Monument

@Monument@piefed.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck ‘em⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s never too early to do the right thing for yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck ‘em⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all the unsolicited biting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Useful things at the mall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m weirdly disappointed the real product has a gem in the base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Useful things at the mall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Many years ago, before Walgreens started selling sex toys in store, I bought a hitachi magic wand from them. (This was before their mainstream adoption as a sex toy, and they were not labeled as such on their site. They were significantly cheaper there than at places selling them as sex toys.)

  But to your point - many believable lies contain plausible truths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to ruin your whole day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, that’s so rough. I’m sorry you had to go through that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to ruin your whole day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you. It looks like she’s going to be okay.

  Ate one of those plastic cups that you put on chair legs to prevent it from scraping the floor. And a cat toy. But they could pull it out endoscopy.

  She’s 15, and a big girl that’s already survived a softball sized tumor that caused her spleen to burst about 5 years ago. She’s a tough girl.

  An older brown and white pitbull sleeping on a fluffy blanket with her tongue out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to ruin your whole day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My dog cast that today.

  She had bloody poop and couldn’t stand.

  So I’m here.
  Waiting on a phone call from the emergency vet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Far and No Further⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought an ebike online recently and it was 4 days late being delivered. Every day FedEx said it was on the truck for delivery, then every day, the delivery window shifted, before finally getting pushed back to the next day (after their call center was closed).
  I finally went outside while the trick was stopped at my house and the guy asked what it was. When I told him it was an ebike, he told me they probably couldn’t fit it on his over packed truck.
  I wound up just going to the depot and getting it myself.

  I say that to commiserate - it seems companies are squeezing their workers to (and beyond) the limit where they can successfully carry out their work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genius idea. Somehody should share this with the antivaxxers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Got an MMR booster recently. Doctor told me it was a live vaccine and that I’d feel a bit off while my body fought it.
  First thing I did when someone asked how the doctors visit went was to respond with “Well, I have measles…”

  They’re used to my bullshit, so they didn’t believe me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We ain't happy anymore...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We could try to whoop him, but he’s got a truncheon, a handgun, and a small Christmas ham hidden in his hat and he knows how to use them. They make him happy, you see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We ain't happy anymore...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be intentionally obtuse about the TV. People buy what’s available. Yes, there are edge cases, and no it’s not the argument you think it is to assume everyone has the foreknowledge, means, and wherewithal to employ one of those edge cases.
  The U.S. government does not offer its citizens a right to privacy against corporate surveillance, and that is not something you can blame on the average person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm not saying you should...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would I want to scoop ice cream into cubes? That’s the same shape as wallaby poop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You all have never met my cat.

  Look - I’m married, and I’ve tended to regard myself as a dog person my entire life. We got this cat like two years ago because my wife kept talking about a chihuahua, and that is a line I will not cross.

  So anyway, we get this cat for her, and he has clearly chosen me as his human. He spends most of his days in my home office. He’s constantly jumping into my lap. If no one else is around, he will loudly beg for my attention. He sleeps next to me. He lets me pick him up and hold him upside down at the furthest extent of my reach. He is my baby cat and I love him.
  (It’s okay, we got a very sweet kitten a year ago, and she has clearly chosen my wife as her human. She literally climbs onto her chest and falls asleep with her head on my wife’s shoulder every day.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey mods, would one of you please fix a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, no, not overnight, just that one rare Saturday morning that nobody wakes you up, the pets and or kids are lazing and you’re getting that excellent stolen morning sleep that just restores your body and heals your soul, allowing you to feel like you can keep going.
  But then there’s the clatter of tools and construction equipment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey mods, would one of you please fix a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just boring harassment.

  I’m going to go dig a hole next to your property. It’ll have all the correct permits, but I’m going to start construction while you’re sleeping in and I’m going to put a fence around it that prevents you from looking into the hole to see why I’m digging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's taking forever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, of course! How silly of me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's taking forever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the fuck is that person not wearing their mask correctly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tough choices⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the monkey’s paw.
  Total calorie immunity could be read as not being able to process any calories, including the ones you need to live.
  (I’m assuming the body would eat through reserve fat and then begin to break down its own muscles, even as the person gorges on food vs, like, almost insta-death if the body couldn’t even rely on its own stores.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra are poised to strike for the first time in their history⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What does an orchestra strike look like?

  Do they all charge out at once on foot, or are pianist and tympanist on mounted drones or like, do the heavies stay in cover while the flautists, tromboners, and violinists charge out on foot to make some noise?

  (Look, I know. But I chose to interpret it this way. Because a greedy orchestra owner should start quaking in their monocle whenever they hear Flight of Valkyries while walking around seemingly empty streets at night.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had it coming⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Turdonuclear explosion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let’s see them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I counted his fingers. Net because I thought the image was AI, but because the fetal alcohol face and the shirt made me wonder if he had the right amount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got your 6-7 right here, kids!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Who?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They really hate artists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

  —

  “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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.