mctoasterson

@mctoasterson@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Will Bring America First Drug Prices by Knocking Out the Middlemen, Making Europe Pay Its Fair Share⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many critical treatments and medicines are developed in the US. Congress could pass protectionist trade laws requiring that the poorest uninsured American can’t be charged a penny more than whatever artificially low negotiated costs are paid by foreign countries systems like the Canadians or the British NHS.

  Its possible that other countries could retaliate with cost controls for their own domestically developed drugs but it feels like this is an area where the US can and should have leverage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Sales Hit Rock Bottom After Historic 2024 Decline⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly all of this bullshit is why I went with a Steamdeck a few years ago. As a working adult with a family I have different economic obligations and priorities.

  I need to build a new PC soon (mine is now 10 years old) but I can’t justify spending $5K on a gaming rig. If I built now with a flagship card, just the card itself would cost more than I spent on my entire rig when I built it in 2014/2015. Pair that with Microsoft’s ridiculous operating system enshittification, and the PC situation gets even more complicated for me.

  Consoles have gotten to be a bad value proposition for me as well. Paper launches, scalping during the pandemic, DRM etc., services going offline. All that garbage leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

  I’m having a decent enough time with Steam sale games, Indy games, and retro emulation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would do this for just 1.99⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yknow one great thing that costs about 1.99 (one time cost)?

  Those little plastic slidy bits that cover up the laptop webcam and mic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was Hitler so mean and hateful toward one group or another? I find it hard to believe he woke up one day and said you and you suck but these people over here are good. Taking it so far as killing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Respectfully, do some reading of even middleschool level history books. He didn’t personally decide to “be mean” to particular groups. His worldview was shaped by the post WWI dynamics in Europe, latent stereotypes and domestic problems within Germany, and a whole lot of misapplied emerging science. He literally believed in racial supremecy and was trying to build an ethnostate. This motivated him to define groups of ethnic “undesirables” and also to lump in other groups that he found politically inconvenient. Read about the scapegoating of Jews circa that time. He likely believed his cruelty towards them was somehow justified because he laid all of Germany’s problems (economic issues, humiliation of the country and loss of territory post-WWI) at their feet.

  TL; DR - Bad actors believe their evil behavior is justified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An independent voter explains why they chose a moronic, oligarcho-fascist demagogue over Joe Biden (c. November 2020) [Day 58]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What is this meme template from

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All they have to do is sell a million copies for $700 each and they break even!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily the YouTube app gets way worse with each update. Mine now tries to dark pattern you into signing in, and now features extra ads when pause a video.

  I’m switching to sideloaded SmartTube on a GoogleTV with Chromecast dongle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did Tipper Gore get resurrected somehow? I thought she got banished to the shadow realm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i hate hate hate stuart little⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My money is on Fievel. After he went West, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a nostalgic gamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So much scoutzknivez and iceworld

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That funny feeling⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Drink water. Fix your shitty diet. Eat bananas or sweet potatoes or other sources of potassium. Take dietary magnesium supplements or use the topical magnesium stuff (like Theraworx foam) on your affected muscle groups before bed.

  By doing the above, I went from frequently having calf cramps to never having calf cramps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Realistically... How fucked is the US?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The House isn’t stuck with that though. They can amend the rules for the next session, and I’d imagine any speaker worth his salt would demand that rule be stricken because it is unworkable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Même] Which movie was this for you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this as a kid and completely forgot it had both Tim Curry and Laura Linney in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget it also created a 5-10 year period of otherwise-tech-illiterate ditsy chicks with comm or marketing degrees rebranding themselves as “Social Media Marketing Expert”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hammerheads sharkz⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The toys were a wierd texture like rubberized plastic. The sharks skin and face was flexible but the lower half of the figure was normal plastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered confirmed by ESRB rating⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought the original on Steam sale about a year ago. Played 2-3 hours. Didn’t really feel hooked by the story or the gameplay. Graphics looked great to me on the SteamDeck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is this true?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MarioKart - Yoshi Smash Bros - Samus Mario Party - Monty Mole

  It also makes one hell of a Duck/Marry/Kill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon turns 30⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretend you like, and are interested in the meaning of, her unnecessary wrist tattoo. That’s good for at least 5 minutes of conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s an idea: Maybe stop making films no one asked for?

  Even fans of the franchise didn’t really want this. How do you translate a looter shooter into a watchable 2 hour film?

  I really enjoy playing Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, 15 minutes at a time on my Steam Deck. I’m not sure I need to see some forced deep cinematic character development extrapolated from it. There’s not that much to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, I'm a day late but hear me out⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I pitched commemorative 9/11 Jenga (comes with 2 block towers) and people didn’t like that idea either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon enjoys hot chocolate⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Moons over My Hammy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could an American please prove me wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aix-en-Provence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where is Naomi Wu?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  She posted about this. Basically the party aparatchiks came to her house and told her to stop her “subversive” activities (posting on YouTube, talking about devices useful to protestors, mentioning being a lesbian in public media) or she would not like the consequences. She said she would leave the country entirely, except her romantic partner cannot leave (I assume this is due to political travel restrictions or family reasons).

  I think her content was awesome and it showed someone defying expectations of who can do product design, fabrication, electrical engineering, etc.

  China should very much get roasted for silencing speech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aaaaah⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to get these like crazy. It can be from certain physical activities, poor diet, dehydration etc. My advice would be drink plenty of water, eat Potassium rich foods (bananas, sweet potatoes) and consider magnesium, either by oral suplement or topical (Epsom salts in bath or a product like theraworx directly applied to calf muscles).

  My leg cramps completely stopped after I started using the topical magnesium stuff applied every few days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was Elvis Presley a pedo?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait til you read about Gandhis sleeping habits in his old age.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to 'The Great Detachment': Workers are checked out—and so are their bosses⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually getting training is also a joke. I have worked for a dozen companies at this point, everything from small contracting companies to Fortune 500.They all pay lip service to training but very few of them actually follow through and pay for (or even partially subsidize) your continued professional development.

  I paid for 100% of a job-related Master degree while working, and the employer did not pay for any of it, nor provide any time off to work on it, etc. They also declined a pay raise of any kind once I finished and had the credential. Needless to say I peaced out and got a different job immediately.

  I’ve always had to eat the full cost of my professional development and I only got “paid” for it by jumping ship to a new job for more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will outlive us all⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NGL I literally still use a PS/2 port for my decent yet extremely old membrane keyboard from circa 2007.

  I meant to upgrade to a customized mechanical keeb a few years back, got a bunch of sample key caps and switches, got really overwhelmed by the choices, and never bought anything permanent.

  In my dream scenario this choice pays off when some fed agency tries to install a hardware keylogger and can’t because I’m the last idiot still using a PS/2 keyboard in 2024.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what dying of cringe in text message format looks like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet connects people⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree. Not every hobby and common trait is automatically a “community” nor should it be.

  The tiny house community The pickleball community The eating ass community

  etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mythbusters⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He even went out of his way to compliment the ridiculous amount of work Howard put in, and his art etc. Dude should consider it a win to even get a red marked up paper back from an actual respected scientist. That in itself is a pretty cool achievement.