tigeruppercut
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- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 2 hours ago:
the traditional platform of the Republican Party - smaller government, lower taxes, economic/fiscal responsibility, family values, religious values, etc.
TBF, the GOP didn’t hold many of those values either. They wanted to increase government control over people, lower taxes only for the rich and therefore increase the national debt, values only counted if they were christian and straight, etc. The main differences with MAGA is they say the quiet part out loud and they’re more comfortable with nazis, fascists, and kings than the GOP ostensibly was.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 7 hours ago:
I can’t decide if the explanation that “our shitty game is made for premium gamers” is more or less absurd than EA charging 80 bucks for a game with most of its characters still locked would “provide players with a sense of pride and accomplishment”.
- Comment on A guide for our friends outside the U.S. 21 hours ago:
I found 118 last month for the first time. It was extremely warm
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 1 day ago:
and pasteLarry cut, copy, Tesler, inventor of, dies at 74 the commands
- Comment on Who plays like that x_x 3 days ago:
To this day I play flight sims inverted like that, but normal FPS feels unnatural to invert the camera
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 3 days ago:
You’re right about everything except the frozen part. They can just sit in a box in your cupboard because they’re basically made of plastic.
- Comment on Funerary Engineering 3 days ago:
Just put a speaker in the box
- Comment on You're still talking about this? 4 days ago:
His neck needs an Emmy for that performance.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 5 days ago:
The GOP senators after J6, very briefly, were shook enough to say things that didn’t come directly from the dark money groups with puppet hands up all their asses. That lasted about 12 hours before they got their marching orders.
Meanwhile, teachers across the country were doing the Buster Scruggs meme
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
She had nothing on Xenia’s polygonal proportions
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
They used to think novels were bad for women in the 18th and 19th centuries bc they worried they were too dumb to separate fact from fantasy
- Comment on anon discusses car dependence 6 days ago:
If your commute is about an hour each way you’re probably spending roughly that much.
- Comment on Bamboozled! 6 days ago:
That’s not a tense issue, it’s different parts of speech. “X costs something” is using the verb cost in the 3rd person singular. “An X’s cost” is using the noun cost.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
Yeah I’m sure it’s not as difficult as I’m making it out to be but it never seems to stick. It’s just as simple as 2 numbers: “million = 100 ten thousands” (hyaku-man) and “billion = 10 hundred millions” (juu-oku).
Let’s just say there a lot of frustrations I have with the language even after decades of studying.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
Somewhat related, but I have the worst time trying to convert numbers in my head from long scale in Japan (used to be used in the UK as well) to how it’s used in the current English speaking world. So basically they put four zeros per comma as opposed to three, and the names of the numbers reflect that. 1, 10, 100, 1000, and 10000 are all unique number names, but after that comes 10 ten thousands, 100 ten thousands, and then 1000 ten thousands before a new number name at 1,0000,0000 (or 100,000,000).
It wouldn’t be so bad to just memorize that 100 thousand is “new number name” if that’s all it was, but numbers like that in daily life are pretty much used to talk about money (or somewhat less commonly populations). So once I get the actual number I have to divide by about 100 (or 150, depending on the strength of the yen vs dollar) to think about what it actually means in units I’m used to, like seeing an article saying a government project costs 1.2 billion yen doesn’t mean much until I think about it like 800 million USD instead. So I can never really use big numbers in conversation without manually counting zeros in my head.
- Comment on Have there been any technological advances in boucey ball technology in the last decade or two? 1 week ago:
It’s not new but there are balls made for bounce juggling that have a 90% bounce ratio
- Comment on WATER! 2 weeks ago:
Water, please.
Here is your cactusWhy are people saying please to robots anyway?
- Comment on 2hot2handle 2 weeks ago:
Ken M has smooth skin
- Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell. 2 weeks ago:
They keep getting banned for horrendous opinions and make a new account every month or two. I just find it amusing that they figured they’d get banned around 10000 times so they preemptively used 4 digits in their username
- Comment on Anon hires a goth chick 3 weeks ago:
just in case anyone wants to watch 40 mins about the bg of the original “stuck in a washing machine” woman, along with lawsuits against the predatory practices of gdp
- Comment on 👁️🐽👁️ 3 weeks ago:
This is the first I’ve heard of the eye flap healing being the issue with lasik. I always thought it was the fact that they can only take off just a bit of your lens with the lasers, and then if that continues to change shape as you age (which is common to normal aging eye issues), they can’t go back and shoot more lasers because your lens has already become too thin from the earlier surgery.
- Comment on Anon discovers hygiene 3 weeks ago:
Every time this discussion comes up I have to talk about the same thing: soap. It’s commonly understood that soap is the crucial part being clean (I assume you’re not advocating for showers without soap). Yet how many bidet users use soap? So you’re saying that water makes you clean, and yet I’d argue that whether it’s water or paper alone, you’re not clean until you’ve used soap. The only difference is how much your personal tolerance for being between periods of cleanliness without soap goes. For people advocating bidets, they’re clearly not comfortable without water. But other people are, and it’s not normal to say that almost everyone has poor hygiene because of it.
As long as you don’t smell (and you can’t tell me that walking into any random office conference room in a non-bidet country will most likely smell like literal shit), people can say water or paper and they’re both stopgaps until we can make it to the next shower involving soap.
- Comment on Anon discovers hygiene 3 weeks ago:
Look, I’ve used bidets and they’re fine, but an extreme minority of humans use them. Calling the hygiene of the vast majority of earth’s population “disturbing” for not using them makes bidet evangelicals sound like fucking crazy people.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 3 weeks ago:
10-15 sounds pretty short tbh. It can take years to write a book, and then 10 years later a company can just make a movie out of it and doesn’t have to pay you shit for it?
- Comment on It's true. 3 weeks ago:
Is that a photo of Condoleezza in the background? Been awhile since I watched it.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 weeks ago:
“Hence the word… sabotage.”
- Comment on Creating dogs 3 weeks ago:
So does the cat dick
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks ago:
!outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Clamish 4 weeks ago:
Is this some kind of shell pattern clams have?
