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intensely_human, in Lesbians of lemmy, how do you introduce your SO to other people without getting them confused for just a friend?

“This person is my lover Karen”

Just introduce them as your partner. Lesbians are so habitually entrenched in hiding their sexuality.

I have so many pairs of “friends” come in appliance shopping. Gay men come in, it’s “This is my husband Mike”. Gay women come in and it’s like “This is my friend Paula. She helps me pick out appliances and definitely doesn’t live with me”.

I don’t pry, because I’m just selling appliances. But it’s pretty obvious.

Lennnny,
@Lennnny@lemmy.world avatar

Robert Dyas?

angelsomething, in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

Statistics and large numbers.

MacNCheezus,
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

I studied statistics and the Law of Large Numbers is honestly mind boggling. I mean, I understand that it’s true and I’ve studied the proof, but it’s still enormously counterintuitive. It’s not surprising that anyone who isn’t familiar with it (which is the vast majority of people) to have no understanding of this phenomenon at all.

bluGill, in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

Unintended consequences. People like to propose grand schemes that will "fix everything", but refuse to accept that there are downsides to that grand scheme.

MacNCheezus,
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

Oh boy, that’s going to offend all the communists.

anti,

In the same vein, refusing to consider something that will have a small positive effect, or a partial solution, because it won’t fix everything.

ada, in Why do people hate on mobile games, call them "not real games" and mock them, when some mobile-exclusive games are the best games I've played?
@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I’ve yet to meet a game with a touch screen interface that doesn’t annoy the hell out of me

jacksilver,

Peglin and slay the spire are both great on the phone!

bestusername,
@bestusername@aussie.zone avatar

Solitaire!

Globulart,

Tower defence games work well on touchscreen if you enjoy strategy type games.

Between bloons and kingdom rush there are also some top tier games available on mobile.

davemeech,

Yeah beyond tower defence games I agree.

JimmyBigSausage, in What companies have made your blacklist?

X, Musky asshole

Tesla, Musky asshole

Chic Fil-A, homophobic corporate politics

T-Mobile, does not stand behind promise at purchase

Verizon, loud skank stores

Papa Johns, owner asshole opposed Obamacare

Hobby Lobby, right wing Christian asshole ownership/products opposed Obamacare

MyPillow, asshole MAGA owner

Trump brand any business, asshole MAGA cheeseturd ex-president loser of 2020 election by many votes

Too many more to name, and too many worthwhile brands and businesses to support.

JusticeForPorygon, (edited )
@JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world avatar

My mother regularly goes to Hobby Lobby because its the only craft shop nearby. God I wish she’d just buy her shit online. Probably get better quality too.

shalafi,

I didn’t have a ready answer to this post, but yeah, already banned:

  • Chic Fil-A
  • Hobby Lobby
  • Papa Johns

Add:

  • Jimmy John’s
HurlingDurling, in Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.

Not really, because you wouldn’t be able to see anything or hear anything if time stops. Even light particles would stop moving, and your eyes would just see flashes of light as you move through space.

Breezy,

Huh. Well then, your point is clearly right, i never thought of that. Case closed on pondering about that question for the rest of my life.

GiveMemes, (edited )

I mean we could just assume it to be like what 1/100 seconds per seconds perceived by user and everybody else would be moving and perceiving so slowly that it accomplishes pretty much the same thing right? Bullets might be a bit tough to dodge now at ~12ft/s (for handguns) but not impossible so still seems pretty useful

lars, (edited )
@lars@programming.dev avatar

At 1/100 speed, light would be so redshifted that you wouldn’t be able to perceive it. However, some X-rays (1-10nm) would be redshifted into the visible range (400 to 700nm).

I guess this means you would have x-ray vision. But you would see little to nothing since our environment normally does not include significant levels of X-rays.

CaptPretentious,

Which would be perfect. To probably get the best sleep of your life.

Tangent5280,

None of the cleanup in your brain that takes place when you actually sleep is going to happen either, so you’d wake without getting any of the benefits of rest too, right?

CheeseNoodle, in Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.

I feel like the average person wouldn’t become immoral but they would probably become kind of a jerk. At least personally I wouldn’t hurt anybody but damn would I use super speed or invisibility to pull some incredible pranks.

