tigeruppercut
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- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 2 days ago:
That’s an optimistic perspective and I feel like we need more optimism these days. And maybe sometimes people do change their minds on things with social media discussions, though I think it’s already a difficult medium to work with.
For maga shit though, those people are basically cultists, and from what I understand it’s pretty much impossible to get people out of a cult without a personal connection helping them.
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 2 days ago:
Lemmy has everything from libs to anarchists to tankies. If that’s an echo chamber I think I’ll survive without fascist voices in the mix. The North Korea apologists are bad enough.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
And some dogs don’t
- Comment on Cause and Effect 1 week ago:
I’d say critical thinking is divorced from any one subject. You can learn it in a humanities context just as easily as a scientific one.
- Comment on Anon learns about history 1 week ago:
Pfft, imagine believing Jesus was in Nanjing. He clearly traveled through Siberia to rural Japan where he changed his name to Torai Tora Daitenku, all thanks to his Japanese brother Isukiri who went to Jerusalem to replace Jesus on the cross.
- Comment on nostalgia 1 week ago:
There are bagels on boobs in this Little Big music video too
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
all the great Japanese food
Hey now, you’re missing out on the dancing squid bowl from Hokkaido
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
Also Australia, so you get western things like sandwiches, pizza, and french fries. Plus meat pies.
- Comment on Doot doot 2 weeks ago:
Haha how did I never notice that before?? Maybe because the pronunciations are different I guess–the “he” part (pronounced hey) is the fart and the gassen (gahss-en) is like a battle or fight.
- Comment on Doot doot 2 weeks ago:
Well, a talented painter after 1600, but butt blasts indeed.
- Comment on Doot doot 2 weeks ago:
Yep, Futurama would never fuck up the science
- Comment on Doot doot 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on How many hands long do they get? 2 weeks ago:
Also called soccer in Australia, South Africa, Japan, and a couple other places
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 3 weeks ago:
Since we’re in science memes, I feel the need ro point out that lobsters don’t have a liver, and have a hepatopancreas instead.
Also it tastes good
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 3 weeks ago:
the traditional platform of the Republican Party - smaller government, lower taxes, economic/fiscal responsibility, family values, religious values, etc.
TBF, the GOP didn’t hold many of those values either. They wanted to increase government control over people, lower taxes only for the rich and therefore increase the national debt, values only counted if they were christian and straight, etc. The main differences with MAGA is they say the quiet part out loud and they’re more comfortable with nazis, fascists, and kings than the GOP ostensibly was.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 3 weeks ago:
I can’t decide if the explanation that “our shitty game is made for premium gamers” is more or less absurd than EA charging 80 bucks for a game with most of its characters still locked would “provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment”.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 3 weeks ago:
I found 118 last month for the first time. It was extremely warm
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 3 weeks ago:
and pasteLarry cut, copy, Tesler, inventor of, dies at 74 the commands
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 3 weeks ago:
To this day I play flight sims inverted like that, but normal FPS feels unnatural to invert the camera
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 3 weeks ago:
You’re right about everything except the frozen part. They can just sit in a box in your cupboard because they’re basically made of plastic.
- Comment on Funerary Engineering 3 weeks ago:
Just put a speaker in the box
- Comment on You're still talking about this? 3 weeks ago:
His neck needs an Emmy for that performance.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 4 weeks ago:
The GOP senators after J6, very briefly, were shook enough to say things that didn’t come directly from the dark money groups with puppet hands up all their asses. That lasted about 12 hours before they got their marching orders.
Meanwhile, teachers across the country were doing the Buster Scruggs meme
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 4 weeks ago:
She had nothing on Xenia’s polygonal proportions
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 4 weeks ago:
They used to think novels were bad for women in the 18th and 19th centuries bc they worried they were too dumb to separate fact from fantasy
- Comment on anon discusses car dependence 4 weeks ago:
If your commute is about an hour each way you’re probably spending roughly that much.
- Comment on Bamboozled! 4 weeks ago:
That’s not a tense issue, it’s different parts of speech. “X costs something” is using the verb cost in the 3rd person singular. “An X’s cost” is using the noun cost.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m sure it’s not as difficult as I’m making it out to be but it never seems to stick. It’s just as simple as 2 numbers: “million = 100 ten thousands” (hyaku-man) and “billion = 10 hundred millions” (juu-oku).
Let’s just say there a lot of frustrations I have with the language even after decades of studying.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 4 weeks ago:
Somewhat related, but I have the worst time trying to convert numbers in my head from long scale in Japan (used to be used in the UK as well) to how it’s used in the current English speaking world. So basically they put four zeros per comma as opposed to three, and the names of the numbers reflect that. 1, 10, 100, 1000, and 10000 are all unique number names, but after that comes 10 ten thousands, 100 ten thousands, and then 1000 ten thousands before a new number name at 1,0000,0000 (or 100,000,000).
It wouldn’t be so bad to just memorize that 100 thousand is “new number name” if that’s all it was, but numbers like that in daily life are pretty much used to talk about money (or somewhat less commonly populations). So once I get the actual number I have to divide by about 100 (or 150, depending on the strength of the yen vs dollar) to think about what it actually means in units I’m used to, like seeing an article saying a government project costs 1.2 billion yen doesn’t mean much until I think about it like 800 million USD instead. So I can never really use big numbers in conversation without manually counting zeros in my head.
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not new but there are balls made for bounce juggling that have a 90% bounce ratio
