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[–] roscoe@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Absolutely, I shouldn't have used cheap as a synonym for bad, or vice versa, that's my mistake.

There are a lot of very good wines at low price points, especially from underappreciated regions. A little experimentation will result in finding some great value.

The same goes for the whiskey. There are a lot of distilleries out there with great offerings far below the price of the big names everyone recognizes. Especially when you take fads into account. Many bourbons and Japanese whiskeys that used to be good buys are now ridiculously priced.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but...are you saying you never want some shitty nachos?

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 27 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I can only speak for myself but I've eaten at Michelin star restaurants all over the world and enjoy fine dining whenever I have the time and I love it, but sometimes I just want taco bell.

Alcohol, on the other hand; good Scotch and wine has ruined the cheap stuff for me. I can't drink cheap, or even mediocre, whisky or wine anymore. If it's not very high quality I'd rather just have something like a gin or vodka cocktail.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I get what you're saying, but assuming you're talking about medical doctors, they're a bad example. I know three doctors well and they're all dumber than a sack of hammers. Becoming a doctor doesn't require much intelligence, it requires the ability to stay in school long enough (and being able to tolerate gross stuff from other people's bodies).

What do you call someone who got all Ds in medical school? Doctor.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 1 points 1 month ago

I had a similar situation travelling in Ireland with a friend who ordered a black and tan.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If we can verb nouns, we can noun adjectives!

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it started with people saying "I would like to (do something very illegal) to (some person) in Minecraft." Thinking that saying "in Minecraft" would shield them from any repercussions because they only wanted to do it in a simulated environment. Eventually some people would just shorten it to things like "...in Minecraft" and leave the obvious part unsaid.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

But at least that's an option. There is no non-spez instance of reddit, non-musk instance of twitter, or non-zuck instance of meta-stuff to jump to.

I took both of the other respondents suggestions. It only took a few minutes to get approved at both and now I can see Car Talk With Martok again.

I didn't even know that the admin of my instance banning someone would prevent me from seeing posts made in another instance.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 38 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (30 children)

Am I being deprived of Stamets' memes because of some thin-skinned power-tripping douche mod?

Time for a new instance. Any recommendations for a stable instance that federates with everyone (except for the worst, of course)?

Edit: If anyone is confused, I meant to reply to this comment that links to Stamets' recent rundown on the whole kerfuffle.

Edit 2: I just learned something I'd like to share with anyone else that needs to know. If a user (Stamets, for example) is banned on your instance (startrek.website, for example) even here, a community on lemmy.world, you can't see his posts. Not only that, but if he comments you can't see any replies to his comment. There are a lot of comments in this thread startrek.website users can't see.

If you don't want overzealous admins curating your experience on other instances, you might want to find a new instance.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seriously, I'd like to know too. I've always thought that you got them and then you were done. But maybe that was counting on there not being a bunch of disease vectors walking around.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago

You guys are talking about different things.

Credit utilization of 0% doesn't mean paying your cards off on time every month so you avoid interest. It means paying your cards off before the statement period even closes so nothing is reported to the credit agencies.

I do this. All my cards have a statement period ending on the 19th or 20th. Around the 17th every month I pre-pay so my statement is $0 on every card.

When I use a card after doing this and the charge goes through before the statement closes, my FICO score goes up (vantage doesn't seem to do this).

For the last 18 months or so my FICO has been going up 22 points every time there is at least a little balance to report and down 22 points every time my credit utilization is 0.0%.

[–] roscoe@startrek.website 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

But if we fixed it where would we get all our ~~slaves~~ undocumented workers?

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