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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POV: You're too shy to tell the medical staff that you just woke up during surgery.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  general anesthetics are so neat

  like, you can just switch me off with a drug, and after a while I come back? weird, bizzar, and yet also practical. and (as far as I understand) it’s universal. Works on every living thing. They’ve anesthetized plants

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders over tariff concerns⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you can fix the online problems with a USB-to-ethernet adapter on the dock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  steamVR works on it

  of course, the only good VR game is Alyx and once you finish that it’s only tech demos and chat rooms - nothing else really worth the bother of strapping a monitor to your face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel publicly announces genocidal intent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lemmy gets awful mad if you were to make the same point about Russians

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  tying it to income means in a few decades inflation just shrinks the number of people who can actually benefit

  If you own one residential property and also live in it, no taxes on that. Multiple properties? That’s taxes. Unfortunately, most primary education is funded by property tax, so you’d have to change how that works (and maybe actually pay teachers while your at it). Fortunately, none of this has any chance of ever getting implemented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  also you can walk into basically any bank and ask for a roll of quaters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Woo! Let’s make this artificial biome that much more inhospitable for the very creatures that build and live in it!

  We must imagine Sisyphus fucking miserable! Ants in an anthill made of broken glass and depleted lion batteries!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this comment makes me wish for a Carrington Event in the 21st century

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The people who are getting real mad over Republican voters don’t really care that Rs and Ds have the same foreign policy. The frontier of empire is coming home, but acknowledging that would mean acknowledging we export suffering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no words, much feelings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’d rather save 20 dollars on my taxes

  woah, bub, inflation is bad but it’s not that bad. A fountain would come out to… like maybe a dime at most split between taxpayers. Depending on what budget it’s coming out of, like if it were a federal park, probably less than a full penny.