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am personally of the opinion that if the FCC can't stop Tucker Carlson from spouting conspiracy theories on the most-watched cable news network in the nation, then they're completely useless and should be abolished
Saturday, 19-Jun-21 17:19:17 UTC from web-
@zeldatra And I've long believed that the EPA should take serious issue with planned obsolescence in technology ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I just took the shot.
Friday, 18-Jun-21 15:55:44 UTC from web -
We should really get to work investigating that guy who tazed his own balls and died at the capitol riot this year. He should still be alive today.
Thursday, 17-Jun-21 23:20:26 UTC from web-
Matt likes this.
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My supervisor at corporate came in the other day to discuss me with the store manager. Thought I was getting transferred back to my old store because things went south real fast after I was transferred here. Turns out it’s only half true. I’m going back there for some more training… because my name was submitted for a big promotion and they want me to be ready when a position opens.
Wednesday, 16-Jun-21 22:13:53 UTC from web -
Oh wow. I have my first vaccine appointment on Friday.
Wednesday, 16-Jun-21 20:29:59 UTC from web -
Apparently they don't ordinarily try to enforce it unless what you're doing makes a lot of money but still????
Wednesday, 16-Jun-21 04:09:18 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Which honestly isn't that supposed to be "failure to defend trademark" or whatever??
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So i just learned that the grapeing Hollywood sign is a trademarked symbol so I can’t put the actual Hollywood sign in the first episode of Swole Foods, which has scenes taking place in Los Angeles. What the papaya California
Wednesday, 16-Jun-21 00:39:44 UTC from web-
@scribus imagine if every disaster movie or something had the President just living in a nondescript mansion between two skyscrapers with a statue of Bill Clinton instead of the Washington Monument, that's what the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce is asking me to do.
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I'm going to cycle 4km to a bike repair shop and walk back as the bike doesn't fit into my car. The gears don't work that well as the highest gears don't work at all. I had to wait for the appointment for 3 weeks. All the bicycle repair shops are flooded with repair requests. I asked around and the closest bike repair shop (1km) had a waiting time of almost 2 months.
Sunday, 13-Jun-21 13:34:41 UTC from web-
@adiwan Dang, is it because the shops are shorthanded, or are that many people suddenly tuning their bikes?
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@scribus Right at the beginning of the pandemic bike ownership spiked hugely here. I think that the long wait times are a result of the massive demand that roll over the available personnel. The more people using their (old) bikes the higher the probability something needs to be fixed, as in my case. I haven't used my bike for over 14 years because I had a car or I could use the bus and tram for "free" (paid with tuition costs for the uni).
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she complains about me to corporate anyway because she has an authority problem. I’m not an asshole, or I try not to be. But you gotta do your job right or other store can’t function. She can’t handle any amount of coaching. It’s obnoxious how many times I’ve heard from my bosses in Maryland over bogus complaints she’s filed. One time she got a nail in her tire and she told the police that I slashed her tires.
Sunday, 13-Jun-21 04:06:08 UTC from web -
How are you gonna not know Pride, but still think you have a sufficient bead on the LGBTQIA++ scene to have an opinion at all?
Sunday, 13-Jun-21 03:37:06 UTC from web-
@scribus We live in a liberal area compared to the rest of Virginia outside of Richmond and Newport News, but like, that’s like saying Georgia is liberal compared to the rest of the Deep South if you know what I mean. So she talks about how she voted foe Biden to customers then gets upset with me when they yell at her. I tell her to stop talking politics at work then, and tells me she has a right to free speech. And I tell her “yes you do, but so do they” and she just… can’t grasp that. Then she complains to corporate because I “discriminated” against her over her politics. She’s genuinely incomprehensible.
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A cashier’s been celebrating pride every year for the four years I’ve been here. Today she finally asked me what it means. She was extremely upset.
Saturday, 12-Jun-21 23:46:09 UTC from web-
@scribus i don’t work at this store anymore, I just fill in on the weekends because my replacement “fell” (I think she took a dive because when I worked with her she was always annoyed at having to do any work that I would normally do - now she’s always doing it) so I’ve been thinking about really gaying it up because of how many homophobes I apparently used to work with. Would like to see how they react to their “cool” manager being, like, a bigass gayzilla.
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@zeldatra I still can't get over that one gal; did she at least realize how deeply ignorant she must have been? Is she gonna actually THINK now??
