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  • My main thing that pushes me towards being a striminal is that every service has all exclusive content.

    If I wasn’t too watch star trek or star wars, hello Disney+. Stranger things? Netflix. The list is long, I won’t bore you with what you’re probably aware of.

    Moving to bring a striminal, as they say, you can watch what you want, when you want, where you want. You get everything in one place, and don’t have to flip flop between services to simply see what’s available.

    The cost of all of the services is a problem, sure, because it’s so damn costly for all of them combined. But that’s not my primary factor. It’s just so damned inconvenient to maintain so many disconnected accounts, and agglutinate all of the information into a sensible list of what’s new or available across all services.

    I just want it to be easy and they’ve intentionally made it not easy.

    I won’t comment if, or how many Linux ISOs I may or may not have.


  • This is exactly the first thing that comes to mind. There’s surely a large number of average people, who don’t care or have any interest in what Elon has been doing, or anything else…

    People who can’t readily afford to just throw away a vehicle because the owner of the company is a shithead.

    But yeah. Fuck cyber trucks. Never liked those eyesores anyways


  • I saw the writing on the wall when Tesla actively worked against people attempting to repair their vehicles. They wouldn’t sell parts for a long time.

    They made it into a walled garden. If you owned an EV, you fit into one of two categories: Tesla owners, and everyone else.

    IMO, they thought that since they were the only game in town for a while, and have been the largest player in the EV space, they can do whatever they want. Over time, that has not worked out in their favor.

    Every product they have must be tracked and traced to a user account. There’s no way to own/operate a Tesla without an account… Mostly. And because of this, I’ve been heard saying that, I like the technology and on average, the vehicles Tesla makes, but I don’t like the company, or their business practices, so I would probably never own one.

    The only practical way to get by is to hack the software in the vehicle, and to me, that really shouldn’t be necessary. But it is. They’re worse than John Deere in my books.

    I’m any case, I generally don’t support vandalism, especially when it’s in the realm of “destruction of property”. The people who bought the cars could be victims all the same, so I don’t want to presume that someone has the means to just throw out a $100k+ vehicle because the owner of the company that made it is a tosser.

    No. I more feel sympathy for those folks. They didn’t ask for this. They’re not necessarily guilty of anything simply because they own/drive a Tesla.




  • I’m honestly hoping that the next time someone gets so tired of these mass murdering dick heads, that enough lessons have been learned from Luigi’s situation that the entire populous turns into Johnny tightlips, and the feds can’t find them.

    I swear that Luigi would have lived a long, happy life if not for that one person who called him in.





  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.cato196@lemmy.blahaj.zone11 years ago
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    Fair enough. I honestly just think they can’t see the forest because of all the trees in the way.

    They’ll cry foul on someone insisting on being called by they/them pronouns, arguing that it’s an incorrect usage of they/them, or whatever the argument of the week is, then immediately use they/them pronouns for an individual in a different context without batting an eye, or even realizing what they’ve done.

    Ignorance and hypocrisy.




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    I still don’t get why people have such an issue calling people what they want to be called.

    You don’t balk at a guy or a girl named Robin, or Alex, or any of a hundred different androgynous names…

    But you take issue with “he”, “she”, and “them”?

    Why?

    My only problem, and to be clear this is entirely my problem, nobody else’s, is that I’m so dumb, I frequently forget and call someone he/she when they prefer they/them. I fuck it up sometimes. I try, but decades of societal norms are getting in the way of me getting it right sometimes.

    To every person who identifies as they/them please forgive me because I’m going to screw it up. Just correct me when I say it and hopefully in time my brain will stop making this mistake.


  • I appreciate the discourse.

    For me the things I want are usually twofold: things that help me help others, or things that help me learn so that I can more effectively help others.

    As an example, I’m an Android user, always have been since Windows Mobile crashed and burned. So to better help friends, family, and the customers at work, I bought an iPhone. Installed a data-only SIM card, and carried it around, connected to my work accounts for a bit more than a year. Anything work related, I would try to use the iPhone for.

    Of course, for practicality, I also had my work accounts on my android, so if I couldn’t do something with the iPhone, I could fall back to it.

