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RememberTheApollo_

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  • Types of Podcasts, a guide

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  • People riff badly off each other thinking they’re funny with maybe only a few minutes of opinion devoted to the actual topic while recording themselves and calling it a “podcast.”

  • Was the world always a fucked up place?

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  • YES. But a big chunk of people have been sheltered from that fact.

    That’s why we have people: wanting civil war, because they’ve never had to personally suffer the loss, privations, and terror of a real war. Are anti-vax, because they haven’t had plagues of smallpox, the flu, or polio kill their kids, friends, and relatives. Pro-authoritarian, because they’ve never lived under a series of shitty power grifters and a corruption-based economy where absolutely nobody does well except the richest. Anti-social programs, because they’ve never faced homelessness or a disability.

    There are so many things that people have had the luxury of avoiding that they’ve forgotten how shitty the world is. Spoiled children, they are.

  • The US bans all new foreign-made network routers

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  • What a surprise.

  • The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US.

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  • Force consumers into US made, AI-laden, crappy hardware full of backdoors for the regime.

  • Nobody: ... Influencers in Dubai:

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  • By divine right it’s theirs. That’s just how it is. They’re winners, there has to be losers, sucks to be you.

    They really don’t invest much thought into it. They can’t.

  • Trump has delighted apocalyptic Christians. They say the End Times are coming

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  • Do these clowns not understand that by wishing trump start their armageddon that it makes him the antichrist?

    They are following and encouraging the antichrist?

    So yeah, y’all talibangelicals going to your hell.

  • What’s it like in your country??

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  • Yeah, but the shitshow is so much worse elsewhere so we admire yours.

  • What instance has mostly reasonable moderate conservative/liberal people?

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  • I tend to not block instances FWIW. I have blocked several communities and found that it works pretty well. For now, browsing /all in lemmy is my preferred view because we just don’t have that many people to keep content coming in the communities I have subscribed to. Plus, it’s more fun to see the variety. Lemmy is small enough still where it’s easier to “opt-out” than there is a need to “opt-in” to limit the noise.

  • TIL that 53% of white women voted for Trump whereas approximately 7% to 8% of Black women voted for trump

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  • As an American I feel exactly the same. There absolutely were holdouts of racism, but I felt we were moving forward and leaving them behind. Obama’s presidency set the stage, then trump and covid set everything on fire and the mask came off. “Draining the swamp” just meant revealing the scum at the bottom of it and setting it free. I was shocked at how many racist, petty, selfish, aggressively ignorant people there are in the US.

  • Almost half of all Americans fear a ‘total economic collapse’ in the next 10 years, new poll shows

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  • No, I watched Frontier House and Survivor Man. Frontier was families put in frontier style homes that were told to work and live like they did back in the land rush days. They had the convenience of most of their log homes being built for them, and an occasional delivery from a mercantile. All period, of course. A very interesting sociological experiment. The results of their labors were inspected by analysts to see if they and their animals would have survived the winter. I think only one family might have survived.

    Survivorman? Pretty much learned that surviving in the woods sucks, could easily kill you, he only had to do it for a few days at a time and even he knew he had help just a radio call away.

  • AI still doesn't work very well, businesses are faking it, and a reckoning is coming

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  • Or to put it another way, AI is making it faster and easier to do the wrong thing in the wrong way at scale.

    …and absolve the operator of any responsibility, apparently.

    Oh, that was the AI doing something wrong. shrugs and just keeps doing what they’re doing.

  • Almost half of all Americans fear a ‘total economic collapse’ in the next 10 years, new poll shows

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  • Foraging for wild plants is a skill you need fully established before having to rely on it for survival, it’s just like hunting, dressing an animal, and meat preservation. Do it wrong and at best you’ll get a little sick, at worst it will kill you quickly.

    Also, in a hypothetical apocalyptic situation, you’ll be competing with millions of people who will be eating anything they can. I can’t remember the stats, but I think the Appalachian deer population took something like 40-50 years to fully recover from the Great Depression. A lot of hungry people will do a lot of damage.

