negativeyoda
@negativeyoda@lemmy.world
another Reddit refugee
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 5 days ago:
By choice, dingus.
I don’t have that option. Big Ole difference. Maybe give everyone Lyme disease so they develop red meat allergies and we can talk
Okay. You want me to double down? I won’t eat at vegan places most of the time. Here’s the thing: vegetables are delicious. So why?
Vegans will support a vegan place no matter what and will talk it up as being amazing even if it sucks. I’ve been burned being told, “oh. That place is so good” and it’s just a matter of vegans circling the wagons and propping up a place that serves a lazy impossible burger with fake plastic cheese on it. Y’all ain’t accountable and it makes it difficult taking vegan food seriously. No wonder y’all’s food has an inferiority complex
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 days ago:
I and others are over here with soy, egg and gluten allergies that restrict pretty heavily what I can eat. But go off since you have it all figured out, king.
- Comment on Movie lines people laughed at in theaters despite not actually being intended to be funny? 1 week ago:
Reminds me that I started the sequel 2 weeks ago, am probably 20 minutes in and I promptly forgot it
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck: A Tragedy On Four Wheels 3 weeks ago:
How often do you assholes move couches? Why do we have to buy these behemoth vehicles for rare maximal use cases?
- Comment on acceptable screws 5 weeks ago:
JIS is more common on Japanese machines, ie Japanese cars and motorcycles. When I was a bike mechanic you used JIS for Shimano derailleur adjustment screws. Even tho a Phillips “fit” it would destroy the screw.
I actually can’t tell them apart from sight truth be told, but I’m also not wrenching anymore (not to mention the cycling industry largely moved on to hex and torx)
- Comment on acceptable screws 5 weeks ago:
No mention of JIS which is yet another “fuck Phillips” argument
- Comment on I'm loose bottom, tag yourself 1 month ago:
I travel through Boring Oregon (just outside of Portland) who’s sister city is Dull, so I guess that’s me
- Comment on Police stopped Brad on his morning walk for wearing a hoodie. Ten minutes later, he was dead 1 month ago:
- Comment on The later books are really something 1 month ago:
These… weren’t Brian’s books
- Comment on The later books are really something 1 month ago:
Messiah is good Children is decent but spotty God Emperor is essentially a fever dream. I was like WTF while reading it but I love how off the rails it went.
The last couple are kind of forgettable.
The immediate prequels (house books) are a fun read and plotted well, but his kid isn’t as good of a writer
The legends books are garbage
The last 2 books that tie up the original series (hunters and sandworms) are not good and are infuriating in that elements from the legends books are reintroduced as deus ex machina bullshit. I saw the twist coming halfway through the last book.
I never read any of the other gap filler books that have been written in that universe. It got tiresome
Everything up until God Emperor is worthwhile with the prequels being a fun appetizer. Read the synopses of the others if you need to know what happens
- Comment on Smooth area on the bottom of my balls 3 months ago:
I just checked down there. It’s your chin
- Comment on Why there are no "secondary" sports league that allow performance enhancement drugs? 3 months ago:
Some of that shit is fucking dangerous. At the height of the EPO (EPO being a hormone which increases red blood cell production and makes the chuckledick system more efficient) era of pro cycling, the rumor was some pros had to wake up in the middle of the night and get on a trainer because they’d gotten their blood so viscous that they risked getting clots of they stayed in one spot too long.
Also, if you do it wrong you’ll absolutely fuck yourself up. Riccardo Ricco Basically gave himself kidney failure because he infused blood which he’d kept in fucking mini fridge.
It’s not like elite athletes aren’t already on weird shit normal people would never consider… they’re on plenty of gear but what’s allowed is already regulated. A lot of pros toe the line, some in better faith than others
- Comment on Milking machine 4 months ago:
Hook one of these up to a Sybian and let the machines fuck one another. Metaphors abound
- Comment on Gastronomical Masterpiece 4 months ago:
You know what’s up.
