whaleross
@whaleross@lemmy.world
- Comment on If somebody spends the whole day watching fox or religious propaganda, gets worked up and all he can think of is owning a liberal or converting an unbeliever, is this person a victim or just gullible? 4 days ago:
I think the “people are free to believe what they want to believe” is a mistake. This is the very statement that relativitises opinions and belief systems with facts and creates the illusion that they are all equal.
Look at the “facts don’t care about feelings” crowd that believe wholeheartedly that statements pandering to their feelings are facts and disregard any actual facts as fake news. I don’t think it’s because they decided one day to pick and choose what is a fact and what is not, but they actually can’t tell that there is a difference in opinions, beliefs and facts in the first place.
People need to accept that sometimes the truth is painful, that it contradicts what you want it to be, and worst of all - that you may have been wrong.
- Comment on What side do you open a banana from? 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on What side do you open a banana from? 3 weeks ago:
The right side.
- Comment on Looking for a parody or joke type sub. Where you take real stories and run with it. Ex: Minnesota is in the middle of a snow storm right now. But in that sub maybe it gets changed to Minnesota is 1 month ago:
That sounds fun. I don’t think it exist so you could create it.
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Could you stay in the roundabout indefinitely? 3 months ago:
In Sweden, we have a classic joke that Norwegian roundabouts have the sign “Maximum 3 rounds”.
- Comment on Do Huawei phones have a secret backdoor that the Chinese government can access? 4 months ago:
Sean, these questions are out of line
- Comment on What fun things can I do with an M.2 SSD and 2x4GB ram? 4 months ago:
Like others have suggested, get a cheap barebone or a second hand NUC without a drive, a Zigbee USB stick and some ZB lightbulbs and power plugs. Install home-assistant. Automate your home. Warning, it’s very fun and rewarding, but also addictive and totally a rabbit hole that you can keep tweaking and improving indefinitely.
- Comment on can chromeos be hacked?? 4 months ago:
Or bot nets that do nothing until somebody pays the owner to deploy an untraceable proxy or brute force or ddos attack. There are so many reasons for bad actors to hit up as many machines as possible, regardless who is behind the keyboard.
- Comment on Current state of Reddit 4 months ago:
It’s only there to make the other ones look cheap.
- Comment on The current state of Instagram 5 months ago:
You know how social media copy each other?
Meta has dived in head first to beat X.
- Comment on Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that? 5 months ago:
And what wild action it is.
- Comment on Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that? 5 months ago:
Yep, it’s my mistake. I assumed it would have some gameplay elements as suggested by the “action” in the title, something along what interactive stories used to be in my mind.
As I said, I personally don’t understand the appeal of it. I’d rather read the story as a book or even a graphic novel because for me tapping the spacebar and dragging icons does not add anything for me. It’s plain annoying both as game and distracts for a novel. Oh, and obviously I didn’t expect it to be about horny tech furries. It was simply not for me.
- Comment on Why do people want games that are just stories without any gameplay, these days? Why not just watch a movie for that? 5 months ago:
I wanted something retro cyberpunk RPG recently and installed VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action, only to discover that there is no action and barely no game. It’s just endless nexting through a narrative that smells of teenage bedsheets.
Apparently it’s massively popular.
I don’t get it at all. For me it’s like reading wet fanfic while double tapping the space bar and perform the most tedious implementation of what can barely be considered a puzzle or memory game.
- Comment on why host your own files when someone else can do it for you 6 months ago:
My guess is that at some point some poor web dev or web admin screwed up big time and with a heart rate nearing the colibri fluttered in panic above their laptop in attempts to restore the site, finding great relief that there was a snapshot in the archives and did not have enough presence to fix all the links to get it back online asap.
- Comment on I feel stupid asking this 6 months ago:
I think the beauty of this line of social media is that it is so anonymous in the sense that it doesn’t matter who is behind the username. It can be the most basic bitch in Ohio, a shut-in from Italy, a porn star from Hungary or a chart breaking pop star from London. As long they have something interesting to contribute, it does not matter at all who they are. No need to prove anything. Everybody can just be.
- Comment on [What if scenario] What if all commercial institutions suddenly decided they no longer intend to acknowledge religious events such as Christmas? 6 months ago:
Oh, butts. I replied to the wrong post. The one I intended to respond asked if there were celebrities on the feediverse.
I must admit, it gave me great confusion to read your response in my inbox. And now amusement.
- Comment on [What if scenario] What if all commercial institutions suddenly decided they no longer intend to acknowledge religious events such as Christmas? 6 months ago:
I think the beauty of this line of social media is that it is so anonymous in the sense that it doesn’t matter who is on the other end. It can be the most basic bitch in Ohio, a shut-in from Italy, a porn star from Hungary or a chart breaking pop star from London. As long they have something interesting to contribute, it does not matter at all who they are. No need to prove anything. Everybody can just be.