Monument
@Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 day ago:
Yeah. Both of us depart from our families, and didn’t want to be in a position where we could have a parent or sibling try to “pull rank” about some medical decision, or have to worry about assets.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 1 day ago:
Same philosophy, but we did get married after we realized the legal protections and tax benefits were worth it. We just saw too much opportunity for our very dissimilar families to pull some nonsense.
We snuck into a park (that requires reservations for ceremonies) with some friends and that was that.
The rings are simple and inexpensive, and also rarely worn. We know what we’re about. - Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 1 week ago:
In my community, street racing seems to be the entertainment du jour for people with nothing better to do. I live about a half mile (800m) from a major roadway, and very often am jarred by the noise of people racing full tilt. There are a few people who even have modified their cars to be louder, and you can distinctly pick out the sound of their cars.
I’m a light sleeper, and these people will wake me up in the middle of the night with their ‘shotgun exhausts,’ racing down the street. They kill about 5 people a year. Earlier this year, a street race injured over a dozen people, and killed a kid.As a result, the city has re-timed the lights so that when traveling at normal speeds, traffic is stopped at every stoplight, which means that most drivers now just wontonly disregard speed limits to beat the light timing and not get trapped in a frustrating cycle where a 2-mile drive down the road takes upwards of 15 minutes instead of 5. This just causes the street racers to race later, when they can run the lights and wake everyone up. Plus the increase in speeding by normal drivers decreases safety on the road.
Both the direct and network effects of their stupidity are pretty significant.
So - yes. Street racers are bad people. They are callous, immature, and both actively and passively endanger other motorists. Also, I’m fucking tired, and my dogs are traumatized. - Comment on Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your first idea for a group costume 2 weeks ago:
I bought a pair of overalls, a long-sleeved green shirt, and a pair of sunglasses with an attached Luigi hat and mustache.
Not a group outfit, but I get a feeling it’ll be a pretty solid way to gauge people this year.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 4 weeks ago:
Amen to that. I thought about having a serious look around, but I’d rather not deal with their nonsense.
- Comment on Fuck you in particular 4 weeks ago:
Hitting the back button takes me back to the page I was visiting. An annoyance.
Disabling content blockers seems to prevent the behavior, but then you’ve disabled content blockers.
I experience similar broken site behavior from other online platforms, too. I suspect they are trying to annoy users into not using adblockers.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 4 weeks ago:
It’s definitely dated now, but Robin Williams’ joke about Islamic suicide bombers getting to heaven and being met with 72 virgins was what made me realize that society had it all wrong about promiscuity.
“And now for my talent portion…”
Don’t get me wrong, it’s an unfair generalization to say that virgins/less experienced are uniformly bad at sex (some people just ‘get it’), but it’s generally more accurate that practice makes perfect. (Or maybe that those who have more of an aptitude and interest ‘practice’ more… same result, either way.)
- Comment on Water Boil Advisory 1 month ago:
Everything you said is valid, and in my experience mailings easily take a week to orchestrate.
If you have to send out 5,000 letters, you have to first print 5k letters — assuming the local water department already has a robust template in place, and it doesn’t wind up dragged on by reviews and approvals.
If they haven’t made generic prints to keep in stock, they have to have their own print facilities, or have an on-call printer calorie of doing all other work to deal with emergencies, or possibly work outside of business hours.
Even then, it’s a minimum turnaround of a day. The mail has to go into the system, be sorted and sent to local post offices, then given to mail carriers. The few times I did direct mail, they estimated a minimum of 3 days to deliver, even when dropping off first thing in the morning and the addressee was in the same city.
Even if they managed to get next day delivery, they’d still have a 24h delay in which people could be drinking contaminated water.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 1 month ago:
They do not enjoy when you blow a raspberry onto it, however.
Sucking only. No blowing. Do not reverse the polarity.
- Comment on Been there 1 month ago:
Yup. You got it.
- Comment on Been there 1 month ago:
I bought a batch of business PC’s from a foundered business back in 2010 for cheap, to flip and sell on Craigslist. They were supposed to come wiped, but almost none of them did. I wiped ‘em/reinstalled the OS, but before I did, I got into a few of the user accounts and found that basically all the machines had been used for in the past few months was job hunting.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 1 month ago:
I play it when I’m really depressed.
