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@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 2 hours ago:
Moving the goalposts.
Butwhatabout.
Appeal to hypocrisy is big.
- Comment on Oof 18 hours ago:
Meshes nicely with their preference to socialize the losses (if I got screwed, gimme your tax money) and capitalize the gains (just gimme all your money) that they prefer in their kleptocratic or coporatocratic government style.
- Comment on What's the point of constitutional monarchies? Why even keep the monarchy in place if they aren't even doing anything? 1 day ago:
Pity they can’t just put a page in the book that says “from here forward we do things this new way” and just keep moving. But that’s not how legal and governmental systems work.
- Comment on quick health tip 3 days ago:
If you’re chasing that flavor try some darker roasts instead of adding salt.
- Comment on Did they already take the porn? 4 days ago:
I did a quick “NSFW” search and can confirm there are recent (as in 1-2 hours old) nsfw posts and they are viewable. I did not search for communities, just posts.
- Comment on The first ever earthquake fault rupture captured on a security cam in Myanmar 4 days ago:
All that mass moved in basically one second. That’s a shitton of energy.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 5 days ago:
E:D has a pretty steep curve, there’s a ton of external information that needs to be absorbed to get the most out of the game, and then once you get into it, you discover that “it’s lightyears wide, and one inch deep”. That said, I gotta hand it to the devs who are constantly trying to keep it interesting. I earned my carrier, thought “and then…?” and that was kinda it. Might give NMS a try just for something different.
- Comment on skynet would be better than these clowns 1 week ago:
Even how it trains itself can be biased based on what its instructions are.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 week ago:
The only places I’ve found that take USD are really poor places that really want USD, and maybe Mexico. Even some of those places will really take advantage of the exchange and you get way less than what the USD is worth if you just pay with USD.
I travel all the time and tourist locations, barring the ones I mentioned, don’t want anything to do with handling USD when tapping a card or phone to pay is vastly preferred.
- Comment on When did I get so old 1 week ago:
AFV edited the shit of its show. People didn’t get hurt, there were no politics, it was silliness and “family” entertainment.
Jackass was all about stupid humans hurting each other or themselves. But they didn’t imply or tell you to engage in the stupidity.
The social media tools are actively and willfully destructive. Doesn’t matter if it’s telling outright lies about politics or the sciences, or “challenging” people to do risky or damaging things.
- Comment on When did I get so old 1 week ago:
Meh. The churn of brain rot on social media platforms has become so desperate I don’t even try to figure it out anymore. Too many vainglorious famewhores all trying to coin terms or “challenges” making it a massive churn of ever-shifting garbage to steer views their direction.
- Comment on I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? 2 weeks ago:
Raising Hope was great, especially the first couple seasons.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 weeks ago:
The gymnastics are biblical.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 2 weeks ago:
How about fried chicken?
- Comment on So true 2 weeks ago:
Huh, wonder it was a local variant? Either way, it’s a great saying.
- Comment on So true 2 weeks ago:
It’s a little less used these days. I have German family, they’re all older, so the saying may be out of style compared to their time. It’s usually “best sauce” but I’ve also heard “beste Koch” as well.
- Comment on So true 2 weeks ago:
And it was damn good. What’s that German saying? “Hunger makes the best sauce”? When you’re really hungry this is five Michelin star good.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 weeks ago:
Bizarre. I didn’t have it that difficult.
Ah well, it’s reddit. I don’t use it anymore. Yeah, I miss some of the niche places, but not enough to put up with the rest of it. You’re here now, so time to grow lemmy!
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 weeks ago:
Same account? Sure. New account? I’m surprised.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 weeks ago:
They absolutely get your IP and probably some cookie data saved on your computer. Not sure about phones, those are privacy nightmares. I got tagged for trying to get around an IP ban on a sub, so they absolutely track that. Cleared all cookies and trackers, unplugged my modem for a few hours so my ISP would issue a new IP, and once I verified that I had a new IP I was able to use the sub under a different account.
- Comment on Anon missed /pol/ 2 weeks ago:
Because the gun nuts are on the “same side” as the fascists.
They’re just too stupid to understand that the fascists will come to take their guns eventually. They never want anyone to be able to challenge their power.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 weeks ago:
Since when does reddit take a hash of your hardware?
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 2 weeks ago:
That’s 1375.
Not good, not bad. Depends on where you ended up on the globe. There absolutely is civilization, but it’s all kings and Tsars and the like. The English and French Hundred Years War is winding down but the plague really did a number on Europe. Lots of war in India. It wasn’t a great time in the Middle East what with the Crusades and all. The Egyptians are conquering Armenia. The Songhai Emprire is growing in Eastern Africa. Southeast Asia had a lot of conquest and a large kingdom growing, might not have been so bad as long as you landed on the winning side. The Ming Dynasty just started in China.
So it’s not like you ended up in pre-civilization or among dinosaurs or something. There are plenty of people around, but it’s still an age of war and conquest. Your best bet to have a great life would be to ally yourself with a strong leader and give them advancements to help that leader “win”. Of course, if he were defeated, you’d be slowly tortured and killed by the opposing side.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 3 weeks ago:
None of them are great, all too thin and probably have hard corners from being stamped cheap metal, but maybe 2. Four can fuck off, too wide and trying to be a spoon the rest are too narrow in the handle.
- Comment on Praise jeebus 3 weeks ago:
They just make shit up as they go and expect everyone to obey and call it the truth.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 4 weeks ago:
123, of course.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 4 weeks ago:
0987 7654 5432 4321
Same as my wifi password, luggage code, and bank acct number.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 4 weeks ago:
It’s been awful for a while.
All the too/to/two or their/they’re/there kind of wreckage along with stuff like “for all intensive purposes”, “flee market”, or “diffuse the situation”. There’s tons of writing like thAt everywhere. Wouldn’t be so bad if people learned when corrected, but I think most can’t be bothered.
My take is that people don’t read anymore and there’s probably an unhealthy dose of laziness and “gotta write all messed up to act cool” to boot.
Reading well-written books of any sort will help fix how words go together and how they look. But today everyone reads everyone else’s shitty grammar, spelling, and whatever massacre of stylistic choices were made to stand out and look cool in the comment section of the youtube videos or tiktoks they just watched. That’s probably the extent of the reading they do.
- Comment on Infinite Monkey Theorem 4 weeks ago:
We are the monkeys.
We wrote it all.
Even Skibidi toilet.
- Comment on This is why we have a defense budget 4 weeks ago:
It’s already been hit with and Itasha Mk-1 missle.