[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Possible translation: "Let the wealthiest among us consolidate even more wealth while we wreck shit for the rest of you. We'd like to have complete control over you rubes while shit gets worse."

ETA: This is exactly the same rhetoric that oil and gas companies (and the politicians who've effectively been bought out by them) have used to justify further expansion well after knowing the danger that this poses.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

It's a nonsense mixture of electrolytes. We mostly sweat out sodium, not potassium. Prime has a lower level of sodium and a higher level of potassium. It just doesn't make sense.

And, y'know, it's just fully a scam. It's mostly successful because he's famous. The business seems to be failing in a big way.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 4 days ago

The whole idea of astrology is that your date of birth determines who you are as a person. If two people share a birth date, it would make sense that those people are very similar if the assumptions of astrology are true.

These two people share a birth date and not much else. They are extremely different people, because the assumptions are not true.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 days ago

I really resent the framing of organized bigotry as "activism."

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

Is this just him saying he wants to reinstate DADT, but with extra steps?

The US military has specifically benefited from diversity and inclusivity programs in recent years. The actual size of the US military force is comparatively smaller than in the past, and being more inclusive has benefited the institution in the concrete way of just having a larger number of potential enlistees to pull from.

I'm all for reducing the size of the US military, but to be clear that's the only effect this will have.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

30 is young. Back pain is mostly a collection of chronic pain symptoms that don't correspond to meaningful harm or damage. You're probably not in need of "healing" because there's probably nothing actually wrong with you. You're not broken; you've just trained your nervous system to produce a pain sensation because you're hyper fixated on it.

I don't know why all these memes are coming up that contribute to this idea that being over 30 means you're somehow disabled. You're probably not, and perpetuating this idea is decidedly unhelpful, even in a joking context.

When I turned 30 I committed to taking fitness seriously. I reached a higher level of physical fitness and athleticism than my younger and less disciplined self could have managed. I was able to perform on an much higher level in my chosen occupation, which was performance based and exceptionally difficult physically, and because I did more strength training I had the ability to inoculate myself from injury. Basically, I feel better than ever because I started taking this stuff more seriously.

You have agency, too.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 1 month ago

Yeah I mean I'm not surprised that this business is failing. It always just seemed like a worse and more expensive version of something that was always inherently pretty boring.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 75 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've used huge trucks for bush work. Like we're talking going mudding just to get to work. This line of work basically put me in the position that is the subject of commercials that try to convince suburban dads that they need a huge truck in case one day their family goes on a fictional camping trip to the middle of a swamp.

Anyways, you know what I learned? These fucking things suck at off-roading.

  • They have shit visibility. You sometimes need to get out of the truck to see around corners, especially if you're cresting steep hills
  • They have a dangerously high center of gravity (I saw a bunch of coworkers roll theirs) that is only amplified if you carry large loads in their truck beds
  • Over-complicated features like traction control will actually kill your power if you're doing some technical driving, which will make you get stuck when you don't need to

There's no good reason for these pieces of shit to exist.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 129 points 4 months ago

The ruling class needs a very poignant reminder that their perceived value is entirely manufactured by the working class, on whose shoulders they stand. These people have no real value if the people they exploit are able exert their own agency.

Fuck these parasites. And as a matter of course, fuck the foo fighters.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 5 months ago

Mowing lawns is killing pollinators.

People put so much energy into growing grass. Seeding, liming, fertilising, watering... so they can create endless, mindless busywork and destroy biodiversity.

Lawns were originally a status symbol. A "hey lol look at me I have enough land I don't have to grow food." Shameful that it took off as a defacto standard.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

So this letter board is clearly advertising Canadian blood services. Canada's healthcare system could use a lot of work, but it is far from the dumpster fire that American healthcare is.

If you want to shitpost about this and assume as Americans do that America is the only place, maybe try to find an image that isn't so obviously from a country with universal healthcare.

[-] twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 6 months ago

I get what you're saying, kind of...

But also, most modern earbuds usually sound quite good. Quality in general has become such a bizarre moving target, but here's my take: We've become so used to constant improvement at the expense of satisfaction. I can barely notice the difference between 1080p and 4k. In my mind they're both "good quality" and therefore I'm satisfied. Same goes for audio quality. I've used a few pairs of earbuds and they have sounded "good."

As a culture, we need to stop with throwing away of perfectly good devices, because it's extremely harmful to the planet's occupants.

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