BarneyPiccolo
@BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
- Comment on Huh, a free DVD? 2 hours ago:
Do I need a vaccination for Horse Mania?
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 21 hours ago:
Best take on this really dumb subject.
We have real problems to deal with, quit with this nonsense.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 21 hours ago:
Typical. You react with a realistic response to his nonsense, so he attacks your character and your intelligence. You must be stupid for not buying into his super dumb idea.
I’ll bet he’s a flat-earther, too, and you’re an idiot for not being able to understand how obvious it is.
- Comment on Student Parking 2 days ago:
I just read about a campus building a multilevel parking lot for students who live in their cars. They could build a residence hall, but why normalize structural living, when there is no way they could afford it with their student loans. Just preparing them for reality.
Of course, the average new car price is over $50K, so cars aren’t going to be a viable living option for many, either. Perhaps they should set up a campground area on campus, for students who can only afford a tent?
- Comment on I was there... 5 days ago:
I had a close friend with a super long ranch home, with a big open basement under the entire thing. He collected old phone books from all of his friends and anywhere he could get them, and stacked up at the end, and we would target shoot pellet guns and .22s into them. They made a perfect backstop for light gauges like that.
He was also a jeweler, and had his jewelery bench down there, so I would hang out and keep him company while he worked, and I put in a LOT of shooting hours. Became a pretty good shot.
- Comment on I was there... 5 days ago:
The Yellow and White Pages were a private business, and they sold the listings in the Yellow Pages, and also sold upgraded listings in the White Pages. Residential listings were free.
Then they’d drive around and drop them on peoples’ front steps. I knew people that made extra cash at Phone Book Delivery Season.
There were also competing Yellow Pages by upstart companies, especially smaller local Yellow Pages. You might have the big giant book that was the whole city/county, and then have a smaller set for just your suburb. A small local business might spring for an decent ad in the local Yellow Pages, and just put a simple listing on the big one.
- Comment on I was there... 5 days ago:
3 big trucks, and three lanes of cars, pull up, pop the trunk, guy takes out the boxes and bags from the back and tosses them into bins, that are later emptied into the trucks, and you drive away.
And trust they really do pulp your papers without sifting through for the good stuff.
- Comment on I was there... 5 days ago:
She’s got one, but she thinks the trucks will shred better, and the shreds wont be in our trash where people will know where they came from.
I should note that my mother lives in a gated, active adult community, and there is literally ZERO crime on her neighborhood. If someone started going through someone else’s trash, you’d have a half a dozen busybodies demanding to know what you’re up to.
- Comment on I was there... 5 days ago:
My mom saves up all her junk mail, and takes it to a neighborhood shredding event 2 or 3 times a year. She gets distressed if she misses it. She doesn’t understand why I just toss it all away.
I’ve asked her why she thinks her junk mail address is so valuable, and she’s afraid they will fall into the wrong hands. I’ve explained to her that if it’s on junk mail, it’s already out there being sold. It’s just her name and address, it’s a public record.
I get why she’d want to shred stuff with her SS# on it, but another AARP solicitation?
- Comment on If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win? 6 days ago:
They haven’t won a major armed conflict decisively, since WW2.
- Comment on Enough is enough 1 week ago:
I had Verizon for years, and I’ve had TMobile for a couple of years, and they are equally shitty, but at least T-Mobile is half the price, and give me free streaming platforms, AND lots of discounts. Verizon acts like they’re doing you a favor.
- Comment on Enough is enough 1 week ago:
Take the $20, but fuck Verizon.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Makes them smarter than MAGA.
- Comment on [10] Guy 1 week ago:
Hi, how are you?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Fish are pretty silly. Not much sillier than a fish, except maybe a snake.
- Comment on Anon visits New York 1 week ago:
Fake, they don’t have tumbleweeds in Alabama, they have kudzu.
- Comment on Sorry to disappoint you 1 week ago:
A lot of synonyms for me.
- Comment on quack 1 week ago:
This looks interesting, thanks!
- Comment on quack 1 week ago:
I had no idea how to do any of that, so I was always just a solo player. In the very rare occasions that I somehow fell into a multi-player battle in some FPS game, I would end up cowering in a corner like a rabbit, trying to figure out what to do.
I’m a monster on my own though.
- Comment on quack 1 week ago:
I haven’t played Quake in a long time. I really loved that game. Also Quake 2. After that it went online, and I didn’t like it. I just want to play alone.
- Comment on quack 1 week ago:
There was that one hidden level with low gravity, it was one of my favorites. You had to keep leaping up and pounding the shambler on top of the structure.
- Comment on Enough is enough 1 week ago:
I was with Verizon for years, as they got more and more expensive, and customer service got worse and worse, and then they started charging for it.
So I switched to T-Mobile. They have the same mediocre service, but they are half the price, and include Netflix and Hulu. I also got their $35 Internet, which works fine, and that includes Paramount and Peacock. Then they have TMobile Tuesdays, which gets me good deals on pizza.
So imagine my schadenfreude as Verizon dive-bombed yesterday.
- Comment on Enough is enough 1 week ago:
I’d demand a free month.
- Comment on With the ICE raids coming up at a very faster rate, do we need more self-defense (or community defense organizing) classes? 1 week ago:
They get 47 days of training, to honor the 47th president. That means some scummy sycophant landed on that number so that it would get to the president’s ear, and maybe Daddy will know who they are.
- Comment on You shall not cut! 1 week ago:
Your dad could get a job gerrymandering districts for the state.
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 1 week ago:
The Big Lie is an old strategy that the Nazis used to great success, so not surprisingly, it has become the foundational strategy for MAGA as well.
One of the things we need to do in the future is to regulate political speech. Politics is just marketing for candidates, and advertising/marketing speech is regulated for truthfulness. If politicians decide to start spewing demonstrable lies, they need to held accountable, with fines, loss of access to the media, loss of the ability to run for office, and perhaps even prison time.
And we need to regulate the Conservative Propaganda Machine as a National Security Threat. You can responsibly oppose and criticize the government, but you can’t deploy your media outlet to organize with others to help overthrow the government, or provide cover for the treason or government abuse of others. At that point, your media has become a weapon of sedition, and should be dealt with decisively.
- Comment on Good night sweet prince 1 week ago:
No, I use it all the time. I just used it today to make French Bread Pizzas. I actually have two.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
They can have all of them they can catch.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I don’t kill spiders. They are my unpaid exterminators.
- Comment on Think about it 1 week ago:
Bit of a cannibalism link, too.