RememberTheApollo_

@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon can't go home again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It was unfortunate watching our forum die. It was a pretty busy space, lots of gaming info, participation and all that. The main damage was caused by our preferred game series studio killing private servers and mods with the next version of the game in favor of dev company paid servers with limitied and company approved mods. Pretty soon the seconday games we played followed suit. That caused a lot of the group to look for other games to play, modding was what we were all about. The forums were a lot of fun. A lot of people learning how to use the graphical tools for games and personlize their forum presence. I just looked at the wayback machine and it was a real blast from the past seeing all the names, all the servers, the activity…it was a good 5-8 years of my life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Floating beard⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude’s wife made him come to Panera in the middle of his hunting trip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates tiktok⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Start from oldest, poorest, and medically needy, then work your way up the financial ladder. The rich will hide in their bunkers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon hates tiktok⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A catastrophic one would result in probably 80% of the population dying in a year. Starvation, exposure, lack of medicines, etc.

  You judge if that’s worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨great to know!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Iphone equipped with AI…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I remember⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone proved how indestructible the Nokias were by destroying them for views.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well he did make it so tha tnothing he does in office is illegal, even if it’s illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employers ditching health coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I knw of no place that cites the taxes as a “benefit” or a main reason.

  Health care was tied to emplyment as a means to attract workers. That’s it. The fact any of it is untaxed is at the whim of the government, not the employer. If anything the employer-based health care is a shackle, you lose your job or get fired you lose insurance.

  I’m sure if enough people get kicked off employer health care or enough corpos say they’re no longer offering it the government will allow some sort of pre-tax or no-tax income allowance to individuals based on reported health insurance costs.

  Maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Employers ditching health coverage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Push everyone onto the private market and jack the prices up with worse service. Just like everything else.

  Because even though the employer health care was shitty for a lot of reasons it did have one thing going for it: the ability of a powerful corporation to negotiate the best rates it could in order to keep its costs down.

  If it’s no longer tied to jobs, we lose that last advantage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next to a church in Missouri⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Trade the first fascism for “indoctrination”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are lemmings so touchy about downvotes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Downvotes are alao: disagreement, ideological, political, or just “I don’t like that you called me out.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you going to never forget 9/11 this year? What are you never forgetful for?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only was he right, but Bin Laden won, even if it killed him. The attack on 9/11 pulled out all the stops on ignorance, xenophobia, evangelicals in politics, the surveillance State, right-wing nationalism, and so much more. We wasted trillions of dollars on wars.

  The attack was a slow burn that took 20 years to collapse an “empire.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their eyes are almost all exactly the same. That makes it weird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posted by a school district's official Facebook page in response to a shooting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Need to add a Sandy Hook character, among others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why they need to work two jobs at closer to 60 or more hours per week, no weekends off, in order to have anything at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I GOT THE MOVES LIKE JAGGER⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re kinda a dick if you do. A guitar will take up an entire bin that is for a row of three people.

  If you ask nicely, you might get a flight attendant who can put it in the closet at the front of the aircraft usually reserved for business class.

  Otherwise get a hard case and check it with your fingers crossed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can't help myself, they're eggcellent.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God would be far less popular without the devil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A Nazi went to kill leftists?

  But Nazis were leftists. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Bane Of My Existence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Prosopagnosia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In solidarity with my GenX brethren, with added falling on my ass at work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get it. I’m over Gen X over 50 and don’t have this problem. Plenty of misadventure bending and breaking things because stupid when I was younger. What is wrong with you all?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Test your might⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. My dishwasher doesn’t seem to “strip” the pans. I rarely have to do more than heat a little oil and wipe it around the pans if they go through the dishwasher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Test your might⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I clean cast iron how I want, purists be damned. If it needs seasoning again, then it’s done. That’s all there is to it. It’s cast iron ffs; you’re not gonna hurt it, it’s gonna outlive you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accurate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he’s like most long-time actors. He’s had some great roles that wouldn’t have been anywhere near as good had someone else done it, and he’s had “meh” and flops.

  You can’t act for 40-ish years and not have a mixed bag.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Lila” is a name applied to a picture with text written by the author attempting to emotionally manipulate the reader into forming some sort of attachment to the image.

  Maybe I’m too cynical, but the internet has soured me to these stories. Like the “trolley test” trying to force the viewer to choose between who dies, I see the man behind the curtain making the reader responsible for the results, and they can get fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waiting and getting treated is better than waiting and going bankrupt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never understood the argument about waiting for ED/ER care in socialized medicine vs the US’s.

  Everyone is triaged, everyone waits in the ER. The sprained ankle or sniffle goes last, the stroke is seen immediately. Every country’s medical system has medical mistakes.

  Like the meme says, the US will bankrupt you for care - and in no small part because people will put off care until a condition is potentially serious because they can’t afford to take time off for it or the cost of the care itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doorless showers just make a mess and everything ends up wet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every hotel ever these days it seems. I guess it’s cheaper than replacing a curtain, or the curtain rod every jackass seems to have to yank on and bend for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only I could power them with my disappointment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It needs to yell it at a startling volume compared to what you were listening at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s start protecting people instead of profits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re basically headed toward a dystopic authoritarian oligarchy with huge disparity. It’s gonna look like all those fictional dystopias portrayed in Elysium or Neuromancer but without all the cool tech. Yeah, we should have these social programs for people…but unless we crush the oligarchy they’ll create continuous pressure to make sure these social programs are as shitty as possible and be functionally the caricature of socialism the right wing uses for its propaganda. They won’t stop bleeding the people for more. But the thing is, if we get rid of the oligarchy we’ll not need such a huge social safety net*.

  *we should have a good one anyway, but it shouldn’t be a response to the disparity created by billionaires, we should just have one by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Profit over people is a failed system⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why libertarianism is bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Price of this Candy Bar⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Read my edit. Someone asked about lbs and I saw the large price and “2”, so my brain went to “absurdly large American candy bar for $6+”

  My mistake.