Fern_Blossom

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by Fern_Blossom 4y ago
We might be arguing for the same thing, but semantics... Anyways what I'm getting at is, the victim-fetish, because let's be honest it's turned into a fetish, is a way to absolve yourself of responsibility. Maybe guilt is jus
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by Fern_Blossom 4y ago
My honest theory, being the victim feels good. It's easier to wrap up yourself in the warm blanket of victimhood when you're a loser. Now, I should probably define "loser" a bit. Not in regards to wealth or career status
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Alright, so I know some of you Arduino/Rasp Pi experts are out there. I suck at hardware dev of any sort. If making open source 3D printers is pretty common right now, why not this? Some of these Dymo printers are $200-$300 bucks. How
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
I still think Banksy is not a real "person". It's just a team of marketers who started a prank or dare and it turned into this internationally beloved money printing scam. Because, you know, a thumbs up and spray painting a w
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Quick search, macaques's lifespans are roughly 20-30 years. The old alpha was 31... so, in human terms (roughly), it's like a 20-ish year old woman beats a man in his 60s-70s... and she's "brave".
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Wait... are you serious? Please tell me you're being funny... oh God... that's where we're at nowadays... I think this is a sincere statement...
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Here are some real journalists: Marie Colvin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Colvin Brian Barger: https://jacklimpert.com/2021/03/brian-barger/ Bob Woodward: https://en.w
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
University of Maine professor Michael J. Socolow: "Gawker began as a crusade to save journalism" Dying on the hill to keep a sex tape of a washout wrestler was in the name of journalism? There are real journalists out there that l
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
And... what has happened in the past billion some odd years of life on this planet? If any organism does not adapt, especially due to fragility it... gets a participation trophy? There's no deserve. It's simply a fact of the circl
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Orchids are my guilty pleasure. I'll say this, they die way too easy in Idaho (personal experience). Florida, not so much. In my buddy's neighborhood here, someone put orchids on an outdoor palm tree. Like, they just plopped them
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
You do realize plants are far more complex than that, right? I mean, there's water, nutrients in the soil and the importance of mycelium in the dirt. Most plants you can throw in a dark closest for like a week or two easy, then take th
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
>Nature isn't kind to humans. Nature isn't kind to anything. I completely agree with you, but that needs to be said better since the root concept here is how humans, but nothing else, has fallen out of line with nature. Bullshi
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
My 2 cents on the same topic, except to literature and a potential "cure" to the issue. I'm trying to break into being a fiction writer. Once you learn the tools of the trade of storytelling, it doesn't really matter the
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Yea... you're talking about tax code. It literally is the trees and leaves of the issue. What do you want, a Bolshevik revolution? That'll fix things. What lots of people still aren't realizing, all tax codes apply to every
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
>And "owning" the first tweet ever sent? What does that even mean?? No, no, no. It's worse than you think. An NFT is more like a plastic cup with Pikachu printed on it. You don't own the rights to Pikachu. You just bo
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
"Is that the best you can come up with Jerry? What will people think of it in 4,000 years? You sure you want to write it down? What about the thing you did about Babum's small hands? That was funny. People will understand that one
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
>I do remember reading a fairly compelling case that the art of fiction-writing has got noticeably better over the last 500 years or so. I've thought about this a bit since I've been trying to break into fiction writing. The th
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Sadly, that joke will not last for 4,000 years :)
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Pretty sure they are trying to finger out if there's a chance of mistranslation or an extra layer of pun to it.
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
>From this perspective, your moral judgments about the insurrection, or about some racist or sexist policy, are viewed as objects of study rather than as candidates for truth or falsity. The scientist is not here engaging with philosophi
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
So, this is going to be slightly beyond me to accomplish. At least, I'm not really willing to apply the effort. But what if there was a service to pump out garbage data for these ad services to collect? Like, what if everyone used ever
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Hot take: Stop thinking of lobbying as a corporate only tool and understand the system was devised as a way for specialized interested (technocratic) to influence congress in an efficient and informed way. The lobbyist system is open to all
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
I was a semi-truck driver for a while. A lot of "fuel savings" gimmicks amount to sticking a card on your bicycle frame so the spokes hit it a lot and make it sound like you're going fast. It's bullshit. Why do some comp
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
With zero sarcasm, I truly want to know what your opinion is on the subject. Generally, I find this kind of stuff as interesting with wonderful potential of abuse. Someone more in the know, boots on the ground if you will, is worth infinite
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Except OP was explaining how it doesn't solve procrastination, at all. Procrastination problems don't get solved by having a new method of procrastination. That's like trying to combat crack addiction by switching to heroin.
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
At no point do I blame the victim. I really want to know where you come off thinking I'm blaming the victim. Get off your emotional ego trip. I blame this rabid social media society that makes a victim imagine they are completely helpl
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
You are both right and wrong. Yes, experiments are good. Never will I disagree with that. However, it's the manner these experiments, proof of concepts and prototypes are presented. If you go onto the various engineering and constructi
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
>To involve law enforcement she would have to travel to a country where she doesn't speak the language, to make an accusation for which she has no evidence but her word, against a man who lives in another city. That's what an e
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
I mean... is what you said advocation to keep this cycle going? That's where whataboutism leads to. Justification to just swing the pendulum the other direction. I don't agree with any of it happening to either side of the politic
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by Fern_Blossom 5y ago
Nah, people escape from the USA all the time. No one moves here. Our border walls are to keep people in, not out. I mean, why else would 2018 and 2019 have record immigration? https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020&

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