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- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 4 days ago:
I don’t have any love lost for mega corporate farms and agree that we need more family and cooperative owned farms that would be more concerned with sustainability and environmental impact.
- Comment on It is very therapeutic to garden, though. 4 days ago:
Home gardening is an important element of individual food security. It’s not meant to replace industrial agriculture which maintains food security for the nation as a whole
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
You are absolutely free to believe that not all beliefs are good or correct according to your own morals, and plenty of people will agree with you. Similar to going to a middle eastern country and telling them that women should have rights and shouldn’t have to cover up, don’t expect to be well liked for telling people that their beliefs are deficient or immoral.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
As an example of internet atheists being as obnoxious as internet vegans, yes that’s my example.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
Don’t remember when /r/atheism was a default on the other site?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
People don’t hate veganism as much as they don’t appreciate being judged for their choices and chastised by other adults for beliefs that they don’t share.
Personally I have no problem respecting the beliefs of people who are vegan due to their personal morals. Until they start disrespecting the beliefs of others who don’t agree with them with regards to meat, then they become annoying.
- Comment on Checkmate 1 week ago:
Here I am…
- Comment on How do recommend eating this? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a sourpuss
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 5 weeks ago:
Its next on my list!
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 5 weeks ago:
Probably a Link to the Past. Although I’ve only played the games in the series up to Link’s Awakening so that might change although the game would have to be pretty damn good
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 1 month ago:
I think it’s really hard to quantify. They are both masterpieces even if you just consider the state they are today and not just the era they are made in.
Sure Red Dead Redemption 2 has “better graphics” but Link to the Past looks great in its 16 bit art style. I wouldn’t want to change the graphics. I don’t think A Link Between Worlds or the switch remake of Link’s Awakening improved the graphics for instance.
Red Dead Redemption 2 might have “deeper” gameplay mechanics but I don’t actually care for them very much. The cores system I think distract from the game, and Arthur is honestly a bit slow and clunky to control during fights; unlike A Link to the Past where fighting with the sword is smooth, blocking with the shield is easy to understand and the items add a element of strategy to the combat.
Ultimately I think that red dead redemption 2 is the better game and part of it is because the modern era it is in allowed the developers to tell an story and create a character that I was invested in more than any other in gaming. But ultimately I think it comes down to personal taste. Earthbound is another game that made me feel similar to RDR2 as far as story beats go. And if I had to pick one game to play for the rest of eternity, I’d be fine with either choice.
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 1 month ago:
Good games are good games no matter the era. I don’t think you can find many serious people claim that Barbie’s Horse Adventures is better than Red Dead Redemption 2 just because it’s retro. And No serious person is going to claim that Suicide Squad is better than A Link to the Past, just because it’s a modern game
- Comment on It's not enough to touch grass 1 month ago:
Relevant username
- Comment on These are the world’s happiest countries in 2024 | CNN 1 month ago:
Honestly the downvotes increase engagement and make this community more visible as it’s always at the bottom of the top lists.
Ironic but I feel like it helps this community thrive as that’s the reason I found it even though the community at !conservative@sh.itjust.works is actually bigger
- Comment on Bernie Sanders unveils 32-hour workweek bill 2 months ago:
If the 32 hour work week provides efficiency benefits then the market will trend to 32 hour work weeks and it’s not going to impact the price to consumers. I can see heavy handed government action negatively impacting consumer prices and can see many be forced to work “Overtime” to make up the difference. Market pressures are incremental and competition forces companies to keep competitive margins. But if the whole market is just expected to eat additional labor costs by the government, I would expect the whole market would raise prices to keep the same margins rather than arbitrarily deciding to lower them.
We already see the market improving conditions without government action happening with remote work. There are some fortune 500 companies with enough corporate bureaucracy and money to burn that are resisting it. But the smaller start ups and SMBs that are thriving don’t care where you are and how long you spend doing it as long as the work gets done.
- Comment on Bidenflation Is Even Worse Than You Think 2 months ago:
We had negative oil prices at the start of the pandemic. Less than a year from that, the price of gas hadn’t fully rebounded it peaked in 2022 but has gone back down and stayed around the same prices. But gas has for sure been more expensive under Biden than it was under Trump.
