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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day we could all fit in grocery stores⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The maker of this meme-thing is personally calling me out, and I know it, because I’ve complained about this exact issue like at least a dozen times on this account/username alone.

  The chain grocery stores and major retailers in my part of the world have all done post-COVID renovations in the past 3 to 4 years. Somehow defying the laws of physics, but they’ve reduced the spacing between aisles, increased the number of aisles, and yet they’ve also reduced product selection at the same time.

  Pretty much all them now only have barely enough width for 2 well carts directed by well-behaved customers. However, roughly 1/3 of all aisle have some kind of obstruction, like support columns or hanging displays, mini-displays on the floor, so that it creates a bottleneck where only 1 cart can pass.

  Honestly, some times I just want to compare products, read the ingredients, maybe do the math to compare prices but I can’t without inconveniencing folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  According to Ebay, Amazon, Walmart, Temu, Etsy, and so on, you can buy blue rose seeds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have none of those traits but I do love to watch tiny little critters going along doing their thing without a care in the world. Except for the invasive ones and the parasites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perception is everything.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of Shelly Lowdry’s cat named Precious. She swore up and down it was the cutest thing ever. I’m not the type to be hurtful so I just kept it to myself, but that thing was the ugliest cat I ever seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GinkNo.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty flowers they remind me of my dearly departed Harold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Target acquired⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya’ll joke but I’m old enough to remember how fucking annoying it was when the dinosaurs were around. The fuckers shat everywhere, just like a gigantic gaggle of geese, but some of those assholes were big enough that their poop was basically the size of a goose. Sometimes they’d poop right where we made our stone tools and we’d have to spend days depooping, just absolute days wasted doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-fish language⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re all bony fish on this blessed day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-fish language⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, the scales are tipping in the right direction. And while we’re on the subject, can you go ahead and stop using “crappy” to imply any sort of negative connotation. Crappie are beautiful, vivacious, and gregarious fish who have fascinating behaviors and are important members of their native aquatic ecosystem. That they also taste delicious, well, maybe that’s a different discussion for another time when we’re not talking about how there’s nothing crappy about crappies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every fucking time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The things that irk me are: Narrowed aisles / space between the shelves and reduced selection.

  The local Wally World was the worst about all of the above, but the grocery store in town also remodeled recently and seems to have done the same thing.

  I think one of the reasons it irritates me is because it makes no logical sense to me, they’ve moved the shelves closer together and reduced aisle space so they can fit in more shelves, wouldn’t that theoretically mean there’s room for a bigger selection of items? How is it even possible that the aisles are smaller and yet so many of the brands/items I bought regularly are no longer available?

  Actually, in the case of Walmart, I think I know the answer. The main aisles used to be wide enough for 6 - 8+ shopping carts minimum, except from September through early January when all the displays of holiday junk would be placed out. Now, they’ve placed a mix of seasonal and non-seasonal displays in the center of all the main aisles year round, using all that space people could use to traverse the store more quickly.

  Most of the year, those displays are filled with the exact same brands and products that are also sitting and taking up regular shelf space as well. Heaven forbid if I want some Marie Sharp’s hot sauce. They’ve got 8 types of Texas Pete, and a display of Texas Pete hot sauce in the main aisle, and a smaller display on an end cap near the meats. If I want some Dolly Parton cake mix and icing, there are 4 places in the store that they keep it. Suppose that’s also why they stopped carrying my preferred flavor/brand of gum.

  YELLING AT CLOUDS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My theory is that snitty count would be biologically decoupled from the number of offspring in a single birth because virtually all snake species are self-reliant in terms of feeding themselves once they hatch and thus the role of the snitty would not be for feeding the offspring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The way I see it snakes have approximately half as many holes as mammal ladies, since the have no ears and a multipurpose cloaca. So by my calculations, if you round up a bit, and carry the 5, then snakes got 1 and some change snitties.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snek⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The exaggerated eyebrows on the one snake (but not the other) to ensure we know that one of them’s a lady makes me wonder if the artist woulda put some big ole snitties on her if they’d drawn the rest of the body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, for years folks on the internet gaslighted me this same way about Amazon.

  Oh, they have THE BEST customer service. They would never do that. Any time I’ve had a problem they’ve always fixed it 110%. What did YOU do wrong?

  But in reality, my experience was that for a good long stretch, there was an issue with almost every order I placed, and it was a literal coin toss as to whether customer service was going to do the very minimum to make it right or if I was in for a weeks long ordeal just to maybe get some degree of resolution and not get screwed.

  So, what I’m saying is, just because YOU personally have had zero issues, that’s absolutely no reason to think it’s “strange” that someone else might have had a different experience with the same business. Personally, I think it’s extremely bizarre that you’d find it strange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Reaffirms Steam Machine Summer Launch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You shouldn’t doubt Valve would do that. You should know they absolutely would never do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Reaffirms Steam Machine Summer Launch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam Machine is (or will be) a PC, so I’m not sure how they would/could make HL3 and not have it be compatible with PC. Or am I missing something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rotund⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No honey I can’t eat there on account of my fibroids acting up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rotund⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the time a yellow jacket flew up my dear departed Harold’s draws and stung him right on the sack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OSHA Approved Kittypillar⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, there’s no permanent physical damage that I’m aware of.

