Mad Max Fury Road. They defeat the tyrant, and get the control of the water valves. Then they open the valves and seemingly keep them open. One problem, how long is the water reservoir gonna last now?...
Ok, I might as well go first: I wish I could draw. Not at the level where I could make photorealistic portraits, but I’ve always been envious of those who are able to scetch something together in a few minutes that perfectly captures what they want to convey. Sometimes words aren’t enough to express what I want to say, and...
I wish I could do things carefully. Doesn’t matter how hard I try; if I wash up water goes everywhere, even when I’m trying not to let it. I can’t do cutting in when it’s time to paint a room. I can’t move things around without bumping them, usually. Just incapable of doing things carefully.
And also why mother Klingons carry their young by gripping the loose skin on the back of their necks… no wait, I’m confusing Klingons with something else, aren’t I?
I think you underestimate the powerful voodoo that the mere mention of Suez exercises over the British Conservative imagination. It marks the point at which the transition between being a superpower and not was really driven home to them.
Brandy is your friend. Well, for one night it’s your friend and the next day you’ll feel awful but at least you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing it was self inflicted rather than some poxy self-replicator making you feel bad.
Well what it ‘proves’ to them is that mankind is supposed to follow the exact same routine that works for them. My Dad was forever saying “Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” Died when he was 45.
He didn’t have a ton of money certainly. It’s fair to say he wasn’t a complete idiot but I think that even the example I’ve given so far argues against any claim to sagacity.
Or yet another way to look at it is that when people are venting it’s not the actual problem that they’re venting about it’s the uncomfortable emotions that come about as a result of problem. Very usually, someone is doing something that makes their lives harder but it is within a very specific environment, e.g. work, school, some kind of committee, where there are rules against settling disputes by right of arms. So even though I might have a really elegant solution for ‘solving’ that particular dispute, what I tend to be listening to long term tends to be, 'Coworkers… can’t live with 'em, can’t kill ‘em’. To which the correct answer is obviously not ‘You could solve that problem with Piranha Solution - removes organic material from the substrate’, it’s ‘Yes, we do have to put up with annoying people for a long time sometimes.’
Cheese eating surrender monkeys. Created a state of the art defence system but didn’t extend it across the gap where ‘the Germans will never invade through such rough terrain’ although they did before during WWI.
Yeah, I agree that we should be looking for other solutions, but the pill works well and reliably for a lot of people. I think that what you were suggesting, and I would agree with you, is that we ought to be more focused on the potable water issue in general and removing various human contaminants, including hormones from the equation at the water processing plants.
It’s called reddit and that’s why I left. Fuck the normies. They’ll import fascism.
That sounds unnecessarily combative so let me expand my argument.
There’s a book called The Authoritarians by a man called Bob Altermyer. Altermyer is now retired but he was a professor of psychology at the University of Manitoba. During his career he did a lot of research into authoritarians, both followers and leaders. In the book he describes for laypeople the experiments and the findings. If you want to do a deep dive into his statistical analysis you can because the whole thing is fully referenced but for people who just want an easy to read description that is also easy to understand then this is the book for you.
After reading the book redditors behaviour became a lot more easy to understand. I was less upset by what was going on but I stopped engaging because I now understood that reddit wasn’t a site for me anymore. It was a site for people that enjoyed being normal and doing normal things. And that’s ok, why shouldn’t they be catered for?
I use reddit and lemmy exclusively on desktop or laptop. So when the app business came up I didn’t regard it as my fight, however I thought that if I expected people to stand up for my interests if they are challenged I should show a bit of solidarity with them. So I didn’t visit reddit at all for the days it was blacked out. I didn’t like how spez reacted. I saw that people were crossing to the fediverse and I took a look for myself. I liked it. I posted. I wasn’t attacked for having a non-normie viewpoint. I liked that a lot.
The thing about normies is they don’t read scientific studies for fun, they don’t like long winded explanations about why the world is the way it is. They think they can see something in the street and extrapolate an entire social policy from it and there are chancers that will tell them, ‘You know what? You’re right. We don’t need experts telling you that you’re wrong, what do they know?’
