Draegur
@Draegur@lemmy.zip
Poly-Panro-Ace It/They
friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™).
Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader.
Winged caniform cybernetic biped techno-lich in its dreams.
- Comment on Something something .. trends.. 2 weeks ago:
Please.
Please please please.
A fat oompa-loompa’s obituary on the front page of every newspaper on earth. Please. Please. - Comment on No regrets 2 weeks ago:
Act shitty, get shit on. Simple as.
This is how humanity used to deal with malicious people in the tribe.
When they need help, not lifting a finger. One day when they are out hunting, the hunting party will deliberately lose them, leaving them alone in the wilderness. When the offender gets back to where the tribe was camping, everyone has already left. They are alone. For the rest of their lives. Usually very short lives, because humans generally are a social species and are not good at living alone.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 2 weeks ago:
Boy dinner.
- Comment on Machines 4 weeks ago:
One of the many ways in which the world used to be better, indeed…
Nowadays if a store tried to be that lenient, they’d be robbed blind and bankrupted in short order. But that says more about people struggling and not having the resources they need to survive no matter how hard they work or how willing they are to work than it does about people being moral. It didn’t take as many work-hours to afford rent or bills or food back then so people used to have the ability to not care if a little went missing every once in a while. Now there’s no margin left and the squeeze only gets tighter and tighter.
- Comment on Machines 4 weeks ago:
You must not have very good reading comprehension. I literally said what would happen if I left after they flagged my transaction for inspection.
But I’ll tell you more.
A couple years ago when they first released the self-check-out app, I took a picture of the QR code I’m supposed to scan to complete the transaction at a designated check out area because I didn’t think walking to the other end of the store was necessary when the cups of hot coffee they sold were over here in the in-store cafe area. If I want to buy a cup of coffee and enjoy it sitting near the area where I get the item in the first place, it’s kinda’ dumb to expect someone to leave that area to actually complete the transaction and then walk back.
With that picture of the QR code, I made the self-check-out app scan it right there where I got it and wanted to drink it. I paid, fair and square.
They flagged one of those transactions for inspection, and back then I shrugged it off.
THEY SENT A FUCKING COP TO EJECT ME FROM THE PREMISIS AND CHARGE ME FOR THEFT AND TRESPASSING.
When I showed them how I completed the transaction and PAID THEM WHAT THEY WANTED TO BE PAID AND THEREFORE DID NOT STEAL they told the officer that they were not going to press charges and that I can come back if I “learned my lesson”
I would prefer not to be accosted by PIGS for a crime that didn’t even HAPPEN, all over again.
So, in short, fuck you for being stupid.
- Comment on Machines 4 weeks ago:
i was forced to wait (under pain of “loss of customer trust rating”) for ten minutes because they wanted to inspect and approve my purchase of a can of redbull because there was no one available with all staff busy.
that amount of time, had i been clocked in at my job, would have entitled me to a quantity of pay greater than the price of the drink.
- Comment on Anon loves GOG 5 weeks ago:
real. facts. no notes. i fucking love gog. and as linux support is finally growing, it will only get better and better.
- Comment on Yeah, It's Addiction 5 weeks ago:
I hear no one has ever survived the withdrawal syndrome associated with this terrible addiction…
- Comment on Can also ask your mom 1 month ago:
i miss you, dad ;~;
- Comment on Can also ask your mom 1 month ago:
… oh. huh. yyyeah i see there are indeed a number of my father’s favorite songs here ._.
Jump - Van Halen Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart Against All Odds - Phil Collins Tina Turner - What’s Love Got To Do With It
He used to sing along with these while driving or doing stuff around the house…
- Comment on Magic the Goonening 1 month ago:
poor girl got milled hard right in the middle of her train of thought and we never got that essay…
- Comment on Classic error 1 month ago:
Well hey at least he doesn’t spike 'em like a football.
Anymore.
- Comment on DLSS5 slander 1 month ago:
Desperate Loser Slop Spigot Five.
- Comment on State of Mind is free on GOG. 1 month ago:
damn i love gog so much
- Comment on Happy Labor Day! 1 month ago:
the epstein class are the ones who have the biggest fakest email-jobs.
