archonet
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- Comment on A swing and a miss 6 days ago:
part of me wants to believe somewhere down the line, days, weeks, months, years – they’ll have a sudden realization in the shower or before bed, and never stop cringing internally
the more realistic part of me knows in my heart that that moment may never come without being gently prodded towards it.
- Comment on Christmas beetles 6 days ago:
my headcanon, ruined!
- Comment on Christmas beetles 6 days ago:
that may be, but the headcanon of someone going “no, actually, I have communed and become one with the beetles and they are totally chill” is funnier to me
- Comment on Christmas beetles 1 week ago:
We know what you’re thinking but this does not want to kill you
Says who? Maybe it desperately wants to but mother nature simply hasn’t given it a mechanism for doing so. Yet.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 1 week ago:
Hey, long as you’re working on it. I’ve been working on ripping my entire music collection from Spotify the past couple months before I tell them to go fuck themselves for the ICE ads, after ~10 years of paying for their service. I’m aiming to be done before January.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 1 week ago:
sounds to me like all of your shows should become free. Properly free.
Remember, companies die when people stop giving them money.
- Comment on Dozens of uncut all-natural cobs, glistening wet with dew, get tossed around, stripped, and roughly power-shucked by multiple gruff steppe farmers [CAWB] [rough-shucking] [vintage] 2 weeks ago:
keep going, I’m almost there
- Comment on idk abbout this one discord 2 weeks ago:
I know this is a shitpost, but
“Your details are […] not stored”
"We’ll search for you in our database of breached personal information […]
- Comment on GENTLEMEN... BEHOLD! 2 weeks ago:
It’s not different at all, is it Steve?!
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 5 weeks ago:
I fucking despise this kind of gaslighting. YouTube does it too, with their “experiencing interruptions?” popup that then takes you right to FAQ section telling you to disable your adblocker and that it may cause problems. no, you drooling fucking simpletons, you are causing problems deliberately, problems I will circumvent without disabling anything out of pure spite and rage.
- Comment on Amazing 5 weeks ago:
[jaunty guitar begins]
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
authentic first-hand piss drinking experience, the kind of content that only lemmy could deliver. excellent
- Comment on Anon lives in 2056 5 weeks ago:
I’ve had people tell me Reagan, and other people tell me we’ve sucked since FDR died. I’m tempted to believe them, with what history I know.
- Comment on Will be super fun when only epstein DNC are exposed and so they rat on all the RNC. Im all for the backlash. 5 weeks ago:
The more they alter, the more chance it is they fuck it up somewhere.
- Comment on Anon lives in 2056 5 weeks ago:
this is the dumbest timeline
this has been the dumbest possible timeline for longer than you or I can probably remember. I remember noticing the difference between pre-2015 and post-2015, but I’ve been assured things have been imploding consistently since at least 9/11 and definitely by the 2008 financial crisis.
In other words, it is entirely possible, yes.
- Comment on Will be super fun when only epstein DNC are exposed and so they rat on all the RNC. Im all for the backlash. 5 weeks ago:
there is no possible way “100% democrats in the files” just goes without any pushback, so yeah either they’re totally unredacted and unaltered (likely, comes with its own set of problems) or the democrats absolutely will ratfuck the others.
personally I think the most likely outcome is that Trump’s name appears far fewer times than we expect (after they’ve, yanno, had their way with the files). Maybe a couple instances to satisfy the public that he was a skeezy fuck, but anything that implicates him in something serious will be changed to point to someone else’s name. Usually a Democrat, maybe sometimes the RINO of the week.
That would be the smartest way to alter the files. Leave everything else untouched, just make sure the golden
boyold fuck isn’t smeared. Are they smart enough to do that? Who knows. - Comment on As you age your fantasies change 1 month ago:
No they don’t, it’s the same fantasy – “good things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people”, just aimed at different demographics.
- Comment on wenis wrinkles 1 month ago:
oh, huh.
