Dozzi92 @ Dozzi92 @lemmy.world

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Yeah, I was agreeing with the person I responded to, and my comment related to the person they were responding to. Obviously this format can leave that a little unclear. Basically, two comments up from mine was this disingenuous argument that Netflix is trash, and that's just wrong, but it's an argument I see used about any number of things here on Lemmy, and to me, it dilutes the argument, because you're clearly coming from this place of bias right out of the gate.

I just think it's okay to say a product itself provides a good service, but that they're fucking it all up by injecting shit into it, to the point that, regardless of how quality the product may be, the injected shit is so repugnant that I would abandon this quality product for it.

Maybe he's doing a reverse Joaquin Phoenix, going from music artist to actor, just with more antisemitism.

Lemmy is the king of the disingenuous argument, as though somehow admitting that yes, Netflix is the gold standard for pay-to-stream, it somehow dilutes the argument against AI ads.

You're responding to the same disingenuous argument you see all over Lemmy made by folks whose jobs are in the IT field.

That being said, why hate Plex? I'm sure, like me, you're grandfathered in. Is it fucking new users? Sure. Sucks. Not everything is a battlefield, and they'll eventually fuck me and then I will abandon them, it is what it is. But for now, the shit just always works with almost no tweaking from me. I really can't ask for much more. Got my mom to watch The Wire because of Plex.

Dirty Dick's. Besides the obvious, being able to say "Hey, lemme put some dirty dicks on your taco," and the like, the stuff is phenomenal. It is not for everything, like, say, a Tapatio would be, but I use it most of the time.

Dirty Dick's is a sweet heat, and they kill it in both departments. Nowhere on the bottle do they advertise how many Scoville units, because it's silly. They created a sweet yet spicy sauce that is perfect for pulled pork, or beef/chicken tacos, pretty much anything in the tex-mex spectrum (the texmextrum, if I may).

I have yet to try it with Asian or Indian fare, and I won't even begin to speculate, because I am far from some culinary genius, I just follow recipes well.

So yes, allow me to shill for putting dirty dicks on your food.

It's catching, I tell you!

This is Lemmy, which is a byproduct of Reddit, and both of them have generally devolved into worlds of black and white only, although here tends to at least still have some nuance.

Yeah it's become impossible to have philosophical discussions, although this truly does seem limited to the virtual world (i.e. via text, online, etc.). If I were to go have some drinks with a friend and they busted out some LLM to take part in our discussion I would chastise them endlessly for it.

Yeah, here and Reddit, I find myself nodding along often enough, and that's when I know I should perhaps adjust my viewpoint, just for the sake of making sure I'm not just nodding along. It's unfortunate you're perhaps being brigaded a bit, but it doesn't matter. I say what I'm gonna say, people can think whatever. I like to think that we can come here speak on things, have philosophical discussions, but it feels like sometimes the whole discussion has been aimed in a certain direction before it even got underway.

This is also assuming there's some mastermind at the school compiling all this data versus some teacher working essentially a second job dealing with broken chromebooks every day because kids are irresponsible. Suggeating this is anything but good old fashioned vandalism of school property is ludicrous, but it's also an expected conclusion for here on Lemmy. Some of the comments in this thread are seriously unhinged.

To sum it up, kids are dumb and always have been and it's nothing more than that.

We had two cats. Fed them the exact same way. One got fat and had diabetes, and eventually died because she swallowed something that was not food that got stuck in her intestines. The other cat, he has always maintained a healthy weight. I think it all came down to some kind of feline anxiety though, where she was always seeming anxious, right down to being overprotective of food, and he's incredibly chill and always has been, except when neighborhood cats wander on our property.

We always opted for Fancy Feast pate, had looked them up when the diabetes first showed up, and they're apparently high protein, low carb, and they served us well enough. We mix in some other stuff from time to time for variety, but that's the bulk of it. I'm interested in this Primal though, definitely going to have a look. He is now somewhere in the 13ish range, dunno for certain since he was a street urchin when my wife found him, but we're trying to let him live a long, healthy life, in spite of his urge to die on the streets somewhere.

That's why I'll never smoke crack.

Transcended the rectum, right into the colon.

The US consumers base is bigger than the next like six or seven countries combined, China included. If a country exports literally anything, you can bet the US is one of their larger trade partners, if not the largest. We just love buying shit here and had the money to do it. So I'm just saying, this shit is gonna hurt everybody. If you build something, odds are someone in America will buy it. The US imported $3.2T worth of goods in 2022, and if that shit dries up, all those places need to find someone else to sell that shit to.

I say this thinking this is all dumb, and if the issue was China, as it's purported to be, and which is something I can totally get on board with, why not just go to trade war with China? China is heavily reliant on American consumerism. The US sent 150b in goods to China, but bought 536b back. With no other of America's trade partners is the gulf so big. Mexico and Canada combined, the next largest two, were less.

I dunno, I'm just an idiot. I think things are much more complicated than folks on here and Reddit make them out to be. And that's excluding the plethora of other obvious negatives from this administration. I think we all need to buckle up, and it doesn't matter where you're from.

I just learned this the other day when I was joking with my wife that my daughter and their troop got badges for things like breathing and being near things. She told me the back is for whatever, and that when they become Brownies next year, that comes to an end.

I support it all though. Gets the girls together, they do occasionally do things that resemble community service, and I eat too many goddamn cookies.

Yeah, I need to remember if it was ginko or something else. I'm not the greatest rememberer, so I'll go back and check the recording. Perhaps not natural meant not native, but I recall being surprised at the description. We shall see, always interesting.

Oh sure, yeah we end up going in the room and doing what I assume is subjective refraction, based off my understanding of the English language, but it seems like the machine kinda narrows down the starting window, that's my layman vibe. You seem like you are more than a layman and I appreciate your input.

I have asthigmastism. My daughter likes prisms, but those are rocks.

Back to the subjective refraction, sometimes I can't decide between 1 and 2. And yeah we go to 3 and 3 is shit, and so we are back to 1 and 2, and it's a stalemate.

Overall, I like going to the eye doctor. They are the antithesis of dentists as far as the doctor world goes.

I got LASIK when I was 19. Doctor at the time was like "You may want to hold off since you're still growing." I said "What do you know doc, shut up and slice me!"

So imagine my surprise when I'm going to get glasses 12 years later, and they've now got all these fancy machines doing shit. My eye appointments in my teens were dark room, eye drops to dillate, read some letters, then the thing with the lenses "which is better, 1 or 2?"

Now you go in and hit machine after machine after machine, and that house/balloon decides when it's clear for you. Really incredible shit.

Yeah, the complaining about spotify's free tier is something I just don't get. I grew up listening to the goddamn radio. No choice in what to listen to and ads all the time. But when your jam came on, it felt great every time.

I'm on a family plan with some friends. I've discovered a ton of new music because of Spotify. I've gone to many shows, bought merch, vinyls, for bands I never would've known had it not been for Spotify.

I'm just not sure what people want, but it reeks of entitlement. If you're gonna pirate music, by all means, go to town. Nobody cares.

Yeah this is a big problem I see often. You have underground utilities? Tree planting becomes a huge thing. And in a lot of these walkable areas, places you'd want trees, folks tend to also prefer not to have the wires overhead with telephone poles everywhere, and so they've been backed into a corner.

I did just sit through a presentation by my local environmental commission where they addressed the issue. The solution seems to be trees bred for the specific environment: deciduous provides shade but doesn't drop a lot of leaves; can grow tall but the root ball grows in a certain way so as not to interrupt sidewalks and utilities; hearty and resilient. I can't recall the trees, but they were described as essentially not naturally occuring.