mikezeman

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[–] mikezeman@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This has really worked pretty well for me. I have to stop myself from researching optimal builds and strategies when I'm learning a game because it always accelerates the path to no longer enjoying the game.

The most fun I have is when I approach it the way I would've as a kid: what looks cool?

Turns out games are a lot more fun when you're discovering everything yourself and learning as you go!

[–] mikezeman@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Boycotting absolutely works, it simply requires a large enough amount of consumers to boycott that it affects the company's bottom line more than they stand to gain by following through with the reason folks are boycotting.

[–] mikezeman@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Mate, the article links to the study, rather than be pedantic about the title you could read the study and figure out how they did the math yourself.

[–] mikezeman@lemmy.zip 19 points 4 weeks ago

Fun fact: the fruit was named before the color.

[–] mikezeman@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The metal straws I own came with a brush that's the right size to clean them.

[–] mikezeman@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think it entirely depends if the next wave of democrats in charge of governance make any kind of considerable effort to embrace the working class and improve the economic conditions for the average person. As time has shown, they just never fucking do when they're in charge. That's why the pendulum keeps swinging further and further to the right - the democrats promise better and cannot remove themselves from their corporate donors enough to actually improve the country for the average person. So when their lives continue to get materially worse under democrats, voters once again swing to the right hoping for a change, only for things to get worse faster and the cycle to continue.

I'm hoping things are bad enough this time for democrats to actually do something. I'm not holding my breath, though.

[–] mikezeman@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

Just wanted to say, huge props for editing the post and title when you found out it was debunked. That's so important and too many people just don't take that step when they learn, so upvoted for that