• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Elon actually hands these out to people who don’t want them because they were unpopular and an easy means of telling chuds apart from… uh, chads? There’s a good chance hers is a forced advertisement and not something she’s actually paying for.

        • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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          2 months ago

          So are an insanely large amount of people.

          I don’t think people on here realise that we are in an echo chamber ourselves and often times not very forgiving of people with differing opinions, where I would assume we should want to bring people to our point of view by being accepting and trying to educate on our beliefs.

          So in this echo chamber of what 50K MAUs it can sometimes be hard to keep sight of the fact we are the smallest of minorities in this space and what we see is absolutely not a representation of what most people in the world care about.

          I’ve never used Twitter but I’m not going to shit on other people for using it.

          Were you on Reddit when they had loads of jailbait subs? Would you like to labelled as part of that same group just because you shared the same space?

          Does it not seem reasonable that some people might use Twitter as a means to keep in the loop and not isolate from the crazies, Nazis, bigots or whatever. You can’t converse with the other side if you ain’t where they are at and if we all stay in our own echo chambers what are we really achieving other than a self-righteous circle jerk?

          To be abundantly clear I am including myself in this too and not just calling you out. But this place is exhausting at times, I am the most cynical person I know and this place really gives me a run for my money at times. Even in the less serious stuff, like you can’t oppose Linux here you’ll be downvoted to shit for even having a different opinion. You have to use FOSS everything, and you should even be eating open source food 😂

          • Klear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            tl;dr, but I still think displaying mild disgust at anyone who uses twitter today is the correct reaction

          • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Twitter is just shit though. Why are you even trying to defend it? Same as Facebook, I can’t see shit there without an account.

          • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Not just Linux, but you obviously have to use the correct distro of it, which obviously is…

            correct

            Are you shitting me right now, why would you click that!? Allow me to explain in this 50 part manifesto why I am so very smart and everyone else is beneath me…

            That said, X is legit an Alt-Right Nazi bar. Even as we here are an Alt-Left one. I suppose it simply comes with the territory.:-|

          • Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            If Spez had given a Nazi salute and taken over the US government, I would have left.

            • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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              2 months ago

              That’s your prerogative, but I wonder if you see the danger of all people online splitting into their own groups?

              The way I see it is you have a place just filled with say Nazis then they’re never going to learn or understand different perspectives and they’re going to become more radical.

              • tree_frog@lemm.eeEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Nazis don’t understand different perspectives. It’s essentially the definition.

                That said, I see value in posting for the peanut gallery (when I encounter Nazis here, I don’t go on Twitter).

                But debating Nazis? Hoping to change their minds?

                Nah, prefer to serve them knuckle sandwiches and go about my day.

                • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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                  2 months ago

                  This reads like you making the assumption that people are born Nazis and it’s not a learned behaviour.

                  Some people can hold their beliefs because of the environment they grew up in and many can actually change if people actually cared about educating people and not just feeling superior.

                  I want to stress this is only my opinion and I respect that you have yours too.

  • MidWestKhagan@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This is why I’m not on twitter, she shouldn’t have to defend herself and explain herself to that degree. People can be so toxic that on a game like marvel rivals I was absolutely dog shit at because my chat and voice chat were always visible, once I muted everything, I am suddenly reaching Gold II in a couple days. Be where you are wanted instead of jumping into the snake pit where you know exactly the opinions and beliefs of those snakes, there’s nothing to gain, fascists are fascists, what more can they build on than opinion and beliefs?

  • Acidbath@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    oh shit i didnt know that, I love her content just thought she only worked at NASA in the dmv area. Used to run into her videos on insta - she REALLY loves space.

    When those two astronauts were stuck in space(also fuck boeing), she provided some insides about their procedures and plans of return.

    • Tja@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      He will just tell her to make him a sandwich and the current Twitter audience will love him for that.

          • Coldmoon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Harikari = seppuku. They’re even written with the same kanji characters.

            Oh, and harikari usually has a helper.

            • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Oh, and harikari usually has a helper.

              Other way around. Seppuku is the whole ritual, which includes the helper. But if you just gut yourself out in the woods with no ceremony, it’s harikiri

              • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 months ago

                it’s harikiri

                eh, only if it comes from the harikiri region of france tho.

                otherwise it’s just sparkling disembowelment.

            • Juniper (she/her) 🫐@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              2 months ago

              To really put this to rest:

              Harakiri and Seppuku both literally mean abdomen/stomach cutting. Those who know some Japanese may recognize hara from the common phrase hara hetta which means you are hungry (literally, your stomach is decreasing in size or diminishing). Kiri means cut.

              腹: hara 切: kiri

              Seppuku simply reverses those kanji: 切腹

              Why are they pronounced differently? Harakiri is a native Japanese word, using more traditional Japanese pronunciation Seppuku is a borrowing of middle Chinese roots: setsu from Middle Chinese tset meaning to cut, and fuku from Middle Chinese pjuwk, related to modern Mandarin fūk, referring to your abdomen.

              So, setsufuku was shortened to seppuku where the Ps represent a stop and skipping of part of the word.

              • Lemminary@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Not quite but I can see why people think so. Both words stem from the same Kanji pair: 腹切. Abdomen cut.

                But one is read natively (harakiri) with an informal and colloquial feel to it and the other uses borrowed Chinese readings (seppuku) that makes it sound more formal/ritualistic to be used in formal settings. But they mean the same thing and both refer to the ritual.

                A similar example is Japan’s own name: 日本. It’s usually read as “nihon” but has a special, formal reading of “nippon”.

                Lemminary to Science [email protected] • nuked from orbit English6•

              • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 months ago

                I named one of our dumber work projects ‘project seppeku’ once. Boss was not amused when someone told him what it meant, but it went undiscovered for longer than I would have imagined, which simultaneosly made me happy and hurt my feelings.

    • ThePyroPython@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      No… Let 'em burn.

      I want Brad so emotionally scarred that every time he goes to tweet some bullshit he has a depression inducing anxiety attack so overwhelming that he has to find the nearest corner to go cry in until exhaustion.

  • RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Are any of the things she listed actually “doing science” though? Writing policy is more politics.

      • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
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        2 months ago

        exactly, she wasn’t saying she was a researcher, she was stating she wasn’t an arm chair quarterback… Going with the sports analogy she’s far closer to a manager or a coach… not a dude on the couch with just the perspective of what’s shown on TV.