    I’ve since retired the iPhone, it was an iPhone 6S, but the experience was very helpful in expanding my understanding of what others see when I’m working on their issue blind (no remote control).

    Anyways. That theme has been a constant for me. Not just with mobile phones.


  • You’ve described the problem completely. There’s little rhyme or reason to their actions.

    I understand the motivations behind it, but they’re superficial at best. Some chest beating, hoo-rah, fuck yeah, America! Shit.

    They’re trying to “fix” things by enforcing blanket rules without any consideration to the collateral damage caused by their policies; it also seems like they don’t have a full understanding of what the policies their implementing will do, in and of themselves, separate from what collateral damage it might cause.

    To me, I draw parallels between the 3 wish genie conundrum. You ask for a million dollars and you get it, but then the IRS wants to know your location and how you got $1M (or in our case CRA). The you get what you literally asked for kind of deal, and getting all the consequences of that, most of which you didn’t consider would be a problem.

    A nontrivial number of Americans dislike immigrants, ignoring the fact that most of them are white, European descent people, who at one time would have been the immigrants, so they want all immigrants to be deported, then when that actually happens, and as a result, the labor costs for staple foods skyrocket, or insufficient workforce can be found to pick the grapes, berries, fruits and vegetables, driving the cost up, and the availability of these products down. Then they tariff all the imports, making any imported produce cost just as much or more, and suddenly you’re paying $8.95/lb for bananas.

    It’s a lack of thought, consideration and understanding of the actions they’re taking (and/or asking to be taken), and the consequences of those decisions.


  • I get it, 100%.

    My best advice for where you are right now, is “be the change you want to see in the world”

    Where you see indifference, show compassion. Where you see ignorance, learn and try to educate anyone who will listen.

    Be the kind of person you wish this world was occupied by. Be better.

    Three only reason I’m still alive is because I know how many people would be significantly harmed if I were to do something different. They’re some of the only people I care about, and I don’t want them to be sad. My strongest motivator is that I would rather suffer though a life so they don’t have to suffer as much though theirs. I am a helper. I provide assistance. Always have, always will. The only reason I accept any money for helping ever, is because I require it to have a home, food, and the resources with which to assist others. That’s my purpose.

    I will also point out that this is the reason I will never have children. I didn’t ask to be put in the position I’m in. I didn’t request to live a life. If someone asked me, I probably would have laughed in their face. Are you kidding? Do you see what life is like? No thanks. I’ll choose oblivion over dealing with the vast majority of people that currently occupy the world; and with that said, since I can’t ask my future children if they want to exist at all, I’m going to err on the side of caution, and not condemn someone who I would surely care about deeply, to a life, here. I’ll save them that sufferage.

    Always remember, exceptions exist. Exceptions will always exist. Examples like the late, great, Mr Rogers. He’s a shining example that exceptions exist. There’s a lot more I could point to, but I’ll let you ponder that at your leisure.

    Unfortunately, for every positive exception, it seems there are a hundred exceptions the opposite direction. People who knowingly and willfully harm others for personal gain. There’s a bias here though. Good, nice, and kind people, don’t generally make headlines. So the media and by consequence, the majority of people of our culture, crave and glorify sensationalism. So we see and hear about the ridiculous, cruel, evil and terrible people far more often than the random acts of kindness that people show to eachother every day. Recognize the bias and work against it to train your system 1 to learn that what we’re being told is almost always skewed towards the negatives. That the world isn’t 100% good, but it’s not 100% evil either, the truth lies somewhere in between.

    Be well.




  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.catoMemes@sopuli.xyzWhat we all want deep down
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    I feel like this is obvious.

    Honestly, I don’t give a shit if I have to work for that security, but the job markets have gone to absolute garbage. Nobody has a lifetime career at a single employer anymore. Employers don’t do raises, and just rinse through the entire employable workforce with no care in the world because there’s always some bright eyed college grad willing to take the job for less than the person who has it now, so raises don’t serve companies. Long term experience and knowledge is both highly desirable, and completely worthless.

    If you’re trying to get a job for anything beyond entry level, you must have years and years of experience with the specific products and software that company uses to manage their company. Experience you could only have if you’ve worked there before.

    Entry level positions have wages so low it’s barely better than working at McDonald’s.

    The world is fucked.