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- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 days ago:
What happens when one of these breaks and drains into the sewer system? Algae blooms cause noxious odors and would proliferate quickly in the nitrogen-rich environment of human waste water, potentially building up as clogs in the sewer lines. And if the system drains into a natural body of water, the algae can have devastating toxic effects on the natural wildlife. If it doesn’t drain and instead gets recycled, then the water treatment process becomes much more difficult and expensive.
- Comment on one you pop you can't stop 1 week ago:
My scientific hypothesis is that you can caption this image when literally anything and it will still be funny enough to upvote.
- Comment on Quit Your Useless Job with Rutger Bregman [1:17:57] 1 week ago:
I watched about half of it (which is all I could make time for since I have a ‘useless’ job of my own that limits my time). Maybe that wasn’t enough to understand the point, and if that’s true then my bad for posting a reactionary reply. Oops.
But, if the first half is a representative slice of the whole video, then I don’t think my response is unreasonable. To summarize, the guest runs a non-profit that aims to pay Ivy League grads who have high-prestige “bullshit” jobs to switch careers and go work for NGOs, charitable organizations, etc. (I’m actually a bit confused about this point because he says he wants to pay them, but also acknowledges multiple times that they’ll be taking a pay cut? Maybe he clears that up in the last half, I didn’t know.)
I didn’t go to an Ivy League college. I do have a soul-sucking bullshit job that I only keep because it pays my bills and allows me to support the people who depend on me. I suspect the vast, vast majority of people who interact with this content will either be in the same boat as me, or will be people of even less privilege. In either case, we’re the ones who are gonna be served this video, but we’re not the ones who would ever benefit from this plan. Do you wanna bribe Harvard grads to quit their job at McKinsey and go work for Habitat for Humanity instead? Cool. Great. But the millions of us who don’t have fancy diplomas and six-figure jobs — the people this content is served to — get to continue slaving away and dying inside a little more each day while the most privileged people in our society get to be taken care of while also being given the moral highground? Forgive me, but I don’t really see what problem this is solving. This feels like a vanity project to make rich tech bros and layers feel better about themselves while the system remains fundamentally broken and the same toxic incentives that created this corporate hellscape remain just as toxic and just as incentivizing as ever.
- Comment on Quit Your Useless Job with Rutger Bregman [1:17:57] 1 week ago:
Cool, yeah. While I’m at it, I can get rid of my useless house and stop eating all this useless food. Thank God I don’t have any useless kids — that’ll save me a ton of trouble having to get rid of them too.
- Comment on TV tie-in MMO looter shooter Defiance returns for a free-to-play third shot at life and gigantic messy boss battles 2 weeks ago:
Fingers crossed that Rift gets a similar revival… the game whose initial success paid for Defiance in the first place
- Comment on Getting your wish 2 weeks ago:
Stockton Rush?
More like Stockton Crushed
- Comment on Marathon | Gameplay Reveal Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Escape will make me God
Other than the setting, this was the only reference to the original trilogy that I spotted, and man… the way it’s used here is just so disconnected from what made that line iconic and cool. I was cautiously optimistic before, but the media blitz they did today has completely killed any hope I had for the Marathon IP.
- Comment on Marathon | Gameplay Reveal Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Dancing through the wreckage of a beloved Bungie IP, Durandal was
laughingfuming. - Comment on Hades 2 will be a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive at launch 4 weeks ago:
Hades 2 is only console exclusive to the Switch 2; it’s also releasing on Steam.
- Comment on Hades 2 will be a Nintendo Switch 2 console exclusive at launch 4 weeks ago:
I suspect that Nintendo is offering them more than enough money for exclusivity to make it no longer ‘questionable’ for Supergiant, at least from a financial perspective.
- Comment on Special K 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Marathon | Save the Date Trailer 4 weeks ago:
Shouldn’t you be laughing?
- Comment on FREE HIM! 1 month ago:
No Mister Hedgehog, I expect you to die!
- Comment on Roblox CEO tells parents that “if you're not comfortable, don't let your kids be on Roblox”. 1 month ago:
Yes, and lawmakers should also do away with all safety regulations! Workers can simply quit jobs that they feel are unsafe!
- Comment on TRUE AND REAL 1 month ago:
Amorpho what now?
- Comment on Which Web Browser Should You Use? 2 months ago:
which should web you browser use
- Comment on Discuss. 2 months ago:
The guy in the hat between Curie and Oppenheimer is David Gilbert.
- Comment on An Extended Look at Pokémon Legends: Z-A 2 months ago:
detailed realism
Did we watch different trailers? lmao
- Comment on I still got it 2 months ago:
More.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Adblockers are your friend.
- Comment on xkcd's What If? | What if you built a billion-story building? 2 months ago:
Oh shit, a Blame! reference in wild…
- Comment on Don't give up. 3 months ago:
Basically just another way of saying a cubicle
- Comment on General Expression 3 months ago:
Many outcomes such as:
- play chess
- screw
- Comment on After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game 3 months ago:
This was inevitable as soon as games started getting the budgets of blockbuster movies. No one wants to invest that much money into a project without getting some oversight and control in return.
Of course, very, very few people who have access to that kind of cash have any design sense whatsoever, and even fewer understand the creative process, or what makes games “good”… so they ask for shit that they think will be “safe” money-makers, and we get what we get: endless, samey, soulless shlock.
- Comment on GET REKT 4 months ago:
[✓] Small Pox [✓] Murder Hornets [ ] Twitter
We’re almost there, humanity!
- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 4 months ago:
Even in base π, π is still considered an irrational number; using an irrational based doesn’t change the fundamental identity of whole numbers or irrational numbers, it just changes the way we write them.
- Comment on I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000 4 months ago:
What? That’s not true at all…
- Comment on DNA 4 months ago:
Sometimes I take an andacid when my stomach hurts.
- Comment on one heckin' huge fish 4 months ago:
Here we see the illusive pedant in its natural habitat