cordlessmodem

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[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

9.0, would have been a 9.5 if Shadow had a gun

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago

The private for profit health insurance industry - because what could make number go up better than a (LEGALLY MANDATED) do nothing middle man who's only purpose is to take your money and ensure as little as possible is spent on healthcare sitting between you and not dying?

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 82 points 9 months ago

Just think of all the great things you're going to learn about emergency boot recovery!

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago (27 children)

Competition is good! Unless it makes shareholders sad.

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 75 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

From reading the penny arcade blog about it and watching the trailer, it seems to be an arthouse movie that just happens to be made by the most famous people on earth. You might love it or hate it but most people just won't get it either way

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

These sound right to me, especially Dying Earth - a podcast I listen to covered Gene Wolf's Book of the New Sun trilogy and they described it as such. Wikipedia calls it Science Fantasy. Great books by the way

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

lot of that going around I guess

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not an idiom, but a slogan for a sugary children's cereal Trix.

I saw the wall of text, skipped to the punchline, and rolled my eyes glad I saved myself a couple minutes

[–] cordlessmodem@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Reading more of these comments it's clear we need to invest heavily in biking and transit infrastructure so taking away some idiots drivers license doesn't damn them to poverty