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- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 8 hours ago:
You can fit 74 Germanys inside a Texas roundabout. The European mind cannot comprehend this.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 1 week ago:
Most Americans opt to have their employer take the taxes out and send them to the government for them. But its not required, we can choose to receive all of our pay and take responsibility for sending the government their cut ourselves. Its a PITA, but some opt to put their taxes in an account to earn interest for a year before paying the government. They view paying monthly as “giving the government a free loan.”
When you have your employer do it for you, your pay stub breaks down the amount you started with and how much was taken out for each tax. We can see what we are paying in tax on every paycheck which is why so many Americans complain about it.
- Comment on A very curious situation indeed 2 weeks ago:
I guess I’m going to live in a beekeeper suit treated with permethrin.
- Comment on pants 2 weeks ago:
“Blue jeans on a white t-shirt, she’s killin’ me in that miniskirt.”
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 2 weeks ago:
I bought: Drova - Forsaken Kin Kamiko Spiritfarer Beseige
- Comment on spicy one 3 weeks ago:
That’s the holy sea.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 3 weeks ago:
Well, my steam controller stopped working, and they don’t make them anymore. Yes, I know I could buy a used one on ebay but I’d rather have a new one.
- Comment on More microplastics in glass bottles than plastic: study 3 weeks ago:
I think what they mean is that the plastic caps were scratched up in storage before being applied to the bottles, so plastic dust on the inside of the cap before it was installed.
- Comment on Here's your first look at the rebooted Digg | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure I read the other day that it’s the original founders of Digg (Kevin Rose) who bought back the corpse and are leading this with VC funding.
- Comment on mood 4 weeks ago:
Dale Gribble has entered the chat.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 weeks ago:
I enjoyed the hell out of that game. My only complaint was that the loot lacked variety, and it was a bit more on rails than what I think of as a proper open world RPG.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 4 weeks ago:
I can’t think of any that I wasn’t fully aware of the criticism.
But I did play No Man’s Sky, Cyberpunk 2077, and Fallout 76 for hundreds of hours each right at launch and enjoyed every moment without significant issues, despite being fully aware of all the hate being thrown at them at the time.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 4 weeks ago:
In theory, if it worked correctly, it should be hygenic and better for the environment. But as other commenters have mentioned, in reality they get jammed alot and so the same wet section gets used over and over. Or the owners don’t actually wash the roll and it just gets respooled and put back when dry.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 4 weeks ago:
Yes. It’s a reusable towel system for drying hands in a public bathroom. It’s basically a really long roll of cloth that is supposed to get pulled down as its used and goes down into another rolld and washed and put back. I haven’t seen one in a really long time.
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 5 weeks ago:
I just tried it. Seems to be fine for me. Just brought me to a login screen.
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, it feels like its all supposed to be there. But without getting any of my actual friends to make an account, its hard to test any of it out. Though the bigger issue right now is that it seems my instance (friendica.world) is down or dead. The list of other instances is also struggling to load for me.
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 5 weeks ago:
My complaint about Friendica is that it just doesn’t actually seem to do the part of Facebook that I actually want. At least not very well. I don’t want to see news, current events, memes and crap in that feed. I want to see posts and pictures from IRL friends, life updates, event organization, interest groups, etc. With privacy settings so only actual friends you want see the posts.
In its current state Friendica seems to just be a skin over mastodon, with some alpha stage friend features.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip 2nd Birthday Giveaway! 🍰 5 weeks ago:
Very cool. Glad I joined up with .zip.
- Comment on Nuclear family 5 weeks ago:
The freakiest part about this is how believably muskrat’s face photoshops in.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The “damn it I forgot, let me google it” option, back then, was looking it up in the set of encyclopedias your family probably had. Or if you didn’t have a set, or needed more elaborate information, you went to the library.
I remember it was a big deal as a kid when we got the encyclopedia Britannica on CD-Rom. So I could just type in what I was looking for instead of having to try to find it manually.
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 1 month ago:
Andrew Jackson was the cruelest YET. Give Trump more time to cook and we will see.
- Comment on Welcome to Lemmy.zip 1 month ago:
Glad to be here. Thanks for welcoming us lemm.ee refugees.