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CosmicCleric, in What's an amusing thing to say before going under general anesthesia?
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I went with the Leslie Nielsen quote from the movie Airplane, “I just wanted to say good luck, we’re all counting on you.”

EmoDuck,

Bonus points if you say it when entering the operating room, when given the anesthesia and a third time during the surgery itself

smackjack,

Just randomly wake up during your surgery and say it, and then promptly go back to sleep.

CosmicCleric,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

Actually when I made the joke, I got zero laughs in the operating room. I had to explain the joke, and still got no real comment/laugh.

I finally followed it up with a Rodney Dangerfield version of “Tough room” and that got a chuckle finally.

BilboBargains, in What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?
  • Facebook
  • Apple
  • All of the defence contractors
  • Every telecom I’ve ever used apart from EE and Giffgaff
  • YouTube
  • Any website that tries to circumvent privacy rules with fuckery
  • Governments like the UK that insist prohition is a better alternative to harm reduction but continue to profit from poisons like alcohol.
  • Any company that makes devices with proprietary interfaces e.g. WiFi printers, BT routers, Apple in general, Tesla, battery power tool manufacturers.
  • The list goes on…
ahriboy,
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All telecom companies in the Philippines and Southeast Asia too. They are all enshittified as expected

ShitOnABrick,
@ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world avatar

Ee and giffgaff both suck ass

BilboBargains,

I won’t defend them but they didn’t suck my ass yet.

Pyroglyph,
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Governments like the UK that insist prohition is a better alternative to harm reduction but continue to profit from poisons like alcohol.

How does one boycott the government? Would I cut up my ID and declare myself a sovereign citizen? As much as I agree with the sentiment, I don’t think it’s as easy as that haha

WhiteHawk,

Committing tax evasion maybe lol

sic_1,
  • Oil refineries
  • concrete factories
  • mercenaries
  • energy producers that still don’t use renewables exclusively
  • private hospital corporations
  • cruises companies
  • unsustainable agrarian producers

All of these are literally killing children. Not directly and immediately but according to the IPCC report we have 1,5 to 2 years time to get to ZERO emissions, else we got some tipping points and risk turning earth into a Venus-like planet.

BilboBargains,

Brother, I’m with you. It gets depressing to dwell on this stuff.

LUHG_HANI,
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Let’s face it, EE are just as twatty as the others.

confluence, in What's an amusing thing to say before going under general anesthesia?

Y’all showed up for this post! Lemmy is looking better all the time :)

TW: Existentialism/Death

Not a funny thing to say before going out, but when I was about to do the mask I thought about what it would be like to be totally unconscious after I die, and woke up laughing and cracking jokes. It wasn’t so bad during the procedure when my awareness was off 😜

sagrotan, in What nicknames have you been given?
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The weird piper - in constantly whistling & my wife says, I’ve never hit one right note, and she’s got pitched hearing, she must know.

the_lone_wolf, in What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?
@the_lone_wolf@lemmy.ml avatar

Nintendo

TheBeege,

Why?

intensely_human,

Aw look he’s trying to reason with the mob

TheHolyChecksum,

Nintendo ruined the lives of excessively smart people that were fighting for rights to repair because of their own pettyness. If you want more information about that, look into team xecuter. Darknet Diaries episode 136.

cricket97,

team xecuter made and sold closed source piracy tools for nintendo consoles. they aren’t “right to repair” enthusiasts lol

pdxfed, in People talk about ideas being living things. How can we do better at cultivating and propagating ideas that are helpful / sustainable?
LesserAbe, (edited )

This is good. Are you aware of any places explicitly doing solutions journalism? (I’m sure there are, more just interested to find places I’m not aware of)

This reminded me of “The Problem with Jon Stewart” which while not perfect seems like a move in the right direction. It just got canceled, and the article I had seen suggested it was because Apple had concerns over some of the subjects (ie, didn’t want to piss off china and have its operations in china highlighted, and didn’t want focus on AI which it may be using).

