Funny enough, in the 80s my uncle did bring a blender on a flight to Hawaii. Apparently the attendants were totally cool with them using a hand cranked blender to make margaritas for themselves and their neighbors.

Another family member was with him and corroborated the story, so I like to believe it’s true.

This guy is delusional, saying a $9 cup of coffee is affordable has “it’s one banana, Michael” energy.

I don’t mean streaming services are bereft of any decent content, a portion of their original stuff is good and a lot of their licensed stuff is good as well. I was just pointing out that just because it’s longer form, it doesn’t mean it’s automatically better than social media content.

Not saying it’s as bad as social media but the quality of content streaming services produce is pretty bad. Pretty sure I read the services actually dumb down a lot of content so it can be “second screen” content that can be followed while gaming or scrolling.

I once had a professor who gave assignments with the last several editions page numbers because he thought it was bullshit too.

As an American; good. It’s laughable how bloated and useless our military is. Spending billions and billions developing weapons to fight wars in the old way when Ukraine already proved that shit won’t work anymore.

Nobody asked for this, nobody wants it.

The ones by me play loud classical music at night to keep homeless from setting up camp. Nothing makes me feel more safe at night than loud classical music. Just kidding it always makes me feel like a slasher movie killer is just a few feet behind me.

Probably the most dystopian thing I’ve ever experienced IRL.

Lol we’re all talking about the locked down shit windows laptops work provides. Mine is totally fine except audio sounds like shit. You can understand speech just fine but music sounds like it’s coming through a tin can with a string.

Sorry dude, you’re on lemmy. Nobody is here because it’s the easiest or best. Most of us are here because we’re the types who don’t like getting fucked over. I wholeheartedly agree that ads in and of themselves are annoying and fucking detest those Quiznos commercials but we’re the “weird” ones here. Most people loved those ads and Quiznos sold a ton of crappy sandwiches. Sadly advertising works on most people.

This exactly, it’s all fucking nasty. As far as I’m concerned it’s like they’re all just walking around ripping farts and expect people to enjoy their smell.

I feel this. I was in college when Skyrim came out and my gaming PC was in the living room next to the TV so my buddy would play Skyrim from the couch and I’d be on my PC. The 360 version crashed more and took like a solid minute to load any new map. If you entered the wrong building, 2 minutes gone and a small chance of a crash that would take like five minutes to reboot.

As a child of the eighties, it feels like post PS3 things totally stagnated but this is a couple of factors working together to create the illusion that there’s been no progress. First off we went from everything being 2d to everything being 3d in the course of a single console generation. There used to be huge and noticeable upgrades because models were getting so much more detail with every generation. There’s also the diminishing returns they’re getting on graphical enhancements; the leaps forward require massively more powerful hardware to render and most of the enhancement is in details and effects which aren’t as noticeable as doubling the polygon count of your models.

Hilariously there was minor backlash about this, they sent out silicone hot pocket holders as a gesture of goodwill if you requested it.

IDK where you went, but saying the west coast is all chain food is absolutely bizarre to me.

A quick search shows a PBS article where researchers found the southern US and Republican states as a whole have a higher % of chain restaurants, as opposed to more left leaning states where people tend to be more concerned with what they’re eating.

Vote in the preliminaries, where you can select which bag of shit you’ll get to vote for officially. You may even end up with a decent choice on election day off your area is dope like NYC or Seattle.

lol my life is great, unlike those movies.

Nah, the new trilogy was just garbage. Not even garbage for Star wars, just bad movies in general. The inconsistent themes and storytelling of the first two left such a shit taste in my mouth I still haven’t bothered to watch the third.

Ah dang, that’s awesome!

Not how I row lol. I’m trying to get the maximum workout in minimal time. I used to put on nature documentaries and go for longer, slower rows but with a kid I need to be done as quickly as possible.

I’m from the Western US, they basically told us MLK delivered a banger speech, some people matched on DC and the country was cured of racism. We’re all 100% equal now!

Hearing my neighbor say “I’ve got nothing against black people, I just wanna own a few of em.” made me skeptical.