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aelwero, in What is your best story when you were in a foreign country?

Caught a cab at the gate of a us airbase in south Korea and asked the guy to take us to Starbucks.

Dude says “no problem”, and drives us all the way across the city to an obscure little strip mall with a gigantic sign that said Starbox.

It had a coffee shop, so it worked out, but I still say “starbox” instead of Starbucks decades later :)

athos77,

Do you pay cabs by the mile in Japan? It might be something that he commonly "misunderstands".

Chetzemoka,

Especially if his cousin happens to own Starbox.

aelwero,

He didn’t seem like the scammy type at all :)

radix,
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Japan? But they said this happened in South Korea.

athos77,

You are correct. I don't know why I said that. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

trk,
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It was a very long cab ride

setsneedtofeed, (edited ) in Which YouTuber still creates high-quality videos to this day?
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Scrolling through my subscribes, here are some of the ones mostly widely interesting I figure. In no particular order:

Civvie11- Retro gaming enthusiast.

Beware The Qu- Lots of speculative evolution content.

Big red 40TECH- Battletech lore guy.

BobbyBroccoli- Long videos about science scandals.

Mandaloregaming- Long form game reviews.

Seth Skorkowsky- Videos about TTRPG reviews and how to run TTRPGs.

Warlockracy- Russian video game reviewer with a bent to older games and weird Russian obscure mods.

Forgotten Weapons- Man on a life’s quest to collect French ammunition.

Red Letter Media- Movie reviews and such.

Wargamer Fritz- Battletech tabletop tactics.

ReligionForBreakfast- Scholar who talks about religious history topics.

The Tank Museum- Tanks.

The Chieftain- Tanks.

Paper Skies- Channel on strange aviation stories, focus on Soviet military aviation.

Quinn’s Ideas- Scifi review channel. Huge Dune nerd.

Olden Demon- Oldhammer channel. Talks about 2e and retells old 2e official battle reports.

oboeshoesgames- Like Dunkey but still funny.

Minisodes- Plays Oldhammer 2e in modern day and paints retro minis.

Grim Beard- Goth that reviews usually more obscure games.

Billiam- Watches and reviews a lot of trash TV.

Ancient Americas- History channel about ancient American (north, central, and south) history.

I’m subscribed to a lot of painting, DIY, instructional, and such channels which I find good but are very niche.

ABasilPlant,

Huge +1 for BobbyBroccoli. Most entertaining & gripping documentaries I’ve watched in a long time. The two part Cloning documentary (Part 1, Part 2) was absolutely spectacular.

Lemmino is great as well.

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

Jake Tran. His old videos were pretty cool. He went downhill ever since he tried to convince me that drinking soy milk turns people into femboys and losing sperm cells.

Illuminostro, in What is your unpopular flim opinion

Donnie Darko is pretentious dog shit. Fight me.

cashews_best_nut,

Oh imagine the absolute smuggness of university film students watching it on release and proclaiming it a classic.

Obi,
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I mean, it is, but it’s still good.

Illuminostro,

No, it really isn’t.

thorbot,

What’s your address? I’ll bring my katana

Illuminostro,

If you must, but I warn you: I have studied The Blade, myself.

You find me at Steven Seagal Dojo, Moscow.

Streetdog,
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Sounds like one could walk in with pool noodles and win a fight 😂

Illuminostro,

Um, I don’t understand that, but OK. 👍

whenigrowup356,

He has trained you well, I see

mechoman444,

I don’t want to fight you but I’m pretty sure you don’t know what pretentious means.

Illuminostro,

I know exactly what it means: pretending it’s something it’s not. Namely, a good movie.

En garde!

PRUSSIA_x86, in What is your unpopular flim opinion

The Breakfast Club is overrated

frogfruit,

A lot of cult movies are unless you have nostalgia for them

MrShankles,

Better than 16 Candles, if I had to choose

squiblet, in Why is this sub so against jokes and more lighthearted posts?
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The joke or reply-bait (like dallo describes!) posts aren’t great content. Looking over the community it’s mainly moderately serious topics that do make for decent conversation… I don’t see anything about Linux (?) so I assume that’s just your stereotype for Lemmy.

Presi300,
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It’s not really a stereotype, and idm it personally (I do like Linux), it just looks like most posts that aren’t either serious or talking about Linux here just get downvoted to hell

squiblet,
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Stereotypes can be accurate. Anyway, I don't know how you're viewing or sorting the community, but your post is the only one on the first page that even mentions Linux.

Deceptichum,
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I think they’re asking why all of Lemmy doesn’t like jokes, not specifically the asklemmy community.

squiblet,
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The title says “this sub”.

mumblerfish, in What is your unpopular flim opinion

The Godfather, extremely overrated and very boring. Saw it many years ago, and maybe my taste in movies have changed a bit, and I consider rewatching other movies I did not like, but not that one.

masquenox,

The Godfather, extremely overrated and very boring.

Agree. I couldn’t stand them - I have a sneaking suspicion it’s just the glorified toxic masculinity that appeals to a certain group of people.

NewNewAccount,

It insists upon itself.

snooggums,
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Shallow and pedantic.

dream_weasel,

100%

macrocephalic,

Agreed. I saw it many years ago so maybe should give it another shot, but someone would have to convince me it was worth it.

kindenough, in What is your favorite time travel movie or show?
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Idiocracy

Crashumbc,

Not time travel but a good movie.

