Deme
@Deme@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on We live wasted lives 5 days ago:
WaSTeD LiFe 🤪
What do you think they meant with the alternating caps and the emoji? Personally, I think that it’s quite clearly an attempt to ridicule the meme and those who agree with it, built on the preceding facts about modern white collar work being relatively comfortable, which is (as per my previous comment) irrelevant to the question at hand. If you disagree on this, then we’ll just have to agree to disagree. Good day to you.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 5 days ago:
Oh I’m actually quite happy with my own job in the public sector. It’s varied and at times challenging work that benefits society as a whole. The pay isn’t all that much, but we’re talking about fulfillment here not salaries. Unfortunately for my peace of mind, I posess empathy and the knowledge that most aren’t as lucky. Companies either grow or die, so massive faceless corporations provide a large and growing share of all employment. And it doesn’t even need to be a big corp for the job to be a bs job.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 5 days ago:
Huh. It’s almost as if all the various alternatives to capitalism couldn’t be lumped into one… Revolutionary Catalonia was Anarcho-Syndicalist, so about as far from the soviet system as possible.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 5 days ago:
The meme is about a lack of fulfillment, not of comfort. The comment by ikr muddles these two off the bat by focusing on comfort as a retort to the meme, and my reply was to intentionally follow that flawed reasoning to display its absurd conclusion. Modern comforts will not make a job fulfilling.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 5 days ago:
Usually when people call anything a luxury, the implication is that they should be happy about it.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 5 days ago:
How is that a strawman? Sure life could be worse as you said, but life could also be a lot better. The meme takes no shots at the former claim, instead making fun of people who fail to imagine the latter. Talking about how we already live in relative luxury is also a very common deflection from arguments for why we should improve society, without actually countering said arguments.
- Comment on We live wasted lives 5 days ago:
I am not a slave, therefore I should be happy to waste my life in an office generating shareholder value. Got it.
- Comment on *tap tap tap* 1 week ago:
Impulse is the integral of force over time, but I get what you’re after.
When pecking at a tree, the maximum force exerted is what pushes the wood beyond its breaking point. That maximum force can be increased by increasing the impact energy as a whole (wasteful and costly) or shortening the impulse. A woodpecker isn’t trying to do soft blows to shake some branches, it’s trying to shatter a small portion of the trunk, much like someone looking to shatter their opponents nose would choose bare fists over boxing gloves.
- Comment on *tap tap tap* 2 weeks ago:
IIRC this theory was debunked some time ago by a study. If you think about it, any dampening within the skull would lessen the force of the pecking and the bird would have to hammer away harder.
- Comment on New Lemmy meta just dropped.. 2 weeks ago:
I remember seeing some posts by that user. Genuine schizoposting.
- Comment on Hexbear really likes kings 2 weeks ago:
Ai slop
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 3 weeks ago:
That’s a different question. However society enforces norms. Personally I would prefer some consensus seeking mechanism.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 3 weeks ago:
It stops being a paradox if you treat tolerance as a contract between parties in a society, instead of a principle. They break that contract and thus are no longer covered by it.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 4 weeks ago:
Quite a low bar considering I don’t own a car.
- Comment on MEN. 4 weeks ago:
The wording is a meme, but yeah, somewhat detached from reality nowadays.
- Comment on Good point 5 weeks ago:
“Apex predator” my ass, I will hug the teddy bear.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 5 weeks ago:
All of them will be very rude to you
- Comment on Comfy cozy 1 month ago:
Rammstein disagrees
- Comment on Comment your strangest/dumbest cursed images that you find funny for no reason 1 month ago:
You asked for it
::: spoiler spoiler
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 1 month ago:
Every other human around you has almost the same genes as you. Just being kind to others is already a tiny contribution to the survival of the species and the genes we share. Pretty sure one would have to be actively suicidial or a Bond villain in order to not to help the genes that survive on with every breath anybody ever takes.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 1 month ago:
It’s not limited to direct reproduction of one’s own genes. Keep in mind that we live in a society. Contributing to that society means helping others of our species (with almost the same genes) pass their genes on. Just being kind to others is already great. You’re valid.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 1 month ago:
Fair point, but despite how we as a society treat artists, I still think that the underlying impulse to do art is an attempt to capture the interest and appreciation of others, building social bonds. Rarely is art made without a tought of presenting it to others. This is how art seems to happen with every other species on earth that does it.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 1 month ago:
Perhaps not with conscious intent. I suppose even staying alive and contributing to a society still means that you help your relatives pass their genes on. Even gay penguins do this when they adopt an orphaned egg.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 1 month ago:
If you really boil it down, all that any species ever does is in some way an attempt to propagate its genes. We aren’t any different either. The artistic spark that got Davinci to paint the Mona Lisa was there due to such behaviour being an evolutionarily beneficial trait (being good at art increases the social standing of a person and thus increases their chances of reproduction). I don’t want to sound cynical about this because I’m not. That’s just life. It really doesn’t matter. The painting is still beautiful.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think someone is just utterly clueless about how any of this works, and decided to wipe the slate clean and start again.
- Comment on Babe 2 months ago:
Certainly
- Comment on Babe 2 months ago:
Or maybe they just left it in a cold place for a while. Strong spirits freeze at around -27°C and Jaegermeister (35%) freezes at around -19°C.
- Comment on Democratic Penguins Republic - Victory Day! 2 months ago:
I hate ai slop with a burning passion. This channel on the other hand is actual ai art.
- Comment on Anon needs sleep 2 months ago:
Or a night shift. I’m on my way home after one right now and I’ve been awake since yesterday afternoon, so about eighteen hours.
- Comment on Have fun. Don't take anything too seriously because it's all pointless 2 months ago:
My gaidar (generative ai radar) is going off.
I think a good old shitass paint illustration would be preferable. The message itself is good enough to deserve at least that.
