[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world -4 points 6 months ago

Not the guy you are responding to but it is pretty easy to comdemn both. Of course the Republicans are most responsible but that doesn't mean Democrats couldnt have done anything to stop it

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If you are set on not voting in the presidential election, I would like to encourage you to still vote (if you didn't already intend to) and just not vote on that question on the ballot, for two reaons:

  1. Local ballot measures and politicians are still quite relevant and your vote is still fairly impactful there relative to the federal election (depending on your state) and

  2. it sends a significantly stronger message to both parties that they are putting forward garbage candidates to vote and just abstain from the one question. Not voting is easy to mislabel as voter suppression by the opposition or any number of other misleading causes when voting, just not for Biden or trump is much more clear what you are mad about.

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

Yes.....mine too......mysteriously........ Sweats

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 49 points 6 months ago

Yeah I can't imagine being the literal lowest paying company in town will do them any favors

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

An alternative way to view this: if I order three sodas at a fancy restaurant vs three top shelf alcohols, the service is functionally the same but the bill is wildly different. Would you still say I should tip on pure percentage in the latter scenario?

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Awesome! I'll check it out, sounds cool

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I absolutely love DE but I agree the trailer is a bit misleading and dialogue isn't typically about the case. That said some of the best writing I have seen in a game full stop.

I also died immediately though on my first attempted "playthrough". Damn you tie....

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 56 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Actually it's usually closer to 5%, but to avoid consumers getting mad most companies have internal variance limits of less. Still, 2% is pretty tight for manufacturing equipment. Despite the mass prevalence of corporate greed, it does end up being better for most companies overall to be on the slightly heavy end of net weight rather than lower end and most manufacturing guardrails and in line weight checks are calibrated with that in mind.

This is entirely due to the risk of images like this going viral and causing blowback for the company. So, to keep products on average a little heavier, posting things like this is great

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Legitimate question: what is the concern with declining birth rate? Im no expert but it seems like the world currently has way more people than it ever had before and even in specific developed nations those nations were arguably doing just fine 50 years ago when they had lower populations too. What is the risk here?

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Unfortunately that one is still plagued by children, even if not fully designed for them, at least when I was there

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

I think the general feeling of disenfranchisement comes from the DNC influence in primaries. Who they throw their weight behind in terms of advertising dollars and publicity makes a big difference in how the primaries go. Also very relevant is which states have their primaries when, as most times the primaries are called before every state has theirs. This is also hearsay and way harder to substantiate, but there are also some that cry foul that there isn't actually much in place to monitor primaries like there are in standard elections and there is significantly higher potential for fudged numbers and misrepresented results.

Of course I would still love to see more left candidates get the nomination despite that, but it is certainly still possible that I am in the minority in that desire.

For 2024, though, it doesn't much matter if Biden is who the left wants. When running against a literal fascist, there isn't really as much room to voice complaints about the alternatives. I voted for Biden in 2020 and will again in 2024 even though he is much further right than my political leaning, and even for those of us on the left who are not happy with how Biden has been doing, there isn't really room to show that with voting because the alternative is so much worse. In this scenario, votes for Biden can easily be misconstrued as support for Biden which is not really the case

[-] danciestlobster@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

A lot of us live in states that didnt get to vote in the primaries, and a lot of us show up to every election even when neither option really represents our views (albeit one much more than the other). To say we aren't getting our way cause we aren't voting, though undoubtedly true for some, is a bad take

This is not even touching on the DNC putting their finger on the scales in the primaries that did happen

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We are planning our first trip to Japan in this upcoming february after a long postponing due to covid. Would love some tips from others here! We have dates but no specific ideas while there yet. More specific questions:

Recommended budget per day based on general costs of food and lodging there?

Recommendations for places to go while generally trying to avoid touristy locales?

Train for getting around while there or is there a better option?

How important to study basic Japanese?

Thanks!

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title menu size (lemmy.world)

I am struggling with mods that replace the title menu. I am using main menu randomizer, skyui, and have tried several different main menu image mods, but all of them do not fill the screen.

Is there somewhere where there is a setting for how large the title image should be or how blown up or anything like that? Given how many mods this has happened with I am thinking it is not an attribute of the images themselves but rather how they are displayed, or maybe an issue with randomizer

Any help would be appreciated!

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