Boozilla
@Boozilla@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The line cook quietly handed me this 8 hours ago:
This better not awaken something in me.
Too late.
- Comment on Anon is only a little strange 13 hours ago:
Video killed the radio star.
Webcams killed hanging out and hugs.
- Comment on MeIRL 6 days ago:
Aprons are great.
I should probably get one.
- Comment on Anon follows the rules 1 week ago:
There’s a certain type who thinks it’s a big adult flex to act exhausted by work, being annoyed with their family, and getting drunk to drown their self-inflicted sorrows. They’ve always been pathetic. I think (hope) it’s a dinosaur that’s slowly going extinct.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
The answer is always greed.
- Comment on Anon borrows a pen 1 week ago:
…and then a wah-wah guitar started playing…and the hot girl said:
“That’s a really nice penis you drew there.”
Um, I think maybe I need to watch better movies.
- Comment on What stratgies do you have for dealing with people who "live in your head rent free"? 1 week ago:
I remind myself that an internet rando means absolutely nothing to me. Like the figurative “dirt on your shoulder” that you just brush off. It really helps to take a break from all things social media (and social media adjacent) on the internet for a while, too. Get interested in something else (tv show, hobby, book, music, whatever) for a while.
- Comment on 10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it. 2 weeks ago:
It’s a little hard to explain without coming across as pedantic. The Wikipedia article on the “Dash” does a pretty good job of it. Compare en dash to em dash. Or just read the “Usage” sub-section under “Em dash”. I used to use the em dash (occasionally) in my writing but now I try to avoid it, thanks to AI over-using it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Very much so. I think it’s the very long hangover from the “Protestant Work Ethic” which was always just a moralistic way for bosses to punch down on their worker-slaves. Things like “quiet quitting” and so on are a response to that, but you’re right that it has permeated every aspect of American culture. It’s a broad and deep problem.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 4 weeks ago:
Whoever came up with this has probably always used ‘optics first, actual results last’ in their shitty career so far.
- Comment on Rap God 4 weeks ago:
Looks like Eminem, but far less constipated
- Comment on FUCK 4 months ago:
A couple of book recommendations for people worried about this kind of thing.
“Bonk” by Mary Roach. She’s a very good science communicator and is also quite funny. There’s a lot of good info in here.
“A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships” by Sai Gaddam and Ogi Ogas. This book is not rigorous science, but it is no total junk. It is also informative and entertaining. A tidbit of generalized info: men tend to think about dicks and look at dicks way more than women do.
- Comment on Ferns 10 months ago:
You could say they went down a…puts on sunglasses…FernGully.
- Comment on You should stop doom scrolling now 10 months ago:
And how am I supposed to ignore my family without it, exactly?
- Comment on Truly 10 months ago:
I’ve been to Vegas a couple of times, many years ago. I enjoyed the shows, food, and silly debauched spectacle of it all. But it gets old after a day or two.
Did almost no gambling at all. The machines are very boring to me, and I’m too intimadted to play at a real game with other humans. I would misunderstand the rules and the odds, and screw up the etiquette. I know enough to know that the house has a significant edge in almost any game you play against them. Even on the “best” odds games.
One of the guys that I went with made a decent chunk of money at Texas Hold’em. He said he really wasn’t that great at it, he just got lucky and found a table full of drunk tourists who couldn’t play for shit, and yet they would try to chase after it.
The casinos that have popped up in my home town all look dreadfully depressing.
It’s sad how normalized gambling addiction has become.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 10 months ago:
Meh, Gordon Ramsey vibes.
- Comment on Does Gmail have more spam now? 1 year ago:
I have noticed a few messages slipping through the past several weeks, whereas I used to get basically zero spam.
- Comment on Good evening it's going to be really cold this week. 1 year ago:
When you forget to allow the druid into Leomund’s Tiny Hut.
- Comment on Real ones will remember 1 year ago:
Dredge players: I need those!
- Comment on They just don't understand 1 year ago:
Paid an electrician to fish ethernet for me from my utility closet where the router is to my home office. Was well worth the expense. WiFi is great, and I use it for all the other devices in the house. But I work from home most days, and I got tired of the random slow-downs and drops.
- Comment on Par for the course 1 year ago:
I hope she takes half his stuff.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I get super pissed when my shitty laptop and/or internet connection slows to a crawl while I’m working from home. It feels (irrationally) like a betrayal. It’s my stupid work equipment hampering me when I just want to get shit done.
I usually fly off the handle and curse a blue streak while rebooting everything. Sometimes I think it’s AV or bossware slowing me down.
Seems to happen at the worst times, too. Like when I’m trying to fix something important, and am already under time pressure.
- Comment on Do you think billionaires fear losing their fortune and becoming "a poor"? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Do you think billionaires fear losing their fortune and becoming "a poor"? 1 year ago:
I’m guessing most do not, because it takes a lot of work to spend a billion dollars. I speculate they are competitive with each other and want to be the richest of the rich. And/or they have dreams about colonizing Mars or whatever.
I think one blind spot many of them have is: you do NOT want to be a wealthy person living in a poor country.
- Comment on Romance 1 year ago:
Good grief that link is a long list of gatekeeping BS for frikkin’ hotdogs. I hate ketchup on a hotdog, but it doesn’t bother me if someone else likes it. Why try to boss the world? Let people enjoy things.
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 1 year ago:
Awesome movie!
- Comment on What is your favorite Robin Williams role? 1 year ago:
The Fisher King.
- Comment on why does everyone i know treat me like a child or if i was a very childlike person?? 1 year ago:
People mature at different rates. There are myriad reasons for this. But it’s OK to be a little bit immature for your age. There’s no shame in it and it’s very common. Being an adult mostly sucks, anyway. You’re already aware of it, so that’s a good thing. Pay attention to social cues and behaviors of your peers and you’ll figure it out.
- Comment on If you are a young person you have no idea how bad everyone and everything smelled until at least the 1990s. 1 year ago:
Yeah, it was weird. Most restaurants had a non-smoking section because allowing people to smoke everywhere was the norm. Leaded gasoline. Little kids playing with real fireworks. The 70s and 80s were a wild ride of irresponsibility.
It wasn’t all bad, though. It was cool being a kid at times. Playing outside almost every day until dinner time with the other kids in the neighborhood.
- Comment on Communism 1 year ago:
Anyone wanting a deeper dive, check out the books and videos of Professor Richard D. Wolff.