DLSantini

Con Air is the most 90's movie that ever 90's its way through the 90's.

The fact that any point made in this post, no matter how reasonable a complaint, or how heinous it would be considered if done to a woman, will likely be derided and dismissed as misogyny, mansplaining, whining, etc, and all male participants in the discussion labeled as incels.

To streamers, YouTubers, etc. Your Patreon supporters are called Patrons. Not fucking "Patreons."

What about smoking rocks, IN the glass? Sounds pretty MAGA to me.

Band Maid's World Domination, the limited edition version, specially.

I wrote this game off years ago. As far as I'm concerned, even if they ever release something, it doesn't exist.

What disadvantages? Losing fake internet points? I deleted every post and comment I had ever made, as well as my account, several years ago. It has negatively impacted my life in exactly zero ways. Look man, no offense, but you're not erasing the works of Shakespeare over here. The world will keep on turning just fine if you delete your collection of memes and shit posts.

"I had no idea pod casts we so popular"

I'm sorry... what? The small child across the street from you has been running like four podcasts for the last two years, and your dog is getting ready to start his third one next week. Statically, you are running at least two of your own, apparently without even knowing. I'm recording my ninth episode this week, as I type this. This episode brought to you by Squarespace and Manscaped...

Dragon Ball Z. But that wasn't on until 5, and I had to sit through the other crap that Cartoon Network played before that.

Approximately 437,445,319,335,083 of those.

As someone who has "won" the games (that aren't actually games) and claimed the prizes a bunch of times, I'd advise you just ignore them. The fish/farm/etc games, and the popups that claim free items, anything else. Close them, and just buy whatever you were going to buy. Unless you have a lot, I mean a LOT of people that are willing to sign up for temu as a first time user, using you as the referral, the only way to complete those so-called games is to spend around $800+ to earn your way to conspiring the game and claiming the free prizes. Prizes that if you pay attention, you could simply bought outright for somewhere in the range of $5-20.

And the stuff with the spinning wheels and whatnot, claiming this or that percentage discount, you'll get a cheap item for free(something that you could have bought for $3-4 max), but only by adding it to an order with a predetermined number of other items, which have had their prices dynamically increased, and will actually cost you more than if you had simply purchased all of the same items but by searching them up and just adding them to your cart normally. If you add some items to your wishlist, you'll start to see those items being offered to you in these supposed deals and discounts. You will also notice that if that item was $5 when you added it to your wishlist, the "deal" page might be showing it to you with a crossed out $50 price, and a new amazing discount price of let's say $9(I call this the J. C. Penny method). I tend to keep a large wishlist, with items that sit there for months while I decide if I'll get around to buying them or not, so this kind of fuckery with the prices sticks out to me a lot.

This all exactly the same for when they had the cash back deal. Place an order, and they credit your account with, well credit, that you can spend on more stuff. The more you spend in the order, the higher the percentage of cash back. But as before, the prices of the items you buy to earn that cash back are getting fucked around with dynamically, and increased as you shop. Not only that, but they change the way that you received the cash back. It used to be that after the order shipped, you go to a certain page and cash out your earned credit, and it is then available for use. Then they started placing limits on how much you could cash out per day. And then the last time I had used it, you instead only got a few cents per day, and you had to keep opening the app every single day and manually claiming those few cents. And if you forgot one day, you just lose that credit entirely.

Ask of this is to say, I absolutely promise anyone reading this, the games, deals, discounts, or whatever else they are promising you on temu, are absolutely, in no uncertain terms, not worth your time (even if you believe your time to hold no value), and will cost you more money than if you had simply purchased the items normally through just searching for what you want and adding it to your cart. Back when temu was still pissing away ass-loads of money to get people onto their platform, you could legitimately get free and/or heavily discounted items, as well as decent amount of cash back/credit. But that's is no longer the case. They got the massive number of users they wanted, now they are looking to actually make money from them.

