wheeldawg
@wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works
Reddit refugee
- Comment on A conversation with my wife 1 week ago:
You literally can’t, because you’ll be dead by then.
- Comment on no thanks, crystal mami 4 weeks ago:
Who is dating these women anyway?
That’s cult shit, huge red flag to even casual friendship, much less relationship.
- Comment on “Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement - Anil Dash 2 months ago:
Apple has been evil since day 1. When have they done any single thing that wasn’t evil? The EO is family a terrible, wireless person. I’m so confused what you mean.
- Comment on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” 2 months ago:
Well said. I love everything about this agreement and the limits it inherently puts on “creative” terms in their agreements.
- Comment on Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever” 2 months ago:
Pirating only takes a digital copy, they still have the physical ones.
- Comment on Now that it is getting legalized everywhere, Cannabis should fall under the jurisdiction of the ATF rather than the DEA. 3 months ago:
I don’t even understand why those 3 things are together in the first place. None of those things go together in any kind of way I can think of that there would be an organization dedicated to them.
- Comment on It's big! It's heavy! It's wood! 3 months ago:
I get this reference.
- Comment on When should I start showing someone new to Trek new shows? 4 months ago:
Exactly. That’s why I wanna get him hooked on the show before bringing that up.
Although we just finished Code of Honor, which is a low point for this show. But it’s out of the way early, so it’s all uphill from here.
- Comment on When should I start showing someone new to Trek new shows? 4 months ago:
I had this same question come up recently.
A friend of mine was out of town in a store that has a lot of entire series on BD or DVD (as well as movies of course), and he knew I was constantly referencing Star Trek, and he asked where he should start.
I didn’t have much time to think since he was already in the store and had limited time. All things considered, I went with TNG as the perfect spot to start.
He’s someone I used to work with a few years ago, and we play games together a lot. Knowing him (and just younger people in general), TOS would be so hard to watch with how dated it is. If not just the sexist and racist parts, then even for me it’s hard to look at given how LCARS showed up and instantly made all the technology look immediately centuries behind.
But ever since then, it’s looked mostly the same. At least until SNW and Disco. So I told him as much as I felt I could without boring him about where it’s set in relation to the original show. 6 movies and 3 and a half series in, if I counted correctly.
But if he ends up being interested, I’ll have him go through the other 2 golden era shows before going back for TOS.
Except I will have him watch the Tribble episode before he watches the DS9 episode about it.
He already had a small knowledge of it, the basic identity of who Kirk and Spock were, and the idea that it is a multi-show and many movie kinda franchise (I guess like a STU, which is MCU but for ST)
- Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 4 months ago:
I don’t see the downside to this in particular.
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 4 months ago:
Crazy right wing is never hot tho. Boner killer for sure.
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 4 months ago:
I basically did back in like 2014. My accounts still existed, so I finally closed out the big 3 in October. I hadn’t used them in years, but they were still there
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 4 months ago:
I got next door, but only care about it as far as looking out for potential missing pets. I live in a fairly red area, and everyone is middle-aged on there, and everything I saw was super conservative people, and some hate for anything mentioning the possibility of non straight people.
- Comment on Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow 4 months ago:
Fuck I literally thought that comment word for word before I loaded the comments for this post.
- Comment on We live in a society 5 months ago:
I heard about some problem with caffeine, but didn’t hear about it being about Panera. Jeebus crissmas that is actually nuts.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
I’ve never heard of any of these.
Awesome
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 5 months ago:
The sooner the better.
I long for the headline “self driving Tesla runs over musk”.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Well if you’re using that username for that instance…
- Comment on Glad it's almost over 5 months ago:
But I am.
- Comment on Glad it's almost over 5 months ago:
That acronym sounds familiar, but I haven’t heard it in years. Totally forgot it existed.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 6 months ago:
This is just the beginning of what could be a great movie.
- Comment on Wake up. 6 months ago:
Nah, gotta be at least 2017 when Trump actually won.
But 2013 was at least half good for me. I got my cat in the middle of that year and he’s great. I’m not tryna actually diagnose myself, but I feel like I had something like a depressive episode for a couple years around 2015 because of work issues and that cat just helped me out. I will never know what that really was, but that’s the closest vocabulary I have to guesstimate it with.
For those with actual diagnosed depression, I probably don’t know what that is like, but I feel like I can at least understand it.
I’m past all that now, it only lasted a couple years. But that cat was definitely there for me. Still is. I love that bastard.
- Comment on Wake up. 6 months ago:
I like to think we move up a dimension. Maybe we already came from lower dimensions, but it’s hard to imagine existing in physical space with less than these 3. Maybe next go-around we get to observe things just as easily in the 4th as we do now in the 3rd.
- Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish 7 months ago:
Yeah I’m trying to figure that out, too. Other than different tiers, what other payment model is there that would make sense?
- Comment on The Age of Social Media Is Changing and Entering a Less Toxic Era 7 months ago:
I literally deleted my accounts on this exact 3 sites as the thumbnail just 2 days ago.
I’m in this picture and I like it.
- Comment on VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it 7 months ago:
Well apparently mine doesn’t. But I really don’t go there anyway. I went there for something specific a while ago to buy for someone else, but in general everything they would have I can get cheaper online somewhere else. Their online store occasionally has a good deal tho. If they had a demo for it I’d go to check it out tho.
- Comment on Tinder Launches $499 USD-Per-Month "Tinder Select" Membership 7 months ago:
As someone who’s never used it, what features are there that get paywalled? I have a very naïve idea about what it is like.
- Comment on VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it 7 months ago:
Meanwhile I’m over here still wanting to try it out.
The closest I’ve ever gotten was trying out virtual boy when it was brand new in stores and had one set up for people to try out.
I’d love to try it before buying. Not really interested in buying without it, but that’s not how things work anymore. So I guess I’m just gonna skip it unless it gets massively popular and it’s just everywhere and I’m stuck missing out on something huge if I don’t have it.
- Comment on Mr. Data, what on earth does that phrase mean?! 7 months ago:
Get used to it. Even those of us who saw memes being invented lose pace with new ones coming into common parlance.
- Comment on Apple removes app created by Andrew Tate 7 months ago:
This guy thinks if he calls people out for not employing critical thinking, he can just be what he doesn’t want to be labeled as, without anyone calling him out.
Lol. Nice try.