CoolThingAboutMe

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Dwayne Johnson Speaks Out After ‘Smashing Machine’ Becomes His Worst Opening Ever: ‘You Can’t Control Box Office Results’ in c/movies@piefed.social
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago

I do think this kind of tendency is fairly common. Most humans find it easier to be kind and giving when everything is going well for them. And conversely most humans, when their life starts going to shit, really find it difficult to care about other people's problems.

Of course there are examples of people who are going through the worst time ever and still manage to muster up empathy and patience for others. I think people like that are remarkable because they are not the usual.

(Not to defend Dwayne Johnson, I have no feelings at all about him or knowledge about what he has and has not done. Just a side note thought)

What is the best advice you can give to teenagers? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This will be great for my daughter, thank you

Selective rage in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't know if anyone outside Australia knows Fern Gully... But anyway, years ago, watching that movie with friends I casually suggested that possibly fairies in Australia would more likely be indigenous looking than white, and got told off for "making everything political". And by migrant friends.

One of whom used to get quite offended at any implication that they were anything other than Australian.

Awooga in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 5 points 1 month ago

PASH? 😆 really??

Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 2 points 1 month ago

An acquaintance at work (in Australia) went to work as a developer for Amazon in the US a few years back. According to him, the hours he was expected to work meant that his really great salary actually translated to a quite shitty hourly rate. And he never got to go sightseeing and tourist-ing with his wife and kids because he was always working.

My friend and her husband also worked in the US for years, in mining, and said similar things. Terrible leave offerings, and a culture where even if you have leave you feel extreme pressure not to take it.

cum 2 mummy in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 7 points 1 month ago

Is that what a flatworm looks like?

I would not describe that as flat. It looks like some kind of dragon imo.

Why Western hegemony is over in c/politics@beehaw.org
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

Very long but interesting interview

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Why Western hegemony is over (johnmenadue.com)
 

The US will not be able to prevent the emergence of multipolarity, but it will try. Trump will try one thing or another, but without success or coherence. Multipolarity has already arrived.

The broad pattern of economic convergence — in which the emerging economies narrow or close the income gap with the high-income countries of the West — means that Western hegemony is over. This is leading to deep frustration, not only in the US political class but in Europe as well.

China vastly outproduces the US in advanced industrial goods, such as EVs, solar power, wind power, advanced nuclear power, batteries, low-cost 5G and many other key technologies. China incorporates AI into advanced manufacturing processes more than the US.

Many European leaders feel that if they stick with the US against China and Russia, then maybe the Western hegemony will continue. This is delusional in my view, but nonetheless creates a lot of noise, friction and risks of conflict. None of it is a coherent strategy, however.

The US has no strategy to stay ahead of China. In fact, the US can’t succeed in that. We hear a lot of US sabre-rattling against China, Russia and the BRICS countries. This is all dangerous. I think the heated rhetoric by itself can become a self-fulfilling prophecy of war. There are a lot of ignorant people in the US political leadership, and I worry very much about their naivety and delusions.

Water Snek in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's a sports scientist, I've forgotten her name but she wrote a book called Women are Not Small Men. In her book she says that long distance swimming is one sport that women actually outperform men in.

Edit: her name is Stacy Sims

A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

An app where men protect each other from women who are emotionally and physically unsafe? I don't see the problem.