TheBananaKing

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TheBananaKing,

I know about Teardrop. I’m talking about the European version, the third one in the linked video - and specifically about one effect they’re using in it.

TheBananaKing,

Oh no, some nazis could get hurt

TheBananaKing,

the wonderful wonderful cat

TheBananaKing,

Your mum.

TheBananaKing,

When Israelis give a damn about the ongoing genocide, lmk.

TheBananaKing,

So where are the protests about it?

TheBananaKing,

no, I’m asking about Israeli Israelis. Where are the ordinary city-dwellers getting up and marching to protest the ongoing slaughter, as you’ll find in just about every other city in the world?

Struggling to tolerate wife's haircut

I typically don’t care about things like hairstyle, makeup or clothes. But my wife has started giving herself a buzz cut and I simply hate it. I told her and she grew it out for a while, but she said longer hair was making her depressed and it needed to be a buzz cut. She said it just looks like her when she sees it. Part of...

TheBananaKing,

Get a fucking grip maybe?

It’s hair.

TheBananaKing,

so they got wallhacked, lol. How does that taste?

[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?

Seen a lot of posts on Lemmy with vegan-adjacent sentiments but the comments are typically very critical of vegan ideas, even when they don’t come from vegans themselves. Why is this topic in particular so polarising on the internet? Especially since unlike politics for example, it seems like people don’t really get upset by...

TheBananaKing,

So, here’s the thing.

Regardless of a hundred different ethical and meta-ethical theories that people espouse, what everyone actually reacts to with outrage is plausibly-generalised threat perception.

If someone’s actions are directly threatening you, you’ll feel anger and/or fear.

If someone’s actions don’t affect you or yours, but :stuff like that: being commonplace definitely would, then you will feel outrage.

If I kill people and take their stuff, you’ll be very upset: you’re a people, and you like stuff - and if we let the general case happen, the specifics could come bite you in the ass soon enough.

If I kill and eat animals, most people don’t consider it plausibly worrying that they or little Timmy will be next. We have great big enormous taboos against eating people, so that slope just don’t slip - and as a result they just don’t have a problem with it.

(If I go and torment animals for lulz, then that’s a very different case; people who are cruel to animals are often even worse to people, after all - and so people see that as monstrous. And again, if you want to manufacture consent for some atrociy, the easiest way is to reclassify the victims as qualitatively different. Oh good lord no, we’re not killing people and taking their stuff, that would be awful. Nonono, we’re killing :group: and taking their stuff, totally different proposition…)

So when vegans are horrified at people killing and eating (or breeding and milking, or whatever) animals, and go to great lengths to try and elicit that same outrage, there’s a disconnect and dissonance going on. The non-vegans don’t have the emotional trigger of perceived threat, so to have them keep trying regardless is seen as pearl-clutching and sleeve-tugging, like making up a sad story and loudly demanding that everyone weep about it on the spot. It’s uniquely annoying. And when you combine that with (perceived) moral superiority and a hypercritical attitude, it comes across as something like a Karen with BPD. It’s calling red on someone else’s scene; everyone is supposed to cater to the vegan’s emotional distress when there’s no corresponding emotion in themselves, and honestly that just provokes people to schoolyard bullying.

That’s at the core of it, I think. There’s a bunch of other annoyances around it, but I think they’re mostly after the fact.

Honestly if you want to make people feel that general existential threat, frame it in terms of ecological damage. Animal agriculture is horribly unsustainable and causes huge enviromnental problems, not least of which are are a truly gigantic carbon footprint. Pushing that angle would actually stand a chance of being effective, tbh. But annoyingly (from the outside), it seems that the most vocal vegans don’t want people to be outraged on that basis, they want them to be outraged for the poor little lambikins, and will settle for no less. I can see their point, and I can be a stubborn bastard myself about not settling, but jesus fuck it’s annoying.

Not a vegan, though I’ve been mostly-veggie for the last couple of years for health reasons. It’s interesting how it shapes your perceptions; eating meat doesn’t seem wrong to me, but it has started seeming weirdly excessive and uncreative.

