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@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
- Comment on MeIRL 6 hours ago:
I miss the excitement of new and better.
From cellphones bolted into cars To affordable handhelds To text messaging OMG you can send pictures!? (Crappy, But yes!) Free nights, free weekends Then unlimited texts Nokias to flip phones, to phones with slide-out keyboards and windows CE on them… Then most plans slowly became unlimited data/voice/text
Then came the iphone which wrecked everything. They’re all black obelisks now that are virtually mini-pc’s that want to do nothing except track you, monetize you, keep you constantly connected, distract you, and disengage you. Nothing’s new, you just own less, pay more, and fight a retreating battle for your privacy and rights.
- Comment on MechanicIRL 6 hours ago:
It is most certainly not real.
- Comment on MechanicIRL 6 hours ago:
Fake, but funny.
- Comment on Good ole reviews 20 hours ago:
Absolutely. Sometimes the two and three stars are useful, people tend to write more nuanced reviews about what went wrong or other issues with whatever is being reviewed. You might also find someone who has taken the time to find a fix if there is one, or suggest a possible alternative product that does the job. One stars are usually “this (thing) sucks because (reasons) and I’d give it negative stars if I could!”
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 1 day ago:
Centrist: a right winger that doesn’t want to face the realities of either situation.
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 day ago:
AirBnB became too many people’s “passive income”.
They don’t want to take care of the property or have too many to take care of, so they treat customers like house sitters for the luxury of renting the property as well as building equity off them.
Pretty messed up. In the early days Airbnb was ok, we used it a couple times, but ai wouldn’t want to mess with it today.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 1 day ago:
AI? Absolutely seamless window frame and baseboard trim, like it’s one single piece and completely uniform.
- Comment on Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone? 2 days ago:
You could shit into a open pit latrine or something.
I mean, there’s only so many ways to contain water and catch waste efficiently.
- Comment on This bookstore wraps all books in plastic. 2 days ago:
Some online booksellers will let you download a few pages of a book to read before purchase.
You can do that and decide if you want to buy the physical copy.
That said, fuck this place. The joy of opening a new book and reading some of it is part of the process. I’d never come back.
- Comment on Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs 3 days ago:
Been playing Electronic Arts games since the 1980’s.
Even if they are a shit company, Nice knowing ya.
- Comment on how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras 3 days ago:
Because it’s hard or impossible to fit the grinders in some spaces like inside corners because the guards hit structure. I keep my guards on but it’s a pain in the ass to have to keep swiveling the guard to get into some spots, if it will fit at all. Either way, wearing a full face shield ppe is the minimum when using one of these. Guard or not they do a lot of damage when they let go.
- Comment on Are you too young to remember these? 4 days ago:
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 1 week ago:
The anti-property tax propaganda is from the real estate hoarding corporate owners. As usual, these anti-tax wingnuts latch on to “why should I pay property tax (insert selfish reason here)” when the real reason is the real estate hoarding companies don’t want to pay property taxes on all the properties they’ve hoarded and are likely sitting empty. The same properties they used to price people out of homebuying, the same ones they used to increase rent super high because you can’t afford a home and will own nothing.
And of course anti-tax wingnuts don’t care that property taxes pay for schools, police, fire services,etc. (ain’t got no kids so why should I pay for school? My house has never burned down. Who needs cops when I got a Smith and Wesson?) and those things will still have to be paid for via some kind of tax, so in the end they still pay but the absentee owners get a huge tax break.
- Comment on 🏭🏭🏭 1 week ago:
Is this some quiver-full shit?
- Comment on modern classic 1 week ago:
The colors of neutrality so you don’t actually live there and can leave it that way to sell it. The “real estate ad” color palette.
- Comment on 10. Compensated Anarchist 1 week ago:
Somehow I think “woke moralist” is nothing more than an SJW with a TikTok account that has unoriginal but popular hot takes and virtue signaling.
