morphballganon
@morphballganon@lemmy.world
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 1 day ago:
Let’s get the other branches onboard too.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 6 days ago:
They got tired of harassing people on Bluesky and changed things up a bit
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 weeks ago:
Don’t write off small devs just because huge corpos are assholes
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 2 weeks ago:
Hmm how do time zones work at the south pole? Can you run in a small circle and hit most if not all of them?
- Comment on Which timezone would win in a conflict? 2 weeks ago:
The one with Hawaii could just pretend they’ve already been wiped out and wait for everyone else to destroy each other
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 weeks ago:
I use an air fryer
No actually I’ve used physical media since the 90s and haven’t had a reason to change
- Comment on How do I stop sleeping through everything? 3 weeks ago:
Increase the volume on your alarm. Set it to a ringtone that is less relaxing. Set multiple such alarms, a few minutes apart.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 3 weeks ago:
You don’t need to trust consensus to observe global average temperatures and infer that we’re in uncharted territory in regard to the climate.
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 3 weeks ago:
You’re touching on the idea of a “truth baseline” as I call it. How do you know what’s real vs bullshit?
My truth baseline is that maintaining the habitability of Earth is good. From that, I can deduce the following:
- excessive carbon dioxide in atmosphere is bad
- reliance on fossil fuels is bad
- clean renewable energy is good
- people who rail against renewables are bad
- political part(ies) that do the same are bad
- news figures that normalize that are bad
Etc. See where this is headed?
The ambiguity of whether someone is good or not is due to goodness being a subjective quality. There is no such thing as objective good. The closest thing to objective good we can attain is sustainability.
The same can be said about truth. If you want something objective, that’s called fact. Truth is a subjective perception of facts. Thus… there is no one correct truth. Just an openness to adjust to new information while dismissing those who are opposed to your truth baseline.
- Comment on What would happen to the Earth if it got booped by a giant asteroid going super slowly? 3 weeks ago:
Guessing you mean the speed of a truck relative to the speed of the Earth, as the Earth is traveling around the sun much faster than a truck
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 3 weeks ago:
-esque* fyi
- Comment on How could I order a package without my parents finding it? 3 weeks ago:
Can you take a bus to a bigger city to buy them in person
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 4 weeks ago:
Not at all. That customer was hunting for something to complain about so they could negotiate freebies from your boss. Sounds like your boss fell for it.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 4 weeks ago:
Only douchecanoes use the term unironically, so it follows the person they are criticising is likely doing something morally right.
- Comment on Why do people call it “woke”? 4 weeks ago:
Have you heard the term virtue-signaling?
Selfish people want to paint people better than them as bad, so they try to adjust the narrative to suggest that those better people are actually faking it. The term virtue-signaling suggests that these virtuous acts are actually just for appearances, and insincere.
The term woke has a similar implication. It’s like “this person is trying very hard to appear to be virtuous, and in doing so, they’re going too far, and doing more harm than good.”
That’s my intellectual take on it, anyway. Plebs just adopt the term without understanding the implied meaning. “Other team == woke == bad” is all 95% of them think.
- Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 4 weeks ago:
A sicker population means more money for the executives that own medical facilities and insurance companies.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 4 weeks ago:
Hey board of directors! Make me your new CEO and I will fix this problem!
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 5 weeks ago:
The hardest parts of gun use are aiming at long range and proper maintenance. Neither of those are a concern for someone planning to shoot at close range and not live another day.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 5 weeks ago:
How many kids are going to have their vision fucked up this time?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I heard you can safely call someone an asshole
Wonder if creep would likewise be safe
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 1 month ago:
If you don’t make profit then either you’re losing money or straddling the line between profit and losing money, neither of which is sustainable. Then someone else will come in and try.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 month ago:
I can get lost and then spend time “progressing” only to find the way blocked and having to backtrack
You mean you GET to backtrack
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 1 month ago:
Skeptical about the accuracy, given everything we’ve seen AI do so far.
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 1 month ago:
22yo women date 30yo+ men all the time
Maybe not so much the other way around
- Comment on I quit my job to make my own game. Toll Booth Simulator 1 month ago:
I don’t understand what a lot of those activities have to do with toll booths
The drinking animation needs a lot of work, or just skip it and have it be instantaneous with a gulp sound
The woman’s head getting bigger from the drink is bizarre and disturbing
The woman spewing liquid out from her mouth doesn’t look great
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
They know the thing they’ve got going on now isn’t working so they have to latch onto anything new
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 month ago:
Lots of guys are held back by looks and/or confidence.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 month ago:
Much of our media depicts men in successful relationships, handsome, with a good circle of friends, decent jobs etc.
Guys see this and think there’s something wrong because their reality isn’t matching that media.
It’s more exciting to think you’re observing a widespread social phenomenon than to admit your expectations were shaped by fiction.
- Comment on what books about personal boundaries do you know that don't mention god? 1 month ago:
I’ve heard good things about Polysecure. I understand your question doesn’t pertain to non-monogamy, but non-monogamy is an extension of being able to set and respect boundaries yourself rather than simply adopting boundaries that are the default in your community, so maybe it would be helpful?