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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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    17 hours ago

    I just want to point out that the attempt to compare medical costs in a direct comparison in US dollars isn’t exactly easy as it does ignore purchasing power and base wages.

    The point would probably be better made with hours of labor at a base pay to pay off treatment which I do think American healthcare would probably still lose quite handedly.


  • Yeah as an American that lives in a rural area, I started working at the age of 8 doing small jobs like penny saver delivery to help pay for groceries since my mom was wasting child support on booze and drugs.
    By 14 I was an assistant chef at a restaurant because I started as a dishwasher the year before and the other chefs quit or had a heart attack (miss you Bob). And I worked until 1am basically doing clean up and still had to go to school.

    If no one around you is caring about the rules and life of others, big federal/state rules are easily ignored, even in America.


  • I will say I don’t get quite the logic of being like:

    “Yeah this countries spyware is bad so I’m running straight into the arms of this other countries spyware just to stick it to you original spyware!”

    Instead of just, like, getting off the spyware.

    It’s like being robbed and pulling out a gun to shoot yourself before the robber can and throwing your wallet into a street.
    Sure it spites the robber but they can just shrug and move on to a weirdo who isn’t shooting themselves and they will probably just loot your pockets for spare change anyways.
    Maybe I don’t feel that drive to be social at all costs.


  • Yeah I would put this in comparison with the OG 3DS however the main changes seem like they may be in the joycon redesign instead of the screen. The game carts will all be basically identical and potentially still swappable between consoles depending on the game. And the added functionality will probably be unfelt by a lot of people who won’t bother with it.

    They are working on making the quirk of the system better and giving it an engine tuneup.

    They still go long periods of time with practically no “innovation” as that’s not their point but making a fun toy is.





  • When the DS became the best selling gaming handheld we got

    • DS OG 2004
    • DS Lite 2006
    • DSi 2009 (removed Gameboy slot)
    • DSi XL 2010

    They then went on to make the 3DS in multiple iterations including one where they just removed the 3D functionality and sold it again as a DS and the most recent model in 2017 was…

    • New Nintendo 2DS XL

    When they have a successful and well selling portable console they slow down on the innovation and go full into embrace the ecosystem as long as possible with minor improvements and if we use the DS as an indicator we have a decade of this.


  • It was a post about how Google had been asked to take down links to websites selling black market hormonal transition drugs and I suggested that no one should be buy them from shady sources like that in the first place as those compounds are important enough to not just buy whatever you can find as a personal attempt to fix body dysphoria.
    People just wanted to be upset.

    Though I have also been recently banned from upliftingnews for not being uplifted enough about basic stuff and had a mod tell me I don’t belong in their communities so I’m surprised anyone agrees with me ever apparently.



  • Oh my God I once saw a black bear get stressed out after wandering into the neighborhood. Truly had no idea what to do about all the people other than climb and try to hide in a tree that it then got stuck in.

    Eventually it was tranqued and they caught it fireman style with a tarp held underneath it as it slipped out of the tree.

    I’d probably have a less cute story if it was a Polar, Grizzly or Kodiak bear though.


  • So a light rail train is a surface ground public transport system similar to a tram, it moves around on street level and can be quite fast but is usually plastic on the exterior and lighter and slower than a typical train.

    So anyways, one time as I am walking down the sidewalk in college my hat blows right off my head, without thinking much of it I sprint off after it hoping to catch it before it ends up in the street.
    I manage to catch right before I’m in the actual road, but apparently still right on the tracks for the light rail that had right of way through the intersection.

    I am still bent over grabbing my hat as I look over my shoulder to see the train hitting me.
    I bounced off the front of that train probably a good 10 feet, skid across the ground for the last bit but immediately jump up slap the hat back on my head and stare at the driver of the light rail just long enough for us both to realize I am still on the tracks. I don’t know what they were ever going to say as I just held my hand down on my hat to stop it blowing away and sprinted as fast as I could away.

    I have been hit by nearly every mode of transportation but that one always makes me giggle compared to the trains, buses, cars or boats.



  • Ahh man it’s been on the rewatch list for some time and like there is like 20 different disasters happening on earth in that movie. I don’t know if they specifically call it out but I mean wildfires, blights, and shutdown of governments… It feels like the reason they don’t call it out is why bother at that point.
    But you might be right that they just call out symptoms and leave it at that. It’s shockingly anti science while on earth.


  • It’s not a fictional disease. They stopped crop rotations as the soil became too fucked up so everyone is using the same GMO corn but because they are identical they are susceptible to the same disease and it can spread rapidly.

    This has happened to lots of crops like bananas and is currently happening again.

    The beginning of the movie is people trying to just play their baseball game around a sandstorm getting annoyed at scientists for telling them the world is ending to the point where NASA is in hiding.

    Not fictional. Likely reality without the, us getting lucky enough to shoot McConaughey through a wormhole bit.