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- Comment on Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous? 10 hours ago:
Arnold Schwarzenegger in “The Streets of San Francisco.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 3 days ago:
I’ll qualify this with the fact that I know nothing about Binface.
But people electing a Boaty McBoatface candidate for lols is partly how we got trump on this side of the pond. IDk. I should read more about these games.
- Comment on Technically correct 4 days ago:
16000 psi? Could that turn them into something useful? Like diamonds?
- Comment on "We're all in this together" 5 days ago:
Billionaires are the problem.
- Comment on idiot you tuber leaving his 50 cal on the ground pointed at the picnic table 6 days ago:
I’ve seen enough /morbidreality and the like to know that body armor has a limited success rate. It’s better than nothing, but anything of sufficient energy won’t be stopped.
The gravy seals wearing their tacticool wannabe IOTV to the range says a lot about the expected intelligence of the group at the range as a whole.
- Comment on The way my partner eats avocado. 1 week ago:
The ragebait equivalent for someone taking a way uneven slice of pie or cake.
- Comment on You needed to exhibit at least one to be admitted to the "lunatic asylum" 1 week ago:
It still exists: en.wikipedia.org/…/Trans-Allegheny_Lunatic_Asylum
- Comment on They were right all along... 1 week ago:
I don’t think they’re a hate group other than typical cult behavior where others are labeled a danger to the group, serious problems are hidden from outside view, and people can be prevented from leaving and psychologically conditioned to not leave.
- Comment on Of course 17-24 NEVER looked like the picture 1 week ago:
No rocket pop? No pushup? This list is incomplete.
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 1 week ago:
Bathroom and kitchen exhaust fans might be an entry point, especially if some critter crawled into the duct and died.
- Comment on This is my boomstick 1 week ago:
Probably still get you shot by the cops.
- Comment on hockey team owner selfishly engraves his whole family on the Stanley Cup 1 week ago:
And the profits privatized.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 1 week ago:
Rent Extraction is the objective, and I partly disagree that killing the secondary market is the blanket objective. Look at ticketmaster. They sell the tickets, then they also take fees on the resale of those same tickets purchased by customers/scalpers. They profit twice thanks to the secondary market. Doesn’t work (yet) for something like books, but give it time.
The general objective is to force everything to subscription and also force upgrades thanks to them controlling EOL for everything. They never want to give users the ability to run their own servers for sunsetted services.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 1 week ago:
That’s not what we’re debating. Don’t change the subject.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 1 week ago:
Why would you look at this and not understand the door shelves are full too?
Syrup lasts longer in the fridge, particularly real maple syrup. It can get mold growing on it.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 1 week ago:
Condiments are the death of refrigerator space. All different sizes, almost never consumed quickly, and they eat up space waiting to be used.
- Comment on It's the weekend 2 weeks ago:
Ugh. Went to look for the scene and get this. Fuck youtube. I’m not signing in.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 2 weeks ago:
Never played it. I’ll have a look. Thanks.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 2 weeks ago:
The sweet spot was getting the full game on disc and getting included DLC, having the ability to mod the game, and run private servers.
You could just enjoy the game as-is with a really good singleplayer campaign and then with whatever online offered.
Some of the mods from this era turned out to be just as popular, if not moreso, than the original base game. Some of them live on to this day.
Sure, some Steam games offer mods and the like, but it certainly isn’t the same thing as what we had 15 or so years ago.
- Comment on Every fucking time 2 weeks ago:
Yes it does. It wastes more time and is deliberately designed to make you stay in the store longer and hopefully spend more money.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but not just parties. Parties using red cups are historically going to be drinking parties for younger people like “keggers.” Red cups are fairly ubiquitous for lots of events like picnics, cookouts, birthday events and the like.
I can’t say they’re used at all parties, but they’re pretty common.
- Comment on It's that time again 2 weeks ago:
No we shouldn’t. Imagine where the taxes would go, and then understand where people would make sure they didn’t go. A shitload of people are racist, self serving, and shortsighted.
- Comment on Anon tries to lose weight 2 weeks ago:
Peas and carrots are too full of sugar. I mean, they’re better than chips or candy bars by a long shot, but minimizing them or mixing peas and carrots with other less sugary veg is a better idea.
- Comment on time to eat 2 weeks ago:
Adhd will do that to you.
- Comment on *laughs nervously* 2 weeks ago:
The bathroom said, “Fifty cents, please. Before turning on the water.”
Ubik, P K Dick
- Comment on Don't let your mind be a jar 3 weeks ago:
But are you tubgirl old?
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 3 weeks ago:
Just saw a report on my feed here that said something like 80% of TikTok is AI crap and over 20% of Facebook is. So that means that sites like Threads, Instagram, X, or any other social media is going to have a large percentage of bots, AI and real trolls, and corporate shills over and above those numbers.
On top of the unaffiliated trolls and shit-stirrers already out there.
So it’s well on the way to happening.
- Comment on One can dream 3 weeks ago:
Similar boat. Already had a house, been together for years. Getting married was just for fun and tax benefits. It changed nothing, otherwise.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 3 weeks ago:
Just further enshittification. Companies don’t make new things or new technologies anymore. They just find new ways to rent squat and extract fees.
- Comment on Why do doctors not seem to give a fuck about pain? Is this just an American doctor thing, or is it universal? 3 weeks ago:
Probably just thanks to insurance companies yet again
Doctors don’t get to make their own decisions anymore, they’re paid more like car mechanics and get a “job rate”.
Change a tire? It’s billed at $28 bucks. Doesn’t matter if it takes you 10 minutes or an hour. Air and balancing is included. Anything extra you don’t get paid for.
Gotta put in an IUD? You get $500 for the job, included is one shot of pain meds, the IUD, and one set of sterile equipment. Pain meds not working so great on this patient? Insurance doesn’t pay for extra, outpatient center doesn’t get paid for it or has to fight insurance for it.
Same for novocaine in dental work.
Insurance is terrible.
