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- Comment on Anon joins girl's night 3 hours ago:
Sometimes people just fuck regardless of what the friend zone rules say.
- Comment on 10 hours ago:
Maybe there are as many different Linux users as there are Photoshop alternatives.
At least 2-3…I mean, some day, there will be as many Linux users.
- Comment on Lawful evil 1 day ago:
Tipping in percent. Seems almost too metric. How many quarters to the foot gallon is that?
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 5 days ago:
This only seems magical because you forgot your infantile experiences in doing just those things.
I bet you know what it would feel like to bite into a wooden desk.
- Comment on What is your interesting fact or knowledge that is completely useless that you wish to share? 5 days ago:
Is this related to the cravings for certain food?
- Comment on The cheap ones leave the best residue 5 days ago:
It’s no wonder everyone’s getting new cars here.
Electricity is about a quarter of that for the same mileage.
Using the current prices and my own mileage, it would take 5 years to finance a new car only by the savings on fuel.
- Comment on Me_IRL 1 week ago:
It can be difficult to just stop a stupid habit like that.
My solution was to go on a skiing holiday. Wearing gloves for a week and being away from my ordinary routine definitely helped.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp has mental breakdown in front of reporters 1 week ago:
So this guy just woke up that morning and decided to boss around people on the street.
- Comment on You never know! 1 week ago:
It’s easier to take off a scuba suit if you don’t need it, than to put one on if you need it but don’t have one.
- Comment on Too many people don't understand this when parking 1 week ago:
The “just a minute”-people park everywhere, not limited to handicap spaces.
I’ve seen people put on the hazard lights in the middle of a street to get their take away food. I get that sometimes people can be in a hurry and it being almost an emergency for them, but it seems like something that becomes a bad habit.
My neighbour’s landlord throws his car anywhere effectively blocking the dead end road every single time he is there, and he’s not in a hurry. I think he even likes the interaction with people asking him to move his shit. He’s a friendly fellow who likes to talk, but he’s also a selfish asshole, who apparently enjoys having other people being dependent on him to solve the issue that he created.
I once had a job interview in one of his companies, and I could tell that his entitlement oozed through the entire organization.
He doesn’t park badly because he’s a bad driver. He’s a bad person and that makes him bad at parking.
- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 1 week ago:
The waiting time has little to do with the payment and much more to do with having enough doctors.
Where I live, the universal healthcare has a guarantee for treatment within a time dependent on the illness. If the public healthcare fails to offer the treatment within that time and if you can find treatment in the private sector, the government will still pay for it.
Both the private and public hospitals are paid a fixed price by the government by the patient, so it doesn’t matter for the government (and taxes) who they have to pay.
The difference is that private hospitals can make a profit by keeping their costs lower than the fixed price, while public hospitals just need to balance. There are some overhead costs in the public hospitals, that are not necessarily present in the private sector, so it’s not impossible for private hospitals to make a profit without cutting down on the service. They probably still do cut as much as they can get away with, but overall they have to deliver the same safety standards and follow the same regulations. The government audits both.
Anyway, waiting time is an issue, but not because of how it’s paid.
- Comment on Homesteading 2 weeks ago:
It’s a toilet. Fungi are growing from the connection to the sewer.
- Comment on Sick day 2 weeks ago:
It’s neither kitchen or living room.
The washer is on the “mud room” or “gross kitchen”, which has a doorless wall opening to the combined kitchen/dining area. This layout was common in early 90s suburban family homes and still today.
I don’t really like the layout, but I’ll admit that it’s practical.
- Comment on bruh 2 weeks ago:
It will be difficult for someone else to do, because Trump also didn’t actually do anything himself to become the representative of the idiots. Remembering how surprised he was to win in 2016, it only happened because the idiots didn’t want to vote for a woman. He basically tripped and fell into the role.
It’s difficult to tell if the MAGA crowd will silently retreat to not voting again, or if they’ll agree on some random celebrity again, but I don’t think anyone can put themselves in that kind of position of representing people who hates having a representative at all.
- Comment on Pain 2 weeks ago:
Favorite number is 8520 which is the postcode for a city where I uses to do telephone support. I hated the job but the number is easy to type on a numerical keyboard, so it always made me happy when someone from there called.
I don’t have a favorite color, but I do have a preference for certain palettes.
Historical anecdote. I hope you like trains. The movie Doctor Zhivago was filmed during the Cold War, and since the setting is in Russia, it was impossible for Hollywood to do on location. Most of it was filmed in Spain and Portugal, but not all of the train scenes could be. See, the train track in Russia has a different (smaller) gauge than in Europe, with the exception of Finland who adopted the russian gauge for geographical reasons. Another hurdle though was that nobody had the Russian trains either, so they had to build them from scratch using old construction drawings from before the Cold War, where Finnish factories had produced some trains for Russia. So the Finnish factory rebooted in the mid 1960s to build a train train from the 1900s, just for this movie. You will not find this info on wikipedia, which only mentions the Spanish trains.
- Comment on The crazy bastards, they've finally done it 2 weeks ago:
I always feel like somebody’s watching me. And I have no privacy.
- Comment on Anon's class fails expectations 2 weeks ago:
It has been remade several times, but the original is the best.
It’s only 40 minutes and available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D55LkspO5ZU
- Comment on Slay 3 weeks ago:
I read it as if nobody asked them to thirst trap. We all know they do it for views, but it’s mildly confusing when you’re actually searching for arm workouts to be presented with an instructor who tries to show her butt every chance. It’s something they came up with unprompted.
- Comment on Slay 3 weeks ago:
It means that nobody asked for or requested it, but they still do or state something stupid. They just do “that”, even if they don’t have to.
I think it originates and makes the most sense in someone posting a wild defensive explanation for something that wasn’t attacked to begin with, only because they want to state their opinion on something that nobody gives a shit about.
If the thing is stupid enough to be funny on it’s own, then it can easily be omitted, but it has that extra layer of the poster basically asking “why’d they wanna do that”. This indicates that the poster themselves is two steps away from whatever foolish thing is going on and only observing them for amusement.
- Comment on Won't you come? 3 weeks ago:
Cornell.
- Comment on Anon is a dungeon master 3 weeks ago:
I never thought much about the concept of marriage in a fantasy setting. Are they going to describe the rules for mutually shared tax deductions in the next version of DnD? It could get complicated with all the different religions and races.
- Comment on Team building 3 weeks ago:
Is he trying to bowl with her?
- Comment on Floating beard 4 weeks ago:
Just about any kind of fish that lives in the forest.
I never said he was good at fishing.
- Comment on Floating beard 4 weeks ago:
He didn’t catch any fish, so the woman has to feed him.
- Comment on Anon hates tiktok 4 weeks ago:
A solar flare would solve lots of things besides TikTok.
It would cause many problems too, but I’m not sure they’re worse than the problems we have now.
- Comment on Be prepared 4 weeks ago:
Soo my hobbies? Yeah, Uranus, I mean stuff in asstrophyligy, like I’m really into cancer … Yeah and boats.
- Comment on tag yourself 4 weeks ago:
You need to be more specific. There’s 5 other diatonitic modes between G major and G minor, and that’s before we get into altered modes.
- Comment on Contrast 4 weeks ago:
So maybe it’s possible to grow a pumpkin large enough for a horse carriage and nobody has done it yet?
- Comment on Contrast 4 weeks ago:
How big are they in volume?
A ton of water is just one cubic meter, so I suppose it’s still not big enough to make jack-o’latern house.
- Comment on Anon steams up the sauna 4 weeks ago:
You can talk private if you have a private sauna.
In a public one, nobody wants to listen to others small talk.
