Monument
@Monument@piefed.world
- Comment on I got your 6-7 right here, kids! 2 days ago:
Some clever bastard figured out an exploit (buoyancy) and humanity has just been going ham on god’s plan of creating utopia since. He’s just been trying to come up with ways to wipe humanity without a full reset since and the fuckers keep out-engineering and out-breeding his efforts.
Sooner or later he’s going to have to eat crow and reconcile with the god of Jupiter or with Sol to either fling a big rock from the asteroid belt or send a giant solar flare. It’s a hard sell, though. After bragging for so long about creating life, both are a little sick of Terra. Besides, they kind of like that more of Terra’s insane little creations revere them than revere Terra. - Comment on We've All Been Here 3 days ago:
I didn’t want to weigh in while the conversation was “hot” but as someone who survived a stint in foster care, and an extremely dysfunctional childhood, I tried to both avoid catching charges and also avoid putting her back into a situation where she was suffering abuse.
She was here for about an hour before we called the police. Before we called, we checked with an attorney-friend (sorta, I told a buddy I wasn’t sure what to do and he asked his friend that practices family law). We also spoke with several of her family members. We ascertained she had run away from her mother, whom she had only lived with for a few weeks. She had been living with another family member before being kicked out. She tried to convince a friend’s family to take her in, but they refused. Privately (she used our phone, so I spoke with the other adult), they described her as someone who lies and is frequently in trouble, amongst other concerns. For a sweet seeming 13-year old, their list of concerns about her was long.She actually ran away again the next day and returned to our place. We called immediately that time, but the police had something come up, so they took several hours. We had her watch TV while we worked.
When the police were here, my wife realized her phone was missing, and dinged it with her watch. The kid started ringing. I think everyone was surprised. She tried to run, and found herself in a room with no exit.
We didn’t press charges about the phone. We just wanted the situation out of our life.My understand is that she went to go live with her mother again, although her mother (with out consent via the police) actually asked us to press charges on the hope that she would be detained for a little bit and change her ways. My wife’s phone is valued above the felony larceny amount and that would follow her for the rest of her life, so we did not want to go that route.
- Comment on YAME! 3 days ago:
Who?
- Comment on They really hate artists 4 days ago:
Honestly, I don’t even think it’s an artist vs non-artist thing.
It’s a communication thing, and specifically it hinges on leading with curiosity, trusting the people, and clearly defining expectations (or, failing that, setting boundaries).
I work in a different role now, but a large part of what I do is similar: interfacing between people of differing skill sets, expectations, and needs.
I’ve found that if I don’t get in front of people, they tend to assume the other party is hard to work with or maybe even dumb, rather than merely approaching from their own frame of reference. It gets easier once people realize that no one is an idiot, and we’re all just trying to check different boxes, often without a clear idea of the others considerations.Except for that one colleague. Woof. Do they got blackmail on leadership or something? How do they manage to even feed themselves every day?
- Comment on We've All Been Here 5 days ago:
A few winters ago, my wife and I took edibles and then like a half hour noticed some weird movement on our porch.
It was a 13 year old who had run away from home and snuck onto our porch. She was attempting to stay warm by huddling under the dog blankets we keep out there.After a short delay (figuring out what the hell was going on), we called the police. They arrived as the edibles were hitting and we had to keep our shit together while trying to talk to the cops about this kid that randomly appeared.
- Comment on Don’t want your license plate to rust now. 5 days ago:
As a person with modest theoretical knowledge and low practical experience in the matter (read: this might be an utterly bullshit idea), I kind of want to make a “Bluetooth shotgun” that responds to any AWK packets with a slew of spoofed info.
If such a thing were possible, I would then make it also listen for responses, and log them with a geolocation. I would then spoof those responses every time an awk was received around that area. (This is because nonsense data can be filtered to reveal just the real responses - my device(s), but inaccurate real data would destroy the value of the surveillance.) - Comment on SBA #205 isnk 1 week ago:
I have this sticker I keep on my water bottle that says:
No one is coming to save you.
You are the adult.
And it’s the best daily reminder that I need right now.
- Comment on Meme template 2 weeks ago:
Is that a tiny shark fin on the hood?
This is why you shouldn’t let AI control your car. It saw the appliqué, glitched about what it was doing, and rest was history.—
#SaltLife
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“That lifeguard asked me if I knew my tides tables.
First off, it’s times tables. Second, I’m not doing math at the beach.
Idiot.”—
Non-sequitur: I love the SaltLife decals so much. Their font is just so awful that every time I see “Slut Life” on a Jeep Renegade a 12 hour drive from the nearest ocean, I just think of the driver tarting it up every weekend. It makes me giggle.
- Comment on modern classic 2 weeks ago:
That gray laminate is an instant no.
If houses had red flags, that gray flooring is one.
The clear, obvious message I receive every time I see that flooring is that someone went for cheap, cookie-cutter shit over every possible other option. They didn’t care, didn’t think things through, and have certainly hidden problems or improperly installed other parts of their cut-rate flip. - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Alas, like a dragon, there are some elements of my (and others) privacy that I hoard.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You absolutely should.
But as a word of advice: take really, really good measurements multiple times at different times of the day and rely on the largest measurement collected for a given area. Also, only buy one the first time you purchase.
