Art3sian 1 month ago • 100%
I never thought I’d say it, but I don’t even use YouTube anymore. I might go there once a month to watch a tute, but only if I absolutely can’t find help from any other website.
Art3sian 1 month ago • 100%
Why weren’t any of us invited? Fucking selfish, bro.
Art3sian 1 month ago • 100%
Well, I disagree. I didn’t touch Reddit for a year and finally went back about a month ago.
• THE ADS. Fuck me, the ads now!
• The corporate plug-ins. I had a legit, verified business comment on my post and then PM me after it.
• The videos freeze more often than makes me comfortable clicking on them.
• The pop-up trash now; “follow this”, “click here”, “did you know”, “ICYMI”. The U.I looks like Yahoo’s home page now.
Is it dying? I don’t know. Is it exhibiting every square inch of desperation, turning the corner from what was once cool, to what is now every pixel monetised and sponsored? Yup!
Art3sian 1 month ago • 100%
If you stick it out here for long enough, three things will change.
- You’ll begin to really like it here. It’s different but it grows on you, and it’s growing with its users.
- Your addiction to these noticeboard-type socials will dramatically reduce. There’s something about Lemmy that’s less addictive in a good way.
- You’ll eventually go back to Reddit and see it with new eyes, realising just how quickly it’s dying.
Art3sian 2 months ago • 100%
When I’m hanging out with the lads I like to announce that I’m going for an [insert friend’s name] out of my [insert other friend’s name].
I’ve gotta push a Steve out of my Bradley.
Art3sian 2 months ago • 100%
Look at you! You a smart snake, huh? You using tools now, huh?
Art3sian 2 months ago • 100%
Linux users and vegetarians. Neither can shut the fuck up. Both have made it their identity.
Art3sian 2 months ago • 62%
Are you a Linux user?
Hey everyone, shut up! This guy is a Linux user and he’s here to tell us about using Linux.
Art3sian 2 months ago • 92%
Piece of shit doesn’t contact piece of shit about piece of shit, shot by piece of shit.
Next.
Art3sian 3 months ago • 33%
I was referring to the Bronze Age, urbanisation, and civilisation, genius.
Art3sian 3 months ago • 100%
In Australia.
“Got a spare smoke there, bro?”
“No, mate. Sorry.”
“FUCK YOU, YA WHITE CUNT!”
I’ve had this word-for-word interaction probably 100 times this year already.
Art3sian 3 months ago • 100%
Why is this so far down?
Bump.
Art3sian 3 months ago • 20%
Endlessly eat, shit, fuck, fight, and consume for 5,000 years without any regard for anything but ourselves.
Art3sian 5 months ago • 100%
Garbage V2.0
Art3sian 5 months ago • 100%
Yeah I truly hope petitions work but everything I’ve ever signed hasn’t done shit. I think petitions are just a way of letting us think we have a voice.
Art3sian 6 months ago • 80%
Well, in essence, propaganda is advertising. And advertising leans on satisfying perceived need.
So if I’m selling you shoes it’s to satisfy your physiological, social, or self-fulfilment order need. Shoes are functional, make you cool, or make a statement.
Propaganda is fulfilling some need to be effective - probably fear based in the social, safety, or belongingness orders, and carried via viral channels like word of mouth or social (viral).
I haven’t really thought about it too much but it’s just a communication or a reinforced message; it’s just advertising. Think about it that way.
And with regard to Russia, they are all ‘fear the West’ and ‘national pride’ driven, compounded over 3-4 generations. It would be such an easy spin.
Art3sian 6 months ago • 100%
Shit, my guy or gal.
That’s put my mind massively at ease. Thank you for putting the time in.
And yes, behavioural/clinical is exactly the path I’d go down.
Art3sian 6 months ago • 76%
I’m not. I’m aware of how selfish it is but something in my system of belief that I have (undefined? spiritual? no idea?) says that when I’m dead, I should be ALL dead.
Like, if there’s any kind of afterlife, will leaving a functioning part me behind hold up the transition? This even sounds fucked up to me because I’m 100% not religious at all.
I would just prefer all of me to be dead or all of me to be alive. Not fractions of both at the same time.
