flag that you’re ‘not committed to winning’ 4 weeks ago:
It’s a fucking lotto. Lucky people always think they’re smarter or more hardworking than others.
- Comment on Do you eat shrimp shells when eating shrimp? 4 weeks ago:
No it’s gross
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 4 weeks ago:
Nintendo shop regularly runs deals similar to steam. Usually at around the same times of year. Same with PlayStation. I run games on all three platforms. You have to be kind of a sucker these days to buy a game at full price when it’s first released. But none of what I said makes $80 games reasonably priced.
- Comment on If these mother fuckers are trying to make me pay for Healthcare to talk to fucking ChatGPT I swear to god ChatGPT is going to write me so many scripts for opioids its won't be funny. 5 weeks ago:
Dude within ten years people in the US will be lucky if they have potable water.
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- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
At one point, it seemed like we were getting smarter, and then it very didn’t.
- Comment on Now that's an interesting question 5 weeks ago:
It’d really be a pleasant place to live if it weren’t for the huge amount of selfish, entitled fucking pricks that do.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m a hunching it up a bit. But there’s some amount of absurdity in expecting large amounts of scientific rigor in lemmy comments when those leading purportedly scientific bodies are being led by vaccine-denying simpletons.
That ubiquitous expectation of powerless individuals to reason and behave perfectly while ultra-powerful people can behave like spoiled five year olds is foundational in making life fucking miserable for me personally.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Every country suffers from what? Mass stupidity?
Maybe that’s true but it certainly seems like we are more individualistic and stupid than most…and I don’t think those two things are entirely unrelated.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
America is more car-oriented than most other western countries and leaded gas is how we did the majority of our poisoning.
Yes, of course microplastics are everywhere, but I’ve read studies saying that internationally they’re eating about the same amount of plastic as we did years ago, but they kind of plateaued whereas here in the good ol USA people still don’t know that it’s not a good idea to eat three meals a day of microwaved food cooked in plastic containers.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Read the book “bowling alone” if you’re interested in someone’s attempt at researching why we went from collectivism to individualism as a country. There are a large amount of factors but if I were to take a crack at it, I’d list a few: TV, the Internet, smart phones, air conditioning, capitalism, and (last but certainly not least) racism. Racism is foundational to the country and its history.
As far as the stupidity, some of the same factors apply, but there are also additional ones like environmental factors (US citizens eat more microplastics than any other major country since like 2016 and we lead poisoned ourselves for a century), a deep-seeded anti-intellectualism, and we’re a large part cultist/religious idiots that see everything through the lense of “some guy” being the best thing ever and the source of all truth.
- Comment on Oops, something went wrong! 1 month ago:
Yeah but most of these errors don’t even give out a uuid that could be used to relate the error to logs to be resolved by someone.
Not that that someone exists anyway. Let’s face it the entire industry is a massive joke and a pile of shit and with AI coming fast and hard soon you won’t even get the privilege of venting to a call center person about it.
You’ll vent to some made-up robot chatbot named veeblezorp and he will give you an impromptu therapy session about the state of the world. Your computer/tablet/phone/app still won’t work properly and veeblezorp will try to get you through the stages of grief about that.
Just unplug it and don’t plug it back in again. Go for a walk. Play with the dog. Hug your children. Stop buying crap online that scales up infinitely to take new customers (and their dollars) but is forever stuck at the garage startup level when it comes to support.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 2 months ago:
I agree, but somehow the low end portable monitors seem to already have USB-C support. I bought a monitor for like $60 and it had USB-C.
I’m not quite sure why regular size monitors are lacking the support.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 2 months ago:
USB-C likely will take over video eventually. I use it for video on two out of three of my monitors and the Nintendo switch can be used that way.
- Comment on Germany right now 2 months ago:
I was told by a German person on this very site that they’d never go right wing again because of a unique type of centrism in the country that’s hugely popular and that my tiny American brain couldn’t comprehend. Oh well, guess that’s just another common centrist L.
