Serinus

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

It's both. Even terrible people with something to lose are less likely to throw it all away.

If this guy makes $35k a year at dollar general, he probably doesn't go on a murder spree.

But you could also just not be an asshole. Why go after random people instead of someone who actually helps cause the bullshit?

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

If there's one issue, ever, that you should be at least a little "both sides" on, it's this one.

There's no way you can honestly argue only one side of this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Probably Netflix, YouTube, and streaming apps first. I'd say banks, but banks are slow. Games won't take long. If there's not enough blowback it'll spread to every website that uses captchas today.

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

And they think everyone just ate the WMDs in Iraq thing. No, I was there at the protests. Many of us knew it was a bullshit excuse.

The only thing Iraq and Al Qaeda had in common was the Q. We knew that then.

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

They were gonna raise the rent anyway.

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

Uh, seems like an odd reason to quit your job.

I'd have to quit my job twice a week if I left every time my boss said something dumb.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That's what bitlocker is supposed to do. It's kind of the whole point of bitlocker.

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

Yeah, but buses generally suck. Give me actual rail, thanks.

The DC Metro was amazing.

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

One of my last comments on Reddit was about this.

The biggest difference I've noticed is that people have stopped reading sentences. They'll read all the words and then upvote based on the feeling those individual words give them. They won't consider the meaning of all those words put together.

And yeah, "upvote does not mean agree" is something Reddit has always struggled with, but it has definitely had exponential growth lately.

It has made me start writing more clearly. There are comments I've written that have been wildly misinterpreted from my actual meaning. Part of that is that I tend towards sarcasm, and it doesn't translate well over the internet no matter how absurd I get with it. But I've also started aiming to use more simple sentence structure.

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

Keep in mind that in these situations it's not always their fault. Sometimes two other people have pulled in straight and they're the third. Then the other two leave, and they just look like an ass.

Or maybe they're just an ass. Can really go either way.

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

I do all, show nsfw on a Lemmy.world account and get zero porn.

I generally do top 12 hours or I get days old stuff. That could be it? Or maybe he's just scrolling a lot farther than I am.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Yes, everyone should use more semicolons... so I don't look like a pretentious ass when I use one.

 

The prices of the items you buy are not based on how much they cost to produce. The price is based on what people are willing to pay. And the corporations know that most people aren't paying that much attention.

If you put things into your grocery cart without considering what the price was two weeks ago or two months ago, they'll just keep jacking up the price.

Have you noticed that the price of coca-cola has doubled in the past 5 years? Do you look for alternatives, or do you just keep putting it in your cart? Is there a point at which you'll stop buying a particular thing, or does it have to be truly egregious?

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