Greg Clarke @ Greg @lemmy.ca

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I wouldn't take that as gospel giving the single reference for that claim and the discussion for that article https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Redneck

That doesn't make sense, you get sun burn like that if you go from no sun exposure to lots of sun exposure. People working in the fields would not have been constantly sun burned unless they were albino.

This is such a non story

I once went full meta and stole an actual cat. I think the owner was grateful because this cat is an arsehole.

I check if other people have locked their doors as a profession. I'm a lazy cat burglar by trade, AMA

That's exactly what a virus that was trying to trick me would say...

Yacht clubs often have Wednesday afternoon sailing races and those crews often need extra folks on board. I learned sailing that way when I was in university. An inexperienced reliable crew is member is better than an experienced unreliable crew.

Fun fact, DEDSEC is a type of memory used in Soviet era mainframes.

Ok, I'll come clean, I'm actually an angry T-Rex that drives on the wrong side of the road. I'm just looking for validation

That chiropractic care is not evidence based

I'll jump on board with this too. Someone's got to be the smartest person on earth ¯(ツ)_/¯

If you’re driving the same speed as the car in front of you, you have no reason to use the left lane

What if the car in front of you is driving at the same speed but heading right at you? Or if there is an angry T-Rex in the right lane?

OK, I did the math. I could turn $1K into $74M in 10 years with that strategy. I lost a year of growth because I thought Ethereum was released in 2013 however it was the white paper that was released in 2013, the coin started public trading in August 2015. Either way, I'd still be happy with that return.

• 2014-06-19 twiddle my thumbs because Ethereum hasn't been released yet
• 2015-08-01 $1.00 = 3.22ETH
• 2020-01-02 3.22ETH = $421.24 = 6.12 ZOOM shares (also buy toilet paper and n95 masks)
• 2020-06-01 6.12 ZOOM = $1538.262 = 6.80ETH
• 2022-12-30 6.80ETH = $8170.67 = 570.18 NVIDIA shares
• 2024-06-18 570.18 NVIDIA = $74773.41

I'm doing this from memory to stay in the spirit of the question. I'd buy ethereum, then pivot to zoom in early 2020, pivot back to etherum mid 2020, then finally to NVIDIA at the end of 2022. I'll look up how well my memory works have served me.

The scene you're describing is a good example. Though I would argue that given this story line is set a millennium in the future, it isn't just lazily progressive, it's an ultra-conservative view of the future. It perpetuates today's bigotries as universal truths instead of challenging the audience to perceive of a future without our current bigotries like the Kirk / Uhura kiss did 50 years ago.

The original series was based in a post-race society. When Kirk and Uhura kiss, it wasn't an interracial kiss in the show because the concept of race doesn't exist in the 24th century universe. It got backlash when it aired because some people couldn't contemplate a the future without their current bigotry existing. Star Trek explored current social issues by visiting some planet with a veiled version of that issue.

Contrast that to Discovery where Burnham is having a conversation with an Admiral and the Admiral brings up Burnham's family's history of slavery.

I agree. Discovery is the least progressive Star Trek series and is already aging poorly. The other series use the Star Trek universe to cleverly explore present day issues whereas Discovery lazily frames today's social issues as if they're universal truths. It was a real back step for the franchise.

That's fair. I appreciate that every instance host has the right to moderate their community any way they want however moderation rules should be clear and consistent. Banning people for posting respectful criticism of communism is inconsistent with the rules of lemmy.ml

I'm not defending these people. I'm saying illinformed hot-takes are common on the Internet. However they are an useful opportunity to understand an opposing perspective even if they're based in factual inaccuracies.

In my experience, most people are great. If a stranger has a wildly opposing opinion to myself, it's rarely because of differing values and more likely because of differing experiences.

Everyone that has been on the Internet for more than a few days has an illinformed hot-take floating around. You can learn something for a perspective even if it's not based in fact. Read with compassion and you don't have to believe everything you read.