I would say that I enjoy the game and feel that the developers have invested a lot of effort into building a panacea of a game that is sort of low stress and maybe a little repetitive, but it gives me something to do, and I can set goals for myself that are… well, absolutely batshit.
My current goal(s) are to get my settlements to S tier (pretty close on this one), swap all my frigates over to supply ships (If you repeatedly assign the same ship to the same sorts of missions, it will level up just that stat, so you can have a supply ship that has a high combat stat, etc), and build resource bases so that I can automatically collect every kind of automatically collectible resource in the game. I’ve also visited about 20 universes, and think it might be fun to put a resource collection base in each universe (that I have the patience to visit) and then just go hang out at the anomaly so folks can use the teleporter to fling themselves to universes unknown. - Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 1 month ago:
You’re right, but I googled the wrong thing and googled John 4:16, which is “Jesus said ‘Go call your husband […]’” (It says more, but search cut it off there.)
I had a solid guffaw because these boxes are for 2-way radios. Then I realized that I googled the wrong thing and lost interest in continued research.
- Comment on Dogs need love too 1 month ago:
Mine’s part stink bug.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 2 months ago:
Your logic is inverted. The lines would have to have a place for folks to add in the taxes. Otherwise the math would work in the opposite direction – the calculated amounts would be lower than the amounts based on the number at the bottom. (Unless a discount was applied that’s not shown.)
- Comment on quick thinking 2 months ago:
“See. This is why I prefer rubber gloves instead of nitrile. That way I can keep doing the exam while they defibrillate, and my fingers don’t go numb!”
- Comment on What a fantastic deal 2 months ago:
It’s either that or a hinge to the back of the skull.
They really made bad choices here.
- Comment on What a fantastic deal 2 months ago:
I would buy that and turn it back into doors.
They didn’t remove the knob’s or even round over the edges. A mediocre woodworker could get 2 doors out of that. A skilled woodworker would get 3 (with some reattachment efforts).
I could probably get one whole door. - Comment on Donald Trump Said He Promised Ivanka He Wouldn't Date Girls Younger Than Her | “So as she grows older, the field is getting very limited.” 😬 2 months ago:
He had also been dating Milenia for about a year when he said this, and was also not fully divorced from Marla Maples (though they were separated).
Bastion of morality, that one.
- Comment on Don't do it, we all care about you 2 months ago:
Weirdly, I saw Mike Ehrmantraut
- Comment on LICENSE TO KILL 2 months ago:
It’s inferred.
There’s a whole subset of people for whom that statement would be an expression of endearment.
I would more just assume some people have a playful relationship with their partners and the subject of neurodiversity.
- Comment on you are a snack :) 2 months ago:
A real treat for the right raccoon, possum, bear, or Grouch.
- Comment on Perspective 3 months ago:
It’s a curtain rod to a window midway up the stairs. We’re looking down a flight of steep older stairs. The mattress is lit by the window that is (mostly) under the rod, and by an open door at the bottom of the stairs.
- Comment on Genius 3 months ago:
A gentleman of the streets.
- Comment on Genius 3 months ago:
$37.50 an hour to talk to a minimum of 6 strangers that want something from me and think I can deliver it for them?
I’d rather be an urban outdoorsman.
- Comment on The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group 3 months ago:
All I see are under-evolved crabs.
- Comment on Was surprised by these stats 3 months ago:
My finger hurts and I spent the last of my gumption posting this comment.
Go on without me. Text my wife. Tell her I’ll be
- Comment on Was surprised by these stats 3 months ago:
It’s weird that 4 people are in there for rape.
- Comment on Literally this community 3 months ago:
Honestly, all the childhood trauma has given me an incredible sense of humor. Practice makes perfect!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
100%
The administrative state may not give a shirt about you or the crimes that have been committed against you, but they care about your capacity to make life challenging for them. Police won’t investigate, but they will take a report. A report is a legal document. It implies the threat of real consequences if they don’t get their ship together.
