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- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 4 days ago:
I actually looked up the song after I commented. Apparently Norman is Jewish and wrote the song after watching a gospel performance and said “Hey, I could do that.” He then wrote the lyrics in 15 minutes…
- Comment on i'm fucking devastated but there are no exception 4 days ago:
I’m an atheist, but Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit In The Sky” is a banger.
Otherwise yeah, this meme nails it.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
I still think the patents need limitations.
1 year limit if not actively being used for a product in production.
10yr total limit.
Something like a video game mechanic should be limited to 2 years from first use.
Patents should be a limited way to protect and support innovation. Patent hoarding needs to be stopped.
Drug patents should have same limitations unless its something the government deems too critical, and then the company should be reimbursed for their research costs and the patent killed.
- Comment on Anon is a gamer 1 week ago:
Imagine you are an inventor and come up with a brilliant new thing, and start a business to sell it. You even bring in people to help manufacture and make them a co-op. Doing everything ethically right. Selling a quality product that people want.
Then a multinational conglomerate sees it is selling well and they use their immense resources to scale up production, produce and sell it for half the price you can.
You and your co-op go out of business and megacorps shareholders pocket even more dividends.
Thats why patents should exist in a capitalist hellscape.
- Comment on liquor is fine though, its the carbonation they worry about 5 weeks ago:
My college banned fast food (specifically Sonic) cups from intramural events. Because everyone spiked their drinks with liquor.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 1 month ago:
The fact that valve has competitors means its not a monopoly. They aren’t anti competitive. They just make a good product and treat their customers better than their competitors.
If all “monopolies” acted like Valve, most people wouldn’t hate monopolies.
If all billionaires acted like GabeN, far fewer people would be calling for the guillotines.
I still think billionaires shouldn’t exist. Just saying hes probably at the bottom of the list of shitty billionaire behavior.
- Comment on Double Plug Experiment 1 month ago:
I was thinking it might just be heat from the wiring or plugged in devices keeping it too dry for the mold.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 months ago:
Someone has to repackage the low carb diet in a new way every decade.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 2 months ago:
The “I don’t want to eat chemicals I can’t pronounce.” crowd get really mad when you try to explain that everything in the known universe is made of chemicals whose names they can’t pronounce. That meme listing the chemical makeup of an apple is a classic.
- Comment on Replication crisis, my arse 2 months ago:
For real. I’ve had very few truly awful pizzas. I remember the bad ones. Looking at you “Marco’s Pizza.”
- Comment on Le boo hoo 2 months ago:
I’m a straight guy who despises football. Even the sports I have a mild interest in watching, I have little to no emotional investment in.
My brother however is so emotionally invested in football that he yells, and throws stuff when watching it. After his college team lost a championship last year he needed a week to “emotionally recover.”
It has never made any sense to me until reading your comment. I have never seen him cry over football. But he sure lets out a lot of emotions when watching it.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 2 months ago:
More treble gives me a fucking headache.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
I used to eat them as a kid to freak out my friends. I don’t remember them tasting like much of anything. Maybe a bit like dirt or something.
- Comment on Haha that's really cool, funny number man 4 months ago:
I appreciate moves and TV without wanting to be an actor.
I appreciate science and what it does without wanting to be a scientist.
- Comment on Real and True 4 months ago:
To me 7, 10, and 14 are the only ones that are totally unhinged.
- Comment on Anon goes to therapy 4 months ago:
I would have assumed they were religious before asexual. I’ve known many people who were virgins until they married in their late 20s or early 30s.
- Comment on Beer is for GIRLS 4 months ago:
Thats what I call Blue Moon. That stuff smells/tastes just like the potpourri my mom had when I was a kid.
- Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter 5 months ago:
A friend in college was given a free CRT airport monitor. It was something close to 40" and weighed at least 500lbs. It took 4 of us to very angrily move it to his upstairs room.
- Comment on Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy 5 months ago:
I put 200hrs into that game many years ago. Had a good time for a while, but it was one of those games where eventually a switch clicked in my brain and I felt like I was wasting my life away playing it. So I just stopped.
The last time I got interested in it again, I saw that the devs had basically abandoned it, or were relying on modders to do all the work to maintain it or something along those lines. I am glad to see people are keeping it alive and making it something more.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 5 months ago:
You can thank Ghislaine Maxwell’s dad for that shit.
- Comment on 🔥🔥🔥 6 months ago:
It was James Buchanan, not Van Buren that was a lifelong bachelor with a “roommate.”
I was just looking it up to make a comment about it. He was also a pro slavery president.
- Comment on Screw your zodiac sign, tell me.. 6 months ago:
Lucky number 7.
- Comment on It's important! 6 months ago:
That’s pretty much why I am studying it.
- Comment on What a relief! 6 months ago:
Of all the things the French tried to “fix” during the revolution, it amazes me that they didn’t try to simplify the way they say large numbers. Or if they did, that it didn’t stick.
I am trying to learn French, and haven’t got into large numbers yet, but I know about this, and I am dreading it.
- Comment on Lionhead's secret best game, and one of the greatest ever abandonware games - The Movies - turns 20 today [Eurogamer] 6 months ago:
It seems I managed to block McZee from my memory. After a quick search, I’m glad I did.
- Comment on Lionhead's secret best game, and one of the greatest ever abandonware games - The Movies - turns 20 today [Eurogamer] 6 months ago:
It was 3D movie maker. I looked it up after I made the comment, and forgot to reply or update.
I remember it being janky as hell.
- Comment on Lionhead's secret best game, and one of the greatest ever abandonware games - The Movies - turns 20 today [Eurogamer] 6 months ago:
This just unlocked a memory of playing something similar but it was pre 2005 and did not look like the screenshots.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
A similar reaction when you see someone suddenly has a joint Facebook account with their spouse. Or when out of nowhere they start posting bible quotes 10 times a day with photos of their spouse and kids. (Someone’s been a cheatin.)
- Comment on A hypothesis 6 months ago:
I can technically claim I started with a hand me down C64 from my grandmother in the early 90s. But I was like 6 years old, and I didn’t really get into computers until we got a Windows 95 machine a couple of years later. Though by 99-2000 I was regularly playing around with the C64 for the novelty of what felt like ancient tech.
- Comment on Don't try to stop me 6 months ago:
Wow. I really feel like I am comparing apples to oranges back in ancient Egypt!