[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 48 points 6 hours ago

Even worse is captions saying what happens. Like it'll be a video of a baby trying to sit on a chair and missing and falling...and the caption will say "bro missed his chair".

Why does a 7 second video need spoilers?

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Turning them into letters just seems harder to me, lol

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Four for the middle class, two for the lower class, and one for the upper class who don't pay their accountants* enough.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

I don't know if that's a problem with society so much as it is a problem with reality.

...or a problem with time and sequences of events.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

Big Pharma will just invest in Big Funeral

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

Where is the line between meeting somebody halfway and being a doormat with no personality?

About half way.

Doormat with no personality is all the way. Meeting somebody halfway is halfway there. Always needing to have it your way is going nowhere at all.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 days ago

I think the issue was with the original commenter's phrasing. Facebook looks like a product. But the commenter meant "How the product is being funded".

Of course, it gets hard when there's multiple sources of revenue. You used to be able to spot ads and come to the conclusion that that was everything. Now an ad is just the tip of the iceberg.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

Star Control 2 on the 3DO, playing that before I'd seen a PlayStation, was this for me.

And later, FF7 was this for me.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago

And if you are a fan, the game feels just like playing maybe a half season of the show. Jumping right in to episode after episode!

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 days ago

You can and should talk about those things early on. But there's a difference between...

Do you want to have kids?

(which is about ensuring an alignment of values)

And...

What should we name our kids?

(which is trying to get too serious too quickly)

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 days ago

I think it's more like spicy food. Tons of different ways to make food spicy. It's generally a little more rough than other "easier" foods, and some people just can't handle it at all.

And of course, there's always going to be ultra-spicy food that will leave even fans of less-spicy food to wonder "Does anybody actually eat that for fun?"

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago

No, it's a comforting "sh" like "shhhhh", don't worry, it just works.

It's only one h for the double entendre.

/joking

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource.

It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion -- let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure.

But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it's the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways...so really no difference).

What's the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there's people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don't see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck...

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submitted 9 months ago by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
  1. Tap search button on the bottom.

  2. Search like normal for communities with the search term. Results returned like normal.

  3. Clicking the unfilled heart (to subscribe) results in the error presented in the attached screenshot.

  4. The back button (Android) doesn't work. App must be force-closed.

  5. The subscribing action was successful; discovered on reboot.

  6. Repeating the steps, but instead of the unfilled heart, clicking on the community successfully navigates to the community.

  7. This didn't happen before.

  8. I might be one update behind current as of Mar 18

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submitted 11 months ago by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Bananas are ridiculously cheap even up here in Canada, and they aren't grown anywhere near here. Yet a banana can grow, be harvested, be shipped, be stocked, and then be purchased by me for less than it'd cost to mail a letter across town. (Well, if I could buy a single banana maybe...or maybe that's not the best comparison, but I think you get my point)

Along the banana's journey, the farmer, the harvester, the shipper, the grocer, the clerk, and the cashier all (presumably) get paid. Yet a single banana is mere cents. If you didn't know any better, you might think a single banana should cost $10!

I'm presuming that this is because of some sort of exploitation somewhere down the line, or possibly loss-leading on the grocery store's side of things.

I'm wondering what other products like bananas are a lot cheaper than they "should" be (e.g., based on how far they have to travel, or how difficult they are to produce, or how much money we're saving "unethically").

I've heard that this applies to coffee and chocolate to varying extents, but I'm not certain.

Anyone know any others?

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I know money can't buy happiness blahblahblah.

Do they do gift exchanges at all?

Do they ask for anything?

They have enough money that they could get anything made or done for them at a moment's notice. Like having ChatGPT, but for services. Ridiculous things we couldn't imagine.

Anyone have any insight into general trends along those lines?

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