Madzielle
@Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Rent is theft 2 days ago:
Tax on second (or more) homes, tax on unoccupied by owner homes, should both be astronomical.
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 3 days ago:
It was fucking laid out in P2025 and from the mouths of the billionaires
Arrest him. The fuck
- Comment on Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers? 6 days ago:
You can say no to product offers.
- Comment on Should longer hair be handled by salons or male barbers? 6 days ago:
Fuck Instagram
- Comment on Stardew Valley Creator Shuts Down Rumors Haunted Chocolatier 'Will Be Abandoned,' Insisting: 'It Will Come Out When It’s Ready' - IGN 1 week ago:
People need to chill out. patience is a fuckin virtue
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 week ago:
Do you have a copy of the rule book by chance?
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 1 week ago:
It can start with any one of us. I’ve started, but seems easy for me, if everyone puts in a little effort, and some of us put in a lot, we can make an impact.
It’s this, or bloodshed.
Either way, out comforts are lost. I’d rather suffer on my terms, than theirs.
- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 2 weeks ago:
Ooo ooo I love good work boots!
I bought these in 2015 for work. I left that job in 2020, and I wore these like three times since. Pulled them out this winter for my son to wear as the fit him right now, (he’s growing and blowing through shoes).
How bloody happy I am that after ten years, they are still holding up! You can see some of the leather is wearing, but they’re soaked on the outside in these photos, bone dry in the inside.
Fuck inflation though, I paid $120 for these back then, the same boots, I looked them up, today, are $230. Wild. No way I can buy these kind ever again, I’m so happy they have lived so long my son is now getting life out of them! Will definitely be getting these repaired when the time comes!
- Comment on How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them? 2 weeks ago:
Those look good to me. I wear the shit out of my shoes.
Fresh clean shoes are lame. I like looking down at my feet and seeing all the life and work I’ve worn into my shoes. I’ve a pair of boots for snow, a pair of sneakers, and one pair of sandlas. That’s it- if you invited me to something fancy, well, I won’t be invited anywhere fancy I assure you. I’m 38 and never even been to a single wedding. Ha.
- Comment on Those of you who are angry at the US for allowing ICE to stifle people's liberties - how do you channel your anger and irritation? 2 weeks ago:
You’re probably doing better than you give yourself credit for.
Make space in your day to do something you want, anything, even if for only 5-10 mins. My husband has spent the last year or more rebuilding his sport’s card collection. We’ve a small house so he’s turned our small little “walk in” closet into his “office” or card room. Sometimes I find him just, sitting in there, decompressing. It’s his happy place. Whether in your mind or a tangible spot, get you a happy place, if even only for temporary relief.
Hang in there, maybe we can get some hope back this year.
- Comment on Those of you who are angry at the US for allowing ICE to stifle people's liberties - how do you channel your anger and irritation? 2 weeks ago:
Oooo ooo I got one!
This whole album, Imperium Delirium has been heavy on my rotation.
- Comment on A generation taught not to think: AI in the classroom 3 weeks ago:
My brother in law is in college for engineering. His mom was telling me he uses AI for his assignments and just edits the responses. She is writing a book, and said she uses AI all the time for it.
It makes me want to scream. We weren’t even allowed to use spark notes when I was a student, and yet, the schools today seem to be pushing this tech on them. The mother used my spark notes example as an excuse, “see kids always have looked for ways to make their work easier”. It’s not the same lady…
While I’m glad to hear your school cohort is enthusiastic and informed, I’m not so sure it’s the general consensus among college students.
- Comment on US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development 3 weeks ago:
Saw something about the EPA rolling back air quality regulations too
Good times
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think your fear is irrational, for whatever that’s worth
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
The “Workers over billionaires” sticker advocating for workers right, sits on the post of a grocery cart corral. I smile everytime I see it. I’m thankful for who ever stuck it there, and even cooler, it’s not been scrubbed off after a full year.
You can cry rules/laws if you want, but where I am, the powers at large are not bound by any law, so why must I be bound to something so arbitrary? Why should we not advocate for ourselves in anyway possible?
Do you understand how hopeful it is to see graffiti/stickers in support of your values out in the wild? I was filled with hope when I first saw that sticker, for we are not alone
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
I followed the directions my instance of choice had posted, also use jeroba. It was a few steps, but the directions given were simple.
I still don’t fully understand fediveration, but I knew even less when I began here a few years ago. I do like using jerboa
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 weeks ago:
So many! I think it was possibly, a almost pop culture trend in the 70s to claim native history tbh. So many folks I met who do this would have been teens/young adults in that time. But you’re probably right, it’s some warped cope for the atrocities committed against native people. Fucking warped.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 weeks ago:
Consume consume consume! The American way!
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 4 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, this is totally a thing. I’m a euro mutt (I coin for myself) and I can trace some lines.
