[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

That's a lot of rape... Humans have such a fascination with some types of "moral problems" yet seem to care nothing for others.

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What an absolutely amazing story! I thought it was reasonably well paced as well. Best week of recovering from covid ever.

Sheridan getting shafted by Earth in the end and still out politicking them was the chef's kiss. After watching that over one week, What now?

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Rincewindnz@lemmy.world to c/babylon5@sh.itjust.works

Just got up to the episode where they introduce the Nightwatch. It's a brilliant piece of writing depicting the use of "special roles" to "help".

They instantly reminded me of the "brown shirts" and equivalent that Mussolini and Hitler used when Fascism was first popularised.

It's scary that it is still so relevant. Almost as if we don't learn from history (or science fiction for that matter).

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Just watching Babylon 5 through as I sit recovering from another bout of COVID. This line from the episode "Infection" was brilliant.

Really enjoying the binge so far, even if the jump between the pilot and episode 1 was a little jarring.

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

I mean, in this day and age why isn't [insert what I know to be true] accepted by [everyone who I perceive to be wrong]. Hegel leads to another Russian smart man who argues a bunch of it might be due to this idea of perezhivanie; how we make sense of what is happening (particularly dramatic events) through our cognition, our emotions and filtered through our needs.

How we make sense of stuff leads to how we behave/believe. This is impacted by our social environment, how we are brought up, our experiences, and our reasoning of those experiences.

It's why it is argued that information alone will never change someone's mind about something, it needs to be attached to an emotion and an experience to unpack.

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Is there somewhere online where you can have an "open discussion"? I've been struck a few times by how some ideas (even presented in a balanced way) just get downvoted hard.

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Probably not, I was curious. It's a pretty petty thing to be annoyed about.

The internet is full of people that may like to share some idiosyncrasies for the entertainment. These things are unique and at the end of the day is truly unimportant.

Except I'm right and that person that has no divider at all is possibly on watch lists.

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I'm glad someone else is outraged as I was, enough to make a shit post about it on the internet anyway.

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Bonus points, you just use the utensil you pull out. Buttering bread and get a spoon, doable. Go for a soup spoon and end up with a fork, hard mode activated.

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submitted 10 months ago by Rincewindnz@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I like having knives, forks, spoons left to right as that is how I say it "grab a knife and fork".

I am staying in an Airbnb and they have the spoons separating the knives and forks and wonder if this is in insane or maybe I am the minority/insane one?

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Thanks, I will check those out. I found some mini painting communities to be equal parts inspired and intimidated by too!

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Nothing dramatic, but I was wanting to engage in communities after just being a lurker but found engagement difficult, read about Lemmy when Boost for Reddit died, noticed Boost was back in playstore, so here I am.

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago

I've just jumped from Reddit. It's great that this story is posted here now. It needs to be repeated once a year for those new or who haven't heard it yet. Great story!

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

My problem was I watched it expecting Cornetto trilogy and got stoner comedy so didn't enjoy it as much. Going in expecting stoner comedy (when in the mood for it) a few years later increases the enjoyment factor.

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

This could still happen. If he got back in again and I was Mexico I would be building that wall quick smart.

[-] Rincewindnz@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

My beard of the past 20 years started falling out to look like this recently. Actually pretty sad day when I decided it looked too mangey and I shaved it.

Now my kids call me Mr potato head.

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