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- Comment on Alabama is forcing incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s. Unionizing is illegal. The state takes 40% of wages. 14 hours ago:
Could also explain why prisons are such a big industry in the US
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 2 days ago:
Holy shit… I never knew. I could enjoy that, something I’ve never been able to do with T pain
- Comment on Probably helps that I'm happy to listen to whatever genre 2 days ago:
I don’t know, the drums and guitar is pretty sick in that song.
- Comment on It's fine 5 days ago:
Oh wow, I didn’t even know that was a thing. Looking it up that might be the fix. My computer can’t keep time or date which is one of the side effects of a dead CMOS.
Thank you kind stranger!
- Comment on It's fine 6 days ago:
Me too! I hoped it would fix it from turning itself off when it isn’t plugged in. But it still isn’t working, so some other connection is naf.
- Comment on It's fine 6 days ago:
Oh for sure. I rarely play new games because I don’t have the time and because I own a bunch of older games I haven’t got to yet(The exception being BG3).
I will say older games are often graphically better in memory. Fired up Dragon Age 1 last week and it looks so old now.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 1 week ago:
I don’t know what you read, but I just learned that racoons are showing early signs of domestication.
- Comment on It's my toxic trait 1 week ago:
Tell my wife a funny childhood story about me my parents - “wait, why aren’t you laughing? Stop looking at me like that!”
- Comment on It's fine 1 week ago:
My five year old laptop can still runs most games, (although it’s getting quirky) and my four year old cellphone is going strong. I see little reason to update and I hope to get another 3-5 years out of them, barring major hardware failure.
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
Years ago I had a coworker ask how I was able to travel so much because we made the same wage.
I was just like I don’t do drugs or buy drinks at a bar. I don’t own a car and my phone is cheap and paid off. I kept my expenses as low as possible to do what I liked.
Given how expensive renting is now I don’t think my frugality would have helped as much as it used to.
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but plenty of people buy things because they want to feel wealthy. I have people in my life who buy fancy cars, holidays, and furniture on loan with bad interest. Instead of saving for an item, they pay too much for instant gratification.
- Comment on FFFFFUUUU 3 weeks ago:
Do it for the lulz!
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 5 weeks ago:
Lambert, Lambert, what a prick.
- Comment on Sir, they are attacking the whotilla 1 month ago:
Whereburgh never again!
- Comment on Can I use your shower? 1 month ago:
Good for ducks, good for me
- Comment on 🎄. (Turn on sound.) 1 month ago:
We have peaked as a species
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 months ago:
Canada has voted against the populist right for the last decade. And each time the Conservative party chooses some one more right wing. And each time they get a bit closer to winning.
Trump galvanized people last time, scared them away from the right. This time he seems to be inspiring the right wing politicians, and people live it.
I don’t know if we can hold out much longer.
- Comment on "Jurassic" Park 2 months ago:
Doesn’t quite have the ring to it.
- Comment on An annual tradition 2 months ago:
The family always thought me and my bro were getting stoned. Really we were just catching up and getting space from… them.
- Comment on Seals the deal, once and for all. 2 months ago:
It gets hate, but I loved i Robot.
- Comment on Can we have a healthy life only with fruits or fruits and plants combined alone, and if not why? 2 months ago:
It’s about the level of processing / how it’s done. If the company is doing what you can do at home, like preserving beans through pressure canning, it’s not really an issue. More processed beans, beans in tomato/molasses take more processing and additives.
Look at the ingredients. If it’s beans in water it wouldnt be considered ultra processed.
- Comment on Scandal 2 months ago:
I choked on air cackling at this thought
- Comment on The trauma. The terror. The humanity!!!1!!1! 2 months ago:
Never again
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 3 months ago:
Some would say the internet was made to say Nazi on.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 3 months ago:
I agree. Strategy game do occupy a weird space, EU4 was a go to game for me for like 10 years. I appreciated the support for the game and did buy the DLC that changed mechanics (skipping most flavour packs). I remember people complaining about janky mechanics without DLC, but I know others would rollback to previous versions.
Funny thing is that despite playing EU4 for years and really enjoying the game. I feel little urge to upgrade to EU5.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 3 months ago:
The only DLC thing I hate is when there is DLC for sale on the same day of launch. That should be in the base game.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 3 months ago:
But the base game isn’t that expensive and most expansions are unnecessary game play wise. Even when I played paradox games I didn’t buy all the DLC
- Comment on Why is it "shower thoughts" and not "shitter thoughts"? 3 months ago:
They’re waterproof for a reason
- Comment on Tewwowists 3 months ago:
“It is I, LeVance!”
- Comment on Shit's so deep... 3 months ago:
… which begs the question. How do Americans pronounce them?