Why am I still here?

the lemmy hivemind

A big way Lemmy defers from Reddit: people who unironicly use the word “hive mind” are not to be taken seriously and you can just ignore them.

What are you trying to accomplish

Honestly you remind me of my mother. She tells the stories that I wish someone that doesn’t have to worry about offending her would ask “do you think you come off sounding good in that story you just told?”
I don’t have children but my brother does, and she isn’t allowed to see them at all, likely due to not respecting their rules about how they are raising their children.

But maybe you’re right, I shouldn’t judge the way you treat your children the same way you judge the way they treat their children.

Not sure where you are getting that I am just blatantly ignoring them.

This line right here:

he should be stuttering by now because I couldn’t resist, and they couldn’t watch me all the time. :)

Really sounds like you’re bragging about breaking their rules. Are the absurd? Absolutely. What would have been the harm of following this rule? nothing. What was gained by breaking it? A small amount of dopamine for you personally.

You broke it because you could for no benefit whatsoever and are smugly bragging about it. Do you think you sound like the good guy in your story?

If you’re not going to follow a simple harmless rules, why would they trust you to follow the important ones? It reminds me of the story of the grandmother that didn’t believe the mother when she said her child was allergic to coconut oil and though it was “nonsense”: https://rareddit.com/r/JUSTNOMIL/comments/7qmed5/you_can_come_over_again_when_you_bring_me_my (Spoiler, this doesn’t end well for anybody)

I am glad you are so aware of the rest of our relationship

I only know what you’ve told us: You specifically ignored the rules they asked you to follow when watching their children, they don’t let watch their children (these two points might be related), and you claim to be “respectful of their batshit decisions”.

If some randos on the internet can hear your disdain this loudly…

Trump got elected president of the United States.

Twice.

I was experiencing auditory hallucinations when trying to sleep, tried to tell my mom about it. She told me the house was haunted and I was hearing the ghosts.

My father built that house when I was a baby.

Oh yes, I hear how much respect you have for them in your posts.

You need to dedicate time to adopt and learn how to get a local account on Windows and clear out the bullshit you don’t want.

I recently switched to Linux. At first I was surprised at how easy it was to set up and get working, then I was annoyed at having to look up how to do every little thing I know how to do on Windows and considered switching back.

Then I booted into Windows and in less than 10 minutes was fed up the whole OS. I realized I had to look up things just as often as I was on Linux, but in Linux it was because I didn’t know where it was, where as on Windows it was actively hidden from me and fighting me every step of the way.
Windows is in no way easier, It’s just the struggle you’ve gotten so used to fighting with every single day that you’ve forgotten it exists.

The Good Place

BoJack Horseman

Babylon 5

OHHHH ROSS AND RACHEL I GET IT NOW!!!"

My older brother watched Friends every single night, rerun after rerun. Ross and Rachel are the reason I immediately dislike any “will they / won’t they” plots when watching a new show.

It’s strange to me that people anthropomorphize animals to make big claims about the animal wanting to live in the wild.

What I said was : they should not be kept in captivity for our amusement.

Where’s the big claim?

Who are you to assume what an animal wants?

I am quite literally not doing that. I am saying “we don’t know so we shouldn’t imprison it for our amusement” which does not strike me as a very extreme statement.

Where did I say that?

To be fair it has been quite some time since I’ve played it. Glad to hear the item issue is less of a problem but it’s still poor game design (if you’re going to have people use the recommended option why bother having the options at all?).

The two biggest reasons I have no interest in trying again is how long the matches take, and how incredibly fucking toxic people were last time I tried it. I don’t know if that has improved at all, but from what I hear it sounds like it’s still pretty toxic.

The stories I here about Octopi make them sound more like an intelligent creature we don’t understand rather than “lots of creatures escape their cages to go hunting and then return before anyone notices. This is natural behavior for an animal.”

Yes, the mind of an octopus is unknowable, and it could be just acting on instinct. It could also have some measure of sentience, and there is no way to really know. As such maybe we should err on the side of caution and not keep them in little pens for us to gawk at.

That makes me worry about how inaccessible Dota is.

The biggest problem for me with League was the items: There are far too many to choose from and I don’t have time during a match to figure it out. So I need to plan what items I want before the match, but I can’t be guaranteed to play the character I was planning on. So I need to preplan a build for 5 different characters before quing, and then deal with some of the most toxic people bitching all game anyway.

Something smart enough to recgonize the people, what they mean, learn their schedule, and understand how to decieve them, is something that should not be kept in captivity for our amusement.

The Anti-vax movement was started and funded by Big Pharma, because there is more money to be made in treating a disease than there is in preventing it.

class 5- obviously dead people. They can’t get any deader, so no real rush.

Okay, but who am I supposed to call if someone just died in my home? Does the coroner have a non-emergency number for me to call “Hey, my mom just died. If you could send someone out to confirm whenever you have time that would be great.”