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They coming for reaction gifs now too?!
  • I like how these things keep coming out as if generations are a homogenous group

    I work with Gen Z colleagues that use reaction GIFs, I also know millennials that find them cringe

    People like different things, you will always be cringe to someone

  • What's your go to drink when you go to the bar and why?
  • Draught Beer

    probably a Pale/IPA of some sort

    ideally a hazy with Citra, Simcoe, Mosaic and/or Amarillo hops

    definitely something from Cloudwater, Sureshot, Verdant, Deya, Track or Lerwig if I happen to be somewhere with it on tap.

    Though often for those breweries, I'd take a can over an alternative draught

  • When is it "enough" money?
  • I've always liked the distinction between needing your job to survive and being okay if it disappeared for at least a few months

    If you have enough to mean you can take your time to look for a good job if you ever lost your current one without having to change your lifestyle, that's the minimum bound of "enough" IMO. Anything else involves compromise, so therefore is not "enough" by definition.

    I'd say the idealised "enough" is when you can do whatever you decide to do without having to worry if you can afford it.

    Both of these depend on the kind of lifestyle people lead and how much more they would do if they didn't have to think about money. For some people that idealised "enough" is unachievable, because they've decided what they want to do is make more money.

    People that end up chasing money for the sake of having more money will often do so in spite of any moral compass. And FWIW I don't think there are a high percentage people out there that make "enough" by either of my definitions and that opens up all the exploitation that forces people into shitty jobs and situations they wouldn't otherwise do

  • UK Election charts are a nightmare
  • How does any of what happened happen if the lib dems refuse the coalition? Cameron's government collapses before it causes any real harm.

    Exactly, they fell for the lies, continued happily falling for them and operated in lockstep with the Tories for the whole 5 year duration of the coalition. They accomplished nothing they promised and could have even thrown the coalition out once it was obvious and limited the damage they were causing—they did not. The absolute most charitable way of looking at them is completely oblivious imbeciles, and frankly is that who anyone should be voting for?

    Holy shit the lib dems were not victims in the scenario, they enabled the whole bloody thing. They're demonstrably spineless, stand for nothing and couldn't resist grasping at the tiny bit of power they got no matter how much damage it caused to everything they were voted in to achieve.

  • UK Election charts are a nightmare
  • Well fair play, I've lived in labour strongholds for the past two decades so perhaps that's why I've never seen it from labour, but anecdotally it's always predominantly lib dems in these lists (e.g. per the BBC articles linked in the posted video description).

    Personal rant regarding your options: (feel free to disregard entirely as this is obviously opinionated)

    For what it's worth that's a sucky situation with both the Tory dominance (by the by, where on earth are you that's still polling that highly for them?!) as well as your labour candidate, but I personally can't ever forgive the lib Dems for making the Tories king in 2010 in the first place and enabling this decade and a half of shit we have all been enduring. Without them Cameron's minority Tory government collapses within a year or two.

    But hey, at least they delivered on their campaign promises that were their red lines for going into the coalition!

    Freeze university fees? Nah how about triple them. Alternative voting system? Nah let's let the Tories scare the general public off the idea for the foreseeable future—oh and give the vote leave con artists (No to AV had the very same people behind it) their practice referendum so they know exactly what to do with the Brexit one, which would likely never have happened if the lib dems didn't form the coalition.

    They not only failed to deliver on every promise they campaigned on, they reneged on each in the absolute worst possible way.

    I voted for lib dems in 2010 and I've never regretted a vote more, and will never make the mistake of supporting them in any way again. I and millions of others will not ever forget all this, so now the only thing they're demonstrably good for is attracting disillusioned Tory voters away from voting their usual way.

  • UK Election charts are a nightmare
  • Even in this video the presenter details how they often used values from completely unrelated elections because it made them look better.

    Worth highlighting that the more egregious manipulation from the Lib Dems would not be in a constituency where they actually stand a chance (where the video presenter is based and used as a source for his leaflets). The worst is when they're solidly in third, where they misrepresent their position and cynically try to take votes away from the actual alternative contender—you see more cases of that in the articles linked in the video description

  • UK Election charts are a nightmare
  • Of course it's predominantly the lib Dems...

    Literally all they seem to be capable of doing as a political force is getting a load of misleading dodgy charts on leaflets through people's doors.

  • Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bag
  • I mean, I'm definitely not defending this massively overpriced bag, but an artist can spend less than a hundred on materials to make a piece of art, and it sells for millions

    The value of the materials and even the labour that goes into making it are not the only things that determine the value of luxury items, value is heavily determined by scarcity in one way or another.

    For the piece of art, this is actual scarcity, there may only be one. For the bag, the scarcity is somewhat crazily generated by the RRP meaning many won't buy it and therefore creating the scarcity to justify the value.

