It can work within a species that isn’t inherently selfish. In theory it makes perfect sense. Trust a bunch of humans to keep everything just and equal and watch as the dickheads make sure they get more stuff/power than others. Iterate it for a few generations and you’ll get your average dystopia.
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I might be utterly prude, but the shininess of the exact same clothing has literally zero effect on my hotness meter. I don’t even understand why it would.
And leave a little piece of paper with a message inside, just in case!
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Ask Lemmy•People who prepared costumes for Halloween: how much money/effort did you put in it?
3·11 days agoLuigi hat: £7.95
Moustache: £3.99
Water pistol (only found a double pack): £3.75
Total: £15.69
Unfortunately, not many people got the reference when I pulled my pistol to complete the set.
There wasn’t much effort, apart from having to custom trim the moustache, since it came in a pack, and none of the included ~12 styles were the exact same as Luigi’s.
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Ask Lemmy•Multilingual people, do you feel better about yourself than those that only speak one language? Monolingual people, do you envy/admire Multilingual people? And why?
1·13 days agoI love learning languages because it constantly reassures me how similar we all are regardless of superficial differences
One of the many things I find fascinating about learning about different languages is how differently people can think about certain things. You add water to vodka in English? You water it down (since you’re decreasing the concentration, right?). Same thing in my language? You water it up (since you’re increasing the volume, right?). Most of the adjectives after nouns in Spanish. Entire structures that you would expect at the beginning of a sentence in English being pushed to the end in German. SVO/VSO differences. Different or similar idioms, phrases for the same thing. Two birds with one stone? Two birds with one throw? Two flies with one slap? Two pigeons with one bean? I’m boring already and I can’t even stop.
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Games•Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than everEnglish
1·15 days agoThanks for the tip, I should give it a try. I’m not sure I still have the energy to invest months until I start to understand stuff while sucking and losing all the time, but I will get there eventually.
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Games•Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than everEnglish
4·15 days agoNot too surprisingly, you can add League of Legends (another Riot games title) to the list. While I’m not a fan of kernel level anticheat, I do love most of these games, and it’s really frustrating how I don’t see any change in the future. After more than a year of struggling, I finally managed to get my Mint working (turns out my old mobo was faulty), but it looks like I will still have to keep Windows for basically all multiplayer titles I play.
That is the very definition of colour. The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that we can see. The rest of the scale includes infrared, gamma or X-ray. If you want, you can call them invisible colours - or you can call green superhighultraviolet.
Meh, amateurs. Being cringy as a kid at times is pretty much inevitable. That’s when you learn your ways.
You can watch me being cringy as an adult for decades.
You have to jump this high to be let inside
As a kid, being indoctrinated early on by fairy tales with knights, then watching action films later on, I kind of understand, since you only know about the romanticised side.
As an adult, by the time you’re supposed to understand the endless pain, suffering, atrocities, needless death of millions (even one single person), the barbarity of trying to resolve conflicts with violence, the immense sadness and sacrifice that comes with war… putting it lightly, I don’t get war lovers.
But fuck me, I fucking LOVE to learn about the technological advancements, smart solutions, brilliant engineering (hey, even strategies) that came with those, from the first stone tools to holographic sights and radar camouflaging. On one hand, it’s rather sad that we could only develop technologies due to threatening violence or trying to crush others. On the other hand, without wars, we would probably still be amputating limbs due to infections we can either prevent or treat now (thanks to field medicine development), and a civilisation that doesn’t develop its own weapons (since why would they, they are peaceful) won’t have fun when running into one that isn’t as friendly.
(And for that reason, YT already thinks I’m a WW2 nerd)
Hell. I will need it tomorrow when I wake up after 4 hours of sleep.
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Ask Lemmy•What would you do if you found an infinite money/duplication glitch in real life?
11·26 days agoDuplicate money.
It’s even more natural to handle when you have arms long enough, plus the angle of the handle doesn’t make it dangle.
You don’t need to, I can tell you what’s inside.
Iron.
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Traditional Art•An image of Christ dripping with feeling. 'The Dead Christ with Angels' by Edouard Manet c.1864English
3·30 days agoThe angel on the left reacting to humanity… not much has changed in the past 2000 years.
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Ask Lemmy•In terms of wallet, keys, phone, etc, which pocket does each belong to in your jeans?
2·1 month agoHmmm… Left handed? I have the same setup, but on the opposite sides (thick wallet, but it fits, and I don’t care how it looks).
+ right back pocket for important stuff (tissues, paper tickets, notes), left back for rubbish.
















While I wasn’t too exact, this is what I meant by a bunch of humans. Not all of them are that selfish, but it happens frequently enough that I would consider them (yes, them) a selfish species without a second thought.