atomicbocks
@atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 days ago:
I would agree with you If those prices weren’t being set by corporations raking in record profits.
- Comment on This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄 3 days ago:
Because they are allowed to do their own testing to determine caloric quantity and there is often some flubbing in the recipe during the testing. Kinda like how VWs used to have a different engine mode for emissions tests than normal driving.
- Comment on 2048 4 days ago:
The fact that the smaller numbers are displayed larger is really messing with my dyscalculia. Especially in the middle rows.
- Comment on It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire. 4 days ago:
He also tried to restructure existing loan forgiveness programs, like the public service loan forgiveness program that I am in, to make them have shorter terms. This also lost in court eventually. My loans are still in forbearance due that that litigation, but only for a few more weeks.
I still don’t understand why the paycheck loans could be forgiven but not student loans.
- Comment on Hard work is no longer a guarantee of making a living in America. 4 days ago:
Monitoring a bot account doesn’t make you not a bot account. You clearly use repost bots and feigning ignorance is just annoying.
- Comment on this is so dark, Black Mirror couldn’t have imagined it 4 days ago:
Ugh, you are giving me flashbacks to when the start button stopped saying “start” on it. I lost so much faith in humanity during that upgrade.
- Comment on Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap! 4 days ago:
There is a cap because republicans want to kill social security. It’s the same bullshit they are doing to the postal service.
- Comment on Mike Solana, a multimillionaire venture capital executive, on college-educated Americans frustrated by narrowing economic opportunities 5 days ago:
For the record, upward mobility is exactly what I was promised when I took out tens of thousands of dollars in student loans to get a bachelors degree. I’m not exaggerating, they had a fucking PowerPoint…
Also I sure appreciate doing the exact same thing the previous three generations did, getting a different result, and then being called a delusional loser for it, especially by somebody who was almost certainly handed their chance in life on a platter.
- Comment on The slopification of recruitment 1 week ago:
I’ve been unemployed for over a year and a half… if I got a job offer from them I am not sure I could turn it down.
- Comment on Every time 2 weeks ago:
And then invariably you’ll have the people who come out of the woodwork to say “but it’s such a good movie and why were you expecting it to be just like the source material?” like that’s a good point…
- Comment on Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 2 weeks ago:
Only child of lesbian parents checking in. You’re wrong, it takes all sorts to make a family please don’t let corporate bullshit brainwash you.
- Comment on Establishment Democrats think they know who is "electable". These are the same guys that saw this in 2016 and said yeah we want Hillary. 2 weeks ago:
I’ll never forgive Obama for not replacing her.
- Comment on Pizza Party and Casual Fridays 2 weeks ago:
You guys have jobs?
- Comment on A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August 4 weeks ago:
Just so we’re clear, that’s roughly the starting pay for teachers in this state…
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
They were also complicated circuit boards with full color manuals and box graphics, none of which is in digital nor the overhead of the creation thereof.
- Comment on The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80% 4 weeks ago:
I had been waiting to get one until I could afford it… fuck me right?
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 4 weeks ago:
That’s what the link says…
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without user consent 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only seen this happen with a prompt.
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 4 weeks ago:
I have no idea how you got that from what I said. I literally pointed it out for that reason…
- Comment on Fallout 5 officially in pre-production, being built on Elder Scrolls VI engine 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bit harsh? 4 weeks ago:
Given that this completely ignores that there are thousands of people who can speak English and their native tribal language I’d say it’s both harsh and ignorant, putting aside that a foreign language was a required class in my high school school.
- Comment on Nice one dad 5 weeks ago:
The only thing I really remember about that movie is that I saw it in theaters like the same week I saw the remake of The Italian Job and that Hollywood Homicide was terrible in comparison. Which is saying something because the remake of The Italian Job was also not great compare compared to the original.
- Comment on We can't keep tying healthcare to employment 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both 5 weeks ago:
Honestly this is what is confusing me the most about Xbox’s move here. They have spent the better part of 10 years dumping exclusives specifically to become the next Steam. Now all of a sudden they care about console sales again and it doesn’t really make sense with the direction they have been going.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
Valve is one of the few companies that has historically honored people’s bequests and allowed bequeathing their libraries to other after they die. Unlike say Apple who has outright said that your iTunes purchases disappear into the ether when you die.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 5 weeks ago:
Most of those guarantees involve mailing your receipt and the proof of purchase to the company along with a letter explaining how you were not satisfied before they will get around to mailing you a check for the $4.73 in 8-12 weeks.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 5 weeks ago:
Then they shouldn’t have allowed themselves to be bought out.
- Comment on "My 'Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand' statement isn't aging well" - id Software co-founder John Carmack speaks out after devastating Xbox layoffs 5 weeks ago:
I was blaming Microsoft for what they became 20 years ago.
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 5 weeks ago:
How close are your outdoor trash cans to your front door? In the hottest summer months it is sometimes hard to keep flies from laying maggots in the trash cans and even though it’s about 15+ feet from my door through a gate they still manage to fly in.