RememberTheApollo_
@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
- Comment on oh no 2 days ago:
Imagine a room of deaf people. Someone farts. Nobody would ever figure out who did it.
- Comment on Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI: 3 days ago:
Working exactly like it’s supposed to under trump.
- Comment on It makes me shudder 4 days ago:
I can feel this and it’s making me squirm. TIHI.
- Comment on dank meme 4 days ago:
Honestly it looks like a lot of fun. People get really into it, maybe even because it’s kinda silly.
- Comment on Life Hack for you 4 days ago:
“While having sex” was the add-on phrase we used.
- Comment on Don't we all hate this 4 days ago:
You think people working at a multibillion dollar grocery chain give a crap about your 14¢ round-up? It’s implied this is not some “family owned” small store.
Do you think anyone keeps grocery receipts at tax time to claim the $5 write off over the year with 30 receipt’s worth of round-ups?
The meme is essentially true. A big corp is asking a nobody who is probably trying to save some cash to give a billion dollar operation money so the Big Corp gets the brownie points for the donation. They don’t give a shit about you other than “Big Grocer & ‘customers’” donate $$$.
The only two points you made that I agree with are “just say no” if you don’t want to, and donate if you like the good feels. Just make sure Big Grocery is donating to a charity that is decent and doesn’t soak up most of the $ in admin costs.
- Comment on Magical 4 days ago:
She’s got a big hand herself.
- Comment on Realistcly how much can be cleaned out of a house, as a child of a hourder? 4 days ago:
I don’t think you know what a difficult situation that is. Getting rid of things for money is hard, and believe it or not, even donating things can be difficult. If you hire someone they’re going to pick through everything over several days (depending on the amount of stuff) and probably not take much if they have to store it themselves for sale, or charge you for storage rental if it’s a lot, and things don’t sell quickly or maybe not at all. Places taking donations will only accept certain things any more, we know this from personal experience, they only want stuff they know that will sell. So you’re left carting around a (probably rented) truck-full of stuff trying to find anyone that will take it only to wind up bringing a lot back home.
It’s far easier to rent a haul-away waste bin and do a cleanout in a day.
One last option, depending on the country if they allow it or there’s space to do so, is a “curb alert”. Advertise the cleanout on whatever social media or classified ad and state the kind of items available and just put them on the curb for people to take for free. Whatever’s left at the end of the day goes in the bin to be hauled off.
- Comment on me watching that f1 movie solely for brad pitt 4 days ago:
Right? What’d he do? I think his acting has improved with age rather than relying only on his pretty-boy good looks from his earlier films like River or Joe Black.
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 1 week ago:
Omg… except I call bullshit on the “speed of sound” claim. That would have been the equivalent of being hit by a 30mm round at 700 mph. That person would have been killed immediately.
- Comment on Small little shenanigans 1 week ago:
I wonder if that would actually do damage. I think it would be painful at least.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 1 week ago:
Yeah, crypto switched to ASIC, but nonetheless there was no cheap hardware dump as they transitioned. And yeah, AI does use regular GPUs, but the consumer versions are used mainly for smaller farms.
- Comment on Get on my level 1 week ago:
Looks like gag-reflex girl. Hang on, let me look for something with her in it…
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 1 week ago:
Wish that happened more often. All these crypto mines or whatever that use massive CPU or GPU power should dump them on the market, but I’ve never seen dumps of low-cost hardware.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 1 week ago:
Unfortunately a lot of secondhand hardware is destroyed. Storage devices due to privacy, other components because corporations are unwilling to expend the man hours needed to sell off perfectly good hardware and instead choose an e-waste recycler they can write off as an expense.
- Comment on Sleep well 1 week ago:
It’s the shading that matches the ambient lighting. You could physically shade a real thing like this with effort but it would only look right in aligned lighting.
- Comment on Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract 1 week ago:
You shall own nothing.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 1 week ago:
Far easier to rehash a known moneymaker than to take a risk come up with something original. Some people might point at the multiple tens of thousands of games on Steam as evidence there are people making new games that are original, but if you compare the relaitive few that take off vs the popular franchises’ success it’s pretty obvious that rehashing works. Plenty of new games languish and never really get anywhere.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 1 week ago:
My friend, let me tell you about this thing called “Pre-order.”
There are plenty of “gotta have it first” people out there. Doesn’t matter if it’s a new phone, game, see a movie on opening day, whatever. Plenty of gamers want to be in Alpha and Beta tests (which FML they do nothing but bitch about as being unplayable) and shell out money for skins and early upgrades or level up packs. Vloggers and tiktokkers too or whatever who want to pull in the views as they play the new games.
These are the people the studios cater to. Not the patient gamers who wait for the product to go on sale 90 days down the road after the initial rush is over.
So as long as the people in the first paragraph exist that’s what the studios will charge.
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 2 weeks ago:
I’m surprised they didn’t just lie and call it a drug lord spy balloon.
- Comment on Cat 2 weeks ago:
Catpan?
- Comment on Website 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much sums up a lot of younger people who didn’t grow up learning far more hands-on basic computer use. Z and A are gonna be the “AI” generation that surrenders the last of critical thought and hands it all to walled gardens of instant, tailored, and curated information.
- Comment on Hrmmm 2 weeks ago:
Gonna lose a nail loading mags.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 weeks ago:
That’s the joke, man.
- Comment on why do I keep doing this???? 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Because when you fall asleep it’s immediately tomorrow and you have to start dealing with life all over again.
- Comment on Taste the flavor 2 weeks ago:
A fetish where people stick things up their urethra.
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 2 weeks ago:
we shouldn’t make fun of people dying just because they’re vegan. That’s tastelsss.
- Comment on Where *does* the money come from? 2 weeks ago:
It’s both. Trust me.
Having worked in a union shop where we were constantly told we should think ourselves lucky to have a job and there was no money for raises or any other benefits for more than a decade, and they even broke us in bankruptcy proceedings, but when faced with a huge worker shortfall they started throwing huge wage bumps, bonuses, and rapid career advancement tracks to attract new people…fuck them. The money is always there when it matters to them.
- Comment on London stabbing rates vs X posts about London crime 3 weeks ago:
And compare that to the rise of right wing ownership of media.
- Comment on You are allowed flavor 3 weeks ago:
At least caramelize the onions and melt the cheese first.