[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 44 points 8 months ago

Even the olive, while not liquid, is kinda mushy.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 45 points 8 months ago

In this journey that we all call life, it is best to travel light, with few encumbrances holding us back.

coffee

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 44 points 8 months ago

Fwiw, they mostly did, it's just that it is no longer restricted solely to COVID and now is shared with others.

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e.g. stating that people should "take precautions", which if someone can work from home could be that, and/or wearing masks if not, etc. Unfortunately, not everyone (single mothers?) has the luxury of taking a week off whenever they want or even NEED to.

Also, this is just a guess but I am fairly positive that this is based on all the EXTREME amount of push-back that they have been putting up with from Republicans over the last few years to CONTINUALLY get all up in their business, despite barely having finished a high school's worth of edumacashiun. And probably also, to an enormously lesser degree, from Democrats who want to push the "pandemic is solved, b/c Biden won the last election" message that they believe will resonate with the handful of centrist people left in the country.

So this is once again a symptom of late-stage capitalism, where obstructionists shoot the department in the head, then complain how "ineffective" it is after that.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 47 points 9 months ago

This is where John Oliver would jump in to say: except that's not who this is bc one of them is fake.

And then continue with: except that's a lie bc actually, two are fake!

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 47 points 9 months ago

"Can't compete" => won't, ftfy :-P

Google got their money, so they are simply "done", unlike software made by people who genuinely care about stuff, and donate their time for free to improve it.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 44 points 9 months ago

Die.

Whenever I hear someone say "what are people supposed to do?", that is what I remind myself is the default.

When the rich have taken everything that they want, that is all that is leftover for literally everyone else.

A magic utopia is not the default. That took effort to build, and now the ultra-wealthy are putting in effort to tear it down, so it is ludicrous to think that without effort that things will magically go back to the way they were. That is neither how inertia nor entropy work.

Sorry this is upsetting, but it is the Truth. When Trump wins, it will get even worse, not better. Maybe we should do something about it.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 44 points 10 months ago

... you guys vacuum? :-P

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The problem, or at least one of them, is that those words resonate so well with her viewers. I am not excusing her, but if she did not say them then someone else would - so yeah it's more the game than the playa.

People in Gen-Z just don't work hard as often. Ofc there are reasons: why should they, when their work isn't valued/rewarded properly? So then to the self-ish/-centered crowd, all they see is that they get served less well by their Gen-Z ~~slaves~~ workers than the Millennials who put in more of an effort, but rather than take ownership of that and like go somewhere else that pays their workers better, they instead blame the victim. Like, "I paid a whole dollar for this burger - why aren't you smiling at me harder as you walk out in the rain to hand-deliver it to me?"

Like if you have to live with your parents or roommates anyway, and have little to no hope of ever owning your own home, or possibly even car, and also can't afford health insurance, to get married, and after over-turning of Roe v. Wade to have sex (even if you were married), etc. then why should you work more than the bare minimum to survive?

If you kick a dog often enough, it stops being happy to see you.:-( Boomers solution: it must need to be kicked harder, until it complies and wags its tail enthusiastically whenever you come home. I am sorry if it breaks your heart to read that sentence... but fwiw, at least it proves you have one:-).

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I found it hilarious when many California farmers (e.g. fruits) voted for Trump, then got angry when he immediately started cutting back on immigration - like what the hell did you think he meant when he talked about that EVERY SINGLE TIME!? That man isn't exactly known for using "metaphors" or having the slightest degree of "subtlety" - e.g. when he talks about grabbing pussy, he doesn't mean getting to know someone intimately, he means to GRAB someone's ACTUAL genitalia, which simply being within arms reach seems to imply automatically giving consent, and if not then you can take it up with his team of lawyers.

After that, people started dying, and other things happened like infants were literally ripped right out of their mothers' arms and I suddenly found it less funny:-(.

I guess arguably it could be funny to think how liberals get mad when the Democrats they vote for do not do what they promised, yet Trump supporters got mad at him when he did - if that situation were not so fucking tragic for us all:-(.

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[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 45 points 10 months ago

Tell me more about these "spells", which occur in limited numbers, are capable of long-range attacks, deal explosive & powerful damage... and can only be performed by someone who has the proper equipment and spends time in advance preparing them for use? :-D

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 45 points 10 months ago

You had no right to educate me on this topic! :-( (/s :-P)

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