Benjaben
@Benjaben@lemmy.world
- Comment on J IS LORD 12 hours ago:
Still, I would’ve been disappointed if someone hadn’t just typed it out. Probably woulda felt like I had to.
- Comment on I don't thing my beef strogonoff updates aren't working. 5 days ago:
You magnificent SOB!
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
That’s a consistent and reasonable take. Mob violence can be unpredictable and harmful to its own causes. I’m certainly willing to call it murder myself, while also being glad for it. And I condemn going after the person who called in the tip, for many reasons, but succinctly - that person cannot possibly bear enough responsibility for the state of things, even acknowledging the actions they sure didn’t have to take, to be an appropriate target of anything like what happened to Brian Thompson.
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
Well, I can understand your point of view without sharing it. As for the hostility, beyond most folks just following whatever up/downvoting they see taking place already, there’s a critical element here that shouldn’t be missed - the positive response has been largely bipartisan, which is rare and valuable. And not only is it bipartisan, it points out a critically important truth which any resident of this country would do well to keep in mind -
At this stage of the game, we might be a hair’s breadth from realizing that it hasn’t been Democrats vs. Republicans for a long time, it’s just all of us regular folks vs the abusive rich (+their enablers).
I’m reaching here, but if other people feel that way, I can imagine wanting to discourage anything that takes away from a sudden (much needed) feeling of unity.
- Comment on It's true 1 week ago:
Just to give one more take (without contributing any hostility, I hope!) - one way to look at it might be that you see this new development (Thompson’s murder and the nation’s “hell yeah!”) as the scary, dangerous step too far, whereas maybe many of us see the scary dangerous step(s) too far as having already happened (maybe long) in the past.
We’re in a really scary situation as a country, and that was almost exactly as true the day before Thompson’s murder as it is today. The significant events leading to our scary situation are a list of egregious misdeeds and manipulations by people in power, stretching back years - even if I take your premise that it’s wrong, this is just yet one more event (if a notable acceleration). I sincerely believe that a few more gray hoodies might actually send things back in the right direction and bring the owner class back to the negotiating table. As it stands (and ~equally true two weeks ago), the social contract in this country is in tatters. The rich get everything, everyone else - nothing, not even the healthcare we already frickin bought.
Laws are not virtuous by default, is it a moral judgment against killing itself here, or is the problem that it was not a legal act? Of course don’t let me reduce your position to one of my own two phrasings lol, but I am curious about the specific objection you have.
- Comment on Indian start-up Yes Madam fires employees who indicated being stressed in the survey 1 week ago:
LOL I like it, take it one step further too: “…and you’ll be hearing about this shit during my performance review!”
- Comment on KØUTÜLLER 2 weeks ago:
What a legend.
- Comment on Claim Denied 2 weeks ago:
Welp, yours is the most creative take I’ve seen this morning haha, kudos!
- Comment on HAIL SATAN 3 weeks ago:
Pshaw, let’s see you or your deity turn someone into a pillar of salt for looking the wrong way, fuck yeah Team God!
- Comment on Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet. 5 weeks ago:
This is the exact line I was gonna quote too lol, this story is very specific and fun to read
- Comment on Can't install app because it isn't "certified" by the government 5 weeks ago:
It was always going to end this way.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
The weird man-lifts used to get a side eye from me
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
Not quite invisible but you could also splash and wade into a pool of strong acid thinking it was water, during what first seemed like a somewhat routine FUBAR maintenance situation…filling your boots etc.
- Comment on But yes. 5 weeks ago:
Blech, I’ve heard stories in my industrial automation days of people being clipped by invisible high pressure steam leaks. No frickin thank you, regular stovetop steam jacks me up frequently enough.
- Comment on anyway, i started blastin' 5 weeks ago:
More gut bacteria for the rest of us, that’s what I say!
- Comment on [Même] Which movie was this for you? 1 month ago:
Yeah, in my case this one was too close to home for me to love it. 10 or 20 years ago I probably would’ve felt differently. Similar for Idiocracy, I don’t think I’d feel the same way about it if it came out today. Kinda chilling when I think about that, honestly.
- Comment on WILD 1 month ago:
Yep if I look at the back of my phone, instead of this, it is indeed!
