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- Comment on The Gooner 4 hours ago:
Or “gyat” was what a ranch hand might say to a critter to get it to more swiftly depart.
- Comment on Anon saved Portugal last month 9 hours ago:
All good except those couple people panicking over powered medical devices.
- Comment on Remember, kids! Unregulated capitalism is not your friend! 12 hours ago:
What?
A modern circumstance would be refusal to raise min wage to a reasonable wage. That’s absolutely a circumstance abetting poverty. If you don’t believe in that, then unfettered capitalism is commodifying poverty and increasing disparity.
You either maximize rules and services to prevent poverty, or you allow exploitation to increase it.
- Comment on Anyone Hiring? 21 hours ago:
Nobody pisses you off more than family. Nobody tries to take advantage of you like family, because you’re family and obligated, 24/7. Yeah. Companies be like that.
- Comment on Weapons trafficking 21 hours ago:
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 days ago:
You cannot forget the bad things, the pain, the emotions that went with them.
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 3 days ago:
Please see the post I offered in response that shows research indicating Yersina Pestis was killing humans in Europe and Asia well before the mass plagues.
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 4 days ago:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4644222/
I’ll offer that humans were dying of Yersina Pestis in Europe before the well-known outbreaks of The Plague.
- Comment on The USA spends $15k/student annually which is 30% higher than the global median. Why do U.S. schools have "fundraisers" where kids are incentivized to sell stuff to people? 4 days ago:
There are some that blame administration costs, which is correct because of the multiple layers of redundancy in US schools - each district has its own administration, plus more at the state level - but some also blame the riding costs of benefits.
The latter seems far more of a right wing target because they attack the employee getting benefits, not the insurance companies jacking up the costs of benefits like health or life insurance.
- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 4 days ago:
Tarps, tent, flys, cleaning coolers and drying them too, re-packing everything in storage if camping isn’t a regular event…yeah. It’s fun, but there’s a reason it’s not super common for most people.
- Comment on Inspired by a friends current vacation 4 days ago:
For me, camping is fun the day after I get home and have already had a shower, a good sleep, and put everything away.
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 4 days ago:
Why would it be weird?
It would only be weird today in a modern western country because of the rarity and available medical treatment being unsuccessful. It was not any different historically from other diseases centuries ago that lacked treatment or understanding. There was nothing weird about it.
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 4 days ago:
You can die of the plague today. It wasn’t constrained by dates, big flare ups in society happened and they were the ones that went down in history books, but people died of the disease outside those years too.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 4 days ago:
I can’t wait to see people passing out or getting injured because of these seats.
- Comment on Microsoft renames "Remote Desktop" to "Windows App". Good luck googling for any help or troubleshooting it. 5 days ago:
But if you can’t google a solution to a problem there is no problem.
- Comment on Grieve with me 1 week ago:
Consider one of those protective cases that has the flap that covers the charging port. Yeah, a minor annoyance when you want to plug the charger in, but it keeps the port crud free. I’ve used variations of that style for years and it keeps the phone in good shape even when it’s collecting rust- or sawdust in the shop.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is your friend white while complaining about non-white emigrants?
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
Yeah, same thing.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
Moving the goalposts.
Butwhatabout.
Appeal to hypocrisy is big.
- Comment on Oof 1 week 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 [deleted] 1 week 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 2 weeks ago:
If you’re chasing that flavor try some darker roasts instead of adding salt.
- Comment on Did they already take the porn? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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' 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
Raising Hope was great, especially the first couple seasons.
