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- Comment on So me 3 days ago:
Fucking. Exactly. Tap is awesome. It’s fast, it works, but just fucking standardize where it’s at!
But until then, as someone who works a register, people, please, look at the machines and see if there is a very clear label on it saying TAP HERE. I don’t know how every customer misses it, but they do.
- Comment on Oh Kurt Gödel, you lovable logician freak. 4 days ago:
One of my favorite ways this has ever been expressed is through David Graeber. Paraphrasing:
If you convince 100 million people that you can breathe under water, and you go sit at the bottom of a lake, you drown.
If you convince 100 million people you’re the king of France… Then you’re the king of France.
- Comment on Oh Kurt Gödel, you lovable logician freak. 4 days ago:
Fairly short read effectively, it’s never been made public what the loophole was/is, and all those who knew first hand are dead now. But it’s speculated to be a few different things, the leading theory (and the one I think is it) is article V, the process by which we amend the constitution. If we can amend the constitution, we can amend article V, meaning we can then make it easier to amend again later, in a downward spiral. We could also amend the constitution, do a bunch of fashy shit, then amend article V to make it so the constitution could not be amended ever again.
- Comment on oops 4 days ago:
I remember when I found out that shit was plastic. I always assumed they were organic material of some kind, like the body scrubs with the crushed up walnut shell in it (which probably has fucking microplastic in it, too). So disgusting.
This is why we need to change how shit works. It shouldn’t go: company does some shit > fall out > government steps in. It should go: company has an idea > must get permission first from environmental agencies
- Comment on Are you ready skids? 1 week ago:
I was pretty stonery in m’youth, and lemme tell you, I was not about to wake up early enough to brunch
- Comment on Are you ready skids? 1 week ago:
What the fuck is this place?
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 1 week ago:
Same thing that’s wrong with mine: the brain is really good at working collaboratively with other shit, and that means if the phone can remember the numbers your brain will happily give that task to the phone. I can remember so many number from before I had a cell, and almost none since then.
It’s also got to do with repetition. We used to dial the number each time, now we almost never type the digits in, just pull up a contact (or more likely, a text from them) and hit call
- Comment on Back in my day... 1 week ago:
Thought basically the same thing (but wasn’t going to comment about it until I saw yours). I always associate this meme format with, basically, what millennials/gen z will sound like when we’re old
- Comment on If this seems exaggerated to you then you haven't worked in IT long enough 1 week ago:
I know the number is exaggerated for comedic effect, but it blows my silly little 'murican mind that phone numbers in the UK have variable length. All of our numbers are the same length. Country code (1), area code (757) prefix (368) and then the line number (0441). I’m sure something else might exist for super niche things or something, and we’ve got the 3 digit important numbers, like 911 (emergency/cops) or 988 (suicide prevention hotline), but personal numbers are always 7 digits plus the area code. It’s just weird to my brain that the length can be variable within a country.
Also, try giving that example number a call…
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 1 week ago:
Look, you’re gonna have to face facts. People like you. Yes, your meme collection is great and mighty and powerful, but the fact that you collect all the memes that people love speaks to you. You saved those memes because you loved them, and then you selflessly decided to share them with a fledgling community to bring joy, and the people loved them. You bring joy. Santa doesn’t make the toys, he delivers them. You’re the lemming Santa. Stamta.
Also, you are literally famous. It might only be locally, but you are, factually, famous 'round these parts
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 1 week ago:
Stamets publicly acknowledging me? I can feel my Lemmy clout growing!
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, I fix
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 2 weeks ago:
Because I just glanced at the picture while hiding my phone from customers and thought they were bees
- Comment on A Polish jalapeño pastry 2 weeks ago:
What is it with European bakeries and bees? I’ve seen memes and stuff about it, and this one youtuber, a Vietnamese woman who’s German BF never shows his face, I can’t remember her name right now. She showed a bakery in Germany with bees everywhere. Why is this a thing?
- Comment on I'm ready for it 2 weeks ago:
Time machine or a benevolent necromancer?
- Comment on I'm ready for it 2 weeks ago:
34 currently and just came out of retirement, as I see. I was my mom’s caregiver. Got paid through the state to hang out with my best friend, the person I love most in the world. We were broke, just barely made more than the bills, enough to splurge on a 30-50 dollar item in a month… But honestly, my life was perfect. She passed away in April, and while going back to work isn’t the thing that sucks most about all this, standing on concrete floors at a gas station with plantar fasciitis and being generally fucking miserable isn’t helping. I just want my mom and my life back
- Comment on It will 4 weeks ago:
Well that’s genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a looooooong time
- Comment on Anon is disabled 4 weeks ago:
As a professional gay, and purely out of interest for my shareholders, could you elaborate on this “hypnodick porn” you mentioned?
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 month ago:
Which one?
- Comment on True story 1 month ago:
This is literally how my mom met her first husband
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 month ago:
Don’t forget BFE. The sticks are almost always right about halfway between BFE and YouGottaPurdyMouth
- Comment on I am bereaved 1 month ago:
Absolutely
- Comment on I am bereaved 1 month ago:
The content of this is weird AF (I get what it’s referencing), but I’d like to see more bardcore comics
- Comment on Nightmare Engine 1 month ago:
Blaine the train rides again
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 1 month ago:
I’m 34, but I was only really active within that community when I was dating that guy, so about 5 years or so between 2010-2015
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 1 month ago:
“serve real fish”
Been around a lot of drag queens, my ex used to do make up at a gay club. Never heard that one.
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 1 month ago:
Would cis male drag queens would an example of girl moding by a cis person?
I’ve used the term, but never really considered it’s edges, if you know what I mean
- Comment on does it mean I am a horse? 1 month ago:
a horse with two legs cut off becomes a man
Please don’t give Diogenes any ideas
- Comment on 🎶cowboys are frequently, secretly fond of each other🎵 1 month ago:
Oh my God I completely forgot about those cam house videos I used to download from limewire
- Comment on Dairy 1 month ago:
Iirc, they address both the knee thing and the clothes in the books. Skin tight clothing morphs with you, and I distinctly remember one conversation about the knees thing, but I couldn’t tell you which book it was (though, my buddy Goom probably can)