SARGE
@SARGE@startrek.website
Mods and admins can fuck off
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 1 day ago:
m not American. The presence of fascists in US politics has been a commonly accepted truth in anybody anywhere left of demochristians for half a century.
I am an American and idk where this idea comes from because I’ve been noticing a decline at least since high school political science forced me to pay attention for the first time. It’s been hard not to notice the slope getting steeper every day.
- Comment on A lot of media depict the United States as being invaded by fascists from the outside. Nobody thought fascism will come from within until now. 1 day ago:
Lol.
LMAO, even.
This particular downslope has been around for 20+ years, and it’s been arguably more like 50 years.
Hell, the only reason we have the small amount of gun control we do is because Regan was afraid of black people owning guns.
Fascism has been festering for a long time, most people only notice now because it’s finally affecting them.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 3 days ago:
reads manual
You’re only confused because I’m dumb! For some reason I was thinking toner and laser were separate types.
- Comment on Open Printer is a fully open-source inkjet with DRM-free ink and no subscriptions 3 days ago:
I bought a toner printer in 2020 and I’m still on the first replacement cart. I have over 2000 pages printed.
Considering I spent $80, plus $40 on the new two pack of toner, I consider it money well spent.
I do wish I had bought a laser printer though… There are things I would like to begin printing that will be several thousand pages after it’s all finished. Mostly reference materials.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 days ago:
Feel free to turn a blind eye to reality, not all of us are priveleged enough to do so.
- Comment on PRAISE HIM 3 days ago:
If I wanted to go through the process of trying to recover my facebook, I guarantee I would get a few dozen people tossing out hand emojis and saying “amen” before anyone notices I’m not talking about the christian god
- Comment on Altered World Event 3 days ago:
I still have the VHS I recorded it on back in the day. No vcr, but it’s sitting in a box in my closet, waiting for the day when I want to see commercials for SG1 Mondays and other Sci fi shows.
Also the DVD, since I actually want to watch it every so often…
I keep introducing it to new people, but it seems to be a bit of a niche interest.
- Comment on Why do we still joke about setting up old wooden guillotines? 3 days ago:
It must be nice, living in a fantasy world where good people win because they’re good and the bad guys get to sit in jail for being bad.
- Comment on Altered World Event 3 days ago:
I love the idea of Objects that can do things we can’t explain.
The Lost Room is probably what got me started, and Control really scratches that itch. I absolutely love the idea of The Oldest House.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 3 days ago:
not a vibrator, it’s a “personal massager” and how dare you suggest such a device could be used sexually!
- Comment on Explaining your traumatic past IRL feels so underwhelming compared to when a character in a movie or tv scene revealing their traumatic childhood. 3 days ago:
When you tell a funny story from your childhood but instead of laughing, your friend hugs you and says “I’m so sorry you went through that” :
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 3 days ago:
It’s Sony, a Japanese company.
Why would they care about what people in private
Lol. Lmao, even.
Sony cares a bit too much about how people use the things they own that Sony made.
Japan is famous for its laws and customs regarding nudity, sex, porn, accessories, etc… Anything you might expect a stereotypical prude to clutch their pearls over, really. It’s simply gasp too obscene!
- Comment on ugh I hate these notifications 5 days ago:
This gave me quite the giggle.
Unfortunately, I have no one in my life who will think it’s funny.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 5 days ago:
edit: wow, Redditors are better at accepting the truth, lol
So go pander to them.
If I own something, I can do whatever I like with it because it’s mine.
If I can’t do what I like, it’s not truly mine.
- Comment on I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge 1 week ago:
Bridge under the river Kwai?
- Comment on pick up that chapstick 1 week ago:
eats mint
How can we be so sure? Someone’s gonna have to test it.
- Comment on Just in case you've been living under a rock: The Crew is playable again! 1 week ago:
Yeah I got mildly excited when I read the title, and now I’m just mildly irritated.
Good for pc players though, it’s something!
- Comment on Deaf people get to avoid a lot of arguments 2 weeks ago:
I’m learning a bit of sign language since my wife will likely be fully deaf inside 10 years, and one day we were in a food court and I saw two people arguing in ASL.
One of them started getting larger and more abrupt with their movements and the other interrupted to sign “Don’t yell at me.”
I wasn’t paying enough attention to know what they were arguing about, but it made me giggle a bit at the phrasing.
- Comment on Shh 2 weeks ago:
I used to work in a warehouse that made a HUGE deal about the employees using the proper recycling bin so the company can get a nice check from somewhere or other for “going green”
This warehouse recieved thousands of pallets every day.
Each pallet is wrapped with hundreds of square feet of plastic wrap.
Each box is individually wrapped with maybe 10ftsq-50 depending on size.
Each box contains goods in plastic bags. Many of them with plastic clamshell packaging.
The products get unwrapped, and placed in larger boxes on shelves.
When the items get distributed to stores, the items were put in plastic bags, boxed up and wrapped in plastic wrap, boxes placed on pallets that were automatically wrapped by machines in hundreds of square feet of plastic.
None of the plastic from the warehouse floor is separated from the general waste.
Remember, it’s your responsibility to reduce waste.
- Comment on Or the common cold! 2 weeks ago:
I think of the shareholders, board, c-suites, and all of their friends every time I gaze upon my Guillotine.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 3 weeks ago:
after I typed this I realized I basically just said "yeah incessantly spouting bullshit"
When you’re a mouthpiece of hate, and people who agree with you act on it by being shitty to someone they don’t like, you’ve made many people’s lives worse. When you’re as prolific as he was, supporting a government that’s actively mistreating the majority of its 300m+ population, you’ve made millions of people’s lives worse.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 3 weeks ago:
Who would have thought that making millions of people’s lives actively worse in an already not great time in the most widely-armed country in the world could have POSSIBLY led to current events???
- Comment on XC Running: Does anyone else's parents do this? 5 weeks ago:
Sounds like my wife’s mother.
She’s a super narcissist and has some sort of desire to knock everyone else down when she feels like she’s not getting enough attention.
You deserved better from your parents.
- Comment on Gotta Smash 5 weeks ago:
Do iiiiiiiiiit.
Let’s do it.
Let’s fucking do it.
I think we should do it.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 5 weeks ago:
Professionals have standards
- Comment on what books about personal boundaries do you know that don't mention god? 1 month ago:
Why do you not respect boundaries?
The boundary being “keep your religious stuff away from me”
- Comment on For fellow Lemmy users who play Project Zomboid. 1 month ago:
Fuck it I’m buying it now.
Half life 2 was my first “I can’t wait to get home and play” game, despite having played so many games from basically 97 onward.
- Comment on For fellow Lemmy users who play Project Zomboid. 1 month ago:
It seems like every time it goes on sale, I am either between contracts or just not able to justify the unnecessary expense.
Now that I have more stable employment it hasn’t gone on sale.
Honestly this by itself might be enough to make me pay full price.
I wonder how long it took, considering they wrote a script to convert the original transcription into PZ usable stuff.
10/10 mod, no pattern buffer for you.
- Comment on Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations 1 month ago:
Having worked in quite a few fields in the last 15 years or so, it’s the same active shooter training they give everyone. Even in stores that sell guns.
- Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center 1 month ago:
you can only do that so many times before you run out of money, materials, water, or places to build
That’s someone else’s problem. Hopefully someone after they’re dead, but as long as they have their golden parachute, who cares?