Indeed, and some of them (according to others) have been quite good.

I have seen bits and pieces of like 4 or 5 of them but I honestly couldn’t say which ones except black panther. They weren’t bad, they just couldn’t hold my interest and I stopped watching.

Haven’t watched an entire marvel movie since endgame.

I don’t particularly hate or dislike them but I don’t care to watch them.

Ew. Gross. I liked not knowing better. Ah well, at least I can’t check it myself so I don’t really care that much. I didn’t want lemmy to feel like a competition like I used to feel occasionally with r*ddit.

Also this is the first time I’ve noticed my name doesn’t show up as “Miles O’brien” for everyone. Now I’m sad :(

Honestly I’ve thought cm002 was a bot before as well, but they engage in comment sections often enough to say either it’s not, or it’s a user hopping on to check bot progress.

Either way, most likely case is it’s a user that saw a funny meme, and reposted it since not every sire is federated with others and some communities might not see it, especially if it’s to a world or ml domain.

Possibly related, I did not see your post from this morning, this is my first time seeing it. Not sure about federation between instances but yeah.

Also tangentially related, anyone remember the huge r*ddit drama over a poweruser constantly reposting things with top comment responses to farm karma? That was a fun glance into people who take imaginary internet points too seriously. I’m glad lemmy doesn’t keep track of total votes.

Yet another “you’re overreacting, that’ll never happen”

Whaaaaat? Are they suggesting the United States would ever do anything to harm people? People who have done nothing to deserve it, and certainly not to the united states?

And then the US lied about it???

Noooooooooo, that could never happen… repeatedly… throuought our entire history…

That’s fair.

I think I’ve said this before to you a few weeks ago, and I totally understand that it’s easier said than done to cut family off, but your family are negative influences in your life and on your psyche, and you should be ignoring their bullshit and get away from them.

Sorry your family still sucks, all I can offer are platitudes I’m afraid.

To answer your question though, I think a good, solid “Shit up, shit-bagel, you wouldn’t have shit if it weren’t for me and no amount of denial on your part can change facts.” and walk away/block/slam the door.

The obvious choice is “don’t buy tvs that might do this” but if you’ve already got one, open up the case, find the wifi antenna, and pull the little connection out.

I don’t give a shit. That should be their problem not ours.

This should be everyone’s reaction when faced with “but how will [company] profit with [X] ?” questions.

“You do not have the right to complain but we’re putting a nice bow of an excuse on it so it looks better” -Aussie government right now

Honestly I barely talk to my immediate family, about 60/40 because we live under one roof, and most of our communication is just sharing memes anyway.

The only relatives I care about are three democrats that realize capitalism is a problem and the rich are the true enemies of the people. The rest are all corpo-throating republicans.

And even when I was younger and dumber/more “conservative” , I still didn’t care to keep in touch with them. Just never really cared to.

I mean, by then we had Ronald Reagan, so…

It’s always been a joke.

Wanted to go to a trade school for welding when I was a teenager. Mother said no, because “you’re going to college”

I kept asking for help figuring out college stuff, mother kept saying “I’ll help you tomorrow/next week when I have time” (she was technically a substitute teacher but usually worked 1 day/wk)

Graduation came and went and I had no money saved up, no colleges looked at beyond what my limited googling skills could come up with, and absolutely no help from my parents with anything.

Good news though, since my parents collectively made enough money, I didn’t qualify for financial aid of any kind! Did I say good news? I meant bad.

And of course my parents lived paycheck to paycheck and we got EBT or medicaid for most of my childhood.

Now instead of an education or a trade that’s in demand, I have depression and a shitty 15/hr job that is destroying my joints.

Ain’t life grand?

If he ever gloats about having a degree, I’ve had success with tossing back “in order for me to feel insulted, I would have to value your opinion”

Its made two relatives block me and my mother in law call several relatives to cry and moan about how evil and manipulative I am because when she responded with multiple gigantic run-on paragraph/sentences in a row, I hit her with “lol. I ain’t gonna read all that”

People who take pleasure in how much better they believe their lives or decisions are typically can’t stand it when someone else doesn’t fucking care

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was “Oh no, not again.”

Isn’t it Ionic?

I would agree if it weren’t painfully obvious the Russian elections that brought put in in weren’t heavily influenced by putin-run domestic terrorism and election fraud.

Wait, actually, it still is a good comparison.

Carry on.

Personally I’m a huge fan of bouncing a ball off a couple of sticks, but you like what you like, eh?

Nah, I think I’ll just continue to smoke and vape to an unhealthy degree in order to disassociate from the banal horrors of modern day. If I keep myself mildly baked and consuming a steady stream of star trek and Stargate, I’ll keep myself from having thoughts.