- Comment on Anon takes their dog for a walk 1 month ago:
Your mom’s grass
- Comment on How's Iceland's 4-Day Work Week Working? 'Incredibly Well,' Study Says 1 month ago:
I think it’s probably like the other commenter said, just money. I think it may be “the other thing”? Where you can have whatever rules and policies in place at the govt level, but if there’s a “work hard / sacrifice for dumb reasons” culture solidly entrenched at work…well, writing’s on the wall. Do that or be soft-ostracized.
I do think the rules make an impact anywhere there’s a functioning government, just by slowly shifting what people see (accept?) as “normal”.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 1 month ago:
Okay thank you! Fully understand the subtle difference you described, and it’s interesting. If you feel like saying more, what led you to use these characters? Are there spaces where they’re used more commonly that I’m just ignorant about? I personally found it harder to read, but I’m probably just old lol and would need a bit longer, I do basically like the idea though.
- Comment on Why is voting before the deadline in US elections referred to as 'early voting'? 1 month ago:
Okay, I’ve seen you in two comment chains now and I can’t help but ask what is going on with your “th” characters? At one point you described the US as “we” so I’m extra puzzled.
But the straw that broke the camel’s back was:
monþ long
I understand having two different characters for lower and upper case, but what the fresh fuck is this one for lol?!
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 1 month ago:
Yeah that was really some trash and made me furious. The one guy just directly stating all the ways we need to help the working class and also saying basically fuck the rich, with the career-long credentials to back it up, and instead we got force-fed Hillary. She was so unlikeable and entitled, it set the Dems (and shit, maybe even women in leadership as a whole) back by like 10 years. Cuz she acted like a shitty stereotype about women that fed right into the misogynists. Such a colossal fuck up, and that really is putting it mildly. I deleted a whole screed of even more forceful complaining, lol.
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 1 month ago:
I did similar, I’m ashamed to admit, except slightly worse - I actually just didn’t vote at all, thinking I was really making my dissatisfaction clear that way. What a dumbass I was, and for the same reasons you described. And while a lot of that was undeniably true and a problem, I also now kinda feel fairly sure the “don’t vote / vote 3rd party” push was an op, and I fell for it like a dope.
I’ve voted in every election I’ve been eligible for before and since 2016, and I will never allow myself to drop the ball like that again. Fuck the DNC but we gotta fight like hell to keep things from getting even worse and they’re all we’ve fuckin got at the moment.
- Comment on Ah yes, regression 1 month ago:
That line, and then just by instinct going to Fig 1, and seeing its caption…incredible lol
- Comment on Waiting patiently while the woodcocks do their thing 2 months ago:
From what I very vaguely remember, the idea is that they’re (somewhat accidentally, just by instinct) causing a reverberation in the ground that seems, to worms, like rain. Making the worms (somewhat accidentally, just by instinct) go “aww shit, this lovely dirt hangout spot is boutta turn into a bathtub, I gotta get outta here!”
It’s pretty cute watching em on actual dirt. Especially with a young’n, the little ones figure it out pretty quick. Somewhat accidentally, just (largely) by instinct!
- Comment on Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher 2 months ago:
Oathbreaker’s Rheia is one of the most moving records I’ve ever heard, truly a masterpiece with no wasted moments, missteps, just basically flawless in my opinion. On the other side Deafheaven just hasn’t worked for me at all. Taste’s so fickle lol.
I’ll check out the third tho!
- Comment on Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher 2 months ago:
This record, a few by Neurosis, and one or two by Cult of Luna were such a vibe. We knew some knuckleheads who even started a joke ish band called Cult of Neurisis lol
- Comment on Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher 2 months ago:
Buddy, “Appalachian atmospheric black metal” is a weird combination of words I’ve never seen before and I’m stoked to give it a whirl. Praise Satan for metal keeping things interesting.
- Comment on Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher 2 months ago:
Lol yeah, name became a wee bit unfortunate thanks to those angry rascals
- Comment on Ex developer at Bethesda quit his job after 14 years and made this heavy metal horror game as a solo dev with no publisher 2 months ago:
Oh snap thanks for pointing this out! Been a long time and I haven’t kept up with ISIS, but their Panopticon was damn near genre-defining for me at the time.