GalacticGrapefruit
@GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Melania found her next husband. 1 week ago:
I’ve gotta rewatch that show. I’ve been on a B5 rewarch binge with my friends lately. I’ll see if we can add this to the list next.
- Comment on Luckily work paid for this tank full... 1 week ago:
Truth. And even cooler, there have been some conversion projects to make semi-trucks run like electric trains.
- Comment on Luckily work paid for this tank full... 1 week ago:
Thanks for running the math for us. Holy hell, that is insane.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 1 week ago:
VPN with a double hop ending in France or Brazil usually works for me.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 1 week ago:
inv.nadeko.net is the most reliable one, followed by yewtu.be. It gets broken every once in a while, but it always bounces back. I gotta admire that about the Invidious folks.
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 1 week ago:
I haven’t gotten FreeTube to load anything in forever. What tricks are you using?
- Comment on Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026? 1 week ago:
Invidious is what I’ve been using forever. On mobile, PipePipe and a VPN set to Brazil or France is the best solution.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 1 week ago:
👋 It’s me, I’m the dweebus. I decided I liked base-building, so I decided to max out my economy and vibe after I reduced my opponent to their last building. And then I decided I wanted to make my base pretty, so I decided to decorate with fences, sandbags, and aesthetically placed defenses.
- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 1 week ago:
I took him seriously. I was a teenager when Snowden leaked those documents, and I took it seriously.
Why do you think I’m here today?
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate you referencing the Orville’s most pivotal episode. And honestly, the twist involving Klyden’s reasoning for reassigning Topa, as a trans sci-fi nerd, broke my heart.
- Comment on It's sad that people completely misunderstand what Star Trek is about. 2 weeks ago:
As a Star Wars nerd, I feel this so intensely. It sucks when you love the setting, but the actual writing is a crapshoot.
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 2 weeks ago:
Living in a ski towns in the US is fucking wild. Either you work at the ski resort, work at the actually essential functions of the town like water and power, or you’re leaving for Cali or Dubai once the snow melts.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
You know what makes me happy? They settled out of court because the fans said, “We love them both!”
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
Eastman and Laird were taking potshots at everyone because they had nothing to lose, and were both having fun and working hard. It’s a specific kind of indie spirit that I’m glad to see all over the place in webtoons and webcomics these days.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
Which I think is genuinely incredible. Watching the show evolve from a Star Trek Spoof to a Star Trek Comedy all the way to Just Star Trek was breathtaking.
And to think, one of the most crucial plot points of the show–and how it evolved to encompass bigger and more profound issues–came from a gay joke.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
Deep Space Nine ripped off Babylon 5. Fans love them both, because instead of one sci-fi political drama on a space station, we got two!
- Comment on This robotic hand has such sensitive touch that it can grasp objects as fragile as a potato chip or a raspberry without crushing them 2 weeks ago:
You are assuming that capitalists will actually think that far ahead.
- Comment on IYKYK 2 weeks ago:
Congrats on being today’s lucky one in 10,000 people. ;)
Ea-Nasir is the world’s oldest recorded corporate con artist. Shitty business owners getting away with being absolute bastards and getting off on making people angry is a thing older than fucking dirt.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if you live here or not. I’m trying to stay hopeful that this regime will fall apart sooner rather than later.
Don’t call me a prisoner of my own mind. Don’t insult my intelligence. It isn’t naive or dumb to hope that things can be better, or to go looking for them.
What OP is looking for is assurance that America isn’t an unredeemable bad guy. You know what I see? Someone rapidly realizing that their reality is propagandized nationalistic pride, and trying to claw it back, exactly the way I was ten years ago.
Of course there are good things about a place. But the good things that OP listed were features that have persisted in spite of my country’s dogma, imperialism, and conservatism. Don’t get it twisted.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
The only good I’ve seen have been the sporadic and broken bits of a resistance that have managed to not get arrested yet. And I’m not talking about the democrats that are larping as real people for the votes.
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 2 weeks ago:
See, when I was a teenager, my friends and I passed around a journal that we would each write in for about a week. We’d scribble little comments in the margins and write down jokes and comics and riddles that we’d take turns trying to solve in later entries.
And then Facebook happened.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate the reality check. It’s not often that I get to see that perspective. Thank you.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate your earnestness. But speaking as an American artist, your country absolutely has the same caliber of talent and creativity. It just doesn’t have the Hollywood dollar attached to it. I don’t even know where you live. I can say that with my whole chest because creative expression is an inherent part of being a human being. You can’t suppress it, control it, or sell it for long without it rebelling against its constraints. Or shouting itself from the literal rooftops.
I think that’s the most valuable thing in the world. You should look into locally produced art and cinema. I guarantee you your local arts college has an independent film festival.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
American here.
No. We’re living in the early stages of a fascist dictatorship. And we’ve been doing this to the rest of the world for way too fucking long. The sooner we come to grips with the fact that the hens have come home to roost and we’re reaping what we’ve sown, the sooner we can actually take it down and build something better.
- Comment on How much brainrot can you handle 3 weeks ago:
“They are no match for Droidekas!”
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 3 weeks ago:
Why use their stock ticker instead of their name?
- Comment on Firearm Advice 4 weeks ago:
This was extremely informative, thank you very much for sharing your expertise.
- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 4 weeks ago:
Did we watch the same TV show as kids?? I wouldn’t call the invasion of Geonosis a ‘softball mission’.
- Comment on oh fuck 😨 5 weeks ago:
Should look into madness studies. It’s an entire college-level course on the cultural value of people with mental health disorders.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
So my daily existence as a human being is sexually explicit.
Bruh, I am asexual. The only one here who’s horny is you.