djsoren19

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[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

It's a real pain in the ass for the best source of news about the games I play to either be reddit or Discord, so my options are shit or shit. Sometimes developers post clarifications on game mechanics on the subreddit, and that's the only source of that information. I wish more companies could understand the benefits of instance ownership, especially considering all of the ongoing issues with social media owners. It'd be great if that kinda news would migrate somewhere better so I could finally ditch reddit permanently, but I'm sure I'll just eat a ban eventually.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 71 points 4 days ago

Considering how much of the Internet is now backed by AWS... yeah good luck with a full, 100% boycott, unless you're willing to install a plug-in to let you know which parts of the web are on AWS and specifically avoid them.

That being said, a 100% boycott is borderline puritanical. It's very easy to order nothing from Amazon, and if enough of us do it will make a noticeable dent in their profits.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 46 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Just checking in, the state whose economy is grossly overreliant on tourism is openly saying they don't want tourists? That they'll misuse statistics to publicly insult tourists?

I'm sure that'll work out great.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 days ago

It's common for gross American men to rate women on a scale of 1-10 for hotness. The joke is that Trump doesn't think the lady of liberty is very attractive.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Honestly, you don't even have to go that far. Just bringing back germ theory would massively advance the health and safety of ancient peoples. You might get a little bit of pushback trying to explain it to them though.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 5 days ago (20 children)

Tbf, I sincerely hope a lot of you understand the basic concept of a gearbox. Depending on how far back you go, a water wheel might be a pretty massive leap forward, and it might at least inspire other, smarter people of the time to work on theories of energy, and eventually electricity.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 117 points 5 days ago (6 children)

You're never going to get a satisfying answer to this question, because there is no actual reason. If you want, you can go peek in on the conservative subreddits and watch their gold-medal winning mental gymnastics, but the reason Trump is doing this is Putin told him to. The U.S. is destroying themselves for no gain.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Pretty standard business practice for the U.S. is "The Customer Can Always Get Fucked." There's a lot of money that's basically just been stolen from me because I got tired with fighting the company to just ship me the thing I paid for, and I either bought the thing somewhere else or decided I didn't want it anymore. Most companies don't even actually have customer service, just chatbots or outsourced chumps who only seem to exist for Americans to yell at, because they have no authority to do, view, or fix anything.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago

Y'know, if you're willing to make a few small concessions on who is ultimately in control of your country, I know this great authoritarian dictatorship that's been investing in new port infrastructure projects all around the world.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago

Wow, I didn't know you took your title so seriously, Dumbest Man on Earth.

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago

Theoretically, if you made a new language based on English symbols, is it still just a cipher?

[–] djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

This is a struggle I find myself in now. I was very politically active in my youth, and I'm currently looking back on everything I did thinking "wtf was the point of any of it? Should I have just focused on college/employment the whole time? If I did, would I have been in a position to escape?"

In the past, the big thing that kept me going was my local community. Sure, I never accomplished anything that reached a further stage, but I was at least making my local community better. Eventually though, I was given the opportunity to leave my shitty local community, and I immediately took it. Now I live somewhere great, that fully represents me, to the point that I started taking a step back from politics. No reason to campaign for an opposition mayor if I like my mayor, right? I still go to the monthly town hall meetings, if only to assure myself that things are going well locally, but I'm less vocal. I don't really need to be, and that's wonderful, but it's pushing me to be even less active.

I'm sure my hometown has gotten significantly worse in my absence though, since visiting family feels like visiting a corpse. Did I even make a difference there, or was it a temporary mirage? What was the point of any of it?

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