AmosBurton_ThatGuy @ AmosBurton_ThatGuy @lemmy.ca

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Just finished the trilogy last week. Amazing books, a bit dry at times but overall a very enjoyable read about what the politics and technology might look like to terraform and colonize Mars.

True, we can't exactly go and cower behind Jupiter at the moment unfortunately.

Let's just hope an alien civilization finding that probe doesn't lead to a dual vector foil being launched at the solar system

That's the best part about eating corn, you can take it out of the toilet the next day and just give er a quick rinse and you got a nice little snack!

"what's the point of introducing new taxes against the rich? They'll just find ways to avoid it so let's just not do anything that might harm their profit margins or else it'll make the poor even poorer"

Then wtf is the solution? Everybody says this whenever higher taxes for corporations and the rich is brought up, that they'll just find new ways to avoid touching their precious profits. Should everyone just collectively do nothing because "they'll find ways to avoid it so why bother"

This defeatist attitude pisses me off, something needs to be done to curb this bullshit. Literally no one needs or deserves hundreds of millions, let alone billions of dollars, and this cancerous "profits must go up every year or your company is a failure" needs to fucking die already. Why do companies making hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in profit need more fucking money? Why can't being rich af and literally not being able to spend your net worth in a single lifetime be enough?

We went from 1 salary at a factory being enough to raise a family, buy a house, buy a car, and go for a yearly vacation being normal to even 2 highly educated people working together and sharing expenses barely being able to afford a fucking house. Now the average person is expected to give a giant portion of their monthly earnings to pay off some parasitic landlords mortgage plus some profit for the "trouble" of being a fucking parasite.

Eat the fucking rich. Enough is enough.

Doesn't that make your neck sore? I've used thin pillows all my life, whenever I use a pillow when travelling (hotel, someone else's house etc) it's ALWAYS to thick. I can't imagine stacking two pillows on top of each other.

Man the worst part of lemmy is all the absolutely brain dead China apologists, you people are a cancer spreading bullshit propaganda. Fuck off loser.

Mashed potatoes food alone are is not enough. You must add cheese.

Ftfy. Yes EVERYTHING !

Agreed, I'm in northern Canada and only the capital city of my territory has cable internet, the outskirts of the city and the smaller communities are stuck with ancient and capped (300GB per month) DSL at 15 Mbps while I get unlimited 100/10 Mbps for $140 per month. I'd kill for symmetrical 100/100 so I could access my plex server outside of my house, let alone 1 Gbps fiber internet.

I'd guess we're a minimum of 5-10 years away from fiber internet sadly, we just don't have the population to make it profitable enough for the greedy ass telecom companies, even with the extra government funding the telecom gets for serving our low population territory.

Factorio and Stellaris are another 2 great games with steep learning curves. They're also 2 of my most played games according to steam.

!Like a fuckin Valkyrie!< 😭

I would prefer at least 10 episode seasons, but I'd take anything at this point. The last 3 books were the best of them all, and that's with the first 6 being absolutely amazing as well.

Greatest series ever, I will die on that hill.

Super Metroid is the greatest game ever made and I will die on that hill.

Runner up is Fallout New Vegas

3rd is Factorio

All great games in different genres, I've spent more hours in those games than any other game.

Aww c'mon man, like the lower deckers don't have enough "foreign material" to clean up from the holodecks filters!

Won't someone think of the lower deckers?!?

Why is that if I may ask? I've gone from the nexus 4 - nexus 6p - pixel 2 - galaxy s10(fuck samsung, never again) - pixel 6. I'm happy enough with my pixel 6, it's not amazing but I don't really have any complaints about it either. I'm planning to use it until it either gets to slow for my liking or the battery goes to shit, whichever comes first.

Heresy of the highest order.

Here in my part of Canada, the local government just voted to give fucking landlords a subsidy as an apology for implementing rent increase caps. It's unfortunately no surprise that more people are using food banks. I fucking hate this world.

I mean tbh, waking up naturally shortly before your first alarm is MUCH better than being woken up in the middle of deep sleep by your alarm. I always feel 10x better when I wake up shortly before my alarm as opposed to being pissed off that my alarm is going off in the middle of my precious sleep.

You're not wrong but it's also the people's fault as well for engaging so much with this bullshit. I swear 90% of the internet exists simply to circle jerk about things people hate while the remaining 10% actually talks about things they like. I'll never understand why people choose to talk so much about the things they hate, just fucking downvote and move on to something you actually like.

All publicity is good for these pieces of shit, stop feeding into the rage cycle and they wouldn't be covered so much. Or they'd have to pay more for their coverage at the very least.