Gargle + blaster = Gargleblaster

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • Gargleblaster@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•when will be your last time to vote for the "lesser of two evils"?
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    1 year ago

    During the Iraq War, Kurt Vonnegut was asked about the anti-war protests… His response was that, during Vietnam, he was part of anti-war protests firing on all cylinders and laser-focused and going to stop that war. He said it was ultimately about as effective as climbing to the top of a ladder and tossing a pie on the ground. This time will be no different.

    So I don’t know what you’re hoping to gain. The ‘Ima take my ball and go home’ approach didn’t work out so well in 2016. Threatening not to vote isn’t going to phase anyone in a country where more than half the population doesn’t vote anyway. Maybe instead of threats you should work with other people trying to help the people you want elected get elected.

  • Gargleblaster@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•People who have been through tough timew, how did you keep moving?
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    1 year ago

    Go to an employment agency/temp agency.

    There’s paperwork and possibly tests before you can actually get work. Do all of that now so that you don’t have to wait while they process the paperwork if you get furloughed. Be sure to explain that you’re expecting to get furloughed.

    With the holidays approaching, retail stores may need extra staff. Not yet, but post-thanksgiving.

    I’ve never done it, but there’s the payment for taking surveys online.

    I agree with others that the car is a major money sink. Can it sit in the driveway and wait for you to get through this?

    Paying a friend to drive to work together probably costs less than gas + insurance + repairs.

  • Gargleblaster@kbin.socialtoSteam@lemmy.ml•What is your opinion on games raising their price ?
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    1 year ago

    Abandon the FOMO completely. I do not reward shitty behavior. Destiny 2’s launch was the end of that. Let other people pay top dollar to playtest it and work all the wrinkles out. Let all the DLC come out and the game GOTY edition if it’s that good. Let others buy that. THEN, when they are going to launch the sequel, all of that pap will be sold at basement-level prices. Maybe wait a bit longer if it was really popular.

    I’m playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 right now. ;-)

  • Gargleblaster@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What thing are you exponentially more experienced in than the average person?
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    1 year ago

    I could say job-related things or my hobbies, but Ima go with Google-fu. Maybe just search engine fu.

    I know way too many ‘first page people’ when it comes to results. No fuckin’ way. Learn how to dig. Do not take no for an answer from a search engine without trying a range of strategies to find what you’re looking for.

    OK, I’m lying. This is part of my job. I teach academic research, and I hear these people with two sources tell me there aren’t enough sources for them to do a research paper on a given topic or that all these peer-reviewed journal articles say the same thing.

    But it does extend into non-academic life. I was out of town, my older brother needed a U-Haul, drove 40 minutes to a place he knew, but there was a U-Haul less than 10 minutes away that he couldn’t find.

    I’m surrounded by this.

  • Gargleblaster@kbin.socialtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is Tom Bombadil?
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    1 year ago

    A druidic forest spirit.

    Maybe he’s a demi-god whose back story we don’t know enough about.

    Gandalf seems pretty human to start with, but then we find out that he’s a superhuman/demigod. That whole circle of wizards seems superhuman.

    What was Sauron?

    I think CS Lewis and Lewis Carroll had a better approach of just being like “Look, anything we want can show up as part of the story.”

    Tolkien had to create all of these taxonomies, bloodlines, and typing, which is why we’re talking about this.