TaterTot
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- Comment on I'm convinced I just crossed over. Someone with a English degree please help me. 14 hours ago:
Okay… fuck… I too was convinced it was speach. As in “to give a speach”. Welp, glad there’s someone else from my original Everett branch.
- Comment on You can trust me 3 days ago:
I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run… If you’re flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.
- Mitch Hedberg
- Comment on Watcha gonna do? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, kiddo 3 weeks ago:
So uhhh, the oldest Boomers would have been 14 at the end of the 50’s. This would have been a Greatest and Silent generation thing.
And given what they lived through… well I get wanting a whiskey dispenser at work…
- Comment on Remember, Kids: 4 weeks ago:
I should really do something about that… later tho…
- Comment on The Republican Party used to be very big on smaller government. What caused them to turn into the party of big government over reach? When did it happen? 4 weeks ago:
Very true, but they do serve different purposes.
The Ratchet Effect
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, this is the real underated trick. A great manager removes blockers. There job is first and foremost to get shit off the train tracks.
- Comment on What is a real trip on acid like? Is there any comparisons in movies? I took 3 tabs once and it just turned the world literally black white and gray. Did I miss something like the euphoria or whatever 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Living the dream 5 weeks ago:
Might need to make that afternoon sound less awesome if they want to get their point across.
- Comment on They do 1 month ago:
Now without further ado…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I’d disagree with this. Personal empowerment is universal and applies to everyone, sure. But its nature is personal, and shaped by a multitude of factors including (but not limited to) gender. That’s basically the idea behind intersectionality.
Along the various lines that make up someone’s circumstances, groups can share collective barriers to their empowerment. In this case, women (and men) face specific, gender-based obstacles. So when you generalize a conversation about one group’s particular issues, at best you derail something that would’ve been helpful. At worst, you end up with an “All Lives Matter” bumper sticker.
- Comment on Super-threesome 2 months ago:
It’s Justice League, it has to be kid friendly.
- Comment on I wonder who discovered it 2 months ago:
Who smells like freaking Porpoise Hork!?
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 2 months ago:
Think I would cap out at David Sedaris levels of fame. Anything more would be too much bother.
- Comment on Would you want to be Michael Jackson-level famous? Why or why not? 2 months ago:
tide comes in, edit goes out.
You can’t explain that.
- Comment on I love mixology 3 months ago:
Something kind beautiful about the prep time required for the Whisky Ball juxtaposed against the absolute peak of laziness that is the Uncrustable.
- Comment on Is Framework an ethical company? 3 months ago:
There are no ethical large computer manufacturers. Framework, like its competitors, financially supports unethical people, projects, and governments, and there’s no such thing as an end-to-end ethical supply chain right now.
People want Framework to be ethical because they champion repairability, and on a relative scale, you could do a lot worse. But that’s also the problem. Most people buying a new MacBook or ThinkPad never think about ethics. Framework puts ethics front and center, then drops the ball the moment you dig deeper than repairability.
If you want to buy “ethically,” your best option is used. The device was still made unethically, by a company that funded abhorrent causes, and the seller will likely reinvest your money into the very ecosystem you’re trying to avoid. But at least you kept something out of a landfill a little longer, and put one more degree of Kevin Bacon between yourself and the worst of it.
To keep things in perspective, Framework is probably less unethical than most manufacturers, and they’re doing more for repairability than most. And even Doug Forcett wasn’t good enough for the Good Place, so you know… you have to draw your own lines.
- Comment on Gotta run 3 months ago:
Wait… is that the reason Flutterbutter has been excluded at the dog park!?
- Comment on average red state university 4 months ago:
Does a theory need to be understood or explained to be tested/proven?
- Comment on average red state university 4 months ago:
Evolution is the most proven theory we have, it has been tested over and over.
I’ll see you Theory of Evolution and raise you the Theory of Gravity.
- Comment on No, I'm not showing you. 4 months ago:
You ever read a post before checking the title? I was this close to asking “For real? Can I see?”, before I checked…
But for real though… can I see?
- Comment on 4 months ago:
I feel like a key difference between Google’s search Monopoly and Valve’s is the fact that Google paid off the competition to be the default on basically every browser.
Valve’s monopoly is very real, or at least they absolutely dominate the PC game market (IANAL, no clue if Valve’s monopoly passes the legal bar). But outside of the SteamDeck and a couple gaming focused laptop’s, Steam doesn’t get forced on any user as the default. They personally install it.
- Comment on CATTACK 4 months ago:
If there’s a Churu on the other side
- Comment on CATTACK 4 months ago:
I’ve tried to explain the same thing about cats, but fools never learn.
- Comment on TIL that in 1996 they made a USS-Defiant CD player 5 months ago:
Given the shape of it, it would have been rude not to.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 5 months ago:
Uh, yeah, 100%. Though I have to wonder who is even arguing against this?
- Comment on Anyone remember that "First is the worst, second is the best" rhyme kids used to do? Where did that come from? 5 months ago:
That’s not all! That’s not all!
- Comment on Classics 5 months ago:
Your mamma’s so fat Ben Kenobi said: “That’s no moon….. that’s yo mamma!”.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 5 months ago:
Sure, but I was talking about general complaints. Things like, “the drivers here are so bad”, “the winters are too cold and the summers are too hot”, “the government sure is poorly run”, “the yellow sports car parked out in front of the fast food place I work looks so stupid”, “I hate my boss and his stupid name, like seriously, who is named Methuselah Honeysuckle”, and “If they don’t give me a raise this time, I’m going to start a union, I’m serious, working a Chipotle sucks”.
You know, the kind of stuff that could never be traced back to me.
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 5 months ago:
Well, guess it’s nice to know I’m not giving away my location when I complain.
