Tldr I don’t think this is an unpopular opinion.

Cake day?

I have no idea what day I first started using lemmy, or when I made an account. I’m okay not knowing.

As for “karma”, do any instances track total karma, or just per-comment? Honestly I don’t give a shit if my comments do well or not, I don’t live for other people’s amusement.

As for other people, I can’t speak for them, but I haven’t seen anyone crying for lemmy to be more like reddit.

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Keiko would make a good chef, I think. She has experience with different kinds of cuisine.

Of course, she may not personally enjoy cooking some things, like a traditional Irish breakfast… But she would still make it taste good for the people who do like it (while constantly trying to get them to try literally anything else that’s healthy)

And neelix knows how to be serious when it’s needed. He would enjoy slam poetry and baking classes in an out-of-the-way area, but the moment the red alert is sounded, he’s ready to go with a phaser in hand, and memories of the war.

I’ll pass on The Sisko being my enemy. I do not want him to be my enemy. I choose life. He can live with it

“is a lengthy time consuming process”

No, it REALLY isn’t, and any pig that tells you otherwise is trying to get you to drop the issue so they don’t have more paperwork.

They don’t give a shit about your stolen items, and 9/10 times it’s a complete waste to even contact them over “petty theft”, regardless of how valuable the item/s are to you.

One day at work, I found out a work friend actually believed the whole “crystal energy” thing.

Since she was the first person I had ever met who actually admitted to that, I wanted to know more about what her specific beliefs about them were.

At first she was super bubbly about it, on par with her personality. But then as I asked a couple common sense questions about why science doesnt find anything measurable, and first she got hostile and mad that I would dare question another person’s beliefs, but when I explained I was genuinely curious and had no interest in changing her beliefs she just kind of broke down because nobody ever takes her seriously or believes her about her “personal healing journey”

The way I see it, it’s for adults who like pretty rocks, but can’t come to terms with the fact that they like something “childish” (because for some reason a lot of adults call a rock collection cringe or childish or dumb, but clearly they’ve never met a geologist) so instead of having a pretty rock and mineral collection, they have “healing crystals”, and eventually it just becomes kind of like part of their identity the way a religion is.

I will however, 100% giggle at their expense with my wife, later. Because anyone who buys $50 polished selenite drink coaster “charging plate”, and a $200 brass pyramid to “recharge” their $50 “healing quartz wand” while refusing to listen to real science deserves to be giggled at.

Weird, I’ve literally always heard “ignorance of the law is no excuse to break the law”, which seems to imply criminal intent doesn’t matter. Only that the action that was take was illegal.

Huh. TIL Ryan Reynolds and Scarlett Johannson were married.

Allowed to?

Yes.

Is it still legally binding should such joke events occur?

Also yes.

If I say “this company is not liable for any damages caused by sudden laser eyes (unless the laser is TRUE yellow)” well then, if someone suddenly develops yellow laser eyes using my product… Guess who’s on the hook for damages.

There’s a group of guys near me who all look like bikers, body builders, ex-cons (pretty much just imagine “large and imposing”), some with more ink than a printing press, several with huge beards, and a couple clearly do piercings as part of their job… So basically, about 3/4 look like a stereotypical 80s gang. Not all are large, not all are muscley, not all are men. But they’re all intimidating, for sure.

When called, they gear up in pads, vests and plate carriers, arm themselves (gotta say, I never thought I’d see a Trans flag on an AR-9 but it looked rad AF) , and they escort women to nearby clinics and stand guard outside if anyone if protesting that day.

Oddly, the MAGAts are a lot quieter when they show up and never get in anyone’s faces…

More like “calling your neighbor a pervert when they offer you a place to shower when yours is out and you find out they’re taking videos” but okay

Reminder that if they can forcibly delete the app from your phone, you don’t own your phone

Sometimes I just can’t bring myself to be the bad guy, because either you get the worst possible ending (sorry, can’t suspend my disbelief enough to believe bad people actually get bad ends) or it just goes over the top.

For instance, in one franchise you can be bad, but it’s mostly rude comments, insults, maybe a couple betrayals here and there… Then BOOM surprise you just shot a kid in the back of the head.

I’m all for being a bad guy but it has to be a well-written and iltelligent bad guy that actually rivals the good version, not just stupidly plodding through the worst possible choice “because a bad guy wouldn’t care that he just crippled his fleet and lost the final battle, because he got mad that one of the admirals called him a hothead and crashed his ship into theirs”

Who am I kidding, the moment I betray someone I like, I’m going to bail and go back to being a good guy

Demo ranch. Started making comments about the George Floyd protests and I was out

AvE started praising the trucker convoys

Shadiversity got super homo/transphobic and also is just an arrogant douche since his book.

I’ve got a guillotine in the garage I can break out, too, but I might need you guys to help me move it.

If in-game ads become the norm, I guess I could either not play games anymore, or I could take my ship out onto the ocean.

There are more “lol fuck you” choices than there are “pretty please let me be bombarded with bullshit” options here.

Don’t see why it would be a problem for him. It’s not like they ever attacked him because they wanted to.

As far as they’re concerned, he freed them.

He is The Free Man.

Depending on where you go, it’s either “this country is a fascist regime as reported by these hundreds of outlets worldwide and here’s the shady shit they’re doing”

Or

“This tragically misunderstood DEMOCRACY (they call their leader PRESIDENT not DICTATOR emoji spam) is leading the world in literally every metric, have made 10,000 breakthroughs in every science but THE WEST won’t let them share, here’s 3 state sponsored media outlets confirming what I just said gif spam”

Not a whole lot in between.

Lpt: DO NOT ASK A PERSON IF THEY HAVE FOUND A JOB YET

If they have and you’re important enough to them, you’ll know when they tell you. If they haven’t told you, either it’s none of your GODDAMN BUSINESS or they’re still looking.

You asking just reminds them they don’t have a job. And if they’ve been looking for awhile, it’s even worse. Especially if you actually said “yet” or added in some other “it’s been awhile” modifier.

My wife likes TNG and Lower Decks, I’m still easing her in to DS9 and Voy.

The other day I showed her a picture of Picard wearing a yellow uniform, and she said “he’s wearing the wrong uniform. He’s command, not engineering.” before I could even ask her what was wrong with the Pic.

I immediately yelled “YOU’RE FINALLY A NERD!” And shot a text to the family text group and our friend group to share the good news, everyone had a good chuckle, and she just goes “YOU MADE ME THIS WAY! Not that I’m complaining…”

I have successfully made a convert. And yesterday she actually asked to watch more Voy before she even got home from work.

is/does thing

“have you tried not being/doing that thing?”

The only acceptable response should be a backhand with a platemail gauntlet.

Have you tried not being depressed? Have you tried just going to bed early? Have you tried smack YES KEVIN I’VE FUCKING TRIED IT YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO BE A DOCTOR FOR FUCK SAKE

My wife actually love BBT and got me watching it. I still hate laugh track sitcoms, and as a Super Nerd a lot of things irritated me, but overall it’s not nearly as bad as I was expecting from all the meme hate.

Still, the meme is not wrong, Data had a fine positronic brain, sure, but He can kill a motherfucker when necessary.

Papa Soong didn’t raise no removed.