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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • To be fair, on the meme they aren’t saying communism is the solution (although there any many memes that do).

    I think it’s easy to criticise capitalism because people live with it on a daily basis. If these people lived under communism they would criticise it somehow.

    This kinda reminds me of something I heard someone say. It’s something like “Democracy is shit. But it’s the best shit we have”.

    Is capitalism right? Nope. But I don’t feel like communism would be a solution either. But I’m all up for criticising whatever needs criticising otherwise things don’t improve/change.

    Also speaking as an European we might not have it as bad as the US (which is where most people are from here). Just the fact that our healtcare is free is a huge plus. When I was younger I dreamt about living in the US or even just going to NY, SF etc. Now I’m afraid I might get shot, get a huge hospital bill and come back broke. 👌

    (sorry, this comment turned out a lot longer than I wanted it to. ADHD is a bitch)


  • I mostly don’t like the movement. Feels very… “floaty”. Also the fact that when it released it only had controller mapping icons for the tool tips (this is how I remember it. Don’t know if they fixed it afterwards.)

    I’m playing with a mouse mad keyboard ffs, just tell me which key to press. I don’t know wtf L3 is on a keyboard.

    The world and story looks very interesting. I really want to like it… But I don’t.




  • Started during covid to avoid going outside, plus I had one of the big players in food delivery as a client, so I got a monthly 20€ voucher. That got me hooked.

    I got used to it, became lazier, completely got cooking out of my routine and I the process gained 30Kg that I’m now slowly trying to get off for the past 6months or so.

    In a nutshell, I got addicted to junk food and was too lazy to go get it. Also had enough money to allow me to do it, even if I shouldn’t for health and economic reasons… Could be saving for something like the down-payment on a house but nope. Spending it on junkfood+delivery (luckily tipping isn’t a thing here).

    Trying to break that habit now.

    As a bonus: I ordered a lot from BurgerKing. Until the end of 2022 they had free delivery above 12€. I’d easily get to the 12€.

    Around January 2023 they changed the website to offer delivery ABOVE 15€ and that was crap because my orders usually didn’t go that high. Turns out they fucked it up when coding it and if you managed to get exactly 15€ it would completely bypass this check and give you free delivery.

    Someone needs to go back to basic math >= :)

    Unfortunately they fixed it in early November. Good thing though as it might discourage me from ordering even further.










  • When registering for stuff I always pay very close attention to not check the “send me offers and promotions” checkbox, unless I am genuinely interested.

    If any gets by, or if any by default signs you up, whenever I get an email from them I’ll go to the bottom of the email and unsubscribe.

    This means that all the marketing emails are from things that I genuinely have interest on. Sometimes, even these things get too spammy and unsubscribe from those that kinda act abusive. They aren’t your “FREE LIMITED IPHONES! OPEN NOW!” kind of emails. Those I mark as spam, hoping to improve the detection system on whatever email client, and move on.

    So, essentially, I have “free time” to read those as much as you and I have “free time” to come here on lemmy. It’s something I am interested on.

    Edit: just realised I didn’t specifically answer your questions but it’s basically:

    1. Just a regular guy.
    2. I am interested in the ones I do get.
    3. Sometimes before sleep or when I go to the bathroom I look at emails/lemmy/others.

    Edit2: I think there’s a distinction to make here between SPAM emails and Newsletters. SPAM emails are mostly sent based on leaked emails lists or something. Newsletters, you usually sign up for them (knowingly or not).

    Edit3: Bonus ProTip - If you use Gmail you can get a + sign after your email and before the @ symbol and whatever your write on there is ignored. So for instance myemail+otherwords@gmail.com will still forward to myemail@gmail.com . This means you can kind of find out who leaked your email if you register as “email+websitename@gmail.com”, however this tip is getting known a bit more so some websites now sanitize your email and it won’t work as intended… :(

    Also, if for some reason you’ll be using the email as the login it can be kinda crap.

    Sorry for the long comment :) interesting topic.


  • I think I overall prefer digital, but on e-ink devices mostly.

    I like that they don’t take up space, I can download them quickly and not have to go to the bookstore or order it online and wait for it to be delivered. Also I can sync it on multiple devices and read on my kindle when I really want to have a good reading experience but if I forget it or am waiting for the bus or something, just pull up the kindle app on my phone and everything is synced.

    On the other hand, growing up with a lot of books I kinda miss the feel and smell of physical books. Also I feel like they are a bit more… “permanent”.