CADmonkey
@CADmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on They seemed nice and normal until.... 3 days ago:
Slut.
- Comment on i guess this is why i'm a controversial figure just by existing 4 days ago:
Mostly because of my selfish perverted wife who won’t share me. But also because I have only enough room in my head for one romantic partner at a time.
- Comment on i guess this is why i'm a controversial figure just by existing 4 days ago:
The only thing better than having a perverted girlfriend is having a pervert for a wife.
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 1 week ago:
I see you haven’t experienced pibble farts.
- Comment on Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war 1 week ago:
I didn’t know that one. I’m going to keep doing it.
- Comment on Ouch 1 week ago:
Like the “dumb” option in Outer Worlds
- Comment on Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war 1 week ago:
I do this with the dual TP holders at work. Someone will occasionally flip one around.
- Comment on Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war 1 week ago:
But then do you have the paper tailing off the roll to the left or the right?
- Comment on Because, f**k you! That's why. 1 week ago:
I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the video games I’m playing in Mint.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This movie was surprisingly good, I took a woman to see it in the theater when it came out, and fifteen years later we were still quoting it at each other.
- Comment on Roses are red, cabinets have shelves... 2 weeks ago:
A TOTSE reference?
- Comment on Remember when car controls weren't complicated 2 weeks ago:
It’s a parking brake/emergency brake/handbrake or whatever you’d call it. You pull it straight out of the dash to set it. To release it there is a small button on the back you have to hold, while turning the handle clockwise about 90° to release the brake.
This vehicle is newer than 1986. How do I know? Because dear old Dad had a 1986 Isuzu P’up, and it had a most similar parking brake, except it didn’t have the little button - you could just turn the handle. This is a problem when you leave your three year old in the truck unattended, and the three year old starts turning things. It’s even more fun when your other, older child (me) comes out to find your truck has rolled down the driveway into the car across the street.
Later vehicles added the safety button, making it “push button and turn”.
- Comment on Get on my level 2 weeks ago:
Yup that’s my issue. We used metric all the time in the US. But you don’t ever see us bitching about units in an internet comment.
- Comment on Get on my level 2 weeks ago:
I honestly wish we used metric in the US.
What always cracks me up, are people not from the US who whine about our units, and demand that they be translated into their comfort units, which doesn’t make them look smart, it makes them look like they can’t do math as well as a teenager in the US.
- Comment on Shit, I'd pay $9 2 weeks ago:
I had a phone that translated voice messages to text but it didn’t email them, I think it was a Samsung note 20.
- Comment on I wish I could do executive orders 🤔 2 weeks ago:
Surely there is some remote and uninhabited island they could go infest
- Comment on It should be a strict rule 2 weeks ago:
I used to do utility locates around a couple of golf courses that were surrounded by homes. The homes and the golf course were made at more or less the same time. For the most part they were set up so that balls were not flying toward houses.
I once had to mark some lines that were ON the golf course, and a couple of idiots were saying they would hit a ball at me since I was marking the grass. I told them the first time a ball flies near me I’m coming back with a dirt bike.
- Comment on Double standards 2 weeks ago:
There exist pretty chickens, though.
- Comment on Double standards 2 weeks ago:
How many plants had to DIE for your stupid salad?
- Comment on Get on my level 2 weeks ago:
Use your superior education that you got in your non-US country and do the math. Yeah the units are stupid and Americans are uneducated. But we can at least do the conversions.
- Comment on How do I make a dog mean? Not that I want that but would kind of like for him to also be our protector much as his. I don't want to hit him or deprive him though he is just sometimes tooo nice. 2 weeks ago:
I used to have a dog, her name was Zöe, named for one of the characters on Firefly.
She was the best dog. Completely safe around children and the elderly, never barked, never nipped or bit, she was smart, observant, and just the biggest sweetheart.
But if she determined that you were disliked by Her People, you weren’t safe.
My wife told me a story about Zöe, that happened while I was at work. We used to live by a river - it was literally in our back yard. A couple of guys showed up, ostensibly to ask if they could go fishing but more likely to look for things they could steal, as the river was maybe 6" deep at that time, and there were much more accessible places to get to the river. My wife wasn’t comfortable with them there, but they weren’t taking No for an answer. Our other dog was bouncing and barking from the back yard, and they were worried about her, and as a result, they didn’t see Zöe, until she started this angry hateful growl that was accompanied by bared teeth an inch long and a 4" wide strip of fur standing up along her back. My wife said “I can’t really control that dog, you really need to leave.” And we never saw them again.
Tl;dr: Your dog is very likely only nice to YOU and people you are comfortable with.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 2 weeks ago:
It’s been breeding people
Perfect choice of words
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the link, im sure I can get it to work, but I haven’t had the desire to build mobile beam weapons powered by walking people as much recently.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
My work computer is a desktop that runs windows 11, the computer I’m running Mint on is my old rough and tumble “Laptop of Thesus” gaming laptop from 2020. I wouldn’t dream of messing with the OS or any of the programs on the work machine, I’m worried IT would find out I’m competent and then try to get me to be IT.
- Comment on the wok agenda 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had it at least a year now, the only sort-of issue I have with my phone is that it can’t use 5G. They make other models that do use 5G.
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 2 weeks ago:
Are we posting quit stories?
Here’s one of my favorites. I used to work in a metal fabrication shop running a specialized piece of equipment. Another person was hired to run the same machine on another shift. I had to come in several times when I was supposed to be not working, just to help this new guy run the machine or fix some problem it was having. I come to find out, our nearly helpless new guy is being paid more than I am.
I took a day off, ignored my phone, and pursued a couple of opportunities. I got lucky and was hired as a draftsman. The next day at work, I gave a two week notice, to great gnashing of teeth. Day two of the two week notice, they decided to just let me go.
So I hit the e-stop, which shut the machine down, requiring a half-hour of time to re-start, and causing the loss of the part it was working on. My now former boss asked what I was working on, and I said “I don’t work here sir. I don’t know what any of this does. I’ll get out of your way.”
I deleted all of my notes. Pages of information I used to run the machine and how to solve various issues. How to set it up. How to take care of it. It was on my phone, because they wouldn’t spring for a notebook and certainly wouldn’t let me use a computer to make nice organized documentation. All of it, gone. New guy gets frustrated and quits a week later.
And now instead of moving heavy things around all day, I sit in a climate-controlled office (in a building I designed) and draw pictures, and some days I fly a drone and take pictures.
- Comment on the wok agenda 2 weeks ago:
My phone is a Fossibot F106. It’s a rugged smartphone. It weighs 456 grams, it’s about 25 mm thick. I charge it twice a week and it’s made me so spoiled.
There are a few different ruggedized smartphones on the the market. They are worth checking out.
- Comment on the wok agenda 2 weeks ago:
But they use Grindr to make sure they aren’t gay. Just have to make sure periodically. Like once a week.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been having fun watching this happen with my father. He gets really frustrated with those he refers to as “my fellow old people”. He’s 70 and in better shape and more mobile than some 50 year olds I know.
- Comment on Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city. 3 weeks ago:
Just one more