CADmonkey

@CADmonkey@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkers, not chess.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Found out this morning that my supervisor can’t afford to drive to work. He has a big truck and a long drive but… It’s already happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping the tally of suicides. Pedestrians vs those in cars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m from Oklahoma and I’ve only got the five per hand. Please don’t send Inigo Montoya after me.

  I don’t think the tick marks are on the actual tram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FATALITY⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Have to add the chair-catching woman to the level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkers, not chess.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want $15. Let’s price everyone out of commuting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkers, not chess.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so, what is your suggestion? The people who are directly perpetrating this war are hiding behind armed guards. Have you noticed that no rightwing politician in the US has done an interview outside since September 10th of last year?

  It’s easy to sit at your keyboard and suggest people on the other side of the ocean fight and die for your conscience. It’s harder and more time consuming to build parallel systems to support those who are against the regime.

  You probably think the media is telling you what’s happening over here, don’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Checkers, not chess.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly question for the lemmy brain trust: what happens when most people are priced out of commuting?

  Seems like that would inadvertently bring about a general strike.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God lays out the rules for bad drivers and eternal hell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can have fun with this.

  I used to own a Geo Metro. For those who aren’t familiar with cars sold in the US 30+ years ago, the Metro was a tiny little car with a 55 horsepower, 1.0 liter engine.

  The most frustrating part about driving the car wasn’t that it was slow, it’s that it was never slow enough. I was always stuck behind someone’s Twin Turbo GT something or other that was going 10 under the limit. And then you’d pass them, and they would drop their cellphone to make sure I knew their car, which cost considerably more than mine did, was faster. It was crazy. It didn’t matter if I was going the speed limit or even if I was going too fast.

  The worst part is I started to weaponize it. I’d see some goofball in a big lifted truck down the road from a known speed trap, and I’d pass them… They would immediately jump to the defense of their frangible masculinity, and they would inevitably fly by a speed trap at 70 on a residential street while showing me how cool they were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They seemed nice and normal until....⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slut.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing better than having a perverted girlfriend is having a pervert for a wife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you haven’t experienced pibble farts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know that one. I’m going to keep doing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ouch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the “dumb” option in Outer Worlds

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally a possible path toward peace in this long war⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over the video games I’m playing in Mint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A TOTSE reference?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when car controls weren't complicated⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 🤔⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely there is some remote and uninhabited island they could go infest

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It should be a strict rule⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There exist pretty chickens, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Double standards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many plants had to DIE for your stupid salad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get on my level⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been breeding people

  Perfect choice of words

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.