jqubed
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- Comment on misleading cover 1 day ago:
This seems to be garnering a lot of attention. Maybe he knew exactly what he was doing.
- Comment on deez nutz save lives 2 days ago:
A swallow, carrying a coconut?
- Comment on 😋🔫 2 days ago:
Orchestra
- Comment on Now hit mute and you are all set 3 days ago:
- Comment on For that special someone on Valentine's Day 6 days ago:
What are the red things in the top photos?
- Comment on Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs? 1 week ago:
As The Clash say in “Know Your Rights”:
You have the right to food money
Provided of course
You don’t mind a little
Investigation
Humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation - Comment on The bushes were people 🤯 1 week ago:
I kept expecting them to dance and was shocked it never happened
- Comment on Valentines 2 weeks ago:
Is this something where people pay this group to make a dance video greeting?
I have no idea who Melanie Martinez is
- Comment on The first goal of advertising is make it unique enough so people will want to read it 2 weeks ago:
It seems their degree is in colorectal surgery, aka proctology
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
*bearly
- Comment on Interesting 2 weeks ago:
I remember people said it was bad for the VCRs, but never knew why!
- Comment on Come on, I left Napster running and my mom got Choco Tacos. 2 weeks ago:
I’m still sad they discontinued Choco Tacos; that was my go-to at ice cream trucks
- Comment on Linux Gaming Developers Join Forces To Form the Open Gaming Collective 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised Valve isn’t a member either
- Comment on Is history about to repeat itself? 3 weeks ago:
No, this year’s storm hit on a weekend, and didn’t really get going in Raleigh until nighttime. Most people stayed home. That year’s storm arrived pretty much as forecast but a lot of people ignored the forecast because a storm forecast a couple weeks earlier had fizzled out. It was around lunchtime on a weekday and everyone thought they could still stay at work and drive home and it wouldn’t be a big deal. Then the snow came quick and heavy and everyone panicked and tried to go home at the same time, unleashing rush hour traffic on bad road conditions with traffic jams blocking the plows from treating the roads.
- Comment on Cronch 3 weeks ago:
Gummy vitamins, felt something crunch. It was one of my fillings and it got jammed into my gum at a point where it was wider than the gap in my teeth and my dentist had to send me to a periodontist. Needed oral surgery afterwards because of the damage.
- Comment on Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right 3 weeks ago:
Back in the early days of x-ray technology some shoe stores would x-ray customers’ feet to make sure the shoes fit right
- Comment on Real and True 3 weeks ago:
When I was in college I worked a data entry job at an investment advisor firm. One of the financial planners had #8 as their setup.
- Comment on What it feels like shopping in 2026 3 weeks ago:
In the US credit cards are the most common, which typically charge the merchants a 3-5% processing fee, so I’ve seen more and more places offering a discount for paying with cash.
- Comment on Good question tbh 3 weeks ago:
Letting the days go by
- Comment on How do I properly and safely clean smartphone? 5 weeks ago:
The best option is to look at the manufacturer for your phone. They should have instructions for your model. These iPhone instructions are a good general guide, but there might be specific recommendations for whatever model you’re cleaning.
- Comment on Wats the legal test for consumation? 5 weeks ago:
In Scotland, although marriage was formed by simple consent and required no formalities or consummation, the bedding rituals were widespread but unstructured; a couple simply wanted someone to see them in bed together. A couple could also be pressured into marriage in this way: a person stumbling upon an unmarried couple in bed could pronounce them man and wife on the spot.
- Comment on As long as the temperature stays in a very narrow optimal range for me, it's over for you bitches! 1 month ago:
All we have to do to stop her is put different shapes in the square hole
- Comment on Sea Level 1 month ago:
Didn’t some cultures do that?
