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@BanMe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🍺 🍻⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I hold up a bug, and say to everyone, “Look, a bug, of the true order of bugs,” everyone leaves the room because I’m doing the bug speech again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨elixir of a god⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to stop and give myself caffeine resets because it’ll creep up over time from 2 cups of decaf a day to 4 cups of full strength, and then 6, and then I’m wondering why my heart flutters when I go to bed. I don’t touch energy drinks but I’m guessing it’s the same, trying to recapture that productive high. Of course coffee is practically free compared to energy drinks…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨happy fuck cops day to those who celebrate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Narrator: his body was never found.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time tho, our ability to shrink dies, to create displays of millions of pixels flipping perfectly day in, day out for decades - I recycled a Dell LCD monitor at work from 2003 yesterday, still working - to build cars that are more dependable than ever in history with actual moving parts - we take for granted the things that become dependable, even in ways that would have seemed miraculous a generation ago, because we’re always on the bleeding edge of tech where it isn’t working perfectly, because we’re shipping the minimum viable product, and now on a yearly schedule.

  I think we could just chill with having smartphone wars for a few years, since there’s not a huge need to upgrade often, and people can’t afford to eat right now, but they’re releasing more and more foldable phones, making them standard as folks adopt. People will complain about how the hinges don’t work, how they fail a lot more. But that won’t stop them from buying them, from kids demanding them at Christmas, etc. And you know what? Aware of all this, and being chronically broke myself, I have still been subconsciously noting the intro prices for next year’s folding phones because part of me wants the cool little toy first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They started doing it with cereal boxes and other products in Seinfeld reruns years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  20 employees = 3-4 employees + 1 owner/CEO whose wife needs fake tits and many vacations, but yes otherwise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Latitudes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This was a cool thing about living in Seattle and any further north - in the summer it’d be dusk until 10pm. And the in the winter the sun would basically never appear. I guess it was less “cool” and more “insanity producing” but locals were used to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some men will do anything to avoid getting a job, and we commend them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  😒 NFL football

  🤩 NSFW football

  😒 NSFL football

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I fall for it every year. Every. Year.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Back then (I worked there briefly back then) you still understood that if you dwelt on the texture or taste too long, it’d start to ruin the whole thing, so you mentally checked out while you ate it. The pickles helped, they would load it with dill pickles. Last time I had one it was so plain, the yoga mat/foam extruded texture was on full display, I threw it away after a few bites.

  Finally I stopped eating McD’s entirely, I’m not going to pay through the nose for food that’s killing me anyway. Once a month the fry craving hits and I just ride it out, it passes fast. I’m not kidding. I’m in recovery from meth and alcohol, and these hyper-processed food cravings hit the same way drug cravings do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bread mold⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheese is weird because someone had to be like, well let’s go ahead and store some milk in the stomach of an animal, but also they forgot about it under a chair for 3 months and then, upon finding it, thought, “well let’s have a go anyway, despite it changing forms.” And then eventually someone realized if you stuck it in certain caves it became delicious. So much human history just in that one food product there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seems legit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So gonna need like 2 CDs then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨idk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I finally got an air fryer just to see what all the hype was about, and although it does a nice job on some things, it’s not really any faster and it makes the whole house reek because it’s blowing air continuously, which I should have expected, but eww. Plus I can make way more fries on a baking sheet. I don’t really get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black printhead was clogged. I replace it and now the color printhead is completely missing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I stole an HP from work, had been on a factory floor for years and was obviously a tank so I got a fresh toner and a few reams of paper and it’s been great ever since.

  This one is a LaserJet m401dn but any from this era are good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We were raised with “pride,” not necessarily racially or ethnocentric, but a broader sense that transcended such boundaries. I grew up in the 80s-90s in the midwest, and we were taught America was a “melting pot” of cultures, ideas, and races, and that we should look forward to a time when whites are not the majority because the lines will fall away, the average color will be brown as we all mix over the next generations, giving us less reason to fight. And we should look forward to it, because that’s been our story so far - broken, impoverished immigrants came here looking for opportunity, and found it through hard work and smart thinking, and then became a part of our shared tapestry. We were taught to be proud of this, that we were stewards of this tradition in the best, most advanced country in the world.

  And now, well. The basest instincts of people have been brought to the surface and America now stands as an openly white nationalist, isolationist, fascist-tinged autocracy where the ideals I grew up with seem long antiquated.

  So yeah hard not to feel ashamed of what’s happened to our shared identity in just a few decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well yeah take enough shrooms and everything is suddenly exposed as the artificial construct that it is. But we don’t have time to wake up and reinvent language every morning ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dunno⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It became a meme a few years ago, people would post problems like this and argue about whose was right, as if there were no objective truth. It hurt to watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doing my morning walk through the churches in my neighborhood and there’s two old churches side by side, both rocking out, one sort of blues riffs, one a little more traditional rock. And as I often do, I stood for a moment taking it in - this is the Southern culture I think is fascinating and rich and… then I realize the blues one is now just doing a call and refrain “I don’t need no - evidence” over and over, and my dog’s like “let’s get the fuck out of here” and so we did.

  But it’s cute for a second if you don’t try to focus in on it. This is how religion should be taken in, and then hustle your ass along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Strong chance my final words will be “Oh shoot, shoooot.” Even tho I swear like a sailor, if it’s really bad, I go for clean language.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hashtag spiritual hashtag truth⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  HiS wAyS aRe MyStErIoUs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bondi's Latest Press Briefing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And what she’ll go back to terrorizing villagers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid sexy raft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  for real, today Sex Raft would have 55 seasons and 3 spinoffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuckin' PSYOP⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait hold on is the Jigsaw puppet taking the sensible position or the whackadoo position here? I’m assuming the latter but she’s absolutely smart enough to know how stupid this sounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨challenge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Porridge, horseridge, the entire first act of Hamlet, LaBron James’ telephone number in Spanish,

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Purple, green, pinks and oranges (that’s the blood in my eyelids I think). If I rub my eyes, the pixellated screensavers get wild, which I think means you’re not supposed to do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dads be like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my GOD i hated this as a kid - why is there a light just for me if I can’t use it? And then I was driving my 3yo son the other night, and he’s like “turn the lights on” and as I was explaining to him why I wouldn’t, it struck me… the cycle is complete

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please be aware!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What am I, some sort of pupae expert!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had to look this up⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s also derivative as hell, but children’s lit doesn’t get real deep reviews, and we were all too busy defending it from Christianity to really notice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Does Hitler have a right to privacy?" and other big questions in research ethics.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Researchers sequenced his DNA recently from a bloodstained couch cushion, we’ve been getting glimpses into it lately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if her penis is inside you when you cum.