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  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldActual theft
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    2 days ago

    GameStop as I knew it from a few years ago is dead. Now that almost all games are digitized, its stores only carry a handful of discs and cartridges with barely enough to cover half a wall in shelves. The rest of the store is mired in miscellaneous pop culture crap like Cowboy Bebop T shirts, pop figures, and some various other knick knacks. It can’t live up to its name so it might as well shuffle off from store fronts and on to the collective memory of gaming enthusiasts.



  • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldJD, is that you!?
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    10 days ago

    It happened because an old man during the Bronze Age had a schizophrenic episode and hallucinated god commanding him to cut off his foreskin as proof of loyalty. Everyone just… Went on to humor him I guess and here we are thousands of years later and not much has changed. This is just proof of how traditions can be really stupid.









  • A lot of the propaganda these isolated people are fed dehumanizes those whom Trump and the Republican party wish to target. These “victims” of propaganda shouldn’t be sympathized with or even pitied because they each have a conscience that they deliberately silenced in order to feel as part of something greater than themselves. Even if these people are somehow rehabilitated this time it’s very obvious they’ll fall back to the same patterns that got us into this mess to begin with.

    The only effective way to break the cycle is to destroy the propaganda machine and force a change in the very culture and identity they’re a part of. You’re right these people aren’t a monolith, but you see some recurring themes like nationalism, Christianity, pride in ignorance, and toxic individualism that conservatives just know how to leverage to drive them into a frenzy.





  • The head of a related department at work kept bragging about his plans to make a brand new tech doc for months to the higher ups but the problem with that is he didn’t have enough people to back it up. Upper management wants results already but the guy has too much pride to say it’ll need to be delayed until the headcount climbs back up. Instead he’s dragging my manager and by extension, me, into his plans. Now I’m being forced to bail out the other manager while not having the background necessary to produce a good doc on time. It’s so bad that we’re having twice a week workshops to cover this shit.