There was a blood lust on Reddit and anybody with any compassion at all would be downvoted to hell. There are no winners here and just death and misery.
So you kill your CO, fight off the rest of your battalion, make your way across to the other side, hope they don’t kill your first aye. Seems super simple that mate.
Do I believe there are some people that thrive of it. Sure. Do I think every Russian soldier deserves to die. Nope.
I am a vocal and staunch supporter of Palestine and their struggle against apartheid, but I still don’t think every Israeli soldier deserves death. The leaders however.
Now go have a look at Chet Hanks (the spawn of Tim Hanks) many interviews in a Patois.
I don’t even know how I feel about things like this either. On the one hand it’s pretty cringe, but on the other can you imagine growing up with Tom Hanks as your dad, it’s a top act to follow and it must be hard to find yourself.
Most people haven’t played music since school but I’d argue Chopin’s preludes are not children’s music.
I wouldn’t really go out of my way to watch sport but man does it have a great atmosphere when with friends and they’re passionate about it.
It’s quite arrogant to think this way in my opinion.
As is tying all sportspeople with the same brush. It really shows your ignorance. I don’t like UFC but Jake Shields is one of the few people speaking out in favour of Palestine from the sports world.
What’s more likely that everybody that was ever good a sport was also an asshole or that you’re misrepresenting people.
Disclaimer I suck at most sports, but I’m quite goated a pool. Everyone on my pool team was a different kind of person and had different personalities, morals and levels of empathy (all of which had more than you’re showing here.)
You don’t have to imagine. Sports is arguably the most consumed thing on this rock mate. Just because we don’t partake in something doesn’t take away from how it touches the real world.
Just one example I can think of off the top of my head is the Usyk fight last night. That gives a lot of hope and good feelings to the people of Ukraine as they go through a war of freedom.
There are plenty of people who don’t like music at all and literally never listen to it, but for me I’d top myself if music wasn’t around as it’s an escape for me.
I hope this doesn’t come across as me going in on you, just highlighting that what matters to us isn’t the same as what matters for others and if we want to be better then we should understand these things as it could help us make connections with other people and be less divisive.
So on the boxing, as I said I’m not a sports head, but I did watch it last night as my friends like sport. I don’t know enough about injuries to determine if it should be banned but you can die skiing, do we ban that too. What about crossing the street.
You do seem to have a bias against sport to be honest. Like nobody makes you celebrate these people as heroes. I personally think it’s pretty damn cool to be the fastest person to run 100m.
Let me ask you this. What should be celebrated then? Is my job something worthy of doing, as a software developer?
Again, just because someone is the fastest or strongest doesn’t mean that is there everything.
Imagine you’re really good a throwing a ball really far and you play whilst a university, you’re studying medicine but sport blows up and you’re offered hundreds of millions a year. You telling me you turning that down?
With me not being into sports i can think of an example, but let me use music. Queen’s Brian May study physics at university. Pink Floyd were all well educated people.
If I didn’t know any better I would say your take seems like it comes from bitterness or jealousy of some sort.
If I don’t like football (soccer) who am I to say that those people don’t have a positive effect on the world. Marcus Rashford writes children’s books and does loads of community work in my city for instance.
If it’s there level of wealth you have issue with, there are billionaires out here contributing less to society. I’d rather ticket money and shirt sales go to the players than some dude in a suit.
Anyway, I don’t think any of us are going to come round to the others point of view and no hard feelings. It’s just if the roles were reversed here I might do a little introspection to see if I am being biased or not as I do try to treat everybody the same no matter how you make money, what you look like cause we don’t know shit about next man unless we’ve walked a mile in there shoes.
Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....
Well that’s mighty selfish of you isn’t it, won’t you think of the Microsoft shareholder who want to make more money from harvesting your data and Netflix for wanting to serve you ads to increase profits.
A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday blocked a new Biden administration rule that would prohibit credit card companies from charging customers late fees higher than $8....
I believe this is correct as I read in a book somewhere that it was a kind of proto-chicken if you will, that laid an egg of which came a the first chicken.
The more interesting question is how long did it take for the first BBQ Chicken.
I recall reading somewhere that it would have been a proto- chicken kind of thing. Like not quite a chicken but it laid an egg and the first chicken came out.
I’m not one to defend Facebook, the execs can burn in hell for all I care, but they do have to comply with the laws of countries or else face being sued by some litigious Americans.
Let me ask you this. Are you still on Facebook?
Me myself was not happy with the influx of misinformation on there 10 years ago and I’ve not used the site since, or Instagram or WhatsApp.
Thank you for your kind words, and I didn’t mean to come across as combative or anything, I was just voicing my thoughts.
As for losing friends, if my friends don’t believe in the same things as me then I really should find friends I have more in common with.
Full disclosure I’ve done some fucked up things in my life and my way of making amends is speaking of for the people less fortunate than I am and taking a stand for the things I believe, whether it makes a difference or not.
I spent my childhood sitting in the back of a car whilst my mum and her best mate would moan about men every night, or following them around to see if they were in the pub getting pissed so she could go and throw drinks at him.
