WiseThat

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You should checknout SMyths, fan edits that remove the cutting back and forth between stories so you get one myth at a time, and that cut out the repetitive narration meant for people joining mid-episode. Much nicer viewing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is what conspiracy theorists don't get. The world's scientists are not skeptical of your claims that water has secret spiritual memory because they hate you, they are skeptical because the claim you make, if it were true, would be so important and world-changing that they want to be absolutely sure of it before they endorse it.

The difference is that, to a scientist, "this would be amazing if it were true" is not a good reason to believe it anyway

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You, an average person? Probably homeless after you offended the wrong rich person.

If you're rich though, you are immune to consequences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yep, it's fine to roleplay a character who can't be cured, or just prefers it that way. Just as it's also fine to have a tabaxi be a vegan, because it's a fantasy and players are allowed to express themselves however they wish and the lore is always secondary to player enjoyment.

Even in a setting where having your head chopped off is a minor inconvenience for anyone who has 1000g, there would still be people who choose not to have an amputation healed for any number of reasons, and thay choice should be up to them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

They measure up to 4.0 metres (13 ft 1 in) long, weigh as much as 590 kilograms (1,300 lb)

Huh. Nope.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Another emulator. Iirc some of the code running Nintendo's own retro gaming products was pirated FROM Ryiujinx

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago

He's like the third guy to do this in a year, big money doesn't want you to know about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

But then how will congress give taxpayer dollars to a private company to do a terrible job?

I mean, we COULD have a government run agency that retains skilled engineers and keeps a good talent and knowledge pool of people specialized at delivering services that hundreds of millions of people rely on OR we could give money to the lowest bidder and blame "government inefficiency" for the contractor's fuckups.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This is a classic case of the Patriarchy / Toxic Masculinity hurting men too.

For the government officials to fund a Men's shelter would mean admitting that men can have moments of weakness, which the men in power do not like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Grocery stores know that when people are struggling to afford to eat, they try to save some money by going for the cheaper brands, which are typically owned by the store. Since the store control all the prices, they are able to jack up the price of everything, making their customers go "wow, food is expensive, better try to bargain hunt more", and suddenly you're not buying the competitor bread, now you're buying Western Family / No Name, and they profit both from the price hikes AND because they grow their market share on first-party goods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giffen_good

It's fucked up that they are allowed to both make AND sell the same products on the same shelves as their competitor's goods, but that's because our antitrust sucks.

There is NO downside for the store when they make you starve, you still gotta eat to live so you'll pay anything, and these things are all owned by the same handful of megacorps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My dude, everything is politics. Especially things like "I want a free internet" or "I don't want to be drowning in ads" which is a huge part of the appeal of Lemmy are both DEEPLY political stances.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly. It's not "Leftist", it's just NOT fully of Nazis, and that's how far our standards have slipped.

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