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  • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 months ago

    To be fair

    He did get the steam deck made, so that was kinda cool.

    But maybe owning 6 yachts is a little less cool.

    Unless the sub and boats were like research vessels he funds, that would be cool

    But they aren’t.

    Why can’t billionaires dump their money into funding scientific research? It’s not like there aren’t scientists out there with plenty of research to be done.

    Or even maybe wherever he lives, he could like, fund the entire county school districts for the rest of existence and no one would have to worry about taxes.

    Or maybe regularly cancel the medical debt of Valve employees and their families.

    Like how fucking hard is it to redistribute your own wealth?

    Like fucking Christ, that’s the part I don’t understand. They complain about taxes and shit at the top, but they do absolutely fuck all to make things better for large swaths of people. Or if they do, it’s after they die and $200m gets donated to a university and it prevents next year’s tuition from increasing.



  • Something with diphenhydramine or doxylamine? They aren’t great to take for very long at all.

    But if you notice a dependency, I don’t recommend the RX sleep meds I’ve been on for so long. One was effective for a very long time (15 years? Lunesta I think) but has gotten weaker and weaker. I’m terrified of stopping it though, its a nonbenzodiazapine so it binds to the same stuff as benzos. Taking something so long like that is bound to cause problems when I stop.

    I’ve heard therapy helps. But I’m not sure how. Hasn’t done much for me.






  • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThe elf in the swamp
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    3 months ago

    I think it’s far more than that though. I think a lot of parents would agree with me that Christmas morning and birthdays are probably the most exciting time of the year.

    Debt is debt. It is nothing compared to the joy your child gets. That joy you see in your kid is worth more than most could ever earn anyway.

    And I’ve seen the poorest families happily dip into that debt. They know it doesn’t make things easier.





  • It’s not a hard problem to solve. It’s not hard to see the reasoning behind a desire for self driving cars. Anyone who lives outside of a big city in the US knows this.

    Roads are already present. Traffic control is already present.

    Tie the goddamn roads to the goddamn traffic control and have it coordinate the cars. The cars input their destination, and have radar to stop the car to prevent accidental collision.

    The problem is people don’t like that they can’t get to their destination faster, they don’t have the freedom of choosing their exact route, and they can’t just rev their engine whenever they want.

    It’s not mass transit, but it solves the final distance problem.








  • peopleproblems@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldOctober 14, 2025...
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    4 months ago

    People like choice, but people don’t want to have to spend time choosing or learning.

    That’s why I mentioned Arch - because of the tie in with the Steam Deck. Nice and easy for gamers to make a connection to.

    What becomes the difficult sell is that people, in general, don’t understand computers. It’s the bane of my existence. Any Linux distro requires a basic understanding of how computers work. The Windows PC and Apple products were successful because they required no learning and the user was relatively protect from messing anything up.

    The Steam Deck was successful because it took that same approach. It just uses a variant of their Big Picture mode users are already used to.

    Linux, by it’s very nature, is not something that can be widely adopted by consumers. I think that’s why Apple and Windows (hell, even Google with Android and Chrome OS) can get all the invasive technology to the user they want, and force users to adopt even more invasive things. Because people just won’t learn anything else. And that’s not something any of us can do anything about.