Benjaben
@Benjaben@lemmy.world
- Comment on Trump supporter Rick Fuze was arrested in CA for using a stun gun on peaceful protesters outside a Tesla dealership. The woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor with 16,000 citations. 4 weeks ago:
It’s okay, you can even those numbers out by beating up more fascists!
- Comment on Acetone: A Thread 5 weeks ago:
Ah interesting, I think for some reason I assumed it’d be more of an administrative career path offshoot for someone working in chemistry, but architecture does make more sense. And I know how you feel, I started my career in industrial controls because the idea of working at the interface between invisible electrical black magic and moving valves, motors, and other machinery seemed real cool.
Quickly learned that in that world, creativity and innovation are treated more like liabilities than anything else lol, and rightly so. There’s a few great, proven ways to do most things, and rarely is it wise or fruitful to develop novel approaches over one of the proven solutions. I wouldn’t want to be a chemist in a lab toting multiple new designs, lol.
I found it stifling, but could’ve tolerated it a lot better if the majority were WFH like yours!
- Comment on Idioms 5 weeks ago:
Lmao but why? Are Polish folks especially concerned about the bathroom habits of their elders?!
- Comment on Acetone: A Thread 5 weeks ago:
A lab planner! That’s one of those cool (sounding at least) jobs that are obvious when you think about it but I’ve just never thought about it.
Definitely piqued my curiosity though. How much of your work is designing new labs vs retrofitting existing ones, how much travel is involved / how much area do you cover (the question there is really about how many labs exist needing such services), and what are any weird or surprising elements of your job?!
- Comment on Acetone: A Thread 5 weeks ago:
Let’s just all start smoking with acetone as our bong water! So many problems solved :)
- Comment on [USpol] J.D. Vance 1 month ago:
Agreed. It’s the shitpost com, so fair game I guess, but all of us humans do this thing where the more we see or hear something the more we soften toward it subconsciously. It’s almost the basis of advertising. That’s good in general, but not in this case, fuck this dude forever. I don’t want my subconscious tryna tell me otherwise just cuz people enjoy the lols, but hey, that’s me.
- Comment on Trust your training 1 month ago:
I’m a big fan of saying weird shit and leaving it up, cheers fellow weirdo.
- Comment on Trust your training 1 month ago:
I was with you until the last line, lol, had me scratching my head and wondering if I was okay
- Comment on Trust your training 1 month ago:
Bro. What.
- Comment on Trust your training 1 month ago:
Why have you done this to us?!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah Nicole appears to be enjoying yonder broccoli
- Comment on Call Them. Replace Them. 1 month ago:
There’s another path, where we vote in loud angry people that do not compromise with fascists, call them what they are at every opportunity, and who do not uphold civility toward people who never intend to extend that in good faith themselves.
I called it a circus, I guess when I think about it more, the circus has been here for a while. Or at least, the “more about appearances/performances than effects” carnival has been running uninterrupted for years.
Like you, I wish for a more reasonable and productive and earnest future for our politics. We won’t get that by being soft with people who do not share any of our values. I still think you’re assuming good faith efforts that are not there, naively, and I still hope you’re right and I’m wrong.
- Comment on Call Them. Replace Them. 1 month ago:
That’s a consistent and reasonable point of view, and I share your hopes. Cheers.
- Comment on Call Them. Replace Them. 1 month ago:
Ah okay. Well I’m with you on part of it, if the people who voted them in agree / would have wanted that, then yes it is appropriate for them to have taken that vote. I do not want politicians deciding for us what we really want / need, full stop. With you there.
Not really with you that it’s the job of Dems at all to keep the Congress from becoming a circus. I’m trying to be pragmatic and realistic, I’m aware that Al Green’s performance doesn’t directly translate to the federal government being suddenly less effective at its crimes and abuses.
But please, remember that whatever your own life circumstances and status, there are very vulnerable people who are being hurt now, and these people want to hurt them worse and more. The people attacking and abusing our countrymen do not respect morality or the rule of law, in any capacity - WE DO NOT OWE THEM CIVILITY and I posit that we have nothing to gain from being civil with them. We need everyone with a microphone to be screeching that they are abusive monsters, daily, disrupting any and everything they attempt to do. They did it to the ACA which tried to be the most compassionate legislation we’ve seen in a generation, they’ve done it to every damn thing else that had a hope of helping Americans, we owe them nothing more than the basic human rights we owe anyone.
