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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I just commented before I saw yours. Taco Bell has declined the most, by far, of the fast food places I’ve eaten at in the past 5 or so years.

  I gotta give their corporate overloads credit – it’s kind of impressive that they figured out so many ways to make trash tier food so much worse, charge triple or more for it, and still remain in business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day this MF was .29 cents and was THICK with INGREDIENTS⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If that’s a Taco Bell 5-layer burrito, I don’t remember them being 29 cents (grew up poor, we rarely ate out). But by the time I was out on my own as an adult, I could get two 5-layer burritos and a drink for around $3 - $4 USD and some change. It was enough food to sustain me for a day if it came down to it.

  But yes, these days the 5-layers are more like dried out 3-layer mini-burrito abominations that cost $3 or $4 a piece. They are pretty much nothing like the large succulent many layered dollar / value menu beasts of the past.

  I guess if typing up this post is considered yelling and web hosting is basically all cloud-based these days and I’m an old man by 2025 standards, then yes, I am indeed an old man yelling at clouds. But mostly I’m an old man avoiding Taco Bell now that it’s completely ruined its brand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bird⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m being completely fair and objective, not all birds eat “bird seed” and not everyone is well-informed about the diets of various types of bird. But also, at least where I live, some parks have signs that specifically say not to feed the ducks/geese at all, and I can totally understand how that might lead people to conclude that it’s not safe to feed them.

  On the other hand, I’m reminded of the time that I was at an insect exhibit when one of the educators running the booth referred to “these animals” and the woman behind me asked something like “bugs is animals?” And it still leaves me perplexed that otherwise seemingly fully functional people make it to adulthood thinking that insects are not animals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have most people never seen a full starry night sky⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  People living in cities sometimes leave and many have not lived in a city their whole lives. Additionally, the power can go out at night in cities. For instance, where I live we sometimes get tropical storms, winter storms, and other disasters that can knock out power for hours (and even days) even inside the city – I imagine that’s not uncommon elsewhere. A lot of cities in poorer nations ration power or only have electricity available during certain hours.

  So, overall, I would say that it’s probably not the case that “most” people have never seen a full starry night unless you’re getting super technical and pedantic about the word “full” to where you’re specifically asking about a completely unobstructed view with 0% light pollution, in which case then I would say that almost nobody has seen a full starry night in that case, regardless of whether or not they live in a city.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U can make a difference⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  My granny used to snatch them things out the air with her hands and shove them in her mouth. Said they tasted good. But she stopped after one time she accidentally caught a palmetto bug instead and bit down before she realized what was happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spare a moment for all the children who were never born because their would-be fathers sterilized themselves imitating this show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Who am I to judge the will of Darwin’s Fury?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Lemmy Weather Forecast⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Low pressure front will be moving in from the west early next week so we can expect things to be a few degrees more abysmal and overcast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What were the original antiperspirants before modern day ones?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you asking about antiperspirants specifically or are you using that term to more generally refer to things like deodorant, perfumes, etc?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  MMMMM My favorite flavor, too! Blue Raspberry Pi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can any scientists confirm this important fact?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have doubts that any credible and serious scientific discovery would involve this degree of anthropomorphism when it comes to assigning motivation to an animal’s behavior.

  But let’s say I ended up with a hecking case of brain worms who devoured the vast majority of my critical thinking skills and was able to completely ignore that first point, this still doesn’t quite compute. If you’ve ever had cats and/or dogs in your life, then you are probably also aware that each one has its own unique personality and behaviors. Even if we assume that they have human-like rationalizations and emotional capacity, does it even make sense to believe that they all uniformly perceive people in the same uniform manner?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's a keeper⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You wouldn’t believe how many people go postal once they see my tramp stamp.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See their point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For unknown reasons, this song has been a brain worm for me for like the past month or so. I cannot explain why. Like sometimes oldies will play in a show or movie I watched, so it makes sense why I’m suddenly thinking about it. But this one? I think it just popped up on its own. And now to see it in a random comment on Lemmy — WILD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See their point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does grunge / alternative rock still exist as a genre in any significant way? It never even occurred to me to look if there’s still new stuff coming out in that style.

