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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games like Starfield?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I’m a fan of the project, I don’t think SC/SQ42 would scratch the same itch that somebody who just got done playing Starfield or Mass Effect would feel. Star Citizen is way more on the simulation side and light on RPG elements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checking in⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My last picture in my saved images folder is a snip of my screen. My prompt got featured on Prequel Comic! Finally, after like, 10 years of submitting commands and I just happened to check for updates and saw my name at the top.

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  I kind of regret that specific prompt getting picked now though, because I thought the spider character was on an elevator traveling downwards, but I went back a page and realized that it was a camera/animation trick and they weren’t actually moving down. And yet, the artist still picked me for some reason anyway. Whatever, I’ll take it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearing Star Fox 64 with the good/true ending for the first time ever was an indescribable feeling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Right next to the cast iron pan! 😌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't wash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The only time I would ever wash a chicken is if I’m going to brine it in something. Otherwise it cooks just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mildly McInfuriating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was just talking about this with a friend the other day, but it’s really not worth it to go to these fast food places anymore even if you do like the food. I remember when, speaking to my friend, we would go to BK in high school and get a couple of “buck doubles”, because Burger King used to run a promotion where you could get two double cheeseburgers for two dollars. It was honestly a great deal. Then the shrinkflation kicked in and over time the size of the food became smaller and smaller. Then, the actual currency inflation hit, and fast food companies used the increased price of beef, chicken and other such ingredients as an excuse to gouge the hell out of their prices. Now, if I were to go to BK and get my usual fare, I would be lucky to leave paying less than $16. For like, $4 extra (not including tip) I could go to the Chili’s across the street and get an actual restaurant quality burger, and a side, and a beverage and be more than satisfied.

  These fast food places are completely off their rocker if they think these prices are reasonable. Inflation is going down, so we as consumers need to stop buying their shit so they can’t justify keeping prices so insanely high. McDonalds and other fast food places are the biggest bulk purchaser of raw ingredients, so you bet that they have an insane amount of negotiating power to convince farmers and ranchers to supply the stuff they need for below market rate in bulk quantities.

  If you are really craving that unique fast food flavor that you can only get at your favorite chain, let me tell you, there are YouTube channels with copycat recipes that can be made quicker and cheaper than the time it takes to drive to the nearest chain location, order, pay, get your food, leave, and come back to your house to eat it. And they taste almost the same or better in most cases because you make it yourself so you can add as much of the flavorful stuff as you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go into debt if you have to⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can imagine the raucous laughter behind me as I exit the bank, fist clenched in anger and face red with embarrassment, after explaining to the loan officer that I needed $20m to purchase an LNG tanker but also that I have never been a sea captain, don’t know anything about natural gasses, and have no supply chain for acquiring or selling the product that said tanker is meant to distribute.

  Nah, I’m good. I’ll stay poor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has the USA turned into an oligarchy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A Plutocracy is merely an Oligarchy by virtue of wealth. It’s not as if you or I could ever earn enough money legitimately to move up to the ruling class. That makes it functionality indistinguishable from an Oligarchy that is hand picked by arbitrary factors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your manager is telling you that you are doing a good job and has no notes on your performance, but telling the higher-ups at the company or other management level employees something other than exactly that, it’s no longer an issue of respect at that point. Your work environment is toxic.

  Start seeking other positions. Take your time and interview carefully - remember to ask good questions that will help you get an idea of whether or not it would be a place that you can enjoy working at, or at the very least tolerate on a day-to-day basis.

  If they ask you why you are quitting, wait until your exit interview to spill any details about your manager going behind your back. Do not accept counter-offers for continued employment (retaliation is very likely if you do stay) and don’t bother trying to hash out any grievances with the person conducting your exit interview (their promises are almost never backed up by action, just hot air to get you to stay and trap you where you are). Walk in there confident knowing that you committed to changing jobs over this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I walked all over the damn store looking for butter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a Safeway, and those signs are at the ends of the aisle, so no, he didn’t just conveniently crop out more aisle that says dairy. The dairy section is usually open air chillers, not closed refrigeration units like this.

  Some Safeway stores are ancient and too small to carry all the product people expect to be able to find these days, so they put stuff in nutty locations like this from time to time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TW: suicide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was an occasional reddit repost that I remember seeing a few times about a guy who invented a “suicide helmet” specifically to avoid the prospect of botching his own planned attempt. It basically was a bunch of shotgun shells wired up to a detonator and fused into a hardhat. The level of planning and makeshift engineering that went into it was astounding, and the dude explained it all in his suicide note. It worked. On one hand I can see how someone who is determined to die but afraid of pain would want to make sure the process was instantaneous and extremely lethal, on the other hand, it’s fucked up to think about how much the guy must have dwelt on the idea of killing himself, knowing it wasn’t just a spur-of-the-moment opportunity where he shoved a gun in his mouth like most people would have done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will not disappoint my ancestors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fellas, is it gay to go to heaven? I mean, just look at it! You’re surrounded by dicks! It’s a total sausage-fest up there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oh man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First they tried “But he was rich!” And that didn’t stick, so now they’re going back to the old political divisiveness play book with “but he was a right-winger!”.

