toynbee

@toynbee@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Troof⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The person I most frequently see wearing leopard print is my 6yo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨no bra summer this year💖⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In the book Catch Me if You Can (which was presented as truth but has since been challenged; I’m not sure where the alleged truthiness stands now) the author, who in the story is a scam artist who regularly claims different names, says that he always kept at least one initial to maintain a connection to his real self.

  I’ve read several stories of shapeshifters (these I suspect to have less truthiness) in which the character always maintains some aspect of themselves (usually eye color, I think) for similar reasons. I recently watched a YouTube video about Impossible Man which says that he (almost) always maintains his color scheme, but voluntarily.

  So I wonder whether violet will always have “violet” in her name. A while ago she made a post saying that she originally chose it because it was, IIRC, her favorite flower.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God speed brother⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a classic reference and among my favorites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t personally do this one, but I once worked at a job where I was tasked with updating a kickstart file from RHEL6 to 7. I don’t remember the details, but in the postscript, there was a variable that was set in 6 but not 7. That variable was then used in a command like rm -rf /${variable}.

  It took me a little while to figure out why every system imaged with that kickstart was emptying its own filesystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently witnessed a Streetview car going down my street. It was audibly taking several photos per second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alien⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My mother died of kidney disease. No definitive cause was ever identified but her doctors theorized it might have been related to excessive use of ibuprofen earlier in her life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t tell my kid, who won’t stop playing Crab Rave over and over in Beat Saber (and wouldn’t stop watching the music video when we didn’t have a good VR setup), about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never once have I sent a cover letter. It doesn’t seem to have had much impact on my career.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So are you hiring?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A few months ago there was a major leadership change at my job. The guy who was 50% of the interviewers who recommended hiring me is now second from the top and my direct manager (I’m not third from the top, my company’s hierarchy is confusing).

  Suddenly, after most of a decade of it never once being a problem, I have been forced from my 4x10 schedule into a standard 5x8. I fucking hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fotage of a belarussian bank⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t potatoes left unattended in an enclosed environment get pretty hazardous?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weird⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks buddy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punkrock⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Punkrock⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Clark? Like Clark Kent? I thought we were talking about Superman, not a random journalist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vote⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know who most of those people are but, for the ones I do know, I had no idea what they looked like.

  Except Joe Dirt. Him I recognize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was so scared for my wife’s well-being and our finances when we went in for an induced birth.

  Turns out that, health wise, I came out worse than she did; and the whole situation had very little (immediate) impact on our finances.

  Also, I got lucky because we got an amazing kid out of the whole situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think that, I think you might understand pregnancy less than I.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to know how pregnancy works, could you enlighten me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spider Proof [SMBC Comic]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He apparently once acted as one of the structural supports for a skyscraper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a caption, but it reminds me of the National Aquarium in Baltimore. One of the many attractions of the facility involves walking down several stories whilst sharks very visibly swim around you.

  If given the opportunity, I’d recommend it. In case further enticement is needed, one of my first dates with my wife was taking her there and it seems to have worked out so far!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Art pro tips⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did this guy steal Peter Parker’s photos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thats the good stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Only out of love, my friend.

  I’m just not sure whether they’re wise to combine with shower beers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thats the good stuff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why shower oranges were a meme a while ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👴☝️I did that⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The gas station nearest me has screens that show ads, but they’re just for that facility and they don’t have audio. However, the store does have a PA system constantly playing audio, a combination of music and ads.

  My favorite ad is the one that advertises themselves to advertisers. I don’t remember the exact wording, but it’s basically “want to advertise something? We’ve essentially got a captive audience and there are a lot of them!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amount of paper I used in one school year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last night I made a comment about dick pics so I had to open the thread before I realized this notification wasn’t about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amount of paper I used in one school year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  9v for scale is a new one to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's only illegal if you don't film it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was making an oblique reference to Lampshade Hanging, but I acknowledge it wasn’t a very good joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's only illegal if you don't film it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. I’m not sure TV tropes even has a category for this. That’s a first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep it away from Prince Albert.