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TheDoozer

@ TheDoozer @lemmy.world

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  • Alright, I love this guy, normally. What the bloody-fluff is WRONG with him, here...?

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  • What year is this? That type of humor was overdone in the 90's, and irrelevant now. Even in the early 2000s it was normal to split bills or trade off paying. Same with the "wish I were gay" nonsense. I'll be honest, I didn't get past that.

    May as well be joking about Y2K. Totally anachronistic.

  • It’s Well Past Time for a Four-Day Workweek

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  • I made a compelling argument to a die-hard Republican for UBI, by pointing out enormous job losses on the horizon due to automation. Basically, I said that there will only be so many labor hours available, so either huge numbers of people on unemployment, or less hours worked by each person. So if everyone had a baseline food/shelter/medical, and worked based on anything beyond that they want, there would be enough labor hours available for everyone. And you tax the shit out of automation to pay for it.

    Automation should benefit society, not just a handful of people.

  • Klingons must have been absolutely riddled with STDs in their history

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  • Wait... so the Klingon Empire was essentially Angry Idiocracy? I wonder what the Pakled society looked like a thousand years before we saw them...

  • What's a song where you like a remix or cover better than the original?

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  • Wow, I commented three other songs, but this one is it. This is going into my playlists.

  • What's a song where you like a remix or cover better than the original?

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  • Am I Evil - Metallica, originally by Diamond Head

    Somebody that I used to know - Walk Off the Earth, originally by Gotye

    Common People - William Shatner and Ben Folds, originally by Pulp.

    The first because Metallica was just SO much cleaner, second because I thought the song was trash until I heard it by somebody who didn't mumble through the whole thing, the third... well the Shatner one isn't exactly good, but it's at least entertaining, which is more than can be said for the original.

  • What's your favorite childhood cartoon that everyone else seems to have forgotten about?

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  • There's three that I consistently have people who grew up at the same time don't remember:

    Denver the Last Dinosaur

    Mighty Max

    Exosquad.

    Exosquad I watched religiously, and I don't think they ever finished it. Mighty Max was on every day before I went to school, so it was my breakfast watch.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    TheDoozer @lemmy.world

    What band did you hear one song of, check the rest of their music, and find it was a one-off and none of their other music sounds like that?

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  • Okay, 3... 2... 1 let's jam.

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  • On an episode of a hospital-based show, a little girl (like, 8 or 10) drowns in a pool and effort to resuscitate fail. That didn't get me, even with the parents crying. The girl has a sister, who is making a card for the girl who has already been declared dead. Sad, but didn't get me. Sister explains that the girl died saving her, since she fell in the neighbor's pool trying to get a ball, and the sister jumped in, pushed the sister out, and then couldn't get out herself, and eventually drowned.

    And I got slammed with a real-life memory. I work in Search and Rescue, and one case my station had over a decade ago was a pair of children that got swept out to sea. Only the younger brother survived. Because the sister spent the whole time keeping him above water, and ended up exhausting and drowning herself. I try not to think about it, because it fucks me up really bad, and especially because now I have a daughter and a younger son. That scene dredged that up real hard, real fast.

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  • Bisexual people: Is it okay for me to have friends?

    Not everybody is a potential sexual partner. Having friends of any gender is fine. If you start getting any non-platonic feelings, take a step back. If your friend starts getting (or demonstrating) non-platonic feelings, take a step back.

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  • TIL the US Military operates a massive non-profit "socialist" grocery chain called the Commissary. It is taxpayer-subsidized and sells goods at cost

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  • Housing is assigned by rank, is available to anyone currently in contract

    Not only that, but government owned housing is assigned not based on pay, rank, or whatever, but size of household. So an E-7 with no kids gets a 2 bedroom and an E-3 with three kids gets a four bedroom (depending on age/gender of the kids). So according to need.

  • Like the number of remaining torpedoes, plenty more where they came from

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  • Yeah, and then they die, sacrificing themselves to bring back the rest of the crew, thus showing the futility of not being main cast.

  • there is always another corner

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  • Can’t wait for the head(amame) package to arrive

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  • Can’t wait for the head(amame) package to arrive

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  • So this is one of those "even things that end up benefitting men is Feminism" things.

    Men having no paternity leave, but women having it, might sound like it's better for women. But instead it just makes them more likely to leave the workforce when their maternity leave runs out. Giving men an equivalent (minus medical recovery) amount of leave to be used over the first year makes it so both parents can take turns, get the child to a reasonable point of being able to be put in childcare, and allows both to return to work (if desired). And studies have shown the vast, vast majority of the pay difference between men and women is due to separating from the workforce for years after pregnancy (and subsequent pregnancies).

    Paternity Leave is part of Feminism.

  • Are You Emotionally Prepared To Die?

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  • Yeah, but it would be disappointing. Still plenty I'd like to do, and I'm only a handful of years from retirement, so I would be just shy of some well-earned down time.

    As far as fear? I've never been afraid of dying. The time immediately prior to dying, yes, that is potentially scary. Being dead isn't something you experience, though, so what is there to fear?

  • What's a video game you were bummed about finishing, wishing the experience lasted longer?

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  • Oh, yeah, I loved ToTK even more. It was an engineering game cosplaying as an RPG and I was loving it.

    I realized how overpowered i was when I was launching laser/cannon drone strikes on lines of Bokoblin, but I definitely felt how weak I was getting through the underworld area without a fan scooter.

  • What's a video game you were bummed about finishing, wishing the experience lasted longer?

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  • Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

    But not like you think. I was fairly early in the game, and I was just treasure hunting in the castle to get some good gear before I continued on (good swords and bows that respawn regularly but break over time). Also, if you've never played it, the game is not entirely linear, you have four main powers you can gain from fighting and freeing four spirits in different zones, as well as shrines for additional powers and health. But you could spawn at the beginning of the game, do the initial questline to get the paraglider, and then go straight to the castle to fight the BBEG. And you'd die, but you could try!

    So I was treasure hunting and I accidentally fell down a hole and ended up fighting the final boss. And then won. And then had to reset to the previous save before falling in. I spent the rest of the game thinking "I don't actually need this to win, it's all for overkill." And it was. So much overkill. It really wasn't fair at all. The separate storylines were really good and worth doing anyway, though. Beating the game was just kind of a fight tacked on to the end of a fantastic story.