TheSambassador

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[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sure .. but a single donut?

Honestly the process for getting reimbursed is annoying enough that I'm only going to do it for stuff that's more than $10. I don't need to be reimbursed often though

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Welcome to most modern journalism! Remember when every news org started spending time going to Twitter to get the general population's reactions (instead of actually interviewing real people and figuring out how actually widespread a viewpoint is)? It's been downhill from there.

Combined with most people only reading headlines, news organizations almost never providing context for most actual facts, and wealth concentration like we've never seen, the current state of news media is pretty dire.

You can get people to assume almost any cynical worldview you want when you can chip away at their belief in humanity by repeatedly showing only the worst examples of it. This is what conservative news media has been so good at - getting them to believe a specific image of "liberal" and allowing that image to represent ALL liberals instead of just the most extreme side. Honestly, it feels like most people on the left are similarly starting to use dehumanizing language to describe conservatives. All this leads to people avoiding communication because they assume that everyone on "the other side" believes insane nonsense. Sometimes they do. A lot of times, they don't.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Most Bethesda RPGs are going for bredth instead of depth. They give you a giant world to explore and usually throw you into that world with complete freedom relatively quickly.

I generally agree that Skyrim (and Oblivion to be honest) aren't particularly strong games when you look at pretty much any individual system, and the games don't interest me much, but I totally get the appeal.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

It's from Stargate, but I'm not sure the context of this specific image.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US adult population is something like 260 million, and Trump has like 73 million votes.

Tons of those people also had to deal with votor suppression, and I even had to manually cure my ballot this year because my "signature didn't match" supposedly (as did 5 other people I know who dropped off at the same location).

We've also been under a huge amount of propaganda and some people are literally living in separate realitites where their enemies are ridiculous evil characatures.

Like... I get it. It's hard to feel good towards America right now, and lots of those people who didn't vote deserve a lot of this blame. But is it really that rational to throw the rest of America under the bus?

At the very least, just help the people around you. Just be a person and participate in your community. You don't need to put a bunch of time and energy into political activism, but work done to help local communities is never wasted.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's updated a bit and looks great! Worth watching.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's a comedy about working women getting revenge on their gross, sexist, terrible boss. It's not a morality tale, it's a satire.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Out of curiosity, have you been a moderator before?

It's a fairly thankless job that you volunteer for. Most people aren't doing it out of some lust for power, they're just doing their best and sometimes make bad calls.

Are there shitty ones out there? Sure. But many of them are just trying to make nice spaces for their interest.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Honestly the movie still holds up. It's a great time. Not sure what's creepy or inappropriate about it?

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I mean... Some food does literally just exist and we go out and eat it.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It felt like he was taking offense to throwing in the South African thing. But I could be wrong.

[–] TheSambassador@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I saw one for the first time on the road today. The thing made me bust out laughing. It looks absurd.

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