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Evidently I'm in a kiwi mood today
Friday, 17-Dec-21 01:17:20 UTC from web -
We are currently on day five of a crippling ransomware attack on our time keeping system that has not only kept me from making schedule, but has also basically halted our ability to do payroll, so you can imagine the kind of stress I’ve been under this week.
Thursday, 16-Dec-21 16:53:56 UTC from web -
Pro tip: the cashiers at grocery stores just sell the items, they don’t necessarily know how to use them. If you don’t even know what the hell you’re buying, you probably don’t need it.
Wednesday, 15-Dec-21 23:32:42 UTC from web -
why doesnt this website look more like 2010
Wednesday, 15-Dec-21 13:14:11 UTC from web-
@michaelthemoron Does it not??
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wait i just realised i joined this site about a decade ago now. what the freak?!
Wednesday, 15-Dec-21 14:10:08 UTC from web -
It's not that Germany has also its fair share of dumbass politicians *sigh*
Wednesday, 08-Dec-21 21:26:34 UTC from web-
@scribus I'm not enthused. I wasn't happy with Merkel, at least she tried not to F-up everything. I'm not seeing that the replacement is going to be remotely good. Christian Democrats are here the right wing conservatives, and don't share much with my political ideology. I'm more left-leaning and a Pirate Party voter. At least I can say that I didn't vote for the dumbasses that are in power.
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Dramatically redrawing voting district borders after every election is insane.
Wednesday, 08-Dec-21 13:02:51 UTC from web-
@adiwan That’s the America we’re about to be living in because one particular party spent most of the 2010s building the ultimate gerrymanders, only to have it completely fall apart when the suburbs turned on them. The new legislative maps for the decade are going to have very few competitive districts - you stay on your side, I’ll stay on mine, etc.
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@zeldatra For a country that celebrates freedom it's so sad that it kicks an essential pillar of democracy, that can give a lot of freedoms, to the ground because a minority is power-hungry and restricts these freedoms for their own gain.
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Renewed calls for the western parts of my county to secede and form a new county because the county has become too blue. Problem is Trump only won the proposed area by 2%. So suppose Biden or Harris narrowly wins it next time. Where does it end? Do we keep splitting off new counties until eventually it’s just two houses along the state line?
Wednesday, 08-Dec-21 04:54:22 UTC from web -
Love it when an employee tells me she had requested off for a certain day, AFTER I’m already done with the schedule. I tell her that the request isn’t in the book. She says yeah, she forgot to put it in the book but she still wrote it down on her personal calendar. How am I supposed to know what’s on your calendar?
Tuesday, 07-Dec-21 23:56:41 UTC from web -
Winter cycling is not as bad as I thought. In Summer I sweat excessively after I come home cycling. It's not the case on colder days, or it is less severe. Only the cold air is hard on my lungs but wearing a mask delays the problems a bit as I re-inhale warmer air.
Tuesday, 07-Dec-21 08:16:14 UTC from web-
@adiwan As for the sweat, I found that a small spray bottle of Witch Hazel is handy for freshing up
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@scribus I tried some anti-transpiration sprays and they mostly fail. Also I would need to cover my whole body with that stuff and it ain't worth it. Luckily I'm not a "stinker" and it gets all back to normal after half an hour.
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Taking ivermectin to treat the brain parasites that make me want to take ivermectin
Saturday, 04-Dec-21 19:16:40 UTC from web -
“I have my PRINCIPLES,” I say to my mother when she asks why I haven’t made six figures on NFTs like the 19 year old crypto artist who lives down the street
Saturday, 04-Dec-21 00:54:45 UTC from web-
@scribus I wouldn’t. The whole thing’s a pyramid scheme. I’ve looked into it. Forgetting the environmental impact - my only personal qualm atm, though apparently that’ll change soon - something like 90% of NFT sales are back-and-forth transactions and the remaining 10% only profit if they’re the original seller. AFAIK very few profit from investment.
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I cannot believe that I am still STUPID USELESS IDIOTIC MORON FAILSOME enough to ever think that it's going to take me anything less than TWO GODROTTEN HOURS to accomplish a TEN! MILE!! DRIVE!!!
Friday, 03-Dec-21 04:11:02 UTC from web-
@scribus kinda batcaveed how Los Angeles is simultaneously not a place to be walking around like New York, but ALSO has traffic as bad as New York
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@zeldatra My town's got about three places to cross its titular river. One is a freeway, another turned out to be closed with no warning, and the third had some wantwit who managed to cause an ambulance-worthy crash at a mere 10-15 MPH.
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@scribus more or less why getting to Maryland from here is such a hassle despite the town literally being on the state line. Should take five minutes. Ends up taking an hour and a half because there are only two bridges across the Potomac.
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If I hit the Lotto, I want to commission a house built to a scale that makes me feel 5 again. And a regular-sized copy next door. With a doghouse on the same floorplan.
Thursday, 02-Dec-21 03:59:40 UTC from web-
@scribus If I played and would win then I were content with just a normal-sized house. Nothing fancy, which leaves more money to buy cool stuff. My house would need only a big enough space for a library for my current and future comics collection size.
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If I had to guess, I would wager that Fiverr made their webpage with high schoolers hired off of Craigslist. I haven't seen an interface this godrotten awful since I tried using Gmail. Why does nobody have any clue how people use computers, when we all use them all day every day??
