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- Comment on What's 26 + 6 in Cyrillic? 3 minutes ago:
FWIW, this image is about Gerogia and how Russia has occupied 20% of it since 2008. They’re still pretty pissed about it.
- Comment on Got my guys house stuff and a whole new wardrobe 34 minutes ago:
Yeah, good point. One time I tried to use a metal one with just room temp whiskey, it leaked all over for the same reason.
- Comment on Got my guys house stuff and a whole new wardrobe 22 hours ago:
Yep. Taken mine into Pitchfork, hockey games, and whatever else. Metal flasks are as useful as a plaque on a wall. Nice visually, not functionally.
- Comment on Got my guys house stuff and a whole new wardrobe 1 day ago:
Metal flasks are such a stupid gift.
You want whiskey? Buy a god damned bottle. A flask holds A big pour of liquid. You’re going to bring a drink somewhere? Good one, Bevis.
Sneaking it into something? Nope, it’s metal and clunky big.
Metal conducts heat, so your bodyheat hot whiskey will burn the whole time, no matter how good it is.
Be an adult and buy a plastic nalgeen flask you keep in your sock. Does the place do pat-downs? Ok, then chug 8 oz of whiskey in the parking lot like god intended. They can’t take it from you when it’s in you already. ; )
- Comment on WAR! What is it good for? 1 day ago:
Michael Scott wishes.
The guy got fucking published. Or paid someone to publish his shit. He would send us paperback copies of his books. Most of a paragraph about a Walther PPK (the gun you start with in GoldenEye is the only reason I remember) when he could have just said “an easy to conceal pistol” is where I drew the line.
- Comment on Buddha orders a pizza: "Make me One with Everything" 1 day ago:
Flavored coffee is a crime.
How is the pizza? I love me some Gorgonzola on one, so I can see the appeal of some funk.
- Comment on Buddha orders a pizza: "Make me One with Everything" 1 day ago:
The most Zen thing would be to eat it all up, every bite, and say nothing since obviously durian pizza for the group would be intended to get a rise from them. You accept the adversity, and learn never to let that guy order pizza for the group ever again.
- Comment on WAR! What is it good for? 1 day ago:
When virtue signaling is your advertising, you don’t have to think real hard.
- Comment on WAR! What is it good for? 1 day ago:
I just had a flashback to a place I worked at where this guy who was a client was an “author” that wrote the worst drivel that was all about the stuff his shitty James Bond ripoff carried around. It sounded like the whole first half of this, entirely unironically.
- Comment on Jorb 1 day ago:
Jorb… Finds a way
- Comment on We thought it could never get better than this 2 days ago:
It’s the pendulum, swinging from total focus on pixel-level edits, to “fully appreciating” your work over the space of 30 seconds.
- Comment on The fluffy tail butt plug is part of this year's fox-themed costume 3 days ago:
This seems like something Heidi Klum would wear for Halloween.
- Comment on We thought it could never get better than this 3 days ago:
Wow, that’s ambitious. But I get it - it’s sooooo close already!
That point when you’re zoomed in, coloring individual pixels with zero horniness, just all frustration and focus. Then you zoom out and your heart skips a beat. Ahh, those were the days.
- Comment on We thought it could never get better than this 3 days ago:
As a teenager, I got really good at drawing books from the side and the front in MS paint.
Then we got the internet and my digital art career went up in smoke at 28.9kbs.
- Comment on Why don't communities build massive gardens for food? That way it would undercut the price of big retail stores. 4 days ago:
ITT: people who have so much as seen a farm in real life, and city kids on.ml accounts that think you can just stand in a field and yell “Tomato! Tomato! Tomato!” and get free food, but the guy from Monopoly somehow undoes it using magic.
- Comment on Keep em closed 4 days ago:
Wait… Does Nyancat have a nemesis?
Is there a Nyancat Cinematic Universe that I’ve been missing out on?
- Comment on Boy Dinner 4 days ago:
Some people skip everything except literally the macaroni and cheese, and poorly cook the macaroni.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 4 days ago:
I’ve made the “original” recipe from Thomas Jefferson’s chef, and it was better than most I’ve had simply because it’s a proper bechamel sauce base. Most people just throw cheese on buttered noodles with no spices or hopes or dreams or love in their hearts.
- Comment on What is the best way to show someone what the grandparent scam will sound like, without also making it easier for someone to pull the scam? 4 days ago:
This is a huge problem, and I’m glad you’re asking this question.
Old people really really hate feeling like they’re behind in terms of knowledge. “I’m older and so I’m smarter!” is how they raised their children. So, you really need a demo to shock them into being willing to learn and drop the ego. Not to prove them wrong, but to demo how sinister and believable these things are. Don’t make them feel stupid. Show them what they’re up against.
Personally, I would find either a soundboard (Elon Musk might be easy, as tons of scammers use him and Boomers love him) or see if you can find a free or cheap voice clone app and clone your own voice, or one of your parents. Then call them when you know you or your parents will be around so that they are on the call and trusting it’s a loved one, then the loved one is there and not on the phone and aware of what’s going on.
Not only would this shock them into thinking “well, maybe it’s worse than I thought. They already got me once!” But might also give them a story to tell their friends that will help spread the idea.
Then you lay out basic tools and procedures like are suggested here already. Passwords or code words, helpful cards around the house with questions to ask and answers to expect, prompts that urgency is a sign of crime, etc.
- Comment on Over the past week I have spent considerable time contemplating this 4 days ago:
I have the same. I assume it’s that there’s a moisture level detector that samples, gives it some minutes, and samples again. So if the moisture level is 50, and the usual time needed for that is 100 minutes, 2 minutes per moisture unit. The timer says 100. But the condenser is dirty, so after 50 minutes, it samples again, and says moisture is only down to 40. It should be 25. So the stupid dryer says “Well, looks like a tough case. Still needs 80 minutes!”
- Comment on The electric boogaloo 4 days ago:
Kinda, yeah. It’s more like the “Newest New Testament” in practice. Which also means that the New Testament is more like “Torah 2: Back for Revenge!”
Though they call it The Book of Mormon: Another Testament of Jesus Christ."
As if it’s just a remix or a cover.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 4 days ago:
Well, typically it means we’re going to find out she’s not pregnant the next day.
- Comment on I rebuilt a 1997 chat room. First thing someone typed was "lol". Some things never change. 4 days ago:
Womp womp… Saved forever.
OK, well I guess I’m going to have spam the other rooms with no one in them with ChatGPT injections.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 4 days ago:
100% agreed. The reason the box stuff is good is because the cheese is powdered. I think I’ve had good, homemade stuff once ever.
- Comment on Boy Dinner 4 days ago:
Shit, my wife demands this sometimes. This lady is nuts.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 5 days ago:
It can’t. Their identity is wrapped up in the expectation that most people, like them, lack impulse control and can’t be trusted in any situation where genitals are involved. They think every horror imaginable is only seconds away from happening in every bathroom.
- Comment on I will let Lemmy be my oracle; what should I know? what is my fate? 6 days ago:
Not matter where go, there you are.
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 6 days ago:
That conservatives use gender as a weapon at their discretion.
- Comment on Add a layer of mystery and fun to any funeral 6 days ago:
Who’s the next of kin, and when do they throw the wreath to see who’s next?
- Comment on Why do we need legal genders at all? 6 days ago:
Because conservative rich kids wear pink “ironically” as a flex that they’re rich, and therefore “manly enough” that they de-gender pink as a color.