a kobold fursona would be the exact same as a dragon one but smaller(probably))

Wow, such a generalization! I’ll have you know kobolds are quite distinct from dragons!

It’s a portmanteau, actually. 👨‍🏫 A portmanteau is a word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words.

https://12ft.io/ is faster than archive.is and doesn’t actually archive the page. In cases where you just want to read it and don’t want to waste server space on it, it’s maybe a better option.

Look at Mr. Stumpylegs over here, taking his little baby steps! Everyone point and laugh!

I for one fully support paws as a unit of measure.

Essentially nobody is complaining about the quality of care available here. The problem is that only the rich can really afford it. Most people will avoid going to the doctor if at all possible, just because they can’t absorb the cost even if they’re just told to take an Aspirin and sleep it off. Long-term care for anything serious is just impossible to recover from financially for most people - it literally bankrupts entire families. With how hard it is to move up a prosperity bracket, that’s a devastating blow that is often felt for generations.

I think your view might be slightly skewed because you have free care available, and can go to the US or Mexico for better options if you can afford it. Here, if we can’t afford it, we have nothing, or we assume tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

Many, if not most, of us are jealous of other countries, though. Really, this is only a hard truth for the MAGA crowd, and even that is (I think) largely the fault of the nationalist propaganda that’s been shoveled at us since we were kids.

As an American, I agree with you, though - the US is in no way a ‘strong democracy’, or much of a democracy at all. It may once have been, but it certainly hasn’t been the case for a long time.

Every time I hear conspiracy theories about reptilians secretly pulling the strings, I wish so fucking bad that it was true. I’d take that in a heartbeat.

$22.22, it seems.

I wonder if ‘Stegosaurus’ is also porn…

If there’s anywhere he could just be himself without the suit…

We did get a dead CEO, but that feels weirdly like a much more Shadow thing to do. Maybe Luigi isn’t the guy after all.

Big demographic difference between Facebook and Lemmy, wouldn’t you say?

All the fucking time. This shit is infuriating.

They’re pre-chewed, for that authentic baby bird experience.

I singled her out because she’s the easiest person to get stuck seeing on the front page, so it quite literally and unavoidably feels in your face, thus it’s a bit of a meme right now to cite her.

I had to search for her to figure out who you meant; I’ve watched some of her content, but she’s nowhere near my front page. This is just the YouTube algorithm working against you. You can choose ‘Don’t recommend channel’ to avoid seeing her videos if you don’t want to.

I feel like this comment of yours is a jab against me

It’s not, I just assumed (apparently correctly) that you had a specific perspective since you called her (and only her) out by name.

The only way to guarantee that you don’t cause a paradox is to not use the power at all.

Why don’t you tell us about your own experience with Mormonism and how it differs from Alyssa’s?

If you teleport to it and back, that’s way more valuable than anything you’d actually be buying. I’d just use it for that purpose exclusively. Choose a plot of land to “buy” that’s calculated to a specific timeframe, matching how long I wanted to be there. “I want 200 square feet in Norway.” Day trip to Norway, let’s go!

I’d argue that the taxes are a separate cost, which would be paid separately rather than being included in the “purchase price” you’re using your dollar to offset. In OP’s example, the TV requires electricity to run, but the cost of that electricity is (presumably) not bundled into the purchase price. Just like maintenance on the house would not be included up front, as it’s a separate, additional cost.

If you reject that, I’d argue that the land will exist well beyond the fall of civilization, and at some point, there won’t be a government to tax it. It will, however, still exist. If the land costs $400,000, and taxes are $10k / year, and we expect Earth to last about 8 billion years, and we expect government taxing the land to exist for, say, generously, 10,000 of those years, that’s only a net cost of $0.0125 per year. In this case, the land itself only costs $0.00005 per year, so you could buy quite a lot of things for your dollar, in fact.