TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Maybe maw and paw share the same line...

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm starting to think you mostly don't know what "assertion" means, which is the sort of literacy I expect from the illegal border-running English teachers I met in Cambodia.

I am asking you for clarification, and have done twice now. What the fuck are you talking about? Even the guy from Florida who asserted he wouldn't sleep with any prostitute over 45kg because they were "basically a man" would understand that question.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I hate to break it to you then, you are terrible at communicating what your actual assertions are. Because you made those assertions simple and concise. Whatever you imagined you were saying, you didn't. Hence: what the fuck are you talking about?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

These are your assertions:

  • Americans with a passport are guaranteed a high paying job
  • Anericans with a passport don't have to pay US income tax
  • Americans with a passport also don't have to pay foreign income tax
  • Americans with a passport can move 'instantly' (even with some leeway for figurative language) to somewhere with 50-90% lower cost of living.

Are you an illegal border-running English as a Second Language teacher in Cambodia by any chance?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (11 children)

What the fuck are you talking about

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 18 points 1 month ago
[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm familiar and I'm from Ireland. But abbreviating it to "heebs" is new.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago (8 children)
[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 4 points 1 month ago

Yes? I acknowledged that in my original comment.

As it turns out, just declaring everything fine now doesn't actually address the disparities of wealth and power when you have had much worse laws in place for much longer.

Happy St Patrick's Day! In Ireland we burned the mansion houses of English landlords after independence. I'm not going to judge non-white South Africans for enforcing a fucking minority shareholder policy.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sure. We can also change a single variable and have him sell 30% of it. And now he can be an apartheid nepo-baby and still run a telecommunications company in the nation his father helped to devastate.

What's your point?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

Even taking that incredibly Lemmy-brained statement as fact, I wonder if you understand that donated computers are not primarily for people who don't ordinarily have a reason to use computers.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

The point of the meme is the experience of witnessing the unique rate of progress in game engines, not the variety. There's definitely more variety now than ever before, if you go looking for it l, and I say that as a 40 year old curmudgeon.

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