binarytobis

@binarytobis@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My first job out of college my boss told me to machine something out of “teflon impregnated delrin”, which is like slippery machinable plastic. Just stared at him for a while to see if he was serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feelin like a snack⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Last week I accidentally put my melatonin in the “8am” slot of my pill divider for each day, thought I was dying or something with how incredibly tired I was while still not being able to sleep at night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lefty tax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly you weren’t ready for the lifetime career of being a Walmart cashier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lefty tax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  One time I was the only one of four people scheduled to show up on Thanksgiving, and there were at least twenty people at my register while the manager just stood off to the side and watched me. One of the customers yelled at me to “Stop smiling!” when I politely greeted the customers as I scanned like hell, and the other people in line just nodded along. I’ll always regret not quitting on the spot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lefty tax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Every customer service job I have worked has had managers like that. This was before smart phones so maybe they just weren’t worried about getting caught.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call me ,maybe... Or not.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had “Bleak Sublime” stuck ij my head for days, and this finally dislodged it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lefty tax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My very first customer as a grocery cashier only bought 1 of a “2 for 1” item. My trainer was standing behind me, and had literally taught me nothing except how to unlock the register. It rang up at full price and the guy was instantly irate. “This is supposed to be half price!” As if I had any way to even know there was a sale. He pointed at the item so I walked over and looked and saw the 2 for 1 sticker. I glanced at my trainer and he just looked on dispassionately, so I told the guy “Uh, I think you have to buy two for the ‘2 for 1’ deal.”

  Immediately started screaming at the top of his lungs. My trainer comes up and starts apologizing to the man “I’m so sorry this cashier is stupid. I’m not sure where he got the idea that he shouldn’t discount you. I trained them better than this. It’s so hard to find competent workers.” Then he swiped his badge (which I couldn’t have done without him), and changed the price manually.

  After the guy walked away happy having saved 50 cents on his kinder egg, the trainer turned to me and said “Don’t waste my time again. You should know this all already, you fucking moron.” and walked off. We had spent exactly two minutes total together since training had started, and he spent most of that insulting me for not somehow knowing how to cashier already.

  I had to call him back over two minutes later to show me how to process a check, and he was so angry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lefty tax⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, down the road they have buy one get one free at $0.40.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wake up, we've got a CEO to kill⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I played male V on my second playthrough when the DLC came out, and regretted it immensely. Finally got to romance Panam though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Splinter Cell designer says “one of the difficulties with modern stealth games” is realistic lighting, as environments are now so much “harder to read”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly games focus so much on unimportant nonsense to keep the feeling of realism, then you clip through a wall and see your character’s teeth from the inside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That guy gets banned a lot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boomer comics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The media really gave me unrealistic expectations about how much money my dislike of avocado was going to save me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cant order new shiny things⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really related, but recently I ordered something I need urgently from another country, and they offered to ship it three weeks faster if I paid an extra $30. When the payment cleared they immediately sent me a notice that shipping was delayed by three weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so close⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I visited my brother recently and his downstairs fridge was completely full of diet caffeine free soda. I tried a few and they tasted shockingly close to their normal counterparts. I don’t trust it, there has to be a cost I don’t realize I’m paying.

  But also, jesus christ at least sometimes drink some water. The whole family just hates water. They even have top notch H2O there, I’m jealous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dammit!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I graduated college right as the economy tanked dramatically. Local companies were rabidly trying to recruit me, I had a dozen legit job offers.

  Then, a week before I graduated, they all pulled their offers one by one. Everyone I knew by name at all of these companies was laid off at the same time. Spent the next two years temping because I was “overqualified” to work at companies like Best Buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨insert mental health condition here⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if I had to choose a hand I would choose the right, just because we write left to right and I wouldn’t want to track my hand through fresh pencil and pen marks.

  My friend in highschool was left handed and his left hand was always completely covered in graphite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a real bargain when you realize it'll fit 6-8⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Concerning implications about this clown coffin no longer being needed.

  “For sale, clown coffin. Never used. Because zombie.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “So the idea is that you wash away all of the dirt, and each time you clean something you accumulate wealth you can use to buy better equip-“

  “Do what now?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many of my relatives are diehard MAGA. So, when Trump said not to wear masks or quarantine, my aunt and her husband and son went out of their way to basically spend every second they could at superspreader events. They were warned it was dangerous, not restricted in any way, but still felt the need to act out to validate political feelings.

  Naturally, they all caught COVID in the early days. My uncle and cousin both passed, leaving my aunt as a devastated shell of a woman. When we would see each other at family dinners she would usually just sit with a far-off, forlorn look. Every once in a while she would tune in for a bit to spout some pro-Trump bullshit. I wanted to scream “He helped to kill your family!”

  I decided to just stop spending time with these people before I said something I would regret.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a AI update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of that guy who burned off his fingerprints and made his way more identifiable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security lines at JFK airport, NYC⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to go through the Atlanta airport shortly after the “4 hour wait” stories started hitting. I showed up 3 hours earlier than normal to be safe, and when I got there they had every station manned and ICE was basically just waiving everyone through. Took me about 2 minutes to get through security.

  Kind of illustrates how pointless TSA is in the first place, but I’d rather have had that four hour wait than have to be within 50 ft of ICE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What they took from us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Batman TAS is unbelievably good. Gets a little better every time I rewatch it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, I am pretty sure the steam machine is smaller than I was able to achieve in my efforts to make a tiny gaming PC for the living room. That kind of thing can only be done at great effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Boom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Once I was in the bathroom of this upscale theater following a Shakespeare play, when a very sharply dressed older man who exuded an aura of intelligence came in and approached a urinal. He dropped his pants and underwear all the way to the floor, raised his shirts with both of his hands and held them above his exposed nipples, then pushed his hips as far as he could into the urinal to piss hands-free. The incongruity of what I was seeing left me stunned, and made me forget to pee until he had completely left the bathroom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hay there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I looked into her because of that one song from the Cyberpunk 2077 DLC and immersed myself in her music for a while. Then I found out about her marrying Musk, and it’s hard to enjoy it any more because I can’t get over her terrible taste. Like, why? She already had enough money, was it worth it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s where the kinda comes in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda related: At some point I realized inflation is actually kinda good when you have no assets and large debt, because it effectively shrinks your debt. The problem is, I only thought about it well after paying off my debts and gaining some assets, so now I feel like the guys in the pic if I talk about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨type shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, didn’t even occur to me there would be trans complications as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just frisbee those things in random directions until one works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cleverly titled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  RPO tapped into some deep seated fantasy from my childhood. Much like Harry Potter it wasn’t very well written, but that doesn’t matter when you’re half lost in your own imagination the whole time.