The only reason I but anything on temu at all, where I would have bought it on AliExpress previously, is that temu will usually get the items to me between 1 and 2 weeks, while AE still often takes several weeks before the seller even THINKS about shipping the order, and then often an additional 3-4 weeks minimum for it to actually arrive. I had some stuff that I needed a bunch of, and they only had a few in stock on temu. So I ordered them all, then ordered more on AE right after. The temu ones came in 6 days. The AE ones took 2 and a half months. And before anyone asks, the identical item on Amazon was more than triple the price. Most of this stuff tends to be.

Chili powder, salt, and black pepper.

I'd buy more money, obviously.

Shoot most of them and recruit the rest to NASA. Oh wait...

This was me as a 7 year-old, reading The Hobbit and LotR. 33 years, and many rereads later, I still pronounce Gollum as golem and Smaug as smog.

I mean, NOW I'm suspicious that they in fact do.

Republicans don't want this, because while they like to claim "blah blah spending this, spending that", it's not actually about reducing spending, it's about punishing the poor(and a wide range of minorities, obviously). So the fact that giving MORE people access to healthcare would cost much LESS money in the end, means fuck all to them. Their only goal is maximizing the suffering of anyone who ain't them, and convincing their base that someone else is the cause of all of their troubles.

Democrats meanwhile, have no interest in doing this either, since most of them aren't even remotely progressives(whether they pretend to be or not), and like the Republicans, it doesn't do much to line their pockets. As long as they can keep everyone just fucked over enough, while pretending to support progressive policies, the can keep pointing at the Republicans as boogeymen, saying "look, see what the right wants to keep from you? Better vote for us, or you'll get trump again. ThIs iS THe mOSt imPOrTAnt elEcTIon oF yOUr lIfe." But as soon as you vote them in, where does all of that support for those progressive policies go? POOF Never to be spoken of again, until next election, because they didn't ever really support such policies in the first place.

So sure, I'm not going to go so far as to say that both sides are the same. Because clearly one side at least isn't trying to bring back literal Nazis. But make no mistake, even if you have to vote Democrat to desperately keep MAGA out of power, the Democrats are not your friend. Democrats are not leftists. The are center right, at best. It's just the Republicans have completely lost the plot, and ran so far to the right, that everyone else looks to be left by comparison.

DLSantini

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DLSantini

What is the most quintessential 90s movie?

What is your motto?

What are some double standards in society for men ?

My weather app gets it.

What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?

The Far Right Is Becoming Obsessed With Race and IQ

What's your favorite band's best album?

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Delayed AGAIN — This Time to the First Half of 2025

Loan company hasn't reported to credit bureaus in 9 months

Should one remove all Reddit posts and comments?

What are some pod casts worth checking out and why?

What was the show you rushed home to watch after school?

Bing says Alpha Centauri is 13.6 kilometers from us

TEMU black hole

what's your favorite thing to put on fries that isn't ketchup?

What would you buy if you could?

Who is the GOATest GOAT?

What Can a City Do When Neo-Nazis Start Marching Down Its Streets?

I respect it when I hear someone clearly attempting a word they've only seen written

Tired of Hawk Tua, but this is a good usage

'Easy to Pay for Something That Costs Less': New Study Shows Medicare for All Would Save US $5.1 Trillion Over Ten Years

Is the IRS accepting tax returns early?

Self hosted(Docker hopefully) solutions of personal inventory tracking?

Yo, what was your first computer? How old were you, where and how did you get it, what did you do with it, etc.

TVDB metadata pulled by Jellyfin is different from the data pulled by sonarr, filebot, plex, or the tvdb website itself.

Need some (kinda dirty joke) names for my mead. Any ideas?

Can't edit the nsfw status of a post? Or am I blind?

Is it possible to migrate from Plex to jellyfin, specifically with the watched/unwatched status of library items? (Plus other questions about migrating)

Inherited this mess.

For those using Deck as your main PC, what OS do you prefer for normal computing?

I'm a filthy little poster. Huzzah