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- Comment on Political Views 1 day ago:
Spiders would be great at that. They work super hard!
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 3 days ago:
I've been saying something similar for years: Consoles going online was the worst thing to ever happen to them. Their selling point used to be that you'd put in a cartridge/disc, and it would "just work". Now it has all the downsides of PC gaming, with none of the upsides.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 4 days ago:
Even worse is: "Here's a link to where I found the solution"
404
- Comment on When one earbud decides to not charge and I need to remove it from the case and put it back. And I even sometimes don't realize that... 6 days ago:
How do you like them? How long have you had them?
- Comment on When one earbud decides to not charge and I need to remove it from the case and put it back. And I even sometimes don't realize that... 6 days ago:
Mine eventually did too :(
I'm on the lookout for better headphones, but I feel like I'm going to be stuck with a cable for a while, since BT is so bad
- Comment on When one earbud decides to not charge and I need to remove it from the case and put it back. And I even sometimes don't realize that... 1 week ago:
This happens all the time with my PineBuds. It's infuriating
- Comment on Slime Rancher 2 - Release Date and Physical Pre-Order Announcement 1 week ago:
The first one was enjoyable. A good game to play while listening to a podcast
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 2 weeks ago:
Huh, weird. I haven't dated in a looooong time, so I cant say if anything would be off about that.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 2 weeks ago:
I've always tried to phrase it as "What do you do?", skipping the "for a living" part. That opens it up to more than just work. It could be "What do you do for a hobby?*", or "What do you do *for fun?*", or "What do you do *in your free time?", etc.
Sure, it's not the best conversation starter, but when I know nothing about someone, it's a good way to get the ball rolling.
- Comment on High quality sticker though 2 weeks ago:
And many protestants!
- Comment on High quality sticker though 2 weeks ago:
The first time I heard it called "brain" was in the movie Waiting.
WARNING: There is some language in this clip that hasn't aged well, just like most of the movie.....
- Comment on Gallium 3 weeks ago:
I'm all for people being able to bone other consenting adults, married or not, but these two clearly think that cheating is bad. If they had open relationships, then why would they care if they were seen together?
- Comment on I need a year staycation to sort out my life. 1 month ago:
iI've heard variations on this for years, but here is where I found this specific version: https://jessicadavidson.co.uk/2016/03/04/how-long-does-it-take-to-become-enlightened/
A Buddhist monk approached his teacher and asked the Zen Master, “If I meditate very diligently, how long will it take for me to become enlightened?”
The Master thought for a moment, and then replied, “Ten years.”
The student then said, “But what if I work very, very hard and really apply myself to learn fast. How long then?”
The Master replied, “Well, then it will take twenty years.”
“But if I really, really work at it. How long then?” persisted the student.
“Thirty years,” said the Master.
“But I don’t understand,” said the disappointed student. “Each time I say I will work harder, you say it will take me longer. Why do you say that?”
The Master replied, “When you have one eye on the goal, you can only have one eye on the path.”
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 month ago:
There was a candidate against it. If you'd had paid attention at the time, you would have noticed that. Also, voting against something is actually the opposite of voting for it.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 month ago:
I will not, as I voted against it, which is more than the Democrats can say
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 month ago:
I always read it as "It's not a big deal, as long as it's my team doing it". See also: Sending immigrants to torture prisons, rape, caring about corporations more than people, suppressing the working class, war, etc.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 month ago:
You mean the genocide that Harris said that she was going to support?
It's always amazing to me that Democrats get mad at people who couldn't stomach voting for genocide, instead of getting mad at the people who ran a pro-genocide campaign.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 month ago:
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 month ago:
No, it's when every example is of liberals doing that same thing that makes it an example of liberalism
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 month ago:
They are run by self-declared liberal democrats. These benches were put in place under their administration.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 month ago:
Every "liberal" city that I've lived in has had these, or a variant. So I'd have to say yes, it is liberalism in action
- Comment on Priorities 1 month ago:
In the Bobiverse books, a guy uploads his brain into a computer. He then spends years flying accross space, because it takes years to get anywhere. I've often dreamed of having a few decades just to work on my fun personal projects, uninterrupted.
- Comment on Real af 1 month ago:
- Comment on Picture of hardwood 1 month ago:
Schaeffers Deck Sealant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6c4Nupnup0
- Comment on What the fuck you 1 month ago:
I like supporting my creators. I don't pirate music, because Bandcamp is a thing, and I don't pirate video games because GoG is a thing. I also subscribe to Patreon and the like.
What I don't like is giving my money to shitty companies that try to tell me how I am allowed to manage/retain/consume that media.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 2 months ago:
If anyone tells you that your teenage years are the best years of your life: Smile, nod, and slowly back away. Then never talk to that person again.
- Comment on The way they buried the Unsubscribe text color into the background 2 months ago:
But it's never enforced. I get a lot of spam from US companies that don't have working unsubscribe mechanisms, and I report it all the time, but nothing is ever done about it.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 months ago:
Patient gamers represent! The older I get, the less I care about FOMO. The less I care about FOMO, the happier I am. It's a beautiful cycle.
/me goes back to playing snes games on an emulator
- Comment on Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom 2 months ago:
It's always been super spotty for me. Sometimes it doesn't work for a few hours, sometimes for a few days. It usually ends up working again after a bit. I ended up moving to mostly using yt-dlp instead, as it's more consistent. I don't know of a more reliable phone-option tho :(
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
As someone who grew up fundamentalist-religious and right-wing, but then got out of it, it's becuase of a few things:
You'd have to restructure a lot of your world-view, and that is very hard. You have to take a fundamental part of how you see the world, discard it, and watch a bunch of other values and beliefs come crashing down. Rebuilding from that is scary and hard.
You have a lot of social investment as being part of the "in-crowd" of your community. A lot of your friends/family/colleagues/social-circle all keep reinforcing your beliefs. This makes it hard to step away from those beliefs, because you feel like you are betraying that community. Many communities will indeed abandon you, especially if you go to the "other side". You suddenly have to become the enemy that you've been rallying against.
Sunk-Cost fallacy: You've already spent so much time and effort in this belief, that youre really hoping something will happen, and your faith in the person or system will be justified. Eventually it'll pay off if you wait just a little longer. Of course, "wait a little longer" ends up being years and years, and at that point you have more compounded mistakes that you have to admit to. This makes you feel like a bigger idiot than if you had just admitted your mistakes up front.
tl;dr: It's a cult!