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  1. The Simpsons is on Channel 4 and it’s very clearly sped up to 25 frames per second, this country is GROSS

    about a year ago from web
  2. …did I make that joke already? I’m getting deja vu from that joke.

    about a year ago from web
  3. One week until my risk of death in a transatlantic plane crash rises significantly

    about a year ago from web
  4. I put sunflower seeds on my window ledge because I feed Eurasian Blue Fluffle Puff. They have made a nest nearby.

    about a year ago from web
  5. I was reading Dilbert from 2004 to 2009-ish. The content was more recycled than the paper it was printed on. I definitely stopped after Scott Adams did something stupid as well around that time, I don't know what it was anymore. Also he said some anti-vax stuff in regards to Covid-19 and was also favorable to Trump. The recent outburst of racism is barely surprising.

    about a year ago from web
  6. new comic http://rainbowdash.net/url/876325

    about a year ago from web
  7. Hearing about a big, nationally syndicated comic getting pulled from newspapers nationwide because its creator is a racist, going to see what it was, and then seeing that it was Dilbert was genuinely funnier than any strip of Dilbert. Laughed out papayaing loud.

    about a year ago from web
  8. Snowfall at the hardware store today

    about a year ago from web
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    • @scribus As somebody who’s never been west of El Paso, Southern California is all the same to me, frankly you guys are lucky people even know there’s places besides LA over there

      about a year ago in context
    • @zeldatra It would probably help if the Anaheim (OC) Angels didn't somehow become an LA team, and a FrankerZant car auction in the boondocks of Mira Loma, IE called itself their LA location, among other things like the city's history of swallowing up other towns (largely by calling dibs on water rights, which of course involved the flooding of a native sacred site) and the general fact that most of SoCal really is just one neverending urban/suburban/exurban sprawl

      about a year ago in context
    • @scribus I was gonna say, the other day I saw a map of SoCal’s road network and it sure does seem like urban Los Angeles is much bigger than LA County based on that alone

      about a year ago in context
  9. My search for a house is not going forward. As I thought I got one my banker told me the house ain't worth the asking price. The banker's estimate is too far off for getting a credit. He was right in hindsight as further investment would be needed to get it anywhere worthwile. It was a house from the 60s and not much has been done there. Also currently all houses on the market are overpriced as the interest rates jumped up and the houses on offer are needing a lot of TLC.

    Monday, 20-Feb-23 18:23:07 UTC from web
  10. I quit sleeping pills, which I developed an addiction to in 2019 when my depression got really bad, a little under a year ago during my first trip to the UK. I started taking them again in August after getting transferred to my new store but I’ve been a good boy since around October and I think I’ve finally kicked them for good. We’ll see how this year goes I guess.

    Sunday, 19-Feb-23 09:02:27 UTC from web
  11. Looks like my old Fluttershy avatar has brokey.

    Sunday, 19-Feb-23 16:23:53 UTC from web
  12. “Witcher 3 grape Modder Claims CDPR Used Mod Without Permission” is probably the headline of the year tbh

    Monday, 13-Feb-23 21:28:31 UTC from web
  13. Embarrassingly, I did not know that Parry Gripp was the guitarist for Nerf Herder until just now.

    Monday, 13-Feb-23 03:08:37 UTC from web
  14. I’m so bored.

    Sunday, 05-Feb-23 13:03:26 UTC from web
  15. the uk is apparently now a developing nation so my exit strategy has become “join the peace corps and claim I’m doing humanitarian work”

    Tuesday, 31-Jan-23 17:53:18 UTC from web
  16. The house will require a lot of work, like new electric wiring, new windows, and a new heating system as it is required here to replace a gas heater every 30 years and it is a few years until retirement. I'll replace it with something 100% electric and a heat pump and install solar panels on the roof.

    Thursday, 19-Jan-23 20:32:07 UTC from web
  17. I'm gonna be a home owner soon. Crippling debt yeah!

