Well… The fact that I’m not a US citizen is a massive hurdle, for starters.

That’s apparently fixed now. I have to use windows for work and they finally fixed that stupid issue in one of the last couple of updates. It’s still extremely painful to use though.

I suppose it’s the fault of the constituents for continuing to vote the same person in over and over again. Or is it that you don’t have any other choices?

How TF do you have a 29 year incumbent??

I’m on Lemmy because I’m anti capitalist and generally support progressive policies such as circular economic practices and sustainability. I’m against AI because it goes against everything I mentioned. The gains aren’t worth the cost.

Honestly… This is where leaders should be elected or fired by the workers themselves.

Maybe Ten Bells

Solo dev who was pretty sad that it had slow traction on release because he put so much work into the game. I can see it now has over 500 reviews, so perhaps he got the reaction he wanted!

“Cruzzant” out in regional Australia

Yes. Websites were dead easy to make. I could fit all my music onto one floppy disk because I saved them as midis. There were no standards for sound or graphics cards so everything played different on different computers. You could access information without needing to sign up because emails were just emerging. You could get an email address with a name you wanted. Adobe hadn’t bought Macromedia yet. Autodesk hadn’t bought 3ds max yet. Animated gifs. Flying toaster screensavers. In fact, the screensavers had sound! Would give you a great attack if you left your speakers on.

I visited the US 3 years ago and tipping was a bloody pain in the bum. It added probably 20min to our meal as the waiters took a while to get change. Further, asking every 15 minutes how our meal was going was quite exhausting; mainly because we knew it was performative for more tips. We tipped 20% each time but it’s really, really frustrating not knowing the price up front.

Back home, I’m used to paying up front and then leaving as soon as we’re done. Waiters leave you alone, unless you’re a regular, and ask you how the meal was at the till if you pay after.

My take is that capitalism is the cause.

I hate gift cards but work gives them out for our birthdays each year. I always request games related gift cards. To hear that Steam are no longer selling them is disappointing considering that it’s my main gaming platform.

If I’ve read all the past posts from people in the USA correctly, it’s not lunch that’s expensive but the healthcare to stay alive.

Only works if you have a functional and fair justice system (which you don’t).

So creeps like Zuck can upload their LLM conscience into my brain? No thank you.

… Actually, that would make a great horror movie.

And that’s why it’s genius

My psychologist has recommended me to reach out online autism groups to counterbalance my negative experience while growing up with the concept of autism.

I’m deeply uncomfortable with identifying as neuro divergent but I do want to get assessed.

So, to help me, what are some positive things you can say about being ND?

Very interesting question! I looked up what NSW has and they don’t have anything like that. I also looked deeper into the ambulance Victoria requirements.

So, if your primary place of residence is not in Victoria, you can’t be a member and have to foot the entire bill unless your private health insurance covers it.

If you’re a Victorian with a membership, if you get hurt anywhere in the country, you’re covered.

You can just say capitalism, calling it anything else only serves to mislead people about natural evolution of capitalism.

I think there’s a little misunderstanding there (not US-crony-capitalism) but I’m happy to just call it capitalism.

So what if you’re outside that company’s coverage area?

It’s not a company though. The ambulance is state run, so to be ‘outside’ the service area is to be in another state, where they’d have their own state run ambulance service.

The membership covers costs for everyone within the state regardless of how remote you are.

Hmmmm. Our ambulance membership costs go directly to the ambulance services though, not through an insurance company. The ‘fee’ without the membership is basically a penalty fee to encourage everyone to be a member so the ambulance is constantly funded.

It really should be done as part of our tax system, but we tend to follow US crony capitalism.

Edit: I’m half wrong. The money doesn’t go to insurance companies but it’s a state thing that sort of goes direct to the ambulance service.