jpreston2005
@jpreston2005@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'tis the season 10 hours ago:
What’s the word under “Pumpkin?” this is AI isn’t it
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 4 days ago:
Key and Peele rated higher than Chappelle show? What are we even doing here?
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 4 days ago:
lol the people behind season 2 must be fuming…
Also, if they can just, randomly specify seasons of a show, why aren’t they excluding the last season of GoT? or the finale of Lost (haven’t seen, but come to believe that the finale was considered one of the worst ever)?
- Comment on A Fediverse genre of Guy 5 days ago:
I stand with the Israeli people and their right to live in peace and safety. At the same time, I don’t agree with all of the Israeli government’s choices on how they are conducting the war. I want the violence to end, and the innocent Palestinian people affected by the humanitarian crisis that has resulted to receive the lifesaving aid they need. And I know that many in Israel share this sentiment.
He wrote an essay for Time Magazine. It’s a short read but… Yeah even calling it a war is troubling, because Palestine doesn’t have a military? He says he feels for the innocent Palestinian people, but spends far more ink on bemoaning rising anti-semitism, and never really touches on the massive difference in body counts between the hamas terrorist attack and the genocide that isreal is currently engaged in. He also, of course, doesn’t call it a genocide.
It’s like his heart is almost in the right place, but he just can’t gather to courage to call a spade a spade. He calls the war in Ukraine a russian invasion, he calls the conflict in Lebanon a pogrom. Why can’t he bring himself to call what’s happening in Gaza the same? It’s literally an isreali invasion and a pogrom. He can’t just call for a two-state solution, say he feels for the innocent Palestinians, and wash his hands of the rest.
- Comment on A Fediverse genre of Guy 5 days ago:
But why male models?
- Comment on This Lg G6 OLED Glass Belongs to Me. It’s Not Spying on Me Anymore 6 days ago:
yeah I don’t have unsecured Wifi in my area, so I bet I could get away with just removing or plugging up those mics…
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 1 week ago:
Godamn Lower Decks really was the best Trek we had and they fucking cancelled it
- Comment on Y'all might not be ready for this 1 week ago:
It’s meet with the same success as “That 90’s Show”
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
So, like, automated truck driving on the highway, then they pull into a trucking hub for delivery drivers to take over once they reach their destination city? hmmm interesting
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
especially one started for no reason
trump saw those epstien file conversations goin on and went “quick! bomb the middle east!”
- Comment on US will allow truckers to drive 16 hours per day instead of the previous limit of 14 hours 1 week ago:
Now that’s no reason to give up. After COVID his, I had a coworker that was anti-vaccine, and she talked to me about it, because she assumed I was as well. I had mentioned something about how whenever I accidentally drop food on the floor, I eat it as a challenge to my immune system. She expected that that thought carried over to vaccine hesitancy. I later sent her an e-mail telling her that my trick of challenging my immune system, was exactly what vaccines were. Then dove into what vaccines actually are and how they work. She later thanked me, and said that I helped her and her husband finally go and get their shots. It was real cool.
So, sometimes, if you approach it the right way, you can still change peoples minds.
Not like I’m an expert though, I’m still running into a brick wall of willful ignorance every time I try to engage with my trump loving parents 🙄
- Comment on Thanks, doc 1 week ago:
*that can also make your symptoms far worse!
- Comment on Everyone deserves sympathy. Even him. 2 weeks ago:
I mean the person they’re referencing is also a trans woman, so just by the very title, this is a shaming post. The guy in the video also references her using “he/him” pronouns so, he’s not showing her much sympathy.
- Comment on The sickness of infinite greed cannot be sustained on our finite planet 4 weeks ago:
He’s wrong, greed isn’t a sickness, it’s a mental handicap. ]It inhibits the brain from experiencing empathy in people who amass great wealth and power.](sciencefocus.com/…/powerful-mindset-psychology-2)
It begs the question, why are we letting a bunch of evil, mentally handicapped people steer the course of humanity?
You’d think that if you were a doctor, and had a patient that was amassing a collection of any other thing, and that collection destroyed a part of their patients brain… You’d think the doctor (and society et. large) would want to limit the amount of that thing they were allowed to collect?
Especially if that thing they’re collecting could be used to, I dunno, I’m just spit-balling here, give everyone universal healthcare, increase public education to include 4 year university, give everyone free childcare, invest massively in green energy and public transportation… you know, instead of just sitting in a Panamanian bank being hoarded by evil, mentally handicapped billionaires?
- Comment on Pie in the face. 5 weeks ago:
To everyone in this thread saying “I’d never do that, I don’t want to get shot”
- Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war 5 weeks ago:
It’s on one of the TVs at my gym, and I hate it. While on the elliptical, I have to occasionally look over to that screen and scowl, so people know I’m not a dumbass.
