Alt account of @Stamets@lemmy.world

30s / Gay / Canadian / Trekkie

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  • No, I think their point was more the fact that it’s heralded by people as a great study but is massively flawed and with obvious outcomes. There wasn’t really anything stringent done in the documentary. Any impact it had was purely from shit people already knew. He had no controlled experiments and was an active alcoholic during it.

    My point, personally, is that people who reference Supersize Me in any capacity as a valid documentary or study is someone who is either uneducated or a fool. There’s little difference in holding this documentary to your chest and referring to it or in doing the same thing to Joe Rogan or Bill Maher’s Religulous. It’s low-effort garbage that’s not made for intellectual consumption but is still used for it anyway.

    That’s kinda problematic.

    That’s my point.





  • We just feel differently about how or what memes add to the fediverse. It really is just a difference in philosophy. As far as I’m aware, there are no serious differences. It’s just minor. Rimu and I had a discussion about it a while back and there’s no bad blood or anything, we see things differently on the Fediverse. Rimu, from what I can tell, prefers things to be a bit more conversational and discussion based. I like things to be a blend of discussions and memes. That’s really about it.

























  • Well it’s hard to put into words. Instead, I’d recommend watching this 5 minute clip from the musical Come From Away as people are screeched in after having it explained to them. Typing this out will be impossible to capture the chaos, bewilderment, bizarre traditions and wonderment that comes from my silly little island.

    The musical is a Broadway musical about all the passengers on the planes that landed in Newfoundland. Small town doubled in population overnight to help everyone out and the play is about that moment and the community surrounding it. As someone who lived through that myself as I was living in the area, it’s a fantastic play.

    Here’s the clip. Up on Streamable and only there for 2 days because I ripped the clip out of the musical myself.










  • Piefed has a few extra features that I like and I know that the couple features that are currently missing are on their way. The development team is pretty quick to respond which doesn’t affect me a ton but I don’t want to support a shitty dev team. Which then lines up with the third big reason, the Lemmy devs are transphobic assholes. If I’m going to be posting a lot then I don’t want to be doing it using what they made.

    Also Fxomt is convincing.