  I like to listen to oldies from time to time, when I’m in the mood. However, it’s usually just a temporary phase from time to time. Though I find it funny that someone mentioned “Semi-charmed life” in another comment because that song has popped in my head a number of times in the past month or so for no discernible reason at all. Sometimes when that happens it’s because I heard a song in a movie or TV show, so that makes sense, but I don’t believe that applies to that song.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People hoping that are likely ignorant of what AI actually is. It’s incredibly unlikely that AI “ends”, at least not if/until things get really bad on a societal level to the point where our species loses its ability to produce and use technology altogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the cure to male loneliness shitposting?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dozens of accounts, yes. But probably only like 3 or 4 real human people if we’re being generous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This comic hung in my office for years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a variation of an idiom that goes something like “if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will think it’s stupid”.

  But as someone who used to raise killifish, I actually found out that there is at least one species of fish that can climb trees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's grandpa does his own research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, that’s awful.

  My uncle also had very few allies left in this world, he was just the embodiment of an asshole to pretty much everyone. My dad and aunt were the only people that would even bother to try to communicate with him. Fortunate in some way, they’d talked on the phone the day before my uncle passed, and he agreed to let my dad stop by to drop off some food the next day. Meaning, he’d been dead less than 24 hours before my dad found his body. Otherwise, it very well could have been weeks or longer.

  But the house? Total loss. My uncle had become a trash hoarder. Fueled by depression, but also by his beliefs that the government was tracking him (and would go through his trash if he were to set it outside). My dad and my cousin tried to locate some family memorabilia like photos and things, but they gave up. The house was literally bulldozed and the remnants hauled away, it was in such bad shape inside and out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon's grandpa does his own research⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to mental illness. Many people are perfectly functional, yet still deeply sick.

  I had an uncle like this. He definitely held it together okay-ish (though that’s up for debate) for most of his life. But the conspiracy bullshit was a consist sign that he was not well.

  And then when his wife passed, he also lost his ability to be functional, so the sickness took over entirely, eventually even took over his body. Nobody could help, not even his children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reality vs Fantasy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To a certain extent, this is why I am trying to stick with a mission driven career, choosing opportunities that I feel actually make some small part of the world a better place. Granted, yes, I’m ultimately doing the job because I need the paycheck since I prefer to have food, shelter, and some degree of freedom/control over my life.

  Not everybody has that luxury, though.

  And expecting people to play pretend all day as though it’s anybody’s life dream to be typing up OBMC reports because that’s their passion in life and that the people they work with are family and that the ultimate goal of being the dominant player in the disposable widgets industry is for the greater good of humanity – yeah, whatever that’s just subversive mind control games. Glad some people can live in that and deny reality, but for the rest of us, you want me to work, then pay me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon takes shots at Donkey Kong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, I didn’t like it that much when it came out. It’s not that I hated it or hated on it, just wasn’t my thing. Mario games were far superior platforming experience all around, in my opinion.

  Graphics for the time and platform were great. If you weren’t there at the time and your frame of reference is modern (32-bit or later) graphics, of course they suck. But that’s hardly fair or objective, when it comes to understanding why they were well-regarded AT THAT TIME.

  But, I’ll add this: A number of my friends’ kids were introduced to 8-bit and 16-bit games first, in lieu of exposing them to toxic modern phone/tablet games. And the SNES Donkey Kong game(s) were/are amongst the games that the kids enjoyed and played the most. So, there’s something to that, if you ask me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How krilling!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I told my neighbor’s dog she was a good girl so she went back home, picked a giant bouquet of daffodils, and then personally delivered them to me at work that afternoon.

  And if you posted that story on certain social media sites, you’d get thousands of upvotes and fawning comments from people who seemingly believe your fake as shit story.

  So I support this image, because it feels like a nice, polite degree of mockery on this trend. And at least it’s not as dangerous for the critters as sticking poisonous flowers into the mouth of the family pet for social media clout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me irl⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my part of the world, there are at least a dozen+ culinary and/or medicinal mushrooms that are distinctive and easy to identify (even by casuals like me). These don’t really have any dangerous look-a-likes that also grow in the same area. I stick to those and those alone. Granted, even at 12 or so species that I can ID, that’s probably like a tiny fraction of the number of different species that exist in this area.