phx

@phx@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motivational⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Garage tech startups where the garage belongs to your already upper-income-class parents

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Aliens did a little trolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’d be a 180° and people would start claiming that the political leaders were controlling the aliens rather than the other way around

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Aliens did a little trolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d try and convince them that politicians are a race…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fantasy rednecks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most have Eurocentric accents because those are the areas the various legends and stories originated.

  Various depictions of leprechauns make them pretty much Irish rednecks. I love Mad Sweeney’s depiction in American Gods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “lifetime” partner :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I generally only drink instant for late night decaf, though the premixed Korean instant coffee packets are a treat every hour and then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that rising interest has also fucked up the market for builders who are now producing even less houses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are three reasons that “good landlords” seem to be scarce:

  • People tend to be more vocal about bad experiences than good, so we’ll definitely hear more about the bad ones

  • Many people decided to become a landlord because it outpaced other “investments” greatly, especially if you’re a shitty landlord who doesn’t put profit back into maintaining said “investment”

  • Many of the good landlords that did exist and weren’t gouging eventually got hit with a bad tenant that cost them a lot of suffering and $$$ while being extremely difficult to evict. Whether it’s true or not, I still hear current ones who say they’re charging [crazy amount] to pad for the eventual $20k bill when a bad tenant wrecks their place (and these days it’s not hard to do $20k+ in damage)

  Also per the comic: I’ve never heard of anyone tipping a landlord, good or bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve picked up a ton of their free games. I’ve yet to actually install their client and actually play one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I get that Bedrock is for consoles, but as far as far as “performance” that’s mostly a front-end consideration.

  I just wish that there was a level of compatibility where one could still self-host and allow the console etc players to join

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is woke a religion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a great explanation of the terms. Thanks for that.

  Given this, can you think of a word that would describe those who are hostile to the concept of a deity? Antitheist, perhaps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is woke a religion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t find any religion I’ve ever run across appealing, but I have no beef with those who do good under the umbrella of their religion and don’t try to beat on others with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is woke a religion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And? You could take the same data and say- “religious persons are less likely to speak out againstmessaging that potentially promotes harm” (likely also dependent on the religious affiliation of the messenger)

  The preceding message that this makes atheists the more “intolerant” group is a pretty massive reach, consider that the messaging they may be against could in itself be one of intolerance as per my example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is woke a religion?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, what is the relation of “a speaker” to religion? If somebody comes in to speak and starts talking about how we need to gas more jews, stop women from voting, and put the blacks back out in the cotton fields then fuck yeah I’m gonna support cutting them off and sending them packing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s getting destroyed? You wouldn’t be able to login to the server but the data would still be there. Transfer the account (or make a new one) and the data’s still there as well.

  I’m more annoyed that Microsoft split off Java Edition and Bedrock into two pieces of incompatible software, but I’m honestly surprised they’ve supported the old auth services for this long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like what should be called an “open box” product to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one really understands our struggle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Tenants deserve to live in house conditions that the landlords themselves would be willing to live in.