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  1. 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
  2. (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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. I can fix Kanye

    Friday, 02-Dec-22 14:47:18 UTC from web
  8. The dude from Master of Disguise is in my store right now pretending to be an Eastern European gambler who has no idea how to fill out a lottery card and is constantly getting something wrong no matter how many times the instructions are given to him.

    Tuesday, 22-Nov-22 16:44:05 UTC from web
  9. I'm doing an anti-"No Shave November". Usually I shave myself every two weeks but this month I try to shave daily or every other day. My verdict so far: Daily shaving is not worth it as my beard grows so fast that I can feel the stubbles after an hour after the shave. Waxing my face is not an option.

    Wednesday, 16-Nov-22 08:45:40 UTC from web
  10. "Those lazy, lazy leaves"! I was taking the scenic route from shopping through the park and there I slid in a corner and fell. I lost all tyre grip because a brown and slimy moist pile of leaves in the curve acted like it's the best replacement for grease in that moment. Luckily there was not much damage. My pants got dirty, a scratch on my knee, and the side of my pedal was heavily scratched.

    Saturday, 12-Nov-22 13:23:08 UTC from web
  11. Disney's Pepper Ann still rocks.

    Sunday, 06-Nov-22 15:39:36 UTC from web
  12. Every day I thank god that Tumblr wasn’t around in the 70s, can you imagine the amount of twink Nixon fan art we’d be seeing?

    Friday, 28-Oct-22 15:01:38 UTC from web
  13. also, i've finished the NES version of Gradius because for some reason i got hyped for shumps

    Monday, 24-Oct-22 20:52:01 UTC from web
  14. so, anyway, i basically got a GF now. bet you didnt expect that

    Sunday, 23-Oct-22 03:21:33 UTC from web
  15. Always pleasantly surprised to see this place still kicking

    Monday, 24-Oct-22 01:08:08 UTC from web
  16. Working on a paid project over the next few weeks. I will post... MY contributions here when I'm allowed. I WILL NOT post the project itself or even give the name because Gherkin will nuke my account.

    Friday, 21-Oct-22 01:44:47 UTC from web
  17. your local console pleb bought yet another console. praise me http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876261

    Sunday, 09-Oct-22 15:15:07 UTC from web
  18. >Ukranian ambassador to the USA tells Elon Musk to papaya off
    >Ol' Musky says he'll cease giving Ukraine access to Starlink for free as a result
    >He doesn't actually go through with it the next day
    I am very disappointed, I thought he had a better sense of humor

    Monday, 17-Oct-22 02:06:57 UTC from web
  19. Theoretically the work rules and environment at highschools nowadays is downright nightmarish, but since in practice what you can and can't do comes down to how you frame it and how good you are at talking your way through the hierarchy, it's not stressful at all for me and so long as I get results the administration doesn't get in the way.
    I do often see other teachers that aren't good at the workplace politics losing hair and sleep over it though.

    Monday, 10-Oct-22 19:11:36 UTC from web
    • @nerthos Ha, "other teachers" / "the District" has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks in my deciding to actually goto school and get teacher-certified up, I do not politick worth a crap

      Monday, 10-Oct-22 19:51:35 UTC in context
    • @scribus For me "other teachers" hasn't been too big a hurdle, because even though some are antagonistic (particularly the ideologues) they also tend to be massive cowards, so my usual strategy of just talking with full honesty to whoever's in charge is not something they know how to deal with.
      The district and the ministry are another issue altogether, they seem to be on some sort of one-sided competition to prove the limits of insanity and incompetence when it comes to regulations and counterproductive ideas can yet be pushed further. The latest great ideas they had was a proposal to remove the attendance requirements so that students can't fail a class by not attending; and to demand tech schools be more lax with dress code (the dress code for tech school is just no hats, no piercings or jewelry in the workshop, pants without holes and knee-length blue or white overall/duster, all of which are basic safety requirements in a workshop)

      Monday, 10-Oct-22 21:03:43 UTC in context
  20. 11 years so far, who's still alive?

    Thursday, 06-Oct-22 18:34:15 UTC from web
  21. The legal-in-my-state substances I took hit me way harder than I thought they would last night. Maybe shouldn’t do that again.

    Monday, 26-Sep-22 14:15:59 UTC from web
  22. Sometimes I wonder if I am insane or the world is insane.

    Sunday, 25-Sep-22 19:55:12 UTC from web
  23. Ooof... Robert Zemeckis can't do it right somehow. The Live-action Pinocchio is borderline bad.

    Monday, 12-Sep-22 16:12:34 UTC from web
  24. I am going to find it easier and faster to export 360 individual PNG files than figuring out OpenToonz

    Tuesday, 30-Aug-22 04:54:56 UTC from web
  25. Just got off the phone with a very angry customer. I am at home. Beyond furious.

    Tuesday, 30-Aug-22 01:28:14 UTC from web
  26. Thought about starting a Sims channel but instead of doing what everyone else does just gradually going down a weird avant-garde surreal psychological horror route.

    Monday, 29-Aug-22 01:37:10 UTC from web
  27. What the hell this place still exists? Hi I'm a girl now and I'm in Seattle for a pony convention

    Saturday, 27-Aug-22 22:57:07 UTC from web
  28. I’m one of two white guys on the entire planet who wears Kangols and the other one is Eminem which probably doesn’t help my case much

    Saturday, 27-Aug-22 12:47:06 UTC from web
  29. Wow I got mail from VP Harris! Wonder which letter it's in response to (and how inflammatory I was)?

    Friday, 19-Aug-22 19:22:41 UTC from web
  30. Although tbf the whole reason I need the discount is because I’m teaching myself Storyboard Pro ($65 without the student discount; $7 with it) so I can go for a job opportunity in the United Kingdom, so, you know, this student discount might be what makes it harder to get the student discount.

    Saturday, 20-Aug-22 17:32:56 UTC from web