[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

It depends on what it is.

Role playing games are often such a form of entertainment.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

It's honestly probably better putting that amount of money into trying to get a better job over that time period via education, or taking time off to apply for new positions, or something similar.

$6000 total investment over 10 years even with decent interest on top would be made up in less than 2 years with a $5k raise.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 194 points 3 weeks ago

When the police show up to investigate your murder, and they ask "Is there anyone who would wish to harm your Husband/Wife?" and your spouse just turns over your entire database of your clients, you're the bad guy/girl.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 249 points 1 month ago

No shit.

This is literally in the first paragraph of every economics textbook when they talk about tariffs.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 245 points 2 months ago

Just to be clear, they had not actually started harvesting anything.

The nurses and doctors noticed as he was wheeled into the operating room and called it off, a bunch of them ended up in therapy over the situation.

Someone fucked up by declaring him brain dead clearly. He does however have significant brain damage from the drug overdose that initiated the whole situation.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 158 points 4 months ago

This kind of bullshit needs a law to be honest.

Politicians should need direct approval before using copyright music in campaigns.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 155 points 5 months ago

Just pointing out that Musk is an immigrant.

Born in South Africa, immigrated to Canada to avoid military service, then used Canadian citizenship to apply for and obtain US citizenship.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 163 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

"no proof of an illicit deal"

The money IS the proof of the illicit deal, they gave him money when there was no legal or reasonable reason to give him money.

"We wanted to just give away money" isn't a legal reason for anyone who isn't recording for a you tube channel at this point.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 171 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Fun fact, costed is a word but has a slightly different meaning than the way you have used it.

Costed means to get the details on the cost of something complex. Like "I costed the three projects and the last one is cheapest"

You tried to use it as the past tense of cost, but the past tense of cost is also just cost.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 179 points 8 months ago

In the United States, parody is protected by the First Amendment as a form of expression.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 151 points 10 months ago

Screen manufacturers just did a similar thing with the jump from 1080p to 4k

The 1080 part of the original number referred to the number of pixels from top to bottom, 4k refers to left to right. 4k is actually only 2160 from top to bottom though (at the same aspect ratio).

So they quadrupled the number when it should have only doubled, and it was entirely a marketing thing.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 247 points 10 months ago

The one thing even Americans who have health insurance don't realize about single payer healthcare systems, is that we don't worry about it.

We don't consider it when switching jobs, we don't think about it when we're sick, we don't worry about medical bills.... we just go to the doctor/hospital, and worry about getting better or dealing with the work implications of taking time off.

The weight for that piece simply doesn't rest on our shoulders or minds at all.

You've been tricked and brainwashed you into thinking what you have is normal, and it's disturbing how many of you think it's a reasonable way to continue.

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