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- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 1 day ago:
I mean this is sorta one of the things an autocracy does well. You might get substandard work and a lot of graft but when the order comes down no one gets to complain when they run a train line through your house.
- Comment on kingdom come 1 week ago:
Technically all fruits are vegetables since a vegetable is just a plant we eat.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 week ago:
What is it about flat warm soda that appeals to you?
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 week ago:
The reality is more like there are just a few massive suppliers for restaurants. Sysco just offers paper straws and removes plastic ones and every establishment just orders a different SKU the next week.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 week ago:
Honestly I don’t give one shit about the paper straws. I wonder if the people who don’t like them let their drinks sit for hours and chew on the straw till their soggy. Every paper straw I’ve had has lasted the length of time it takes me to drink the drink.
Still banning those things but not fucking everything else in the supermarket that is packaged in plastic is such a massive and stupid waste of everyone’s time and effort. Such an imperceptible inch forward they almost deserve no praise at all.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 week ago:
I mean sure, but I’ve been stuck at lights that long too
- Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea? 2 weeks ago:
China would never let that happen, it would end up being a China US proxy war… Which it always was
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 2 weeks ago:
Ok boomer, calm down
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 2 weeks ago:
I preface this with the caveat that all grants are subjective and you can like what you like.
Stardew Valley is a love letter to the harvest Moon games(and I guess rune factory as well). If you have ever encountered those games you immediately know what to do in Stardew.
I think where Stardew is different is that it came later and benefited massively from the “cozy game” popularity.
While I played harvest Moon on a super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, and Gameboy my girl friend who did not have that exposure growing up loves Stardew. This generational and gender Crossing game has tapped markets that were not available back then. Couple that with the fact that at this point you can play that game on basically any platform from phone to console, new and old and it’s totally understandable why this headline might be true.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 weeks ago:
According to a quick Google fraud in Japan is
obtaining property or illicit economic advantages through deceit.
Gifts I assume are property here
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 3 weeks ago:
Any male dominated channel that ever “gives advice” gets shunted into that pipeline by algo pretty consistently.
I like stand up comedy and it’s a full time job keeping Rogan out of my suggestions.
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know, sounds like someone who uses the wrong bathroom to me
- Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV 4 weeks ago:
Yeah that was exactly my thought.
I don’t miss commercials at all (and am annoyed they appear to be creeping back) but I do miss the mono culture quite a bit.
- Comment on It is what it is 5 weeks ago:
It does have that, but don’t for a minute think they actually control chromium. If Google wanted to they could make life very difficult for brave.
Currently brave still has support for manifest v2 but that will eventually be removed and the more brave diverges from the upstream the more work is required to keep it going.
- Comment on Aging is fun 5 weeks ago:
You just need to hydrate a bunch. I drink Gatorade or a ton of water after any alcohol. Obviously if you go out and drink a 12 pack that won’t help you but 3 beers in a night should definitely not leave you feeling like crap the next morning.
Actually even if you don’t drink you should stay hydrated.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 5 weeks ago:
That doesn’t even take into account that a lot of rails in the US are owned by Canadian companies.
- Comment on Ke$he's Quantum Party 1 month ago:
No
- Comment on Correct Grindr Response 1 month ago:
That is implied
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 1 month ago:
You can still mangle a Robbie of you have the wrong size but you do have to work at it.
- Comment on Every toddler becomes a hackerman when they find a tablet 2 months ago:
This says less about toddlers than it does about what Apple knows the public requires to use a computer.
- Comment on How dare you 2 months ago:
I don’t needs a little more jpeg if you ask me.
- Comment on Fucking google did it again, they "fixed" something that never broken. This time they make thumbnails way too big even with 70% zoom 2 months ago:
The reality is that more and more web users are phone and tablet only.
Phones and tablets are consumer devices and most users are consumers rather than creators. This is especially true outside the Anglo-sphere and in developing countries.
All this to say it’s going to get worse and may never get better.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 2 months ago:
As much as people complain about electron (some valid, some not) Linux has benefited quite a bit to the cross platform availability of local applications.
- Comment on Someone give me money so I can find out 2 months ago:
Those are not usually real gold though.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 2 months ago:
The reality is that there is no tax break large enough to make up the difference in costs for a lot of things. Even with tariffs China is still cheaper.
- Comment on Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty 3 months ago:
No no those other countries will pay the tariffs.
- Comment on LUNGS WERE A MISTAKE 4 months ago:
Are you maniacs just getting in the shower and then turning on the water? Who doesn’t turn it on first and wait the 10s for it to warm up?
- Comment on Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union 4 months ago:
At least at a casino you can get something of value. The games effectively reward you in company script.
- Comment on Welp. 4 months ago:
I mean English is sorta the science lingua franca so I imagine most of the technical words would be lone words if they showed up in a paper first.
- Comment on The landlord special 4 months ago:
I mean a paint spray gun is basically that…
And yes