PhilipTheBucket @ PhilipTheBucket @quokk.au

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I once knew a person whose cat, when she was on the toilet, would come in and climb into her pants and chill there, like "Yep we besties, I'm glad I can hang out with you during this pooping time."

She didn't hate it, but she definitely didn't love it either.

I used to have a really smart hamster. But something... happened... to him.

Oh, it's for the baby. Okay, got it, carry on then.

He took the humans out of one side of modern war. Obviously. So now it's 50% done, now we just need to take away the villagers he was bombing, and there'll be no more death and destruction anymore. That's a huge progress.

The thinking was that, because he had negotiated an end the Vietnam War which he had been busily escalating for several years, he and the lead Vietnamese negotiator both deserved to share the prize. The war hadn't ended, or anything, they'd just signed an agreement (which both sides more or less ignored.)

Every single person at the time thought it was the stupidest thing they'd ever heard. Even the New York Times could see that something was amiss; with their usual bold commitment to justice even when it contradicts the whims of American empire, they declared that it was "at the very least, premature." Le Duc Tho, the Vietnamese man who he was meant to share the prize with, angrily declined his half of the prize. Kissinger almost declined the prize... not because even he could see that is was an absurd joke, but because he was offended that they were going to give it to Le Duc Tho also. You know... peace-man logic.

When Kissinger entered the conference room, nobody spoke to him. Sensing the hostile mood, Kissinger speaking in French said: "It was not my fault about the bombing". Before Kissinger could say any more, Thọ exploded in rage, saying in French: "Under the pretext of interrupted negotiations, you resumed the bombing of North Vietnam, just at the moment when I reached home. You have 'greeted' my arrival in a very courteous manner! Your action, I can say, is flagrant and gross! You and no one else strained the honor of the United States". Thọ shouted at Kissinger for over an hour, and despite Kissinger's requests not to speak so loudly because the reporters outside the room could hear what he was saying, he did not relent. Thọ concluded: "For more than ten years, America has used violence to beat down the Vietnamese people-napalm, B-52s. But you don't draw any lessons from your failures. You continue the same policy. Ngu xuẩn! Ngu xuẩn! Ngu xuẩn!" When Kissinger asked what ngu xuẩn meant in Vietnamese, the translator refused to translate, as ngu xuẩn (in Chữ Nôm: 愚蠢) roughly means that a person is grossly stupid.[43]

When Kissinger was finally able to speak, he argued that it was Thọ, who by being unreasonable, had forced Nixon to order the Christmas bombings, a claim that led Thọ to snap in fury.

They weren't great friends. Of course, in the end, Kissinger decided that he owed it to himself to collect his prize, although he didn't come in person because he probably would have been protested (and maybe arrested, I don't remember the timeline.)

Me: Oh, I've been bitten by something like that in code, I bet it's a subtle timezone issue where applying the current timezone to the 00:00:00-timestamped datetime encoding of the date, and then truncating it back to the date only, winds up shifting...

Me, after reading: What the FUCK, why

Did you do something? The name is familiar but I don't remember specifics... whatever, I guess get in a long pointless argument with me and I'm sure it'll come to me.

No, you're a shortcoming assumption.

Dude I am blocking you. Continuing to pretend that neopronouns are the issue, and a perfect shield for anything dbzer0 wants to do, when they never were and it was instead things like trolling the whole concept of transgenderism and encouraging other users to suicide that was the issue, when no one copping these bans was refusing to use anyone's pronoun neo- or otherwise at any point that I'm aware of, is just pissing me off, and I already addressed it not just once but several times, directly to you, and brought your awareness to the fact that you didn't seem to be picking up on it.

I'm taking your advice. Talk to someone else. Honestly, it's rare that I get actually irritated when talking to someone on the internet, so congratulations. Go back and reread my earlier messages, if you start to feel that you need to hear any more of my opinion on this.

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NOW YOU'VE DONE IT

Kidding.

On the substance, I'm just going to refer you to my previous answer, in which I pointed out that me reiterating how precisely I don't agree with what you just said will accomplish nothing at all (and, apparently, it did not.)