- Comment on Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings, now they just buy politicians. 1 week ago:
Before, the millionaire/billionaire was raised with the classist attitudes that often included charity works for the masses to keep favor with “the people” despite the horrible working conditions that they often kept the lower classes in. Orphanages, libraries, schools, hospitals, homes for the disabled, etc were all on the board for these kinds of “giving.” Of course there was no secret who donated, if their name wasn’t on the building.
Now the donations come with strings attached, rights to any profits from the research these facilities generate, naming rights, tax writeoffs, and can even be donations to charities already owned by a family member or someone already a subdivision of a subdivision of an LLC owned by a parent company of the billionaire.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 week ago:
I’m sorry you took it as personal, but you seem to be making this whole event surround your hypothetical ineptitude and personal inconvenience. Plan to eat. If you can’t, don’t expect sympathy. Christ, it’s like you expect to be catered to and spoon fed as a tourist. I’ve spent many a tourist evening having food like bread and cheese from the grocery store or convenience shop because there were no restaurant seats to be had. Grow up. That’s life.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 week ago:
The alternative isn’t hyperbolic starvation, it’s to go to a different restaurant, or even one of their famous 7-Eleven shops. Barring a medical condition there’s nothing but some minor discomfort for the vast majority id if you miss a meal. Obviously your poor planning for mealtimes isn’t an emergency on their part, but you’re welcome to try the restaurant in this situation. They may serve you and they may treat you coldly or offer the least service, or, they may not serve you, or even ask you to leave. But the sign is there for a reason.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 week ago:
“Lmao” your ability to use software to translate for you doesn’t change the intent behind this sign. Japan is racist AF despite their polite society, and there are a growing number of restaurants and other establishments with signage that outright says some version of “no foreigners/no white people.” You will probably get a frosty reception in this establishment if you decide to enter it because you decide you were too clever to be deterred.
- Comment on Literally nobody 1 week ago:
Honestly it isn’t like a lot of us care other than pointing out the insane levels of hypocrisy the right engage in while claiming to love Jesus.
- Comment on POV: You just said something the Tesseract Developer didn't like 1 week ago:
That’s not what I said. “Revealing corruption” is not the same as granting ability to corruptible people.
Your sarcasm is inverse to your comprehension.
- Comment on POV: You just said something the Tesseract Developer didn't like 2 weeks ago:
Disagree. It takes the reins off the easily corruptible. Once there are no or severely limited consequences for actions we get to see who people really are. Also it’s highly probable that the easily corruptible are drawn to power.
- Comment on Babe you hardly touch your anti-hunger protein loaf 2 weeks ago:
Temu Lembas.
- Comment on thoughts and prayers for science 2 weeks ago:
Plenty of plagues started by religion, though.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 2 weeks ago:
Ok. you blatantly disregarded the context of this post in order to make it some gender-war post about bros who just wanna be bros. That’s stupid.
The title is, just in case you can’t read:
Men-Only Gyms Trying To Protect Christian Men From Lust Get Brutally Ridiculed
So we are OBVIOUSLY not discussing workout buddies, or gym friendships, or even y’know, if gay dudes like going to the gym, which nobody is saying can’t happen. But you went and redpilled it as a war against men because women have spaces away from men exactly because of the kind of men in the article.
- Comment on Thirsty much? 2 weeks ago:
Aside from all the gay references here this is a real two edged sword. On one hand, get all these right wing misogynist asshats away from women in gyms. Otoh, this is just another recruiting ground and echo chamber for right wing redpill incel BS.
- Comment on My 98 Oldsmobile 2 weeks ago:
Sure. 350 cid engine, small 2bbl carb.
- Comment on shrimp mode activated 2 weeks ago:
Ehler-danlos?
- Comment on Britain ‘Does Not Have Enough Water’ for Planned AI Data Centre Boom 2 weeks ago:
Sure there is. Just take it from the people and charge the ridiculous prices for what they do use. Voila, plenty of datacenter water.
