Zorque
@Zorque@lemmy.world
- Comment on Layoffs every 2 years 1 day ago:
I had the opposite experience. Left a shitty blue-collar job (it was even a union job, but the union was toothless and mostly just existed to get work from places that would only place orders with union shops) for an office job.
The hours are better, the pay is better, the co-workers are less bigoted, and I no longer smell like grease and sweat whenever I come home.
There will always be trade-offs in any job. Whether it’s blue-collar, white-collar, or whatever ever other collar you can think of. There is no perfect job type for everyone.
- Comment on 4 Top Officials to Resign Over Adams’s Cooperation With Trump 3 days ago:
It’s even harder when everyone in a position of power is corrupt instead of just most.
- Comment on I worked hard on this meme and now I can't use it because the guy's a Nazi 6 days ago:
Dude was unhinged from the beginning. His early could be defensible because we can kind of agree with the words… but it was always about him. He couched it in defense of others, but it was always about “Look at me” for him.
I would say that’s not a reason to take him out of memes, but it’s also not a reason to think of him as ever having been a “good person”.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 1 week ago:
Then baby we got an algorithm going.
- Comment on What we all want deep down 1 week ago:
Most of his money is imaginary anyways.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
How big were they before?
- Comment on Charles Barkley rips politicians for intently dividing Americans: 'Both parties suck' 3 weeks ago:
There’s no escaping your biases.
Only if you believe that.
- Comment on Charles Barkley rips politicians for intently dividing Americans: 'Both parties suck' 3 weeks ago:
They do!
Of course only one parties main representative took us out of the Paris Climate Accord, WHO, banned Trans and non-binary genders, pardoned over a thousand insurrectionists, and made weirdly aggressive threats against some of our biggest allies… on the first day they took power.
Which isn’t even speaking of all the policies and appointments they’ve made over the last several decades that have negatively impacted everyone but the already rich and powerful. To a degree that far outpaces the “other side”.
I don’t disagree that they both make decisions that ultimately lead to pain for the majority of people, and most especially the most vulnerable and the most different… but one does it significantly more than the other.
- Comment on Charles Barkley rips politicians for intently dividing Americans: 'Both parties suck' 3 weeks ago:
Then what?
Even if enough people gathered together to overthrow the government (the last time people tried, it was only a couple thousand of the most fanatic… and they weren’t on the side of angels), what would you do then? If it were that easy to just “make a good government”, don’t you think someone would have done it by now?
Even the often lauded French weren’t able to accomplish that, they’re currently between a Macron and a hard place of right leaning bullshit.
We need more than a revolution of arms, we need a revolution of thought. People are well aware that there’s problems, but no one can really agree on what that problem truly is. We all just point fingers at each other like some Spider-man meme instead of trying to figure out how to make the situation better. Or just hope someone else does the hard work of making our lives better *cough* Luigi *cough* while we sit on our asses and complain about how much everything sucks.
We need to stop working against everything and start working towards something. Until we do that, we’re just going to keep running around a circle… one that’s leading us directly down the drain “both sides” are leading us down.
- Comment on Erythrocytes 4 weeks ago:
Bazinga!
- Comment on Looks like Horizon's unannounced MMO has been quietly cancelled 4 weeks ago:
At least two major MMOs have the player being the “main” character, FF14 and WoW both treat the player character (and their friends) as the “hero” (and their party). I’m sure others do the same, but honestly I never get far enough into them to find out.
You’d almost certainly not be Aloy, but that doesn’t mean you’re not the main protagonist of the story in the game.
- Comment on Looks like Horizon's unannounced MMO has been quietly cancelled 4 weeks ago:
Quality isn’t necessarily measured by desire. One can enjoy something they never desired before it existed. And one can loathe something they always desired before it was made, see the Warcraft movie (for me, at least).
- Comment on Looks like Horizon's unannounced MMO has been quietly cancelled 4 weeks ago:
Well… not at first.
- Comment on Please advise on this conversation we had over on c/Piracy. Transporters and replicators, basic operating principles? 4 weeks ago:
Two transporter beams, a weirdly reflective at.osphere that only exists in a single planet in the known universe, and plot devises intended for the sole purpose of that one story.
Most of which are explained in that same episode if you’d actually pay attention to it.
- Comment on Please advise on this conversation we had over on c/Piracy. Transporters and replicators, basic operating principles? 4 weeks ago:
Why do you think consoles are constantly exploding every time they even bump into something?
- Comment on Please advise on this conversation we had over on c/Piracy. Transporters and replicators, basic operating principles? 4 weeks ago:
The ethics of it are dubious because every time you see someone transport they are being literally killed in front of your eyes and a new copy created elsewhere.
They “nuh-uh’d” this in Enterprise. The inventor of the technology is introduced and basically says the people who propagate that theory are a constant thorn in his side, despite having no basis for it in the reality of that universe.
They also show people experiencing, and reacting to other things, in the matter streams during longer transports. Kind of hard to do if you’re dead.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 4 weeks ago:
You mean like how Steam does with the Steam Deck?
Consoles these days are basically just PCs with limited development criteria. But a much much narrower library.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks ago:
Being able to bring your console to someone else to play couch co-op with them makes developing that style much more appealing.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks ago:
What are the pros and cons you’re considering, and how do they compare to the pros and cons of a Nintendo console?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks ago:
Partial backwards compatibility, based on their asterisk, at least.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, it wasn’t especially popular with anyone.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 1 month ago:
Part of the fun of a forum is interacting with people as well, which OP didn’t do. Just shit in the forum and fucked off.
- Comment on What's the deal with male loneliness? 1 month ago:
What’s the deal with poorly explained questions?
Why don’t they provide more context for their perspective? Do they think people will magically know what they mean without them explaining it?
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 1 month ago:
But not the skies, those belong to the birds.
- Comment on Tawny Newsome Says Live Action Star Trek Workplace Comedy Will Explore Life Outside The Federation 1 month ago:
Don’t a ton of the episodes deal with life outside the federation, boldly go where no (hu)man has gone before and all that? Hell, DS9 took place on a space station outside the federation…
Or do they mean outside Starfleet? I wouldn’t mind that show, it’d be nice to see the daily lives of people in or out of the Federation who aren’t part of a pseudo-military style organization.
Also… Risa was part of the Federation. Unless that was retconned with nu-trek or something…
- Comment on A ton of bollocks, more like 1 month ago:
And Reagan, don’t forget Reagan scrapping plans to officially switch to metric!
- Comment on It's 54 degrees Fahrenheit (12 Celsius), raining moderately hard, the rain is cold, and there's a guy blowing around wet leaves with a leaf blower. What the hell is the obsession with leaf blowers? 2 months ago:
What leaf blower allows for neat little piles?
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 months ago:
Voting.
It’s not direct, and it’s not simple, but it’s about as good as it gets in any kind of representative democracy.
- Comment on I can't imagine being paid to act like I enjoy working in the office 2 months ago:
Would the people who have to deal with hardware not be… where the hardware is? They seem to be sitting in random places.
Seems pretty obvious it’s marketing, not reality, though.
- Comment on Evan Almighty and flushed away 2 months ago:
Isn’t Evan the guy who got the Anchor position over Bruce in the first movie?