  Don’t fall for it. The powers that be desperately want public opinion to turn on this guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am a very liberal person and I have very liberal children, except for one. I'm pretty sure my Gen Z son has been taken in by fascist doctrine. What can I get him for Christmas?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some kids adopt an edgy political identity as a form of protest or rebellion. I can see this being the case here, especially if your whole family is particularly left-leaning. Kid wants to feel like he has an autonomy over his own decision making and that he’s not just a carbon copy of you or his siblings, so he becomes as contrarian.

  As a teen I was also taken in by extremist political ideology on 4chan, but the thing that snapped me out of that is, surprisingly enough, my curriculum at school focusing heavily on critical thinking and problem solving as essential skills. That’s unfortunately not something that can easily be condensed down into a gift-sized package. I’m sure there are some books out there that can help, but I worry that it might be too on-the-nose or that he might just not like reading much to be interested in dry subject matter like philosophy or political science.

  I kind of agree with other posters here that taking a family trip somewhere, maybe not explicitly as a gift for him, but as an experience for all of your children, will expose him to stimuli that drastically differ from the way he currently sees the world, which is influenced by a nonstop stream of fearmongering propaganda and a lack of perspective of what a world outside the town or city he grew up in actually looks like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic the Gathering is going to have more brand tie-ins⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Brian Tyler Cohen is awesome, lol. His show is probably the highest production value political commentary on youtube outside of the mainstream news.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would be the top ten items in a MAGA starter pack?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How come he didn’t fix any of these problem the first time around?

  Face it, you got tricked. Again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA President term limits⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Supreme Court can’t take back an amendment the way they can strike down laws (I.e. by ruling it unconstitutional for whatever reason), because it IS constitutional by definition.

  Yeah, but the problem is that the Supreme Court are also the arbiters of the interpretation of the document, and there’s nothing to suggest that they can’t simply come out and say “Oh, it means two consecutive terms”, which is exactly what Putin does in Russia with their term limits - some stooge takes over for a term and then Putin wins in yet another landslide.

  I mean, the 22nd Amendment is very clean, IMO. “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice” is pretty unambiguous, but I really can’t put anything past this corrupt administration. A coup is probably more likely, but if Trump can somehow get the law on his side he won’t need to, so I’m sure he would prefer that route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel this way about cinnamon.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny, I love chili and I love mac and cheese, but I find ChiliMac to be somehow worse than the sum of it’s parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time a Republican Oresident left office with a good economy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Inflation was on the rise before Trump left office. It continued under Biden for the first two years of his term, but he managed to get key legislation passed in that span of time that has measurably reduced inflation. It’s still not back down to what it was pre-pandemic, but we are leading almost every other western democracy in that metric. It really is incredible that people are giving Biden shit for the economy when he is actively fixing the problem, and it shows that the Democrats have a tremendous failure in their ability to do effective messaging.

  If it doesn’t feel like inflation has been improved under Biden, that’s because the price you pay at the gas pump or the grocery store has more to do with what they chose to set their prices at than what the current rate of inflation is. The “vibe economy” is real, but they aren’t casting the blame for it at the right people. For once, government did it’s job. Who knows if the current trend will continue under Trump, but given that he set off the massive inflationary spending spree by injecting a ton of cash into a booming economy with stimulus checks, I imagine he’s not going to care much about the fundamentals of a healthy economy and will instead do whatever makes his donors happy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Americans, be prepare to get screwed!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. I hope he does it. Don’t let any of his yes-men or cronies tell him what a horrible idea it is. Let the whole fucking country burn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is it that "protecting basic democracy and the rule of law, and not crowning a criminal dictator" wasn't even on the chart?!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Immigration is such a horseshit issue. Why are people dumb enough to fall for this shit?

  Immigration will be “solved” come January, but not because Trump will actually do anything about it, but he’ll just say the problem is solved and then stop talking about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do Americans win their country back?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too late for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Trump wins the election thru fraud how can the democrats refute it and prove they won? Or will it just be like another Jan 6 and four years of whining like Trump?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to believe that the only reason 2020 got so ratfucked in the first place was that Trump was intentionally not putting the screws on anybody to do their jobs.

  A second Jan 6th won’t happen, at least not this year. A MAGA mob will show up at the capitol and be met by a fully prepared and well armed national guard, because Biden is the commander in chief and he’s going to take threats like that seriously.