Valmond,

Well he travelled forward in time :-)

Anonymousclimber, in What is your favorite time travel movie or show?

About Time

roofuskit,
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Great movie, so bittersweet.

skybreaker,
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Greatest feel good movie. It has an amazing message at the end

haukesomm, in What country are you using lemmy from?

Germany 🙋‍♂️

sntx,

Do I know you?

imjustjealous,

Wir benutzen diese Geste nicht mehr. 😉

the_third,

Vielleicht möchte er nur gerade eine Glühbirne wechseln?

Shadow_Zwiebel, (edited )

öffentlich xD

iHUNTcriminals, in What gifts are you getting for your friends and family members?

The joy of my presence.

livus,
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VieuxQueb,
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Yeah that’s all I can afford this year !

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

Buy expensive shoes. Well, let me rephrase that. Buy GOOD shoes. A good pair of QUALITY shoes will save you money in the long term as they will last a lot longer than buying many pairs of cheap shoes.

TheGreenGolem,

As the old saying goes: being poor is expensive.

vox, (edited )
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We aren’t rich enough to buy cheap things

OopsOverbombing,

I would also argue that many pairs of shoes can also have the same effect. If you can rotate shoes, you’re not wearing out any one pair excessively. I have shoes that are in still good condition but are a discontinued Adidas line that’s not available anymore. Although I do have shoes I still haven’t worn so there’s definitely a point of having too many pairs lol

beebarfbadger,
HawlSera,

And shop around

Realized the 80 dollar slip resistant work shoes I got at Shoe Carnival were like 20 bucks at target. Same shoes, just didn’t have a football player’s name on the tag.

Put em side by side they look identical and I wear them interchangably not even noticing a difference

Don’t pay for advertising

Sarmyth, in Former religious lemmings, what made you quit religion or stop being a believer?

It was slow, but I remember a major crack occurring watching Stephen Fry being interviewed when he paraphrased David Hume, paraphrasing Epicurus.

If God is unable to prevent evil, then he is not all-powerful. If God is not willing to prevent evil, then he is not all-good

Things start to fall apart from there. All the other Bible stuff can be explained away as being recorded by imperfect beings, but the core notion of a good God worthy of worship ends with the trilemma.

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

Buy the whole damn chicken, it’s always cheaper, protein for 4 meals.

Sheeple,
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Where do you live where you can afford chicken to begin with? I’m semi vegetarian just because of absurd meat prices.

diffcalculus,

Costco rotisserie chicken

Sheeple,
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Unfortunately we don’t have those in my country

RememberTheApollo,

But you gotta pay the membership fee. Only worth it if you spend enough to cover that fee in rebates and savings; and then shopping at Costco isn’t what I would call “poor”, but maybe it works out?

There are other grocery stores that have hot food bars and sell the rotisserie chicken, too.

Nollij,

Depending on details, the $5 / month can be well worth it for what options open up. The rotisserie chicken is $5 and significantly larger than the $8-10 chickens anywhere else. If you just get 2 of those per month you could come out ahead.

The challenge with Costco is that the options aren’t always so similar. Sure, their price on Charmin is better than anywhere else, but is it cheaper than the Aldi brand? What about their organic vs cheap produce elsewhere? When I got a Costco membership, I did not save any money, but I have been getting better quality stuff. That said, I am not on a tight budget, so my shopping habits are different

poszod,

In Portugal a whole raw chicken is around 3.5€, about 0.45% of a minimum wage.

NewNewAccount,

Minimum wage per what? Month?

khannie,
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Apparently so. €760 per month is the minimum monthly wage in Portugal. Works out at less than €5 per hour if you assume 160 hours per month which seems very low. For reference, Ireland is €11.30. While cost of living is higher here you can still pick up a full uncooked chicken for around €5 depending on the shop.

Local supermarket here does 4 chicken legs for €2.55.

SilverFlame,

A whole chicken in the US costs between 12-16 dollars depending in weight. The price literally doubled over the last couple years

khannie,
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GOOD GOD!

How big is a chicken there though?

SilverFlame, (edited )

About 5-6 pounds. Bigger ones get close to 7 pounds. So like 2-3.5 kg

Before Covid they were 99 cents a pound, now it’s about 2.50/lb

khannie,
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Thanks. Yeah that is a big assed chicken for Ireland tbh but it’s still more expensive overall.

I feel like you guys have been badly burned by price gouging. I remember seeing a thing on Reddit about egg prices skyrocketing and they had barely budged here so I found it odd.

SilverFlame,

The price of most groceries have at least doubled. I can still get store brand eggs for about $1.50 a dozen but other brands are easily 3+ dollars now. Meanwhile supermarkets are posting record profits.

poszod,

This is correct.

The kg of raw chicken here is currently at 2.34€ at the two biggest supermarket chains, a whole chicken is usually 1.5kg.

Swedneck,
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whole chicken is a lot cheaper than separate parts because there’s little processing involved

31337,

Back when I used to eat meat (6 or so years ago), my grocery store would always have huge bags of chicken thighs which were cheaper than a whole chicken. May not be the case anymore.

qantravon, in Which items/products were you once able to get from local shops on a whim that you now more or less have to order online?

Electronic components. Almost all small parts shops are gone.

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