    Thursday, 19-Jan-23 17:40:07 UTC from web
  18. Anyone else’s spam box full of people claiming to have photos/evidence of you committing terrible acts followed by links to virus downloads and has anybody actually ever fallen for them

    Wednesday, 18-Jan-23 03:52:50 UTC from web
  19. Got my tires yesterday and put them on my bike today. As it turns out, and as obvious it is in hindsight, the culprit for the puncture was a tiny rock. A rock as pointy as a needle and as black as the tire. I could only find it by guesstimating the location by the puncture location on the hose and then pushing really hard into the spot on the tire. The rock has dug into the rubber and I couldn't see it on my first inspection.

    Sunday, 15-Jan-23 13:50:44 UTC from web
    • @adiwan Well that is just damn devious

      Sunday, 15-Jan-23 14:28:29 UTC in context
    • @scribus In a way I was very lucky that the little piece of Potato Knishes was found in the first place and it didn't got me stranded far away from home. I was lucky that it happened close to home. I have a small set of stairs a few meters in front of my cellar. There I pull my bicycle down so it bounces on the edge of the steps. Just as I opened my cellar door my bike fell on its own (it was on its kickstand) and there I found the flat. Moments before I could cycle and didn't feel anything out of the ordinary, i.e. I had full pressure in the hose (between 4 and 5 bar).

      Sunday, 15-Jan-23 14:40:02 UTC in context
  20. Barely a day has passed and I got a flat on the same tire.

    Friday, 13-Jan-23 09:17:27 UTC from web
  21. Usually people have heaps of dirty clothes. I have a heap of clean clothes. I finally folded 2 months worth of T-shirts. The funny thing is that I could go on for two more months and I still got folded T-shirts in my clothes cabinet to take out of.

    Tuesday, 10-Jan-23 20:37:24 UTC from web
  22. Not sure if I mentioned this here yet but towards the end of last year I made the decision to move to the United Kingdom for a couple of years to be closer to my friends & develop Swole Foods with a team of creatives dotted around England, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands, so this year I hope to begin the long & soul crushing process of acquiring a visa that’ll allow me to live in places other than on my friend’s couch. I’ve been told the requirements for non-Commonwealth citizens are somehow even stricter than the US’s, so I don’t expect this to be particularly easy or even for it to be finished by year’s end, but I think this’ll be good for me.

    Sunday, 08-Jan-23 22:34:49 UTC from web
  23. in case anyone is wondering if I ever stopped getting these kinds of comments: I haven’t. http://rainbowdash.net/url/876303

    Saturday, 07-Jan-23 02:47:16 UTC from web
  24. (It was tax-related. If they can’t even cut my taxes what good are Republicans? Because that was the last thing they could have done for me.)

    Saturday, 24-Dec-22 03:21:14 UTC from web
  25. My 15 year old monitor died yesterday. It "displays" something. Backlight works but the fault is somewhere on the mainboard between the actual screen and the end of image processing. The display cannot even show the OSD properly. As it appears it will be covered by black lines and then it turns into a bright pillar from top to bottom (where the text would be). I just won an auction on ebay for a cheap replacement monitor of the same model. Why? It's 16:10 IPS, has tons of inputs, and it was cheap. 45€ with shipping. Also I cannot afford a brand-spanking-new one.

    Monday, 19-Dec-22 07:33:32 UTC from web
  26. Admittedly I only have east coast prices to compare it to but I’m going to assume cigarette prices on the west coast are more comparable to New York than Virginia or North Carolina

    Tuesday, 06-Dec-22 16:28:01 UTC from web
  27. Are cable installers everywhere absurdly lazy or are me and my friends just unlucky, because the Verizon guy is literally lying about whether or not he’s been to the apartment right now

    Tuesday, 06-Dec-22 19:10:27 UTC from web
  28. Why did I think it was a good idea to try explaining magnets to a crackhead customer at work?

    Sunday, 04-Dec-22 16:52:48 UTC from web
  29. 何回も説明するのはDRY原則に反して、手間なので、引用についてもどこかで記事にまとめますかね…

    Saturday, 26-Nov-22 07:32:13 UTC from gnusocial.jp
  30. I can fix Kanye

    Friday, 02-Dec-22 14:47:18 UTC from web