chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Genius 2 hours ago:
Coca-Cola owns the machines, btw.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 1 day ago:
Buying studios wasn’t stupid.
Doing it and putting all their products on a subscription service is.
- Comment on Xbox is cancelling Rare's 'Everwild' and ZeniMax's new MMORPG IP as part of broader cuts — with 'Perfect Dark' impacted as well 2 days ago:
They know they’ve destroyed the planet, so why bother planning for a future they’ve already prevented.
- Comment on Anon hates reddit 2 days ago:
It explains some.of the earlier stuff too.
He’s active on right-wing hate subs, so he’s banned from the remaining civilized subs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
I live in Texas. I own like 2 shirts with long sleeves in case I have to go to a funeral or something.
- Comment on Glitter Bats!! 3 days ago:
The regional term that pegs me to where I grew up is calling access roads “feeders.”
- Comment on Get Back! 4 days ago:
Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain.
Doctor says, “Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up.”
Man bursts into tears. Says, “But doctor…I am Pagliacci.”
Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum.
Curtains.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 6 days ago:
And you can turn off some of the survival elements that some people find annoying. For instance, having to spend half your time early on hunting a specific type of fish for freshwater.
- Comment on Air Jordens 1 week ago:
I might pay extra for that.
- Comment on I honestly think they're impossible to understand 1 week ago:
- Comment on Looks delicious 1 week ago:
Those are some expensive pickles.
- Comment on Having a big memory card was such a flex 1 week ago:
For those who weren’t around at the time: The PS2 had a huge shortage of memory cards the first year or so. So you could buy games, but had to keep the console powered up 24/7 because you couldn’t save your games.
I ended up buying a 3rd party card, but since Sony didn’t officially allow them it came with a disc that launched an application that installed a driver in the local memory that allowed the card to function until the next power cycle. So you’d put in the driver disc, turn on the PS2, load the drivers, then swap discs to the game you wanted to play and pray that the game you were playing didn’t make use of the same memory addresses as the 3rd-party drivers.
- Comment on It is what it is 1 week ago:
Are people required to know how their car works?
Do people have to understand chemistry to buy gasoline or mercury thermometers?
- Comment on It is what it is 1 week ago:
That’s simply not true. People can’t be expected to know what’s going on under the hood of services designed specifically to simplify things for non-technical users and conceal what’s under the hood.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 1 week ago:
My local officials are pretty protective of us.
At the same time, the state just passed a law limiting severance pay to municipal employees to 60 days, so that when they outlaw a bunch of our functions we also suffer when our jobs aren’t legal and nobody is hiring statewide.
I love some of the cities I’ve worked for, but God I hate the Texas state government.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 1 week ago:
Actually, I tend to order healthier options than what I cook. If I’m spending 30 dollars on lunch it isn’t gonna be fast food. I usually go with a salad bowl or something.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 1 week ago:
I work in municipal government.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 1 week ago:
I definitely use Uber Eats because I’m hungry, not lazy. That’s why I ise it exclusively from work, where I rarely get to take time for lunch, and instead have it delivered so I can mute my mic mid-meeting and eat.
I could meal-prep, but between getting up at 5am, getting home at 8pm, and helping out at my parent’s place on the weekends 200 miles away, I simply don’t have time to cook for work.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 week ago:
Start prepping for some strategic tech investments.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
Which goes back to the issue of the difficulty of building high-speed rail across long distances.
Higj-speed rail can’t be built at grade like freight rail. You can’t risk a cow getting through a fence or a crossing signal failure leading to a high-speed train collision.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
There’s already a lot of passenger rail options in that part of the country. I’ve used it, and it works great.
This post is specifically about using it in place of airlines, which is used for longer-distance travel.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
Slave labor.
- Comment on Anon likes trains 2 weeks ago:
The cost of dedicated passenger rail lines is staggering, and the US has a LOT of ground to cover.
- Comment on Ok smartass 2 weeks ago:
Except it’s not. The actual answer is 9:45. It’s a stupid way of describing time.
- Comment on Ok smartass 2 weeks ago:
Still better than quarter of.
What time is a “Quarter of 10”?
I could see it as 10:15, 9:45, 9:15, or 2:30. It’s stupid, and anybody who uses it is wrong.
- Comment on No Kings Protest, USA, 2025 2 weeks ago:
The thing is, part of the idea of this particular summer day was to distract from the Trump parade.
But then, just one fascist extremist with a gun posing as a cop was able to distract from the efforts of 5 million protestors.
- Comment on It's more economical 3 weeks ago:
He may be able to tell you where to bury your cat.
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 3 weeks ago:
I think it would still techically be more hole since a larger total area would be hole.
I would be fewer holes, though.
- Comment on Ads when you’re pumping gas 3 weeks ago:
Most of them in my area have disabled that. There is no non-destructive way to mute them.
- Comment on That's a good question 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. And the sacrifice refers not to Jesus’s suffering and persecution, but what humanity gave up in that sacrifice - God’s active, personal presence on Earth.