DarrinBrunner
@DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 2 days ago:
It’s interesting to watch people sus this out in real time. Society as a whole will land on some sort of “solution”, and I expect it’s one most of you won’t like.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 2 days ago:
I predict you’ll get your wish.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 2 days ago:
she’s destroying the world by paying attention to this Okay, I’ll bite. How exactly is your mom “destroying the world” by paying attention to it?
- Comment on Tender chicken 3 days ago:
Tender, succulent chicken breast, lovingly bathed in a sweet, creamy garlic sauce, served with melon balls, and broken promises.
- Comment on Why? 3 days ago:
Gay man so deep in the closet he lives in Narnia: “Why is everything so gay?!”
- Comment on You mean it's not? 4 days ago:
It probably is? I mean, there are so many damn fonts.
- Comment on What a great idea 5 days ago:
They’re very common in the U.S., too, in the past six years.
At first, I was against them, because of fewer people being employed, and I’d be “working for free”, but the much shorter wait convinced me. Also, Walmart employs a bunch of people to do the pick-up shopping, so, I think the number of people employed has stayed the same. Although, I suspect they pay the pickers less.
I refuse to use the pick-up shopping because half of my shopping is fresh vegetables, and I don’t trust anyone else to choose them for me. Yeah, I want two onions, but I want big ones, and ones with no mold or bruises. Food is expensive, and I don’t want to pay for poor quality. Yeah, I want a bunch of celery, but if the organic looks better than the normal, I might pay a bit extra for that this time. Paid pickers can’t make those choices for me.
- Comment on What a great idea 5 days ago:
I’m one of those old people. We know what’s up.
- Comment on What a great idea 5 days ago:
I don’t. Not for shopping. I had to wait outside in line, in the freezing cold for an hour, when my state decided to limit the number of customers allowed in at one time. Sucked balls. That didn’t last long, fortunately.
- Comment on What a great idea 5 days ago:
I do my grocery shopping at about 7AM on Sunday. I cruise through the aisles, slowing down to grab what I want. A full week’s shopping done in under 30 minutes, including checkout. I’m sure it also helps that I choose not to live in a big city.
I suppose if I had an online following of any kind, I might shop at a time that gave me something to complain about.
- Comment on Heave-ho! 6 days ago:
This is it, down to the bow:
- Comment on Good luck 6 days ago:
Generally speaking, we should not be eating hot food from plastic containers. I certainly don’t.
Ideally, we wouldn’t use plastic containers for food at all, but that ship sailed 60 years ago. Also, even if you are able to avoid buying food in plastic containers, the machines used to process the food, even just to transport fresh vegetables along a conveyor line, shed plastic from gears and bushings, etc. But, that’s micro plastic, not the chemicals that leech from the plastic much more readily when it’s heated.
Here’s a study about micro plastic in olive oil. TL;DR: there’s no difference in the amount of micro plastic in olive oil between oil sold in glass containers compared to oil sold in plastic containers.
- Comment on Good luck 6 days ago:
My daily driver is a basic white, glazed mug I’ve had for nearly 30 years. I probably got it at Goodwill for 25 cents. It has no clever saying on it, because I’d get tired of that in a week.
(No, it’s not leeching lead into my coffee.)
- Comment on Troll physics 1 week ago:
I mean, more like elevator.
Oh! Unless, they’re using the wheels to move back and forth and steer? That would make sense.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 1 week ago:
I had a co-worker who took a few semesters of Spanish in high school, she got all As, and then went on a class trip to Mexico. At first, she couldn’t understand a thing, but she said as she listened and tried, “something snapped” and suddenly she got it.
- Comment on We all took foreign languages in school and none of us can actually speak those languages 1 week ago:
Most people who take a language in school don’t keep at it. We’re just doing it because it’s required, and to pass the class. I took French in high school. The only person I’ve ever met who spoke French fluently was my teacher. I really should have taken Spanish, but I wanted to be “different”.
In Europe, also, because of the open borders, and being packed so close together, people encounter foreign languages far more frequently. It makes sense they’d all want to, and benefit from, knowing multiple languages. And, they’d have more opportunities to practice. Not many Japanese speak a second language, compared to Europeans, for instance.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 week ago:
My atheist parents had me circumcised because at the time it was recommended for “health reasons”, and was common to do so at the time.
I suppose this means I was a victim of child abuse?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending circumcision, and my son isn’t for what that’s worth. But, They need to be careful how they word this law.
- Comment on genius 1 week ago:
See, what no one in here realizes is that the plan was to use this as a master to cast an aluminum one. Aluminium is a metal, and metal is strong. I’m sure everything will be fine.
- Comment on Video Game Websites in the early 00s 1 week ago:
I’d almost totally forgotten about webrings. Thanks for posting this for that reason if no other, it has a big list of webrings to explore.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 week ago:
It’s learned over time. I expect what we learned from easier-to-process roots was applied to grains.
- Comment on Give me some good ones 1 week ago:
“I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.”
A former co-worker got me with this one many years ago. I laughed out loud. I’ve never forgotten it.
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 2 weeks ago:
The billionaires don’t want all-out nuclear war, what they want is world domination by a few, over a literal slave class mix of humans and robots.
However, in case of imminent attack in an outbreak of a nuclear WWIII, the best plan is to drive toward the biggest city in your region, or stay put if you currently live in a big city.
I’ll take instant vaporization over whatever the survivors are going to need to deal with in the aftermath.
- Comment on The shrinkflation 2 weeks ago:
While I understand the temptation of McD’s fries, I stopped eating completely out during the pandemic and never went back. I got used to making my own meals. It’s much cheaper, and I know what’s in the food.
I do miss KFC, tho.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 2 weeks ago:
I have a big bread baker’s Hoosier cabinet in my kitchen. I’m not a baker, I’ve never had any use for it.
Very similar to this one, with a flour sifter, and slide-out porcelain steel table:
My older sister shipped it to me without asking me, and then told me it was coming about two days before it arrived. Our mom had just died, and my sister didn’t have room for it, but she “wanted it to stay in the family.”
It is a beautiful piece, solid oak, probably over 100 years old. So, I kept it. It just sits there, taking up space in my barely-big-enough kitchen. I expect when I die, my only son will sell it. I should probably just sell it now, my sister would hate me for it, though.
- Comment on 94.3° F 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad to see technology used in the pursuit of important science.
- Comment on Elijah Radcliffe 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t read the title. I though, ‘Jeez, I never noticed Daniel has that crazy eye.’
- Comment on Elijah Radcliffe 2 weeks ago:
We need a remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. They both play the role, and then they’re merged like this.
- Comment on Just keeping my buoyancy in check. 2 weeks ago:
I bet that guy who has lied to his family about liking manatees for the past 20 years knew this, even if he didn’t want to.
- Comment on Do it. 2 weeks ago:
Squid are fren. Don’t eat.
- Comment on I hacked mars! 3 weeks ago:
I drew a factory with the smoke stacks making a u-turn and stuck into the ground. Seemed like a good way to keep pollution from going into the air.
