DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
- Comment on Had to look this up 18 hours ago:
American PUBLIC schools suck NOW (mostly since Bush II, when they really ramped up their attacks). Private American schools for rich kids do not suck, and public schools didn’t used to suck.
This is all by design, to be clear.
I’m sixty, I got a decent public school education, and I was taught about “The Troubles” while they were happening. I was also taught about the horrors of The Holocaust by a history teacher who lived through the war. My eighth-grade English teacher was a WWII vet, and he had some stories.
- Comment on One more internet meme 19 hours ago:
It’s a good thing those guys are wearing hard hats.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 days ago:
We could, you know, just wait and see.
*ducks*
- Comment on You just couldn't be satisfied with slow and easy 4 days ago:
That’s where you hang your favorite poster until you move out.
Either that, or tell her the truth, she’ll understand.
- Comment on We have all done THIS 4 days ago:
I did it a couple of times. Just went home and never went back, never called, blocked the number. I highly recommend it if you have the means.
- Comment on Good news. The wife of Jeff Bezos is giving back some of the money her husband stole from Amazon employees 5 days ago:
*ex-wife
Also, she’s just playing philanthropist, like Bill and Warren. If she gave all but $10 million away, I’d be impressed.
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 1 week ago:
It would certainly make their job harder. We could go back to invisible ink and writing by hand.
- Comment on Guys, I fucked up 1 week ago:
I cracked a mirror five years ago, but it didn’t come off the wall. I thought it didn’t count.
- Comment on Splashed again 1 week ago:
Hold it straight down, is what I tell myself every time.
- Comment on Anon starts his day 1 week ago:
I’ve seen worse.
- Comment on You should start doing this today 1 week ago:
Over the years, there have been fewer and fewer people in my life. Sometimes I told them to fuck off, sometimes they told me to.
Now that I’m retired, there is no one left, except my adult son, and the cat. It’s fine.
I do what I want to do, when I want to do it, and answer to no one. No compromising, no tongue biting, no one pushing me to do something different.
I’m happy and content. No regrets.
- Comment on It's OK to just like lemon water. 1 week ago:
So, like plain water, then?
- Comment on Twinkle twinkle little star 2 weeks ago:
Can’t put it science, they’ll gripe, “Why is this fluff cluttering up my feed?!”
It fits well enough in Science Memes, tho.
- Comment on Cope 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if this is disingenuous “reasoning” or, an honest position.
Ever since I came to understand that Flat Earthers weren’t just trolls, like the way Birds Aren’t Real folks ARE trolls, I’ve had trouble sussing out what’s real and what’s just bullshit “reasoning” to support bullshit ideals. I get now that I was just naive as to how incredibly stupid and evil people can be.
- Comment on Please no, just stop 2 weeks ago:
The extent of my use of AI: I downloaded and installed Deep Seek locally and played with it a bit. I also installed Forge AI locally. I didn’t see anything of interest to me and removed it. There’s no way I’m making an account on any of the online AI sites. I’ll leave that to others.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 2 weeks ago:
It always happens in the middle of the night, like it’s waiting. I tore one of mine off the ceiling and put it in the car, in the garage, so I couldn’t hear it. I damn near smashed it, but then I had the idea of putting it in the car.
- Comment on Dear neighbor... 2 weeks ago:
Not next door to me, but a house on my walk has done this twice over the past few years. It’s been going on for at least a month this time, every time I walk past BEEP BEEP BEEP! I think the house is a rental. If I lived next door to that, I would 100% break in and solve the problem.
- Comment on Eggs 3 weeks ago:
Eggs are life!
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 3 weeks ago:
They all go to Ivy League colleges, and they all take the same public speaking classes.
It’s a big club, but we’re not in it.
- Comment on No shit! I would also run like hell away from that. 3 weeks ago:
This might be a temporal anomaly.
A very painful temporal anomaly.
- Comment on Amazon cuts 14,000 jobs, blames AI 3 weeks ago:
This has nothing to do with AI, consumers don’t have any cash left and sales are falling off a cliff. Remember how they had to extend Prime Days?
“Blames AI” is a weird way to put it, and I think that was on purpose, to deflect comments from the real reason.
- Comment on Salary negotiations are going well 🙃 3 weeks ago:
Can we not write complete sentences anymore?
- Comment on No fucking way! I got invited to the Illuminati 3 weeks ago:
Congrats!
Remember, registration is not mandatory, but it IS your ranking. Also, you are description.
Gotta admit, I’m a bit jelly.
- Comment on Not vaccinating is child abuse. 3 weeks ago:
Too bad there aren’t child-proportion accurate plastic skeletons. You’d need to take a larger head from a bigger one, and attach it to a smaller one to get sort-of close.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but it has nothing to do with generations, or age. I prefer “MAGA” to boomer, because I think that’s the group most people have a problem with. MAGA does not correlate well with age. MAGA comes in all ages, and even cuts across class. With the rich class supporting it because it’s to their advantage, and the bigots of the poor class supporting it because they are bigots and ignorant.
- Comment on New small business owner had a great idea to have word of mouth build his business. 3 weeks ago:
“It looks like a horse yoke. Is that why?”
~Some Amish Guy.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
Throughout middle school and high school, my bedroom clock was one of these, just the mechanism, no face, no numbers, hanging off the edge of a shelf. I had no trouble reading it. I still can easily read an analog clock with no numbers or any face marks.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, þravo!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Here’s Making of Deep Space Nine Season 5, Episode 6 “Trials and Tribble-ations”.
Don’t skip the commercials.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 3 weeks ago:
Staying healthy isn’t only about living longer, it’s about quality of life while alive.
You’ll understand when you get older.