  • There Will Be No Post-Presidential Peace for Donald Trump

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  • Shittier rulers have lasted longer.

  • Almost half of all Americans fear a ‘total economic collapse’ in the next 10 years, new poll shows

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  • They really don’t have a clue. They just assume they can take whatever they need by threat or violence and whoever else has guns will be on their side. Plenty of those guns will be aimed at them to take what they have, too.

    And then?

    Next to none will have a clue about “after.” Civilization is a community full of skilled trades. From the blacksmith to the tanner to the farmer and the miller. Think any of the preppers will be out in the field, day in, day out, planting, harvesting, storing, cutting wood, prepping food for winter? Got any draft animals? Got a place to care for and feed them all winter? How about getting sick or hurt and being unable to work? They ate up this “American Self Reliance” BS with a shovel, and it’s complete trash. Their personal chauvinism will see them just as dead as everyone else.

  • Chinese chefs summoning the fires of 8 hells just to make some fried rice

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  • Just got an induction stove. Sound level depends on the power setting and the pot/pan, and maybe even on the stove manufacturer.

    I’ve never heard a “squeal”, but there is a faint “buzz-click” as the power cycles in the coils. If you need high power the buzz is slightly louder and steady, if low power it’s fainter but you get the “click” of the relays as it cycles. Some cookware seems to make the buzz a little louder.

    Overall IMO it’s not loud, and the sounds of cooking pretty much drown it out - boiling, searing, whatever.

    I’ve cooked with all three (gas, electric, induction) and while a good gas stove is still my favorite, induction IMO is really the best of both worlds. I absolutely would not go back to standard electric after using induction.

  • Almost half of all Americans fear a ‘total economic collapse’ in the next 10 years, new poll shows

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  • Bunker building idiots. Bet they’re selfish as fuck and have nothing but items for their own survival saved up instead of maybe a hoard of books, seeds, tools and the like.

    One of two outcomes:

    1. If you actually truly need the bunker, the world has gone to absolute shit and there will be nothing worth living for except hand-to-mouth subsistence farming. I don’t think anyone has a clue as to what actual collapse would look like. Congrats, you’ll just starve last.
    2. If you’ve got hundreds of thousands of hungry and starving people and any small percentage know you have a bunker with food and medicine, they will get in or burn you out with fire trying. They literally have nothing else to do and nothing else to lose.

  • Almost half of all Americans fear a ‘total economic collapse’ in the next 10 years, new poll shows

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  • If he didn’t actually cheat he absolutely openly tried. Fake electors, calling State governors looking for “a few more votes,” the insurrection at the Capitol, etc.

  • How many of you are substance free?

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  • I don’t need to reply to a WoT that completely ignored the substance and intent of my reply. You’re wasting our time. I don’t see any reason to reply when you’re making up everything you think I would say, with a massive sprinkling of hyperbole, just fine on your own. You don’t need me to join the conversation you’re having in your head.

  • What were the best thing(s) for you about moving out of your parents home?

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  • Being Gen X it was pretty free range at my house. But probably the biggest irritation was having plans made for you. Doesn’t matter what it was, some kind of work that needed to be done or something. Hated having a plan in my head for the day or whatever and the parents would be “nope, you’re gonna be doing ‘x, y, and z’…” with no warning. MF why u wait until I have something to do to tell me?! Also, the power to make my own decisions. My parents made a lot of decisions for us without our input or knowledge, so it made decision making kinda difficult when we got out on our own. Something as simple as getting a bank account or choosing what classes we took in school. Unfortunately having to escape a verbally abusive narcissist of a parent was huge plus.

    So yeah, mostly having control over my own plans and agenda, getting info and making decisions. I say “mostly” because life still throws shit at you that’s out of your control sometimes.

    Edit: ITT - wow. Reading the other replies = a lot of people with shitty parent problems. Ouch.