RememberTheApollo_

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RememberTheApollo_,

TV show with really interesting premise that is well written, well acted, with great sets:

Streaming service cancels it after the first season and doesn’t renew it.

RememberTheApollo_,

I was enjoying the heck out of The Peripheral. RIP.

RememberTheApollo_,

This stuff is back again? A year or two ago FB and the like was littered with spammers posting fake news that some celeb or other had died or met some tragedy to get people to click it. This stuff is annoying as heck, there’s plenty of spammers, but for some reason this particular brand seems very ubiquitous.

RememberTheApollo_,

Boston avocado, I guess. Bit of a stretch.

Hav a cah tho

RememberTheApollo_,

Some think it’s a song alluding to unrequited love. So that is maybe why we get to feel a little down when we hear it. We’re missing something. Maybe the person who sang it to us, the nostalgia for childhood, or maybe we just get the idea that the lyrics sound just as pleading as they are declarative.

RememberTheApollo_,

The day your health becomes a problem requiring more than regular effort to maintain.

That’ll rewind the clock to a lot of good years that maybe you can push back the decline a little further. Your clock will run out eventually, it’s inevitable. You just want to maximize the good years, not just youth or keeping yourself from death.

RememberTheApollo_,

“Magic cookie”

Yeah, I bet, lol.

I don’t think I ever saw this strip when I was younger. Reminds me of Calvin & Hobbes or Bloom County.

RememberTheApollo_, (edited )

Desantis has the veneer of sanity, and actually has a clue regarding how to make things worse. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Trump just flails about and expects underlings to figure it out.

RememberTheApollo_,

TBF a there’s a lot of crossover between Disney and the religious. Disney is seen as whloesome and safe, and that may be true to a point, but it’s also just a furtherance of the conformity and exclusion of reality that the religious expect. Disney is militant on image and making sure the parks conform to their corporate rule. The religious love that.

RememberTheApollo_, (edited )

Yeah. We did. And we used the same argument. It’s stupid to generalize a generation. However, I can point out the mockery of “millennials” was lazy and juvenile as the prejudice was aimed at anyone younger than the speaker without care for the facts, and the antics by “millennials” that garnered derision were by far the minority. Whereas the boomers are by majority conservative and guilty of failing to understand modern living and the changing times. Because racism, conformity, and getting a good paying job out of high school were facts of life for most of them.

RememberTheApollo_,

Took me a solid 25 to make it to middle class. Got one of those expensive degrees for an industry with “high average pay”, however they don’t tell you you’re working for peanuts until you make it. Of course, 9/11 and all the economic downturns/recessions didn’t help.

RememberTheApollo_, (edited )

worthy of ridicule

Because limited edition cups of the brand I used to buy at the Flying J truck stop for $12.99 now costs $150, and the resale value is $200. People are buying a half dozen or more to go with whatever they’re wearing. They’re Stanley mugs for heaven’s sake.

It’s absolutely stupid, and Yeti was just overpriced trendy stuff, not the equivalent of a Beanie Baby fad as a fashion accessory.

Can’t wait until these fools are stuck with piles of worthless mugs they wasted money on. You’ll find these mugs at yard sales or Goodwill in a few years. Good for Stanley makers, though. Hope they laugh all the way to the bank over this vapid trend.

Edit: TBC I think the overpriced Yeti gear is dumb, but I never thought of it as being “gendered”. Plenty of women had Yeti gear. The levels to which this Stanley thing is being taken is ridiculous, and it seems to be predominantly a female thing as a fashion accessory. It’s not dumb because women are the ones buying it up, it’s just dumb because it’s dumb. IDC who the suckers are.

RememberTheApollo_, (edited )

Yep, was thinking he checks the box next to the ® on the ballot. Older,boomer generation, into guns pushes the odds strongly in that direction.

E: typo

RememberTheApollo_,

what?

You call out ageism, then mention old hippies who don’t change their beliefs?

Dude, figure out what you mean.

RememberTheApollo_,

Wow. Can’t believe the Whizzo Chocolate Company is still in business after those two inspectors showed up.

RememberTheApollo_,

But it’s still a crab!

RememberTheApollo_,

Ugh. I was so happy when jpg or gifs came Into common use. bmp and tif files took so long to load.

RememberTheApollo_, (edited )

I bet there’s a distinct age group for each one. Older, established, family, doing ok? Take the 10 mil. Don’t want to give up your family and all that. Might be pretty hard for people to give up. 10 mil would be an easy, instant retirement. You can enjoy your remaining years.

Sure, there are going to be some pretty unhappy outliers for whatever reasons, unable to reach a stable relationship, multiple failed relationships, poor financial situation, etc. that would hit the reset button.

Younger folks? Maybe yeah…hit that reboot. Start off with a lot of great knowledge, big nest egg to get a huge leg up on everything, you’ll retire at 40. Many more millions or even a billion with all the knowledge you have. Life would have a good shot at being great.

RememberTheApollo_, (edited )

One could make a similar post of a clean American city and European cities with graffiti everywhere.

Most all major cities have graffiti. I will say that I’m pretty surprised at the number of EU cities that have massive graffiti everywhere. The US has issues, but a lot of larger graffiti is limited to poorer, less-traveled or more inaccessible areas. EU? Huge graffiti right across shop fronts roll-down shutters on the Main Street. Surprising.

RememberTheApollo_,

I’ve been to parts of Spain that have graffiti. Barcelona has plenty, Madrid is spotless - of course that depends on the part of town, too.

The point was that you can arrange pictures to look like whatever you want most of the time, not to actually criticize any one country.

RememberTheApollo_, (edited )

Ha! That looks fun. Hope you don’t mind me jumping in, I had a go at the AI too. Prompt was hillbilly wearing [insert brand] tools hardhat.

Milwaukee

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d0169827-6480-4dea-a0e1-c503e371924d.jpeg

Ryobi

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9db86f23-06b3-4513-ae2b-88570b4a5fff.jpeg

Makita

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4a661a1c-d740-49b4-af5d-455f87b86507.jpeg

Do…er…Dewalt

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b3641ae6-2e3c-43e4-9725-81e6a126d4c7.jpeg

Makita dude is ripped, but funny that he’s holding a DeWalt-looking…thing.

never ceases to amaze me that AI has such a hard time with basic text, but IMO that’s probably not something they want to be refined. Too much liability in churning out fake imagery with actual copyrighted/trademarked brands and the like.

RememberTheApollo_,

Good to hear there’s honest people out there, and your husband listened to them, even if it means taking the hit on battery convenience.

RememberTheApollo_,

I’ve done that on older battery packs. It’s a PITA because many packs are sealed, not screwed together, and you have to physically cut them apart to get to the batteries within for replacement. And assemble the batteries, which are often soldered in order. Then you gotta figure out how to reassemble the whole thing in a way that it won’t crack apart again. Doable, but definitely not for everyone.

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