It’s the American way. Keep them fed and entertained and they’ll go along with anything. Although fed is up in the air with grocery prices…

They had a data breach

It’s unavoidable now, it is impossible from a company’s perspective to not at least consider wind and solar compared to fossil fuels. They make the most sense on paper every time. Fossil fuels are hard, you have to extract them, ship them, and burn them. All of which takes constant maintenance. Solar and wind are both mostly set it and forget it

I’m honestly surprised it was allowed to air, that Disney didn’t pull the plug.

Yeah we were just in the market a year or so ago and I thought this was cool for about a second before I realized what this would be used for. It’s just advertising straight into your kitchen, as you are grabbing food. It’s the perfect place for them to advertise. Any lack of advertisements was always going to be temporary.

Plus honestly what is the actual use for it? Just put a tablet on the counter if you want a screen in there

Oh I got yelled at constantly, demeaned, and shit on as a low level worker constantly. I put in 5 years retail there at best buy, and 5 years of fast food before then. If that’s what this is all about, then I completely see where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it’s related to this directly, in fact it’s the opposite I’ve found.

In my experience working those menial jobs it wasn’t the wealthy or the rich who made it their mission to make sure I knew my place - it was the people on the lowest rungs of society. The people who were often the poorest were also the ones who would really shove in my face that they were paying me for a service. It wasn’t the well to do woman wearing a suit who came in asking me to fix her computer who would yell at me, it was the old farmer who drive 2 hours to nowhere to have me fix it and demean me.

And maybe that’s your point, it’s a little garbled in the messaging but maybe that’s what you were trying to say. From what I saw, they had someone in front of them that was finally “below” them, and they took every advantage of that fact. I had literal cheeseburgers thrown at me by people who were at best my equals at the time. Looking back I pity them, I think it’s a psychology thing. They had someone to prove to them that they weren’t the lowest class. It’s where racism and homophobia comes into play. To them as long as there is someone in their mind below them, they’re not the worst.

Time is a finite resource. There are only so many hours a week and we have to make choices on where to spend those few hours. Privilege may dictate how many hours they can trade off, but we all do it. I guarantee the people at Jiffy Lube still make tradeoffs themselves on the weekend, but I admit those tradeoffs are more difficult the less money you have. For me, yes, I say the spending of $30 to save 2 hours of time is well worth it. Those 2 hours are more valuable to me spent elsewhere. That’s me though and my status. There’s a thousand other things though we decide on.

Are you a classist because you buy bread instead of making it yourself? What about choosing to work and hiring childcare?

I worked at Geek Squad now over a decade ago and learned then that I was wrong for thinking they took advantage of people, it’s that for most of the people who walked in they had more important things to do than to sit and fix their computer. I personally would do it at home, but it’s a skill I had and why pay money for a skill I had at the time, and I find enjoyment out of it. I did learn that most people have different skills though, and they would rather spend their time and money elsewhere. People of all classes and incomes.

An oil change at jiffy lube costs me 80 bucks and is about an hour or my time. Doing it myself is 50 bucks in oil and is about 2 hours of my time. Taking these simple numbers, that’s 30 of labor I can pay to save myself 2 hours of work. Or $15/hr saved.

You don’t mention the opportunity costs associated. Yes I can do it myself, but I lose 2 hours of my precious weekend doing it. Time I could be with family or friends, doing my own projects, or even doing projects that are more labor costly. Why waste my time with something like that when my time is much more better spent doing other things.

I have no maturity or caste whatever with it, you’re putting a lot of your emotions on other people. Good unpopular opinion though.

No bannable offenses? That’s a banning

I agree, but the commenter there is also correct, I wouldn’t call it “private” either. There’s no encryption, what you post is completely out there and public, and ultimately any server owner can track you as much as they want. I think it’s more of a grey area.

Leave a tip and also some documentation on how to start a union

Also today don’t forget that they threatened to defund universities, the places who teach how to make things

Edit: defund instead of refund

Okay but if there isn’t a guy living out of a car with three doors, one hauling shopping carts, and an assistant trailer park supervisor/cheeseburger prostitute then I don’t even care.

I confirm that again, as a potential customer who does but games like this, will then not be purchasing their product.

Why I have no interest in the new Tron. Jared leto aside I don’t want to see Tron in LA. Why the fuck would I? I want to see cool computer graphics with an awesome electronica soundtrack. Who cheaper out and made it freaking LA?!

I think it’s psychology. When people make politics or certain stances their entire personality, then by disproving those items it’s literally tearing apart their own identity. They are so unable to actually confront this that their brains will believe wild crazy ideas like conspiracy theories because even if it’s insane, they are able to keep their worldview.

Their minds have been so warped to protect their identity that they will believe whatever they need to to be able to keep these views - to the point where it must be true, because if it weren’t true the house of cards would collapse. So when you are arguing with them, you’re not actually going to ever be able to penetrate this, because they will build up whatever they need to in their mind to protect it.

An interesting way to think of this (to borrow from the video below), is that as if becomes it is. Feelings become facts.

Take gay marriage. To a conservative white christian, it means nothing to them logically. 2 separate people are getting married which in no way effects them. However, gay marriage makes them feel as if their straight marriage is less important and the meaning of it has been deluded. To protect this worldview, since it’s impossible for any fact or reasoning to back up their worldview, that as if becomes it is. To them, now gay marriage is diluting their straight marriage and it is less important. It must be. It has to be. If it’s not… then what is their worldview? Their entire personality, their identity is based around these core beliefs. If it’s not actually affecting them… then what is their identity? So their view isn’t based on fact at all, and thus no amount of facts will ever persuade them.

Philosophy Tube did a great video essay on this, and I think it’s completely worth a watch.

I won’t shit on you because I was hoping for something similar until I realized that it was the antithesis of the fediverse. Your community is essentially shotgunned out to everyone listening, anyone listening can see and interact with posts of your community. Remember it’s not just Lemmy, or Lemmy WebUI, or a specific app, or even forum style apps - the fediverse means anyone on any app can see your community any way they choose.

The only way to prevent that is by disabling federation of your one community, locking your users to only lemmy.world users. For privacy either you want an instance-specific (private) community, or you should look at private forums without federation.

No, I disagree with that. It’s always been perfectly normal to have ultra graphics a bit out of reach so that the game will look great on future graphics cards, and 120fps is a ridiculously high number that should never be expected even with top of the line graphics cards for a brand new release. (Assuming 2 or 4k)

However, a 1 generation out of date graphics card should be able to easily play most things on High settings at a decent framerate (aiming for 60) on 4k settings, which Borderlands failed at horribly. Medium to low settings on a 4000 series card sounds like a gutpunch to me.

They’ve released some updates, I’m not surprised if it’s gotten better

Don’t you know that gamers demand hyper realistic graphics? Even when there is a defined art style it doesn’t matter. Realism.

It’s famously why comic books failed to captivate anyone, and cartoons are never successful.