JasonDJ
@JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
- Comment on It's a Furby! 2 days ago:
Fairly certain I ran into these guys on my way towards the Goblin King.
- Comment on Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right 3 days ago:
A Gebra named Al, I think. I remember reading that in class in like eighth grade.
- Comment on How?!? 4 days ago:
One of the best examples of how it’s expensive to be poor.
We got a BJs (regional wholesale club) membership around the time our first was born. It was worth it just for diapers and wipes. Hell, when he was on formula, a giant jar at BJs cost the same as a medium jar at the supermarket.
A lot of things were like this, but the best examples were the ones that take up the most space and get used (comparatively) slowly. Like paper goods. Frozen anything. Fresh meat.
But if you don’t have the space to store that stuff (and especially to stock up when there are coupons/sales), you’re missing out.
I’m thinking of buying a chest freezer just so I have a bunch of frozen pizzas on hand so we have no excuse to order delivery when we get home too tired to cook. On that use case alone, the freezer would probably pay for itself by 6 months, including electricity.
Can’t do that if you’ve got a 600sqft studio.
Sometimes one big purchase might be worth it to get a membership for. Like tires. How much you’d save on a set of tires would be less than the cost of a first-year membership, especially if you got a Groupon. But if you don’t have the space to store wholesale goods, it’s probably not even on your radar.
That happened to me on vacation, and why I was a member of the Houston Museum of Natural History (I think that’s what it was called), despite only being there one time and living like 1200mi away. For my family of four to go and park, tour the museum, see a planetarium show, etc, it was cheaper to become a member, even if we’d never be coming back during its term.
- Comment on Remember when buying shoes came off as some kind of science. The shoe sales person was always considered right 4 days ago:
Is she…staring directly at the X-ray itself?
Like, I don’t pretend to understand how X-rays work. I know they emit a wavelength of light that goes through soft tissue like nothing. And I know normally, nowadays (or at least before digital came around), there would be a piece of x-ray sensitive film on one side of the object, and a bulb that shone x-ray onto it, which would then be developed (i think in a process sort of similar to polaroid but I could be mistaken again).
But…it looks like she’s looking directly at his foot through a special lens? Does it just put some sort of filter between her and the X-ray that makes it look like a really bright flashlight through the fleshy bits between your fingers?
- Comment on I'm not gonna be part of your system 5 days ago:
Fuck you, I won’t do what you tell me.
- Comment on Major Bing Bong 5 days ago:
Whose your friend who likes to play?
- Comment on Major Bing Bong 5 days ago:
“Dick Bong” sounds like a nickname you’d give someone you caught trying to turn a bong into a fleshlight. Or vice-versa…
- Comment on That's a whole lotta hydrogen! 5 days ago:
There are 10 types of people in this world…those who understand binary, and those who don’t.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 5 days ago:
You ever see The Boys? Season 2, Episode 7, "Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker?
Like that. But trees.
- Comment on Slay Girl 5 days ago:
What was it? A plastic 6-pack ring?
- Comment on Chomp! 6 days ago:
I think these are different teeth. Like one person tried it and another had insatiable curiosity after seeing the bit one.
- Comment on Someone tries to hack you - no big deal. But you try to login and you have to jump through hoops 1 week ago:
Windows is just a hostile OS now. The only explanation for its dominance now is mass Stockholm syndrome.
- Comment on Someone tries to hack you - no big deal. But you try to login and you have to jump through hoops 1 week ago:
Or use a password manager and strong unique passwords everywhere. It’s really not that hard. Just disable everything built into browsers and OS and use a good third-party platform like Bitwarden.
Honestly it’s easier than remembering one weak password (and then being to change it every 3 months for your bank and every 4 months for your utilities…)
Then you can store your passkeys in Bitwarden boom they are on all devices.
- Comment on Someone tries to hack you - no big deal. But you try to login and you have to jump through hoops 1 week ago:
Googles Passkey is one of the easiest things to use in the world.
I really wish there was an opensource Social Auth option that was, ya know, actually used. I hate logging into my Google account, but likely for different reasons than op is stating.
- Comment on What a banger. 1 week ago:
So my kid is learning guitar, and I keep thinking of ideas for mildly inappropriate songs for him to learn, because he’s only nine.
I’m gonna add “Stacy’s Mom” to that list, for you.
- Comment on Yummy yummy, in my tummy 1 week ago:
Me, every time I see Fabuloso.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Hello, Clarice.
- Comment on I hope you all can celebrate the real holiday on Monday 🍿 1 week ago:
I’m gonna wear my grandfather’s old ghost costume. It’s really high quality linen. My drycleaner, Jerome, was speechless, he never saw anything like it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Semi-related PSA for when Disney is eventually uncancelled…
If you find yourself at Animal Kingdom, try to get on some of the later safari rides. Like, closer to dusk. Usually not much of a line. Totally different experience than during the day.
That’s when you might hear the kitties meow like 15 feet from the van.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 1 week ago:
Let’s take a look at plus-size models. That’s a really good example.
It makes this rift between haas/body acceptance and what’s really actually healthy.
But on the flip side, super-skinny models aren’t exactly healthy, either.
Both normalize unhealthy weight and lead to population-wide body image problems and related eating disorders. Then you get things like social media throwing rocket fuel on that fire.
I don’t see how either is “woke” though.
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 2 weeks ago:
Another past time lost to COVID. Now everybody teletrips.
- Comment on Anon tries to save the internet in 2026 2 weeks ago:
IANADeveloper…but now I gotta wonder what the OS of choice for UX/frontend devs is. I want to guess macOS.
- Comment on I can still get down with the best of 'em! 2 weeks ago:
That song was actually made by/for SR-71.
Mitch Allen gave it to BFS because he thought it would be a better fit. He absolutely was right about that…but if you find the SR-71 version, it’s not that bad on its own.
Sorta like “Hey Mario”…that was also a cover.
Also BFS has an album of all pop covers, and it’s fun.
- Comment on Totally normal book on audible 2 weeks ago:
It is, however, very suspiciously close to 2^32 (4,294,967,296) milliseconds.
- Comment on You definitely didn't want her to pick you up 2 weeks ago:
I’m headin’ down the Atlanta highway
- Comment on Totally normal book on audible 2 weeks ago:
No it’s not…2^16 is 65,536.
1194 • (60 • 60) = 1194 • 3600 = 4,298,400
Your closest power of 2 is 2^22…4,194,304
- Comment on u WoT m8 2 weeks ago:
On a Netflix Original Series…👨🍳💋
- Comment on no training award 2 weeks ago:
Temu tyrants. Fucking great.
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 2 weeks ago:
Ok let’s start with one. How does one even start to make a self-propelling machine that cuts wheat stalks at ground level?
- Comment on The forbidden fourth leche 2 weeks ago:
I just made it up for funsies.
And I was geeking over “yo, ojo, capitain” when I made that up. Because “yo” means “I”, and “ojo” means “eye”…I-Eye. Aye-aye.
And it is pronounced like “Yo, O-ho”. Like “Yo-Ho”. Like a pirate.
And then capitain, like the famous rum, captain Morgan.
