sp3ctr4l @ sp3ctr4l @lemmy.dbzer0.com Posts 3Comments 435Joined 3 wk. ago
I was there for 4 Seattle subreddits, lol.
...there were FOUR?! jfc...
They were trolls, I'm pretty sure Rainier was a legit Russian troll.
Wow, that just activated a bunch of unpleasant memories.
Yeah, I concur, that guy was a legitimate Russian troll, and yeah Doug I remeber being the most ludicrous infuriating asshat.
As for the bicyclists, I think they might be doing this type of shit (same as in this thread). I'm not 100% that they're legit bicyclists.
Every actual avid bicyclist I ever knew irl is basically the exact opposite of a person who would... you know, spend all their time on an internet forum?
Granted, this was about a decade ago now, but... I remember actually having to explain the concept of an internet forum to a few of them... 'wait, its like a blog, but ... its like... everyone's blog?'.
As for the troll tactic, yep that defines it perfectly.
Manipulate social dynamics by identifying and trolling influential thought leaders, as opposed to just bullying randos. Make group cohesion impossible with constant petty drama bullshit to defame people.
... pretty sure the internet was basically a mistske at this point rofl.
Yeah, put super simply:
Minimize needed actual storage space and time a thing spends in storage... by relying on very frequent and consistent logistics.
Its very efficient in the sense of minimizing operating costs...
But it is also extremely fragile, a minor perturbation can fuck shit up for weeks or months.
... And we are getting... well basically the most major disruption in the history of JIT as a logistics paradigm.
Cazadores are the only goddamned things I actually have to use VATS for, as a PC player.
They are too, fucking, fast.
... Need a goddamned grenade launcher and elevation to take em out reliably w/o VATS, in my experience. That or a scoped rifle at long range.
I appreciate the sentiment.
I'm used to casual ableism in general, but these folks have some weapons grade, fucking Clydesdale, Belgian Draft level high horses they rode in on to this discussion.
Normally when you just point out... hey disabled people exist, 99% of people go, oh fuck, shit, i forgot... good point...
Years ago I noticed a trend on Seattle based subreddits that... there's a lot of just unbelievably perma online debatelord bullshit culture going on.
I know there was some massively stupid meta drama with there being like dueling Seattle subreddits and I think a third one at one point?
Its like tankie levels of utter certainty that anyone who could ever disagree with them on any minor issue, or even the precise language or framing talking about such is obviously a bad faith shit disturber employed by the CIA to detract from the... whatever worldview it is they have... which they also just... assume you already know all the details of... before you ever talk to them.
My guess would be these people are basically trauma molded by that, and brought it here to lemmy.
...
I ran into another person yesterday in some other thread, a meme about jesus telling people to cut off the tips of their dicks.
I threw in some historical background about why it is that... that's really only an American Christian thing.
... and some rando is like 'oh my god. i just got here from reddit and I am SICK of people obsessing over male circumcision, its not that big a deal, why are people here like this too, not a good look lemmy!'
Told im Ive been using lemmy for over a year (recently switched over to dbzero because yargh mateys!)... and I'd never even brought up this topic before.
He replies that he is going to rebutt any discussion of male genital mutilation anywhere he sees it!
... And I laugh at his hypocritical understanding of the word 'obsession'.
...
Maybe we need like some kind of resocialization, decompression zone, type of comm.
Gotta unlearn the hyperdefensive reflex, the undo the antisocial personity disorder that happens when you OD on toxic corpo social media.
... Either that or if these people actually ride bicycles, and don't just debatelord about them on the net...
One good T-Boning on a bike by a car running a red at 30 mph and they'll be about as fucked up as I am.
Happens every day.
Ah, my bad, I saw it decades ago, and you did say you just saw it, I was needlessly hostile.
IIRC, ... I think the movie actually did inspire a number of people, in real life, to attempt to do the ... fractional penny slush fund.
Yep, here's a more recent case:
While it's a comedy film, it surprisingly touched on a lot of areas seen in David Graeber's 'Bullshit Jobs' concept, 14 years earlier.
... Surprising?
Just ahead of the curve.
... Sorta like how people seemed to think Carlin was... joking.
Delivered in an entertaining, humorous way?
Yes.
Joking?
No.
Cost of living is too high, put it on credit.
Your alternative is starve now.
Either way, this is about to get a lot more bonkers in roughly the next 30 to 60 days as Just In Time delivery... kinda just, stops working, and grocery stores will have to both raise prices and ration items per customer per week to deal with shortages and try to minimize in-store injuries and deaths.
Go look up a compilations of black friday shopping stampedes.
