zikzak025
@zikzak025@lemmy.world
- Comment on unfathomable 22 hours ago:
There’s a profit ceiling, though. And a lot of countries are finding out that the larger cost of cigarette usage is borne by the healthcare systems that need to spend a disproportionate volume of resources to manage the various health complications caused by a lifetime of smoking.
- Comment on World record 💯 1 day ago:
Or when you can just see bad parenting at play.
I’ve often seen kids throwing tantrums in public, and the parents (feeling embarrassed) immediately resort to appeasement. Whenever you give a screaming child something that makes them happy, they learn that screaming more often will get them what they want.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 3 days ago:
Sure, but those share buttons can be used offline. I just use them for screenshots/short clip capture that I send to my personal devices.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 3 days ago:
It’s more just that the controller has a button that is tied to an online subscription only feature. You need to pay for online services for Playstation and Xbox too, but neither have controller buttons that are tied to the subscription.
- Comment on An impossible choice 3 days ago:
Always take the upfront cash! Currency devalues over time so that 7 billion could be worthless by tomorrow. But $19 invested correctly today could be worth a trillion dollars by tomorrow.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Well since it’s Canada, probably also to keep the indigenous American refugees out, too.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 days ago:
If that is a typo for soda stream, just FYI that they’re an Israeli company that profits from the Palestinian genocide and has operated in the occupied West Bank.
- Comment on I need an adult 4 days ago:
US. When I go to the grocery store, they’re categorized under white or red.
That’s also how the English Wikipedia classifies different grape cultivars, even ones that aren’t intended to make wine.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(grape)
- Comment on I need an adult 5 days ago:
Might be different in other languages, but English usually divides grapes into red and white for color.
But I guess another question is why they call it white wine when it’s more yellow.
- Comment on I need an adult 5 days ago:
Or purple grapes red?
- Comment on Guess The Game (#013) 5 days ago:
Thanks for the clarification! I would have been ruling out early access titles since I usually consider “release” to be the 1.0 version, but I’ll keep that in mind for future guesses.
- Comment on Guess The Game (#013) 5 days ago:
For OP, does it count as “having a North American release” if it’s still in Early Access?
- Comment on Playing Zelda Windwaker in 2026. Should I just emulate CEMU Wii U version or wait for decomp? 1 week ago:
There is. There are a few roms available for the GC version that add the swift sail with identical behavior, but it’s only native in the Wii U version.
- Comment on law enforcement partners 1 week ago:
That is a cart corral, looks fine to me.
- Comment on Yeah Ill Have A Whooper With Beef Wings 1 week ago:
But now we’re off script! I didn’t prepare for this.
I reach into my pockets to pull out my card but grab clumps of spaghetti.
- Comment on Yeah Ill Have A Whooper With Beef Wings 1 week ago:
“What’ll ya have?”
“Good thanks, you?” (fuckfuckfuck)
- Comment on When I'm well enough to leave we have to party 1 week ago:
Is that how kids ask a/s/l these days?
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
Guessing one of two factors, or a combination.
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People seek escapism in hard times. 1930’s America was going through the Great Depression, but it was also the start of the Golden Age of Hollywood. People still turned out to go to the movies despite the bread lines and poverty. And people will still buy games if they can squeeze it in the budget.
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GTA players probably don’t buy as many games. There are “gamers” who will engage with the medium across dozens of titles catering to various interests. And then there are people whose entire scope of gaming is some combination of FIFA, Call of Duty, and Grand Theft Auto. When you only buy 1 or 2 games a year, sinking $100 on each doesn’t seem as unreasonable as buying 10 games per year at $40.
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- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
TBH this doesn’t seem like a bill that was drafted with the intent of passing. More likely this is to give Democratic challengers of Republican incumbents something easy to confront them about when they inevitably vote against this. The bill reads as reasonable to the average worker, who may be less likely to support a candidate that voted against giving them a measly 10 days off.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 week ago:
This. Even if it manages to pass through this deeply partisan Congress, it needs to be signed by the president. If the president refuses to sign, it’d have to be sent back with a supermajority to override the veto, which is simply unthinkable today.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
FWIW, I don’t think it’s a practice exclusive to whiteness, since marginalized groups will establish a nucleus of cultural identity as well. Whiteness will supplant that cultural identity in all but name, eliminating the need for traditional ethnic enclaves, but there are still plenty of legitimate (mostly non-white) subcultures in North America with shared practices and traditions that are not wholly American either.
- Comment on Hopeposting 1 week ago:
I don’t think fucking Superman is that easy.
He’d probably be into it but he has way too much stamina, I’d give up way before he does.
- Comment on Remember all the Great Lakes with this handy mnemonic! 1 week ago:
Do you not learn the names of your country’s geography?
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 1 week ago:
- Moving the cursor with a finger is like moving a mouse on the desk - movement agrees with direction
This is where I am as well. I think of scroll direction as the way I move the “camera”. The direction of the wheel is the direction of the frame.
- Comment on "You pay owner price. They give you tenant rights.": Mexican Lawmakers Drag Sony to Antitrust Court Over All-Digital PlayStation 1 week ago:
This. Rumor has it that the next Xbox may also go discless, but I wouldn’t be as angry about that because the rumor also has it that the next Xbox will support installing other stores like Steam.
- Comment on How to move a sofa 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, small town community always sounds warm and fuzzy until you end up on the outside.
A while back, I knew of a family that moved into a house in the center of a town near where I grew up. A couple and two kids. The town had a big clock with a bell that rang hourly. Even in the dead of night. Right across the street from their house.
The family asked the town if they could silence the chimes between sunset and sunrise so that they and their kids could sleep. The town said no, the chimes are a local tradition.
The family then brought up state noise ordinances that the town was violating. The town still refused. So they petitioned the state, the state got involved, and made the town silence the clock at night. The locals threw a fit.
The family didn’t last long in their new house after that. But they were at least lucky enough to have the means to pack up and move somewhere else.
The less lucky are stuck. They get to spend the rest of their lives as “the problem”. I’ve known people where any utterance of their name is met with a cautionary “you shouldn’t associate with them”, even when it’s been so long that no one can tell you why.
- Comment on Remember when you had to buy a separate one? Now just get one to do both. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t really shave, to be honest. Trim the weeds occasionally with some scissors, but it’s too much upkeep to keep the coinpurse smooth.
- Comment on Remember when you had to buy a separate one? Now just get one to do both. 2 weeks ago:
Now that’s the entrepreneurial spirit! You’ve got yourself a deal.
- Comment on Remember when you had to buy a separate one? Now just get one to do both. 2 weeks ago:
To shave my balls or yours?
- Comment on Remember when you had to buy a separate one? Now just get one to do both. 2 weeks ago:
You still could not pay me enough to put any electric razor near my sensitive bits, no matter how it’s advertised.