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- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
We need something in America to distract us from the consequences of our actions.
- Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking? 3 days ago:
COINCIDENCE? I think…so.
- Comment on Is it time to start a campaign against kernel-level anticheat? 5 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 week ago:
save one jackass, ever considered the job worth a damn to do anything over.
I feel like there’s a Dwight Shrute in every type of job under the sun.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, no problem. Hope you like it.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
You like horizon? I played the first one and thought the story was pretty good. Maybe not like Bioshock level, but better than most games of the type.
- Comment on Am I a bad person if (as left as they come) I invest in American Private Prison contractors on the assumption that Trump will go through with his deportation scheme at least to some extent? 2 weeks ago:
Yes
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 2 weeks ago:
Wellness influencer doesn’t know the definition of fucking…raw?
Yeah, that checks out.
- Comment on "The **Most open** Operating System" 3 weeks ago:
😆
- 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? 3 weeks ago:
Coal
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 4 weeks ago:
One definition of a collapse is a sudden drastic reduction in the complexity of a thing.
I’m not sure whether we’re going to have a societal collapse or a slow decline, but either way the US is in a downward spiral. I think Trump increases the likelihood of us going into the collapse trajectory.
All that said, on the other side of a collapse, there is some room for hope. The incendiary portion of the collapse will definitely suck to live through (if you’re lucky enough to do so), but our country could probably use some simplification long-term because the people within it largely cannot navigate a country this Byzantine. A lot of this country’s systems are too complex for an average person to understand let alone administer.
Most of these complexities were probably birthed via intentional decisions by the system creators, and others were a product of unintended consequences. I think the gap in education between our commoners and “the elite” – to borrow an awful trope – also played a part here.
No matter how we arrived, I don’t think the current population can actually operate these systems anymore and long-term one way or another our people require a drastic reduction in the complexity of our society.
There is another path in which the United States invests more in education and scales up the average intelligence of its citizens so that they can handle the complexity of modern life, nuance, do research, and create better policy…but at this point I think we’re frankly too far fucked to ever go down that path.
- Comment on Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich? 4 weeks ago:
They’re idiots
- Comment on Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old? 5 weeks ago:
The only fast food I enjoyed in recent memory was Pizza Hut. During some scare about MSG they removed all of the MSG and I ordered it a time or two after that and it was nearly inedible.
I suspect similar things happened with other types of fast food. I think there’s a flanderization effect happening with a lot of it. The same is definitively not the case for things like pizza in general, as I can order from my local NY-style pizza place and pizza is still just as good as it ever was.
It wouldn’t surprise me if fast food was objectively shittier across a number of different metrics.
- Comment on Skyrim Is 13 Years Old, But Elder Scrolls 6 Is Nowhere in Sight While Bethesda’s First Four Games Took Only 12 Years 5 weeks ago:
It’s almost like they suck at making games now.
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 month ago:
The “American experiment” as far as I am aware is one of “self-governance”.
It arguably has never been tried in earnest since the founding of this country, at very least failed entirely in 2016 with Russia’s influence and the zero consequences that rose from that, and was likely dealt a critical now by the citizens united decision which all but guaranteed that rich people would decide our elections for us in the future.
- Comment on Is this what every election is like? 1 month ago:
No
- Comment on lemmy rn 1 month ago:
It’s probably a very unpopular opinion, but I feel like Jon Stewart is overrated. He was at the height of his powers in the GWB era and he helped Kerry to a hefty loss, and then followed that up by running pointless and distracting political rallies that did nothing at all to prevent the 2010 shellacking by the tea party.
He helped provide cover for Trump this election cycle by laughing at him and at times even joking that he was gonna vote for Trump. I guarantee the daily show episodes that couch potato democrats like myself used to soothe themselves during this sleep walk into fascism will age like milk.
I couldn’t even bare to watch the election night coverage him and Colbert were doing and I’m sure that it got grim as hell (similar to coverage of 2016) as the jokes started to not match the bleak reality of an upcoming second Trump term.
- Comment on do you think lemmy will ever be popular? 1 month ago:
It’s already popular enough to be a meme scroll substitute for Reddit so I’m good.
- Comment on How do I get my clothes to smell like I just bought them at the store? 2 months ago:
Spray them down with microplastics, unnatural dyes, and hazardous chemicals.
- Comment on The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing 2 months ago:
I suspect they have their own emulators.
I mean they have old games available for new platforms and have had that for multiple generations.
- Comment on The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing 2 months ago:
This is all just speculation. I have no idea how much it would cost for them to build new systems for every playable game in the museum.
Aside from the could argument, I don’t really understand why they would do it.
- Comment on The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing 2 months ago:
Your body is going to fail eventually, so you might as well stop brushing your teeth and drink bottles of scotch for breakfast. /s
- Comment on The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing 2 months ago:
Them being the original creator of the products doesn’t necessarily imply that they still have running production processes for everything they ever made.
- Comment on This means I close the tab, regardless of what is on the site. 2 months ago:
Is it ok to slut shame a website for having too many partners?
- Comment on Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show 2 months ago:
You are clueless about what it’s like to live in this country. Healthcare being largely a scam even if you have insurance is just one piece of the puzzle.
- Comment on Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show 2 months ago:
It’s not just exposure to political content that makes it not fun to live in America. It’s the never ending mountain of shit you deal with on a daily basis simply because you’re an American.
- Comment on Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show 2 months ago:
it doesn’t look like fun anymore.
It hasn’t really been fun to live in this country in nearly a decade, and that’s me speaking as someone sitting on the top of the privilege pile.
The country is basically 6 corporations dressed in a trench coat.
- Comment on Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show 2 months ago:
Cuz the video in question is as biased as fox news. Just into the opposite direction.
The video in this post is from a comedy show on comedy network.
It ads nothing to the political debate
As you continually do here with your “this adds nothing” and “this wastes electricity” posts.
If you don’t like the video or the show, here’s an idea: don’t fucking watch it. You don’t live here so it isn’t even for you, and you don’t seem to enjoy it much from your pissy moany comments.
Some of us have to live in this country where people make the absurd arguments refuted in the video about Trump, and some of us like to kick back with our feet up and blow off steam with a little mild humor about the absurdity of the political situation in this country.
- Comment on Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show 2 months ago:
You might feel like it’s “everyone”, because you never hear anything the other side has to say.
Au contraire mon frere. I would posit that nobody that gives even a single iota of a shit about politics in this country hasn’t been exposed to what “the other side has to say”. I’d also venture to guess that the number of people who don’t give a single iota of shit about politics in this country have also heard what “the other side has to say” is very distant on the number line from zero. There have even been studies (since you occasionally pretend to give a fuck about objectivity) confirming that Republicans who watch Fox News know less about Democrats than Democrats know about Republicans.
It’s kind of difficult to not “hear what the other side has to say” when half of your news media spends its time interviewing people on both sides of divisive issues such as “the vaccine question” or “is the earth round”, and the other half of your news media openly roots for Republican candidates.
- Comment on Jon Stewart: Trump Is The Opposite of Who His Supporters Claim He Is | The Daily Show 2 months ago:
I don’t think your message is ever received by anyone who disagrees. My question is what’s the point? This is a waste of electricity.
And you go down the thread posting shit like this. That’s also a waste of electricity. I guess humans are just wasteful. 🤷