SentientRock209

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The video above dives into buy now pay later loans and how they're used in the US. Something I appreciated is how the video dives into the types of fees and interest rates in these kinds of loans to show how they're designed to make money off of you regardless of how they help you get the products you want.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'd be down to fund a patreon for the core developers who work on the lemmy framework so long as that money goes to developing tools that would enhance everybody's experience like better modding tools that were lacking in reddit or accessibility features that tended to be found in particular client apps of reddit or plugins than in the site itself.

 

By unanimous vote, the choice falls to you. What animal do you choose to send and why? it can be the baby form of the animal or the fully grown adult version.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Isekai as a genre has been a very hit or miss ordeal where the ones I really enjoy like Gate or Mushoku Tensei remain in my memory as top tier shows in their own right but the rest just seem like copy paste remakes, though hearing about the progression of the main lead like the way you described it makes me think this'll be a more grounded story so I'm looking forward to giving it a shot, thanks for the recommendation!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wacky science is fine with me, it's the overly long dry expositions that tend to turn me off of the more old school sci-fi stories like Dune. Will definitely give Gateway a try so thank you for the recommendation!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd never heard of this story before, thank you for the detailed synopsis and it seems like there's rarely any stories focused on unattractive women and the lives they live without giving them a "cinderalla glow up" moment so hearing about how this story follows the main lead from start to finish where she still has to live her life sounds interesting. Added to my reading list

 

When I say "out there" I mean books that cover topics and perspectives that are rarely hyped up in popular conversations around what people read. Like everyone can find a popular video recommending self-help productivity nonfiction or YA #relatable fiction but a recent fiction book that blew me away was "I'm thinking of ending things", it got a movie adaptation on Netflix but after the movie came out very little conversations about the book carried on. Fair warning, the book "I'm thinking of ending things" is a horrifically bleak exploration into the mental state of someone contemplating suicide at the end of his life and his reflections about himself and his mistakes throughout the years are not helpful if you're looking for a good time. But I've never seen a story go that far in depicting someone's mental state in that kind of situation so it blew me away but is also underrated imho.