Course, my water bottle has a big “nazi lives don’t matter” sticker on it, as well as a “billionaires will burn in hell” sticker, so I’m pretty sure they know already
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 5 weeks ago:
During the pandemic… PepsiCo raised prices … By the third quarter of 2022, net pricing was up 20% from a year earlier.
senior managers made clear they didn’t want to go backward on prices,
the company’s stock down more than 20% from a peak in 2023
company tried anything else that might lure customers: promotions, shrinkflation. None of it worked.
PepsiCo … planned to lower prices … Up to 15% off some snacks, Laguarta described the cuts as “very surgical.” It also underwent a series of cost cutting measures, including layoffs.
PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta receives an annual base salary of approximately $1.69 million, with a total annual compensation package—including stock awards, options, and performance bonuses—totaling roughly $23.9 million to $28.8 million
Fucking moron.
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 5 weeks ago:
Gotta go generic brand, that’s where the deals are
- Comment on The Price of this Candy Bar 5 weeks ago:
Funny how they say it’s 120 calories per 1/8th of the pack 🙄 Yeah guys, that’s how people eat candy bars.
1/8th at a time.
The online nutrition information for a king size is similar, in that it says 150 calories for 1/3 of the bar. So the individual one is about 450 calories, while 2 of them is 960, 60 calories more than it should be.
Or I’m reading the fine print on the packaging wrong, in which case it says 120 calories per 1/6th of the pack, which would bring it out to 720 calories, or, two bars smaller than the “king size,” which seems deceptive, considering the packaging says it’s a “super king 2 bars.”
- Comment on Boeing engineers, technical workers reject contract offer 5 weeks ago:
Boeing? The company that can’t build functioning airplanes anymore? Just kidding, it’s 100% because all the engineers are pissed about big wigs cutting corners and costs by compromising on safety and durability.
- Comment on They call me the problem solver 5 weeks ago:
ah yes, move the goalposts, because what I said isn’t what I said. Go fuck yourself.
- Comment on My student loan is gaining interest while I'm in school but I'm not allowed to start paying it off yet 5 weeks ago:
It’s actually just scummy and predatory period. Student loans shouldn’t be a thing. Imagine wanting to devote your life to helping people, becoming a doctor in a country that has a terrible shortage of doctors. But oh no! some crazy shit happens, and you’re not able to complete your degree. Guess what? Big government says fuck you. How dare you have some crazy bullshit happen to you? You’re entire financial future is fucked up for your whole life now. Goodbye.
FUCK THIS COUNTRY
- Comment on They call me the problem solver 5 weeks ago:
I’m always on time when it’s just one other person, it’s parties n shit I’m late to. Don’t be such a lil bitch
- Comment on They call me the problem solver 5 weeks ago:
Mine was the same way. trying to be there by 9AM meant that my hour commute, I should leave by 8. nope! and then 7:45? nope! how about 7:30? nope! even MORE traffic! I had to leave at 7, and if I was lucky, I’d sail right past the spot that usually had a massive traffic jam, and then I’d get into the office almost 45 minutes early 🙃 . But leaving at 7:15 would either get me there just on time, or 30 minutes late. It was nightmarish. Thank god I’m remote. (well actually thank me and my trauma therapist for filing out the proper AMA paperwork making me remote)
- Comment on They call me the problem solver 5 weeks ago:
Booo, Everyone else should just accept that I’m going to be at least a half an hour late
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 month ago:
That’s not what he said though
he said
I think it’s worth it. It’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God given rights.
Everyone with guns is worth school shootings, basically. Sandy Hook isn’t an issue for him, because it’s worth it.
That’s what he said.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 month ago:
YES Daniel Radcliffe was so fucking bad in the harry potter movies, absolutely fucking ruined them. I loved that book series as a kid and he fucking RUINED the movies for me.
That being said, he’s gotten better at acting since then I think. … a little.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 month ago:
People who use doordash and food delivery apps extensively, without a disability, are some lazy ass people, who deserve the shitty experience and high price it costs. Just go fucking get it yourself if you want it hot and fresh and not thrown on the ground.
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 month ago:
Ah well we used to be #1, I forgot we’ve dipped since the antichrist took over
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 1 month ago:
The costs of medical school make this an impossible ask. The only people that can go to medical school are the people that have rich parents, or are OK with leveraging their future for the chance at becoming a successful doctor. Things go wrong in peoples lives all the time, school gets interrupted all the time. Asking people who just want to help others to pay $300k for the privilege of attempting to get to that point is literally insane. We also have a huge shortage of doctors. Go figure.
