[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 weeks ago

Meanwhile my great grandmother, in her 80s, was able to learn how to boot up Win95 to play some puzzle games.

I personally think it's because she was never really one for passive entertainment. If she watched television, it was stuff like Wheel of Fortune and she played along. She hit up the library every week for fresh books, and did a lot of crochet and crossword.

It's similar to how I think her curiosity for life and refusal to be afraid is why she wasn't a bigot. We have several interracial marriages in my family, and she never had a problem with it, despite being born in 1912.

She lived to be 100, and I hope I'm half as cool as she was.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago

There was also a large influx of money as Europe rebuilt after WWII, but that also a one-time-thing.

Unless...

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago

It's not for AI, its for accessibility. Alt text is a user-generated description of an image that's been standardized for screen readers. It also helps to have a text description if the image hosting breaks.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago

I've been underemployed with health problems, but hey, the government gives me $5 a day to cover my food costs.

The only reason I can even afford to be sick is because I have a partner, live half an hour by car from the grocery store and rent would be more than twice as much in the city. We pay a little more than a half of our combined income on rent.

Its fucked up, because I really need to go back to work, but Medicaid patients get sent to the end of the line. I woke up today shitting blood and puking, then check my phone and see a voicemail letting me know that my June 3rd appointment got resheduled to June 30th, and this is to discuss biopsy results from April.

Luigi did nothing wrong.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 months ago

This is the way

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 19 points 3 months ago

You're telling me the bees get the munchies when they smoke...

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 17 points 3 months ago

You can't just say you made a youtube rant about it without posting a link.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why do people need to learn CLI to watch youtube and write emails? That's all the average computer user does.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 16 points 4 months ago

I'm in the US, and they repossessed my garbage can once because we couldn't pay.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 20 points 5 months ago

Be the change you want to see

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 20 points 5 months ago

Three things, don't forget that American companies got a lot of European contracts to help rebuild after WWII. There's too many people out there that ignore that influx of money and try to say the economic boom of the 50s was because misogyny and racism worked.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 19 points 7 months ago

It's one of those things you kinda had to be there for. Japan used to be practically synonymous with new tech, and now it's just been baked into the aesthetic of the genre.

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