uuldika

@uuldika@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're cooked, I'm hooked⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  once in a lifetime recession

  slightly bit-crushed Mr. Incredible

  once in a lifetime pandemic

  monochrome nightmare fuel Mr. Incredible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  America: third world country, first world prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Based on a true story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s extremely rare to find such a cheap used car. my partner spent $8k on one that lasted a year. also, you might be surprised to learn that driving isn’t optional in most of the US - it’s literally impossible to live without a car. I live in a suburb. it’s several miles of dangerous roads to get to a grocery store. there is no nearby public transit. even large cities like LA were completely designed around cars. zoning and urban planning here completely screwed us.

  yes, it sucks, yes I’m aware, yes I’d love to live in a walkable European city with commuter rail and cafes on the street corner, no I don’t have a choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  weeds are to gardens like my house is to HOAs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨long⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  is this… somehow… real?

  could you make this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and I was just looking at a 100Tbps backhaul the other day… that’s what, a billion times more bandwidth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Late 1900s⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read CS papers from the late '80s/early '90s and it feels like unearthing cuneiform tablets. Lots of good ideas, just everything felt so raw and new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life goals⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He might have a connective tissue disorder? EDS in particular causes stretchy skin, though I’ve never seen the scalp do that.

  t. EDS patient. it’s pretty crippling and painful but I have some fun party tricks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I kinda do know but I'm posting this as a joke.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy has a grand total of one (1) spambot, a scammer posing as “Nicole.” in a way, this is Lemmy World Heritage in the making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  things I dislike Reagan for:

  • ignoring HIV because he was okay with it just killing the gays (until straight people started getting it.)
  • trickle-down economics (how we got the billionaire oligarchy)
  • Iran-Contra.
  • firing the striking air traffic controllers.
  • doubling down on the War on Drugs.

  things Reagan was kinda based for:

  • actually wanting to eliminate nuclear weapons. everyone remembers SDI as a ridiculously expensive boondoggle (which it would have been tbf) or as a trap to get USSR to spend itself into bankruptcy (it wasn’t imo, since the Russians realized they could build MIRVs), but I honestly think Reagan sincerely wanted a missile shield to have a missile shield. apparently he was hawkish on nuclear war until he watched The Day After, which terrified him and left him depressed for weeks and completely changed his thinking on nukes. he got so close to bilateral disarmament at the Reikjavik summit, but it fell apart because of his insistence on pursuing SDI.

  • not being a raging egotistical jerk like Trump. he was respectful towards Carter and Mondale. he even respected the Soviet Premiers he met with, despite his anti-Communism. he had actual principles and ideals, even if I disagree with some of them.

  when the USSR collapsed, Bush ignored Russia’s pleas to help it restructure and rebuild, to secure its nuclear weapons stockpiles, to integrate its economy. so we ended up with a country with starving nuclear weapons designers trying to grow potatoes in their back yards, and a Mafia takeover, and massive distrust and antipathy towards the West. I think Reagan would have actually lent them a helping hand, and Putin wouldn’t have happened.