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I have now lost $250 due to one incompetent phlebotomist
about 10 months ago from web-
@adiwan I am broke and donating plasma for occasional money, but the last time I ended up bruised so I can't donate. Truck needs an oil change, we just passed Father's Day, my birthday is in about a week, and they were offering bonuses this month so it all sounded great. But it isn't.
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Another three years, another check up post. See you fellas in three more years!
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No matter how much earth I buy it gets used up faster than imagined. The earth of my raised beds settled and I wanted to top off.
about 10 months ago from web-
@scribus It's worse because when spreading out the earth it gets uncompressed and gains volume, giving the false impression it might be enough. The sacks I bought last time contained very coarse compost and over time everything sank down. This time This time I bought finer grained earth, special for tomatoes,
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It's fascinating how strong the odor is that sticks to the fingers when handling a tomato plant.
about 10 months ago from web-
@adiwan It is indeed a prodigious pungence, but kind of enjoyable. I think about cooking with tomato leaves sometimes but I don't know *what* I'd do with them lol
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The year is 2024 and white kids are still talking like slim shady in public
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I guess people like to complain. I watched all the "The Acolyte" episodes and I thought it was not bad. The show is about slowly revealing the truth of a story from different perspectives with misdirections that are confusing without more information. Some people are stuck in a narrow mindset of what they expect from Star Wars that cannot be achieved. I get it that mystery plots can be very frustrating but I think it's not warranted yet to completely lose one's papaya. So far "Book of Boba Fett" has done more wrong in three episodes than this.
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Ha. Hahaha. Ha. Of course, of course.... I finally have a solid "maybe" on some part-time work, and they want me to install an app. It installs, but errors out during account creation. My old-ass device, or their bad backend? The world may never know.
about 10 months ago from web-
@scribus I have had a “background check” in progress for two and a half years at DoorDash because of an error on their backend that nobody has ever been able to help me with.
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@zeldatra Yeah it's definitely backend, even the supervisor onboarding me was perplexed and had no one to get answers from. It was fun! haha
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Thinking of the viability of a D&D adventure about a ghost crab with the title: The crustacean apparition.
about 10 months ago from web-
@scribus Hmmm... An underwater adventure about merfolk having a great fest with food and games, as well as a battle tournament. However the tournament is disrupted by a ghost crab and kills off or scares off combatants of the tournament to death.
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I have dressed like a weenie with no fashion sense for basically my entire life and I’m like cool with that but I think people are starting to think I only have like two shirts because everything I wear looks the same
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bro this site is dead there's only like 3 people
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Women named Karen are complaining that their name is used in a negative context. Meanwhile people named Dick are supposed to be fine with the way their name is used?
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"Monsters at Work" season two is for all children above 0 years, however it's way too real for adults.
about 11 months ago from web-
@scribus Never watched Office Space. It's a thinly veiled horror show of work life. Season one is about the struggles of a changing industry and a new employee getting in the crossfire during that time, season two continues that but with a ton of self doubt.
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I mean for real though anything else would be considered incomplete at best in this kind of state, piracy is not a "crime" if releasing broken garbage is a "business"
about a year ago from web-
@scribus The only sane way to enjoy games is to wait until it's on sale. Up to that point most bugs have been squashed and cheap enough to buy two or more games for the price of one new game. I just bought myself Return To Monkey Island. I'm hesitating on buying Metal Wolf Chaos XD. I tried the original on my hacked XBox (copied to the HDD) but the cutscenes stuttered horribly.
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@scribus I waited years for the release of the sequel of my most favorite game, Simon The Sorcerer 2, which was Simon The Sorcerer 3D. When it eventually released it was a MESS. Everything that could be wrong was wrong, from the graphics, the controls, the performance, story, bugs at every corner... I was heartbroken when I was reading the reviews in the magazines. It took years until I was brave enough to face it, when I got the full version with the add-in CD from a PC gaming magazine. Even patched it was still a sewer system worth of kiwi. The 4th and 5th installment of Simon The Sorcerer were better but were soulless imitations of the first two.
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Bought myself two "chocolate" tomato plants. I'm curious if they really taste chocolatey. Gonna have to wait a few months.
about a year ago from web -
You know, when I was a kid, I thought Mitt Romney was the bottom of the barrel.
about a year ago from web -
Aw man... My company PC will be "upgraded" to Windows 11 soon. That sucks.
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All of Ijincho only has one school and it’s a private high school, it’s no wonder everybody in town is either a yakuza, a triad, or homeless
about a year ago from web- zapphire likes this.
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@zeldatra See what happens when you devalue public education, Larry? THIS is WHAT happens WHEN YOU devalue PUBLIC EDUCATION, Larry!! Do you see what happens? Do you see, Larry??
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@scribus unironically the dumbest person in The Big Lebowski probably was better educated than any single person in Ijincho is since according to Lost Judgment nobody at this high school actually attends any classes ever. They’re attending dance club, or reading mystery novels in a boiler room, or painting themselves to look like body models and hiding in classrooms for days at a time to steal test answers, or plotting murders, or getting beat up by me on the streets miles away from the school, but nobody’s learning, I guarantee you that
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@zeldatra It's a school for school delinquents. It's part of their curriculum to not attend school.
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Well I found out tonight that salmon skin is actually friggin delicious and I may have been wasting so much nom-nom
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan Ever had a baked potato that turned out to have grown around a nice rock? Likewise an unpleasant crunch surprise.
