WholeEnchilada

@WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every base is base 10⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This cartoon is complete. Suck my cock all the way down to the base is the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific dietary advice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same thing my momma tole me in the Ozarks in the 1800s when i was all fainting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers are a cancer. Knowledge is meant to be shared, freely.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, im considered quite old myself. I’m no spring chicken. Please do consider posting a little wider when you find the time. I’m sure you have plenty if you’ve been promoted to full. All your little assistant profs are busier than you no doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers are a cancer. Knowledge is meant to be shared, freely.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if you’re a scientist you have better paying options than i did when i left. I was in the Humanities. Still greener pastures and less bullshit for me. I guess I’ll try to be helpful: reprogram your career brain. In the real world, it isn’t all about you and your abilities or how smart you are. It’s just about what you already know from life and your special abilities you gained from work experience, plus your educational background. It was hard for me at first now it’s super easy plus im actually compensated for my work as i think is fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers are a cancer. Knowledge is meant to be shared, freely.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think (another reason I left academia) you missed my point. You posted to a science place. My point is that it should be cross posted to many places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers are a cancer. Knowledge is meant to be shared, freely.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to see this written up for a wider context because it’s not just a science problem. The Humanities, Arts, and pretty much the whole campus is the same in this way. It’s why I left academia. Universities are set up wrong because employee incentives make it a sort of feudalistic system. All you have to do is work as a professor for a few years and discover it’s pretty much the same as grad school. You don’t really collaborate with the people you work with every day in person. All your contacts are outside your home campus. Nothing useful for the world happens on the campus. You do that outside of the campus to gain “reknown” and your outside brand gets you cred on campus. Meanwhile, on your home campus, your so-called colleagues do everything they can to block any cross-listing of courses they can because the administration counts the beans. The department needs to generate credit hours. Cross-listing is viewed as bean subtraction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s a possibility! This is why I don’t buy games there. I just grab the free ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing email's subject made me think my card got hacked⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marketing email's subject made me think my card got hacked⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes no sense. They’re basically asking you to travel out of your way just to spend money on them. Like, I don’t know, a prostitute would. What kind of hostel is this place? It makes no sense as far as marketing goes. Unless it’s you know, THAT kind of hostel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And this is why I no longer have cable.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their parents or grandparents might, like I’m talking about. I’m middle aged and I don’t have cable. I wouldn’t have cable if I lived back home in the USA. I’m not talking about young people who are old enough and employed enough to live on their own. You totally overlooked the point I’m making (which, ummm, also connects with Netflix having reality shows, too?).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And this is why I no longer have cable.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an expat American who has lived outside of the US for 17 years. Last time I went back there was 8 years ago. 2 years ago I got a pen pal from the US who just LOVES talking about these trashy cable shows. I’m also kinda 48 years old. So, I remember when cable became a new thingy. People said cable programming was trash since cable programming came into existence. Sure, the programming wasn’t all realities. MTV had music on it. You know what the adults said about MTV (including my parents?) They said, “All that sex in the music videos. So perverted.” Just imagine the scandal of playing Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” every hour on the hour on MTV in its heyday. I remember telling my mother, “It’s a great song! I like it!” before being shuffled off to Sunday catechism, which I escaped from to smoke cigs in the woods behind the church/convent. I’d ride home from catechism in the car reciting the words to “Like a Prayer” and any other Madonna song that came to mind. Plus I’d recite some Prince at my parents, another nice rebel on the MTV cable tube played constantly back then. Maybe following reality TV is a new form of subversion. Maybe it exposes the meta of celebrity. People are hip to this, especially very young people. Very young people are so aware of the meta everything and know how to use it for subversion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  However, it’s not a bad idea to use Epic like I do: Check the app every Thursday and see what’s free, grab whatever is free aimlessly and probably never play it until 20 years from now. I’ve been accumulating free games I’ve never downloaded since about a year now. I have quite the library! Maybe 20 years from now Destiny 2 will be obsolete and the microtransaction features will be obliterated and I just waste my time doing the single player mode. Maybe. I got it in my library for free just in case. LOL. I’ve never actually paid money for a game on the Epic Games Launcher. I just grab the free stuff and wait and see. So far, after acquiring 20 plus games this way, I’ve noticed that most of the “freebies” will require, if you get deep into the game, some extra purchase. Usually, the base game is free but the base game comes with DLC. Destiny 2 is special as a case, isn’t it? It has DLC given out for free up front, hoping to snag players that will become new whales. Your doomsday warnings about this whole thing has a positive spin: Game publishers are desperate for microtransactions and are probably realizing that we, the game players, are on to them with their microtransactions. I’m going to use my crystal ball to predict the following: Game publishers will find other ways to make money because people are becoming better educated about their personal financial health with regard to microtransactions (because microtransactions are ruining lives at the individual consumer level) and therefore Epic Games will stop offering free games every Thursday and do some other thing before it goes out of business.