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padge, in Which of your favorite creators content quality went downhill very quickly?

Idubbbz. It’s fine that he grew out of his edginess, I largely have too, but most of his videos now just feel like he needs to pay the bills and just cranks something out.

BruceTwarzen, in What are some happy endings that really wasn't all that happy?

A lot of horror movies end with like two people surviving, or even a man and a woman who hug each other or kiss and walk into the sunset. Good luck with your PTSD and knowing all your friends and or family members dies horribly and you got to see it.

GoofSchmoofer,
@GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world avatar

I think about this for most action movies as well.

xc2215x, in What do you think would happen if Putin was assassinated right now?

Ukraine would get blamed.

SkaveRat,

how DARE they!

Burninator05,

We (Russia) tried to assassinate Ukraine’s leader multiple times but were unsuccessful. It isn’t fair that Ukraine was successful in their attempt on our leader!

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Ukraine would claim they did it, and everyone would clap

baascus, in What's the funniest WiFi network name you've seen?

WutangLAN

SHamblingSHapes, in As an adult, what seemingly childish things do you get excited about?

Stone paths. I was hiking in a large state park recently and came on a stretch of path that a seriously skilled stonemason built. It was beautiful. I stood there for ten minutes looking at how perfectly they matched the stones together.

F_Haxhausen, in What do you call this place?
@F_Haxhausen@lemmy.world avatar

Liminal.

fritobugger2017, in What are your "poor person" money life hacks?

Don’t take on debt if at all possible. If you use a credit card, try to pay it off each month. Don’t get one with annual fees. Get one that has cash back not miles or points.

Learn to make your own coffee instead of buying Starbucks or whatever. A decent hand grind will last for a decade and cost around $50. A no name pour over dripper and filters are a cheap way to make coffee at home. Buy beans and keep them in an air tight container and they will be good for a month.

zalgotext,

Learn to make your own coffee instead of buying Starbucks or whatever

Be warned, this habit can very easily form into a hobby that is more expensive than buying Starbucks every morning

fritobugger2017,

Most poor folks can’t afford a hobby.

fruitycoder,

I’m a coffee snob, but it’s amazing how much a French press can do for making different kinds of coffee.

Now espresso, too rich for blood so far. Those machines are nuts.

olafurp,

I make my own instant coffee

fruitycoder,

Nice! How do you do that?

olafurp,

This is a recipe that my grandma taught my while she was still alive and I’ll pass it on to my nonexistent children when they are old enough to drink coffee.

  1. Buy instant coffee
  2. Heat water
  3. Put instant coffee in cup
  4. Put hot water in cup.
residentmarchant, (edited )

Woah, the coffee one is billionaire-making advice! /S

Shareni,

A no name pour over dripper and filters are a cheap way to make coffee at home.

Moka, French, and Turkish give you better results, don’t require disposable filters, are usually cheaper, and aside from Turkish don’t require experience to make good coffee.

fritobugger2017,

I do moka pot at home every weekend. I would argue that experience is needed to make good coffee. It is easy to make something undrinkable.

Other than that it comes down to personal preference. I believe manual pour over results in a better tasting cup of coffee.

whaleross, (edited ) in What are your "poor person" money life hacks?
@whaleross@lemmy.world avatar

Cook your own food. Ready made meals will always be made with as much cheap non nutritional filler as possible. Learn how to use a few spices, buy produce that is cheap with the season and keep track of weekly discounts in your local stores. It will save you money, you’ll eat better and it’s rewarding to have a tasty meal in the end.

Also I’m surprised how many people don’t seem to understand pricing in general. When comparing prices, see the price per weight or volume. That is money/kilogram or money/liter (substitute with freedom units). Money per package can be deceiving if you compare 75 money for a smaller package or 95 money for a larger.

Edit: If the need to learn spices makes you overwhelmed, start out with some spice mixes! Pick a couple of different blends that are different, like one Cajun Mix and one Mediterranean and one oh idk something else culturally generic. Also salt, pepper, paprika and bullion. There. You can make lots of different sorts of foods and learn on the way what spices you like. Don’t be afraid to experiment. Don’t get discouraged. Some stuff will turn out meh, but others will make you go wow. All of those are learning experiences for the future!

EldritchFeminity,

On the cooking one, I also recommend cooking double portions when you can. If you can cook twice as much with minimal effort, that’s half the cleaning you have to do afterwards and half the meal planning you have to do. You get up in the morning and know that you have leftovers from dinner ready to go for lunch in the fridge. Also, rice. Rice is cheap, good for you, and incredibly flexible in what you can do with it. A rice cooker is also a great appliance to have in general. Not only is it an easy set and forget for a pot of rice, but you can do all sorts of meals in it from steaming meats and vegetables to cooking soups and even baking desserts. An air fryer is similarly flexible and great for making meals for one person. You don’t have to preheat it or anything and it doesn’t cost all the energy that a full size oven does.

whaleross,
@whaleross@lemmy.world avatar

That’s true. Food prep is great for the economy and also for the soul. You can generally find larger amounts cheaper per weight and it’s nice to know them you get home and are tired that there is some good food waiting to be reheated.

PonyOfWar, in What do you want for Christmas?

I’ve kind of stopped caring about the gift-receiving aspect of christmas in recent years. So I mainly look forward to the family Raclette dinner on christmas eve and meeting some old friends who come home for christmas.

HubertManne,
@HubertManne@kbin.social avatar

I actually hate the whole gift cycle. I have to often seen it become like a competition.

sparky678348, (edited ) in American English slang question

Jay is a person, and the picture that was written on invokes the same feeling that this Jay does, the picture is Jay AF.

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Why is your comment yellow for me? I’m using the browser.

