This. Those who would purposely catch these to get a nation of vegetarians like some people have mentioned would be giving people Lyme disease and other nasties that come with being bitten by a tick. These aren’t things to mess around with.

As an enjoyer of puns, I agree

I don’t buy cheap shit, stop assuming man. I have never met someone with such a chip on their shoulder Get help

So based on a subset of people who are entitled you are tarring everybody in existence with the same brush. Affordability, cost of living and wages are a whole other fucking issue related to CEO greed. Which is out of the scope of the discussion. The fact you are so bitter about this means it’s probably time to find a new job lmao

Are you serious? Where did I mention buying things cheap? That’s a funny looking straw man you built from nothing. Literal premium flagship phones like Apple/Samsung have planned obsolescence It isn’t about buying a cheap product when a lot of busineses follow such shitty practices

Why are you blaming the consumer for a problem businesses have created. Planned obsolescence, doesn’t matter how many $$$$ you put into a product. It has a shelf life. Especially with more tech

Even if they could invent self-repairing appliances/phones they wouldn’t do it… Because then they couldn’t sell you new thing

Mine was lucosade… The orange lucosade reminds me of nosebleeds. For some reason that’s what my mum thought would help me when I was sick and it was always lucosade when I had one… Then the orignal red lucosade I had when it was thundering and I couldn’t sleep because I was scared… memories man lol

I’ve heard hot 7up being a common treatment for illness too, I’m kind of glad I was never given anything fizzy when I was vomiting. I could definitely see it being ruined for me too

I’m sorry to hear that, that’s strong of you to share that. Christmas is already hard enough for a lot of people who lose their family. I can’t begin to imagine your situation, I wish you the best

Something rather cringe and obnoxious in hindsight was the over use of the word “ocd” It was quite common in media and in my circles for somebody to say “I’m so ocd” when referring to some perfectly normal thing they do like tidying bookcases and organising things.

It’s pretty cringy now and I’d never say it now. I feel bad for saying it… but hey personal growth I guess. I was in school/college at the time too so it was a long time ago. There were a lot of things that were common at school that I used to say that are definitely not pc nowadays and I accept that. I don’t pretend to be a perfect and morally righteous invidual. I have flaws as much as the next person

Hopefully, Since thread is the new cool thing I hope it survives long enough to do so

It’s the best and worst thing to happen to the internet.

Best because - Twitter is a toxic site, with toxic people and a system that encourages ragebaiting means it breeds it.

Worst because - These negative people need somewhere to go… And it will only force them onto alternatives and fester in new places. Potentially here.

I think it’s a lot more because the internet was a niche. It’s something your parents/family or weird creepy uncle wasn’t on. All these old memes still feel “untouched” by facebook and it feels like an in-joke. In other words memes felt more special.

4chan was onto something, once memes became mainstream they died… a little hyperbolic but they do lose their fun factor being more popular now.

AITA quality went down hill because they removed the no-validation rule.

What you got was poor-faithed questions of people looking for validation about a situation where they clearly weren’t going to be the asshole.

Then as it grew in popularity appealing to the general populace it encouraged people to use it for the purpose of farming karma. They would post low effort, baits. You would get astroturfing or people subtly posting their fetishes.

The only community I miss is AmITheAngel where people just laughed at some of the more extreme examples of the above mentioned problems.

This, and the ability to use flairs would be really useful here on Lemmy. Flairing posts was such an essential way to organise posts on a lot of specific subreddits.

That kind of feature is so needed

Mildly Infuriating has nearly hit that milestone too! I am so excited for the future of Lemmy! GG everyone! 👍😄