DicJacobus

@DicJacobus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*poke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  where was the picture from? Im guessing from the helmets its either Ukrainian Euromaidan, or something recent from Georgia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont think you understand how “Amazon” exists as we know it.

  Amazon, the store. the store that sells stuff at “unbeatable” prices and has convenient fast shipping options. exists because Amazon, the corporation, makes most of its money through platforms that are NOT the store.

  for example the AWS division, which handles web hosting, Makes money hand over fist compared to the store. so they can afford to sell stuff at either a loss, or breaking even. (and they’re still somehow making money off the ordeal. dont ask me where)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a good group!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was briefly into 40k in the 00s, but once the 2010s started I slowly started getting an ick feeling from it but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.

  specifically, I was still cool with most of the lore, but the Imperium fanboys were getting to be unfun to be around. As I got older and wised up, I figured out around the same time many others did, that these same people just had a fascism fetish in general.

  so with all that said.

  Death to the false emperor Let the galaxy burn BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the fact that theres an argument in favor of that is insane. but its where we are.

  I’m Canadian, I spent the last 3 years mentally numbing myself and accepting the possibility that we could formally be at war with Fascist Russia in my lifetime, it’s not that much of a gear shift to use that same consideration that there could be a war with a Fascist American faction too. Except the whole, My country turns into Frozen Iraq and has to deal with an American occupation. (Chechnya without the beards?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, there’s gonna be bodies on both sides if they think they’re gonna try any of that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What advice would you give to your younger self?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop chasing exes through your 20s. Especially the one from a different country. Even if it didn’t crash and burn it never would have worked anyway just due to immigration

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can you bypass a Reddit site ban?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  walk away from reddit. try to find a similar community to whatever it was you lost, here. if not, make one! if that fails. get a new device, and only use reddit when you’re away from your usual internet networks.

  but seriously, its easier to just walk away from reddit. reddit is an echo chamber of extremism and hopeless cluenessness. on all ends of the spectrum.

  The same thing happened to me and I largely stopped caring after I discovered Lemmy. its been a lot better for my mental health too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the United States has Cuba banned from things, how does Guantanamo Bay exist?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cuba cant make them leave. There isn’t an ally who can back them up and go toe to toe with them like there was for a brief period between 1950s and the late 1980s…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the conspiracy brain in me, looks at ranting from people like elon musk, who say there’s going to be a population collapse, and Im thinking of Resident evil, (the bad movies).

  I think they’re banking on the hope that in 20 years there’s going to be billions fewer people in the world, we’re already close to setting it off with the unprecedented increase of state vs state wars since 2020. Azerbaijan/Armenia, Israel/Levant, and even bigger ones that we’ve not seen since the 80s like Russia/Ukraine and with all probability, China/Taiwan by 2028 at the latest.

  they’re banking on there being less people to feed, house, and otherwise provide for. so they can fall back to a kind of corpo-feudalism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Free" Speech Absolutist™⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ~~1984 ~~ cyberpunk was supposed to be satire, not the model

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean I get that, but what I was saying was the original purpose of the store became an afterthought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG reportedly suffering from staff turnover and poor management: “Current business model is likely running out of steam”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  GOG was good for acquiring and re-releasing OLD GAMES. somewhere along the way they decided they wanted to compete with the big platforms and be “We’re just like them but without DRM”

  I haven’t used GOG for years, they allowed me to relive a few of my old adolescence favorites, but stopped being useful to me a long time ago :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 players rip into Arrowhead for 'straight-up ridiculous' Killzone crossover prices, CEO defends the choice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They released the rest of the kill zone stuff for free