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- Comment on Ok, boomer 18 hours ago:
A lot of reforms post Vietnam were made to make sure that the US military didn’t need to draft.
Selective Service would like a word with you.
An all-volunteer military isn’t that ironclad an outcome. I can certainly see service being used to leverage young men and of course “inform” them with nationalistic propaganda.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 18 hours ago:
- Comment on No fucking way! I got invited to the Illuminati 1 day ago:
I got something similar. I ask if they have need of the spider man suit and to bring the harness and lube and I’ll bring the Bad Dragon to peg them with.
Funny, but they never reply. I really, really, want to peg them. :(
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 day ago:
Just wait - Millennials and Gen-Z - until there’s a war and an active draft in the US again.
Venezuela anyone? (Dear God, I hope not but the current asshat in the Oval Orfice seems bent on taking a page from the Monroe Doctrine and adding teeth. Gotta justify Kegsbreath’s trillion dollar DOD budget plans after all…)
Shit’s gonna get VERY real and you may gain a bit of insight as to why 'boomers just gave up and “went condo” as they used to say.
- Comment on A shitpost 2 days ago:
This is indeed a shit post. Make it so.
- Comment on It's good to have goals. 2 days ago:
What did he do to get permabanned from Applebees?
Must’ve been interesting.
- Comment on You're out of your element, dude. 2 days ago:
THIS is going on a tee shirt!
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 days ago:
NGL, wind up analog clocks are useful in places where the power goes out often. I have a 7-day grandfather clock and it’s been a godsend when northeasters turn into ice storms that take down the power for days…
(Northern New England had wretched winter weather some years)
- Comment on ‘It’s only gotten worse’: As ACA premiums are set to climb, some Americans opt to go uninsured 3 days ago:
Honestly, being uninsured was how I was from the time I was 17 up until 4 years ago. I’m 61 this year.
Until the US gets a single payer / Medicare for all, the best anyone can do is work to stay healthy. :(
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 3 days ago:
Yeah. My husband went out to the pub 6 nights a week. He’s no longer drinking - quit last year - finally! (I quit in 2009)
Seriously, alcohol is overrated.
- Comment on The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust. 4 days ago:
Some do. Thing is, it’s a BIG world and someone somewhere is beng abused and oppressed at all times.
People and countries are also experiencing freedom, growth and democratic expansion.
- Comment on Coastal Peacock Spider: Mating Dance 4 days ago:
Is that a dude? 'Cos the bright Peacock spiders are the males…
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 4 days ago:
Yeah… I read the entire article, SOME of what she’s said isn’t too off the mark… Starting out with roomates and scrimping at first… but crabbing that someone buys coffee? Seriously?
Naah sis, you’re missing the main point… and that is percentages of income needed to get into a home today are multiples of what they were when you were starting out. Fuck that shit. Also, housing stocks were better and it had less to do with the number of units on the market, but that the market wasn’t dominated by equity firms and REITs.
My biggest beef with housing was once they put the “no money down” equation into the mix, the prices soared.
- Comment on Relativity 5 days ago:
Whoo! I am gona need a Retro Encabulator to work that one out!
- Comment on Forgot my oven mitts. 5 days ago:
Ah! the one Theodore Sturgeon story I did not need to read, as I experiecd it in real life!
Dude…
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 6 days ago:
Heheheh… I too have apple hardware… running unsupported installs (am currently on Mojave as I require 32-bit support for old peripherals and software), so when Apple tells me to upgrade, it lasts until the System Update checks the hardware then promptly fucks off never to bother me again.
I think am going to ignore Muicrosoft just like I do Apple and leave the gaming PC with Win10 Pro until I get a second drive for it to run Bazzite on.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 6 days ago:
Hm.
Well, Microsoft can tell me to upgrade my PC and like with Apple saying the same thing about my Macintoshes - ad nauseam - I can ignore it all. And will.
My PC is for gaming and nothing else anyhow…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I fear what the results form a survey in the US would find…
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
Startpage! No shit. Used to be Ixquick, and I used that for years. Great site - thank you for reminding me it’s still there. :)
- Comment on Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors 1 week ago:
Will cut the AI results out of your google searches by switching the browser’s default to the web api…
I cannot tell you how much I love it.
- Comment on Richest American to FAFO? 1 week ago:
I’d say Elon Musk. He threw how many millions at Trump’s presidential run thinking Don would return the favor once he was president…
So how’d that work out for you, Elon?
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 week ago:
This place (old.lemmy.zip) is downright chill. Then again, I just came of Reddit and that is in full rage-bait algorithm-driven meltdown. Feels like Reddit in 2010 here. Just lovely…
- Comment on Believing misinformation is a “win” for some people, even when proven false 1 week ago:
Ignorance… it’s an apt word here…
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 2 weeks ago:
YOU! YOU are the one that left the frigging banana in the microwave w/o telling me?
The fucking thing rotted and became a fruit fly farm… When I went to heat my leftovers, last Friday… I released the swarm o’doom!
BASTARD! I curse theeeEeeEe for eternity!
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 2 weeks ago:
Yup! Pull down a torrent of a current season broadcast TV show and check out how long it isn’t.
52 minutes was the length of shows in the 60s and 70’s. This is why it’s almost impossible to see uncut episodes of the original Star Trek on a cable channel, let alone a broadcast one…
It was already all but impossible to find when I cut the cord in '99.
Looking at the commercial TV cable channels - I have the first 8 seasons of The Walking Dead… they run from 43 to 51 minutes in length (though the longer ones appeared in the 8th season (?) - was that when the channels started overlaying ads during the credit rolls? I know that’s a thing.)
- Comment on I would give my life savings for something that eradicates them from my apartment 😌 2 weeks ago:
There are many spiderbros… we are legion!
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 2 weeks ago:
I cut the cable TV cord in 1999. For whatever movies/TV we’ve wanted to watch, we’ve just gone to our public library to get DVDs and later on, streamed stuff.
uBO in all the browsers as well.
If you make a concerted effort, you can de-TV the household and it takes little time to find ways pick up on watching the things you like - w/o commercial interruption… I could not imagine watching an evening of broadcast TV.
Given that the average show is now 40 minutes long - thats an hour of commercials between the 3 primetime hours of 8 and 11 pm.
I’m not going to waste an hour every night looking at things I do not want or need in my life.
Fuck that shit.
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 2 weeks ago:
No, they won’t. You’ll only get a new car if the vehicle is new (within 5 years and udner a certain mileage) and still being paid off, because then the financier/lender is still in the mix. Lenders can and will aim their own lawyers at the insurers.
- Comment on Insuranace is a joke 2 weeks ago:
This is the way.
It’s hard though, to just get liabilty on a car if you’re still making payments on it.
It’s gotta be 100% yours with no payments or liens on it.
Then you can go for a nice high liability policy. I’ve always bought older used and just gotten policies to cover OTHER people I may accidentally hit. No collision - If i’m not paying attention and slide off the road into a rock… that’s on me.
I also would add glass and theft to that liability policy. The glass coverage saved my ass a few years ago when I caught a rock behind (what else?) a dump truck.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 weeks ago:
Aloyfrom Horizon Zero Dawn.
She’s beautiful… and mean with a Banuk Powershot or Gravesinger’s Lament bow.