  The caterpillar sting was intensely painful for an hour or two, and then afterwards for a couple of days I’d have random relapses of less severe stinging at the site.

  The wheel bug bite was so long ago that my memory of it is a bit faded. I was bitten on the foot when I put my shoe on. The pain from that was like getting snapped in the foot by a searing hot bear trap, kind of all at once, and then it simmered down. However, I couldn’t comfortably wear a shoe for a day or two afterwards and I had to limp around because it was painful to walk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OSHA Approved Kittypillar⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I got stung by one of these or perhaps an oak slug caterpillar around 2 years ago. There was immediate pain, which got worse and worse with pain coming in waves. It felt like the pain was coming from dozens of little needle points in my hand. Before long I had to go inside to sit down because it was getting hard to focus on anything other than the intense stinging feeling.

  The only thing that might compare was when I got bitten by a wheel bug when I was a kid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nope⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing’s for sure, I’m going to sit at home and criticize every well-intentioned solution made in good faith that I see posted on the internet while I plant my eyes on a screen all day doing nothing substantial to help solve the problem or support the ones who might be able to make a difference.

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

  Definitely not the only place, but certainly one of the more predictable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick of this shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You phrase that like you are accusing me of something specific and making wild assumptions, but it’s clear you know nothing about me, so it’s really bizarre that you’d say such a thing to me. Like why phrase it that way? I mean, I am totally on board with protecting predators and I get the message, but why be so aggressive with your messaging to me? It makes no sense and it’s kind of rude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick of this shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more like love-hate for me. They’re terribly cute and they do play an important ecological role.

  But they are destructive little shits. Mercilessly and needlessly destroying homes, gardens, and at times even vehicles. Their reigns of terror are expensive and tough to mitigate. And with so few remaining natural predators, their populations quickly grow to near plague levels quite rapidly. May your tomato plants be damned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick of this shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy nuts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy 100th to the G.O.A.T.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have loved to have been able to meet him and spend time talking with him when he was younger. His voice is basically THE voice that’s synonymous with nature documentaries for me. I mean, I wouldn’t turn down an opportunity to meet him now, but I feel like his time on this planet is very limited at this point, and it would almost feel selfish of me to take up any of what he’s got left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How worried should we be about hantavirus right now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like an unfortunate lack of perspective and information on your part, to me. While that may sound rude, it’s actually not a bad thing, so long as it’s not due to being willfully ignorant.

  Kind of taking the “Explain like I’m five” approach to comparing hantavirus and COVID: It’s like being afraid of catching rabies from sparrows because you’re aware that bats can carry rabies. After all, they’re both flying creatures that can live in close proximity to people.

  At the end of the day, COVID-19 was a novel pathogen, not well-understood in the early days, and something of a perfect storm of conditions and characteristics that allowed it to blow up in to a global pandemic. This strain of hantavirus is the sparrow to the covid bat. Superficial similarities (they’re both viral diseases), but very different different things in all the ways that count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How worried should we be about hantavirus right now?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fucked up but you’re seeing so much about it online and hearing so much about it because sensationalized fear translates to money and attention for those seeking such things.

  That’s not to say that this virus isn’t dangerous and devastating to those affected, infected, and exposed to it. We definitely shouldn’t be down playing that. It’s just that this virus has no chance of causing a major disruption of our lives on a wide-spread global scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My quest to get a steam controller has failed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know. I was expecting issues, though. Steam pretty much always has issues with their site at the start of sales and new hardware launches, so this was entirely predictable.

  On the flip side, every time this has happened when I was around to notice, there were obvious signs the site was failing from the get-go. Slow page loads, error messages, pages just not loading at all, etc. This time around, the site loaded up fine. Page navigation was quick as normal. Buttons worked. Cart worked. Checkout seemed to be working.

  Then BAM. Error message when paying. I tried a few different payment methods and even checked on other devices.

  So, I stepped away for a bit. Came back and I was surprised that the controllers were still in stock. Figured I’d try again. That time, I got a different error message when I attempted to pay. I thought maybe there’s something fishy with my cart/session so I removed the controller from my cart, expecting to re-add it and try checking out again. Only, when I went back to the controller page, it had flipped over to out of stock. It was literally only a matter of maybe 20 seconds since I’d last checked the page when it was showing as in stock. Missed it by that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wonder why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As one of the people who lost their job, doing important & worthwhile work, directly due to the funding cuts of this current administration, I only have a few words: FUCK YOU okay that’s two. So, let’s add PEDOPHILES to the end. FUCK YOU PEDOPHILES.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been waiting for this controller for a while. Hoping it’s even remotely close to my expectations.

  I’m so ready to turn the page on the crappy PS4 Pro controller I bought a few years back that developed charging and battery issues and become unreliable. Regardless of what Lemmy trolls want me to believe, I feel like a 2.5 year life span for a premium Sony controller was a rip-off.

  I like the fact that the analog sticks are symmetrical in placement (compared to XBOX). So really, I’m just hoping that the batteries and connectors in these are more reliable than the poor quality crap that Sony puts out.