skulblaka

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[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Fair point, I didn't even make that connection. Seems obvious now in hindsight.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Sure. But you'd think at least a few of these folks would be self-consistent with their made up bullshit.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is probably the best take in this thread IMO. Yes haha Boeing, but those are two totally different departments and NASA isn't about to let something lift off with loose bolts on it. I expect this will perform without issues and the only reason it's even newsworthy right now is because Boeing has been newsworthy recently due to unrelated issues.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This particular meme is probably older than you are

I don't like it very much, but I also know the OP's typical posting history (Picard Maneuver is pretty prolific on meme Lemmy) and I can say with some certainty that that ain't it, chief. At worst it's a bad take that the OP definitely didn't make themselves because I've seen this meme decades ago.

Bad take and all though, it seems to have sparked some discussion here in the comments.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hospitals generally won't refuse treatment to anyone as far as I know, even if you tell them straight up at check in that you won't be able to pay them. You'll still get treated, provided they have the space and staff available to treat you.

However, afterward, that debt will haunt you like a vengeful ghost for the rest of your life.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago

Basically, yeah, but if every single LBP level wanted to nickel and dime you out of five bucks.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I remember trying to play Earthbound when I was younger. The story is fascinating, I really want to love the game, but the actual gameplay didn't really grab me. I remember getting to the first major town area and getting my ass beat by the gangsters or whoever that you need to fight there. Never made it past that point.

Any tips, if I wanted to pick it up again? Is this a game that expects you to grind? I found the early game to be really difficult, and I'm not usually one to be turned off by that but I really felt like I was hitting a brick wall and I think I must have missed something fundamental.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago

Frankly, these days? Yeah you totally can. "Hey Siri, what's 3% of 235,889?" or "Hey Siri, what's 8/37ths converted to 300ths?" will most likely just feed you a correct answer.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately that's a minority of cases. Most bullies in my experience, and especially those bullies that are themselves using physical violence, only respond to violence.

Don't meet violence with violence as your first option. But keep it on the table. It's a viable solution if nothing else works. Some people just don't respond to anything short of getting punched in the mouth, especially kids/teens with their brain chemistry fucked six ways to Sunday by puberty.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our leaders care more about personal enrichment than they care about leading a nation. The problems are multifaceted, but I feel like most of them tie back to that and if that were to somehow change most others of our problems would follow.

Unfortunately I don't know how to change it. I can only sit here and watch it happen.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

At this point I just feel like America deserves whatever happens to us. Our problem is obvious and won't be prevented. We have successfully completed the Roman Empire any% speedrun, it's time to pack it up before we get ourselves a Caligula.

I hold out hope that we can destroy and then rebuild ourselves, like how Germany has done for example. But those hopes aren't high and they're unlikely to come to fruition during my lifetime. We need to wipe the American political slate clean and start over from scratch but that's never ever going to happen until after the existing government literally collapses under its own weight. It will require the complete and total death of America as a nation, in order to save America as a nation. I wish luck to future generations. Me, I'm moving to Australia or Korea before it all hits the fan.

[–] skulblaka@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right. There have been folks getting paid for (and enjoying) being the center of attention since culture has existed. The entire concept of cinema comes from this. I wouldn't call Rowan Atkinson or Penn & Teller "attention whores or people who only want free shit" but they are the "influencers" of their time.

The dynamic has shifted, but I don't see it as some inherently bad thing, this just reads as a "kids bad!" kind of statement.

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