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@scribus Ooooof.... That is a very nasty surprise. I had something similarly unpleasant: My mother uses a casserole dish made out of glass and one day there were glass chunks in the food. It turned out that due to wear the inner edge of the lid and the dish got so damaged that they eventually broke off. Only in hindsight it was obvious what happened. I got some of the glass pieces but luckily I noticed it very quickly in my mouth and nothing happened to anyone. We threw out both the casserole dish and the food.
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I'm using a faux leather case with a cover flap for my Blackberry KeyOne and today it broke after 6 years of use. The plastic part that holds the phone separated from the faux leather cover. Luckily a little bit of strong and flexible glue fixed it. I only had to scrub off the old and hardened glue beforehand. It's a sign that I need to look for a new smartphone, alongside the rather poor and aging battery.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan My not-leather KeyOne case is mostly still together, but I've had to glue 2 or 3 keys back onto the phone, and my battery is probably no better than yours. Anything with a real keyboard available in Europe still?
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@scribus Sadly no. I'm occasionally looking for keyboard smartphones but they are an extinct breed. More extinct than phones with a headphone jack and with no stupid front camera notches or punch holes. I had a OnePlus Nord N30 on my radar until I saw the stupid punch hole and no OS feature updates (only 2 years of security updates). Also finding a decent-ish phone under 400€ AND that is satisfying my requirements is practically impossible for me.
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So I guess Biden declared today to be the day that all trans people rise from their graves or something?
about a year ago from web-
@scribus Rise from your grave after top surgery call that Altered Breast
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@thelastgherkin Damn I was looking for an Altered Beast reference and it was RIGHT THERE all along?!
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i'm rising from my grave on scary trans day to tell you horses are not real
about a year ago from web-
@liquidusmira This explains so much
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hello, is anyone active anymore?
about a year ago from web-
@xxxderpyhoovesfanxxx It's not entirely empty, but it's not lively like it once was
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Planted tomato and jalapeño seeds into some planters I bought today. 12 tomato, 8 jalapeño. I bet not everything will survive but I will see who will win the battle royale, not the Fortnite kind, the Beat Takeshi kind.
about a year ago from web-
@scribus It probably will. These species are of the generic and common kind. I think that they will survive and give me headaches when they outgrow their pots and spots where they are currently standing. If they all grow it'll be fine, even when they die I won't be sad. I see it as my dry run if I'm capable of taking care of them. My plan was to have a green house next year and plant a bunch of old and uncommon tomato species: yellow pear-shaped, deep purple, some with tiger stripes, some elongated egg-shaped, and other weird ones.
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@scribus Duly noted. The reports look promising so far when it comes to being an uncomplicated and tasty tomato. The plant grows up to 180cm and has super heavy fruits. The infrastructure to keep them up has to be built first for this mammoth. Up to 350g per tomato is crazy.
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I was doing some garden work today. Within an hour or two I managed to fill up the trash can for all the biodegradable garbage. I have to wait two weeks in order to continue cutting down the bushes. The weather will be bad anyway in the coming days, so I wouldn't do gardening anyway. If I am at the same point next time I'll probably have to ask a neighbor for using their trash can capacity.
about a year ago from web-
@adiwan Any way to get issued another one? Especially if you'll need to be doing a lot of work often.
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@scribus I could get a bigger one but the monthly costs are way higher. 120L (the one I have) costs 15€ a month and the next size up would be two of them for double the price. In average I overpay for the size I use. In Winter I barely used 1/5th of the capacity. From May to November the pickup frequency increases from once every two weeks to once a week. That will do basically the same without paying more. In this regard I have to wait a month. Being patient.
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There is a ton of talk from boomers that millenials and genz are social garbage. Yesterday I saw a pair of self-entitled 70-80 year olds (man and wife) packing out their shopping cart at a closed checkout line while the super market was clearly understaffed AND were demanding another checkout line to be opened and then saying (more to themselves) that they will go without paying.
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20 minutes later it is fixed. I fixed it temporarily with a zip tie and went to the hardware store to get the right screws and nuts. Obviously I bought more than I actually needed to fix that. What I learned is that I don't have enough screws and nuts.
about a year ago from web-
@scribus I bought a locking nut that has a ring of nylon in the threads. I hope it will hold. I don't want to use Loctite as I fear it'll make problems in the future with maintenance. I have enough replacements right now. Whenever it will happen again I'll definitely try using Loctite.
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My favorite mug that I own for about 25 years has finally cracked. The handle broke on its own from the handling and the temperature changes. The crack was relatively clean. I "fixed" it with super glue but I have little confidence that it'll hold more than a year and I think it'll show other crack in that time.
about a year ago from web-
@scribus The thought did occur to me. The break was quite clean. Also I got the thought after the glue has already set. I also imagined if the handle breaks completely off that I get myself a good chunk of hard wood and make a wooden mug handle and glue it to the mug with an epoxy glue. The wooden handle wouldn't be dishwasher safe however it will transfer less heat.
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@scribus https://i.imgur.com/JhifvYa.jpeg This is my before/after image of the repair
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“Are you better off now than when people were dying by the thousand and unemployment was at 10% and there were riots in the streets every other day” like yeah I think most people are
about a year ago from web -
This toon is ten minutes and is fully PG in content, might be the first time I’ve done something so long and so tame in about eight years
about a year ago from web -
I am dissatisfied with the way x candidate has handled y issue, so I will be voting for his opponent who has promised to handle it even worse
about a year ago from web