Tuesday, 30-Nov-21 02:53:20 UTC from web-
@scribus This is exactly how I feel about the newest version of Flash, they redesigned the interface for the first time in like twenty years and it feels like it was designed by a guy who’s never used Flash before
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@zeldatra How are we living in the Year of The Woz 71 and Netflix still needs to be told EVERY EPISODE to turn on the godrotten subtitles?
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I drove about 1200km (745 miles) this weekend. I visited my grandparents and picked up my mother back home. I drove most of the time 150km/h (93 mph) and needed only 5 hours for each direction. I'm somewhat exhausted.
Sunday, 28-Nov-21 17:06:36 UTC from web-
@scribus I wasted so much time at the border in my life. Once we were stuck 24h. A Game Boy can only do so much.
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Thought I was getting pulled over today on my drive home from a friend’s house. Pulled to the side, he sped right past me. Wherever he was going, every single cop in the county was also going because I saw about twenty squad cars all heading in the same direction at various points during the drive.
Monday, 29-Nov-21 01:57:07 UTC from web-
@scribus that's the thing about whenever i see something like this, i can never find anything about it on local news because i live in the DC-Baltimore media market, so, anything that happens here is immediately overshadowed by two different mass shootings
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A few weeks ago I hired three part-time animators and a sound designer. Gee, we almost sound professional.
Saturday, 27-Nov-21 09:15:09 UTC from web -
Frankly, I am in *shock* I tell you. SHOCK!!
Thursday, 25-Nov-21 01:32:11 UTC from web-
@scribus who knew that an actual lynching captured on video would have led to a conviction? Not I, the American.
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Also a friend and I have been trying to write a script for a live-action comedy film centering around a guy who spends years undercover in a New York crime family, it’s set in the 2020s, and I watching this while thinking about that made me think about how there aren’t that many mafia films set in the modern day, it’s all about the 70s and 80s and stuff, The Sopranos is probably as modern as it gets. Would be interesting to explore how the mob operates in the internet age and in a post-9/11 world. Frank Cali was assassinated by a QAnon supporter. That’s insane. The boss of the Gambino crime family, who ran the show for years, got taken out by some guy who thought Trump wanted him to because he was told so on 4Chan. Not gonna see that kiwi in Goodfellas.
Monday, 22-Nov-21 04:30:02 UTC from web-
@scribus just imagining kicking the cherry out of a bodega owner who’s late on his payments, and then having him Venmo you the cash
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had a situation at my store that more or less boiled down to exactly this Simpsons scene http://rainbowdash.net/url/876043
Sunday, 21-Nov-21 19:40:34 UTC from web-
@scribus Had to have the police take a guy home because he was incredibly drunk, was just eating deli meat that he took off the shelves, and then fell asleep underneath a bench in the store. Problem is he lived really close by, so after the cops left he just… walked back over here and was back in literally half an hour later.
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next year I’ll be moving in with a 20 year old and a 30 year old
Tuesday, 16-Nov-21 23:22:27 UTC from web -
It's really depressing to see the infection rate rising so fast. In average Germany has about 300 infections per 100000 people in a week. Some districts have a rate of 1200 per 100000 in a week. Just WTF man. I live where it's way lower than average but still freaky. https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/478220a4c454480e823b17327b2bf1d4
Tuesday, 16-Nov-21 10:56:32 UTC from web-
@adiwan Looks like we're still losing 1,000 lives a day on average, and it's not even mentioned anymore.
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The recent (non-canon) Simpsons two-parter “A Serious Flanders” was a lot of fun, but I feel like the first part gives itself away as non-canon too quickly by having Burns get shot (and killed, this time) during a shootout. The episode’s other deaths were Rich Texan, Disco Stu, and Fat Tony & his goons, and in an early version of the script, Agnes Skinner, all of whom i 100% believe they would kill off for shock value. But by having Mr. Burns be one of the ones to get bumped off the episode suddenly loses some of the drama.
Monday, 15-Nov-21 08:13:46 UTC from web -
But anyway, I guess... pick your battles?
Saturday, 13-Nov-21 04:24:52 UTC from web -
worked a twelve hour shift today because people just kinda kept calling out and I don’t actually remember getting home, therefore I must still be at work and they’ve put me in the matrix to keep me working
Saturday, 13-Nov-21 06:09:26 UTC from web -
Lubing my bike chains was a success. Cycling feels a little bit more smoother now. I think I have a little bit less resistance so I could cycle with one higher gear than usual with the same force. Maybe my brain tricks me thinking that. At least the gunk is scrubbed off. I wonder why there are no more bike chain covers that attempt to fully enclose the chain.
Tuesday, 09-Nov-21 08:29:27 UTC from web-
@adiwan I think stuff like that and tire fenders fell out of favor due to so-called "weight weenies" but I know less than Jon Snow so.... :p
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@scribus Tire fenders are practically standard here as well as half-enclosed chain guards. Also a rack is basically standard, except for mountain and racing bikes. I just looked up and I found some after-market fully-enclosed chain guards. Only "Holland bikes" have the fully-enclosed bike chain guard out of the box. I guess I never put that much attention to that feature.
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I feel horrible making that stupid joke.
Monday, 08-Nov-21 10:32:27 UTC from web -
Have I already mentioned that if Glenn Youngkin wins tomorrow I’m gonna use the tax breaks to buy a house in another state? Cos I think it bears repeating.
Tuesday, 02-Nov-21 00:59:49 UTC from web -
This site is just like Undertale!
Tuesday, 02-Nov-21 15:40:41 UTC from web-
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@liquidusmira I should probably play my copy of that some day
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