Shiggles
@Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Our bffs 2 weeks ago:
The second most useful thing I learned from statistics courses was the statistics. The first was just how terrible most people are in their application.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
“Socialism will transition to communism” is just a communism thing. Social democracy is different. It doesn’t involve communism. Because communism is cringe.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Because exclusively that’s the communist viewpoint. There are different socialist ideologies than communism. It’s a rectangle vs square situation.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
That’s neither exclusive to communism nor has it been achieved in most purportedly communist states (I hear Vietnam’s actually been having a good run of things but I can’t speak to specifics).
Socialism != communism.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
They’re mask off on hexbear/lemmygrad, they try to be subversive on lemmy.ml. I have in fact instance blocked the first two, you can usually dodge them on .ml. Lemmy is far less enjoyable if you have not blocked them.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Commune-ism sounds like a lovely idea on a small scale, you gotta solve a lot of political problems to make it work on anything bigger. Social democracies like the scandinavians seem to be the best way we currently know to run a humanitarian society.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
“America does bad things, so I should support china/russia instead!”
“Stalin/mao were (anything besides utterly reprehensible dictators)”
“Communism could’ve worked if-“
Honorable mention to thinking this coy “I’m going to act all hyper respectful and yet also like I know more than anyone about anything” bullshit gets you anywhere.
- Comment on Biden to defy Supreme Court in second attempt at sweeping student loan handout 1 month ago:
Man, you gotta just pity this guy. Is he desperate for attention? Screaming into a void? The world may never know.
- Comment on The Sims movie in the works from Barbie’s Margot Robbie and director of Loki and The Last of Us Season 2 1 month ago:
What unifying story did the barbie movie use?
I’m at least cautiously optimistic it might actually be a similar shtick to the barbie movie. Or a pure cash grab, real coin flip at this point.
- Comment on Larian Started Work on Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Then Canceled It: "The Studio Was Elated" 1 month ago:
As someone who’s played their fair share of assorted DnD systems, 5E has a number of issues that really hold it back. For instance, you’re not really supposed to long rest between every fight, but how do you tell players that without a proper DM? It’s a very weak mechanic that’s apparently too iconic to have just axed.
Don’t get me wrong, 5E works better at what it’s supposed to - easily accessible and relatively low math tabletop roleplay. But a computer can do so much more.
- Comment on consπracy! 2 months ago:
It’s definitely fascist, absolutely nothing to do with christianity.
Which, to be fair, doesn’t really differentiate it from christo-fascism does it
- Comment on Counterspell this 3 months ago:
Wizard with a gun is fun and all, but praising blessed ammunition tickles a different set of fancies.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhisattva
I think it’s just a pun? I recognized the name but that’s about the depth of my knowledge.
- Comment on Why is propaganda frowned upon? 4 months ago:
Some, not most. Propaganda and advertising are one sided conversations - you either see through the bullshit, or you find yourself agreeing with it.
Effective and rational persuasion involves a back and forth conversation, which is far too time consuming for practically anyone to bother with these days. Since everyone has to have an opinion on everything, they’ll usually find someone saying what sounds right to them and recite the same talking points. When you’re engaging in that sort of persuasion, you don’t really need to worry about giant holes in your arguments.
- Comment on Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for money? 4 months ago:
I give to my local shelter, spreads out the aid while being less likely to be spent on drugs(so long as your shelter is trustworthy)
- Comment on keep going lads! 5 months ago:
I dunno if a thrown spear counts as “short range” in a primitive world
- Comment on [META] Never change, lemmy.ml 5 months ago:
Holy shit you tankies are on so much copium it’s hilarious.
The dust bowl and the holodomor did not, in fact, coincide. They occured in seperate years, for separate reasons, and shockingly you seem to have excluded the drastically lower death rates of the dust bowl and the american great depression as a whole? It was terrible and caused great unnecessary suffering, but there’s no parallel to the intentional deaths of millions.
Like come on, the Bengal famine is RIGHT THERE for you to make some sort attempt at a valid argument, but you just have to go “AMERIKA BAD >:(“ every two milliseconds.
Both the Bengal Famine and the Holodomor have at least one major fact in common. You’d have to be a complete idiot to be either the British or Soviet government and not realize your response will lead to the deaths of millions. I don’t think Churchill or the brits were idiots, and as undeniably terrible as Stalin was I don’t think the inevitable death of millions of ukranians was something he could overlook either.
You mouth breathers always act so goddamn smug about the utter nonsense spewing out of your ass.
- Comment on [META] Never change, lemmy.ml 5 months ago:
Oh gee if only there was a single example of communists that actually acted on some of these purported principles instead of turning authoritarian the first chance they get
No, social democracies don’t count. They are what tankies SHOULD strive for, instead of sucking off… checks notes famous beacons of liberty Russia and China.
- Comment on Sure buddy just take as many spots as you need 6 months ago:
It’s mildly infuriating, not pants shittingly aggravating. If anything this fits more than the usually much more upsetting content.
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2 player feedback 6 months ago:
Game’s been playing fine performance wise on my 3080/5800, my main frustrations have been industry hub buildings not fully building unless you make sure they render when you place them by moving the cursor around randomly. Also industry specializations are ugly as sin.
Besides that, I severely underestimated the effect of wind on air pollution, we’ll see if restarting fixes that. Exporting electricity, at least geothermal, is overpowered. You can export more if you buy tiles out to the map edge, you just connect to the border and make new connections.
- Comment on CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months 7 months ago:
Friend, who owns GOG?
- Comment on Look into it 7 months ago:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_History_Library
Googling this sort of thing is fun: the first result I got was this quora page (it’s fun to read the nonsense sometimes, sue me) where all the responses are very salty and defensive mormons to what reads to me as a fairly worded question.
quora.com/Why-do-Mormons-have-the-biggest-DNA-dat…
It seems to boil down to they believe you can save your ancestors from damnation if you baptize them post mortem. Regardless of how far back.
- Comment on Why words like 'okay' and 'taxi' are universally understood across the world but survival related ones like 'help', 'water', 'food' remained nation specific? 8 months ago:
In a similar vein, this concept is useful to try and figure out where certain technologies were invented independently and where they spread through trade.
- Comment on 62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll 8 months ago:
That statement is a criticism of the economy, not a justification for having kids anyways. It’s literally one of the main driving forces behind falling fertility rates.
Of course, we’re apparently going to try the handmaid’s tale before we ever consider that maybe making life easier and better for parents and children alike is the solution. Until that conservative wet dream happens, vasectomies are cheap, reliable if you can follow simple instructions, and not easily taken away by the party of “small government”
- Comment on 62% of Student Loan Borrowers Say They're Likely to Boycott Repayments: Poll 8 months ago:
3 kids
Once of these things is wildly more expensive and entirely optional compared to the rest.
- Comment on Noooooo you can't make a microtransactions free game and finished too 😭😭😭 8 months ago:
GTA V story mode was an excellent game, but it’s hard to realistically say a game from one genre is better than another, apples and oranges and all that.
GTA V’s online multiplayer, however, at this point is such a shitstain that I think it alone is enough to make the distinction clear.
- Comment on pugs are a cruel human creation 9 months ago:
They’re not even hypoallergenic, they make less dander but they make the same protein people are allergic to.