But we can agree to disagree too, I don’t pretend to have all the answers and have been wrong many times in my life. Cheers friend.
- Comment on Call Them. Replace Them. 1 month ago:
I guess I’m not sure what argument you’re making. My argument is that asking Congress to uphold decorum is a mistake when you have bad faith actors (fascists) taking advantage of their good will. And you seem to be saying that no, they should still behave politely because we aren’t among the absolute worst governments? If that’s how you feel, where is your line? What government posture merits abandoning the traditions and norms that your opponents have long since jettisoned and which they now use cynically to thwart your own high-minded efforts?
I hope I’m not being uncharitable towards you. Maybe it’s more like “we both got bogged down in defining details and we lost the thread”, that’s a thing that happens all too often lol.
- Comment on life changed due to shrimp 1 month ago:
Ah, I gotta watch more Red Green.
- Comment on Stand Up! 1 month ago:
Much appreciated and I was happy to see their contact info - check it out!
- Comment on Call Them. Replace Them. 1 month ago:
Attempting to grow a fascist dictatorship, with some success and even support, sure feels near the bottom of government dysfunction to me. But part of what makes all this so maddening is the difficulty in accurately assessing the situation. I acknowledge that in 4 years I may feel that my worries today were overblown, and I sure hope so!
- Comment on Stand Up! 1 month ago:
That’s exactly right. Except you left out all the lucrative insider trading they enjoy during 1-3. And just in case anyone tries to pull the wrong idea from any of this, the Republicans are even worse than that.
- Comment on Stand Up! 1 month ago:
Fuckin Democrats prefer civility to justice. Always have.
- Comment on Call Them. Replace Them. 1 month ago:
We’re pretty damn near the bottom, bud. We need active resistance not polite words.
- Comment on Stand Up! 1 month ago:
Democrat Al Green protested Trump’s speech to Congress, would not relent, and was removed by security. Then from what I understand, there was a vote to censure him (meaningless slap on the wrist in today’s politics) and 10 members of his own party shamefully voted with the Republicans to have him punished.
- Comment on That explains a lot 1 month ago:
Yeah, until we get a micro black hole that’s piloted by a competent Katamari player, then it’s over!
- Comment on What are the democrats actually doing to help? 1 month ago:
Your vote means nothing
I was with you until this, and maybe this is what people take issue with. Our vote fucking DOES mean something because if more folks voted against Trump, things would be a LOT less terrible.
They would still be unacceptably shitty though, no argument there, and I’ve been trying to show people for a long time myself that “Dems & Repubs vs. us” is a much more accurate description of the conflict than “us dems vs. us repubs”.
Even so, our vote matters a fucking lot when the Republican half of the regime is doing this kind of damage. I can’t really imagine anyone coherently arguing otherwise unless they are also arguing for immediate armed revolution. Voting matters, more of it would help with the far-reaching horrible outcomes of this administration in particular.
- Comment on FGFBD 2 months ago:
I’m just thankful it’s fritted, can you imagine?
- Comment on Feelin free 2 months ago:
I don’t mean a literal work output “quota”, that’s what I meant with layers of abstraction. A better question to ask yourself is how many Americans live paycheck to paycheck? The expensive nature of the modern world, the difficulty in being paid well enough to achieve not just stability but some personal forward progress - getting the resources for these is what I mean about needing to hit a “quota”.
What proportion of Americans are unable to hit the quota, described this way? What are the consequences, both to them and to wider society? Pretty bad situation, reminds me of just more complicated/obfuscated, “fuzzier” feudalism.
- Comment on Feelin free 2 months ago:
Can’t forget the terrible consequences of failing to meet “quota” (make enough to pay the bills).
But thanks for pointing this out, it really is similar, just with enough layers of abstraction to make the structure hard to see.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 3 months ago:
Hotdang, nailed it first try!
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 3 months ago:
Nothing to be ashamed of my friend, cool little device you’ve got here!
- Comment on Ok, some nerd please explain the switches on this IRL calculator app 3 months ago:
Yeah I don’t think my comment is right lol.