The only thing I will add is that the troll was not banned when they encouraged people to self harm. Ada actively refused to ban them for that, and then later, when they shared personal correspondence of Ada's without permission, that was a sin sufficient to justify a ban.

Citation: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23453948/13537569, search for "sharing of private messages".

I cannot believe you are continuing to succeed in getting me to argue about this topic.

"And also, what the hell do you expect of dbzer0 admins to do about people expressing such opinions? You want us to go around protecting the people you like from public opinion?"

-db0

(Emphasis mine)

(IDK why I'm continuing at this point, I'll probably stop after this in case you want the last word. Both sides of the argument have had plenty of airing, and yes I think the modlogs 100% speak for themselves)

Oh, you're completely right. IDK how I thought it was different, but yes, what I said was completely wrong.

One of the last things I remember seeing on the old internet before it turned corporate and stupid was a first person POV video (presumably fake) of people cutting through a chain-link fence and running up and doing graffiti on Air Force One. They wrote "STILL FREE." Something about it gives me this intense nostalgia for the WTO protest / anti Iraq War type of protest and activism that was happening back around that time.

We're just not going to see eye to eye on this stuff lol

Microwaves penetrate a certain distance into the material and then turn into heat. Heat conduction from the outside doesn't. I don't know exactly what the average of that distance is and how it compares to the size of a hamster, but I would bet that it's pretty competitive with the thickness of the hamster.

Your whole argument here makes no sense at all. Having the ambient temperature set to the perfect defrosting value would work better than heating the skin of the frozen meat in cycles of full on / full off, if the microwaves were getting stopped right at the skin and then the heat had to conduct in from there.

Literally this entire instance. Don't get me wrong there are worse places out there but its basically Lord of the Flies up in this place. I am very sure nobody in charge is over the age of 21.

Yeah. 100%. Well... there are plenty of 18-year-olds running around the world whose chronological age is a lot older. But yes. It actually mostly doesn't read to me as malicious from this instance, it just feels like people who have never experienced being in a collaborative circumstance where they have to get along with people who they don't see eye to eye with or have real friction with and they have to cope with it. Or they have never been in some kind of environment where one person is "in charge" but also has to earn respect of people. Like their whole concept is "I've got the mod buttons, you do not, so shut the fuck up, this is what's what" and they've never experienced the aftermath when you do that to people who have ability to push back in turn.

I mean at the end of the day it's just a stupid web site, but yes in my opinion being able to have these communication tools and have them function well is important. Maybe I'm the weird one. I do think it matters.

these "anarchists" are ok with harassment and sexism as long as it is targeted towards who they perceive to be enemies. They have zero consistency in applying their "rules" and they hide behind "anarchism" to justify the same childish behavior they criticize other instances of doing.

Also absolutely. 100%. Them laughing at SoftestSapphic when she's trying to give some pretty pointed feedback on treatment of trans issues, and then banning her for being "pissy" / "shitty" because of it, really rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't like that at all. And then yes the hypocrisy of doing that while flopping around like a soccer player moaning about "abuse" because people gave downvotes to some of their precious content, is just extra icing on the bratty-adolescent cake.

Platypus already linked to a paper which references it: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1363505/pdf/jphysiol01379-0153.pdf

Which brings us to just one of those bizarre US things, "artificial flavor" versus "natural flavor" is totally arbitrary and random. It's based on which molecule, not what the source is, so you can have "natural flavors" that came from a massive stainless steel tank and will kill you if you touch them in pure form without the proper protective gear, or "artificial flavors" that come from squeezing beaver ass glands.

Edit: Every word of this post is wrong. Literally every one. I think I read a book decades ago that told me this, maybe I remembered it wrong, but anyway according to the internet of today it's different and I'm a big dummy.

In use in Ireland until the 1980s, apparently. TIL.

"Hey while you're giving birth anyway, I'm just gonna use this hand-cranked kitchen appliance thing to saw your pelvis apart. Please try to relax."

HOW IS THAT BETTER