mortimer
@mortimer@lemmy.world
Freelance Subversive
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 5 days ago:
Go for it man. It looks awesome. I might actually save up and get one myself. Fuck pressure washers!
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 5 days ago:
Ah, but with a drum kit you could join a band, tour the world and pick up lots of hot chicks.
With a pressure washer you might be able to clean a patio or two, earn some loose change and be constantly covered in mud.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 5 days ago:
Drum kit.
Pressure washers seem great ‘n’ all until you use them. Then you end up soaked, splattered and covered in all kinds of shit. I used mine once to clean a driveway and no longer wish to repeat the experience. I didn’t even bother trying to wash the clothes I was wearing as it would have buggered up my washing machine. I just dumped them in the trash.
With a drum kit you don’t even have to leave the house.
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 6 days ago:
It’s always worked for me.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 6 days ago:
Wipeout Omega Collection.
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 6 days ago:
Satisfaction at making your asshole boss do something that he/she clearly didn’t want to do. Satisfaction that you made it as awkward as possible for them. You can also play the game of threatening to take them to an industrial tribunal for harassment. They might even give you a financial incentive to go peacefully. It worked for me on a couple of occasions and the bastards deserved it.
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 6 days ago:
Make them fire you. I’ve done it that way loads of times when dissatisfied in a workplace. There’s nothing quite like being fired and out of work to make you get your shit together and find something else. Also, make a plan to become self-employed if you can. Having been fired loads of times I now work for myself and it was the best move I ever made. I no longer have to deal with asshole mangers any more and if there’s someone you dislike and don’t want to work for, you can either not take on the job or over-quote on the costs to get rid of them. Sometimes they’re stupid enough to agree to those costs, so then you at least feel satisfied about working for an asshole.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 1 week ago:
Yup. “The map is not the territory” as Alfred Korzybski put it.
- Comment on How would you forgive someone that poisoned your dog when they only offer bad faith apology ? 3 weeks ago:
My dog is better than all humans. There’d be no forgiveness. Only murder.
- Comment on What do people (as in, IRL) actually think of the [alleged] perpetrator involved in the NYC shooting? 4 weeks ago:
As a person living in Scotland I was initially perplexed why this was even a story. I mean, isn’t this what Americans do? Shoot each other all the time?
If the guy that was shot was a bum living out of a dumpster at the back of McDonald’s would this even be a story? And therein lies my initial naivety: this was a CEO of a company ranked 8th on the 2024 Fortune Global 500, and therefore a very important person indeed apparently.
Money talks and bullshit walks I guess.
As for the shooter, I haven’t really been following the story, but I guess he was someone who got fucked over by the health insurance company.
To me this is just box standard America: people shooting each other, fat folk eating too much, car chases, wars everywhere, idiots for presidents, corrupt companies. The kind of stuff that’s in every Hollywood movie.
As an outsider looking in, it’s kind of sad yet fascinating watching the most powerful country in the world fall apart.
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 1 month ago:
I’m going to miss you.
The only apethetic attitude I’m aware of is the Democrat’s apathy towards genocide in Gaza.
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 1 month ago:
Nice. I’m a wrecker of civilisation and I’m not even American and never voted in your pretend illusion of democracy. Your country is Rome before the fall. I will enjoy seeing it sink into the sea. Better learn to swim.
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 1 month ago:
She was dogshit. So fucking dogshit she got beaten by a narcissist. Fuck America! They deserve the president they elected.
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 1 month ago:
Damned right. It would’ve been hard to out-dogshit her.
- Comment on Trump's eligibility 1 month ago:
She wasn’t competent. That was the problem. It was going to be much of the same shit under Harris as it was under Biden. Both parties are two sides of the same coin controlled mainly by Zionist lobbyists. It’s an illusion of democracy. The US is fucked. Now it’ll be fucked faster. If I was a US citizen I don’t know how I would’ve voted. In all conscience I couldn’t vote for Harris because of her continued support of genocide in Gaza, but equally there’s no way Trump would get my vote either (because he’s an egotistical lunatic). I guess I’d go for a third party which is marginally a better option than not voting at all.
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- Comment on Is it cheaper to use a plug-in oil radiator to eat an individual room, or run the central heater to heat an individual room and living room? 2 months ago:
I know a guy that heats his house with those tubular heaters for greenhouses. One for each room and the place is always comfortably warm without being too expensive.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 2 months ago:
X: It’s like Twitter, but it’s shitter.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 2 months ago:
I don’t think the platform will last long enough to care. In a year or two it’ll be “X, formely known an Twitter, currently remembered as Elon’s clusterfuck.”
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 2 months ago:
Is it Wonder Man?
- Comment on What is stopping the vice president from ever murdering the president? 2 months ago:
It works for the Klingons.