If you're fighting a singular male lion on it's own... They're not brave without their pack and they're way more 'bark' than bite. It's just like a black bear, be as big and loud as you can. Do not ever run, this triggers an instinctual urge to chase. Alone in the face of a fight it's not sure it can win, the Lion will want to run though. That will just buy you time, closing the gap and actually winning the fight will depend on circumstances, but you can get the upper hand in a lot of ways.

Whatever happens, be thankful you're not fighting a Tiger.

On the other hand, every person who has killed a United Healthcare CEO has played Among US, checkmate.

The rules only cover viral marketing when they're not already paying off reddit.

That sounds just like 90% of the doctors I've talked to in my life.

Musk is the type of guy who thinks the key roadblock in any problem is that he isn't in charge. It's harder to be in charge of Earth than it is to be in charge of Mars.

We are the poor.

Yes, there are poorer people out there, but I think we all kinda forget how big the divide is. It lets us put ourselves in a place where we feel like we're doing well comparatively, but I think it's important that we remember that we're all being taken advantage of and we all deserve better. Yeah, definitely some will need a bit more uplifting than others, but it's Us vs. Them, and I think we spend too much time trying to further sub-divide that 'Us'. Thank you for attending my crazy segue.

We're all poor enough to deserve those free nugs though.

There seems to be a pretty strong correlation between the age someones parents die and the age they're likely to die.

Trump's dad lived until 93 and his mom live until 88. He might be here for a bit.

I'm from a union family and was in one myself for many years before I changed to a career path where it's proven difficult to organize. You're starting in a good place, but few points.

• The members are the ones who typically determine union leadership. If the union isn't doing anything, it's probably... at least partially the members fault. However, just like in the real world, the wants and needs of older members tend to dominate (as turnout of older members is generally higher) and that can leave newer members left out.
• You might not get everything, but you typically will benefit from most of the things the union fights for whether you're in it or not, so for voluntary dues you end up in a situation where the smartest short term play is to not be in the union so that you can reap the rewards without having to contribute. However, this leads to the union not having the funds needed to fight for more things (because not enough are contributing).
• Having unions funded by the corporations directly is slippery... It's like going to court and your lawyers are on the payroll for the other side. It creates an incentive to side with the people who are funding them.

You have to remember that... a business treating you fairly would ideally be the default, but there's no reason they have to. Your union should be watching out for that for you so that you can focus on showing up and doing your job. The dues aren't for "getting benefits", you already deserve those and those already should be owed to you, the dues are for having someone to fight for you and advocate on the behalf of you and your colleagues.

I always find it interesting that people outside the US think this is a complete joke when really it's just... only slightly exaggerated.

Many gas stations have 64oz cups by default. I haven't seen it in awhile, but the 128oz soda was real and used to be widely available.

Probably a big number, but also probably not that many in terms of user count when compared to the overall count.

I don't think we have good data on reddit, but a lot of fairly smart people have been trying to figure that out with twitter/x. Key you have to remember is that the average user only consumes content, they don't contribute in any fashion. So, you can have 10 or so bot accounts being more visible than 10,000 'active' users and still be posting things at a rate that would seem reasonable for an average human. They'll just come across as a highly engaged user until someone looks closer.

Ecstasy of gold is this one, Metallica played this too with the San Francisco Orchestra and it was as epic as you'd imagine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYI09PMNazw

One we're looking for today though is this one (the main theme):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9EZGHcu3E8

Doesn't quite have that same riff, but some of the musical themes were reused in 'The Trio' which finished up the movie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiIe2znA1ao

Admittedly, it's hard to find a song based on someone just writing out the sounds they think it makes and I feel like any Ennio Morricone score really should be thought of as a singular piece in harmony with the movie itself. This was one of his best, one of those movies where the dialogue could be optional, sometimes you didn't even need to open your eyes to understand what was going on.

From a statistics standpoint, definitely not.

As of Q4 of 2023, reddit claimed 36.4 million logged-in 'daily active' users. An increase from Q3 of 2023 with a count of 34.7 million. Not sure of the accuracy of user counts for lemmy, but good estimate is about 450,000 total users over it's entire lifespan, if every single one of those was a reddit convert, we'd still be a minor blip. I don't know if we have 2024 numbers that are comparable, but most stats indicate that reddit is likely still growing.

Spez predicted what would happen in that protest with almost 100% accuracy and most mods involved didn't follow through and backed down. Some are trying to build something new and that's worth pursuing but we lost that fight.

That tactic tends to breed resentment (from both sides) when one person starts to get better at noticing problems. You might get lucky and stay balanced, but you'll probably have to actually talk about that some day.

Yeah, like seriously, how are they pricing those lego bricks?

The appeal is pretty easy. You can collect items from any fandom you can think of and have the style of the figures match each other almost perfectly and look 'natural' together. The style chosen has a lot of detractors, but even some that don't necessarily appreciate it are willing to compromise if it lets them make a little action scene of thor fighting vegeta.

That's me, I'm the one who compromised.

It's definitely a stretch, but she's not completely unqualified... I'm not saying she's a good pick either, but she did at least serve on the board of education for Connecticut for about a year.

Mostly continuing the theme of Trump picking random ass people he knows and throwing them wherever it fits, but this isn't likely to be the worst one.

It is very obvious this studio does not know what they are doing and has learned little from their previous releases and from other contemporary games.

I think they've learned that they don't have to care about that to be successful. We have to keep reminding ourselves that success by these studios does not have to be defined by 'making a good game'. Starfield was a great success financially and there's no reason they should change gears from that perspective.

Starfield has made around $700 million.

It sounds like someone where the last thing he ate may have been shrooms.

This doesn't work because no matter how many potions you have, you have to save them for when you really need them. Then, you end up finishing the game having never touched any of them.

(It’s Kamala if you don’t want to read it.)

I don't care what anyone says about you, you're awesome my friend.