gary

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[–] gary@piefed.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How do you even tariff a movie lol even if it was shot in another country it's not like it's this physical thing we have to import o.O

[–] gary@piefed.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I used to LOVE Boost but now I'm on iOS so I can't use it anymore 😩

[–] gary@piefed.world 3 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

It's still invite only for now but I'd imagine it has to be getting close to the public release. If I had any invite codes left I woulda sent you one! We might get more pretty soon though. If so I'll dm you one but idk when they're coming. And piefed is pretty much Lemmy, only it's powered by Python instead of Rust and it has more moderation features. Pretty similar experience though. You're not really missing anything if you're already on Lemmy. Right now, Lemmy/Piefed are definitely more active and mature than Digg. It looks pretty slick but there aren't a whole lot of users yet. I do like it, I just like it here better right now.

[–] gary@piefed.world 11 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Digg.com used to be my absolute favorite. Then it got bought out by a company who turned it into a content farm and it eventually died out. Now it's back and owned by Kevin Rose again, and I do like it a lot better than Reddit, but I still spend more time on Piefed these days.

[–] gary@piefed.world 8 points 2 days ago

My partner is hard of hearing so she always uses subtitles. It took a minute to get used to but now I can't watch anything without them! It's like alt text on images; we started doing it on the fediverse for accessibility but a nice side effect is that it can give you better context and a lot of the time you'll catch things you didn't hear right

[–] gary@piefed.world 7 points 2 days ago

This was literally the first thing that came to mind. So many people have android phones with cards already linked to google, paying for YouTube premium would do the same thing. But nope, Skynet is the better way to do it

[–] gary@piefed.world 88 points 3 days ago (3 children)

If they would just do that to every ice agent who manhandled their victims unnecessarily we could get rid of the whole organization I bet

[–] gary@piefed.world 12 points 3 days ago

I wasn't alluding to anything crazy or even very interesting I guess, but through my 20s I had quite a few factory jobs. Even at some of the better ones, it's pretty normal to work seven days a week for months at a time, the pay sucks, and almost everyone's on meth or opiates just to get by. The office workers always get exactly 40 hour weeks and no mandatory overtime ever while the factory people pretty much live there. I'm sure bigger companies like Intel, etc have much better conditions than metal stamping plants or commercial print shops, but it was the worst point in my life. Maybe it's just where I live, but I don't know anyone who has worked at a factory here and isn't either a long term high functioning addict or just miserable in general. I was one of the top producers at a label printing plant for a few years and I was so trashed all the time I don't know how I never got fired or lost a finger lmao I ran a lot of bad product at times and no one ever said anything as long as I had perfect attendance and showed up 20 minutes early every day.

[–] gary@piefed.world 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've worked at American factories before lol I'll take the chips from overseas, please

[–] gary@piefed.world 56 points 3 days ago

I wish this was an Onion article 🤦

[–] gary@piefed.world 12 points 4 days ago

Of course they wanna make him into a fucking commemorative coin lmao perfect thing to sell on antenna tv informercials

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