- Comment on We ain't happy anymore... 2 months ago:
i wonder what kind of song would capture the cultural zeitgeist now, if he were to write it…
because yeah it definitely would not be ‘happy’
- Comment on currently busy 😅 2 months ago:
I assume they are seeking information beyond just the obvious fact that I’m already occupying the stall. I will attempt to be charitable and volunteer how many more minutes I believe I’ll be
- Comment on Mood 2 months ago:
“it costs you nothing to be nice”
Yeah but if I’m cruel enough I might just be rewarded with getting you to fuck off and mind your own business :3
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 2 months ago:
Of course never would i EVER frag a commandant of the New Reich in his own tent with his own ordinance, trust me bro! Why would I, a humble conscript, ever lash out at the fascist regime that’s rounding up so many of my loved ones for summary extermination? Golly that would be awfully mean of me, just too cruel of me by far, to return even the tiniest, barest fraction of the gut wrenching agonizing tragedy they inflicted on us all BACK to them. Goodness forbid.
- Comment on Don't Worry About Retirement, Millennials 2 months ago:
Whether to boot camp or concentration camp, this Reich has camps for all of us ._.
- Comment on The body you really want 2 months ago:
oh my gosh! I’m SOME of those! :D a fem-leaning androgynous (but functionally genderless) cybernetic wolfthing with trillions of bodies across the multiverse all subliminally linked to the same consciousness!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Boltzmann has entered the chat!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve been leaving behind a few more dead timelines than usual lately. deja-vu-like flashes of mistakes I’m concurrently avoiding AND making at once. tripping down stairs that i actually made it safely to the bottom of. catastrophic car accidents that everyone actually ends up driving away from unscathed. I see it flash before my eyes and divert my course… I try to tell myself it’s just experiential pattern recognition providing examples of what could go wrong, why to be cautious and take care. But… Yeah, this hits freaky
- Comment on Like a dragon sitting on a hoard of memes 2 months ago:
For a second there i thought this was going to be about Mitch and waiting for him to finally fucking croak.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 2 months ago:
Surprisingly I’ve found some gas station food that doesn’t suck O.O
the rolly-grill has seldom ever done me wrong.
Just stay away from the sushi XD
Up here in the northeast there’s this place called Cumberland Farms and somehow it’s managed to eclipse McDonald’s(partly because mcds has crashed their ‘bar’ through the floor of hell’s basement…). I like their hot snacks. Filling “guilty pleasure” comfort food that doesn’t take a long time and doesn’t even murder my wallet. And usually their bathrooms are pretty good too.
- Comment on Friends. 2 months ago:
Look, no one TOLD you life was gonna be this way…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
From the olden times in the era before the plague (COVID) there were tales of stray dogs who had learned to utilize public transit infrastructure to move throughout a city. I believe the city in question was said to be Moscow? My memory is fuzzy, what with 2020 through 2024 being the longest continuous year I’ve ever experienced in my life (so FAR…).
It’s crazy how 2016 feels like “a couple years ago” right now even though, concurrently, 2019 feels like “a couple decades ago” ._. maybe the doctor was right; Maybe time really is made of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff.
I miss when AI was not yet a thing…
- Comment on Alternative medicine 3 months ago:
I’m surprised you KNOW four people rather than very specifically KNEW, past tense, four people…
- Comment on China bans AI “boyfriends” and “girlfriends” over addiction and birth rate concerns 3 months ago:
It is a sarcastic observation of the shallow and reductive take that “nineteen eighty four is when the government does something i don’t like!”.
I find it less likely that anyone who uses lemmy would sincerely think it is actually good that people become parasocially addicted to a hallucination box that has been finely tuned to lie to them as convincingly as possible.
However, I admit this inference is doing a lot of gravy lifting; this is, after all, why Poe’s Law exists. There are so very many excessively dim, narrow-minded, and ignorant people who WOULD indeed unironically cry “1984!!” whenever any government does anything that such a person being right here, right now, is always a statistically significant possibility that cannot be dismissed out of hand without risk.
I am giving the person to whom you are replying a generous benefit of a doubt, to be fair…
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 3 months ago:
If there’s a movie I don’t like,
and I see the rating site consensus showing “low critic score + high audience score”,
THAT is more likely than anything else to re-evaluate my opinion.And if there’s a movie I DO like,
But it gets an AWFUL audience rating despite high praise from the professional critics,
That will ACTUALLY make me second guess and wonder if I’m wrong about how good I thought it was.I fucking hate the professional critic grift ._.