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- Comment on Hello, non-Americans, do you have any Chinese language classes in your education system? 1 week ago:
High school requires at least a second language class to graduate, I believe. Most people take French as it’s the “default” one that all schools offer, but my school also had Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese, iirc. But that was decades ago.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 weeks ago:
A good case makes phones much more comfortable to hold. Modern phones seem to be aiming for slipperiness and sharper corners because it looks “premium”
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 2 weeks ago:
How does she manage to destroy cases? Does she chew them or something? Are you sure your daughter isn’t a dog?
- Comment on '28 Years Later' Was Filmed Using 20 iPhones at Once 2 weeks ago:
Not really, you would need multiple cameras from multiple perspectives to do the same thing. There is no camera of any quality that can take a picture from 5 feet to the left of where it’s sitting.
- Comment on '28 Years Later' Was Filmed Using 20 iPhones at Once 2 weeks ago:
The Matrix originally did this to get that crazy frozen-in-the-air spin shot
- Comment on Some retailers have broken Doom: The Dark Ages' street date, and huge spoilers are already out there [Eurogamer] 5 weeks ago:
Hey guys, I think I saw some things that have, like, fangs and horns and stuff. Do you… Do you think there might be demons? In a DOOM game?
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’ 3 months ago:
I, too, have read all two Marvel comic books.
- Comment on 'Captain America: Brave New World' Slides 68% at Box Office to $28 Million 2nd Weekend 3 months ago:
It’s not that the MCU was “done” but there was a clear buildup towards a giant team up vs an overarching enemy.
Everything after that is just a bunch of vague one-shots that don’t have clear direction or any real purpose linking to other films, yet still require you to know a ton of backstory and side characters to “get” it. It’s like asking the audience to do homework with no payoff.
Also the wiring quality did drop noticeably, partly because they’re running into the problem of trying to incorporate lore from 30 other movies into each one.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 3 months ago:
He called a rescuer a pedophile for trying to rescue children…
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 months ago:
I only just realized the pun inside “You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
Most people complain that it’s a pointless idiom because if you possess a cake, you are likely able to eat it.
Having cake is another way of saying eating cake. It’s saying you can’t eat your cake and then eat your cake again.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 months ago:
It implies we are here to do something more productive than fucking spiders
- Comment on Can astronauts jerk off or toss the troff in space? Would their heart monitors would show it to be elevated? Or can or has any two astronauts ever had sex in space? 5 months ago:
It’s not like they could publish anything with such an embarrassingly small data set
- Comment on Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal 5 months ago:
Woooosh
- Comment on Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal 5 months ago:
Lots and lots of cuts, lol
- Comment on What do people who promoted the "FEMA camps" conspiracy theory think about Trump's mass deportation? 6 months ago:
You have to keep in mind that hypocrisy is not considered a bad thing to conservatives. It doesn’t matter that they’re hurting people, as long as they’re “hurting the right people.”
Conservative mindset is intently unequal. The ingroup gets all rewards and benefits, the outgroup gets all blame and punishment.
- Comment on In the event you believe a contract killer is in breach of contract, who adjudicates? 7 months ago:
You mean supreme court calls it a “presidential act”
- Comment on If you eat nothing but smoothies, do you still poop? 7 months ago:
Imagine trying to squeeze toothpaste out of a tube but it’s almost empty vs almost full.
Your gut is meant to keep things moving along… If it doesn’t, it ain’t good.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 7 months ago:
X is just a vague term though. It’s also often used as a placeholder for unknown or variable things. So the “formerly Twitter” is going to stick for quite a while.
It’s like naming a product “The Thing”. Anyone who talks about it will always have to clarify what Thing they are talking about basically forever.
- Comment on What is the argument for making poor/working class folks shoulder the burden of taxes? 7 months ago:
Rich people want to get richer. Rich people can afford to bribe/wine and dine/trade favors with the select few who actually write the law.
That is all.
- Comment on Is there ever a situation where a doctor can legally refuse to render aid to someone? 7 months ago:
That line is bullshit anyway, otherwise the entire field of surgery wouldn’t exist.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 8 months ago:
Not remake the entire shuttle, but to simply design a disposable rocket and build a hundred of those, instead of a space plane.
- Comment on Why are people impressed with SpaceX? 8 months ago:
The space shuttle was technically reusable, but not in a way that was beneficial to anyone. The time and cost of refurbishing the shuttle after every launch was so much they may as well have built a brand new disposable rocket for each mission.
- Comment on Why don't we have cool vending machines in the US? 8 months ago:
That looks more like a hot vending machine
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 8 months ago:
Yeah, it pumps GDP numbers up. By having more people to do work.
Not by increasing GDP per capita.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 8 months ago:
It can suppress wages.
Immigrants often are expected to work for less money. After all, they usually immigrate from an economically worse country, so they don’t expect to land top tier wages.
You keep filling in minimum wage jobs with an endless supply of immigrants, then there is never a worker shortage and never any incentive to raise the bar.
- Comment on Is this normal for girls or just a extreme edge case? (Serious question) 10 months ago:
Well duh. Lemmy is on the internet, and there are no women on the internet.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
It was a fun game, I enjoyed it. Didn’t realize games needed to be accurate treatises on revolutionary political theory to be good.
- Comment on Why does the government of the USA stand by the country of Israel? 1 year ago:
It also lets them have a US military base in the middle East, where just about every other country hates the US
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 1 year ago:
they’re just caffeine addicts
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 1 year ago:
USAdian