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SUP EVERYNYAN
Friday, 11-Jun-21 18:23:15 UTC from web -
I feel like “Iran is more progressive than the west because they subsidize transitional surgery” really shouldn’t be a real take that somebody as unless that statement is followed with “because being gay is even worse over there”
Friday, 11-Jun-21 17:30:24 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Yeah that is at best half-understood, more likely deliberately half-revealed to make a point it doesn't actually support
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an older cashier audibly grumbled when he saw me wearing pride beads so I’ve been getting progressively gayer over the course of the morning to see if I can provoke a reaction
Friday, 11-Jun-21 14:28:56 UTC from web -
I’m excited to be getting back to living my life and making up for the year and a half that I’ve been stuck inside or at work, but at the same time, I’m kind of dreading having to go back into DC, transit around here is a joke
Friday, 11-Jun-21 05:24:04 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Not to doubt your own transit woes; I just wonder how ours compare, coast-to-coast
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So, i'm in my PhD now, i got a cotutelle scholarship with the university of Lorraine, in france (i speak nearly nothing of french tho, so my first time going to france qas a hell of an adventure. Brazil is even messier than before and i might have gotten even more reclusive than before (though now i'm much more well paid :'v )
Friday, 11-Jun-21 01:55:19 UTC from web-
@scribus yeah,maybe i can even get vaccinated when i go to france again in september xD
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My bois
Thursday, 10-Jun-21 04:33:09 UTC from web-
@zeldatra same tbh
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So my state is a week away from TOTAL REOPENING (except where it stays restricted) and non-vaccinated people are supposed to still wear a mask indoors so . . . 90% is 100 now, yay for New Math!!
Thursday, 10-Jun-21 01:06:49 UTC from web-
@scribus I was incredibly worried about this when Virginia re-opened, and granted I don't know what vaccination statistics are like over there, but over here despite my worries we're only seeing, like, five new cases a day in Fairfax County, which is the most populous county in the state, so I'm a lot less worried now than I was at the time
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@zeldatra I'm more amused that it's a "total" reopening (with asterisks) than worried in any way
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man it's kind of obnoxious that there are only two bridges into Maryland from Virginia and both of them are an obnoxious drive away from where i live, which is literally on the Maryland-Virginia border, but I guess we gotta keep them out somehow
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 18:08:25 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Protecting the local crab industry against the influx of limitless Chesapeake crabmeat? I think they put up limits, if you all want to expand infrastructure
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I have never voted for a winning primary candidate so I pretty much just placed a hex on Lee Carter’s gubernatorial campaign today
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 17:01:36 UTC from web-
@scribus very much unintentionally! if I realized at the booth that my vote was a curse I woulda voted for our rapist LG to kill his campaign
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Dammit. I got weak and bought a dental vacuum forming machine. I mean I do not intent using it for dental work but I want to use it to vacuform small objects. With it I can copy flat-ish small objects, either as is or I can use that as a mold.
Tuesday, 08-Jun-21 16:15:19 UTC from web-
@adiwan You don't intend to use it for dentistry, but one day you'll have a need and the tool will already be there....
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@scribus Sure! It'll save me a trip to the dentist. I was watching Adam Savage's Tool Tip and couldn't resist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWxCvMzvxlQ I wanted a vacuform for quite some time but I'm too lazy building one myself or it was too expensive. 130 Eurobucks I can spend for an all-in-one device that looks solidly built (better than I could do).
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Yes, the violent, white, male protagonist is treated sympathetically in the film. He’s treated like a victim. Not THE victim. *A* victim. There are a lot of victims in the movie. Arthur. Bruce. Martha. The guys that Arthur killed in the subway. Opposite Joaquin Phoenix is Robert De Niro, who plays Murray. Murray is, like Arthur, a white male. He’s not violent. In fact, he’s (rightly) disgusted by Arthur’s acts of violence. But he’s the antagonist. He’s POWERFUL. And he plays a role in Arthur’s descent into The Joker, as does Thomas Wayne, the film’s secondary antagonist, who is even more powerful and, arguably, responsible for Gotham’s downfall altogether. It’s a film about how the subjugation of the disadvantaged by the rich and powerful can have grave consequences, and it’s dumbfounding that people, living in Obama-Trump-Biden era America where that’s the status quo, can’t see that.