I’m thinking of changing careers completely from marketing to psychology. I’ve worked in marketing for 15 years and studied it at university level for 6. I’ve reached the top, mastered it, and I’m ready for a career switch up. But I’m worried I won’t have what it takes. To me, studying and applying marketing strategy has always been about working in the ‘grey space’. There is no right or wrong answer - just a best justified and executed one. Like if you want to sell shoes to 15 years olds there are 100 ways to do it. Will studying psychology be vastly different? I assume it will be more scientifically ‘black and white. Like if a 15 year old presents with symptoms of anxiety, there’s 1 exact way to diagnose her problem and 1 answer I must know to solve it (like math). I have a very ‘grey space’ brain and way of learning and executing. This is what has made me a brilliant marketer. But will I struggle with a hard science discipline like psychology? Is it even a hard science at all? I guess in essence I’m asking, can someone who’s been conditioned to think and learn and work in marketing for almost 20 years easily adapt to learning and working in psychology? Or is this apples and oranges? Will my marketing career compliment psychology or present a learning barrier to it?
Art3sian 7 months ago • 100%
Personally, I think every woman should go to jail for keeping her eggs in her ovaries. That’s child imprisonment.
How dare they.
Art3sian 7 months ago • 100%
"Look how generous and righteous I am"
Also Drake. Also Shaq.
Both give away heaps of money… but only in front of heaps of planned cameras rolling.
That’s not charity. That’s using the poor for PR and clicks for profit, no different from Bum Fights.
Change my mind.
Art3sian 7 months ago • 12%
What echo chamber?
Test it yourself. Try saying anything positive about him. Say he has nice eyes, I don’t care, and watch the downvotes flow.
As a matter of fact don’t even be positive, be neutral. Say something like, “I haven’t formed an opinion on this yet” and watch what happens.
Art3sian 7 months ago • 7%
I dunno, man. Sometimes I’m really concerned with the echo chamber here. If you look at Lemmy and Reddit, it’s nothing but an Elon-hating amphitheatre, yet objectively, the guy still seems to be soaring up all the lists that matter.
So, something isn’t right. The guy is obviously popular in places that matter, and it’s worrying that places like this never, ever, ever show it.
I’d like to think Lemmy isn’t one-sided and biased but it clearly is.
And for the record, I’m not pro or anti-Elon. I’m not plugged in (or care) enough to know shit about the guy. But what I’m not going to do is Boomer-lean into one source and parrot the sentiment. Isn’t that what us Gen-Ys and Gen-Zs are supposed to despise, and be too internet savvy to fall for, or are we following our parents into ignorance?
Art3sian 7 months ago • 94%
Stupid question: what the shit do you do with your 15 years of communication history if your email provider falls off a cliff?
Art3sian 7 months ago • 83%
Well I can’t see at night so cry about it, bugs.
Art3sian 7 months ago • 83%
He’s still worth $200B.
Spending $44B? $88B? $100B. Doesn’t matter. The dude never, ever has to think about money again. If he lives to 85 and doesn’t earn another cent between now and then, he can splash 6 billion dollars a year every year until he dies.
To give you some understanding of that kind of money, he could roughly buy two Lamborghini Diablos every single day for the rest of his life.
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Art3sian 8 months ago • 100%
So, Harry is next in line, right?
/s
I’m just fucking.
Art3sian 8 months ago • 100%
In high school I pierced the webbing of my left hand between my thumb and forefinger with a stud to look cool.
I hit nerves and destroyed the muscles in that part of my hand. It’s my dominant hand and still works okay, but I had to learn to do a few things with my right hand afterwards due to issues with lack of strength. Like, I can’t open jars and shit now with my shitty hand.
Art3sian 8 months ago • 100%
I pacifically told you!!!!
Art3sian 8 months ago • 100%
Kids are about the only thing Italians can beat in a fight.
Amirite?
When the war started it was seizure-this and sanction-that. I’ve read that $350B in Russian assets were seized and held, while major companies exited the Russian market, the ruble crashed, and inflation rocketed. Meanwhile the cost of the Russian war must be astronomical to maintain, imports/exports have halted with Europe, there’s no financial aid to Russia (that I’m aware of) and multi-billion dollar resource supplies were cancelled. All this, and Russia seems to still be having a good old time. Russians are on holidays en mass, the country is buying up arms and fossil fuels like its church Sunday, and their war machine still powers away and is prepared to keep fighting for a decade if it has to. How? How does a country take that much of a financial beating and still be thriving? Where is the point of being broke and not being able to fund a war anymore?