(The latter thing didn’t bite us, but could have. The elbows, of all places, are a touch too small and after about an hour start to become uncomfortable.)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
That’s very charitable. I can see it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I sort of do this to my wife. She’s unbearably hot. Also sort of hates strangers.
I’m kind of the attention seeker, but she will dress up for me sometimes. Last year we went to a Halloween party where she wore a black skin-tight snakeskin patterned catsuit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
At peril of stating the obvious:
You did. You commented. - Comment on Gotta shit the right way 2 weeks ago:
Side-saddle gang.
I don’t know if I was a small kid or potty trained early, but I distinctly remember having to sit sideways until my parents got an adapter seat, because my (likely malnourished) skinny ass would wind up in the water if I sat straight on.
- Comment on Now that's a real flex 3 weeks ago:
I’d wager that better than 90% of people’s nipples are smaller than their butthole. Their areola, however…
- Comment on Mister! 3 weeks ago:
If I travelled internationally, this would be the wallpaper of my burner phone. Trauma for privacy.
- Comment on when you eat a cherry cordial, do you bite off the nipple and suck out the cum first? 4 weeks ago:
Are you free this weekend?
- Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 4 weeks ago:
I feel like that should be disqualifying. Or at least, the robots should be compelled to use the swinging head as a mace.
- Comment on The Ultimate Robot Knockout Legend (URKL) is a professional, freestyle combat sports league for full-sized humanoid robots. This is real. 4 weeks ago:
What?
(Out of the loop. Don’t know how to unpack that statement.)
- Comment on lust vs love 4 weeks ago:
No, no.
I’m going to blindly assert you’re wrong and chain together my own theories with semi-plausible arguments.Anyway, that’s how the internal power struggles of the Branch Davidians inspired House of Cards.
- Comment on They have already decided to promote an existing employee. But play the "search" game and screw you 5 weeks ago:
I recently applied for a management role and they decided to only consider external candidates after the interview.
They settled on someone that doesn’t really have relatable experience. I’ve had to train them on so many things. It’s just demoralizing.
A project I did is getting written up in a national (industry) publication soon. It was a special project that is outside my normal scope and represents the type of work that I interviewed for. But fuck me, right?
- Comment on I agree with don 5 weeks ago:
I hope the username is related.
- Comment on You needed to exhibit at least one to be admitted to the "lunatic asylum" 5 weeks ago:
Suppression of masturbation and excessive masturbation implies they consider some level of masturbation to be not just acceptable, but required.
Suspending disbelief: How do they know?!?
- Comment on You needed to exhibit at least one to be admitted to the "lunatic asylum" 5 weeks ago:
No.
Posted: September 43, 1503
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Hahaha!
My friend that does this bought a pack of 100 of just the squeakers and she always carries spares to share.
Although… the rubber chicken, which requires a lot less force to honk, might be a good option for the gents. But then they’d honk every time they sat down. Hm… ideas are brewing.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Perfect username for this comment.
But also, it just depends. Sometimes it’s about the party, place, and people.
I don’t talk about it much in normal spaces, but a subset of my friends group is fairly routinely naked or (with consent) randomly and casually sexually interacting with others.
At the most recent party with this group, they had to explicitly say the party was kid-friendly until a certain point, to avoid pink bits and inappropriate demonstrations from happening while children were there. (And also to ensure parents knew to get their kids out of there.)
Examples of things that routinely occur -
Some of the women wear dog toy squeakers in their bra to encourage interaction with their boobs.
People just compare undergarments and anatomy. Folks just get partially/fully naked and hang out.
People get tied up on the suspension point in the living room.
The same mount point can also mount to a pole, and the pole can be swapped in if someone is feeling acrobatic.
Sex sometimes randomly happens. I’ve been involved in an impromptu threesome. (A twosome spun up and we had a guest appearance.) People leave doors open.
There’s a hot tub. People use it. (The rule is no bodily fluids in the hot tub.) I mean, it’s kinky people at a party. Not a kink party. But just people at a party that negotiate consent and things happen.Different rules for different groups, though. The point isn’t to make people uncomfortable or to play power games (doing that probably would lead to a conversation at minimum and possibly a loss of invitation to future parties), it’s to revel in the physical pleasure of interacting with others and to have fun with folks who like to express their exhbitionist tendencies. While also bitching about work and life and all the other things people do at parties.
- Comment on I said meow! 1 month ago:
You only feed your cats once a day?
We feed ours wet food twice daily and keep a dry kibble feeder bowl out 24/7.
Buuut, we do not feed them when we wake up. They get fed after the rest of the morning routine is done.
(We’ve inadvertently tested this - we had a friend stay with us and they started helping around the house by feeding the cats first thing after they woke up in the morning, which lead to the cats waking us up at 5 am for awhile. After we broke the wake up and feeding connection, they calmed down.) - Comment on tidy 2 months ago:
Front and back, 8 holes.
… Fleshlight…?
hmm.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I believe both iOS and Android now support built in call screening, where a caller must leave a message about why they’re calling and you get to decide if you pick up.
Since enabling it on my iOS device, every spammer has hung up immediately, rather than leave a message or try to talk to me.
