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- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 6 hours ago:
They would cut the corner of the plate where the sticker was. They’d cut it off, and then I guess they’d put it on their plate or something. I don’t know exactly how it worked, but they were doing it to steal the stickers.
- Comment on Has anyone ever actually had their vehicle tabs stolen? 1 day ago:
I’ve never had them stolen myself.
In PA, when they used to still use them, they had little wedge shapes cut into them when you got them, so once you put them on, they couldn’t be removed intact.
Because they couldn’t be removed, you’d see tons of cars with the corner of the license plate cut off.
Pennsylvania finally stopped using the registration stickers a few years ago.
No point to the registration stickers anymore anyway. The license plate scanners already know everything about you.
- Comment on Library Apps are GOATed 2 days ago:
I’m currently streaming a show on Kanopy.com for free through my library card.
- Comment on Upgrade 1 week ago:
Yeah, I couldn’t remember the age he specified, so I guessed at the worst I could imagine. However, what he actually said was he wouldn’t be with a 12 year old, so that would suggest 13 is his lower limit.
Howard Stern: “Do you think you could now be banging 24-year-olds?”
Donald Trump: “Oh, absolutely! I have no trouble.”
Robin Quivers: “Do you have an age limit?”
Donald Trump: “If I— No, no, I have no age— I mean, I have an age limit— I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds”.
- Comment on Upgrade 1 week ago:
Trump would give it the face of someone he finds fuckable. His daughter from when she was
1614.FTFY
- Comment on Is America currently a Plutocracy? And is currently rounding the base toward an Ochlocracy? How did we let ourselves get here? Has any other country been through this? And came back? 1 week ago:
The piece missing from Idiocracy that makes it a comedy and not a prediction: an educated, wealthy class that profits from the ignorance of the people.
- Comment on Is America currently a Plutocracy? And is currently rounding the base toward an Ochlocracy? How did we let ourselves get here? Has any other country been through this? And came back? 1 week ago:
In my opinion,
Plutocracy pretty much.
Ochlocracy no.
The supremely wealthy in this country have an oversized amount of control. However, that’s mostly because we let them.
You only have to look at all the efforts that go into limiting voting in this country to see that voting still works. However, efforts to keep the citizens ignorant or limit their choices has effectively made the US a plutocracy.
The mob doesn’t get to have much influence now beyond what the wealthy elites are willing to allow.
There are some positive signs that American democracy isn’t dead, but I’m honestly not very hopeful. The vast majority of voters just want their bread and circuses.
- Comment on Do cops and soldiers go thru training to not freak out or get sick the first time they see an adult body? What about a kid or something? Or does it depend on the situation theie walking into? 2 weeks ago:
I work in Healthcare IT.
- Comment on Stories to laugh about later 2 weeks ago:
Only a little bit.
- Comment on Stories to laugh about later 2 weeks ago:
That reminds me of the most concern I’ve ever seen in my older brother’s eyes.
We were young. He punched me in the solar plexus, and I couldn’t breathe.
There was genuine concern when he thought he killed me.
- Comment on Do cops and soldiers go thru training to not freak out or get sick the first time they see an adult body? What about a kid or something? Or does it depend on the situation theie walking into? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen a bunch of dead bodies. You live long enough, people die, funerals happen. That’s kind of routine.
I also found a coworker who died at work.
I was his supervisor. He had taken Monday & Tuesday off to work on his house with his brother. On Wednesday I got a call from the police where he lived. He was supposed to meet up with his brother on the previous Saturday, but he never showed up. The police called me to ask me to check if he was in his office.
He had stayed late on the Friday and died there.
That workday was pretty much over at that point. I’m not sure I needed any kind of training to deal with it. Not really sure what form that training would take.
I had a week or two where I would see his body when I closed my eyes.
It was natural causes. He was in his sixties, and he was pretty much a functional alcoholic.
He had a GI bleed. We found out later that he had an appointment scheduled to see a doctor about it. From what we pieced together afterwards, he had been vomiting &/or shitting blood and hiding it. He should have gone to the ER, but I’m not surprised he didn’t.
I do kind of have most other managers beat when it comes to tough supervisory situations.
- Comment on Is the gripe against AI the same as CGI when first being used? 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, it’s nostupidquestions not nostupidresponses.
- Comment on On an open source platform, I'm supposed to be able to change my username/display name, right ? 3 weeks ago:
I think they’re just saying that open source doesn’t prevent crappy behavior by the creator. However, because it is open source, capable users can take the code, fix what they don’t like, and release their fixed version under the same license.
I don’t think not being able to change your user name is at the same level of “crappy” as the examples mentioned in that paragraph. However, the point applies: you, or anyone, could take the source code and add the ability to change usernames.
In previous discussions on the subject, I’ve read that the way Lemmy works makes it a very difficult feature to add.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Bummer. That sucks.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Just throwing this out there in case anyone needs actual advice:
One option is to sign with a buyer’s broker. A real estate agent that works for the buyer rather than the seller. That’s what my wife and I did when we bought our house almost 29.
