TheDoozer

@TheDoozer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even if you develop the worst type of dementia imaginable, please find a way to always remember the events of 11/13/25.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Much better way to organize. It’s how a lot of my files start:

  YYYYMMDD-Name-Document-signed

  So much easier to keep track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Truth is way more fucked up than fiction⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  the man who has openly declared since the 2000s that democracy is a mistake and that he wants to destroy the United States and European countries to establish city-states, each governed by a different corporation (fiefdoms), on our ruins

  Wait. Did dude read Snowcrash and think “yeah, that future, that’s my utopia!”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are we still talking about cars or back to bodies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Like the mechanic handing you a $15 code reader and saying “just erase it whenever it pops up.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually used this to explain a concern of mine to my wife. We had a Subaru Forester that had some minor but expensive issue that kept the check engine light on, so we ignored it. And because of that missed something else that made the engine 'splode (not literally, just turned the SUV to SCRAP). About 8 hours from our house and two hours from the nearest rental car agency (and no trains). With our daughter in the back and me needing to be at work the next morning.

  Anyway, I was talking about how everything hurts a bit, and because of that my general pain tolerance is way higher to the point I don’t notice most of the time I’m hurt. Like the check engine light on the Subaru.

  I imagine cancer is going to come along and when I find out at stage four, people will wonder how I possibly could have put up with it up to that point without going to the doctor. And I’ll say I didn’t even notice it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bum trumpet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard about deaf people learning with horror that farts make sound.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  An old buddy of mine commented once on the amount if minor havoc you could wreak with a handful of chain bike locks. Cheap, wrap around some door handles and lock, walk away. Yeah, somebody can bust out a bolt cutter, but for the amount of challenge to remove it, the low cost per use, and the speed of application, it’s pretty impressive for minor mischief.

  Relatively harmless, too, as long as you aren’t doing any additional nefarious shit. Might work for some gated community gates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Boston⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, man, kind and fast. Hands down. Every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t? I don’t think?

  I’m honestly pretty light on any emotion except anger. But I don’t care enough to be anxious, and I’m pretty confident I’m not depressed. I’m reasonably unhappy about the state of the world (and my country), but I wouldn’t equate that to depression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So ultimately, the punishment for not believing is being destroyed? Like, oblivion?

  Shit, this sounds like a win. I have no interest in eternal existence, even supposedly “blissful” existence. I feel like anyone who thinks of eternity on more than a surface level would feel nothing but existential dread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So...I feel like there are a lot of elephants in the room, could i get some help?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Don’t carry credit card debt. Save money if you can. Get a handle on basic finances

  Credit cards are this weird thing. If you need them, you shouldn’t use them (if you can help it). If you make plenty of money and don’t need them, they are a very useful financial tool. I have paid interest on one of my credit cards once in the past 3 years, and it was only to have extra available funds for buying a house. But I have accrued well over 100k airline miles and several hundred (far more than the interest I paid) in cash back. I use credit cards exclusively for everything but my mortgage, and have them set to automatically pay the statement balance prior to the due date. If you aren’t extremely confident you can do that, you should avoid credit cards.

  I definitely ran afoul of credit cards in my youth, so the banks have gotten their pound of flesh from me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hurdle⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also middle schoolers are awful. My wife and I kept telling my daughter through Elementary that Middle School age kids are the worst, because they have gotten smart enough to really hurt you (emotionally and physically), but haven’t developed the restraint or understanding consequences yet.

  She just got into 6th grade and came home crying from some fucked up shit some kids were spreading about her, and she was just baffled by it. We were like “yeah, see, this is what we were talking about. It will get better. Let’s have ice cream.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true. It should really be referenced by the number before 10 (e.g. Base 9).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea time, innit?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awww NOW you fucked up!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve told my kids that I don’t condone intiating violence, but if someone else starts getting physically violent first, feel free to fuck them up (provoking them will still get my kid in trouble, though).