TheBananaKing,

Your brain is a kindergarten, your executive function is the kindergarten teacher (who had 3 hours sleep and skipped breakfast).

Giving them all a couple of donuts won’t make much difference to the kids who are already feral, but it will pep up the teacher and allow them to take charge a bit better.

TheBananaKing,

And they have the intellectual and ethical maturity of kindergarteners, so they’ll eat him up.

If you could take a single character out of a piece of media (book, film, TV show, video game, etc) who would it be?

They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, but anything they are, rather than can do, will stay. For example people from the His Dark Materials world would keep their daemons. You can take them out at any time in the story’s plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the...

TheBananaKing,

Pyro.

Police clear pro-Palestinian protesters from Columbia University while clashes break out at UCLA (apnews.com)

NEW YORK (AP) — The pro-Palestinian demonstration that paralyzed Columbia University ended in dramatic fashion, with police carrying riot shields bursting into a building that protesters took over the previous night and making dozens of arrests. On the other side of the country, clashes broke out early Wednesday between...

TheBananaKing,

Can you say Tianenmen Square?

TheBananaKing,

Because people can’t afford food and shelter. You know, little details like being able to live.

TheBananaKing,

Have you heard of a little place called Gaza?

TheBananaKing,

Guy wants to claim that bidean has morals, I point out that he’s got the blood of 30k innocent people on his hands, which kind of rebuits that claim.

TheBananaKing,

It’s the candidate’s job to serve the will of the people, not the other way around.

If you want people to vote for you, you have to do the things the people demand. Like, oh, say, not enabling and funding genocide.

If it’s super mega omg important that people vote for you, then it’s on you to you do those things really hard.

If you consider the principle of democracy valid, then whatever the voters choose is correct by definition.

And by the same token, if they don’t vote for you, you have only yourself to blame.

That’s the game. Don’t like it, don’t play.

TheBananaKing,

You don’t keep enabling an abuser in the hope they’ll eventually reform.

You walk the fuck out, and if that means being homeless, that sucks balls but it still beats staying.

And if someone calls you a fucking idiot for not being grateful for a roof over your head, you spit right in their eye.

TheBananaKing,

If someone can be an evil piece of shit and still win elections, what’s their incentive to not be an evil piece of shit?

TheBananaKing,

There’s two conflicting metrics:

  • The state of the country for the next 4 years if the GOP gets in this year
  • The state of the country forever if the dems aren’t held accountable

The fact that the dems are willing to play chicken with the entire country and would rather see it fall into the hands of MAGA than let go of their precious genocide says a whole lot about their motivation.

If that faction of the party is allowed to prevail, there won’t be any point. They need to learn their lesson, fast. They can either cooperate now, or get their ass thrown out of power in november. Their choice.

TheBananaKing,

It’s really simple: demonstrate that he has some kind of moral principles. Some atrocity he refuses to countenance, some red line he will not cross. Some point at which he’ll say “you know what, no, we’re not going to be part of this, we’re out.”

It might not stop them, but it would show he wasn’t an actual monster.

Which is a pretty low fucking bar, tbh.

TheBananaKing,

Youtube.

I realised a few years back that my music tastes had stagnated, that I hadn’t liked any new bands in… too many years, and that I was on the way to becoming to be a stuck-in-the-past old fart.

So I nuked my youtube data to glass and started again from scratch with The Technique.

Open all the interesting-looking music in new tabs, don’t-recommend-channel annoying crap, especially reaction videos. Flick through each tab, like and add to genre playlists anything cool, and open a bunch of tabs from the recommendations on that page. If I get three solid bangers from an artist, subscribe. Go with original artists rather than reposts where possible.

Rinse and repeat.

If the algorithm starts getting stale, browse and listen through playlists I want to hear more of (often using a third-party shuffle site), to dredge up the silt.

I don’t generally listen to much of a song while browsing - you can tell from a handful of samples if it’s for you or not, and moving on quickly stops it from getting tedious.

I have found and enjoyed vastly more new music in the last few years than I did in the two decades before that. It’s awesome.

TheBananaKing,

Consulting: “what are you going to do about it? Yeah, didn’t think so.”

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