I watched Bullet Train (2022), it was good. Some good fight scenes, some explosions. I think it tried a little too hard to be an early Guy Ritchie movie and suffered a little for it but not too much.

Those are awful names for people but fantastic names for bands.

Down here in the states Kevin is normally associated with the Call of Duty demographic stereotype - a young (15-25) dumb pothead who drinks too much Monster and punches holes in drywall when he gets mad.

Testicles, but pronounced like Hercules (“tes-ti-CLEEZ”)

Most of the “stuff everyone should buy” is stuff you really don’t need as a teenager, like cast-iron cookware or a stand mixer. If you have hobbies you want to pursue, you should find a specific group around that hobby and ask them. A lot of black Friday “deals” aren’t really deals, though - some companies will actually produce lower quality product lines specifically for black Friday sales, so if you end up buying something big like a TV or something like that make sure you do a little research.

If you want general financial advice, I wouldn’t put it in a retirement account like the other guy said. You have plenty of time for that, and you probably have milestones coming up that you’ll want money for - buying a car, graduation celebrations, going to college, getting your own place, whatever. So saving it for that kind of stuff is never a bad idea.

Unmuting wasn’t in the original specs

Didn’t they make that for video games?

Or a gun

For us over at Hexbear that’s a feature, not a bug. Our instance exists explicitly because we don’t want to be subjected to the political moderation of others.

How would someone buy Lemmy? Even if they bought one instance it could just be forked

What if I told you it was more than just the business cycle

What if I told you the entire economic structure acted like this

Check out the business lifecycle. “Enshittification” occurs after a business reaches maturity and has to squeeze more money out of its users or decline. Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter are all businesses, so they follow this cycle - Lemmy and Mastodon are not so they do not. That’s not to say that bad moderation can’t crater a user base, but it’s not inevitable like it is with businesses.

I dunno why you’re implying this is something outlandish when this already happens. They just call it “campaign donations” if they’re in office and “speaking fees” when they’re out of it.

With all due respect on one hand here we have Sir Charles Trevelyan, assistant secretary of Her Majesty’s Treasury, and in charge of administering aid in Ireland during the Blight who said

“We must not complain of what we really want to obtain. If small farmers go, and their landlords are reduced to sell portions of their estates to persons who will invest capital we shall at last arrive at something like a satisfactory settlement of the country”.

But on the other hand we have you saying “no they didn’t.”

It had everything to do with capitalism. There are quotes from people in the British government during the Blight talking about withholding aid to poor farmers so the land would be purchased by people who would develop it.

Howdy

As opposed to, what, exactly? Capitalism, which gave out hugs to native Americans and free back rubs to the Irish when the blight hit?

Someone compared us to Nazis and you don’t think we’re being attacked?

It seems pretty apparent that all of the most ardently anti-Hexbear users on here aren’t operating in good faith. Comments like yours make it pretty apparent. Just say that you don’t want Hexbear federated because it’s communist, and you’re a staunch anti-Communist.

Don’t be a jerk, put it in spoiler tags or something