Just LOL

Imagine being so phone-brained that you do “fun” things on your phone while sitting in front of your laptop at a desk. Doomscroll on the big screen!

Probably a big “it depends”. Being racist when the only obvious difference between two people is the skin color (e.g. middle class white and black people in the US, you often can’t even tell by the name) is quite extreme, but what if there are some differences? Many groups that racists hate can have noticeable accents or smell different due to different dietary habits.

Even when its just black vs. white in the US context, apparently many blind people still react differently depending on someone’s race:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/29/226833165/studying-how-the-blind-perceive-race

https://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/30/health/blind-people-race

Looks like you can’t escape living in a racist society just because you can’t immediately tell when someone isn’t white.

Washing hands with soap is definitely important. IDK that you’d really get sick from a trash can being carried around the kitchen, but it sounds like your mom just generally doesn’t wash her hands after touching dirty stuff. Some germs are more harmful than others, I wouldn’t trust her around chicken or when there’s actually someone in the household with an infectious disease …

Damn, I thought my parents’ kitchen looked like a mess, and I’m not exactly a neat freak myself. Good thing I live on my own and only have to live with my own messes …

There’s Stack Overflow and Hackernews. I’d say that Stack Overflow tends to be a better resource than Reddit for tech questions - it’s not exactly a forum, and that’s both a strength and a weakness. And you can’t just copy Reddit 1:1, because then why would people move away from Reddit to another commercial site? It has been tried at least one time, and it failed (Voat). The threadiverse would probably also be considered a failure if it was a commercial operation.

My live used to be much better back then … I don’t think the two are particularly related for me, though.

I mostly get backpain when I’m cleaning.

These would be sick projects for the next pottery/sculpting course!

Cyberpunk is kinda losing its appeal, the closer we’re coming to living it …

Not really. They were certainly white supremacists and hated Jews, but Christianity didn’t really play a big role in their ideology. They spent a lot more time supressing local churches than going on about how christian they are, and many of them were very interested in pagan religions.

I’d say it still counts as diurnal, unless you’re actually sitting completely in the dark (and yes, the screen counts as a light source) Ü

Also, as someone who also is awake most nights, I get the impression that it’s not particular healthy, i.e. is in conflict with our biology.

All other things being equal, eyes specialized on daylight activity will just be better at the kinds of intricacies needed for shaping the tools, collecting the right materials etc., mostly because night vision is pretty much greyscale for mammals. And would humans even be as likely to start using fire if they could see in the dark? It’s obviously still useful for preparing food, but IDK that I’d choose to place a beacon of light and smoke (smell) in the night if I could see without it.

I’d assume that humans used tools long before they started using fire, because making fire is far more involved than using simple tools. Though this might actually be worth looking up.

15 year old cars. I don’t believe in throwaway culture. Plus I hate new cars so there’s that.

When you put it like that, I can actually get behind that. New cars are absurd with all their electronics and non-fixability.

But you can’t start your scenario from after there’s already a fully placed authoritarian government in place. If you’re starting from there then there’s no actual law about anything at all anyway, guns or otherwise.

Fair enough. I guess it depends on how authoritarian and anti-progressive you think most western governments were before they started to tune into the Trump bs; it’s a completely different conversation if you think that we need a revolution before enacting strong gun control laws.

And secondly, you’re arguing as if strong gun control laws means a gun ban, which aren’t at all the same thing.

It’s really easy to declare someone who belongs to a political movement or politicized minority as ‘not fit for gun ownership’, the further away from the current political center the easier.

The issue with strong gun control laws is that they would definitely be leveraged by authoritarian governments against the interests of the common people. I’m not really a fan of complete gun ownership freedom, but even in the not-quite-as-overtly-fascist past of US politics, it’s been conspicuous how often state gun laws were tightened when minorities started arming themselves, while the ‘white men shooting up schools’-issue is pretty much being ignored.

Tool use and being nocturnal are kind of a bad fit, so it’s hard to believe that humans would have evolved in a recognizable form if they had been nocturnal.

Damn, a lot of people wouldn’t have learned a reasonable lesson from that interaction …

I think all the inter-instance drama on Lemmy shows pretty well that people don’t need money to enter filter bubbles. I don’t think you can even see this comment lol

Western politicians have becomes increasingly mask-off. I remember back in the early 00s, national politicians in my country stepped down because they used frequent flyer miles from flights for official purposes for private purposes. Nowadays, they get exposed for blatant corruption, power misuse and even serial rape and just carry on.