Well then.
Carry on.
- Comment on wenis wrinkles 1 month ago:
Sir, that’s an elbow, and this is a Wendy’s.
- Comment on Ah yes that's my bad 2 months ago:
you’re forever tagged as “wants big tiddy moth gf”, for me.
We shall watch your shitposting career with great interest. Image
- Comment on Ah yes that's my bad 2 months ago:
Don’t you have moths to be posting about?
- Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 3 months ago:
Some people ask “why are you hotboxing a lobster?”
Others ask why not. Others dare to wonder, to dream.
- Comment on Breaking Precedent, G.O.P. Changes Rules on Nominees 3 months ago:
It’s a “nuclear option” only to those who are not in power.
Right now, Republicans are doing everything in their power to stay in power as long as possible, to the detriment of democratic society.
See the problem?
- Comment on The universe thinks you're gay. 3 months ago:
The universe thinks correctly.
- Comment on Jeez, it's like there's no appeasing you tyrants 3 months ago:
we’ve been in the dumbest timeline for a good, long while now – you’re just now figuring this out?
- Comment on Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare 4 months ago:
I’m not saying you can’t do that, but booking.com or Expedia could just as easily be hacked. They might invest more in security, but they also have a much larger attack surface. Furthermore, when you use a third party site, your credit card details usually won’t be passed on to the hotel directly, that’s true – but then, when you arrive, third party reservations (which only have a virtual card on file from the third party site) usually need you to provide a credit card for incidentals. So one way or another your card details will end up in the hotels system.
Travel credit cards are always a good idea, or pay in cash, just be prepared to have to leave a deposit with the front desk for damages (that you’ll get back if you don’t trash the place) if you choose to pay with cash. Dealing with the hotel directly, though, will almost always drastically reduce your headaches. Need a refund? Just talk to the front desk or management. Need to change your stay dates? Call the front desk directly. No waiting in a queue for an available operator in a call center in India, no “well the hotel has to approve of it before we can […]”, no bullshit.
I am legitimately trying to save you the headaches I watched probably hundreds of different people go through for five years on night audit, and almost every time it was a problem I couldn’t solve, it was because it was a problem created by a third party site.
- Comment on Booking.com ignored me after my bedbug nightmare 4 months ago:
okay I don’t know who needs to hear this but as someone who has actually worked at hotels:
Stop. Using. Third. Party. Sites.
They do not care. Booking.com, Expedia, Trivago, Travelocity, whatever fucking stupid ass third party site out there – they only cause more problems than they solve. You want a good deal? Hell – you want a straight-up better experience? Call the hotel directly, explain the price that the third party site is showing you, and ask them to match it. 99 times out of 100, they will, because when you book directly with the hotel, the hotel doesn’t have to pay the third party site jack shit. The way third party sites make their money in the first place is by telling hotels charging a rack rate of $200/night “we’ll promote your hotel to guests in the area for $175/night, but you’ll only be charging us $150”. The guest pays Expedia or whoever $175, Expedia pockets $25 as a fee for promoting the site and passes on $150 to the hotel. In other words, they can either lose out on $25 by price matching, or lose $50.
Every hotel would prefer you book directly, and will happily price match, so they don’t lose any money to a third party site. More than that, if there are any problems with your booking – wrong days, wrong room type, want to cancel, whatever – you would have to go through the third party site again to do any of that. And waiting on or talking to customer support staff with thick accents at 3AM while your kids are wailing and you just want to go to sleep to fix a problem with your booking that, had you not gone through a third party site, the front desk agent standing in front of you could fix right now, is not fun.
Please stop using third party sites. For the love of God and all that is holy, use them to get discounts but do not book with them.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
That’s some good bait, right there.
- Comment on quick thinking 5 months ago:
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 5 months ago:
now if only it wasn’t a chrome fork/Eich would take a long walk off a short pier.
alas, a man can dream.
