Pronell

@Pronell@lemmy.world

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Pronell ,

The ONLY problem with a garlic bagel is if you get one garlic bagel in a dozen, all of em are garlic bagels, with their pathetic background flavors muddling the garlic.

Pronell ,

Memory is unreliable in general.

So are people and their honesty, but memory is truly fickle in some people.

Pronell ,

Trogdor!

Trogdor!

Burninate!

Excellent!

Pronell ,

While I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony too.

So I'm not the only one that thinks of that Calvin & Hobbes reference regularly.

Pronell ,

Is that a Johnny Dangerously reference?!

Pronell ,

My friends are metalheads but I'm not. Popped this over to our discord to see what comes up.

First response: "Greenland is a country. What the fuck?"

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    Pronell ,

    I went through a Discord phase as it were. I 'run' three servers but the only one that matters is the one for me and my buddies to organize our D&D games and just chat.

    One of the others is for a guild in a game I still play and manage the guild for and the other is for an RPG book I was working on that never took off.

    Pronell ,

    So just the antivax Dem vote.

    Got it.

    Pronell ,

    That's all fair.

    But it's also heavily down voted and refuted.

    Some people are gonna be shills and some are gonna be naive. But I'm not going to be a part of any platform Meta is trying to subvert.

    Pronell ,

    Just the sign.

    Budget cuts, y'know.

    Pronell ,

    Cucumbers are melons. But that has me questioning if melons are fruit and I don't want to google it, I just want to be angry.

    Pronell ,

    Wouldn't mind a recipe to compare to my own.

    Pronell ,

    Thank you!

    My version I melt the butter (lazy I know) but also don't use parsley or thyme. I'll give that a shot!

    Pronell ,

    I can make a good damn pizza but have yet to come up with a good sauce. I'll give this a shot. (But can't tolerate onion, so that'll have to go.)

    Pronell ,

    Onions don't sit well in my system but I'm sure a little onion powder wouldn't hurt.

    Do I have Burnout?

    I really just need to talk about this to someone. I'm in college and I've always loved to learn, but now I don't feel motivated do my school work or to study, but at the same time, when a test roles around and I don't know how to answer the questions I get stressed and care about trying to do well. I've also always beaten myself...

    Pronell ,

    Burnout, stress, depression, overwhelmed, any number of things could be going on.

    Talk to your professors and an advisor, see what resources they have for you.

    But also understand this says NOTHING bad about you, and in fact recognizing you are struggling and need help is a good sign.

    Pronell ,

    I have never been a Facebook user so I'm mostly guessing.

    But I think there was a heyday where people spent a great deal of time on there.

    Now they don't. They just log on when it's needed to get ahold of someone or check a specific niche community.

    Thus it's dying because the ad revenue is way down. It's in decline not because it lacks users, but because they no longer spend hours there.

    Pronell ,

    Telemarketing job.

    They're usually shit jobs but I found out in the course of training that we were calling people who had cancelled their Wall Street Journal subscriptions in the days after people were canceling in large numbers due to the Rupert Murdoch takeover.

    Like fuck you, this job is hard enough without hassling the very people who have already made up their damn minds.

    All that and the sales quota prize had been stolen from the manager's office.

    I quit when training was done.

    Pronell ,

    Telnet was the internet for me in the early years.

    There was a bug at the local university dialup for students and teachers - if you failed to login three times it would drop you to a screen where it told you to disconnect but you could actually telnet from that screen.

    I used that to go to a few internet BBS's, and then eventually to MUDs which were early text based multiuser RPGs.

    Pronell ,

    My mother and I walked out of Death Becomes Her. She loved the cast but couldn't enjoy the movie.

    Probably didn't help that it was only a couple of months after her mom died.

    But I watched the whole thing on cable years later and still questioned what the fuck they thought they were thinking with that script.

    Pronell ,

    I'm a Minnesotan that just sent this to like a dozen people.

    I sang the comic!

    Pronell ,

    Wouldn't we only need one Republican defector now to have Democrats control the House?

    Pronell ,

    I've never seen it that way - the opening pages say what the protagonist is doing. He's landing on a planet to kill bugs, using all his ammo and nukes even though there are sentient beings living on the planet.

    All because it isn't cost effective to evacuate the ammo as well.

    Immediately following that we move to the viewpoint of the teenager being brainwashed.

    As such I think the movie did a decent job of adapting the story, even though we lost those awesome mechs and dropships.

    Pronell ,

    Ah, I've never seen any of the sequels. Might check it out, thanks.

    Pronell ,

    I honestly don't have the time to watch all the shit I want to anyway, so it's a long shot.