So then what are the conditions which would allow for more solutions journalism? Off-hand I’d say employee owned entities (or less optimally operations with wealthy patrons willing to give them leeway) would mean they’re less likely to be shut down. I suppose seeing examples of it being successful would inspire more individuals or groups to move in that direction.

pdxfed,
IHaveTwoCows, in What's an amusing thing to say before going under general anesthesia?

Don’t have a quip for you, just wanted to say that I absolutely LOVE anesthesia!!

lvxferre, in People talk about ideas being living things. How can we do better at cultivating and propagating ideas that are helpful / sustainable?
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Be careful to not confuse the metaphor with what it’s supposed to represent. With that in mind:

  • What do you consider an “idea”? Are you talking about things that practical, epistemic (true/false) or moral (good/bad) in nature?
  • What do you consider a “helpful” or “beneficial” idea? And helpful/beneficial for whom?
  • What’s the target audience those ideas? Everyone, or 1+ specific groups?
  • Who’s “we” in your “we can”? In other words, who’s willing to help you out?

From circling those questions you’ll probably find unclear spots on your goal. And once you find those spots, and get rid of them, you’ll be able to pragmatically list potential solutions, their pros and cons.

Note that trying to do too much will often yield practically no results. Even when dealing with abstract things, there’s a limit on the amount of work that you can do, and you can’t spread it too thin. Virality can help you out a bit with this though, as it allows you to relay work in a headless way.

LesserAbe,

The “we” thing is a good point, and even as I was writing this was thinking about the post the other day where someone was like “how can we get more redditors to lemmy” and a bunch of people were like, “we don’t want that.”

I’m thinking about anyone interested in the subject. There’s never going to be universal interest in some philosophical project, and there doesn’t need to be in order to have a positive impact. So I’m thinking of people who do have an interest in the sort of meta issue, how things “ought” to be.

I’m interested in practical, testable ideas, and at the same time I think there needs to be a philosophical underpinning to any type of project nurturing “beneficial” ideas, because otherwise how do you evaluate what’s beneficial?

My philosophy is that existence is desirable, continued existence is desirable, and ever more elevated ways of existing. So going from “anything existing,” to life existing, to animals, to conscious beings. The basic nuts and bolts are important then - is there enough food to live, is something going to kill me, and we’ve for the most part got these down (although not at a systemic level to eliminate homelessness, universal healthcare, etc). But I don’t think we have any kind of grasp on long term sustainability - we’re in serious environmental peril, the existence of any nuclear weapon is a threat, biological weapons, decline of democracy, even something like an asteroid impact.

So when talking about an ecosystem of ideas, for me at least its about ideas that will avoid or mitigate larger threats which are difficult for any individual to address.

thelsim, in What nicknames have you been given?
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I just asked ChatGPT and based on my personality quirks I’ve been assigned the nickname:
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GIGGLE GYRATOR

Oh well, could be worse :)

redballooon, in What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?

Your local slaughterhouse. Of, if that doesn’t exist, your regional slaughterhouse.

jcdenton, in What nicknames have you been given?
@jcdenton@lemy.lol avatar

Nice try fed not getting me that easily

Destraight, in What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?

Shell gas station. They bought dirty Russian oil

FangedWyvern42, in What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?
@FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world avatar

EA is actually getting better. Activision Blizzard, though…

Mango, in What are some companies that deserve to be boycotted to death?

Every auto maker lobbying against right to repair and every phone maker who remotely accesses people’s phones.

neptune, (edited ) in Do the right wing women in relationships with right wing guys think it's like a draco malfoy thing where they're a good guy underneath?

Obviously everyone is different. Etc. But you should read this article.

archive.ph/2023.08.18-142255/https://…/616725/

Basically this one woman immerses herself in the worst corners of the new right.

Come for the schadenfreude, stay for the man who won’t eat ketchup.

WldFyre,

Aw damn it’s paywalled

neptune,
WldFyre,

Thanks!

slowwooderrunsdeep,

wooow. that was a wild article.

“this (ketchup) doesn’t taste European”… uhhh, no shit dude, tomatos are a New World food.

all sincerity, thank you for sharing that.

neptune,

I love that essay so much. I reread it occasionally. I think about the man who won’t eat ketchup pretty frequently.

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