BigBenis
@BigBenis@lemmy.world
- Comment on Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
I’ve seen so many terrible takes already. I made the mistake of looking at a Reddit thread on the announcement. They’re not even trying to be subtle. “Female characters are supposed to be pretty! Nobody wants to play as an ugly bald bitch who looks like a man!”. I’d consider myself a seasoned internet veteran and even still it’s shocking to me.
- Comment on Interesting. It's a constant reminder 1 week ago:
I still wouldn’t trust either handle. People are assholes.
- Comment on Should we create a new political party in the US, specifically for shitting on the rich? 1 week ago:
Will they though? Biden was pitching a public option to compete with the other MFA candidates in 2020. He hasn’t uttered a single word about it since he was nominated.
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
No, I hope they never find him.
- Comment on How embarrassing 2 weeks ago:
Watch this be the catalyst for stricter gun control
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 weeks ago:
Judging by the foliage I’d guess Thailand over the US
- Comment on human anteaters 3 weeks ago:
If I touch an ant I can certainly smell it on my finger but I wouldn’t be able to detect an ant in the room with me
- Comment on Brazilian's impression on the united states(i have never been there and this is based on nothing) 3 weeks ago:
Lol this is great and frankly hard to argue with. I was inspired to do my own impression of Brazil as an American who’s never been to Brazil.
- Comment on Im flyinf to the USA from england 5 weeks ago:
Assuming this isn’t satire… It really depends on where you’re going. Assuming you’ll be in a big city, I’d say it’s pretty comparable to London. Don’t go walking along vacant streets at night, or during the day if the area gives you bad vibes. Avoid confrontation with anyone looking to start some shit. In big crowds I like to keep my wallet and phone in a front or otherwise harder-to-access pocket.
All that being said, most tourist areas are quite safe.
- Comment on sad 1 month ago:
What do you expect in this economy? Groceries aren’t the only things being hit by inflation.
- Comment on Today has been a learning experience. 1 month ago:
I see a brown smudge with some letters under it, I don’t know what it says though.
- Comment on Haters will say it’s fake 1 month ago:
You can certainly harbor contempt for the American people who choose such a morally bankrupt coalition while also recognizing that the oppositional movement has repetitively failed to inspire its own voter base to turn out.
The fact remains that the Dems have thrice now run on a platform of unity and forsaken the will of the Left in an attempt to appeal to those who would happily annihilate the Left in pursuit of its own goals.
- Comment on Today has been a learning experience. 1 month ago:
I did it. Now what?
- Comment on Haters will say it’s fake 1 month ago:
And yet his hubris disrupted the democratic process and progressives were once again told to fall in line and back a candidate who campaigned on appealing to the center-right.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave 2 months ago:
I’ve spent most of my career working at small companies and they’ve all had fantastic work/life balance policies while also not skimping out on compensation packages. I guess you’ve just got to know how to pick 'em ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Having no tolerance for being treated like a machine rather than a human also helps.
- Comment on Potatoes can do no wrong 2 months ago:
What about their “eaten and digested” form?
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 2 months ago:
An index that either tracks the top 500 companies or the total market. Look up a 3-fund portfolio if you want to go a little deeper.
- Comment on Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. 2 months ago:
Obligatory fuck Nintendo!
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 2 months ago:
THE RAPTURE WILL HAPP^EN
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Whether or not a cat can thrive on a vegan diet is irrelevant to me as I don’t own a cat nor do I advise people on how to feed their cats. However, I do have a bias (as we all do) that tells me there is likely more nuance (which you did allude to in your original reply) than the general absolutist sentiment against the idea.
That bias is informed by half-a-lifetime of experience maintaining a loosely plant-based diet myself and witnessing first-hand the fierce compulsion people have to push their uneducated opinions at the mere mention of a plant-based diet. In my experience, there are few other things that can so reliably stir people into a vitriolic frenzy than the suggestion of a plant-based diet.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Frankly, you may as well be pulling all that out of your ass since the information you just provided is as good as useless without any reliable sources backing it up (and don’t bother providing any, I’m not here to educate myself on cat diet requirements).
I’m just calling out the hypocrisy in this whole controversy. People do a quick Google search, read “obligate carnivore” in the title of some document and act as if they’ve got a college degree on the topic.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Who knew that so many Lemmy users were experts in the science of dietary nutrition?
- Comment on little hopper 3 months ago:
The aliens lent them a magnifying glass
- Comment on 8 Minutes 4 months ago:
The sun could be gone but its influence would remain. Kinda like getting out of a pool and looking back to see the waves on the surface that you caused.
- Comment on The food delivery bubble is bursting — and maybe that's not a bad thing 4 months ago:
About a year ago I made a rule for myself that if I wanted takeout, I’d go and get it myself unless I was physically incapable of doing that (drunk, high, etc). It means I don’t get takeout quite as often but I do still get it a couple times a week and even still my eating out expenses have reduced by more than 50%. Also, many delivery app prices are higher even if you’re opting to pick it up yourself. I often save a significant amount by just calling the restaurant rather than making the order through one of the delivery apps.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 4 months ago:
I think you run into the same problem with airports though. Regional airports in smaller cities are often prohibitively expensive to fly in and out of. When I fly home, I fly to the nearest major metropolitan area and then drive two and a half hours to my destination rather than pay hundreds more to fly to my hometown’s regional airport. That doesn’t sound much different from the problem you’re describing with a high speed rail network.
The cost of high speed rail travel will come down with increased utilization since the scale of cost for adding extra seats is a lot flatter than it is on for air travel. Travel times by land are always going to be longer than by air but there’s plenty of room to optimize the systems we currently have.
Beyond that, convenience and sustainability are diametrically opposed and if we want to continue to live in symbiosis with our environment then we’re going to have to make some sacrifices to the convenience we now take for granted and that is directly harming our environment.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 4 months ago:
That’s fair, and please note that I mentioned air travel has its place in intercontinental travel in my previous comment. The whole point I’m trying to make is that domestic flights between areas that could support high speed land travel infrastructure are wasteful.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 4 months ago:
Also trains in the US suck. Much slower, and almost comparable in price to air travel.
It doesn’t have to be that way, many other countries have solved those issues. But because we’ve leaned so heavily on air travel to get us to places only a few hours away by land there hasn’t been any incentive to innovate or invest in other forms of long-distance mass transit.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 4 months ago:
Are you saying a high speed train to your destination wouldn’t also solve that problem? It would likely end up being cheaper to travel via rail considering the lower costs of maintenance and fuel, meaning further accessibility than we have today with our dependence on air travel.
- Comment on Why do we put up with this crap? 4 months ago:
I’m not so sure that is a positive. Airplanes are huge emission drivers and our dependence on the convenience of air travel has caused us to cease investment and innovation in other more efficient and environmentally friendly methods of travel.
No doubt there’d be a lot more support for high speed rails if airplanes weren’t as accessible. IMO airplanes should only really be used for intercontinental travel.
