[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 50 points 19 hours ago

I like huge anime titties more than this guy, but I have the decency not to advertise the fact to my neighbors.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 7 points 19 hours ago

I don't know the meaning, either. Temba, his arms wide?

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 16 points 19 hours ago

I can't imagine anyone sane wanting this. There are some innovations that I can see people wanting to roll back, but not this one.

Unless you own a coal mine, or are owned by someone who owns a coal mine, this is stupidity from any angle.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 20 hours ago

I could do without the leather. But that sounds amazing.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 1 points 20 hours ago

Agreed. With the added bonus that we have too live in the system while we burn it down. I'm not a huge fan of the idea, but then, I'm a maintainer by nature.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 8 points 1 day ago

I have nifty tech, yes, but I also have vaccination deniers, Nazis, and my fourth "once in a lifetime" economic crises. I'm never going to buy a house. I'm never going to retire. I'll probably never even pay off my student loans.

I personally think that, largely speaking, if imports are cheaper than local production, that’s a good thing!

I'm hardly an economist, right? But I agree with you, broadly speaking. But first covid, and now Trump round two is showing is the weakness of global integration. As long as everything goes smoothly, it's jam for everyone. But let something screw up the logistics, or someone duck up the balance of trade, and everything can go to shit really fast. There are lots of things we can't make here, but we rely on them. That is less than ideal.

I don't know that tariffs are the way to address that issue, or even if it needs to be addressed at all. O do know that the way Trump is doing it is all wrong.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago

And now they are gonna get away with this, too.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm old enough to remember them promising, repeatedly, that the nude scanners didn't, couldn't save images.

Joke's on them though. They can't delete my pictures fast enough to avoid the trauma.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 21 points 1 day ago

Most of us are not getting richer, nor working shorter hours, nor living better than our parents. We're past "services" and on into "parasites."

In principal, tariffs can prop up domestic industry that is having trouble competing with cheaper imported products. In practice, this winds up being really complicated, because the world is a lot more interdependent than it was 80 years ago.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago

Just like he was counting on China you need us more than we need them.

I really hate people who are constitutionally unable to negotiate in good faith.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 34 points 1 day ago

That's the thing. You don't have to pick up the phone. You don't have to answer the text until you are ready.

Anyone who acts like they are entitled to an instant response is wrong, unless you agree with them.

You may have to do a little expectation management, but you'll be happier once you've done a bit of it.

[-] SaltSong@startrek.website 16 points 1 day ago

And what happens when he does it anyway?

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Fairborn Community Garden (startrek.website)

Has anyone here participated in the Fairborn Community Gardens in the past? I'm trying to get an idea of what the "normal" approach is, and what the general expectations are.

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Autoplay Videos (startrek.website)

New to this whole Lemmy platform, but I'm liking it.

One problem I'm having is auto-play videos when I open some discussions. Not in the comments, but the post itself starts playing.

I'll skip my usual rant about what I think should be done to whoever decided to make that a feature, and just ask how to turn it off. I have "auto expand media" unchecked in my lemmy settings.

I appreciate any advice.

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