[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Oh lord, don't go and listen to AC/DC then.

Art is subjective, so there really are no wrong opinions, just disagreements. I strongly disagree with you, but that's OK. Fist bump bro, because it's different strokes that makes the world go round.

Now, if you say such things about RUSH.... cracks knuckles. ;-)

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Skydiving.

I have ~4500 jumps and jump planes are very loud. Even with a full face helmet, jump planes are very loud and I didn't use ear plugs until my last 1000 jumps or so.

I do have a fair amount of time shooting, but always used ear protection.

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Protect your hearing.

I did not and today, at the age of 54, I cannot hear above 13khz when I used to be able to hear above 20khz. Part of that is age, but most of it is from not using hearing protection at concerts and other activities where I should have been using it.

Any constant noise above 80db will damage your hearing. 80db is a LOT quieter than you think it is.

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Reddit who?

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I know it scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it.

I was 15 and my family rented it. So I didn't get to see it in its full theater screen glory. Just a 25" console TV from a well worn VHS cassette where the top 25% of the screen was wavy.

And yes, I'm old.

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

So is CinemaStix going away now?

I thought that was the same guy.

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Not a horror film per se, but definitely leaning that way:

The original 'ALIEN'.

The building of tension throughout the entire movie is brilliant.

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

A bowl of petunias.

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

We'll, of course

It is very well known that facts have a left leaning bias.

Just like LIES have a well known right leaning bias.

In all seriousness, it just shows how far journalism has fallen, when that asshat weirdo of a Republican actually said that and wasn't immediately called out.

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I still use a Yahoo account I created back in 95 (I think, it might be a little later).

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have named some of the cars I have owned.

1970 Chevy Impala: Liberty. I purchased it from a guy that lived in Liberty, KY.

1997 Nissan 200SX SE-R: Dot. It was one of ~700 200SX's made that year that was the Pacific Blue color and it reminded me of Carl Sagan's "The Pale Blue Dot" documentary.

2003 Acura TL: Sally. No specific reason, other than it just fit the personality of the car.

2014 Camry (current car): Pearl. It's painted in Toyota's Cosmic Mica Gray and it glitters in the sunlight, vaguely reminiscent of a pearl.

Just for reference, I'm 54 and have had a license since 1986. Liberty was my first car. There are a few cars not mentioned above, because I just never named them. The 200SX was the second SE-R I owned. The first was a 92 Sentra SE-R, which I liked a lot more than the 200SX, it just never got a name.

[-] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

USA here.

  1. Indifferent to sports. Football, baseball, and basketball are at best insipid. Hockey is at least somewhat interesting, but that's only because my youngest plays. Even then, I do not follow it.

  2. Don't care about guns. Yes, I can shoot. It pissed my right-wingnut, Kyle Shittenhouse worshiping brother off to no end, when I could out shoot him, with his own guns. Did I mention he has 6 years in the Army and practiced with his weapons at least once a week? It took me maybe 10 shots of practice to start being more accurate. My vision is worse than his too. Still have no interest in owning one. I keep a Claymore next to my bed for social occasions at home.

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Probably a lot of these posts coming, but here's mine.

Just deleted and exported all of my Reddit comments/posts and exported them (hey, I'm old and can experience bouts of nostalgia.) If Reddit as a company cannot respect their users, then a user I will no longer be. Normally such things don't bother me. For profit companies are always behave as scumbags. We're their product and if the product doesn't behave, then it gets put into its place. That is what I have been seeing the past couple of months.

What finally did it for me, to jump ship, as the way the Admins started treating the Mods. People that actually grew and put in the effort to grow the various subreddits. You know, the people that actually did the work to produce the product Reddit, as a company, is trying to sell. It is not surprising that Reddit's management is so clueless. They want to make money, but the product they are trying to sell... Was built by someone else... FOR FREE. The Reddit execs think they have tons of content advertisers would love, when all they really have is a platform, which OTHER PEOPLE built content on. Advertisers don't care about the platform, there are tons of those out there. The advertisers are only interested in the content that will draw people to look at their ads.

My prediction is that the Reddit IPO will be successful, but as a company it will outlast the IPO about 3 years.

Sometimes things are not about money and it astounds me the number of people that just don't understand that fact.

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