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[-] betelgeuse@hexbear.net 68 points 7 months ago

People basing their entire view of history on magazine adverts from the 50s like they're in some kind of post-apocalypse story, piecing together what the world that ended. They could just look stuff up because the world hasn't actually ended, but that's a cuck way of looking at things apparently.

[-] MemesAreTheory@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago

It's just so dumb on so many levels.

One: uncritically accepting advertising as fact, despite exaggeration and puffery being standard practice

Two: flying was an outright luxury during that time. Only rich people and new "middle class" Americans were doing it, so airlines catered to that crowd. That's radically different from air travel today where most people have flown at least once in the past few years, and nearly half have flown once in the last year. If you're tailoring a service to 85% of the population instead of ~30% or less, it's clearly going to be different.

Three: if you want your fancy boy meals and two by two seating, you're welcome to buy a first class ticket for thousands of dollars. An approximation of this kind of service is available in first class today - these dipshits either don't realize that because they're completely unobservant and incurious, or, they're just looking for an excuse to hate women and minorities and think that SURELY they'd be able to afford it if we reintroduced segregation or something. Just downwardly economically mobile white guys blaming the proles they're forced to join instead of the bosses.

God I hate these people.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

uncritically accepting advertising as fact, despite exaggeration and puffery being standard practice

In Communist North Korea, the impoverished masses are easily fooled by the ruling class' propaganda, which is laden with exaggeration and puffery depicting an idealized life wherein people readily consent to their own exploitation

[-] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I haven't traveled outside the US very much but when I was in China, I took a 2 hour domestic flight on Shenzhen Airlines and they served hot meals both ways for free with 2 or 3 choices of meal. I was impressed, I've never received that kind of service except on long international flights.

This was the hot teriyaki chicken, rice, and vegetables with a box containing a roll, banana, pickled vegetables, and candy.

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 28 points 7 months ago

I had to go to divided by zero to see the image, what the fuck is that site design

[-] DengistDonnieDarko@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

We removed in-line images from different instances on the first day of federation, after someone/people started spamming CSAM and gore in our threads.

[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

I like it. Very anarchist colors.

You can change it to mostly usual colors though by changing the theme in settings to anything other than the default (ironically)

[-] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sorry, I thought it would be embedded inline because I just used the Sync for Lemmy app to upload it but I guess it just hosts it on my home instance.

[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago

It's ok gamer there's no need to apologize

[-] fox@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Hexbear automatically removes externally hosted images because trolls and wreckers would try to post gore and CSAM

[-] oregoncom@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

I flew on Sichuan Airlines on my birthday and they gave me a handwritten birthday card.

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 18 points 7 months ago

The Chinese equivalent of "how are you" is "have you eaten yet?" I think there's a lot more emphasis on having a proper hot meal than in many other places.

You can even see that attitude reflected in government COVID supplies. In Japan the delivered supplies for people in quarantine were almost all instant processed foods. In China, lockdown supplies had tons of fresh vegetables and meats. Ironically, that made food deliveries more expensive and difficult but there was never any talk of replacing fresh food with processed food.

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[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

Chinese domestic flights also have enough legroom

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[-] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 49 points 7 months ago

Fascists when a complementary biscuit: frothingfash

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 44 points 7 months ago

Once again antisemitism is the fool's version of materialism. Could it be the never ending quest to extract evey iota of profit possible led to free meals being replaced with complimentary crackers? Or was it as this dumbass thinks and the secret Jewish cabal is taking away meals to further the great replacement or some other bigoted bullshit

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 29 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This doesn't even resemble materialism.

This isn't "jewish bankers control the world and everyone is enslaved by them", this is "jewish space lasers control people's minds".

Pure magical thinking.

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 39 points 7 months ago

Oh God is that what "gock" is short for?!

[-] buh@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

Delta went woke 😔

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[-] Tabitha@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago

and what is that Delta cookie thing, is that a giant cookie or is it a bread loaf or is it actually small but close to the camera and

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

looks like these are just regular cookies

edit: sorry, it's not a cookie, it's a "goyblock"

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago

I like that they look like giant pills.

[-] buh@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

I took half a xan, 13 hours til I land

Had me out like a light, like a light

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[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago

It's literally just a regular sugar cookie

[-] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

Hmm biscoff is way more than a suger cookie. Dunk it coffee and its magical.

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

I was going to comment, the delta cookies are quite good if you have a bit of coffee.

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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago

It's a Belvita breakfast biscuit with their own private branding

[-] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 26 points 7 months ago

The real reason airlines used to be like that is that there used to be stringent regulations on how many seats could be on a plane. That meant that there was a pretty consistent floor on how much airlines could lower prices and still turn a profit. Therefore, they competed on providing the best services and we're able to do that because there was leftover space to fucking cook a roast in the kitchen.

Deregulation prompted a race to the bottom for both prices and services because airlines could turn economy class into sardine cans and still make more money.

The Jews didn't do this, it was fucking Reagan.

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[-] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The perspective makes it look like a fking giant cracker like the size of a serving tray

[-] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

I wish, those things are great

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

We used to be a country. A proper country.

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 months ago

I don't get it. Is the g word a slur?

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Antisemites tend to use "goy" in derogatory fashion to indicate something being of Jewish origin. Got a lot of play back when 4chan nazis posted "happy merchant" memes all day.

^I^ ^hate^ ^so^ ^much^ ^that^ ^I^ ^know^ ^this^ ^shit^

[-] RedCat@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 7 months ago

I feel like an Idiot now but wow that makes a lot of gaming YouTubers I liked just a few seconds ago into 4chan Nazis

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 15 points 7 months ago

IIIRC famed shitposter SsethTzeentach has used the happy merchant memes and "goy" memes a lot, which is weird coming from a guy who's an Ashkenazi Jew? But it's surprisingly widespread, yeah.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He's extremely 4chan through and through and obviously has shit taste in games

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

My man is extremely 4chan but I have to disagree about taste. On a freeze-gamer youtube where every second channel is some nintendobrained retro gaming reseller guy, I can respect a man who is willing to talk about Heroes of Might n Magic III, or Dungeon Siege II, or Impressions Games city builders. Shit that's not the usual platformers-shooters-jrpgs.

[-] RNAi@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There's a shitton of other youtubers doing exactly that and he recommended fucking Outward, garbage game

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

shrug-outta-hecks Guess so... Got any recs for good channels of that bent then?

[-] NoYouLogOff@hexbear.net 9 points 7 months ago

"I wish for other people to know about "The Matchless Kungfu"

Monkey's paw curls

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[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 7 months ago

Oh ok. What does goy mean?

[-] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 7 months ago

Short for goyim, another word for gentile, or non Jewish person

[-] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago

Well, more accurately goy is singular and goyim is plural, just like you have one seraph and many seraphim. This is the masculine inflectional pattern. The feminine equivalent to the -im suffix is -ot, one aliyah and many aliyot.

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[-] LesbianLiberty@hexbear.net 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Jewish term for gentiles, it's an extremely antisemitic dogwhistle when used like this; imagine Rothschild and all the other racist nonsense.

[-] WaterBowlSlime@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 7 months ago

Yeah and as far as dog whistles go, this one sucks because there's no benign interpretation. Thank you musk for moderating your platform

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