My go-to has been to tell the waiter, “If you make it so spicy I can’t eat it, I’ll double your tip.” It’s a dangerous game, but it often pays off.

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates the number of abandoned oil and gas wells in the US at about 3.9 million, with 2.2 million unplugged.

Holy fuck, I had no idea there were that many. That’s absolutely crazy to think about.

I remember playing that one Conquest map where you’re attacking a ship or station in space and have fighter dogfights before taking ground inside and pushing through it for hours at at time with my friend group back then. That and the ‘junkyard wars’ style one. Those maps were absolutely peak.

Eugenics aren’t suddenly okay if they’re only accessible to some people. Healthcare on the other hand should be available to everyone but it’s still a net positive even if it isn’t available to everyone.

I always make it a point to upvote content on smaller communities I subscribe to; I like to think it helps whoever posted the content to know that despite the very low engagement, people are in fact seeing it and appreciating it.

You said ‘or otherwise regulate’, not ‘and regulate’, so I logically assumed you were making two independent proposals and chose to respond to one of them, omitting the other for clarity.

I don’t even think it’s a counter-argument, really. As soon as prosperity becomes a factor, it’s a “rich people only” feature, regardless of what other guardrails are in place.

but make people pay […] if they want the additional data to screen for more precise things.

Isn’t that just worse than giving the data to everyone, though? The more expensive you make it, the more of an exclusively ‘rich people’ service it becomes. As if kids with rich parents don’t already have enough advantages in life, let’s make sure they’re physically peak, too?

I know ‘slippery slope’ is a logical fallacy, but I think it’s applicable here.

We scan for disease, easy sell. But since we’re doing it anyway, let’s also include physical defects. Why not also include autism? I mean we have the data already, and these parents are paying for the service, why shouldn’t we give them that information? And if we’re doing all of that, why not also give them data on life expectancy and intelligence? Maybe physical traits - after all, they’d really prefer a blond haired, blue eyed child.

Some people definitely do want to, and in fact do.

The NFL just needs to invent a peace prize and present it to Trump, then he’ll immediately change his tune and start insisting that FIFA changes their terminology to Soccer.

Gattaca was a great movie and definitely didn’t portray any social issues whatsoever stemming from actions like this!

All complaints about the message aside, you’re misusing the meme format.

It should be ‘uneducated people making vaccine policy’ on the red pill and ‘big pharma making vaccine policy’ on the blue pill on the first image; uneducated people making gun policy on the red pill and gun industry making gun policy on the blue pill on the second. You’re supposed to put opposing choices on opposing pills. It makes no sense the way you have it.

Whether they’re surprised or not, going public with it was a good marketing ploy because I never would have known about the game if they hadn’t, and I bought it. I’m sure many more of their sales can be attributed to the same.

For instance, the report mentions an employee of the City of Boulder, Colorado, who purchased a 12-pack of Sharpie markers for $8.99, while an employee of the nearby Denver Public Schools was charged $28.63 for the same product on the same day.

$28.63 for a pack of sharpies? Whoever looked at that price and thought that ordering it from Amazon was the way to go needs to go back to school themselves.

Bumfights, but it’s rich people fighting instead of homeless people. Also it’s a cage match, they aren’t volunteering, and it’s to the death.

Coincidentally, I have two earlobes that I’m not using for anything - how much are you offering?

I have played the game. There’s far more pornographic games on Steam. All of the nudity is censored, there are no kids or even characters that could be mistaken for kids in the game, and it’s obvious in its intent - there’s nothing that I’d describe as even approaching titillating; the whole experience is clearly just intended to - and successfully so - make you feel uncomfortable and unsettled. The scene in question - the one that previously had the young girl - is particularly unsettling specifically because of how it normalizes everything else that’s going on, and I agree with them that the scene works better with a grown woman than it would have with a kid. There’s no reason for this to be banned on Steam.

I think most of us are, but a lot of us made the switch quite some time ago… mid-2023 was a pretty big migration wave, and so have largely forgotten about Redditisms. :)

For what it’s worth, that’s probably more of a Reddit thing; I don’t think I’ve ever seen that asked on Lemmy.

That extra bit of context definitely helps to frame why someone would be asking you those things!