PugJesus
@PugJesus@lemmy.world
Alt of PugJesus for ensuring Fediverse compatibility and shit
- Comment on Cutie patootie 5 days ago:
They’re such adorable little genetic dead-ends!
- Comment on Cutie patootie 5 days ago:
[Pug noise]
- Comment on Lemmy.world appears to have briefly logged me in as a completely different user (twice)? 2 weeks ago:
Haven’t seen it lately, no.
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 4 weeks ago:
You didn’t have to draw on me like that
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 4 weeks ago:
“Rarely” is not “never”, reaction is faster than conscious action by the study’s conclusions (just not fast enough to offset acting first), and, furthermore, in an actual shooting situation, the important thing is not to actually be the second to draw, but to provoke your own reaction regardless of whether the signal you react to (ie an errant twitch of the opponent’s fingers) is genuine or a false alarm.
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 4 weeks ago:
National armies would literally line up facing each other in uniforms with literal X-marks-the-spot targets.
The reason for armies meeting up like that, and in bright colors, is to avoid friendly fire, not because of honor or anything like that. When you have a bunch of peasants dragged from their homes and shove a musket in their hands, anything more complex than “Holy shit, holy fucking shit, do NOT shoot or stab the guys in BRIGHT RED, only those in BRIGHT BLUE” tends to get lost in the chaos of battle.
- Comment on Made one deadly slip 4 weeks ago:
There’s no way to “fire early” because they are watching for you to reach for your gun.
The ‘conventional’ wisdom is to wait for the other duelist to reach for their gun because reflex is faster than conscious action.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 37 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 102 comments
- Comment on .world censorship? 1 month ago:
.world-based users will see it as censored.
- Comment on .world censorship? 1 month ago:
I would argue more generally that censoring words like this is unhelpful and counterproductive.
As seen in the link in the post body, not only can it inhibit clear communication, but anyone actually using the slur would be more clearly identified if the slur remained - thus allowing the mods to definitively identify the user as bigoted and banning them. Replacing it with ‘removed’ creates ambiguity in combating bigotry as well as edge cases and discussions of words - as in the linked case.
- Comment on .world censorship? 1 month ago:
Autocensoring words and replacing them with “removed”
- Submitted 1 month ago to support@lemmy.world | 17 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 8 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 9 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 72 comments
- Comment on I know 2026 will suck already, so I am rooting for 2027 to be rad as fuck! 2 months ago:
There are a ton of different year calendars. The BCE/AD calendar is very much a Western/Western-derived thing, stemming from a Catholic Christian estimation. It’s convenient, because it got widespread, but it’s only one system of many.
Many ancient systems judged the date by the regnal year of the ruler, ie “Third year of the rule of Agum the Third”. It’s much less convenient for figuring out when something happened than systems that continuously count from a single starting year, but exact chronologies were less important for most people.
- Comment on made a sticky 2 months ago:
We need a maximum wage, for maximum effort
- Comment on Lemmy.world appears to have briefly logged me in as a completely different user (twice)? 2 months ago:
I’ve been seeing this for as long as I’ve been using Lemmy, I assumed it was just some known bug in the code.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
Ok, so they do that to everybody, and now the strike can’t end. This helps them how?
-
They won’t have to do it to everyone. Just enough people to make examples and frighten people into going back to work.
-
If they do have to do it to entire workforce-sized populations, we get a cozy GULAG style labor system.
“They can’t arrest all of us” only works if there’s means of resistance other than passive. In liberal democracies, that’s typically protests, elections, and legal avenues; in less charming regimes, it comes down to internal dissent in the security apparatus or outright force from the oppressed. If you lack those means of negotiation, or the credible threat thereof, then they literally can arrest all of you, and will, given half a chance.
-
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
So what, they gonna come to my house and make me go to work?
Arrest you and toss you in a cell, more likely.
- Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done 2 months ago:
Electoral politics doesn’t get the job done, but failing to attend to electoral politics can sure as shit make the job harder.
The question of “Who are we negotiating with” is all-important in every scenario except “Complete and total unconditional victory”.
- Submitted 2 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 13 comments
- Submitted 2 months ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 1 comment
- Comment on Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of SCIENCE? 3 months ago:
He caught one of the nursemaids speaking G*rman to the infant and the experiment had to be aborted. RIP
- Submitted 3 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 40 comments
- Comment on Based Red Dead 3 months ago:
They’re the same fucking word from different time periods on the treadmill of what is politically correct.
Either both are slurs that shouldn’t be used or both are acceptable.
That’s not how language works, and unless you go around calling Black folk ‘colored’, you understand that in other contexts. What words are acceptable and what connotations they have change with time and usage.
- Submitted 3 months ago to greentext@sh.itjust.works | 186 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
non-maga right wing
How many of those are left? Two, three?
I remember before 2016, I had respect for some right-wing folk online who, while far from agreement with me, I regarded as simply legitimately misguided (in a “Free markets because gubmint bad”) kind of way.
It was… eye-opening to see how many of them went mask-off in the Trump years, and how fast and fiercely they did it.
