VitoRobles
@VitoRobles@lemmy.today
- Comment on I explained economics to my nine year old 3 days ago:
This is my takeaway from listening to NPR Planet Money.
Economists are never sure about anything, because that’s not how the world works. They only give rough estimations based on the current data, and say words like “maybe” or “high possibility”.
They’re not sith lords.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 3 days ago:
Working at big major companies, email/harassment campaigns work.
Some psychopath got the news journalists on my company because we didn’t have a giant American flag in our campus. We were getting hundreds of emails from randos, were getting review bombed online, and they were even sending letters to the CEO.
We called it flag gate internally. And after a month, there’s that stupid flag.
- Comment on mensa 3 days ago:
Yeah, no one “flashes a Mensa card” unless they are a jerk.
One time I made fun of people who do cross fit and someone at the table said “I do CrossFit.” Then I said, “It’s almost as annoying as people who flex over their AMEX card.” And another guy pulled out his AMEX card.
I regret not bringing up a Mensa Card.
- Comment on The next time you hear someone say they're just vibing in life without a job, just look at this image. 6 days ago:
I’m curious too!
Literally thought this was a meme about the travel influencers and those people who attend every concert without ever holding down a job.
- Comment on Why did AT&T think "Eye of Sauron" was the way to go? 1 week ago:
Love to see this grow.
- Comment on Choose wisely 2 weeks ago:
Like most kids, I was enamored by the 90s Disney animations. So while Pixar was dominating, I got a bachelor’s in 2D animation.
Graduated to no jobs. Animation work is shipped overseas. And the little animation jobs there are were concentrated in a few parts of the US.
Not once have I ever made any income from my background.
Been working on marketing for a decade adding more garbage to this world.
- Comment on Barbers HATE this one simple trick 3 weeks ago:
Makes sense, especially in this economy
- Comment on Future teachers in Oklahoma! 3 weeks ago:
In my twenties, I was a teacher. In my thirties, I said fuck that. System is so fucked.
In my state, there was a state level exam to qualify to become a teacher. I don’t know what Oklahoma’s is or what it looks like. What I do know is that it was as hard as the written portion of a drivers test.
Some people speedrun it. I had to take it twice because the phasing always gets me confused. But, it wasn’t difficult at all.
- Comment on ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show | ICE agents can now ID anyone by just pointing a smartphone in their face. 3 weeks ago:
And it’ll be ashame to do it in small conservative towns.
- Comment on Max Hardcore and the Zodiac killer give updates on likely preventable flood deaths 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Max Hardcore and the Zodiac killer give updates on likely preventable flood deaths 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 3 weeks ago:
Your welcome! Enjoy your styrofoam cup coffee from a deli that smells of Malboro cigarettes. The sugar has weird moving black things and milk has been left out for 3 days.
- Comment on As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause. 3 weeks ago:
They said the same thing in my city.
And surprise surprise, violent crime actually went down.
- Comment on As of 30 minutes ago at the time of posting, the NYPD has detained two young Black men after they refused to show ID without explanation or cause. 3 weeks ago:
This is it honestly. When people slow down police/ICE, it creates a distraction.
When they’re arresting grandmas and choking old people, causing a scene changes their focus and lets those people leave unharmed.
- Comment on Interesting 3 weeks ago:
I remember HS history was incredibly neutered. It was still America is Heroes. There were small cracks, like Japanese internment camps. Or the Trail of Tears. But they had a single paragraph or two. I remember reading about the Vietnam war and how people “feel” about it.
Only during college did I read about real history. Things like our meddling in the Philippines. Our meddling in South America. Our meddling in Southeast Asia after WW2.
The worse is that the text books are owned by conservatives, so expect even more neutering/white washing.
- Comment on Interesting 3 weeks ago:
As I kid, I distinctly remember protesting (two separate decades) to stop the middle east invasion. I remember even when it was announced, it was deeply unpopular.
And here we are again.
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that is already a Harry Potter character.
- Comment on Genius 3 weeks ago:
This has Nathan Fielder energy and it’s great
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah but before, we could eat BBQ and blow off fireworks and pretend like America is going to fix itself.
Literally nobody I know is doing a cook out.
We have some scheduled on July 12th.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 4 weeks ago:
Like the McRib and chlamydia, were back baby!
- Comment on Wake up fam, two new genders just dropped 4 weeks ago:
Zop.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 4 weeks ago:
Johnathan Blow comes to mind.
Peter Molyneux is still top tier delusional, and has a lot of incredible popcorn material.
I don’t know the drama completely, but the Star Citizen folks. Don’t have any names to rattle off.
- Comment on Dave the Diver director addresses controversial “Best Indie Game” nomination from 2023. “There’s nothing indie about us, we didn’t apply for it” 4 weeks ago:
I hate that you were down voted but you are absolutely correct.
There’s no agreed definition of indie.
Back when I worked marketing and would attend GDC conferences, there were awards for “Indies” that had 30 people teams financed by major companies, competing against 1-2 people teams who took a loan against their house.
It’s stupid and frustrating.
And now, with Dave the Diver, it’s just highlighting the truth - Its always been a vibe, a aesthetic. You just have to make it look indie, and call it that.
Whatever definition you hold personally doesn’t matter.
- Comment on We are not the same 4 weeks ago:
(Techbros rubbing their hands hoping to find that new thing to ruin)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yep. Nobody cares. Having been to nude beaches, nobody really cares.
The small fraction of people who do judge are reflecting their own insecurities.
- Comment on You really have to reach back to remember how THIS worked in your car 1 month ago:
I remember buying a Sony mp3 CD player with 5-second skip delay for $80.
Everyone was still using regular CD players with their 80 minutes of audio, carefully holding their precious device.
While I was living like a god, playing over twenty hours of music, dropping my player over and over, without losing a beat.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 month ago:
I’m full of micro plastics.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 month ago:
We are all Japan on this day.
Konnichiwa bitches.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 month ago:
You’re never too young to have a midlife crisis. Have two or three.
Ham radios are awesome though and that’s less of a midlife crisis hobby, and more of a crisis hobby.
- Comment on I feel attacked 1 month ago:
Wait, BDSM is a group event?
I thought it was more like a partner tennis, not community soccer.
