Signtist
@Signtist@bookwyr.me
Formerly /u/Signtist@lemm.ee
- Comment on Good point 2 days ago:
He originally wanted to call it the Spermy Long Legs.
- Comment on Do Costcos usually have an ATM machine? 3 days ago:
The ones in my area all have a Wings Credit Union ATM by the food court.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 4 days ago:
I know a lot of people who would consider 3 hours of gaming a day to be plenty, and I know a lot of people who buy Nvidia products. They are not the same people.
- Comment on On the wall in every kitchen 1 week ago:
I had one of these in my house growing up that was used as the family telephone before we all got cell phones, and I’m one of the younger millennials.
- Comment on OP has a realization 1 week ago:
You can definitely make up some reason why this UFO would be able to match the Earth’s speed without requiring all of physics to be wrong, but it’s actually pretty easy to get people like this to believe that everything we’ve been taught is a lie to cover up some grand truth that’s being kept from us. It makes them feel smart and validates their common paranoia that world is against them.
It benefits the grifters leave these inconsistencies in because it weeds out the people who weren’t fully hooked, and makes the ones who do continue to believe more delusional, isolating them from their support network and making them more reliant on the grifter. I unfortunately watched this happen with my mom, who ended up dying after spending most of her money on random scams claiming to cure cancer because she’d been convinced that the conventional treatments were the real scams.
- Comment on Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew? 1 week ago:
People always ask why I don’t turn my hobby into a job, and this is the response I give. If the thing I do to unwind from my job becomes my job, what will I do to unwind from my job?
- Comment on Kiribati 2 weeks ago:
Looks like one of those disposable flossers.
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on My Religion 3 weeks ago:
The issue is that the vast majority of people don’t view religion as “what I should or shouldn’t do.” They view it as “what should and shouldn’t be done.” They can’t just follow the tenants themselves; in order to follow their religion - at least not the way they interpret it - they need to make sure the tenants are being universally followed. That’s why religion is always at odds with society as a whole unless that society is already overbearingly religious. It will never change unless there are no major groups within society with different beliefs than the norm.
- Comment on Existential cowposting 4 weeks ago:
They’re not offering you 30% off a TV because they think you need it, they’re doing it because it benefits them, so they dress it up like it’s sometime you need so that you hopefully believe it. You only get what you need when you fight for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. People generally hate learning things they’re not interested in, and one of the least interesting things for the average person is a fact that challenges their established world view.
- Comment on They Wylin' 1 month ago:
Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 after it came out that a white house intern, Monica Lewinsky, had been giving him blowjobs, and now this.
- Comment on They Wylin' 1 month ago:
If I had a nickle for every time a sitting president was shamed because Bill Clinton got a blowjob, I’d have 2 nickles. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The people I’ve met who do their own “research” do so because they believe the scientific community as a whole is fake. They’d take great pride in not being published.
- Comment on Backlash doesn't really exist if you think about it 1 month ago:
This is unironically what I do. It’s helpful to figure out whether that mistake you made is actually important, or if you just think it is because it’s embarrassing. The easiest way to figure it out is to take it to the extreme; is it going to kill you? Probably not, so you’ll probably die from something else. Is it going to effect things so much that people will remember it after you die? Probably not, so one day everyone will have forgotten you, including this embarrassing thing you did. So, might as well just forget about it - everyone else will.
- Comment on Pants too! 2 months ago:
Steel-toed pants.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 2 months ago:
Yeah, I hate kiwis (the fruit), so I wouldn’t eat this, but I love pineapples on pizza, so I’d imagine it’d taste good for people who like kiwis.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
My mom would send me a dozen or more conspiracy theory links every day before I cut contact.
- Comment on I always hit this button 2 months ago:
Gotcha. Yeah, I try to tip based on whether or not the employee’s pay is being cut down due to the expectation of tipping. I can’t do anything to change the jobs that are already allowed to pay peanuts, but I worry that all of this rise in tipping prompts is to try to make a case that tipping is expected in places like fast food, and will be used to justify paying those workers even less as a result. You’re right that it’s a lot of work regardless, though.
- Comment on I always hit this button 2 months ago:
I guess? I mean, they still follow my directions with what goes into the burrito, wrap it up nice with a sticker to keep it closed when they’re done, and ask if I want napkins and utensils if I’m ordering to-go. Seems like the same work but with a shorter time frame.
- Comment on I always hit this button 2 months ago:
I’m confused. Wouldn’t ordering takeout at the counter also require the worker to ensure that the meal is correct, containers are properly sealed, and extra items like napkins and sauces are included? I’m not necessarily saying that those duties aren’t tip-worthy, but it seems to me that the only difference between ordering online or over the phone vs ordering at the counter is whether they hand you the food directly or put it in a pickup shelf.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 3 months ago:
I got lucky for sure. A lot of my friends in the office tried to keep working from home after covid and got let go. I just happened to time it perfectly where I asked a little later, after the higher ups got worried they were letting too much of the younger talent go by being so rigid with the in-office mandate.
I thought for sure they’d let me go when they found a replacement willing to be in the office, but it’s been years and none of the new hires in my department have picked it up nearly well enough to take over my responsibilities. I think it’s settled down enough by now that I’m pretty safe with my work from home exception.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 3 months ago:
As soon as I got a taste of working from home back in 2020, I knew I was never going back to the office. I bought a nice chair and built a good computer, and now I just hang out every day while working when I feel like it. I’ve come up with enough shortcuts and workarounds that I can do my job over twice as fast as my coworkers, though I’ll never tell my boss that. I do have OT sometimes, but I get paid well for it, and still rarely have to put in a full 8 hours in a day, even when getting an extra several hours of time and a half. People look down on hourly pay, but it’s way better than salary for times like those.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 3 months ago:
Morf is a good way to introduce more mainstream-centric people to the sound of throat singing
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 3 months ago:
All my homies got eye nipples.
- Comment on N. 5 3 months ago:
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 months ago:
Sorry to hear that. The isolation definitely exacerbated my mom's conspiracist ideation as well.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 months ago:
No worries, I hope your parents manage to get themselves out eventually. If they're anything like my mom, no amount of outside pleading will change their mind.
- Comment on I wonder why the widespread adoption of the internet hasn't been good for society as a whole. 3 months ago:
The one she talked about all the time was called the Minnesota Assembly. I think it's an offshoot of the whole sovereign citizen thing. I believe they used a telegram group chat as their main way of communicating. She died a little over a year ago, after they convinced her to treat her breast cancer with the herbal teas they sold instead of going to a doctor, so I'm not sure what's going on with the group anymore.
