Dozzi92

When it's a coin toss, doctors err on the side of whichever is the more expensive procedure that insurance will cover.

Yep. Started here, and will never change because it doesn't matter.

But if you switch to Linux you can come here and proselytize to the userbase in just a out anything thread, regardless of topic. Doesn't that sound better than using your software?

Yeah. And it's a give and take for sure, because it being dead isn't great either, but there's definitely sometimes too many dicks on the dancefloor.

I think we can and do have normal things. I feel like exposure to mass media brings problems right to your door, and it just isn't how it is. At the same time, there is a bit of responsibility that falls on your (my) shoulders to be involved. I certainly won't stand by while some bullshit is going down especially bullshit that my kids are exposed to. I will let kids be kids, but I won't let them be poisoned with negative, fearful nonsense.

And so yeah, my response to much of the crippling depression that's blasted at us over the past 10 years has been to stick my head in the sand. And people here will chastise me for this, but I refuse to take on global problems when I've got things right here that need my attention. I know this isn't exactly what we're talking about, but I come to Lemmy to philosophize.

Yeah, I'm from Jersey, and similar to you it was just a thing for boys to do. There was no homophobia, we accepted from the weird kid to the sporty kid, and eveyone in between, and sometimes there were cliques and sometimes we whittled soap. We went camping sometimes. There was fire, yeah, that seems to be ubiquitous among the boy scouts.

I stopped when I got bored. There were no scandals.

Microsoft Word had auto summarize as far back as the early 2000s (and probably before then, I only found it my junior or senior year of high school). Plop a wall of text into a word docume, click auto summarize, limit the number of direct quotes to three words max, hit enter. I was clever af (except that one paper on Gorbachev where the paragraph entirely composed of wingdings exposed my strategy a bit), or so I'd have thought.

Lo and behold my cheating somehow didn't prepare me for regular life, and so I had to learn lessons in college (the one year that I went), and early on in my career, in my early 20s, that I should've learned in school. The lesson was that you sometimes need to just do the fucking work. Hopefully the kids in this experiment learned that, but more than likely they learned to cheat better.

Except vote systems are abused to hell. Dissenting opinions are down voted into oblivion and we end up with the echo chamber.

I spent a lot of time on the ebaumsworld forums in the early 2000s, and it was your classic shitshow. Not a huge amount of traffic, though, so you could have conversations, but you'd leave, and come back the next day, and sometimes you'd have pages of nonsense to read through.

Then, they introduced rep, and it was such a shitshow. Users conspired together to abuse it, because that's how it goes, except now, instead of late night Skype sessions, it's bots, and marketing, and PR.

I guess the problem was and always is, when there's too many people, it ruins things.

Yeah the only time I touch canned goods, including seltzer (as I touched on in another comment) is when they're heavily discounted, and that's usually something like eight cans for five bucks, so we stock the shelf in the basement a bit, because it'd be real dumb to pass it up at the store on Monday, only to have the world end on Wednesday.

Yeah, I honestly expected it to be worse. Yeah, the dude says Campbell's for poor people. I'm not poor, but Campbell's Chicken Noodle has always been a comfort food for when I'm sick. Putting it aside, it is supposed to be food for people on budgets, that's the whole idea.

And then he goes on to say that their product is shit. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, if you're saying it with the idea that maybe the product should get unucked, which I can't tell from the limited passages and my near-midnight cognition.

The part about fucking Indians, obviously racist, but I'm also not sure what it means. Being from the US, it feels to me like Campbell's outsourced production or some service to India and is reaping what they sowed, so to speak, with decline in product quality?

Perhaps it's an awakening for Campbell's soup, and with a shithead VP's tirade comes a rebirth of cheap soup for the non-rich (which will be all of us soon enough).

I also think the canned goods market in general just isn't what it was when it was first introduced. We had nonperishable goods in a can. We've replaced the need for the nonperishables with access to fresh foods (yes, I understand not for everyone), and canned goods have taken a hit. It doesn't help that the price of anything in a can (looking at you seltzer) is straight up double what it used to be. I used to get four 12-packs of seltzer for 8.88. Now, three for 10 is the best deal there is. And that's because you can't really skimp and water down the quality of seltzer, because its about as basic as it gets, versus canned soups where you can apparently 3D print meat (paraphrasing) to save money.

Wow, this is something I've noticed for my whole life but never talked about or anything, just assumed it was some odd quirk of mine. But yes, I have a specific recollection of touching some kind of paper that had like a velour side to it, and just catching my breath for some reason, and it's happened a handful of times in the last 30+ years since then.