One day we came home as we were being burgled, probably my people my step dad knew.
I would have taken ballet and ice cream, even as a dude.
My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones,...
If you’ve got a glass phone without a case or insurance then you kinda running this risk.
I hate insurance, but on a phone I’ll take AppleCare. Once it’s getting towards the end I purposely wreck the phone off a wall and get brand new (refurbished to new standard) one. Then I sell that and upgrade again.
Most people I know lack empathy for things like this. Even people I’ve grown up with my whole life.
So that raises the question, is it something you’re inherently born with? As I don’t think I chose to be this way, but here we are. I find it interesting to think about.
Thank you for all this, it’s been very informative.
It does raise a few more questions, but it’s cool if you don’t have time to answer.
What kind of empathy would it be when one cries at films due to the story. Whether it be something bad happening to somebody or even tears of joy for their success.
How does one know if there empathy for someone else is from your own perspective vs trying to see it from someone else’s?
Like if I’ve never been homeless but i wholeheartedly can understand and see how one might end up there though choices, or even no fault of their own.
How good can it be? I’ve been driving 35-40 miles to work and the same back for a year now and Apple Maps tells me what minute I’ll arrive and I usually arrive within 3-5 mins either side.
The White House has condemned an attack on an aid convoy heading to Gaza by Israeli settlers who threw packages of food into the road and set fire to the vehicles....
They ain’t a war. A war implies that it’s somewhat balanced. Israel don’t want a diplomatic solution.
Hamas offered a deal to return all hostages but Israel said no as they would still be in power. So they just want to keep murdering people to make sure Hamas has recruits for decades to come.
So my first role as a developer I’m working on an application that runs various classes for children, the parents sign up but it’s children they’re booking for.
We use reactstrap and there is a package called buttonasync and it has a method of executingChildren, let’s say I was a little confused.
(Content warning, discussions of SA and misogyny, mods I might mention politics a bit but I hope this can be taken outside the context of politics and understood as a discussion of basic human decency)...
As an example. I grew up in hip-hop but at a certain point I stopped listening to new people and realised recently that I’d slept on some bangers. Like Kendrick particularly, but even people like Juice WRLD and Xxxtentacion....
Alls I can say is you’re listening to the wrong kind of music is you think all current music is vapid.
I’ve already mentioned Kendrick, who won a Pulitzer Prize I might add. There are plenty of people with conscientious lyrics. Dave would be an example from the UK, his album We’re all alone in this together is top tier. Three rivers is legendary and very political.
I don’t want to seem like I’m being aggy here, but perhaps you could take my approach to seeking out this kind of stuff as there is more than just industry knocking out clones. Sure there are plants and stuff but there are real artists out here still.
It’s honestly quite arrogant to think great artists stopped at our generation my guy.
It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave....
Bait? As in give them treats and stuff? I don’t want to kidnap one, but I’d like to keep going to the same area at the same time to maybe get a routine.
Then I wonder what happens if I don’t make it one day. Will they still come back.
Russian soldier puts a washing machine drum on his head when he sees an FPV drone. ( streamable.com )
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Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads ( www.techradar.com )
Netflix has managed to annoy a good number of its users with an announcement about an upcoming update to its Windows 11 (and Windows 10) app: support for adverts and live events will be added, but the ability to download content is being taken away....
Judge blocks Biden administration rule capping credit card late fees at $8 ( www.cnn.com )
A federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, on Friday blocked a new Biden administration rule that would prohibit credit card companies from charging customers late fees higher than $8....
Chicken vs Egg ( mander.xyz )
Maine Cybertruck Owner Sad Everyone Hates His Truck ( jalopnik.com )
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4 months durability for an $800 phone!
My old $200 Motorola G9 Power phone lasted almost 4 years with only very minor scratches. Obviously in that period I have dropped it a few times getting out of the car, where the phone sometimes work itself out of my pant pocket while I drive, and then it slips out when I get out of the car. But no problem on my previous phones,...
Microsoft extolling the benefits of cloud storage in their Office save dialog ( slrpnk.net )
"If you don't save your data to someone else's computer then we can't monetize it."...
I have to teach my daughter different things than my son ( lemmy.world )
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Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down ( www.theverge.com )
‘Total outrage’: White House condemns Israeli settlers’ attack on Gaza aid trucks ( www.theguardian.com )
The White House has condemned an attack on an aid convoy heading to Gaza by Israeli settlers who threw packages of food into the road and set fire to the vehicles....
“ARE YOU ALL SEEING THIS” ( sh.itjust.works )
JK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows” ( www.lgbtqnation.com )
Lemmy is a worse platform for women than Reddit was
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New life hack ( lemmy.world )
As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music?
As an example. I grew up in hip-hop but at a certain point I stopped listening to new people and realised recently that I’d slept on some bangers. Like Kendrick particularly, but even people like Juice WRLD and Xxxtentacion....
In your country, what "common" animals are tourists most excited to see?
It has always amused me that the tourists to the US that I’ve spoken to are often very excited to see raccoons, and disappointed if they don’t see them before they leave....