    No charges to be filed in fight involving Oklahoma nonbinary teen Nex Benedict, prosecutor says ( apnews.com )

    An Oklahoma district attorney said Thursday he doesn’t plan to file any charges in the case of Nex Benedict, the nonbinary 16-year-old Owasso teenager whose death following a fight in a high school bathroom was ruled a suicide....

    Pronell ,

    Of course he doesn't. Fucking fascists.

    Equal protection under the law!

    Pronell ,

    Nonsense, you can tell from the sepia tone that this is in Mexico!

    What did you get up to during the COVID quarantine?

    I was in school so when that was put on hold I essentially played video games like it was a job. I remember vividly playing Grand Theft Auto IV in one sitting for the Liberty City Minute achievement and I'm pretty sure I played through Master Chief Collection....

    Pronell ,

    I never got extra time off or pay because I was already working from home.

    But I'm also well suited to long periods of time alone and got my gaming friends into Dungeons and Dragons online. We have kept up with it, two of them run their own games, and I'm playing tonight.

    I still haven't caught covid.

    And I got to spend all of 4/2020 home getting high with my wife.

    So all in all I am not complaining.

    Pronell ,

    What a piece of shit.

    Pronell ,

    Visual Fidelity, for those who are curious.

    Doesn't bother me. I have HD, don't bother with 4k, and heck I'd see better if I wore glasses in my living room.

    Pronell ,

    That would start a religion.

    They loved their numerology back then.

    Pronell ,

    "Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view."

    Hmm. 'Used to promote'.

    So it can be produced unintentionally but used intentionally.

    This doesn't answer your question but kicks the can down the road.

    The producers may be making a cute show. Those funding and airing it may interfere in the process to mold the message.

    It can be wholly innocent all along or turned malicious along the journey to the audience.

    Pronell , (edited )

    I definitely agree with you in the broad strokes here, and was mostly looking at the definition of propaganda and seeing how easily a message can be subverted through relatively normal and innocent seeming mechanisms.

    Edit: somehow I thought this was a reply to my comment.

    Pronell ,

    So you're better off and still feel like you're on a treadmill. That makes sense.

    And yeah, I wouldn't pose the question like that either. Not enough has been done. The minimum wage is the same. I don't fault him for that but it would be huge for those who struggle the most.

    It has to be a comparison with what the other side has to offer.

    Pronell ,

    Remember, Hollywood is in trouble, executives are losing their homes, actors worry about being replaced by AI replicas...

    And then this gets greenlit.

    Get fucked.

    Pronell ,

    They're citing statistics.

    YOU have the anecdotal evidence.

    I'm sorry shit isn't going so well for you and yes, it sucks to be kept down without much hope. I have been there - under Bush.

    But it's really fucking arrogant to say that because YOUR experience sucks the data is false and the press is lying.

    Pronell ,

    I think it's the wage growth, lower inflation, and longest sustained low unemployment of my lifetime that drive that economic success.

    I do however agree that too much attention is paid to the stock market, and that wage growth isn't high enough.

    Pronell ,

    Thank you, that's helpful information! And not at all surprising, as those nearest the bottom are usually the last to feel relief from economic downturns.

    I think a lot of what helped us rebuild the economy is that during covid a ton of people completed their education and were ready to move up. Those who weren't able to do that are still suffering and left behind to an extent.

    Pronell ,

    So if these properties are seized and mortgaged to the hilt, he's still responsible for the balance owed, isn't he?

    Ahahahahahaha!

    Pronell ,

    These assholes will both sides anything and everything.

    Now Democrats are responsible for Republicans choosing shitty candidates. Somehow.

    Pronell ,

    My nephew does that and loves it. He gets to scan old materials to preserve them.

    Pronell ,

    I worked awake overnight shifts in group homes before I got into my current line of work.

    Plenty of time to study as the work is a little cleaning, a little paperwork, and some dealing with clients.

    Most people just watched TV all night.

    Pronell ,

    It is a good play on words.

    But the phrase denotes a man doing something totally useless that can have no effect, so it's pointless to try. The analogy falls apart.

    Pronell ,

    ...who makes ONE muffin?

    Gimme one! Damn.

    Pronell ,

    There would be a calculated strategy of saying whatever is on your mind at all times, leaving it hard to separate the wheat from the chaff.

    A gish gallop of nonsense, and their supporters would love them all the more for it.

    The rest of us would look to the 'paragons' and wonder why they're so quiet all the time. They'd be pilloried for things they never said.

    Pronell ,

    I always liked the song and video for Silent Running by Mike and the Mechanics.

    Pronell ,

    I already think Putin is awful.

    My reaction was "What the fuck? Why now? What does he have to gain in this moment?"

    Pronell ,

    Thanks.

    From a western perspective it makes no sense as he has an ironclad grip on power.

    But that's my view, not the truth. I suspected there was a good reason to play a card that could never be withdrawn.

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