Zagorath @ Zagorath @aussie.zone

Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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become less fanatical and radicalized

Bro's defending genocide in other threads and says other people need to be less radicalized. (Nice way to give yourself away, btw. Mr lemmynet**.au** clearly actually from America.)

I did ban you from Politics and World for trolling and misinformation, which you were

And are, in this thread. Why bother keeping trying to interact with them here? Just ban again. And make it permanent this time.

The leftists I’ve met tended to study the Arts (English, sociology, history, etc) whereas the right wing types all studied math, engineering, computer science

Sure, maybe. I'll point out that there's a known statistical trend of more highly-educated people being more left-leaning, but I'll leave that discussion there, because it's not actually the point.

I didn't actually say anything about nerds being leftists. I said that nerds are anti-sport. And that Lemmy is made up of nerds. Both of which, I hope, are not controversial statements. Not that Lemmy is made up of a representative cross-sample of nerds, but that of the users who are on Lemmy, most are nerds. My conjecture is that the reason you see a dislike for sport on Lemmy is not because Lemmings are left-wing, but because they're nerds. And that if you were to control for political belief, Lemmy would still have a stronger anti-sport bias than the general public. While if you controlled for "nerdiness", Lemmy's anti-sport bias would be relatively weaker. Not an easy experiment to perform in practice, unfortunately.

but I’ve also had and seen more hostility when I tried to be civil

I mean geez, have you seen some of the replies OP got in this thread?

A lot of people like OP are passive consumers

Passive consumers make up the largest number; the base of the pyramid. But you seem to be implying that there's nothing between that and the tip of the pyramid, who create their own communities and post their own content into them.

OP seems to be a user in the middle. Happy to contribute to ongoing conversations by commenting, replying, and voting, but not as comfortable starting conversations. Which, to be honest, is also where I'm at with sport threads. I used to love popping in to a live game discussion megathread to comment on a particularly outrageous call, or to see the community's response to something controversial. But it's not a subject area I'm invested in enough to start the community myself, or to make enough comments to help start a lively-looking megathread.

@socsa@piefed.social was making fun of (at least, I think they're making fun of...it could be a pretty extreme Poe's Law case) people who vehemently hate sport. "Sportsball" is a word such people use to belittle sport. "DAE handegg" references (1) the "DAE [x]" meme, where someone makes fun of a community hivemind by saying "does anyone else like [thing the community is well-known for liking]", and (2) the term "handegg", used by fans of soccer to refer to other types of football, because of a misunderstanding of what "ball" means (they think it requires a spherical object) and why football is called football (they think it's because you kick the ball exclusively with your feet). People who unironically say "handegg" also seem to have never looked at either an egg or a non-soccer football.

Geez, for someone complaining about how dumb sport fans are, this sure is some fucking atrociously bad-quality writing.

I've. misbehaved. racism, nationalism, and (though the Oxford comma is optional). millionaires (note: this is both correcting the spelling and the Random capital letter).

and that a lot of leftists don’t like sports at all

Is that your experience per se, or have most of the leftists you've seen been nerds, and you're just noticing the much more well-documented trend of nerds disliking sport?

Personally I happen to be the kind of nerd who loves sport. My favourites are triathlon (and its constituent sports) and HEMA, but I also like professional spectator sports cricket and rugby league.

HEMA's a bit of an odd one since it tends to attract nerds more than people who are fans of more traditional sports. When I skip training to watch a big game of league, I definitely get light-hearted but at least somewhat sincere "sportsball" comments from regulars who like doing HEMA but aren't interested in other "normal" sports. But my other sporting interests are far more conventional. This, while being a software engineer by trade, and also having more nerdy hobbies like D&D (actually, even nerdier: I play Pathfinder these days), real-time strategy games, and...well, being on Lemmy.

Jesus mate, you keep telling yourself that. Your extremist Sky After Dark rhetoric is going to keep the libs out of power for a decade.

The article shows a photo of voting booths with curtains, with neighbouring booths coloured like the Romanian flag.

Do we have any Romanians here? Can you confirm whether or not they actually do this? That's honestly hilariously awesome if so.

Huh? What nonsense. The LNP started falling in the polls right when Trump got into office and started destroying America. They tried a few Trumpian policies and were forced to backflip because of how unpopular it made them.

Dutton's attempt to replicate Trump was roundly rejected by Australians. And rightly so.

The !dailygames@lemmy.zip bot works very well.

That story was so beautiful. I'm tearing up now. Thank you for sharing. 🫂

Teflon itself is perfectly safe. It's far too large for your body to absorb.

But many of the byproducts involved in the production of teflon are much less safe.

In other words, if you already own a teflon pan, you're fine. Keep using it. But if you're considering buying a new pan, there are good reasons to avoid teflon.

Recent Veritasium video about "forever chemicals".

It seems to depend on who you ask. Teeth are not bones, absolutely, but I've seen sources that say they are part of the skeletal system, as well as sources that say they're not.

The skeletal system definitely includes more than just bones, since ligaments and cartilage are definitely part of it. So where exactly the line is drawn is up to interpretation.

One other suggestion: let the real Puffing Billy know and suggest they make a trademark complaint.

I made a report to scamwatch as @dumblederp@aussie.zone suggested, via their "report a scam website" beta. Here's the text I used, if anyone else wants to take the basic skeleton of it and tweak it for their own report:

Pretends to be the Puffing Billy Railway (real domain: https://puffingbilly.com.au/)
Uses fake AI imagery to advertise and pretend its association with the real railway
Advertises "our coupon price" prices above those offered on the official site ($72 for an adult return, official price is $64)
Advertises that the "normal price" is above their coupon price ($80)
Website owner has also created false entries on mapping & business directory software Google Maps: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fxVNa5w4SbZ7V1Qi9, https://maps.app.goo.gl/YB7w8NzmbtMJbdmf7. These entries promote the fake business as if it were the real one, and link back to the scam website.

One weird caveat...I don't understand what the scam actually is here. I could not find anywhere on their website to actually do anything. No call to action. No link to order tickets. No contact details. Nothing. Just a list of their prices and two fake photos.

Maybe, but...they're a blahaj user. It seems far more likely to me that they just misunderstood the news or misinterpreted what's going on.

If we're talking voice actors, IMO the ultimate self-teamup already exists.

An episode of Star Trek: The Original Series that takes inspiration from the TNG episode Measure of a Man, with Denny Crane somehow involved on one side of the case. Idk if it would be better to have him working with or against Captain Kirk.

It's also possible for (for example) the 1 and 3 year sentences to be served cumulatively, and the 5 year to be served concurrently (in which case the total would be 8 years).

Wouldn't that still be 9 years? 1 and 3 are cumulative, giving a 4 year sentence, and the 5 years is concurrent with that. 4 & 5 concurrent makes 5.

To get 8, wouldn't you want the 3 and 5 served consecutively with the 1 year being concurrent?