Art3sian 8 months ago • 100%
“You owe damages of $3M, Mr. Trump.”
“Well, she’s a nasty person.”
“You now owe $3.2M.”
“And a liar.”
“$3.5M.”
“She’s not even…”
“$4M.”
“This is horse…”
“$4.2M.”
“But I…”
“$4.8M.”
“You’re a nasty person, too.”
“$5M, Mr. Trump, plus you’re now in contempt of court. I can do this all day.”
Art3sian 8 months ago • 100%
I’m not sure to be honest. I think both? I think ‘mini’ is the planet partially frozen except for the equatorial region, and the duration is a few thousand years opposed to perhaps tens or hundreds of thousands.
But I’m guessing based off the last one. It’s a good question. Either way, it’s a bad time for bald apes who’ve forgotten how to hunt.
Art3sian 8 months ago • 100%
Yes, I’m referring to ocean currents and how I’ve understood it, is that they carry warm currents from the equator to the poles which is a main driver of warm weather cycling the planet.
Once the ocean currents stall we lose that warmth transference and everything subsequently freezes, and quickly. Not globally, but around the 30th latitude, north and south which is enough to make Europe, Asia, North America and half of Argentina near uninhabitable.
Correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t high C02 levels and global warming the reasoning behind the last Ice Age, circa. 11,000bc?
Art3sian 8 months ago • 66%
If the world warms enough and the Greenland glaciers melt into the ocean, a mini Ice Age can occur in as little as 50 years.
People don’t understand that we will freeze before we bake, and of the two, freezing will end our civilisation more assuredly.
Art3sian 8 months ago • 100%
a) discussions aren’t a crime.
b) what are studios going to do to the hundreds of millions of daily pirates? Write stern letters?
c) they tried identifying us and sending us stern letters in 2001 and we all laughed, then kept pirating anyway.
Art3sian 8 months ago • 100%
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Art3sian 8 months ago • 81%
Yup. About 7 years ago I used to darkweb pretty hard in the drug scene (I haven’t in years so have at it, Mr. FBI).
Anyway I used Reddit subs a lot for info on new markets and onions, reliable sellers, and news on exit scams etc, but I only lurked - never commented. Anyone with a brain in their head knew they were honeypots.
Art3sian 8 months ago • 41%
Let’s just call this what it is, and what it will always be until the end of time. Two religions forced to live in a shoebox together.
Religion is to blame, both sides having their fairytale that is incompatible with the other side’s fairytale.
I’m done arguing, fighting, defending or taking sides in any of it. Every ten years we rinse and repeat this bullshit and it’s over nothing more than the fictional stories of two man made books.
And have no illusions, NO MATTER THE OUTCOME here we will be arguing about this same shit again in ten more years.
Art3sian 8 months ago • 25%
New research is suggesting caffeine’s stimulant effects are caused by the placebo effect anyway. The idea of decaf is kind of void if true.
Since the big iOS 17 update I’ve noticed that text selection is a real nightmare. As in, if I make a spelling error it will identify it with the red underscore, but clicking on the word or long pressing does everything but select the word. It’s just shit now to navigate around text editing in general. Anyone else noticing this?
Australia has a lot of foreign businesses and it has a lot of immigrants. Both earn Australian dollars and huge amounts would be sent back their country of origin. His does Australia balance its books on something like this? How do the economics of it work? Would it lower Australian inflation but shortening the money supply, and raise inflation of the destination country as it prints more money to exchange the Australian dollar?
My nickname for her daughter was Chicken Little.
I hope I’m in the right place to post this. I’m subbed to [!afl@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/afl) where there’s currently no posts. I’d like to kick things off and post something there but when I select ‘new post’, the loading wheel just spins indefinitely. Is that sub broken?
Is that what they call us? Lemmians? I just shut down my Reddit. Farewell Apollo and u/iamthatis. You will both be sorely missed. Anyway I’m here and this is my first post. I’m looking forward to seeing what Lemmy is and becomes.