It’s because were all immigrants in a young country. Even the census we take asks where we hail from. I’ve maked “American” on it the last two times. It is a deal here, and yes it can be annoying especially when you get the tropes going. “Oh my family is Italian we like big families” mean while I’m fourth gen Italian (mixed obvs) and like what, are you inbreeding to stay Italian? Your husbands last name is “smith” like, fuck off. My full first gen Italian great grandmother married a first gen polack and had one kid. One. Fuck off with your stereotypes. This bitch I’m thinking of feed her kids all the american processed foods, give no fucks about the quality of her food ingredients or where they come from, just fuck off “were Italian” bitch shut up.
- Comment on What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom? 2 months ago:
No, it’s general cleaner/disinfectant. It’s called Pinesol because there is pine oil in it. The name brand stuff no longer has real pine oil, it’s not that sustainable, but the store brand I get does. Here’s the label
- Comment on What types of cleaning products do you *really* need to clean the bathroom? 2 months ago:
When I moved into my husband’s house, I noticed he only used pinesol. I thought it fucking weird. 6 years later, I only use pinesol.
I clean relatively often. I’ll use bleach in the bathroom once a year maybe, the rest of the time it’s Pinesol. We have a litter box in our bathroom, that I clean 3 times a week, and usually just clean the whole bathroom down at the same time. It’s clean in there.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 months ago:
My own thoughts and inspirations come to me most often in the quiet times. I like saying hello to the birds. If I feel exhausted, I count my footsteps like you would music. 1234, 2234, 3234, 4234, and so on. I like hearing the winds, the trees crack as they sway, the squirrels hunting their forage. I listen out for other voices, and enjoy feeling connected to the rest of the world, a desire driven by isolation and loneliness, rarely do I find that sense of community in a podcast. The old man who walks my neighborhood every morning, does not have in headphones, he waves and smiles to every passerby, sometimes, his simple gesture, is the only kind/happy moment of my day.
People are different, it may be boring for you, but my ADD keeps my brain busy, and my CPTSD has me want to hear my surroundings vividly. I jump scare very easily, to avoid that, I use the power of, hearing one coming. I know I’m boring, but I don’t think it’s because I don’t listen to stuff while walking. Nothingness carries something within it, the interpretation only being found by the self. And to note, when I was younger I always had music. Things have just changed with age, it’s shocking I know, but as time moves, I want to slow it down, and appreciate everything I can. I crave quiet more than ever.
My husband is completely different, and more like you, where he spends most of his waking hours listening to podcasts and such. People are different, and that doesn’t make one better than the other.
You don’t have to tear others down, to make yourself feel better. I could call you a robot (hypothetically, I’m not, do you) for putting in your headphones like everyone else does. I’m on our states University campus kind of often. The amount of young people with headphones in, eye on screens, even as they get their meals or cross the street, is very odd to see for me. It honestly feels a bit like culture shock everytime I am up there. They walk into staff without looking or apologizing, and if you people watch for an hour or so, you’ll notice the majority plug themselves in. While I don’t think one is better than the other, it’s just different process. I find it amusing you call the ones who unplug robots however. We used to clown of people who had Bluetooth ear pieces in the early 00’s, it was the universal sign someone was a douche. Now everyone has airpods and the like. White socks, white shoes, white earbuds, head down in screen, it’s the standard look at the university by me.
It’s just amusing to see how things have changed in 25 years, from bluetooth sales douches, to today being called a robot for not plugging in, and instead paying attention to one’s environment out and about.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 2 months ago:
I have 30 hours in house flipper 2 since getting it 5 days ago. I wish I could live in the homes I make
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 months ago:
On console, we dont have art painting. I’ve seen people do different things with colored wire, and make signs/art that way. I haven’t tried it myself yet, but it seems really cool. I’ve gotten very fast at hooking up electricity/water for a farm. I forget you can color the wire.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 months ago:
PvE is a completely different story. It did take me a bit to find a server I liked though. I just like building things. I always put out a “take what you need” box for passerbys, and I’ve had folks nust come into my house and drop me skinned Aks and I’ll drop em teas and shit. It’s fun.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 months ago:
Sorta along the same lines, but, I love how differently my husband and I play Rust. He’s on his official server doing what the game is meant for, and I’m just on my pVE building a villa/farm.
We need the farm update on console. I need pies and chickens. With the jungle update, my Lenovo Go can no longer handle Rust at all, so I’m back on console. It’s missing some of my favorite features for farm build. I want to chase a chicken for that elusive egg fresh after wipe! And the flowers! Oh…
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 3 months ago:
Kassandra from Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
Fantastic voice acting, awesome gameplay, beautiful world. 10/10 I love her.
- Comment on YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them. 4 months ago:
Do you mean planet fitness? Fu k planet fitness. I had to pay to cancel my membership years ago. I was too broke to use it and these assholes are cunts about canceling memberships. I even worked there for a time, they have a lot of scummy tactics for both clients and staff. Fuck PF
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 4 months ago:
Yeah, I play all the time and noticed this jist a few weeks back. I fuckin hate it
- Comment on I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves. 4 months ago:
This is an interesting thought.
Being chronically online does kind of break your perception reality doesn’t it?
