Fern

joined 2 years ago
[–] Fern 4 points 5 hours ago

#CreamerNaysh

[–] Fern 32 points 5 days ago

Mushrooms are actually incredibly good for you. They are one of the cleanest sources of protein you can get and actually have many incredible health effects. Also, they are fucking delicious. Here's a good link to learn more. 🍄 https://youtu.be/KEa8W0OneH4

[–] Fern 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is wild

[–] Fern 4 points 1 week ago

I′m wondering if it′s a paid propaganda account.

[–] Fern 15 points 1 week ago (8 children)

What caused it?

[–] Fern 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want this.

[–] Fern 10 points 1 week ago

This got jpegified quickly since I saw it on tiktok

[–] Fern 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Fern 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

This is a classic conservative line of thinking. It's not true. It's simplistic. It makes people who believe it feel like they are smart and hard-core. And the rich want them to believe it, so they pay people to say it loudly and often.

People are not all good or all bad. They have some good views and some bad views, and they can change. They are regularly swayed by the constant stream of propaganda being pumped out. Even so, most everyone wants the world to be a better place, and they are mad it's not.

Thoughts like this are what push people further right. "People are bad. Therefore, if the world is to be better, we should punish those people." Convservatives basically become masochistic and sadistic through these lines of thinking. Punish me, father, I'm a sinner. It's a very effective mechanism for control.

The reason that the left thinks reactionaries would agree with them is because in many instances they already do. Reactionaries are just reacting to the constant stream if propaganda being pushed their way. But often, in spite of that, many of them do agree with what the left stands for they just don't know the left stands for it. Most of the policies the left pushes have broad public support. People just don't know the left is the side fighting for things they agree with. Or they're convinced that the left is fighting for it in a way that is incorrect. They are too "extreme."

These all have broad public support

  • Universal Health Care

  • Higher taxes on the rich

  • Expanding social security

  • Investing in public infrastructure

  • Faster and cheaper internet for all

  • Legalizing weed

  • Paid family and sick leave

  • Cheaper college and student loan relief

  • Worker's rights and union support

  • Criminal justice reform

  • Universal background checks

  • Reproductive rights

  • Lgbtq rights

  • Environmental protections

  • Climate change action

  • Green energy investment

These are the things the left is fighting for.

[–] Fern 12 points 3 weeks ago

Look, there's a shred of truth in your turd salad here, but just a shred. The downvotes are not coming from the ccp. They are coming because what you're saying is incredibly stupid.

[–] Fern 3 points 1 month ago

Amazing. Is that book Ghost Boy? I've always wanted to read it.

[–] Fern 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Amazing shot

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submitted 5 months ago by Fern to c/piracy
 

Anyone have any advice for a nooby pirate trying to find some textbooks at the decent price of free-fiddy?

 

Even though I'm on here, I honestly lurk most of the time and don't fully understand the activitypub vs at protocol war. This was a great explainer that will reach a lot of people. Really appreciate a lot of David's takes. I hope David and others at MKBHD become aware of and talk about Lemmy soon too.

 

Lemmyversers, I'm looking for some help developing a new mnemonic device.

Inspired by a video by Epic Spaceman, where he explains a handy system for comparing the size of things from a banana to an atom, I’ve come up with a mnemonic device to aid in remembering these scales.

He lists items, each smaller than the previous by a factor of 10:

It goes:

  • Banana
  • Coin
  • Edge of the coin
  • Waterbear/microorganism
  • Red blood cell
  • Bacteria
  • "Good virus"/Bacteriophage
  • Corona Virus/"Bad Virus"
  • DNA
  • Atom

So a coin is roughly 1/10 a banana, and the edge of that coin is roughly 1/10 the size if that coin.

It gives good references for thinking about other things if similar size. A sort of banana for scale at each factor of 10.

And allows you to quickly determine approximations like Covid is roughly 1000 times smaller than a red blood cell. Or an atom is roughly 1 billion times smaller than a banana. (That doesn't sound right. Is that actually right?)

Do you think that's a useful memory tool? And are these best touchstones for scale at each level?

The mnemonic I've come up with for it as you may have guessed, is:

  • Be
  • Cool
  • Even
  • When
  • Really
  • Big
  • Goblins
  • Casually
  • Drop
  • Acid

Do you have any better ideas or tweaks you"d recommend for the mnemonic or the touchstones?

Would this be helpful when trying to wrap your head around the scale of the micro?

Also, what would make for a good macro version of this? Where everything got bigger by a factor of 10?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Fern to c/thunder_app
 

Got some ideas/requests.

This is my favorite app so far. Love the swipe controls and the compact UI. Liking the snappiness of it all.

Ideas/requests

  • Add direct messaging (I can see my messages but can't respond to them).
  • Add trending communities when you click search/a way to explore communities rather than having to type in the specific community you want.
  • Make it so clicking on "all" at the top of the screen opens a menu that gives you the option to switch between all, local, subscribed and specific subs and functions as a search.
  • Allow user to customize UI a bit more, specifically in compact mode I'd like to be able to switch the side that the preview thumbnail is on.
  • Show profile banners and have a way for users to customize their banner and profile pic.
  • Add an edit post function.
  • Add sidebars.
  • Ability to save drafts on posts and comments.

Keep up the amazing work! ʕ⁠·⁠ᴥ⁠·⁠ʔ--

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