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MisterFrog

@ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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  • Marvel brainstorming

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  • This is why I've just never liked super hero universes.

    In isolation, it's passable, fun even, and I've enjoyed some marvel stuff.

    When they actually try to do world building, it's just so, so bad.

    This is my opinion, apologies to those who generally like the Marvel universe, but I just can't stand it. (Based on the handful of films I've seen or heard about).

  • The future was yesterday

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  • It's an apple inspired UI thing. Luckily, the built-in android date selector isn't stupid anymore.

    A banking app I use (on Android) put in a bespoke date/time selector with scroll wheels, with no option to type.

    It's like they went out of their way to make using their app a pain in the ass.

  • Email tone

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  • How else do you figure out who is being addressed? (I extremely rarely send an email to one person, there's almost always like 3-7 people in the to and cc fields combined).

    It's so reliable I can set up filters for "Hi Name" & "Hello Name" and catch like 97.5% of the emails addressed mainly to me, vs ones I should just know about.

    Almost everyone I know says "Hi Name" at the start.

    Chat messages, not so much. Depends how old the person I'm talking to is.

    The number of older people who will just write "Hi Name" and wait for me to respond is insane. This isn't a phone call, you don't have to wait for me to say hello lol

  • Dent or Dust

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  • My biggest pet peeve is doctors referring to medication by brand name instead of active ingredient.

    Should be illegal, in my view.

    I'm a little shit and whenever "most dominant brand name for paracetamol"* and "most dominant brand name for Ibuprofen"* are mentioned by a doctor, I play dumb and ask if that's paracetamol/Ibuprofen.

    They're literally advertising for companies who's product is 5x more expensive for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

    *I refuse to give them free advertising

  • betrayal

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  • Why would we do that to ourselves? I'd be willing to bet the proportion of people who watched the film who also regularly played the game at some point is less than 50%

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    WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR?

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  • Recommend PowerToys if you're forced to use windows at work, it has heaps of neat stuff including find my cursor.

    It makes windows 11 somewhat more bearable

  • Population per capita of US states

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  • #DIV/0

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    You've Seen Too Many Trump Memes Today, Rest Here Weary Traveler

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  • Voyager works fine for me (Android stock)

  • Supply and demand

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  • TIL modern medicine isn't feasible because you couldn't do it in 1859

  • Did we win? Google to continue to allow side loading

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  • If your software runs on windows or MacOS, this point is such bull, sorry.

    Do you monitor what software people have installed accessing their banking needs on those platforms?

  • The United States loses its status as a liberal democracy: ‘Trump is aiming for a dictatorship’

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  • Haha nice

  • The United States loses its status as a liberal democracy: ‘Trump is aiming for a dictatorship’

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  • There are currently 5 parties vying for position here

    I know you're not disagreeing, but I find it absolutely hilarious (in a bad way) that UK political parties will put out flyers of who is most likely to win, as a way to convince people to vote for them.

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zDLxgEquxA0

    All while having rejected bringing in preferential voting at a referendum, not even that long ago.

    As an Australian, may I say, you royally fucked up on that one. We have issues in our electoral system too, (mostly around lower house electorates being single-member, and not say 3-member to more accurately represent the electorate), but thank Christ we have preferential voting.

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    Permanently Deleted

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  • This is why I hate coins. Good luck keeping them neatly sorted in your wallet.

    Notes only gang~~~ (sorry coin collectors)

    Just gonna take a moment to hate on UK bank notes being different sizes in both dimensions, though. Wtf is that?

    (From Australia)

  • First American Pope Urges Nations To Provide Universal Healthcare

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  • Sort of. A lot of us (countries) have some kind of public healthcare, but it's not really universal.

    From experience in Australia: dental isn't included, physio is limited, out of pocket costs can be large for non-hospital visits because it's not a public system just a private subsidy model (mostly), wait times for "elective" surgery can be way, way longer on the public system because private health is permitted to exist and the public system is underfunded/understaffed.

    What's worse is that private health cover is allowed to just cover the difference between public and private, meaning even if you go private, the public is still paying. Like, you wanna be private, fuck off and go be private then... (Talking to the private healthcare advocates, not the people. I have some level of private healthcare cover, even though I think it's a fucking stupid system)

    List goes on.

    It's WAY better than the US, but I refuse to call it universal.

  • MEGA FLAG

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  • Trump says he's been rejected by NATO, most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz

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  • Which is extremely annoying

  • Trump says he's been rejected by NATO, most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz

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  • News title grammar is stupid and I'm rather annoyed at the journalists continuing its use.

    Use an "&" ffs...

  • Trump says he's been rejected by NATO, most allies to join mission to secure critical Strait of Hormuz

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  • Can we stop it with journalists' insane use of commas in place of "and"?

    If space is so precious, use an ampersand (&) for Christ's sake.

    Reading this sentence normally, it could seem like allies ARE joining the mission.

  • There's always money in the banana stand

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  • Gotta love the spoiler effect :3 yikes first past the post sucks

  • Divide & Conquer

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  • Just seems to me you are redefining the middle class into the working class and are focusing on making the distinction be based on belonging to some arbitrary class. I don't even think the psychopaths we are referring to really care about belonging to anything if they can get ahead.

    Indeed, it's only a categorisation, though I'm certainly not the first to say if you primarily work for your money, you're working class. What class the billionaires feel they belong to is irrelevant, I agree.

    You can mobilize people, but if you are excluding people that could be included or trying to address what's actually an arbitrary definition, don't forget, there are psychopaths interested in taking you for a ride.

    I do not know what you mean by this. If you feel excluded by me then that's not my intention at all.