mrgoosmoos

@mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is only a little strange⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  that kind of thing has popped up on my feed and I really don’t understand it

  like the actual content is this tiny window in the middle of the screen, there’s a background video for motion, some sort of border effects, and then just stock footage of some dude sitting in a chair nodding?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Vancouver Police⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  this is a weird comparison

  there are real criminals out there and OP chose drug addicts, a crime which by itself is just minding your own business

  fuck, go after the drivers endangering countless people every day. far more dangerous than drug addicts that commit crimes that affect other people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end is near⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  white nationalism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  thankfully my reflexes still prioritize my own safety, and most times I leave a near collision pissed off at the shitty driver and regretful that I couldn’t leave them a lasting mark. but when I get to the chance to, say, let my cargo bike basket scrape a car that pushed me into the curb, I’m gonna try to take it.

  and thankfully (?) my health issues are unrelated to biking injuries (at least, unrelated to sharing the road with drivers — I’ve got a completely self-inflicted road injury from long ago and injuries from mountain biking lol).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  this is what’s wild to me. I’ll be having casual conversation with people and they’ll mention one cyclist that did something they didn’t like. sometimes it’s valid like running a red light, sometimes it’s something stupid like complaining about how they’re not in the non-existent bike lane. the wild part is that they will do this after we just had multiple discussions about how bad drivers were on the way to the location that we are currently hanging out. like, there’s just no recognition for how much worse drivers are and how much more prevalent it is.

  no matter what method of transportation I use, drivers are always the worst part of it. always. no matter where I go. a lot of routes around my house don’t even require me to be on public streets except residential streets or to cross streets, and still drivers will fuck up the one of three situations in which I must interact with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  no less so than drivers are, so it’s kind of an irrelevant point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  to be fair, it’s not like fewer cyclists are following the rules than drivers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  my mindset when biking now is mostly to inconvenience bad drivers as much as possible and ensure that if they hit me it results in as much damage to their car as I can without harming myself.

  I will aggressively take my right of way. one of the most common places is a bike crossing nearby where drivers routinely blow the stop line on their red light - I start up as quickly so that if they blow the stop and go into the crossing, I may not be able to stop before crashing into them. I don’t mind my shitty bike taking some damage if it leaves them with a dented door panel. another common occurrence is roundabouts - drivers vastly underestimate the speed at which a bike can navigate a tight roundabout, and they routinely cut me off. unfortunately, I’ve avoided collisions every time that a driver has nearly hit me, because my reaction is to not get hurt. but god damn did I ever want to slam into some of those cars and leave a lasting impression

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Car!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah, I do that. because I have right of way when I do it.

  I had a driver yell at me once because in her incorrect opinion I had not checked for cross traffic. I was approaching a pedestrian crossing at a roundabout that is signed that drivers must yield to pedestrians. I knew she was approaching from my left, I heard her slowing down, and I quickly glanced to confirm that she was stopping. I did this without obviously turning my head. I stepped into the crosswalk without slowing down, and she took the time to roll her window down and yell at me that I need to look around or something, and then nearly hit something as she proceeded through the roundabout trying to roll her window back up.

  I did everything just fine, she was just mad that she was too observant to notice me checking for traffic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  not just idiots. selfish fucks and idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  they did not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨onions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, it’s dishonest of her to say that she doesn’t like them, when she clearly does like them as an ingredient

  nobody said he was hiding the ingredients from her, grow the fuck up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨onions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  usually raw. I’ve been slacking on keeping a container of caramelized in the fridge. but a good amount are added to soups or noodle bowls etc so that’s half cooked?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨onions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  sooooo you like onions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨onions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  like those mfs who don’t like onions

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨onions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  this is true. the relationship between my bowel movement health and my intake of onions is a coincidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨onions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s the great thing about onions, if you don’t like them cooked then you can eat them raw!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨law enforcement partners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  as an avid despiser of assholes who don’t return their carts and leave them right in the fucking way, I grant you a pass because of how you’re doing it and what you do to avoid the situation in the first place

  also the dollar tree sounds like it simply has a bad design and they should fix that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨law enforcement partners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  nope not at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  makes me question if Budweiser did this or if the store did

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delicious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  what’s the relevance of the car. who is selling cakes in their car? do they eat the cake in the car? is this an american thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take cover⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s fine, I never wanted to read them, it was just more work for me. no need to eat a bus tire, fam

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  enshittification is the symptom of the underlying issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨greeting a CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  think of cutting food in your kitchen. slicing cuts better than chopping. an angled blade is similar to a slicing motion.

  really it’s more that the cut starts at a smaller area than all at once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolutely true⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you said it made you happier, not that it took you from unhappy to happy

  it’s an important distinction

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The perfect date⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  same. even if they give a different format, because fuck that I’m not thinking about what arbitrary format you want me to use, I see a date field and I’m filling it out with the proper date format

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The perfect date⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, I’ll send dates as mm-dd in my personal life as well. only when discussing exact dates for scheduling things, otherwise in conversational messaging it’s mmmm dd

  like if we’re talking about when we want to go do x activity, I’ll propose August 8th. but if we’re scheduling trip dates, it’s 08-08 through 09-12

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking AI bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s alright, that’s what drivers with reverse cameras do as well, just stare at it and then act all surprised when I slap their car because they almost backed into me while I was out of view of their camera

  I strongly dislike all these driver aids being standard. it seems to just make dumber drivers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one could have seen this coming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, you do lol

  it’s a home/tool/auto/garden/sports/outdoors store. a Walmart without food, regular daily wear clothes, or a tech dpmt.

  they’ve started locking down all sorts of shit in the past few years, it’s absurd. like, I’m not going to wait for an employee to unlock the case so I can get a box wrench. I’m just gonna go to a different store.

  I remember during covid started when they’d just made changes to prevent people from leaving the store without meandering through the 100ft long checkout queue. also absurd. I didn’t buy anything because you don’t have what I need, let me the fuck out, I’m supposed to not be up close to people but I have to squeeze past in a four foot wide aisle??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one could have seen this coming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  nah they gotta walk the item up to the cash for you