I don't have a problem when they bring it up either. It's when they dismiss my story to highlight theirs.
"Oh, you were in a car accident? That's NOTHING. I was in a REAL car accident where I nearly died."
"Your parents divorced? That's not even a real divorce. They just separated. My dad died. From the car accident."
"Oh, your house was on fire? You call that a fire? PATHETIC. My house was on fire after my mom drove her car into it, setting off a gas explosion, killing my father."
brand new X-wing or lightsaber or landspeeder isn't all that different from one that was built 50 or even 100s of years ago.
If you want to get extremely weird... The Old Republic takes place 3600 years before the original trilogy.
Tech is mostly the same.
Compared to 3600 years in reality, we went from pooping in a hole to pooping into a magic toilet that sings you songs while spraying you with water.
Isn't there a community on Lemmy for this level of unhinged?
If not, we need one.
Maybe I need Cortana, Microsoft Excel, and OneDrive while I play Doom Eternal. You don't know me.
Or... Here me out, don't do that.
By giving them money, from their perspective, you've accepted their t&c. If they get data or not, that's just icing on the cake.
I used to roll my eyes when Redditors posted anti-police sentiment, I thought they were just being edgy. Turn out they were right.
Glad you recognize the problem.
I was pretty "cops are kinda okay" to full blown ACAB after this story, where a my neighbor, a man in a wheelchair, was shot 9 times in the back of the head because Ryan Remington has a trigger finger.
9 times. In the back. 60 yo man in a wheelchair. And Ryan Remington is still Scott free.
They also escalate crime. By a lot.
Welfare checks. Minor incidents. Petty theft.
Suddenly it's a dead guy.
New TV show ideas: how far can you punt this animal.
Wait, people say "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs?!
Even if they're inaccurate, they're my homies.
Also I'm referring to the 1990s Jurassic Park. I haven't kept up with modern versions.
More of a "Republicans are running a fucking circus" and "Most Democrats seem to sit idly by as the clowns are running the circus".
More like, books people haven't written yet.
Let's Gooooo!
As a kid, back before we had wikis and websites with all the information you want, I thought it was the funniest thing when I gave my Magikarp hyper beam.