Soggy
@Soggy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 5 days ago:
What, and lose an opportunity to funnel tax money to private interests?
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 week ago:
Nestle is Swiss. The Doritos are called that because Euro countries call our “ranch” dressing “American” dressing. Turkiye is on the Eurasian border with parts in both continents. I can’t easily find where the pizza was first marketed but that’s not even relevant to the point: the rest of the world is using our country’s name as an adjective for food so fuck you we’re doing it too.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 week ago:
Don’t kink shame, let them have piss.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 week ago:
Which is accurate, but Philip Chiang (cofounder) is a first-generation immigrant whose mother helped bring other-than-Cantonese Chinese cuisine to American restaurants. It’s not like a bunch of white dudes were sitting down to appropriate a foreign food culture.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 1 week ago:
Pizza Americana. Torta Americana. Amerikan Salatasi. Cool American Doritos.
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 1 week ago:
I’m really trying to think of a single upside to putting it in space. Unfiltered solar power, does that matter at all? Not that you would ever break even on the cost.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 1 week ago:
It was a pretty standard anti-corporate satire that would not have stood out against films like Brazil or Joe vs the Volcano.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants 5 weeks ago:
Do not come to the USA until we’ve gotten rid of these guys.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 5 weeks ago:
Solar power is not a feasible solution in all parts of the world, though, and large-scale storage is still very much an issue.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 1 month ago:
Alright, well, I don’t believe in ghost stories.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 month ago:
I prefer “naughties”
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 1 month ago:
The comics were pretty good too.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 1 month ago:
Team Fortress was not an “extremely popular existing franchise” even among dedicated PC gamers. What the Orange Box did was let Valve experiment with marketing materials like the teaser videos for Portal and “Meet the Heavy.”
- Comment on The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Backlash Against Gemini, Sora, ChatGPT Is Spreading in 2025 - Newsweek 1 month ago:
When I was in grade school we had multiple lessons on using Boolean search terms to find useful information. Google-fu used to mean something.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 2 months ago:
Aichteeteepee, colon slash slash, doubleyoudoubleyoudoubleyou dot…
- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 2 months ago:
Sometimes I like to think about what the world would look like if Columbus sank in the Atlantic. How long until another European sailed West?
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 months ago:
Well it started with a genocidal colonial project. Then it started with the repression of class revolts like Bacon’s Rebellion. Then it started with the framing of a union of states that gave extra representation to rural slave-owners because their economic production was important. But it all started when those rural slave-owners wanted to make sure that new territorial expansions (remember, genocidal colonial project) also allowed slavery. Later it started when Lincoln was assassinated and his successor, Andrew Johnson, gave up on Reconstruction so the seditious slave-owning traitors weren’t held accountable for the sedition or slavery and were allowed back into seats of political power.
- Comment on What's going on with Quentin Tarantino? 2 months ago:
And it’s different from all the times other directors have an actress take her top off?
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 months ago:
Other than that it’s work that junior coders could be doing, to develop the next generation of actual good developers.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
Yeah but we can’t possibly hold people accountable for the actions of their company, think of the shareholders!
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 months ago:
Honorless swine! Screen-looking is an offense of the highest order!
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 months ago:
This is kind of the plot of Armored Core if you also made it a cyberpunk corporate dystopia.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 months ago:
I do not want to have to sit through every cutscenes I already know by heart.
Forget it, there’s no way you’re taking Kairi’s heart!
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 2 months ago:
So your position is literally “impoverish yourself by donating all property you aren’t currently, personally using.” I was giving you the benefit of the doubt.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 2 months ago:
It’s nuanced, dude. Part of class war is the optics and unless you want every empty-nester up against the wall with the BlackRock executives it’s not useful to paint with such a wide brush.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 2 months ago:
I just think your point is too black-and-white. In the current system there exists people who want temporary housing and people who own more housing than they require and are willing to let others use it for a mutually agreeable payment. Your claim that this is inherently oppressive requires that the renter would not choose ownership if they had the means. Is it often an unfair, coercive dynamic? Yes. Do rent-seekers ruin everything? Yes. Do we need to villainize every single person who doesn’t donate their spare mother-in-law or inherited property to the homeless? No.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 2 months ago:
Putting the cart before the horse here. We live in a capitalist society and people need temporary dwellings now, they can’t wait for a proletarian revolution and total restructuring of society.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 2 months ago:
I think they key counter-argument comes from your position “leeches off of those of the working class who must rent”. I agree with this! But it ignores people that want to rent for whatever reason, like living somewhere for a few years to attend university.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 2 months ago:
“Tummy hurts, gonna hard reset the situation and see if it helps.”
- Comment on Breakthrough gel can regenerate tooth enamel within weeks 3 months ago:
Settle down Mitch Hedberg.