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- Comment on What do you call this style of art? It is common in online articles 1 day ago:
The one with the two people is similar to Corporate Memphis, aka Alegria Art. It’s a style frequently abused by companies like Google.
- Comment on What happens if someone refuses to work in a socialist economy? 1 week ago:
That isn’t how socialism works. Socialism means that the workers control the means of production. It typically also means that necessary services such as healthcare are not run for corporate profit. Such government also typically give assistance to people who need it, rather than acting as if human life is worthless if it isn’t making capitalist profits for the owner class. In your case, if you were refusing to get education, employment, and contribute to society for whatever reason, that could be seen as some sort of psychological issue and most likely you would receive counseling. If you’re unable to work due to that, you may have assisted housing and a small stipend. But do you get like, a car? Luxury food? Vacations? No, because there is not a situation under socialism where “everything is free”. The bare necessities of life are supplied by the government, because that is, for one, smarter and more efficient than the American system where we do things like let preventable health conditions fester for years while people suffer and become untreatable rather than just giving them preventative care in the first place, which would save the entire society tons of money and increase overall productivity.
- Comment on What happens if someone refuses to work in a socialist economy? 1 week ago:
It sounds to me like a troll sort of thing, like how conservatives in the US frequently say that liberals and leftists “just want everything for free“.
- Comment on What happens if someone refuses to work in a socialist economy? 1 week ago:
Is this a real question? What socialist economy do you live in where “everything is free“?
- Comment on Do you ever get the feeling of zooming out of your phone into your head and actually realizing everything, instead of just mindlessly watching videos? 1 week ago:
Like, being self aware? Yes, that happens to me sometimes.
- Comment on Your opinion is important 1 week ago:
So, back in real life. At a protest? Yes, it’s valuable for white people to speak up, since they’re more difficult for police to persecute. Sorry you’re too uninformed and naice to realize this, so wise OP.
- Comment on Your opinion is important 1 week ago:
Pretty easy decision to block based on annoyingness level, thanks
- Comment on Happy "don't believe anything you see and hear" day! Also known as "day of morons" 2 weeks ago:
Basically, if you can tell it’s obviously in April fools prank, it’s cheesy and sort of lame… And if not, it’s misleading.
- Comment on Happy "don't believe anything you see and hear" day! Also known as "day of morons" 2 weeks ago:
I don’t find it amusing at all
- Comment on When you hear “run like a girl” or “throw like a girl,” what do you imagine? 4 weeks ago:
I imagine the person that said it being a complete dumbass
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 5 weeks ago:
They all do basically the same thing and can be connected through ActivityPub. However, they all have a totally different code base as they are separate projects, other than that Mbin is a fork of Kbin. As far as how it is being an admin or mod on any, I can’t speak from experience.
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 2 months ago:
As you open them. I consider it an abysmal practice to collect hundreds of open tabs in the first place.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 2 months ago:
Anything opposing the government of China is an anathema to them, since apparently they love capitalist oligarchies.
- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 4 months ago:
Thanks. I’m a pretty dedicated alcoholic at this point, but I don’t screw around with otehr substances.
- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 4 months ago:
those things happened over 25 years ago, so not really
- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 4 months ago:
the topic was “wow, I’ve been really lucky”. It’s okay, here were are and he’s 85 with Alzheimers and I’m almost 50. So we made it. Overall, though, if I had a complaint about him, it’s that he wasn’t very aware or engaged in my life from day to day.
- Comment on It would be cool if after you died you could see the top 5 times you almost died 4 months ago:
I’ve had a few good ones. I recounted them to my dad one time, I recall. Experimenting with prescription drugs as a kid (muscle relaxants when I was like 8), driving in the rain with no license when I was 15, excess opiates that one time, too many sedatives with alcohol a couple of times, and then the legit health problems… I had seizures from low blood glucose a time or two. Pretty exciting record imo
- Comment on What can you tell from this photo alone? 4 months ago:
It’s not too cold there
- Comment on Insulin 4 months ago:
The extra ridiculous thing is how they deny services that a doctor says are medically necessary… and not even in a reasonable way, in an abusive way. Like the system that automatically denies 60,000 things an hour or whatever, and count on people wasting tons of time to challenge it. Or when they have an ophthalmologist review your kidney disease and say that some treatment isn’t warranted. And that’s even after you’ve paid your stupid deductible costs for the year.
- Comment on Insulin 4 months ago:
A unit is a unit, so the dosages are the same. What varies is onset curve and length of action, so timing.
- Comment on Insulin 4 months ago:
The deductible system is ridiculous.
- Comment on Insulin 4 months ago:
The subs would be R and NPH, not the old mixed formulas like 70/30.
- Comment on Insulin 4 months ago:
The old formulas you can buy OTC for $25 are more inconvenient to use, but will indeed keep you from dying. The main difference between the R insulin and Novolog/Humalog are how quickly they act. Novolog starts lowering your glucose in about 60 minutes while the R takes 2 hours. Dietary management is not related to which insulin you’re using. So yes, the claim that OOP’s only alternative to paying $800 was to die is not true.
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 4 months ago:
Source on the existence of unsubstantiated rumors? How would that help?
- Comment on The Men Who Stare at Goats 5 months ago:
There are rumors about him sexually abusing young boys as well
- Comment on Always sounds like fun but after 10 minutes you are ready to leave 5 months ago:
I’ve been learning that I’m way more extroverted than a lot of people. I’m Ready to drink, smoke and hang out until the bitter end.
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 9 months ago:
It was fairly common in the US decades ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
They used to be better. I had a lot of success when they were relatively new. However the culture around them has gotten worse and more toxic, and the companies have grown more abusive of customers. Just what I gather… I haven’t tried since 2019.
Tinder was okay for meeting people interested in actual relationships when it was newer. It seemed to turn into more of purely a shallow hookup site. I tried Bumble, and that worked, though it apparently is not as good as it used to be. Never tried Hinge or any of the others.
- Comment on Dozens of spam messages daily now 1 year ago:
I’m referring to things I explicitly signed up for.
- Comment on Dozens of spam messages daily now 1 year ago:
If you try unsubbing and it doesn’t work, then that fits. I just suspect a lot of people don’t even try. I’m just tired of having things I signed up for ant want show up in spam.
Most recently I ordered some merch from Atari and all of their mails went to spam, including responses from customer service, which is annoying because I thought they just never wrote back.