The real estate fees of 6% are paid by the seller and split by the seller’s broker and the buyers broker, and the buyer’s broker has a fiduciary responsibility to the buyer
Our broker, Gary, made sure we understood everything that was happening and made sure we didn’t screw up.
I definitely recommend it for anyone buying a house for the first time. It doesn’t cost you anything as the buyer, and it doesn’t increase any costs for the seller.
- Comment on Just hanging with the boys 3 weeks ago:
I had to scroll way too far to find this comment.
- Comment on Lol she's gonna die laughing 4 weeks ago:
It’s just a prank,
brosis. - Comment on Handy tip 4 weeks ago:
I can hear cows in my head, but seriously it’s not that great. All they say all day long is, “kill them. Kill them all.”
It’s kind of monotonous.
- Comment on Handy tip 4 weeks ago:
Is the mind cow merely rotating in air, or must I imagine myself picking it up and rotating it physically? If I’m imagining physically rotating the cow, am I imagining exertion, or should I be imagining that I have super human strength?
In what plane should I rotate it?
Is the cow in a field or in a barn? Or is it in an empty void?
If I’m physically rotating the cow, how am I dressed? Am I wearing my normal attire, or am I dressed like a dairy farmer? How does a dairy farmer dress? Is the cow wearing any clothing?
Can I choose what season I imagine the cow rotating in, or must it be the current season?
I have so many questions and now I’m even more bored than I was before!
- Comment on Is there a word for people who will mess something up and blame the victim for it? 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of when we sent a tech out to someone’s home to set up a workstation. The wife of the guy getting the workstation backed into his car, and drove off.
After seeing the damage to his car, our tech went to tell the husband, and before he could even say anything the husband said, “my wife hit your car, didn’t she?”
It’s happened often enough that this guy didn’t even need to be told. He knew.
- Comment on Can a puzzle with missing pieces be considered complete? 5 weeks ago:
Are you asking to get answers about the philosophical question, or did you argue with her about it and you want to find out what the lemmynet thinks?
As others have mentioned, “complete” does not have to refer to the puzzle itself. It could refer to the effort.
On the other hand, her puzzle, her frame, her wall: she gets to decide.
Personally, I’d want to craft replacement pieces and draw in the missing parts of the picture. Or maybe paint them gold like Kintsugi. That way the puzzle can be “complete” while still acknowledging the history of the puzzle.
- Comment on Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it. 1 month ago:
Yeah, honestly, I wasn’t really trying to establish a cause and effect. More that the out-of-control wealth disparity appears to have enabled a large number of vile, evil scum to rise up the top.
- Comment on Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it. 1 month ago:
No the only thing that stands between me and child molestation is my morality, but that also stands between me and money and power.
- Comment on audition 1 month ago:
There’s a restaurant in Reading, PA with a men’s room that has a sink, two urinals, and a toilet. No stalls. One room.
There was a lock on the door, but it left me wondering about the kind of friends who would feel comfortable coming in with you to use the urinal while you’re taking a shit.
I didn’t see the woman’s bathroom, but apparently a few others did because the lock on that door didn’t work.
- Comment on ???? 1 month ago:
I’ve heard that hamsters will play dead so effectively, that they will convince their owners that they actually are dead.
So, assuming that’s true, some hamsters die horribly in a small box underground.
- Comment on ???? 1 month ago:
We’ve got two guinea pigs, and in my opinion, they aren’t that hard to keep alive.
My daughter’s guinea pig just died, but he was an older fellow. He went with her to college and got her all the way through to a few months past graduation.
As George Carlin said, “You’re supposed to know it in the pet shop. It’s going to end badly. You’re purchasing a small tragedy.”
- Comment on If only the person who did this ceiling had their tools even half as well calibrated as I do 1 month ago:
The DIY’ers who owned my house before me were very confident in their ability and proud of their accomplishments*.
They shouldn’t have been. Inside corner trim cut at a 45° with the gap filled with wood filler. Chair rail molding installed in the dining room with up to a quarter inch gap between the molding and the wall.
Of course, I’ve had hardly any better luck hiring professionals. It seems like no one has any logic anymore.
To a certain degree, some screwups add to the character of the house. A closet door frame noticeably out of square becomes quaint when the finish carpenters match the odd angles perfectly when cutting the trim.
* Neighbors who live next door told us about the previous owners bragging about the work they did.
- Comment on Larry Page, still a board member of Google's parent company Alphabet, had ties to Epstein. He successfully hid from subpoenas to testify about it. 1 month ago:
as if anyone with such power would practice child molestation.
It’s starting to seem that way to me.
- Comment on If you could make a magic wish so that your crush liked you, would you do it? 1 month ago:
39+ years here. I think after another 21 years, I can be sure.
- Comment on 😉 😉 1 month ago:
Bed frames in college were squeaky. I found a little bit of olive oil took care of it.