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skulblaka , vor 18 Tagen

I do this for tomatoanus skits as well, those are usually pretty off the wall. My man has an entire storyline saga going on in his ad read sections.

skulblaka , vor 18 Tagen

Oh, sick, new Bringus post? I'll be in my bunk.

skulblaka , vor 18 Tagen

Chucks and Vans are definitely not good shoes. They are stylish shoes, but the shoe itself is a piece of cloth over a piece of cardboard. No wonder you have bad feet, bro, you've been walking on trash.

I bought a pair of steel toe boots with good insole and arch support for about $85 three years ago and those things are still going strong. Comfy and durable. If you've got big feet or want nicer boots than me, that can range up to about $150, anything higher than that is designer bullshit. Don't fall for a brand name.

skulblaka , vor 18 Tagen

Blame the fact that it's so difficult to immigrate legally yet an overwhelming number of businesses rely on cheap immigrant labor. This is a feature, not a bug, because they can pay the illegal immigrants less and abuse them without fear of reprisal because if the employer gets any attitude about it, they call ICE and have the worker deported and replaced with the next struggling desperate immigrant.

There is no illegal worker in the US that would rather be an illegal worker than a legal carded one. The system is stacked against them because it saves businesses money to do so.

skulblaka , vor 18 Tagen

Yes, because naturally no other country in the world enjoys a similar level of prosperity without creating an underclass that they abuse for their profit.

We don't need to print more money, we have more than enough money. We just need to recirculate the money we do have. There is plenty of money in the USA for most citizens to live a comfortable life without exploitation, but 80% of that money is buried in the pockets of corporations and 15% of the remaining 20% is buried in the pockets of billionaires.

skulblaka , vor 18 Tagen

Right, so Finland, France, Germany, Norway, New Zealand, Japan, Australia, Korea, Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy all don't exist. Got it.

skulblaka , vor einem Monat

https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/21c5616c-5748-4bb4-a9fa-c337502649a6.webp

skulblaka , vor einem Monat

Semi-related, are there Leftwingers that are righties unwilling to even say the name of?

Arguably Joe Biden, they've been calling him Brandon for years. But they make up stupid little nicknames for everyone.

skulblaka , vor einem Monat

Korpiklaaani's cover of Ievan Polkka goes absolutely insanely hard

Yes, that's the only thing I know about them

I've also recently discovered Brothers of Metal who despite having the most boring metal band name in history are a pretty good nordic/viking metal band, I'm a big fan of Powersnake by them in particular recently

skulblaka , vor 2 Monaten

but the point I'm trying to make is that there is more than enough content here, if you look for it.

If you're looking for Linux memes, American politics, or tumblr crossposts, absolutely. Lemmy has you covered in spades. But I miss some of my more niche communities. I miss memes and discussions about Deep Rock Galactic and Guilty Gear. I miss discussing Elden Ring pvp. I miss the Warhammer 40k nerds. I miss /r/JustRolledIntoTheShop. In the meantime I've been making do (ineffectively) with Discord groups but it's not a good replacement.

I'm not going back to reddit, especially now after recent news, but even you have to admit some types of content are lacking. For certain subjects, we've got it handled. For many, many others, we just don't have the mass of users required to build that community. And in some ways that's good. Not having Lemmy become the seething mass of infinite strangers that Reddit was helps keep us more personal, more manageable. I recognize names here sometimes that I'm happy to see, that rarely ever happened on reddit. But I've had radio silence on some of my favorite hobbies and communities for about a year now and it kind of sucks. It sucks to the point that I'm frequently tempted to return to reddit just to check up on some communities, but I'm always turned away by their most recent user-hostility.

skulblaka , vor 2 Monaten

It's clearly a man pissing his name into the snow (in simplified Chinese)