_number8_ @ _number8_ @lemmy.world

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this is a great post, thank you.

We may never find out. If mollusks do experience emotions, there’s a chance their emotions are nothing like ours. We explain emotional responses through happiness, fear, anger and all that stuff, but who says other animals feel the same? Perhaps sea creatures have an emotional spectrum comprised of degrencre, humber, nage, and dorcelessness, but we’ll never be able to understand those, let alone recognise them when animals express them.

this is exactly what i mean -- isn't it just so much more interesting and hopeful and meaningful to think about it this way than immediately drawing the line and saying shit like "we cannot just run around and play pretend because it makes us feel cozy." or "To suggest that a mollusc has an ‘inner life’ is unscientific and goes against our current understanding of living organisms."

we've developed this consensus at 2023 AD after thousands and thousands of years of complex evolution -- clearly we are at the zenith! we have no more to learn!

i switched from a subscription HP inkjet to a nice brother color laser. the photos are i guess a bit worse quality, as they say, but it's so worth the tradeoff. it's built like a tank, is less bad at randomly not connecting to the computer, and i can just print what i want and it does it. i'm not sitting in the print menu thinking 'hmm if i print this as color, that's only 4 color pages left on the month, then they'll charge me $1 for the next allotment'

and it's just so fucking tiresome, and you just get bogged down in this pure banality and it's so insane. like, the printer and ink are sitting right there in my house! why am i thinking like this??

plus doesn't it just feel awful to use as software? the way lemmy looks and responds to clicks is night and day versus the le epic gamer kid dark mode awful buggy weird PC web view thing discord does where like, if you want to copy and paste you have to use their little tooltip menu which sucks instead of the system one. every time you launch it it forces you to wait 10 minutes for it to download every piddly little update which probably sucks and doesn't matter....

lemmy is buggy and has its flaws as well of course but it's just like...this is a good solid website. good bones. like the old days.

why even build this option into the system? no troll is going to care after a year.....no legitimate sicko is going to be cooled off by forever either

i mean i do hate tipping, it creates an uncomfortable power dynamic, having to sort of....'bribe' them like with these gig apps to get them to take your order sucks (versus like a proper pizza shop where you have 1st party guys who know the area and ups and downs of the job), menu prices and the shitty fees are already a joke, it's just miserable all around

but i'm sure the minimum wage increase is little esp in NYC - it probably just feels like it cancels out. overall there needs to be better reform on this. depending on tips sucks

all our prisons should be like the norway prisons but even then, if you're a cop like him, it's kinda fair and i'm gonna be pretty happy hearing about it

one of the few upsides of gig jobs is that you aren't generally bound by the traditional grind like this - if you're feeling bad on a monday, you can take that day off; if you're bored on a sunday you can work, etc etc. i genuinely don't think i could handle the 9-5 M-F rote button down shit without having a psychic break after 2 months

It’s very clear how the list maintainer opposes anonymity in the internet in any form,

why would anyone ever be like this?

and where is the office for streaming now? why can't they at least all have the same shit, like with music streaming, and compete on features and price, rather than this absolute transient hell where it's ridiculously stark how none of anyone involved cares for art or culture

so people can tee off it, because shitty bad viewpoints are easy to argue against, and the more people that see the rebuttals, the better

i hate how the term 'loss leader' is bandied about like i'm meant to feel sorry for them so generously losing money on something when at the end of the night it's obviously one transaction for everything with a healthy amount of profits baked in

yeah god fucking forbid anything be good and actually valuable for the customer anymore

attempted murder, assault with intent to commit murder, assault with a dangerous weapon, and assault resulting in serious bodily injury,

this sounds like they're charging him 4 times for the same thing? just because you can reword it with bullshit legalese like that doesn't make it right? isn't this functionally going against double jeopardy? i mean i'm sure it's cop in-group shit but still

nothing has made me more sick recently than learning that these investor scum are trying to flog people back into the office because they gambled too much money on office buildings, so obviously this is the correct next step. never mind eating the fucking loss, never mind gambling on sports like a normal human being, these fucking vampires think they get THAT much control over your life for THAT petty and convoluted and i am sorry COMPLETELY FUCKING MADE UP reason like 'we gambled on offices too much'

because absolutely no one wants to be forced into it while being denied the incredible quality of life benefits of being able to stay at home?

i miss when people who made websites genuinely wanted what's best for their users

reposting one of the worst things i've ever heard someone say:

“There’s a lot of stuff on the site that you’d only ever say in therapy, or AA, or never at all … But we don’t need to give all of that value to some of the largest companies in the world for free.”

eat my ass spez

wow that only took half a year. good thing he still got to sit there and vote and get paid in the meantime

meh. who am i, a fuckin executive? i don't care about graphs

frankly, it feels like lemmy has both grown and gotten worse - it attracted enough attention that there are now morons, bootlickers, corporate simps, and dickheads posting now, and upvoting each other's posts