- Comment on this is a stickup 2 months ago:
!stick@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on at what point in life it's too late to go back to school? 2 months ago:
It depends on if you’re going back to school for career reasons or personal enrichment. For the latter it really is never too late. For your career, though, too late will depend on when you’re hoping to retire, when you’ll complete the extra schooling, how much the school will cost, and how much more money you’ll expect to make with your new degree.
Without any info, assuming you want to retire around 65, I would think it would be normal to want to use your new degree for at least ten years, so whatever schooling you’d want to do you would want to be finishing by the time you’re 55. But those other variables come into play. If you’re borrowing $100,000 to pay for med school, your cutoff date will probably be earlier because it will take a longer time to pay off the student loans. On the flip side, if you’re paying $5-10,000 for a 6-month programming boot camp that will boost your income by $10-20,000/year then you might even consider doing that at age 60, especially if you’re already bringing a computer science background where your experience and new skills will keep you in high demand.
There’s not really a one-size-fits-all answer to this question.
- Comment on New Jurassic Park looks lit! 2 months ago:
I feel like Rat Race was an underappreciated movie
- Comment on i told you so 2 months ago:
Handyman thinks lack of use in the basement lead to a clog that built up over the years. Years before Airbnb they were renting out the apartment through the local tourism department because there aren’t a lot of hotels here but it’s a scenic area. But they stopped as they got older so now it only sees use for a couple weeks twice a year when we come. But when we come with 3 people it puts more pressure on the waste line and starts backing up, and finally became a problem tonight.
He thinks there’s a drain in the floor of our bedroom and somebody just put down laminate flooring overtop of it. There should be a drain somewhere but he doesn’t see one, and given the water intrusion there as the other drains were backing up that’s his best guess. Won’t know for sure until he pulls up the floor this week, though.
- Comment on i told you so 2 months ago:
We rushed up to my in-laws about a week-and-a-half ago because my mother-in-law seemed to be dying (it seems like she turned the corner this week and I think she will recover). Tonight, though, I ran to the bathroom in the basement apartment we use at their house with an upset stomach. At the bottom of the toilet was paper, a telltale sign of a toilet that was clogged but has since drained without flushing. Feeling like there was no time, I went ahead and used it, figuring I’d use the plunger after.
While I was there I could hear my wife in the kitchen on the other side of the wall. When she ran the sink the water in the toilet started gurgling, which is not something I’ve experienced before. Before adding any paper I figured I should try a “courtesy flush” to see what happened. It was clogged. Fortunately I didn’t end up needing much paper, but I was still surprised to find the toilet had already drained by the time I had finished.
I decided I should try to keep running the water into the toilet, figuring that maybe it was draining too fast but if I could keep the water pressure up it might clear itself and I wouldn’t need the plunger. I tried it for a couple minutes but then heard a sound and noticed that water was filling through the drain into the bathtub. At that point I figured this was probably not a plunger problem and instead time to call a plumber.
I told my wife but she still thought it was worth trying the plunger first, so I went to go through our room to head upstairs and get it. As I entered the room, I had the sensation that the laminate floor was floating, before it sank down into a puddle. I was wearing socks. I told my wife, so she went upstairs to tell her dad. When she came back down she came back through our room, also wearing socks. It was while waiting for the emergency plumber that I saw this post.
- Comment on I get junk mail from T-Mobile & Verizon offering services that when I call them they say my address is not available for service. Both offer those services to my neighbors. How do I deal with this ? 2 months ago:
Maybe not a blacklist, but I know a house I lived at previously (back in the era when landline telephone was fading out but still common) one phone company didn’t offer residential service at my address but did for neighbors’ addresses and kept telling me I could only get business service. I assume a previous resident had used business service and the address was then in their system as the location of a business. Perhaps something similar is happening to you.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Is he still on TV? Twenty years ago I worked a part-time job doing data entry at a small local brokerage. One of the assistant brokers used to complain because they had a client who would call in almost daily wanting to buy a stock he had a hot tip on, which was invariably whatever Cramer had featured on his show the night before.
