thawed_caveman

thawed_caveman , 5 months ago to lemmyshitpost in IT support work be like

According to my googling, they may be by Li-Anne Dias? But the artist’s website is so bad you’re better off reading the comics when they’re reposted elsewhere

But these are so classic they even mention Windows XP

thawed_caveman , 5 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Just fuck my shit up

If you’re in this bathroom sober, you’ll feel drunk.

If you’re in this bathroom drunk, your mind will escape into the 4th dimension and you may not be coming back.

thawed_caveman , 5 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in The way this is written out really irks me.

A lot of the images didn’t load because they “contained errors”

thawed_caveman , 5 months ago to lemmyshitpost in This

I’m gonna be 100% honest here. I would do this if i were president.

thawed_caveman , 5 months ago to asklemmy in What Are Your Favorite FOSS Android Apps?

I only install what i need so i haven’t actually installed a lot of apps. The copout answer is Firefox, but if i’m taking the prompt seriously it would be Simple Keyboard or Floris Board, they’re highly customizeable keyboards that i really enjoy and i have a hard time deciding which to leave installed.

Just in general though, browsing F-Droid feels so good. I’m in a much simpler mindset where i’ll think “oh that’s neat i want to try it”, which is how i used to feel about tech. Browsing PlayStore makes me think “that’s neat, but what’s the catch? How are they going to scam me/harvest my data? I’m not installing this”

thawed_caveman , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What is the European equivalent to a Las Vegas Elvis impersonator officiating the marriage heavily inebrieated strangers?

A Johnny Halliday impersonator.

Johnny Halliday was the french version of Elvis Presley, except he lived long enough to release too many albums and become unbearable.

What’s impressive is that he became one of the best selling artists of all times while selling records almost exclusively in France. I don’t think he ever left the mainstream since the 60’s.

thawed_caveman , 6 months ago to fediverse in Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads

I feel strongly that we should defederate, but i really like your reasoning for being neutral. The fediverse is currently a small community of advanced internet users who see themselves as separate from mainstream users, and the temptation is to gatekeep.

thawed_caveman , 6 months ago to world in ‘Double standards’: World reacts to US veto on Gaza truce resolution at UN

Yeah, but the further back you go the less useful it becomes. If you look before Israel you find the British Empire, the Ottoman Empire and the Roman Empire; two of these don’t exist anymore and the last doesn’t really exist anymore.

The choice of which time range to include isn’t that arbitrary, there are pretty significant markers that make the previous state of things a lot less relevant. When studying french politics, it’s not useful to go back further than the 1789 revolution because that event changed so much that the previous reality doesn’t matter anymore; similarly, the foundation of Israel changed the power dynamics in the area significantly enough that you can start there. Remembering the previous events is useful for context but won’t change the conclusion.

thawed_caveman , 6 months ago to selfhosted in Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023)

Since 2010 i’ve made three Facebook accounts, deleted one and never use the other two. Active users would be a more useful metric.

It’s been commented on before that, for its size, Twitter has a disproportionate influence not just on the internet but even on politics. This is still the case today because no good alternatives have emerged for the mainstream yet.

thawed_caveman , 6 months ago to world in ‘Double standards’: World reacts to US veto on Gaza truce resolution at UN

This is comical because Israel is the attacker, and has been for its entire existence. Their goal is to conquer and ethnically cleanse more territory in order to create an enthnostate.

Hamas only exists as a reaction to israeli colonialism. That’s litterally the only reason for their existence.

So, to be precise:

• Israel is finishing a war they did not start

Maybe not in the narrow sense, but the colonial efforts of Israel are responsible for the broader conflict lasting since the 50’s, which the current conflict is a chapter of.

• There is literally no way around it

It’s not necessary for Israel to conquer Gaza. It would be enough to just not expand their territory and respect human rights and international law, which they never did at any point in 70 years, leading to the current situation where there are no good options anymore.

• The terror attack was the proof that restraint didn’t do anything

The terror attack is a consequence of lack of restraint. (i wouldn’t normally word it like that, i’m just using the same words for rhetoric effect)

thawed_caveman , 6 months ago to asklemmy in People Who Don't Wear Deodorant or Seemingly Bathe Regularly, Why?

Yeah but look at all the stuff you do besides showering, the shaving and hair care and such. I’m genuinely just talking about the shower itself. There’s convincing myself to shower, then there’s watching youtube videos with my clothes off, then there’s spending too long in the hot shower because i don’t want to step out into the cold bathroom, then there’s drawing shapes on the fogged mirror, etc

I think my expectation for quick showers comes from my upbringing? For a few years growing up we had the toilet, sink and shower all in the same bathroom, and that bathroom was being used by like 6 people. So every minute spent in the shower was inconveniencing someone else. idk

thawed_caveman , 6 months ago to asklemmy in People Who Don't Wear Deodorant or Seemingly Bathe Regularly, Why?

I never talk to anyone so i have no incentive to other than my own comfort. I do feel more comfortable when i’m clean, but my mere comfort often doesn’t feel like reason enough when executive dysfunction makes a shower is a 1-hour affair, plus i have a weird anxiety around thriftiness so i don’t like to “waste” the warm water and soap.

Same reason why the house isn’t as clean as it could be. It would be cleaner if anyone came in here ever, but no one does, so the only reason to vaccuum is my own satisfaction, which isn’t worth the time and effort.

All told i end up showering every ~5 days in winter and once a day in summer, and i never touch the perfume bottles. I actually don’t really get the point of perfume or deodorant tbh, seems like the solution to BO is a shower.

thawed_caveman , 7 months ago to memes in Communist Filth/Capitalist Filth

Nothing here is portraying capitalism as pure evil, it’s highlighting a problem that we currently have as a society. I find it really weird how eager you are to argue while not really having a point to make.

thawed_caveman , 7 months ago to memes in Communist Filth/Capitalist Filth

Yes, all of the evils of capitalism are constantly commented on. This isn’t the CNN comments section.

thawed_caveman , 7 months ago to memes in Communist Filth/Capitalist Filth

This is not a valid argument ecause everything surrounding us is designed and facilitated by capitalism, and certainly all our electronics, there’s no such thing as computers independent from capitalism. There weren’t even in the soviet union. So it’s not possible for this anon to actually live what they preach unless they went full anarcho-primitivism.

Not that it would matter anyway, because you’re allowed to criticize a system that you participate in.