Monday, 07-Jun-21 21:43:10 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I mean, one just cannot depict a cycle without showing somebody involved at the stage of both participant and product, simultaneously
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Tracked down the artist on Newgrounds... they haven't logged in since 2012 and their website is a dead link. Balls
Sunday, 06-Jun-21 06:17:56 UTC from web-
@scribus am currently in the process of a) DMing ALL of her social medias, on the off chance that she still checks any of them, and b) emailing the administrator for the forum we met on, on the off chance that he 1) still reads his emails, and 2) has any of her contact information.
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The high PC component prices make me imagine that these parts may be so expensive that some eccentric rich people want to wear them as jewelry.
Saturday, 05-Jun-21 11:40:19 UTC from web-
@adiwan James Bond expects to break up a SPECTRE supercomputer, stumbles into the worst fashion show
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I think "true" wireless earbuds are a scam with some extra steps. They are expensive, their batteries cannot (easily) be replaced, and they are easily lost, and need a bulky case to charge the earbuds that also adds its failure points and inconveniences to the mix (easy to be lost, battery replacement, hinge, contacts for charging...). A cable isn't perfect either but there are some models with replaceable cables, that don't make it all unusable once it eventually breaks. Tangling of the cable is annoying but it is the less bad than all the wireless earbuds will inflict once they start to misbehave or become obsolete. 3.5mm audio jacks are so "dumb" and simple that it's hard for them to fail.
Thursday, 03-Jun-21 16:27:14 UTC from web-
@scribus Oof. I guess opening the case in order to repair it will probably result in a catastrophy.
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@scribus Yeah. I'm just imagining how a phone/portable musik player with XLR plugs would look like.
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@adiwan I managed to pull it out OK, but it's just too tiny, fragile, and fiddly for my soldering skillz
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Did somebody say “Bus Crash”??
Thursday, 03-Jun-21 14:04:17 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Hey, the only time I "crashed" the bus, I got hit on the broadside by a 90 year old! And nobody was even hurt, okay! Except my schedule... and maybe a couple hundred other people's schedule, down the line....
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Not that I’m emulating a Wii U game or anything, but Wii U emulation is such a pain in the ass I might just fork the money over for a refurbished console.
Wednesday, 02-Jun-21 20:38:53 UTC from web-
@zeldatra And what game would you fork over refurbished console money for? Wii U is a huge blind spot in my Nintento know. My Nintendknow.
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@scribus Nothing, now that I’ve (hypothetically) gotten the emulator working (in Minecraft), but basically I wanna start streaming some older console games like Zelda and such and I was trying to get the most convenient setup going. A Wii U can play Nintendo’s entire library excluding the GameCube and Switch, so it seems like the most convenient option.
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I guess I waited for a PC upgrade so long that it's better to just wait for the next big thing, like when AMD releases a new CPU socket and supports DDR5.
Wednesday, 02-Jun-21 17:40:52 UTC from web -
I know I've said before that Final Fantasy is the only time that 6 > 7, but I think that The Sims is having a similar run with 3 > 4 !vgp
Monday, 31-May-21 22:00:57 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Even after all of the updates and finally putting pools into the base game, I just cannot stand Sims 4. They're too dumb, and they're too bad at listening to the User. The multitasking is cool, and they don't clutter at stairs and doorways as badly as 3, but really.... That's about it, gameplay-wise, for me. Otherwise it's like they traded one graphical step forward for two or three game steps back. I hire a babysitter, I go to the bar with my wife, I come home at 3 AM and the toddler is unfed in the backyard playing around in a dirty diaper and that was about when I decided the game was literally unfinished and in Cimmeria, by Crom, pushing unfinished software to market would cost one's HEAD!! lol
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@scribus I should probably mention that The Sims 2 runs on a pretty much identical game engine to The Sims 3, with the big differences being that create-a-sim is more detailed in 3 and, of course, the interconnected neighborhood with no load screens. If you’re used to 3’s clutter it’s PROBABLY the better game, I’m just not.
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They say one of the best way to make yourself miserable is to compare yourself to others. I get that, I get that, however, it also hold true that one of the best ways to make yourself happy is to do the same.
Monday, 31-May-21 23:26:27 UTC from web-
I was around a group of about ten average people yesterday. I had forgotten just how pitiful and dull our species is.
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