LostWon

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Infinite diversity in infinite combinations.

(Also, DS9 was the best.)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Poor Eeyore in his burro, no doubt muling and complaining.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Oh my goodness, I remember for some reason people kept giving or lending my parents all these long play VHS tapes full of movies. Random video mix tapes where you didn't know what you'd get next. Now and then some of them had kid movies (like the Sesame Street movie, Follow That Bird and there was at least one muppet movie), but most of them were PG and occasionally R-rated stuff, and I still watched it (except the R-rated stuff, but thankfully they were mostly pretty tame as I recall). I think my fave childhood movie was always on TV though: The Goonies.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A while back, there was this thing where some very out of touch landlords were whining about having to actually do things for their tenants and that tenants should tip them for this. Naturally, they were rightfully shamed and ridiculed for it and it never caught on, but the way I first heard about it was seeing another landlord agreeing with the original post.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

To add to this -- Cory Doctorow, the very guy who coined the term "enshittification," has written about this. (Been meaning to read some of his books to see his explanations on how to fight it but I'm still getting through another book right now so I've only seen vids and read a sample.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Depending on how fast the teleport is, whether there's a delay between uses and whether it causes significant fatigue or other side effects, I might take that. Other than that, it's a toss-up for me between the extinct language and communicating with oysters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was once among a group of (fellow) university-educated expats, during a stint living abroad in the 2000s. While we were socializing, somebody asked everyone to say what group of people they would make disappear. (I can't remember if it was kill/erase/nuke/remove from a map that was said, but a couple of variations along those lines.) People's answers that day (and their insistence that I, too, should "jokingly" hate some group of people and want them to die) taught me a lot. On top of that, I also am part of one of the groups that was named (no, I am not mixed race-- it was just ignorance on the guy's part that he not only thought I wasn't part of the group but also that when I made a "joke" of what he said, he thought telling me that I didn't seem like part of that group was supposed to make it better somehow).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The US called their residential schools "boarding schools," but I don't know if those had the same kind of lasting legacy Canada has, based on the schools they had in the US.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No doubt this is true, but I've also seen people (who were staff at an elder care/personal care home facility, no less) who have definitely gotten vaccinations and boosters, yet dropped heavy hints during conversation that visitors didn't need to wear masks. Some people are just going to take other people's masks personally, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I imagine anti-vaxxers would have it worse, but yeah.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or juice "profits." (I've never understood people having cereal with juice, but maybe it works with Apple Jacks.)

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