I mean it’d be as realistic as the rest of the AITA posts, I’m on board

Unfortunate but this is the truth. Too many of us have been accustomed to small luxuries like “affording takeout”, but we unfortunately have been priced out of being able to afford stuff like this.

It’s a tough pill to swallow if you’ve been doing it your whole life and think that a functioning adult with a full-time job should be able to afford some takeout every now and again. We are not the generation that gets to enjoy that privilege, it seems.

Yes, I think if your political views are actively hurting someone or advocating for harm to a group of people then you should be held responsible for the shit that comes out of your own mouth.

This is not even remotely comparable to being unable to fire someone just because they’re black, or gay, or a woman.

That’s the thing though, it’s not Netflix vs cable anymore. It’s Netflix + Disney + Prime + whatever other streaming services have the shit you actually want to watch. And when you add it up, it’s just like cable packages. The only advantage is it’s all on demand.

Yeah it’s not all or nothing though. You’re acting like outside the US it’s impossible to fire people. That’s simply not even remotely true.

Are you comparing an intentional political stance that someone (hopefully) reasoned themselves into as equally inescapable of the colour of one’s skin, or sexual orientation?

Crazy thought, if you’re getting put on blast due to your political views you absolutely do not need to continue sharing them with the class.

Isn’t something like 50% of the US workforce paycheck to paycheck? That’s very much by design. Look up any strikebreaking action in history, the strategy is always for businesses to see if they can hold out longer than their workers, and if they can, no concessions are necessary.

Our stability and ability to strike is diametrically opposed to the desires of those in power. Until we get the guillotines out again, I’m not really sure how any of this could possibly change. Under capitalism, there is no incentive for it.

I think it’s just a human problem. You or I may like to read long form journalism, but we’re in the extreme minority. It’s not dying because it was so hugely profitable.

Logistically too, if you’re trying to parse through the top 100 tweets in a day, and each one takes multiple paragraphs to get to the point, the amount of various viewpoints the average person is able to interact with shrinks dramatically.

Granted, it seems like everyone is taking the forced brevity as an excuse to just write +1 to pile onto their side, since that’s easier.

I’m deeply hoping we meet an angry one handed Gale at some point out for revenge.

I’m surprisingly into the character building and turn based combat. I was never a big D&D fan, but I really enjoy this system.

I will say, I think I’ve been spoiled on roguelikes and open world games, because when I heard about “endless replayability” I expected quite a bit more. If you savescum to try out different options for ways to resolve quests, you don’t really need to ever play more than one character it seems. This may change later on in Act 2.

The game is surprisingly linear, but not linear, in sort of a weird way that’s hard to describe. You can go wherever you want, and explore all the nooks and crannies, but you’re essentially in a level-gated box. I’m loving the story so it’s not really an issue, but it definitely doesn’t feel as personal and unique as your first playthrough of a Bethesda game, for example.

The second part there is by far my biggest issue with the game. I don’t find the outcomes THAT different.

I’ve about finished Act 1, so I started a coop playthrough with a friend. Although we’ve both been intentionally picking different options the whole time, it’s still by and large the same process. Go to the same locations, talk to the same people but have them react to you somewhat differently. There’s a large number of ways in which the game implies much more can happen than is really possible, and lots of ways you end up getting railroaded back to the same place no matter how much you try to change it up.

Lol this is such a weird sentiment to me. You realize many of us do walk everywhere, right?

Meritocracy is a myth though, perpetuated by those lucky enough to benefit from existing systems.

It’s completely circular. I’m on top and the people who are on top are the best so because I’m on top I’m the best.

It never accounts for all the myriad non-merit related ways folks get on top in the first place.

This feels like a copypasta

It’s funny that you say that. Although it’s not I guess replacing Reddit in terms of scale, the browsing experience on Lemmy and that community feeling is actually an improvement for me.

So, I guess for me Lemmy is a more than adequate replacement. I don’t want all of Reddit here though, I think that would cause a whole lot more problems than it would solve.

God this is horrific. I love it.

I mean, he clearly did. He even provided the final weight.

I’m a totally separate person, and I can also verify that forcing business users to use IE for certain services is definitely a thing.

I’m not sure what your point is? It’s not necessarily going to apply to ALL banks, but it’ll probably apply to SOME of them, and that will suck if it happens to be your/my bank.

Yeah, this has been my experience as well. Discovery on Spotify is really good. I’ll listen to something new and be like “how haven’t I heard of these guys!” And then I check their artist page and yeah it’s like a few thousand listens total.