whaleross

@whaleross@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do i stop wanting to use reddit all the time?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I get banned left and right for making fun of nazis and reminding people that every day is punch a nazi day.

  The nazis are such fragile snowflakes they can’t take some banter and the mods are so afraid that someone is offended that they take the side of weeping self identifying nazis that are backing murder en masse, which is apparently all okay because it’s just opinions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They mods dont want you to know.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hear FidoNet whispering in modem noises.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plastic hinges on modern headphones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a pair of AKG 240 of the same age if not a bit older that have seen plenty of other headphones come and go. Not the best headphones in any other categories but damn the most reliable and durable of studio cans ever built.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that the top tier actors that are making statements on social media or when accepting their awards should put their money where their mouth is and work with smaller independent companies that can make this an opportunity to grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incel propaganda in my music app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Qobuz, Tidal or Deezer, dude. All of them actually pay the artists for their streams. I’ve used two first and both of them are great for music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can a reasonable person believe regardless of evidence in ghosts, in deities and gods, in folklore, in aliens, in superstition, in the importance of themselves, in their culture or nation, in their position in society and their gender roles, in mums cooking being better, in bad luck treating them unfairly, in the importance of their habits and rituals, in sticking to how they’ve always done it, in any number of irrational things that they hold close to heart?

  I’d say apparently they can. People are not logic processors. People are people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Westerners, what's your impression on the Chinese Diaspora? And what does the people around your area of residence think of the Chinese Diaspora?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweden. It is common with Chinese students here in the universities. I don’t think anybody thinks much anything of them. They are just people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here you go ziply.pk/5Tcege

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Rock 'n' Roll seen as the grooviest shit in the 50s when it's just averagely groovy (ie. unremarkable) today?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of normalisation. The more you experience anything, the less spectacular it becomes.

  Teenage kicks in particular needs something that is amped up from what was before. Hence evolution of music and culture has always been driven by youth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can make up a compound word in Swedish for you. Osannolikhetsförlägenhet. Osannolik means improbable. Förlägenhet here means an embarrassing situation. So the word would mean something along improbability-embarrassment-situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If donald j trump was replaced with a body double some time in the last 15 years, would you even care?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is some Temu garbage body double.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ask them why they drive on public roads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if portals are invented, will I be able to eat out myself?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If magic fantasy tech is real can I magic fantasy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but you are attempting to critique it as if it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m not saying that I agree with right- or center-wing views, and I do condemn transphobia. However, do you think there should be a distinction between critiquing beliefs held by transgender people, and engaging in transphobia?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Being transgender is not an ideology, dude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I do with 2 old machines (Mac Mini and HP Pavilion g7)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The big question is if anybody is buying them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not if you are rich enough you don’t. Most people still do because everybody needs something worthwhile. But you don’t strictly need to work when you have reached some arbitrary level of wealth and ownership.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only way to make money without work is to be part of the owner class that lets others do all the work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One step forward and two steps un-forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it sounds like something different. Lucid dreaming is being in a state between awake and asleep to stay in first person control with the brain in unrestrained creative mode, while this is about training the brain to make up desired interpretations after waking up from full sleep mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh this is interesting. I’ve recently come to terms with the amazing plasticity of the brain. So if the brain assembles a narrative only after the flood of random stimuli, it should be possible to train it to use certain baselines for what narratives to assemble.

  Any neurologists and psychiatrists and other brain specialists in the house?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The rest of the world has done various responses to the American trade war. Most everybody else has found other partners to do business with and those that haven’t are soon about to. America is not hurting other countries economically as much as they are hurting themselves. The entire ICE thing is terrible and it is too bad the government agencies have given in and that the military seems to be rolling with it too. But it is still domestic affairs as long there isn’t any proof of concentration camps or massacres or the like. We have lots of empathy for the people in America suffering from all of this.

  But then again…

  You guys have free elections and this is your democratically elected leader doing what he promised to do. You guys had him elected after he staged a failed coup once already. What do you expect the rest of the world to do about it? To save you guys from yourselves?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is airtags really useful?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know several owners of cats that have tags. I know at least one with a proper GPS transmitter on the cat collar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do narcissists have such fragile egos?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Grey rocking is the best strategy to get rid of all annoying people. Do not engage, do not give them any fuel, do not give them any satisfaction. Be as boring and unexciting as you can possibly be until they lose interest in you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pandering to conservative Americans⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chinese OEM resellers will print anything on the product and the packaging. It’s just another sale for them. Same guy probably sells it with ten different brandings and flags and quotes and slogans for different markets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Go on the date, have fun, spend dad’s money. When he asks, tell him it was great and she spent all night pegging you in the arse and her side dude joined in. Then ask him for more money so you can do drugs together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These shipping tape things⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, it wasn’t directed towards you. I was thinking out loud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These shipping tape things⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And we’re all adult enough to handle reading the words.

  It’s such a strange idea to use bad words but okay it by censoring letters out. Either use the word or don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My earphones' cable has been oozing sticky goo for over a yer now⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think cancer treatment will be more costly than a new pair of earbuds or whatever your next cheap accessory that is leaking unknown chemicals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Especially the Ø...⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Different countries have different languages, alphabets and keyboard layouts. Scandinavian countries keyboards are quite commonly produced together because they share most but not all of the letters, symbols and positions. This looks pretty standard to me.