You can blame Biden for some of that but I think most of the blame should be on the fact we have had the Ukraine and Russian war since Feb 2022. The government posts the average gas prices for your viewing
- Comment on Just found out that "pain" is racist. Anyone still trust Big Pharma? 2 months ago:
I don’t like socialism. I don’t think we can tax ourselves into prosperity and for the most part disagree with the heavy handed approaches to social justice and welfare that is typically popular on the fediverse. I even find it excessive how a lot of people obsessed with social justice find racism in places where it really isn’t there.
But why is it that we can’t just stop being assholes for 5 minutes? Why does this have to be a politically contentious post? How would you feel if your grandmother or your child was in pain in the hospital and the nurses or doctor didn’t take their concerns seriously? How would it make you feel if someone you loved was going through unnecessary pain? How would it make you feel to have your concerns dismissed like this?
Advil isn’t saying that doctors are racist or that white people are hogging all the pain killers for themselves. It sees a concerning trend in the standards of care between different groups and is trying to do something meaningful to change it. Why are we so concerned with our political identity that getting people the medicine that they need turns into an attempt to dismiss concerns and “dunk on libs”?
- Comment on That introduction... 2 months ago:
They had ChatGPT review it
- Comment on PS2 emulator AetherSX2 removed from Google Play Store 2 months ago:
Entitled teenagers from poor countries on low end hardware mostly
- Comment on Need More Proof Biden Was Drugged for the State of the Union? Here It Is. 2 months ago:
Biden is to blame for Donut-flation for sure. What’s Trump’s plan to fight rising cost of goods that has affected every world economy despite being all Jelly-filled Joe’s fault?
- Comment on Analysis: Why it will be tough for Biden to defeat Trump | CNN Politics 2 months ago:
Biden will face the same challenges Trump had in 2020, namely that it is harder to have people fired up and enthusiastic to show up to the polls when their current choice is already in office. I think that Biden will have pandemic fall out inflation to hurt him with independents like Trump had his covid response hurt him with independents. It really will be a coin flip IMO.
- Comment on Need More Proof Biden Was Drugged for the State of the Union? Here It Is. 2 months ago:
Conspiracy theories? Really? That in no way attacks the substance of the SOTU address?
- Comment on Awesome Games Done Quick 2024 has officially begun! 3 months ago:
The donkey Kong runs have been great so far! It’s great to have AGDQ back live in person again.
- Comment on Author Calls for Return to Martin Luther King Jr. and Frederick Douglass’ Vision of Colorblindness 4 months ago:
While I do think there is some reactionary hate for members of privileged groups, and reactionary and unwelcome protectionism of minority groups (talking about white liberal savior complexes here, not substantive policy); this kind of bad faith comment blaming a group (Democrats) ensures that the divisions that perpetuate them aren’t going anywhere, anytime soon.
- Comment on Your boss does not care 4 months ago:
I suppose. Fox News caters their coverage to their core audience which is retirees so you wouldn’t see much coverage on this sort of topic.
- Comment on Your boss does not care 4 months ago:
RTO is a management issue. Either you have incompetent managers, incompetent employees who need to be cut loose, or expectations have not been correctly set for the job.
RTO makes sense for individual employees who need to be put on a performance plan, and it makes sense for certain public facing, or partner facing roles. But if the job doesn’t require to be physically present then there is no need for a blanket RTO policy.
If you can’t manage a performing employee who is remote, you are just cutting yourself off of talent pool and hurting the business. Chances are you are good at managing them in the office as well
- Comment on Your boss does not care 4 months ago:
Good read, but why is this in the c/conservative community?
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
Bad business leadership. It costs more than 2% to replace workers leaving en-masse because of salary.
I sure hope take away doesn’t mean they literally decreased salaries back to the level they were at 2 years ago. Thats a literal pay decrease when raises below inflation are already functional pay decreases.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
Radical change almost never comes without bloodshed but you can arrive at the same endpoint through the voting booth, it just takes longer.
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 4 months ago:
We have a long history of making progress through incremental change within our two party political system. It’s not perfect, no political system is. But even if we had a parliamentary system, you’d still have to form coalition governments with democrats and face the same perceived issues.
Progress can be made within our current system, even if your vote goes to the “least bad” at first. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good.