GreenShimada

@GreenShimada@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I also wasn’t alive, but tons of people okayed this. I don’t understand how her parents not only pushed her to be a model, but found the right people to fight over the legal “right” to keep and distribute photos of a 10-year old that if you saw them today would send you straight to jail. Or get you an appointment as a cabinet secretary, I’m not sure if you’re a millionaire or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Her parents okayed it and exploited her, especially her mom. She was in multiple movies as a child with nude scenes. As in, there were multiple movies with child porn in it released, commercially, in the United States. I genuinely don’t understand how so many people didn’t just come out and say “wooooah, this is child porn.” A few did, but not many. Not that the Epstein Class didn’t exist before, but JFC, to be so blatant…

  I’m also always astonished that she didn’t end up on the typical abused child actor track and ended up having a career as an adult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Withdrawals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a zoo where each shitcoin is in its own paddock? That sounds fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck, can I have a do-over?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone said this to me, I would laugh so had I couldn’t resist the sale.

  Shit your feets, my guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon watches star wars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The re-release and Special Editions of the Original Trilogy raised the bar very high for everyone only a few years before Ep 1 came out. The OT was all about action and iconic moments and explosions. Stuff Lucas wrote when he was in his 20s and made as a younger adult.

  Then Episode 1 shows up after years of anticipation and it’s about a child with some very child-focused moments (because Lucas did make this a more kid-friendly movie because of his kids and being in his 50s). So it just feels very jerky and segmented, with mixed focus about establishing a big plot and then…what, blood flukes cause The Force? Jar Jar was too distracting, and most of the acting was very wooden except for a few good moments for Portman, Neson and MacGregor. Product tie-ins were on par with Stranger Things - everywhere and everything. I see more parallels to the movie Hook in Ep. 1 than I do with other Star Wars IP at this point. It’s like a highly-produced stylized caricature of itself.

  Fans were in shock a bit because it wasn’t a particularly amazing movie, and when making comparisons that were inevitable, other than visual likeness, it just felt a universe away (no pun intended).

  And it’s basic story-centered aspects. This guy did a series of videos where he made basic changes to the Prequel Trilogy, and yeah, he’s right. His concept is a better story.

  Important note - this guy 100% called 50% robo-Darth Maul years before Dave Filioni did it in Clone Wars.

  By that point, it was too late. Fan hate set the tone and Ep. 2 was years away to balance things out. And Ep. 2 isn’t terrible IMO, it just didn’t capture anyone. I actually like Ep 3. because it starts to bring in more starfighter action and some fun moments with a serious end.

  Watching all 3 movies in a row completely negates all of the feels at the time, the huge lull between movies, and the comparison to the OT as the standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is the way⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t want to expose his data, they want to store it and use it and make money off of it by selling it.

  Can’t sell it if you’re giving it away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How accurate is this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, if one’s foodservice experience is bartending, you are given significantly more license to stand your ground and kick people out. Legally defensible license to do so. I genuinely enjoyed bartending most of the time, especially when it wasn’t a high-volume place.

  When it’s at a bar/grill restaurant, if you and the cook don’t run tag-team being bad-cop on every table that gets weird to spare the server staff, you’re doing it wrong. You are a weapon to be wielded. A 6-top often loves the suggestion that someone not getting a tip is a mutual villain making drama and that the server is the only person making magic happen against all odds. It’s theater, right? You provide dinner and a show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Draw!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially when in a hiring mindset, employers can see it as you being undesirable or lazy, maybe even covering for quitting before getting fired and being out of work suddenly and without a plan. “If you were such hot shit, why aren’t you jumping from job to job, higher and higher up the ladder?” That kind of thing.

  What’s important to keep in context is that typically one provides relevant job experience on a resume. Not all job experience. So gaps might be actual work, even.

  Typically if you can have a good excuse and say you did something productive with the time, it’s fine. “I was looking for work for 6 months after we moved and it was a tough market. I spent free time helping with a local community gardening project” would be totally acceptable. “I took a 3 month break to go work on an organic farm” is still work, just not relevant to your job application at Cinnabon or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That assumption relies a lot on thinking that Elon isn’t a fucking idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, so I’m talking about real inflation. What you’re talking about would be fraud. The way companies commit this fraud is by leaning on the "well, prices of manufacturing went up! Won’t you think of the shareholders?!?! 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 " But the input price data is generally seen as proprietary data, so it’s not public shareholder data.

