toynbee
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- Comment on All I want... 4 hours ago:
My ankle doctor has billboards of herself up and down the highway that runs between my house and her practice. Also the hospital runs streams of her talking in all of their waiting rooms. Also there are some cardboard cutouts in the hallways.
I once asked her “do you ever get jumpscared by yourself?” She responded with a long rant about how she hates it, but her employer demands it.
- Comment on "Transfer failed because it did" 🤦🏻 1 day ago:
A defense of dubious rationality doesn’t make it less annoying, sadly.
- Comment on "Transfer failed because it did" 🤦🏻 1 day ago:
One of the interfaces I use at work requires regular reauthentication (sidenote: I’d like to thank autocorrect for “correcting” that to “resurgence ovulation”). At sign in, it pops up a usage agreement, which is tedious but NBD.
What annoys me is that (in the UI it offers, obviously one could circumvent this) you have two and only two options: “OK” or “Got it.” No "I don’t accept or “log me out.” I’d even prefer just “OK” over that - it feels like it’s trying, poorly, to railroad me.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Is that how you get the elephant’s attention?
- Comment on America has a solution for everything 3 days ago:
Why?
- Comment on America has a solution for everything 3 days ago:
Well, it’s nice to know that someone pays attention to my ramblings and I guess it’s also nice to know that you only kind of do.
- Comment on America has a solution for everything 3 days ago:
If it wasn’t, it was very similar looking.
- Comment on America has a solution for everything 4 days ago:
No, but I am prepared for a nap.
- Comment on Perks 4 days ago:
That sounds awful. I’m sorry that happened.
Once I was driving on I-95 and developed unexpected diarrhea. I stopped at a nearby Subway and relieved myself there, but it took a while. While I was doing so I heard people in the hallway outside of the bathroom; what I heard was someone saying “wow, you’re all waiting for the bathroom?” Hearing that didn’t help.
My restroom experience in that situation was not positive. My experience of exiting that restroom after hearing that and walking past a long line of people who all had to hear my struggles in there was worse.
- Comment on Perks 4 days ago:
I’ve certainly wondered whether that’s the case.
- Comment on America has a solution for everything 4 days ago:
When I was a kid, before laptops were commonly accessible, I had a device … I can’t remember what it was called, I keep thinking “Altavista,” but I know that was a search engine, not a device. I do recall that it was blue.
Anyway, the idea was, you’d type into it and it would store what you typed locally. Later, you’d plug it into a computer’s PS/2 port it would reproduce what you had typed by imitating a keyboard and literally typing out what was in its memory. My mom teased me because she’d sometimes review what I had put in and encounter
 .This device was how I discovered Y-connectors, which later resulted in me having a keyboard on my desk and a keyboard in a keyboard tray with one hand on each.
- Comment on Perks 4 days ago:
They’ll probably love Click.
- Comment on America has a solution for everything 4 days ago:
Didn’t Elvis once famously kill a roach with a revolver? I remember hearing that story, but all I can find with cursory DDG searches is some altercation between him and Alice Cooper.
I might be confusing it with the story about him shooting his TV, but I’m not sure how a roach would get involved in that memory. Maybe I’m recalling a Simpsons bit. It’s too early for me to remember clearly.
- Comment on America has a solution for everything 4 days ago:
Nice.
- Comment on America has a solution for everything 4 days ago:
FWIW, in case you don’t know, Lemmy uses Markdown. IMHO it’s pretty good at formatting and there are lots of guides for it online; just looking up “how to to x in markdown” is likely to get you plenty of results.
In case you want to see the results of particular texts in real-time, there are also editors that will immediately show you what will be the outcome of what you write. These are available locally on your system, but also online:
- Comment on Perks 4 days ago:
Once I took my kid to a Dollar General (not a corporation I would prefer to support, but we had a need for a product and there aren’t many other options practically available locally). The kid was five or six at the time, I don’t recall precisely.
Anyway, as we were acquiring our necessities, the kid realized they had to use the restroom. I asked the kid if they were able to hold it, but they said no, so I inquired with the staff and, though I never realized it prior, it turns out that at least that particular DG does, indeed, allow you to use their restroom.
I took the kid to it but, like some grocery stores I attended when I, myself, was but a youth, it was through the stock room. Much like I remember feeling in those stock rooms, my kid felt we shouldn’t be there. They clung tightly to me and, despite my reassurances, kept repeating “I don’t think we should be here. We should not be back here.” After they took care of business, we came back out into the store proper and they said words to the effect of “phew! I didn’t think we should be there.”
I never want my progeny to have to be afraid, and certainly I don’t want them to be unnecessarily fearful, but I do feel proud that when they were I was a source of safety for them.
- Comment on Game over 1 week ago:
I’ve never done drugs like the others here, but I did have a spinal surgery. Now my symptoms are massively improved, but I frequently think there are bugs on me, especially on my back.
Even worse, I live in a rural area and a lot of my property is wooded, so sometimes there are bugs on me; I can’t just assume it’s my nerve damage.
- Comment on The bowl is full 1 week ago:
I … Don’t want to.
- Comment on The bowl is full 1 week ago:
- Comment on elite 1 week ago:
You ever triedtaleggio? I very rarely eat cheese, but I once got a portion of this for my wife and our friend. They described it as “good, but weird.”
I got it because of an old reddit post which featured a gif of it being used to make a grilled cheese. They used some for that and some for mac and cheese.
- Comment on This haunts me 1 week ago:
I remember reading an Aliens VS Predator book wherein someone described facehuggers as an “ambulatory dick.”
In that same book, a character described humanity as “raping the planet” and another character said “I don’t remember sticking my dick in the dirt recently.”
Neither of those struck me as strange at the time and I haven’t thought of the book much since until now, but maybe I shouldn’t have been reading that as a kid …
- Comment on A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape 1 week ago:
From what I recall, quite a few years ago, there was a protest where many people stopped paying them on the basis that you have a right to face your accuser; I don’t know what happened with that.
- Comment on Better to just turn around and leave, if you can 1 week ago:
I still feel it’s better than “human capital.”
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 1 week ago:
!g is this right?
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 1 week ago:
If, like me, you don’t like to login to things, you can set your browser to use NoAI DDG by default.
Graphic drifting how to as DDG without AI as a search engine in Firefox mobile
- Comment on Why DDG is the superior serch engine 1 week ago:
DDG defaults to the Bing database, iirc. Probably that’s not all that different from Google, but I think you can preface your search with
!gto get identical results. - Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 week ago:
I appreciate the recommendation, but I think I’ll probably just stick with using the microwave!
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 1 week ago:
Heh, nice.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 2 weeks ago:
I get the microwaving eggs thing. It’s an inferior culinary experience, but it’s easier. I microwave things whenever possible because I have difficulty standing up for any significant period of time; even if the time taken is identical, microwaving something usually means pressing a few buttons before sitting down and waiting, whereas cooking something on the range usually involves tending, meaning I have to stay there.
- Comment on Let us end the stovetop war with the real chanp 2 weeks ago:
My wife once dropped a metal bottle cap on the capacitive controls for our oven.
I don’t know anything about oven software, but so far as I could tell, it caused the entire thing to basically reboot.
