DagwoodIII
@DagwoodIII@piefed.social
- Comment on How I have better social interactions? 4 hours ago:
Unbelievable as it sounds, it is possible to learn to like all sorts of people.
Even more incredible, it’s possible to learn things from all different sorts of folks and enjoy their company.
Most astonishing of all? For thousands and thousands of years, human beings used simply socialization as their primary form of entertainment and enlightenment.
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- Comment on How I have better social interactions? 6 hours ago:
Just ask them questions about the things they like.
Say they like football. “What’s the best game you ever saw?” “What player would you have liked to meet?”
Cooking. “What’s worth spending money on?” “What kind of knives do you like.”
If you listen 90% of the time you’ll get a reputation as a great conversationalist.
- Comment on Green Party 2026: They're Electable If You Vote For Them 1 day ago:
No idea.
They aren’t worth looking at.
- Comment on Green Party 2026: They're Electable If You Vote For Them 1 day ago:
The GOP has been using the Green Party to steal votes from the Dems for years.
The GOP also gives money to the Libertarians, so they are fair and balanced…
- Comment on Thomas Brodie-Sangster (left) and Luke Bracey (right), both of whom play major roles in the TV series „Artful Dodger”, are less than a year apart in age (born in May 1990 and April 1989 respectively). 3 days ago:
Reminds me of an old Hollywood story.
Joe was an actor. When he was 12 he could still play six year olds; when he was 20 he could play twelve; he was still playing teens and college kids well into his 40s. At sixty he could still play romantic leads with women a third his actual age.
When he was 75 the Academy awarded him a Lifetime Achievement award. He came out to thunderous applause.
He walked up to the podium and said, “None of you is clapping because I’m a great actor. You’re all happy that I finally look my age!”
- Comment on Snackalackin 3 days ago:
Username checks out
- Comment on Snackalackin 3 days ago:
Don’t buy chips, buy good food to snack on.
Apples and cheese makes a great snack. Even quality peanut butter is better than ultra processed chips.
- Comment on Sorry, vampires 6 days ago:
- Comment on Pfft 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually a great example.
Back in the day, jazz records would have the jazz version of the song on Side A, and a non-jazz version on Side B.
To the people hearing jazz for the first time it sounded terrible, but after they realized the musicians knew what they were doing, many were won over.
- Comment on Pfft 2 weeks ago:
Jumping in.
I tried ‘House’ and noped out about fifty pages in.
Too much work and not much payout.
imho it was a gimmick book.
- Comment on If you wish to color/decorate your pumpkin with the intention of eating the seeds, would it be a good idea to cover the pumpkin with felt instead of painting it? 2 weeks ago:
You are supposed to remove the seeds first.
If nothing else, a hollow pumpkin is much easier to handle.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of an old story.
The King asks his grandson what a king’s job is?
The lad says that a king’s job is to make good decisions. The King says no, a king’s job is to make terrible choices.
He goes on. Anyone can make a good decision, because those are usually pretty obvious. When the choice isn’t obvious, it gets ‘kicked upstairs.’ The cop hands the choice to a judge, who kicks it to the appellate court, and so on. Eventually the King has to choose between two equally bad options.
- Comment on If your city has terrible tap water, how do you fight for better tap water? 2 weeks ago:
Check which local politician has made it part of their platform.
Go support them.
- Comment on They all look like this 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on They all look like this 3 weeks ago:
Same thing with cars.
They used to be really colorful and fun. Now I’m surprised when I see a red car.
- Comment on AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on she has risen! 3 weeks ago:
Funny story.
Edison was trying to make Tesla’s Alternating Current look dangerous, unlike Edison’s safe Direct Current.
Edison paid a stooge to push through a bill in the New York Legislature ot make AC electric chairs the official form of execution.
- Comment on Work Hard, Enjoy Never 3 weeks ago:
It’s been mentioned so many times.
Monica got that great apartment because her aunt [grandmother?] put Monica’s name on the lease when Monica was still a kid. Chandler was an executive with a couple of assistants and he could barely afford the smaller place next door.
And the reality is that up until 1968, a high school graduate in the USA actually did have a good chance of becoming a home owner.
When Nixon came in he doubled down on LBJ’s policy of paying for the Vietnam War by printing money and not raising taxes. This lead to inflation. The inflation got much worse when the Arab Oil Boycott hit.
Jimmy Carter hired Paul Volker to run the Fed. Volker’s plan worked, but only after Carter was out. Reagan took credit for the economic miracle, then turned around and gave the banks the right to print money with his deregulation.
By 1992, after four GOP Presidents, ‘middle class’ had gone from one job supporting a family to both parents working full time.
- Comment on Work Hard, Enjoy Never 3 weeks ago:
Remember, when ‘The Simpsons’ first came out, a high school graduate with a blue collar job owning a house and two cars was considered normal.
- Comment on Trust me, there is no plague 3 weeks ago:
So, he’s got War and Plague and Death.
Just needs a Famine card.
- Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. 3 weeks ago:
No.
The only reform we need is to take money out of politics.
If you get X number of people to sign your petition, you get y dollars to spend on a campaign. The spending is well monitored, so the candidate can’t buy themselves a Lambo and call it a legit expense.
- Comment on Machines 3 weeks ago:
I guess we’re not that friendly.
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- Comment on Machines 3 weeks ago:
I’ve gotten pretty friendly with the woman who manages to self checkout area.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Realistically, work is going to be a thing for the foreseeable future.
I lucked into finding this book, “Discover What You Are Best At” by Linda Gale. It’s free in most libraries.
It lead me to a job that I actually liked doing. Yes, I would take random mental health days, and complain about the bosses, but most Mondays I’d get up without hating myself.
- Comment on We both republicans, right? 4 weeks ago:
This is why any discussion of political labels outside of a classroom is meaningless.
The Chinese Communist Party is full of billionaires; Hitler called himself a Socialist; North Korea calls itself a Democratic Republic.
It’s like you have to go out and look at the people running for office and pick based on that, and not their Party.
- Comment on Minimum Wage Isn't Living Wage 4 weeks ago:
‘No Business Which Depends for Existence on Paying Less Than Living Wages to Its Workers Has Any Right to Continue in This Country’
Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Comment on Slash. 4 weeks ago:
[not really off topic, but kinda]
“The 7% Solution” by Nicholas Meyer [who also directed the movie]
Fantastic story. Holmes’ cocaine habit has become a full on addiction. It’s up to Drs. Watson and Freud to cure him.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 4 weeks ago:
But I thought all the Boomers were rich landlords?
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 5 weeks ago:
What part of ‘so far’ confuses you?
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 5 weeks ago:
Also, Orphan Black.