    It's kinda a microcosm of capitalism, where value is created by the perception of value.

  • stained teeth
  • I kinda hate that this is a question that needed to be asked

    Everything clever someone does with a camera is now gonna be met with: "is this just AI?"

    I guess it was "is this photoshopped?" before, but that still implied someone did something clever

  • What happens if Trump dies before the election? What impact do you think it would have for the next 4 years?
  • Of course, but that pretty much can only result in a world war

    Do you really think he stops once the former Soviet countries are under his control?

    If Trump gets elected, the modern world of relative peace ends and we're thrown into chaos and suffering with possibly no easy way back to stability.

  • What happens if Trump dies before the election? What impact do you think it would have for the next 4 years?
  • The rest of the world breathes a sigh of relief.

    We kinda have a lot riding on the US remaining a relatively incorrupt democratic superpower.

    Putin is very obviously angling to start a world war with the US as a useful-idiot ally if trump gets even a day in office again.

  • @[email protected]'s Comprehensive guide to drum & bass and jungle styles and subgenres

    lemmy.world Comprehensive guide to drum & bass and jungle styles and subgenres - Lemmy.World

    I originally posted it on Reddit a couple years back and people rated it a lot. I decided to share it here as well. - Jungle [early 90s-present] - the genre that predates dnb and laid foundations for the genre. It ranges between 160-168 BPM and focuses on rearranged and chopped breakbeats sampled fr...

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    Carra: Arsenal can't win Premier League playing like this

    www.skysports.com Jamie Carragher says Arsenal can't secure Premier League title without winning games more convincingly

    Sky Sports pundit Jamie Carragher explains why Arsenal wont win the Premier League on current evidence, despite topping the charts after 13 games played; the Gunners are one point ahead (30) of second-placed Manchester City (29) as it stands

    Jamie Carragher says Arsenal can't secure Premier League title without winning games more convincingly
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    Wasps: One Year On. Getting There

    www.wasps.co.uk Club Announcements

    It has been 12 months since the administration event that saw WASPS relegated from the RFU - and that was the day that we planned our return. You will know our journey through the fit and proper process of the RFU and the difficulties we faced on funding and acceptance to enter the Championship.

    As someone who's been a wasps fan for decades, this is finally some positive news after what has felt like a very long silence!

    Now I wonder where the ground they mention is going to be

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    What's everyone played this week?

    I've just started Return to the Obra Dinn, so far really liking the art style and the main game mechanics. I'm interested to see how the story unfolds as it seems to be taking a "memento" style reverse chronological approach to telling it.

    Also still playing Halls of Torment as ever since Vampire Survivors, one of these top down roguelite shoot-em-up games has been in my rotation.

    Oh and I nearly forgot, also started pizza tower, but only dipped my toe into that one so far. Really enjoy the art and platforming mechanics so far.

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    Which is the best entry in the series?

    Let's kick off some slightly low effort content here:

    Which is your favourite game in the series?

    For me it will always be between Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert.

    I think the story of TD is what pulled me into the series in the first place, and RA on Westwood online is what cemented me as a fan

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    Can't subscribe to a lemmit.online community

    Hey, I've been trying to subscribe to [email protected] for a couple of days now and know the drill about searching it first and waiting for it to sync, but it doesn't seem to be doing the job.

    It looks like other lemmit.online communities seem to work fine, but this one seems to stubbornly refuse to show up.

    Is there something I'm missing here?

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    [UserScript] Simple old Lemmy community bar customisation (updated again)

    UPDATES BELOW

    So I browse on the desktop using the mlmym/old.lemmy client (e.g. http://old.lemmy.world) because old habits die hard.

    One of the many things I found myself missing from RES & Reddit was the ability to customise the community bar at the top of the page to contain some links to my favourite communities. I had a spare minute this morning to throw together a userscript for just that:

    Here's a pastebin with the script. Create a new userscript in tampermonkey (or whatever userscript plugin you use), drop the code in, change the array of communities at the top to be the ones you want prepending to the list, and you should be good.

    Make sure to add the server suffix to any communities from other instances and if you want to use this on another instance other than lemmy.world, just change the match rule in the userscript header comment.

    I didn't host on greasyfork as I'm probably not going to make any further changes, and I'd need to come up with something a bit more sophisticated than an array of communities. I'll update this post if I ever change my mind on that

    Update

    So I guess I wasn't happy with leaving it alone:

    Here it is on greasyfork https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/474756-lemmy-mlmym-community-bar-customisation

    I added localStorage and a simple config GUI to configure the list of favourites now, no reordering yet (without just removing and re-adding in a different order), but I imagine I'll end up adding that in time

    Update 2

    And another update:

    I've just updated GreasyFork with 0.3

    • Added reordering
    • Added background fade and background click to close
    • Added favourite/unfavourite button to the community sidebar
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