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- Comment on Organization. 11 minutes ago:
Fix the VQ and then finish arranging everything alphanumeric, starting with punctuation alphabetized and the numbers starting with zero.
- Comment on Who's branded? Sound off 4 days ago:
I remember my sister and me tossing the middle buckle back and forth and then swinging it at each other until one of us got hit by a plastic-accented mace and then we both would cry. We never learned to stop doing that.
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 1 week ago:
apeach
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
I use edge when I’ve been a naughty boy and need to be punished. And then I open Microsoft office and click the “try for free” link
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 2 weeks ago:
Y’all have set up this false dichotomy in which you’ve ignored the real majority of chrome installs on windows: children, grandchildren, and neighbors who just want to move on with their life. So they install “the one that looks like a beach ball” and they install a bunch of risky extensions that’ll make reading and printing the internet easier.
Source: I used to work in computer repair and technological literacy. But, mostly my own ass.
- Comment on Oh nooo! 3 weeks ago:
You can also tell it’s not Godzilla, who is indicated by not-a-red-circle in the background.
- Comment on 🤡🤡🤡 3 weeks ago:
Moon float? No… Moon rocks…
- Comment on The Epstein Scandal Finally Takes Down a Politician 3 weeks ago:
Learn from our example here in the States: don’t stop at recalling a politician for such heinous behavior. Make sure their victims see justice and are made as whole as a legal, capitalistic system can afford.
If not, they’ll be more powerful the next time you see them.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I read that was true
- Comment on When real life generates the shitpost 3 weeks ago:
Or… you know… don’t do that either…
- Comment on Don't be so sensitive 🙄 4 weeks ago:
Drop all tables and eat a muffin or something… Eat shit, bot!
- Comment on How popular/important do you have to be for your death by homicide to be labeled as an "assassination"? What if the homicide is for a private matter that's separate from their importance? 4 weeks ago:
-unplugs Deep Blue-
- Comment on McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies 4 weeks ago:
As an ex service employee who had tips split and didn’t know about tip credit yet, I know that the options are to either get paid as a person, or treated as a person. The number of people who told me that they didn’t “do tips” but were willing to give me a high five as a substitute was as understandable as it was upsetting.
- Comment on McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies 4 weeks ago:
Just an fyi, $2.13 isn’t all people get paid in food service industries. It’s part of something called “tip credit.” The national or state minimum wage remains the absolute minimum. What this means is that your tips supplement the restaurant’s duties to pay you minimum wage.
If you make at least minimum wage at the end of your pay period, factoring in tips, then the restaurant doesn’t have to pay you more. If you make less with your tips, the restaurant is financially responsible to make you whole.
This is one of the reasons that tip-pooling should be illegal as well.
- Comment on ... 4 weeks ago:
Have y’all seen my urine sample? Could have sworn I left it over here…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Ah, flatulent flattery
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Who on my right would next like to blow smoke up my ass. Y’all look smart enough to know how to properly stroke my ego and you know what I’ll do if you don’t.
But then it turned out they didn’t need to be coerced at all. Turns out that when billionaires see big enough of an asshole, they’ll all line up to sniff it.
- Comment on That'd be helpful 4 weeks ago:
I miss having friends/family to cuddle with. My wife is fine, more than. But why can’t buddies just cuddle? Also, my oldest friend and I will platonically kiss. Our wives find it adorable, but I’ve been kissing this guy since preschool; why does it have to be seen as special?
- Comment on Da bomb 5 weeks ago:
We should have elected that pretzel
- Comment on Llama 5 weeks ago:
Those aren’t true mayonnaise because they got that way via convergent evolution. True mayonnaise come from the mayonnaise region of France, otherwise it’s just bubbling emulsion.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
The best parents are often the quirkiest. I’d say your dad’s actions have been a bit more concerning than quirky. But that’s not your load to carry.
You are his daughter and your concern should be your relationship with him. And it sounds like he’s a truly fantastic parent. You do not owe anyone else anything other than the best you that you can be, and it seems like your parents have helped make a very good you.
If anyone else wants to make the sins of the father be piled onto the daughter, you should do all you can to avoid that person. It sounds like your father’s character has given you a unique perspective from which you can draw better choices. And that is your positive takeaway and gift to give to anyone else who crossed his path.
In summary, your dad has made his own choices and everyone else can hold him accountable to that. So, just be a fantastic daughter and a wonderful person, and use that to contribute positively to your community. Don’t get bogged down by what your father has done—if anything, you can help lift people affected by your father, but only if it brings you joy.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Hello. There’s a non-zero chance that I’m one of your children. How will you interact with me?
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 5 weeks ago:
The mentor has become the mentos. I am proud of you son/daughter/some random kid I found. Go forth and make some swearwolves of your own.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 5 weeks ago:
Watch your fucking mouth. I didn’t raise a werewolf to talk that kinda shit!
Do as I say, not say as I say, fuckface
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 5 weeks ago:
I appreciate and understand your perspective, but I want to clarify some context:
This was my dad’s mom, so my grandparents. Had they been my parents and I’d known them at the age at which they raised me, then I’d immediately know how they raised their kids. But since this was my grandmother who raised my dad, it left me wondering what kind of parents my dad had. Was my dad a non-judgmental person in spite of his parents?
And the answer was, “no.” He learned to cast aside prejudices from my grandmother’s sick right-cross. It was mostly that kind of revelation that I needed to feel my catharsis.
(Added context: my dad is dead and I never heard that story from him. He died before my grandmother did, so I never got the opportunity to ask him about what her views on race were when he was a child.)
- Comment on Anyone else notice this?? 5 weeks ago:
Me in my mid-century ranch style: shim… knee?
- Comment on Stephen Miller: Secretary Kennedy one of the world's foremost experts on public health. He is working hard to restore the credibility of the CDC as a scientific organization 5 weeks ago:
Must be wearing asbestos pants that they aren’t engulfing him in flames
- Comment on Laser 5 weeks ago:
Clouseau looking rough these days
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 5 weeks ago:
We’re werewolves, not swearwolves
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 5 weeks ago:
My grandparents on my dad’s side used to make jokes that were funny when I was a kid, more concerning when I got older, and especially concerning as their dementia set in and they began outright stating people’s races in the jokes. In the years since their passing, it’s made me wonder what their beliefs on racism were, even though they raised me to never judge anyone by their race and that race will usually be a factor in how people are treated in the real world but should never be a factor in my personal interactions with anyone.
But those jokes had been weighing kinda heavy on me in recent years. I know they had dementia, but was this possibly at the core of their beliefs?
I recently heard a story, unprompted, from a family member who was present when my dad was in high school or college, in the '70s, and made an off-color joke . Apparently my dad said that a car with a poorly done paint job “looked like a Mexican car.” Without missing a beat, my grandmother punched my dad in the jaw with a right hook and yelled, “WE DO NOT MAKE DEROGATORY JOKES ABOUT PEOPLE FOR THEIR RACE!” My grandmother was always known for how passive, playful, and gentle she was, especially with her kids.
Turns out grandma was not only adamant about race sensitivity, she was kinda a badass. And the jokes I thought were possibly racist were truly homophone humor about regional dialects and not about people’s nationality.