I usually throw a bit of miso in before cooking and add avocado if I have it
- Comment on Gastronomical Masterpiece 4 months ago:
An egg
- Comment on Larry Bird really knew how to get under your skin 4 months ago:
I don’t really follow or care about basketball, but I grew up during the showtime era and had a relative in LA. Bird was feared. Every so often I’ll disappear down a YouTube rabbit hole about him. Dude ruled
- Comment on Adam Driver Says Kylo Ren’s Original ‘Star Wars’ Arc Got Overhauled: He Was Supposed to Be the ‘Most Committed to the Dark Side’ by the End 4 months ago:
No one necessarily wanted the same shit again. Fans just wanted something good that wasn’t a cobbled together mess
- Comment on ‘The Marvels’ Meltdown: Disney MCU Seeing Lowest B.O. Opening Ever At $47M+ 5 months ago:
To build on this now we also have a Super Skrull with capt Marvel’s powers and those of a several other superheros/villains.
(Or was I the only one able to make it through Secret Invasion?)
Also, I never watched the Ms. Marvel show, so I have absolutely no opinion or frame of reference for that now supposedly marquee character so I’m just not all that drawn to watching it. Plus… super hero fatigue
- Comment on Military Time vs 24hr? 6 months ago:
Quebec does a lot of dumb shit that isn’t consistent with the rest of Canada
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
When Isreal openly advocates for Jews of other nationalities to come illegally occupy land that has supposedly been set aside for Palestinians they’re doing so to displace and replace them. How many resolutions about Palestine have been vetoed by only the US and Isreal with the rest of the world unilaterally telling Israel to cut it out? Shit, this one is from 7 years ago
What Isreal is doing is genocide. I don’t for a minute condone all the methods Hamas is employing, but what’s happening is a predictable response from an increasingly desperate people
- Comment on McDonald's franchisee group says new $20 minimum wage California fast-food bill will cause 'devastating financial blow' 7 months ago:
Good thing they did away with self refills
- Comment on Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man? 8 months ago:
Burners by and large are dipshits, but no one reasonable is laughing at anyone dying.
- Comment on In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance? 8 months ago:
You go to the hospital and get a bill that puts you into debt for the rest of your life. Maybe you do a crowdfunding campaign to cover part of it
- Comment on We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general 8 months ago:
My question is why you don’t have your own instance set up the way you want. You seem to know what you want and have a myriad of opinions. Then again, if you had your own airtight instance who are you going to go histrionic on bickering about ideological purity so you feel better about yourself?
You started off amusing and silly but now you’re boring and honestly kind of gross with no sense of self awareness whatsoever. You and tankies both seem to have that in common.
I think I’m gonna exercise the block function a bit more. Seeyas
- Comment on We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general 8 months ago:
Jesus Christ, dude. I’ve blocked all the tankie subs when they render in my feed, but you’ve got me wanting to call you comrade. Smoke some weed and go outside for a while
- Comment on Are American tv shows stuck in Act 2 for their entire runtime between season 1 and final season? 8 months ago:
Friend, you are in for a treat
- Comment on Don't give me a reason to go to Starbucks, damn it! 9 months ago:
Exactly this. Starbucks coffee is awful and Schultz sucks.
Easiest way to stop drinking Starbucks is to try drinking their coffee black or look at the nutritional content in your vanilla bean Frappuccino
- Comment on Can someone help me identify this stretchy toy from the 90's and 00's? 9 months ago:
I’m imagining a pitch board meeting with a bunch of old, white dudes in suits quizzically trying to understand these while some dorky R&D guy is like, “it’s gonna be huge!” And that is making me chuckle more than it probably should
- Comment on Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing 9 months ago:
I just posted the same thing. I used to be a bartender/ server and work in retail. You DON’T rest. Not on your own schedule at least
My work is hybrid these days and I have tasks to complete instead of just drink from the firehose of task garbage being thrown my way. I can control the ebb and flow of my workday and slack or be a champion as needed.
Oh, I work 4 9 hour day weeks too. My quality of life is better in every way and i STILL dick around certain days. You probably make a lot more than I do but it’s not worth it to get home and have zero bandwidth
- Comment on Major 4-day workweek study suggests that when we work 5 days we spend one doing basically nothing 9 months ago:
This really only applies to office/clerical type gigs. I can tell you that the service sector never gets to rest