bblkargonaut

joined 1 year ago
[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My alignment is neutral good

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Im the one that was paying for Netflix for my family, but the password crack down motivated me to learn how to build a server and go full arrs. They had a good thing going, but now that $26 a month will be used to buy hdds.

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

A partial solution is to remove nimby laws that prevent accessory dwelling units, duplexes, and medium and high density housing. Then you use the tax laws to heavily punish corporate ownership of low and medium density housing, and make it progressively more expensive for mom and pop landlords after a reasonable number of properties.

Hopefully this would lower the cost for single family housing, while increasing supply and variety of rentals. But somehow you'd have to prevent end stage capitalist collusion from fixing prices so competition could actually work to drive down prices.

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Most definitely and probably be missing some limb by now.

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Star wars has been effectively marketing me lightsabers for years, and I can't even carve a turkey with mine.

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The reason people are getting stuck up on sports and gendered bathrooms is that it's a wedge issue that can be weaponized to keep people fighting and distracted by culture war nonsense so the focus isn't on the building of the Orange Reich, a dozen companies contributing to almost all the climate change, and our economic system working to keep us enslaved.

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

I wish they would kill the MCU and just start over comic book style.

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 62 points 1 month ago (13 children)

I paid $1000 for books my first semester of college back in 2007. I felt so burnt and violated I never bought another textbook. I made it through the rest of undergrad, a masters, and a PhD in biochemistry by checking out books from the library, borrowing textbooks from friends, and going sailing. When I taught I made it a point to teach my students about all the ways they can avoid becoming a victim like myself.

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago

The everything is woke or not is out of control, when the real wide spread problem is just bad writing and story telling. I'm just tired of stories with contrived conflicts that occur just to make the story move forward "ie the entire plot of God of war Ragnarok", and established characters making uncharacteristic choices and actions without any development towards that change, "ie Luke Skywalker in the last Jedi and basically everyone in the last season of game of thrones".

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Buying my own Costco membership was the first moment I truly felt like an adult.

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

I got a 26 while infecting the entire room with the flu, because the ACT is also the Prairie state achievement exam required for graduation in Illinois and there are no make ups.

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