So your Jordan Petersons and your Nigel Farages and Alex whatever his nameis, these people and reddit’s normie audience are made for each other. I’ll even go as far as to say this extends to the people that think the Democrats or the Labour Party are going to fix their problems, Team Liberal aren’t doing themselves any favours but my point is that if your goal is a massive website that caters to the largest part of the reddit audience you’re going to end up swimming in cryptofascist and sometimes outright fascist content. Been there, seen that, got the t-shirt.
Listen, just go and read the thing; it will be time better spent than listening to me precis it from memory. but if you do read it a feel like it hasn’t given you an insight into what drives a whole host of behaviour that one sees on social media or that I’ve misunderstood the book then do come back to me and I will refresh my memory of the book to have that discussion with you.
I’ve often wanted a movie/series based on the Dragonlance books or the Dark Elf trilogy. What would you all like to see done if you had the ability to do it?
If someone were to go about wearing a helicopter costume, hanging out with other helicopters, in short if their lived experience were such that they could reasonably say they identified as a helicopter, then I’d have no problem with it.
The world needs more weird people and less authoritarian followers.
Unfortunately most people claiming to identify as attack helicopters are actually self identifying as cunts.
X to be investigated for allegedly breaking EU laws on hate speech and fake news (www.theguardian.com)
What are some happy endings that really wasn't all that happy?
Mad Max Fury Road. They defeat the tyrant, and get the control of the water valves. Then they open the valves and seemingly keep them open. One problem, how long is the water reservoir gonna last now?...
"Now, here's what I would do..." (startrek.website)
Cause friendships never end! (lemmy.ml)
Pizza Rule (telegra.ph)
what is a skill you wish you had, and why?
Ok, I might as well go first: I wish I could draw. Not at the level where I could make photorealistic portraits, but I’ve always been envious of those who are able to scetch something together in a few minutes that perfectly captures what they want to convey. Sometimes words aren’t enough to express what I want to say, and...
Fun Fact: In the movies they had to dub Scotty's voice as he became more Scottish (and belligerent) in his old age. (startrek.website)
Wae da Captain expect a miracle buh ma union sez ya git a break. Tha mi a’ dol ga dhèanamh. Pog mo Thoin!
Why did we even try landing here? (static3.srcdn.com)
Putin’s Russia is closing in on a devastating victory. Europe’s foundations are trembling. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
The same guy before: Take away Russia’s nuclear weapons – for Putin is finished and his country may soon collapse
It's cannon. (startrek.website)
And now I'm concerned (startrek.website)
Whats your such opinion (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Relatable to everyone (telegra.ph)
Or(ule)ange (beehaw.org)
He completely betrayed the Constitution you equate to being a Holy Book you lead poisoned Dunce. (lemmy.ml)
Night vs Morning people (startrek.website)
Offering solutions is annoying (lemmy.world)
Traffic lights (startrek.website)
It's funnt because it's true (fanaticus.social)
chemical rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
How the fuck do I upload a GIF??
Why? Are we not doing enough? (file.coffee)
by fedidb.org
Whoaaahh you're halfway there! (lemmy.world)
It's a ball pit in fairness (lemmy.world)
Not sure of the author
Freedom Rule (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
Behold! The spectrum™ (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Mom Goes To Hospital Thinking She’s Having Twins, Then Doctor Discovers Something Incredible (lemmy.world)
What book series would you like to see made into a movie trilogy or a show with multiple seasons?
I’ve often wanted a movie/series based on the Dragonlance books or the Dark Elf trilogy. What would you all like to see done if you had the ability to do it?
Retailers, workers in northeastern Ontario deal with more theft in their stores (www.cbc.ca)
Edit : Changed link to non AMP one....
understanding reality is tough for some people (sopuli.xyz)
Cigarette Burns, Beatings, Attempted Sexual Assault: Settlers and Soldiers Abused Palestinians (www.haaretz.com)
Middle East Eye article covering the same event...
Goldman is back with a 16-years-later look at the housing market crash of 2008—and finds affordability is even worse right now (fortune.com)
Apart from “life is short”, what other lines do you use before making bad decisions?
anyone? (feddit.de)