DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 days ago:
- Comment on Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲 3 days ago:
Outside, against the wall, alone. At least that’s where I sat in high school. So, maybe with the wasps?
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 4 days ago:
Have a McRib. I thought that was obvious.
- Comment on Gravity! 5 days ago:
I was late to the Flat Earth thing, I assumed it started as satire for a couple of years after hearing about it, but didn’t pay it any attention. I was disappointed to learn that it was not satire, and too many (more than zero) believed it was true.
On the upside, I suppose, I now am more aware of just how fucking stupid people can be, and that’s good. Gotta keep your guard up when meeting new people, ya never know, ya know?
- Comment on Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads. 5 days ago:
No, thanks. I’ll stick with my long-since-paid-for, 25-year-old Maytag. That is, as long as it works.
I recall reading in Consumer Reports many years ago that most refrigerators were discarded not because they stopped working, but because of cosmetic damage. Broken plastic door shelves, dents, rust, out of style, etc. The compressors were still fine.
- Comment on Its all over 1 week ago:
European, or African?
- Comment on Something is very wrong with the HBO Max 4K version of Mad Men 1 week ago:
If I still had Netflix, I’d watch just to see it. Maybe it will boost views.
Pretty good show, regardless.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
No clue. The only time I have more than three open is when I’m researching some stupid question I have, and then I immediately close them after I get the answer. If it’s something I want to save for reference, I save it locally with the SingleFile extension, because contrary to popular belief, shit gets deleted off websites all the time.
- Comment on happy buy nothing day to those who celebrate 1 week ago:
I bought FO4 off GOG a couple of days ago, because I’m fucking tired of Steam breaking my game every few weeks with mandatory updates, I think it was on sale for black friday. If that doesn’t count, then count me in.
- Comment on I dunno 1 week ago:
My education system didn’t fail me, I failed it.
- Comment on I miss Levis 1 week ago:
Wrangler still makes cheap, basic jeans out of thicker denim.
Anyone else think $50 is a lot for a pair of 501s?
I have Levi’s that are about 25 years old that I still wear. (Of course, I went through a few years when I was too fat to wear them, so they just hung in the closet till I lost the weight. But, they are that old, and I do wear them now.)
- Comment on Parking police 2 weeks ago:
Rear view cameras have been required by law for a few years now. I’m pretty sure it was a ploy by manufacturers to get a screen on every dashboard so they could sell ads.
- Comment on Parenting advice 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see what one-day blinding stew has to do with hair biting. But, I’ll look into it.
- Comment on Change my mind 2 weeks ago:
Where does arguing on Facebook fit into this? Nextdoor? JFC, my neighbors are a bunch of blithering idiots.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 2 weeks ago:
Leaving a review on the company website is pointless anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know much about the religion industry, but I suspect this is true for all of them. The fastest way to become a non-believer is to read the religious texts.
- Comment on Caption this. 2 weeks ago:
“STOP THROWING APPLES AT US! WE HAVE PhDs!”
- Comment on spongebob big guy pants okay 2 weeks ago:
Chat, is this true?
- Comment on 🧠 🧠 🧠 2 weeks ago:
The other night, I saw a weird spider on the bathroom mat while I was doing my business. The bathroom was lit only by a night light, so I could barely make it out. It was larger than our usual resident spiders, and writhing around like I had stepped on it and hurt it. I finished, stood up, and turned the light on to see the spider better. It wasn’t there. Apparently, spider hallucinations are common.
Several years ago now, I was talking to my girlfriend at the time about an argument we’d had about a week earlier. She listened for a minute and then said, “We never argued about that, where were we?” I told her we were in my car in my garage. She’d not been to my house up to that point. I realized I had dreamt it, but I completely and fully believed it was a real memory, but it simply could not have been. I freaked out for a few days when I read that people often confuse dreams for real memories. I now question which other of my memories are just past dreams. Why would trust any of my memories now, when any number of them might just be old dreams?
- Comment on After Today's meeting where Trump fell in love with Mamdani, this is MAGA tomorrow morning. 2 weeks ago:
This is the first I’m hearing of this. And, I seriously can’t tell whether you’re joking.
Not for the first time, recently, I ask, “WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!”
- Comment on New thing to ponder just dropped 2 weeks ago:
But, that’s worse. You see how that’s worse, right?
- Comment on *Yawn* 2 weeks ago:
My idea is that yawing helps sync our internal clocks. So, we sleep at the same time, and wake up at the same time. That way, no one is left behind when the group starts moving to the next waterhole, or feeding ground.
- Comment on *Yawn* 2 weeks ago:
Which does nothing to explain why it’s “contagious”.
- Comment on Had to look this up 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
It’s a good thing those guys are wearing hard hats.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 3 weeks ago:
We could, you know, just wait and see.
*ducks*
- Comment on You just couldn't be satisfied with slow and easy 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks ago:
It would certainly make their job harder. We could go back to invisible ink and writing by hand.