Imagine that, but for groceries, every time a grocery store restocks.... for the forseeable future.
... This is a 'which coworkers are idiots?' test... right?
... Right?
Yep.
This means the 4th Amendment is dead.
Oh, any LE agency wants to search your house? Your car?
Uh, hrm, which very vaguely suspected migrants live in your building, your neighborhood?
2 miles away? Whatever, close enough.
Ok, now you've got ICE at your door, on the flimsiest evidence, connected in the flimsiest way, to a person suspected on a different set of flimsy evidence...
... And they are just searching your place because random guy may have been in the area, might have burgled you, whatever, who cares, we've got a warrant, lots of guns, do not interfere with our investigation.
This comm does actually have a rule that you are to replicate headlines precisely.
Have... have we all learned yet, by now, that basically 90% of managers and bosses are literally idiots who only understand buzzwords, vaguely, uselessly?
... Their jobs are easier to automate than ours.
Reminder that during Covid, Elon bought a bunch of CPAP machines (for sleep apnea), sent these to various hospitals, claimed he sent them 'respirators', and then claimed it was a conspiracy against him personally when hospitals told him 'these are not respirators, they will not work, we cannot use them'.
Also, vibes based math aside...
I don't get how this ... makes sense, from an energy expenditure level.
You have a 3 feet long stick, with a 4 foot long string, with a fuzzy mouse on the end.
You... flick your wrist, in various motions, such that the toy seems to be ... hiding... then evading! then running, then hiding, then somewhere hard to reach... scittering slightly like it thinks its safe, sniffing for food -ah back to evading!
Sure, your arm is moving too, maybe you are also turning somewhat, or even walking a bit to certain areas of your place with more cat obstscles.... but you literally have leverage, working for you.
... The cat is literally bouncing off the walls, running at 15 mph, climbing up the cat tower, shimmying under the couch or a table, suddenly executing snap turns, sometimes literally in midair...
... How on earth does that work out to you expeding more caloric energy than the cat?
It is even less work on your end if you use a laser pointer, though personally I would not recommend this due to the chance of accidentally injuring your cats eyes.
Damn, that's... quite the line up of Steam Deck related devs, shit.
Welp, I'm convinced.
That sounds very much like certain white trash family members in my family/extended family, and family of neighbor kids I grew up with.
Utterly shit people who have objectively fucked up or failed at nearly every opportunity ever presented to them, never seek out or attempt to create their own opportunities... but also somehow just infinitely smug and self confident about basically just random unremarkable nonsense details of their lives.
And of course, are never wrong about anything and are literally incapable of genuine introspection.
I mean, I'd appreciate it!
Polar bear plunge for your balls!
Not for the meek, lol.
My entire right side is fucked.
My entire musculature system needs to basically be reconfigured, retrained, now that all the fractures have healed.
My PT told me oh yeah, your nervous system has gotten so accustomed to being in constant pain that you basically go from a background level of 8 out of 10, which you now find generally tolerable, to 10, which you find immensely painful, whenever... well pretty much any tendon or muscle on your right side goes ''just slightly'' out of its safe range of motion.
Don't even have painkillers, by the way. Just ibuprofen and acetometaphen.
I've been immobile, literally bed ridden, for the past 6 months, barring the excrutiatingly painful PT routine, hobbling to the bathroom/shower (got a shower seat), and microwaving soup or whatever.
Typing these messages is quite painful, but it does actually count as part of the PT if I use the right position/grip.
I will probably be in aquatherapy for at least another 3 months, if not 6, or 12.
A local charity drives me to and from the visits... which i hobble out to the car in my braces, with my cane.
... You're not gonna theory craft your way into a more effective mobility solution for my entire life situation than myself and my doctors, unless that involves cashapping me several thousand or tens of thousands of dollars.
And plenty of them can't, and can barely tolerate being in even a mobility scooter.
... The thing being discussed here is the problem of parking passes being used as your ticket in to a national park.
The suggestion was... have you considered bicycling?
... Presumably, bicycling to and from the park, so as to avoid using a car, and the parking pass.
... It is 160ish miles from Seattle to say, the Hoh rainforest park.
Up a literal mountain range.
I think you climb up about uh... yeah, very steep hills, most of the way, up from sea level to 5330 ft, a total of about 11000 feet travelled uphill and 11000 ft traveled downhill in the whole 18 hour journey.
Sure, put your bike in the car, drive it there, ride it around the park, go home in the car.
But then you'd still be using a car, and its parking pass.
... You can't expect everyone, muchless disabled people... to just put in 18hrs of strenuous bicycling to get to a national park, which currently has no real public transit method of getting anywhere near it from most actually concentrated population centers.
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