hydrospanner
@hydrospanner@lemmy.world
- Comment on Choose A or B 11 months ago:
For me, literally everything except the balding and I really couldn’t give a shit, I’ll buzz it all off anyway.
Infinite rare fish? Well as it happens, fishing is my biggest hobby, so that’s just fuckin delightful.
Mongolian real estate empire? Well that’s passive income and/or something I can sell. As a mongol mogul, in gonna try working the angle of an exotic but affordable fishing, hunting, and nature tourism destination, really try to put Mongolia on the map for Western tourists.
No taxes dovetails nicely here, also making it easier to both expand as well as make the business model more resilient.
Neighbors scared of me? Great! If they seem cool, I’ll reach out to them, otherwise, fear is a great way to not have to deal with shitty neighbors! In Mongolia they’ll be far away anyway.
Night light to keep the monsters at bay.
And the balding we will deal with by just keeping it buzzed low or shaving my head completely.
- Comment on Save thousands 11 months ago:
By the time the next generation dies, this may be the only way to own Legos, with the company long since having gone over to a subscription service where your new lease on life is their only alternative to leasing Legos!
- Comment on Save thousands 11 months ago:
Shapes…once they get to you.
- Comment on Save thousands 11 months ago:
It seemed apparent, to me at least, that the person you replied to had the intention of telling their loved ones not to spend on OP’s account. Not that they’re forbidding the family from any course of action.
I guess if you take it super literally, okay, whatever. But the smallest amount of thought seems to make this obvious.
- Comment on Beardy bois 11 months ago:
Little Santas, sure.
Mall Santas, based on the smell.
- Comment on Paramount+ unskipabble ads 11 months ago:
Yeah it’s come full circle.
Cable exists. You pay for content but still get ads because greed.
Piracy gains traction. Technically illegal but usually unenforced. All content, no ads, kinda a pain, but clearly worth it to many.
Streaming gains traction. Cheaper alternative to cable. On demand. No ads. Many pirates diminish or quit pirating content. Clearly most people are willing to pay a reasonable amount for quality on demand content and no ads.
Streaming really picks up steam as the mainstream starts cutting cable for ad free on demand content for less. Again, people are happy paying for what they see as good value.
Greed creeps back in, content is fractured among many streaming services, making the cost basically a wash vs cable but still has advantages of on demand and no ads and the ability to share and juggle subscriptions.
Greed continues, ads creep back in, “premium” streaming offered for higher fees to eliminate introduced ads. Content continues to diminish. People start turning back to piracy for the same reasons as they did 15-20 years ago. Services also start cracking down on sub sharing.
Assuming greed continues, I predict we’ll see these services attempt to squeeze even more money from the loyal subscribers they have left as they restructure their subscription models to contracts. No longer will there be any paying month to month. But rather you’ll have to enter onto a 1 or 2 year contract to stream. I also predict that they’ll very carefully curate their selections so that new seasons are available to current subscribers, then once the season is complete, they go away for a year before coming back, just to get people to maintain subscriptions instead of juggling contracts by year.
- Comment on Kids are brutal 11 months ago:
- Comment on Kids are brutal 11 months ago:
I was about the same age when my mom got my finger in the car door. We were getting ice cream and my dad sent be from the window of the shop to go deliver moms to her. The door closed on it, but thankfully didn’t lock. I just had to knock on the door with my other hand (she was inside) to get her to open it.
Very painful but no permanent injury.
Ever since, when I’ve been in a similar situation, I either pass through the open window or I actually step into the swing path of the door.
- Comment on So uhh.. how often should I be washing me towels? 11 months ago:
Not that I recall!
The towel thing attained a new level the next year: he moved in with two of my other friends (who didn’t think to ask me instead, or even ask me about how he was to live with), and when they noticed the same behavior, they decided to test him: they put a few pieces of fruit under the other towels in his towel drawer to see how long it’d take him to get down there and find them.
The fruit rotted and was stinking up the whole apartment and attracting flies before he noticed.
- Comment on So uhh.. how often should I be washing me towels? 11 months ago:
I had a roommate in college who just never washed his towel (singular) all semester.
It was fucking disgusting and made the whole bathroom smell like BO, to the point that every time I needed to use the bathroom, I’d put on my trusty rubber gloves and throw it up against his door.
His argument was that he only ever used it after he showered, on his clean body, so using it to dry a clean body was effectively washing it too.
It became routine for me and the other roommate to warn him when we were bringing a girl over that if he didn’t get his towel out of the fucking bathroom, we’d exact nuclear revenge.