Bytemeister @ Bytemeister @lemmy.world

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Both of those are meh-tier options. You want seedless blackberry or orange marmalade.

Email not in all caps. Clearly fake.

Yeah, they self inflicted a ton of COVID deaths to avoid breaking their kayfabe. Clearly they learned nothing.

It's a two part answer.

One, gamers have less money to spend, along with everyone else.

Two, expensive AAA title games these days tend to be shit, from a graphics, code, community, and content standpoint. If you want good games, cheaper is usually better.

Last AAA title game I bought was Borderlands 3, and I don't see myself buying anymore in the next two years or so.

My general rule of thumb, if there isn't a significant risk to life, limb, or senses in the next 24 hrs, I'm not going to the ER.

I don't go to a GP ever. They stole my blood and piss, and then told me to come back in 6 months and did it again. The headache of setting up the appointments, rescheduling work, travel, and copays means it just isn't worth it.

Finally, if I have an injury, and it's still affecting my daily life 3 days later, then I go to urgent care, and sometimes that even feels like a waste of money. Cost 180 bucks for me to get a pinched nerve in my shoulder diagnosed (couldn't sleep for 3 days) and they prescribed me maximum strength acetaminophen and some steroids which blew my heart rate up to unsafe levels so I stopped taking them. Pain finally went away about 4 days later on its own.

This feels like a joke.

Like, just name all the shit that is wrong with the US and flip it joke.

Comparison, my wife wasn't feeling well and insisted on going to the Dr. The closest appointment was over a week away, and the Dr. told her to go to the ER instead. Took a 25 minute drive to the nearest ER in the city, got her vitals in a few minutes and then waited hours to see a Dr who basically gave her 2 cups of coffee and some Tylenol and then had us go home. We won't get the bill for months, but it's usually in the 800 dollar range, and that is with insurance.

I'm in the US if that wasn't obvious.

If a Presidential candidate ran on the platform of "we're going to join the Hauge, and give up our veto power at the UN" I would vote for them.

Burning it in a discarded toilet next to a truck stop is less disrespectful than this.

I've never had a flag out front of my house.

The day that orange fucker kicks the bucket, I'm putting in a flagpole and flying that bitch at full mast.

Get a pet jumping spider. They don't eat much, don't need a large enclosure, you can handle them, and their venom is not significant to humans (they don't really bite anyway).

My partner has two of them on her desk, and catching them exploring or sunning themselves is a little happiness boost every time.

Here is one chilling out.

Interesting. Learn something new everyday.

Should I correct the meme, or let it stand for context?

I think you are required to make deflation porn a thing now. It's like a rule.

I'm imagining some dude getting sucked off so hard he turns into dust or a raisin.

Biggest reason why I started paying an extra 1k for housing per month... In 5 years, my crappy "luxury" apartment will cost more per month than my house. In 10 years, people will think it's insane how cheap my house is per month.

Or the country could collapse and my property will be worthless, but at that point I got bigger problems.

I’ve watched enough Lock Picking Lawyer never to want a consumer ‘smart lock.’

I'm gonna differ on this. The point of a lock is to control law-abiding access to your house. If someone wants in your house, they can attack your windows, doors, or even a wall if the lock is too strong. A smart lock let's you open the door for a family member remotely, or set one time-access for your in-laws to come over and pickup a tool.

I wouldn't use a smart lock for something hardened, like a bunker or a vault, but for a house and garage, it's okay not to have the most bullet proof lock in the world.

I feel like it's missing that nifty FCC sticker...

Yeah. You can unlock the phone, but it takes some work.

I the thing that upset me the most was that my phone was packed with an amazing array of sensors, and most of them are blocked from the user accessing. I got an app that gives me sensor data output. It really turns your phone from a device into a tool.

This.

Longtime computer "nerd" here. 8 years ago I would have balked about spending more on a cellphone than my gaming PC, but I end up using my phone more hours per day than my desktop so I bit the bullet and bought a nice phone. Now my PC is basically a dedicated entertainment device, and my phone is my go-to for email, chat, music, videos, reading, documents, and even some work.

If I wasn't an avid gamer, I probably wouldn't have a desktop or laptop at all right now.

And I will be switching to Linux this year, mainly because of Windows 11 and the general direction the Microsoft is going. I've got a laptop to test with and when I have the hang of it, the big battle station is getting switched too.

Seems a little early for it.

The argument for billionaires is "why should the government be allowed to set arbitrary caps on the amount of wealth you can accumulate" which I generally agree with, but it's clear that wealth hoarding has become a problem. Maybe we say that the most you can keep is 1 billion. Once per year, any personal wealth over 1 billion is surrendered. So you can earn as much money as you want, but you need to spend it or surrender it.