Socsa, (edited )

Yeah everyone in this thread spouting social control theory forgets that humans have millions of years of evolution for social living, and the scale of moral ambiguity definitely scales with that to some degree. Most people would likely stop short of things which would seriously harm their community, and the knock-on effects of fairly small amounts of deviance would likely become apparent enough to keep most people from anything more than victimless crimes and simple mischief.

It’s really no different than the time travel paradox in a way. You assassinate a tyrant, and see the horrific civil war it causes and then try to intervene to correct that mistake and it all spirals out of control until it’s legitimately way worse than before. Most people would take that lesson and build a much more limited moral code around their powers, if they didn’t do that from day one.

Tangent5280, (edited )

I’d put a fruit loop on 16 billion pinky fingers

AnarchistArtificer,

I think I would probably be a jerk a few times, and it would escalate until I hurt someone unthinkingly, and seeing the results of that would shock me back to reality and I’d feel so uncomfortable with myself that I’d hopefully go back to being less of a jerk.

ComicalMayhem,

Bro planned out his whole character arc

intensely_human, in What's the simplest thing humans are too dumb to grasp?

The past and the future do not exist

crawancon,

this one slowed my roll a bit

shandrakor,

Welcome to the eternal now! You’ve been here all along!

Art3sian, (edited ) in What's the most satisfying thing that's happened at a job you've had?
@Art3sian@lemmy.world avatar

I’m an Aussie and took on my first management role in 2011. In 2012 I was voted best manager of the year and my employer rewarded me with an all-expenses paid trip to America for two weeks to visit San Diego, L.A, and Las Vegas.

Then in the same job in 2017 I entered my business into a national sales competition and amongst 400-something businesses nationwide, I won it. The prize was an all-expenses paid trip for two weeks to Texas, Kentucky, and Indiana, and they sent me.

This year; new job, two weeks in, my boss tells me the company want to start sending management to the U.S for integration, so as the first employee to ever go in the company’s 40-year history I was sent all-expenses paid to New York.

Three trips to America, three completely different, blindside reasons. Six states - east, west, south and mid.

EinfachUnersetzlich,

Sounds like Australia is trying really hard to get rid of you.

Brickhead92,

Nah, Art35ian is a mad cunt.

cheese_greater, (edited )

Crikey, thats awesome! To be fair, your accent is an unfair competitive advantage, I love Aussie accents. Use Siri with it too :)

I_Miss_Daniel, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

Patch cleaner is also handy, to clean out that windows installer folder.

www.homedev.com.au/Free/PatchCleaner

Paradachshund,

Oh this sounds nice. Thanks!

SHamblingSHapes, in Can someone answer a nagging question i have about CRT?

Weird. My DNA test didn’t tell me I am X% white, Y% black, Z% Native American. It told me my DNA was a majority match for people that hailed from regions A, B, and C.

Are you sure you know how ancestry DNA tests work?

Hello_there, in What companies have made your blacklist?

How about nestle and, like all of the chocolate companies, who are all complicit in promoting child slavery

Pyr_Pressure,

Yes Nestle and Mars are also on my list, I have a terrible time of remembering things I want to remember when needed 🤣

Drusas, in Whats your winter season movie that you must watch every winter?

Winter in general: Storm of the Century, and I don't care how cheesy it is

Christmas: Gremlins

Housecarl, in Spotify Wrapped 2023 is out, what's your top artist and top song for the year?
LongbottomLeaf,

Underground and Chilly Down!! Hey, your head don’t come off!

Housecarl,

Where are you going with a head like that?

DeweyOxberger, in Can someone answer a nagging question i have about CRT?

These concepts confuse me. There is clearly a range of variation in physical form of humans. Over time we've assigned meaning to some of those variations. Sure you can DNA test and try to correlate those variations to DNA but the underlying idea that assigns meaning to it all is purely made up. Historically, I can't see anything positive to come out of these constructs and I see nothing useful about them. Ultimately, what does that have to do with CRT (seriously, after all these years I can't even tell you what CRT is, it seems like an idea for judging bias in legal settings, not something 3rd graders will ever learn).

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