TheAlbatross

joined 1 year ago

Yo where to get that shirt tho

[–] TheAlbatross@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Catty, more like.

I'll save fierce for when we get a living wage and single payer healthcare bill passed.

[–] TheAlbatross@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look it's better than Google but it still stinks

[–] TheAlbatross@startrek.website 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I use DuckDuckGo, but it kinda sucks? Maybe just SEO has ruined search engines in general, but it seems no matter what engine I use, it's fulla crap.

That was a Mongoose Publishing book?

They put out my favorite edition of Traveller, that's rad.

Yah, maybe my post came off as "haha nerds, try my foolproof method of having friends" when what I actually meant was "The state of the modern world has caused me to abandon what could be thought of as technological improvements because they are far worse at accomplishing their goal than the old ways."

Reviews have probably never been unbiased, but there's so much general misinformation now that even a glut of info is unreliable for figuring anything out.

[–] TheAlbatross@startrek.website 48 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Users reviews are useless because they're easily astroturfed for bonkers reasons.

Critic reviews are useless because they are largely just ads bought and paid for.

This has forced me to create a new system I like to call "talking to your friends". If I wanna know if a movie or show is good, I ask Rebecca or Muhammad because they have similar interests to me. If I wanna know if a game is good, I can talk to Eugene or Jake. Is this music any good? Well, Marcy has similar tastes to me but not always so it's a toss up.

If I don't got no friends with that interest, well, time to find a niche online community and start chatting people up.

[–] TheAlbatross@startrek.website 17 points 1 year ago (12 children)

You can water plants in New Jersey for better money.

You'd have to be a fucking rube to enlist at those rates.

This is kind of ridiculous.

You can't win in this country without being a member of one of the two parties. They've seen sure to that. In addition, you can't get the money needed to run a campaign without approval from those parties.

It's the parties that decide who is on the ballot, not the people. And it's the parties who control the purse strings.

No candidate on the ballot is trying to help the common people. No matter who you choose, it's not going to help the situation. We can talk about harm reduction or lesser evils all day, but when you choose lesser evil, you're still choosing evil and the country trends towards more evil. When you're reducing harm, you're still accepting some amount of harm, not cure.

[–] TheAlbatross@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Naw this is a fucking ad pretending to be an article.

Get bent, this stuff doesn't belong here.

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