  Still fuckin’ fraud, though. It also takes coordination and collusion, which is price-fixing, and is illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible that the rich are so rich that they have created inflation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll agree with “no, not really.”

  Inflation happens when demand for something goes up, and/or cost of production goes up (or speculation on the cost of production or restocking something). So with RAM, a few companies bought it all up, so the prices went up. In January 1848 shovels and picks were normally priced in San Fransisco - then the gold rush started and prices went up because people showed up to buy them faster then they would be made. Uber surge pricing is based on the same idea.

  The argument against the minimum wage going up is that it would cause inflation because increased wages would make things cost more - AND that shitbag stores would see people with more money buying more things and say “see? more demand. Let’s raise prices!” While COVID and post-COVID inflation is unique, a lot of that was tied to increased costs because supply chains fell apart and made it hard to get all sorts of things, everything from groceries to plastic goods shipped from China. This was a global thing, not just in the US. Why did the price of locally produced coconut cookies go up in Nigeria in late 2020? Because there were no plastic containers from Nigeria to put them in to sell.

  So inflation can happen either across the entire economy, or on singular things. So for the rich getting richer, inflation would be more likely on things they go in for. So RAM is one example. Exotic sports cars are another example, the number of cars made is kept low, which increases price. Especially if there’s a trend where every rich person wants a specific Ferrari, the price on that goes up and others wouldn’t.

  Based on this, what is money not being spent going to affect? Nothing other than people with rich people goods over-pricing them on spec, which is just trying to lure rich people into spending money, or if everyone knows rich people are hoarding wealth, they’ll raise prices for them since they expect them to be able to pay more. That’s risky, as it has to be coordinated and targeted. Rich people are also usually finicky assholes, so it’s easy for them to just talk shit about the high-priced thing that’s only high-priced for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all got one, right?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see what you did there 🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘🫘

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, no. Only in person at 666 Mockingbird Lane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rickets?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ooooooo, sorry, no. It’s always soggy apple cobbler with 3 pieces of corn that somehow made it into the cobbler square.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but square in the sense that they will all be still partially-frozen 1960’s style TV dinners in the foil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sexting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly this person is a keeper. As in, they’ll keep you locked in a dungeon in a castle somewhere while laughing maniacally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And it's delicious⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes bread tastes better than skinny feels.

  But I only know what bread tastes like, not the other one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically, you’re a 9.8/10. But I can round it up to 10/10 ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨doing god's work Greg⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He was already on probation for having stuck his dick in the enchanted goo tub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, what even is “standing still”? I’m sitting in a chair in a spaceship made out of silica, metal, gasses, and water traveling around 220km/s relative to Sagittarius A.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s why the Romans didn’t use salt as a condiment, but fish sauce. The umami+salt is different and objectively better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks 🙏🏻⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Three questions:

  1. Zahi Hawass - was he just “on” as official national tour guide, or was he able to act like a real human, and if so, what was your read on him?

  2. While out and about in the Sahara, ever hear of or run into a guy named “Camel Steve”?

  3. Do you have a few JHMCS helmets with manufacturing flaws that you take home and let the kids run around with and play jet pilot?

  Also, thanks for being a dude with stories on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good choices are still choices. Ride the high, you earned it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨low beans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🎼 Swing looooooooow, sweet can of beans,🫘 coming to meme me home. 🎶

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but that’s cool and niche. Suave making people smell like the Cinnabon at the airport gives me the ick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, and thanks for being willing to discuss this. I guess, for today, dead internet theory is confirmed not true!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chomp!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would anyone want to smell like this?!?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s literally a whole thread about this in here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair points.

  My underlying point might be that whatever site it is that the screencaps come from is silly bullshit. But the more important point is that when you let it stress you out, the censors are winning. They’re using fear to manipulate you off your baseline. And you’re not even a desired subject of their censorship! You are putting yourself under control by reacting with fear.

  Flashers do what they do to elicit a reaction of fear and horror. The reaction they don’t want, more than anything, is laughter. To have the insecurity that drives them called out.

  In this case, I’m asking you to think rationally about this and see it as an indicator or what you’ve correctly noted. But also laugh at it and understand that if you don’t let it force a reaction in you, that you can react to it when and how is bet for the goals you have. Then you are in control.