stephen

@stephen@lazysoci.al

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think my comment, and the person I responded to, were being a bit … light hearted (not sure if that’s the right term) about it.

  Speaking for myself, don’t let use dissuade you in any way at all. More Americans need to be:

  1. aware of how shitty the for profit medical system is. It’s the most expensive healthcare in the world and not even close to the top in healthcare outcomes.
  2. Aware that countries much poorer that it dignify all of their citizenry with healthcare. (And zero countries that have done so have ever gone back on that choice)
  3. Much more vocal, including in deciding who to vote for, about ending the predatory, immoral profit imperative in healthcare.

  Personally I don’t think America can vote its way out of a damn thing, but the corporate propaganda seems to be so terrifically good at getting people I know and care for who I believe have fully functioning brains to believe that somehow this shitty healthcare system is the best in the world.

  Thank you for posting the video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a certain person accused of a certain thing as my lock screen for about a year because of how much I hate it. Maybe we’re already maxed out and not the target audience for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do all American stores have greeters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not by a long shot. It’s mainly just Walmart. There are others, but they’re the exception, not the rule.

  I worked in retail for about ten years. The company I was at did make a big deal about making a customer feel welcome, which might incidentally involve greeting a customer at the door, but we certainly were too busy to have someone perpetually posted up at the door like Walmart. Any sort of “greeting” we might have done would be the same as I what I experienced in Ireland or Italian retail where if I was approaching an employee, I’d get the local version of “hello”. Didn’t strike me as being very different.

  So, no, the American retail space that has a dedicated greeter is fairly uncommon.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm playing Gears of War Reloaded, and I have a question. Will there be some point when the Chainsaw I've had for hours actually gets explained to me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The game begins with a tutorial.

  Why would I be remiss to be confused as to why there is a tutorial, but not include any mention of the existence, let alone the use, of a basic weapon?

  Further, yes, I expect all products to tell me about their features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm playing Gears of War Reloaded, and I have a question. Will there be some point when the Chainsaw I've had for hours actually gets explained to me?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha here I thought I’d just missed something in the beginning of the game. Turns out the game just doesn’t bother to teach its players how to play it.