Semi-Hemi-Demigod

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

If my wife fucked James Taylor I’d be so goddamn proud. Dude’s a legend.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Indeed.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

People not ordering food en masse would hurt small businesses the most. Plus there's a huge benefit to using an app to order food, which is why they're so popular. If the system were controlled by the restaurants and interoperable via an open API, we'd at least see some transparency.

The problem is exactly what OP stated: These things are owned by a small number of players, who can exercises control of the market from all sides. They've created a chokepoint where they can extract rents without needing to provide value in return.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I bet they'll act like people who move next to a farm and complain about the smell.

"Hiiii, we're your neighbors down the road. Do you think you could not fly your little airplanes around? They're awfully loud. Thanks bunches!"

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Anyone who says you can’t debate over the Internet has never actually used the internet. Of the 10% that isn’t porn half of it is debates.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

LISTEN, STRANGE WOMEN LYING IN PONDS DISTRIBUTING SWORDS IS NO BASIS FOR A SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT ... YOU CAN'T EXPECT TO WIELD SUPREME POWER JUST 'CAUSE SOME WATERY TART THREW A SWORD AT YOU!

or

YOU CAN'T GO AROUND ARRESTING THE THIEVES' GUILD. I MEAN, WE'D BE AT IT ALL DAY!

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

They're both in Civ VI, but the first is a Monty Python quote.

Though thank you for pointing out how much the first sounds like Sir Pterry

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Exactly. Increasing pay would be really, really nice. But we can do that and have more control over our workplaces. Worker owned companies would prevent huge disparities in pay from reoccurring, regardless of what the government does.

Like a wise and angry man once said: "Fuck the G rides, I want the machines that are making them."

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

This straight boy has a big man-crush on new Pike. Smooth, suave, smart, an amazing cook, fantastic interior decorating taste. He's the kind of man I aspire to be.

It's no wonder Mrs. McMurray left that piece of shit for him.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

There's value in creating and maintaining a community for something you love. I imagine it's a bit like gardening: Pulling weeds and hauling mulch isn't fun, but when you take a step back you've created something nice.

Or something. I'm shit at gardening and never wanted to be a mod, probably for the same reason. And it would be far, far better to have your garden not be harvested by a megacorporation who can kick you off at any minute, but that's why I use the fediverse.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Elon got the idea from China’s WeChat. Elon loves him some despots.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

It’s been a really rough day, okay? It’s okay if he cried.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

"to prove it could be done"

100% Starfleet

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

It's a bit like how the Asgard need help from humans in SG1 because no rational alien race would think to put an explosive behind some metal pellets and make that an infantry weapon.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

"Please let this be a normal five-year mission"

"With The Frizz? No way!"

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I like to think that kids take field trips with The Frizz on the holodeck

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

If you drop the spending whatever you want, a few million should be sufficient. If you get a 5% annual return that's $50,000 a year per million invested. $150-200k a year if you own your house is more than enough to not worry about having enough money. Plus there's millions in the bank for any truly major expense.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

In the mid to late 1960s economists were predicting 20 hour work weeks and month-long vacations. So it was perfectly reasonable for Gene to imagine a future where nobody had to work.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

A mortgage is an investment, let it roll for as long as you can.

The fact that you're not wrong about this is part of the reason housing keeps getting more expensive. So many individuals have their nest eggs tied up in their houses that building more would hurt a lot of ordinary folks.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I think it happened well before Reagan. The gap between productivity and earnings starts around 1971.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I name mine after Futurama characters because there's a lot of them and I found a cool icon set to use.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Several, and I'll have you know they're not "squirreled away." They're stored carefully next to the bolt cutters and tarps.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Me on Kbin watching fediverse drama

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Plus the image caching issue sometimes leads to hilarious results

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I like the idea that the biggest champion becomes the new host

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Starfleet is a uniquely human thing. I wonder if the other worlds think we’re weird for wanting to explore the universe.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I like how James, despite being Canadian, has a Scottish accent in the afterlife

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Back in the before before times we were all sent a giant book full of everyone's address and phone number. If you didn't want to be in it you had to contact the phone company.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

His height combined with his really long thumb makes me think Marfan syndrome.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Rarity increases value

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Again, sorry guys.

Canadian confirmed.

But no worries. That high altitude smoke has been moderating temperatures in my neck of the woods and we've had a pleasant summer and low electric bills.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I'm sure if Bitcoin had the largest and most powerful military in the world it would have become the world reserve currency by now

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Top right image just needs more Old Bay

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Undiscovered Country is a timely piece about the end of the Cold War and what happens to soldiers when they're told to stop fighting.

It also contains Shakespeare in the original Klingon.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I think having actors with that experience makes the weird technobabble and names sounds less ridiculous

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I wonder if the use of CGI is part of why this is the case. I love it, don't get me wrong, but when a rescue mission to an asteroid takes months of VFX work because they're swooping through swirling clouds of gas it can make episodes take longer. Heck, even the views out of the windows on SNW are masterpieces instead of christmas lights in front of a black curtain.

With older shows they had the sets and costumes built, so filming a walk-and-talk or courtroom episode wasn't as big of a technical lift. Then there was the desire of just about every show to reach 100 episodes, which meant they could get that sweet, sweet syndication money.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Ah yes, the last two survivors of the franchise wars

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

The fact that they put the emergency release for the rear doors inside the speaker grille is enough for me to never buy one

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I’m sure the Saudis who bankrolled The Muskrat’s purchase of Xitter had nothing to do with that.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

What conspiracy? I said they didn’t have anything to do with it.

Maybe you’re the one who needs more tin foil.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

This seems like a good time to post some of my favorite Woody Guthrie songs:

All You Fascists Bound To Lose

Miss Pavlichenko

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Karl Urban did an amazing job channeling DeForest Kelly's attitude. Just rewatched ST:III last night.

Also, my girlfriend thinks DeForest Kelly sounds like the name of a depilatory establishment.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

This map is why buying a spread of land near Banff has been my goal for a long time.

Also I like the word "Banff"

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

I had an antenna set up to see what I could get, and I can pick up affiliates from all the major networks, which is nice.

But it's so full of commercials I can't stand watching anything other than PBS so I took it down.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

"At least... it wasn't... a machine gun" - last words of a five year old killed by one of these.

God bless America.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Those people are still dead no matter what you call the person who pulled a trigger.

This is the most infuriating part about talking to gun nuts.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 10 months ago

Army helicopter pilots learn to fly over poles rather than between them for just this reason