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- Comment on Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs? 3 days ago:
Hmm. Motorcycling might be higher or counted together with driving a car. I forget the stats.
The others generally aren’t used as methods of transportation, but instead are generally recreational activities.
- Comment on Is it wrong of me not giving a shit when cops get killed? They signed up for the job know what it entails. Same with Firepeople. I feel bad 4 families but no one gives a shit about Nurses or DRs? 3 days ago:
The percentage of people in those jobs who die is small. In fact, there are quite a few deadlier jobs out there. (I want to guess that they’re mostly related to resource extraction)
Do you also not give a shit when a driver dies because we know that driving is the deadliest method of transportation per kilometre?
- Comment on What was the first game you ever bought ? 6 days ago:
I grew up with many of these games!
I remember going to pick out PS1 games. Spyro the Dragon was the one I put the most time into.
On the Genesis, I also remember picking “Streets of Rage 2” simply because I liked Street Fighter 2 on the SNES and I thought it’d be the same kind of game. Best decision I made about a Genesis game!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think they’re more looking down on the jail itself for not having many books.
As well, writing ability does not indicate someone’s overall level of capabilities.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s fair!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I’m surprised that a social worker would be saying “You have a fair bit to learn about the English language” to someone who is looking to donate books to a prison…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The elitist part was saying that someone should learn more about the English language before trying to help others learn.
They didn’t merely"wonder" if someone read many books. They were dismissing someone’s desire to donate books and help people.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Lol, why the elitism here? It doesn’t seem like OP is trying to do anything bad.
- Comment on What's the deal with people liking old devices? 1 week ago:
I had to look up AFAB (assigned female at birth) because I was trying to figure out what the F stood for…I was thinking it was “All F? Are Bastards”, lmao
Anyway.
Others have answered the question well, but retro tech has always been interesting.
I think that these days, more people are interested in tech in general (it’s unavoidable in our daily lives), and more people were interested in tech before, too. So there are people exposing younger people to older tech, and in some ways, the “disconnected” aspects of retro tech can resonate with younger people.
- Comment on What's the weirdest argument you've gotten into with someone? 1 week ago:
I know what “tbh” stands for (to be honest), but what does “cx” stand for?
- Comment on Capcom says it 'will not implement assets generated by AI into our game content,' but still plans to use AI to 'enhance efficiency and boost productivity' in game development 1 week ago:
They’ll still have devs. Maybe fewer devs and no junior devs.
…which will suck for the company when they do their next round of layoffs.
- Comment on Is there any good laptop cleaners so I can set it to max settings and get rid of bloware that are free? 2 weeks ago:
I try not to use anything other than canned air dusters
- Comment on Chart Of Countries That Work The Most Hours Annually - borninspace 4 weeks ago:
Why is Canada so high and Japan so low?
Does Japan just have a lot of public holidays?
- Comment on Most Of Billionaires’ $7.6 Trillion Has Never Been Taxed - Americans For Tax Fairness 5 weeks ago:
I think I could get behind that if essentials aren’t taxable.
Where I live, groceries aren’t taxed. Going beyond that, make things like soap and lightbulbs untaxable, and it seems like a decent system. Maybe even prepared meals that cost under 1 hour of minimum wage work, an item of clothing that costs under 1 day of minimum wage work…
I dunno, if there were exclusions, would it really be that bad?
- Comment on Can people irl be as mean as some people online? 1 month ago:
Yes. Mean people existed before the Internet, after all.
- Comment on Is ironing clothes significantly less common now? 1 month ago:
Why are you choosing to be like this?
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 months ago:
Sometimes “man” is more of an exclamation than a term of address.
I’ve noticed kids are seemingly using “bruh” this way, funnily enough
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 2 months ago:
Convince them to stay home because the election is a foregone conclusion
- Comment on Do these murderers or mass shooters or hostage takers do they actually commit suicide more often than not? Or does a cop take a good shot and blame the offender as suicide? I would do the latter 2 months ago:
They probably do take credit for their “wonderful” handling of the situation.
They didn’t have an easy shot on the guy, and were to afraid to go get one.
I mean, I would be too. But that’s why I didn’t sign up for a “serve and protect” job.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 2 months ago:
You can still be overly respectful to the teachers – I’m sure they appreciate it!
(Especially when there are parents who seem to treat the teachers as retail workers…)
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
“Quick! A giant meteor is heading for our planet! Collision is expected in less than a week!”
…but if I sleep 7 times while doing all this level grinding and doing sidequests, nothing goes wrong…
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 2 months ago:
I think the point is that she was a child rapist, not necessarily a pedophile.
Some child rapists rape children because of the power imbalance etc., not necessarily put of physical, sexual, or romantic attraction.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
I understand the skepticism on society’s priorities.
Athletes are literally 1-in-a-million individuals. They bring in crazy amounts of money from people who want to watch them play.
The real problem is that there are so many people who are willing to pay hundreds of dollars to watch a sports game, but not willing to see teachers properly compensates (in my opinion). Because athletes getting a big share of the pie that they’re bringing in sounds fair to me. The question is why people have that much pie to give them, and not as much pie to give to schools.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 months ago:
Where I live, we’ve been treating…
- Nurses very poorly. Underpaying and overworking them, while not training enough new ones.
- Family Doctors (aka. GPs) very poorly by removing the kinds of services they’re allowed to provide, increasing expenses without increasing compensation, and again, not training enough new ones.
Doctors are paid well, but they also have incredibly high expenses (and often high student debt, too).
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
(her boyfriend is no longer alive)
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 4 months ago:
When did you see the most activity here?
- Comment on Rebecca Heineman, grandmother of modern gaming, has passed away 4 months ago:
Damn. One month, you find out you have cancer. Next month, you’re dead.
- Comment on Why do all text LLMs, no matter how censored they are or what company made them, all have the same quirks and use the slop names and expressions? 4 months ago:
Given that they’re using stack overflow, I’m guessing they also have “professionals who have more time than work to do at work”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
with the exception of two brief situationships I was in cus women suck.
This is part of the problem. You’re blaming an entire gender because you ended up in situationships.
Even if those two women are 100% at fault, you’re not just blaming women, but saying that all women “suck”.
women don’t wanna be talked to for more than small talk
This is part of the problem. Why are you talking “to” women and not “with” them? What do these two different phrases (“talking to” and “talking with”) look like? There’s a huge difference.
Plus getting out is anxiety provoking
This is part of the problem. It’s natural for some people to have anxiety. If you have the means, see if this can be treated by a specialist.
- Comment on GOG asking for more donations from gamers with the new GOG Patrons program 5 months ago:
I’ve heard it’s 30%, or whatever the same as Steam is