  If the house declines to elect a speaker, Biden could in theory put pressure on them to pick one. The constitutional crisis can swing both directions - yes the Republicans will likely try to avoid certification, but then Biden could threaten to not step down unless the certification happens, or hand over the reigns to VP Harris anyway by resigning. I don’t see it working in their favor to try something like not certifying or not electing a speaker, because they don’t have the luxury of Trump in the white house to look the other way at their bad behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨have you ever been given a warning or suspension for using profane language at work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At my company, they used to be a lot more tolerant of it, but we had exactly one person complain about excessive use of coarse language and then HR cracked the whip. They still don’t really care that much about using swear words when just interacting in person with other people, as long as it’s not bothering anybody else, but they heavily police our work chat to make sure that all of our messages are above the board in terms of professional conduct. Which makes sense, I can’t really argue against the logic that the work chat should be a professional setting where you can communicate your thoughts and feelings without having to resort to using profanity. Sometimes people have to be reminded to not use profane language, but they never call anybody out specifically, they just send out “reminder” messages whenever they see it and usually the person who is responsible knows not to keep it up or else there will be a more direct reprimand.

  It would be hard for me to not sometimes utter “fuck” under my breath while I’m at work, but if my bosses were concerned about it, I would just start channeling that into more work-appropriate language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This emoji has two meanings:

  1. the “original” meaning is based on the “shaka sign” from Hawai’ian culture. It’s often paired with the phrase “hang loose”, which generally just means to relax, have a good time, etc.

  2. When mobile telephones first started to become mainstream, they would often have an antenna that extended up and out of the phone chassis and a receiver that flipped down that you would speak directly into, so people picked up this gesture that mimicked the shape of a cell phone. Pressing it against your cheek with the pinky finger in front of your mouth and the thumb covering the opening of your ear would be accompanied by saying or mouthing “call me” was pretty universally understood and was one way to communicate the desire to speak on the phone from a distance where you could still visually see someone but shouting was ineffective or impractical.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump cosplaying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you get hot oil on your hand, glove or no, you’re gonna have a bad time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So bad it was actually entertaining⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve noticed in most cases on Kitchen Nightmares that either the food is good but one or two problem employees bring the entire restaurant down, or the food sucks ass but the service staff are generally sympathetic and will not mince words about the bad quality. In almost every case, management is in denial despite asking for help.

  I wonder if they stage it that way on purpose, because I can’t imagine getting lucky enough to have Gordon fucking Ramsay come to save my failing restaurant and having my ego stand in the way at the moment of truth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobel Prize 2024⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Generative AI is really causing a negative association with AI in general to the point where a proper rebranding is probably in order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you even post that much⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I’m good friends with The Picard Maneuver, Flying Squid, and Kolanaki, just because they’re in all the same threads I am.

  I don’t even consciously interact with specific people on Lemmy, but sometimes I just happen to be paying attention to the usernames and I do the Leo pointing meme like “Hey, I recognize that guy!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people impressed with SpaceX?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, a lot of smart people are under his spell too. I had to listen to the CEO of a medium sized company wax poetic about how he’s a super genius and the greatest boon to human ingenuity in a century, desperately trying to hold my tongue as I rolled my eyes into the back of my skull.

  I think he’s an okay businessman. That’s about as much praise as I’m willing to afford him. He’s definitely charismatic enough to convince a room full of investors that the ideas he’s pitching are worthwhile. Part of that is that his passion for these projects are genuine, and when you put somebody in a room with a passionate guy, the enthusiasm tents to rub off on them just a little.

  Most of his investments that garnered him his wealth are just him being at the right place at the right time. Getting in on PayPal when Ecommerce was in it’s infancy and partnering with Ebay to take advantage of shopaholics who just couldn’t help themselves. Buying his way into Tesla right when EVs were primed to take off and pushing hard for an economy class variant that could be mass produced rapidly (in an already-made factory that Toyota closed down, no less!). Founding SpaceX and pouring a shit ton of his own money into rocket and aeronautics R&D right around the time the U.S. Government was looking for cheap contractors to take over the space program. I think the only projects he miscalculated on were buying Twitter for way too much money when social media was really starting to stagnate.

  His politics are fucking weird, though. I find him to be personally pretty repugnant. I already didn’t like him because back in the early days of Tesla he pushed all the management to essentially become slavedrivers for the line workers. I live in California near the plant and I had friends who worked there in production that got nearly worked to death, extreme overtime and weekend shifts, few breaks, the only saving grace was the above average pay that kind of kept them trapped in that hell of a job for way too long. Then the whole Thai soccer team incident happened and I was so over him. Haven’t heard anything about him since that has made me feel like he deserves to be the richest cunt in the fucking universe.