  However, if the institution itself fails to protect the kids, and my kid told me they and their friends were doing this on purpose, I’d take the day off for their suspension and take them to the arcade and a movie or something. And then I’d have a very serious talk with their principal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a movie critic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank goodness I have an opporunity to post this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, to your first question (about Antifa), MAGA don’t consider what the current administration (or anything they support) to be fascist. Because they tend to put the conclusion before the question: “I am against fascism. I support these policies. Therefore these policies must not be fascist.”

  And because they’ve decided these fascist policies are not fascist, the term “Antifa” to them is similar to “pro-life” for pro-choice people. It’s a term that isn’t exactly accurate but makes the group naming themselves look like the good guys. And in the same way that pro-choice people don’t consider themselves “anti-life” just because pro-life people call themselves that, MAGA people don’t consider themselves “pro-fascist” just because Antifa call themsleves that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pretty sure he's fine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend has a zoology degree, spent time as an officer in the military, and runs a successful business building training systems.

  She’s super stoked to be fullfilling one of her biggest dreams, going on an Antarctic expedition.

  As a janitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halloween is coming up, folks. So here's your seventh idea for a costume⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Should be visor-type sunglasses. Kind of makes the look. You know, one lense going from…

  i2i.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I remember correctly (it’s been over 16 years), my wife suggested separate checks the first time, and I told her I’d pay this time and she could get the next one if she wanted to go out again.

  I think I still ended up paying for the next one (or separate checks), but that wasn’t a cultural norm thing, I just get uncomfortable with other people paying for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t believe in a soul. That is definitely not religious dogma.

  The idea that reincarnation is the default and one would have to be indoctrinated against it is… I would say, a very interesting position to take, if I’m being polite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lara Croft is a Sociopath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a comic where one character says “Why are there so many monsters in this dungeon?!”

  The other says “because they live here.”

  And the first character says “oh. …ooooooohhhh…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardest battles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To your second point:

  how often I send an email with a bulleted list of issues that need to be addressed and the response only addresses a fraction of them while the rest are ignores.

  I typically will reply with just the bulleted points they didn’t address and then keep sending it with less and less bullets until either they answer all points or stop replying… after the third or fourth reminder email. I make sure the previous emails are in the string and never change the title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do guys have a haircut?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I cut my own hair every weekend. I’m in the military, though (and no, I don’t just shave it). I found that I do it more to my liking (and consistently) than the barbers I’ve gone to, it only takes 20 minutes, I don’t have to pay $30, and I can shower immediately after. I use a 6 (3/4 inch) on top, a 3 (3/8 inch) around the curve transitioning to the sides, and then fade down from there, 2 to 1.5 to 1 and finally .5 (1/16 inch) around my ears, side-burns, and most of the back. Keeps everything clean, I always look good, and I spend about $40 every year or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Void⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Void has style. Void can dance. VOID HAS TEARAWAY PANTS!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life of a therapist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, no, don’t. It wasn’t a serious thing, just pointing out the weird 5 to 1, 1 to 5 thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life of a therapist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense. Just the:

  1: 5 things 2: 4 things 3: 3 things 4: 2 things 5: 1 thing

  Throws me off a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life of a therapist⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It… kind of bothers me the order that is in. Is that on purpose?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I feel bad that my abuser is suffering?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have empathy for the injustices others face. It helps you let go of hate

  This is a big one, though I have a more nuanced view.

  “That is a fucked up thing and shouldn’t happen to anyone. I couldn’t give two shits about that person in particular because they’re a piece of shit, but what is happening to them is unacceptable.”

  That’s how I feel about bad shit happening to horrible people in prison. A serial rapist gets raped in prison? Unacceptable. It shouldn’t be allowed, and everyone responsible should be held to account. However, I lack the necessary empathy to feel for that serial rapist. I try, but there’s a lot of people out there suffering more who did nothing or less that I should care about, and I have a limited amount of care. Doesn’t mean I’m okay woth prison rape, though.