TootSweet, (edited )

Maybe don’t use highlighter markers on your monitor?

(But seriously, it’s no different color than other comments in this thread for me. Maybe it was a “new” post for you when you wrote that and the rest weren’t?)

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

You’re probably right. I’ll stop coloring on my monitor.

user224,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Because it was a new comment then, so it got highlighted. As of Lemmy 0.19.0-rc.5 it’s orange. Or yellow. I don’t know what it really is.

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Thank you!

OceanSoap,

This is most likely the correct answer. Jay Is probably either a classmate she has a crush on, or a celebrity that she she has a crush on.

Crackhappy,
@Crackhappy@lemmy.world avatar

I’m going to just assume it’s Jay Mohr. He’s dreamy.

phoneymouse, (edited ) in What companies have made your blacklist?

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Reddit, X, Tesla, Sweet Green, Chick-fil-A, etc.

Google/Facebook: spyware

Microsoft: Windows is spyware and I’m just done with Windows. There are many better options for software.

Reddit: CEO is a prick. Gone the way of Facebook

X/Tesla: CEO is a prick, racist and anti-semite

Sweet Green: CEO blacklisting students for protesting war

Chick-fil-A: Run by far right bigots

Bathtubwalrus,

I always find it interesting when people target Chick-fil-A… Like why them specifically and not all the others? Especially the other companies that go all rainbow in June and have spots in pride parades. www.dataforprogress.org/accountable-allies-pride

finestnothing,

TIL Microsoft is better than I expected, they only donated $2,000 to anti-lgbtq

L4rr,

Wtf… Where can I read up on that?

Fal,
@Fal@yiffit.net avatar

Usually how these things work is that it’s either employees donating and having to list their employer. Or the employer will match any donation to a non profit from any employee up to a certain amount.

So this could be 1 employee donating 3k and Microsoft matching it

RBWells, (edited ) in What companies have made your blacklist?

I’ve never been to Cracker Barrel because when I was younger they fired all their gay employees, were taken to court over it, fought and won.

Chick fil a same sort of reason, stupid discrimination.

Have never been to Applebee’s because I don’t have to and why would I?

Bank of America because they once stacked withdrawals over deposits, said I was overdrawn by 0.60 for some immeasurably short period of time, and slapped a $35 overdraft fee on my account. I called, bitched until I got my $35 back, and closed the account. Hate them with a burning passion. Have had to deal with them at two jobs since and they seem still as bad.

Pyroglyph,
@Pyroglyph@lemmy.world avatar

Most of these make sense but the Applebee’s one isn’t really on your shitlist. From what you’ve said you just seem indifferent to it, much like you’d be indifferent to any other store you have no interest in.

RBWells,

Yeah boycott may be too strong a word, it’s more like they are at the bottom of my list in what I look for in a restaurant, and I live where there are other options. I do object to them but on grounds of being a chain, generally shitty to employees and not good or interesting food, I will not give them dollars but don’t hate them like I hate BOA or Cracker Barrel. They just seem like something that doesn’t need to exist.

ohlaph,

I had exactly the same thing happen to me and did exactly that.

Godnroc, in Be honest: if you had the power to stop time, your morals would go out the window.

Losing my morals? Goodness no! My morals would be the only thing left, as there would be no one who could stop me. Justice for the wronged, help for the needy, and punishment for the wicked that knows no limits.

Is there a tyrant that threatens peace? Bound and delivered to the United nations. A disaster trapping civilians? Every injured person into the first hospital bed available, worldwide in a moment. Hell, I could read every medical book ever and become the most studied doctor ever.

Socsa,

Yeah but you’d walk through the occasional locker room too. You know, when it makes sense for like, justice and stuff.

Cosmicomical, (edited )

What are you, twelve? You have a superpower like this, you’re going to get all the partners you want

Tangent5280, (edited )

Bound and delivered to…

Bruh you’re a better person than me. Aint nobody got the time to drag over some weak ass hitler wanna be halfway over the world. Much rather just grenade diplomacy them wherever they are, as another lemming mentioned in this thread.

EDIT: Just occurred to me that this would actually entail investigating and confirming their crimes beyond all doubt. Now I understand the appeal of just dropping them off somewhere with people qualified and trained to do that.

GiveMemes, (edited )

Lmao yeah but what about when somebody pisses you off? Like that’s kinda the whole point of this question but good job taking some weird moral high ground ig?

Also, what if your ideas about “wicked” and “good” aren’t the same as mine?

For example one of us could see Xi Jinping and the Chinese government as quite evil and actively carrying out a genocide, while the other of us might believe that to be western propaganda and that the Chinese government is generally benign.

What about when the death of the wicked means a power vacuum and strife for a region a la American imperialism?

Anyway just trying to get some interesting conversation related to the topic at hand.

pomodoro_longbreak,
@pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works avatar

I mean think of if someone pisses you off now, you don’t automatically go and fuck with them anonymously, even though it’s infinitely easy to do.

aldalire,

Goes to show that morals aren’t a hindrance, but a guide. Without morals, who are we?

Mojave, in Why do people hate on mobile games, call them "not real games" and mock them, when some mobile-exclusive games are the best games I've played?

No offense but how old are you

Organichedgehog,

7

OhmsLawn, in Why do people hate on mobile games, call them "not real games" and mock them, when some mobile-exclusive games are the best games I've played?

The rapacious micro transactions we see in games today started on mobile. People associate mobile games with that model. I have some mobile games, but these days they’re all premium. The gacha system just starts to feel like work to me after a while.

As to the stares, non gamers always sneer at gamers. You’re playing games in public. They’d probably give you the same looks if you had a handheld console.

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