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Senator Kaine lives in Richmond and takes I-95 to work. Took him 26 hours to get to the Capitol building. Richmond to DC is ordinarily a 3 hour drive, it’s a drive I make constantly. 26 hours.
Tuesday, 04-Jan-22 22:11:07 UTC from web -
Just had a snowstorm so I showed up to work at a nearly empty store….. except some crazy guy screaming at the few people who are here about how they’re all complicit in a conspiracy to keep Americans masked forever.
Monday, 03-Jan-22 21:25:48 UTC from web -
I tasted wine and it gave me the impression of vinegar.
I tasted champagne and it gave me the impression of very stingy vinegar.
I tasted beer and it gave me the impression of half-digested and thrown-up bread.
I tasted mead and it gave me the impression of acetone.
I tasted vodka and it gave me the sensation of a burning esophagus.
I think alcohol will never be a thing I can enjoy like any normal person. I am not sad about it. I'm just curious why it is as it is.Tuesday, 04-Jan-22 18:05:13 UTC from web-
@scribus I have not. I've tried some variants like OJ with vodka. At this point I just give up.
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Is next year A New Hope or Rogue One?
Saturday, 01-Jan-22 20:12:02 UTC from web-
@scribus It's only over after "The Sneeze Strikes Back" and "The Return of the Fauchi"
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Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade Windows Edition is making me think about how much better Kingdom Hearts could be. The character switching mechanic in particular would make battles feel a lot less like you’re just mashing A for twenty minutes, and it’d be especially fitting post-III where there are now two trios of Keyblade wielders (plus Kairi)
Saturday, 01-Jan-22 22:19:59 UTC from web -
Damn found out on my bro's discord server that my hs gf's husband and son both have breakthrough covid infections
Thursday, 30-Dec-21 17:57:33 UTC from web-
@scribus I may or may not have had COVID over Christmas, couldn’t get tested though because no appointments were open. Whatever I did have is gone now so I guess it’s moot now, but I’m one of the only people at work who didn’t get a booster shot and the other one who didn’t was out sick before and after me, so it’s an easy conclusion to come to.
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@zeldatra Ex GF reports 65% of people at her Xmas are now infected, with the boosted faring the best so far. Shame is, it's a total bone trying to get the booster. My grandma was told by her doctor that the earliest appointment was February; then, at Walgreen's, the guy in line behind her asked the cashier about boosters and she jumped in on the spot, no waiting! I got mine, no appointment, from the CVS in Target, but my brother went to (a different) Walgreen's even with no line, and was told to make an appointment.
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Nowadays I'm pretty much #HorseFamous on twitter http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/763113
Friday, 06-Jun-14 06:58:51 UTC from web-
@lyokotravels the context for this post didn't age well has it.
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@lyokotravels Most things don't age well beyond a certain point. Fruits, vegetables, one's own body....
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i have never seen people so willing to suck off the Mouse
Thursday, 30-Dec-21 04:27:15 UTC from web -
oh boy hey guys seriously don’t ever say anything bad about Disney films
Wednesday, 29-Dec-21 21:27:41 UTC from web-
@zeldatra You can get away with some smacktalk to the Mouse in Anaheim, a lot of residents are pretty burned by DLand
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@scribus I am actually, no joke, getting accusations of racism thrown at me because I think Disney’s movies are all stylistically samey now, which really says a lot at how starved for representation we, as Latinos, are, that we feel obligated to FrankerZiate a less than perfect film with Latinos in it because we think it’s the best we’re ever gonna get.
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@zeldatra Man, that's exactly what They're hoping for, for everyone "else" to be content with scraps and crumbs, why give it to them on a digital blue platter? ugh
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got a speed run world record and I’m not proud of the category: The Sims 2 social worker%
Wednesday, 29-Dec-21 03:20:17 UTC from web-
@scribus If you have the discs, yes. If not, there are no legal ways to get it digitally at ALL anymore. EA took it off of Origin because they were no longer supporting it and only previous owners can download it. For a while there was a product code you could put in to trigger a download but I think k it’s been taken off now.
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@zeldatra Damn. It seems that if I can source a pre-2012 disc for Sims 3 (2009 release) I can play without Origin, but I don't know if the expansions will just put me back in the same place :-/
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@scribus I have the Steam version of The Sims 3 with all the expansions that didn’t require Origin. Ben a while since I’ve played it though so I dunno if they changed the requirements.
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Petition to classify vaporware as a cryptid
Monday, 27-Dec-21 18:54:04 UTC from web-
@scribus I'd imagine more a creature that affects people/corporations to become greedy with ambitions that results in vaporware. I imagine a millipede and snake hybrid (tail end rattle snake, body millipede, head snake with fangs) with large bug antennae with floofy balls at the ends. The cryptid uses the floofy balls to distract the victim and hide its hideous body and then bits the victim at the back of the head. The fangs inject some kind of venom that causes the feature creep/greed, which itself causes headaches and frustration. That is the nourishment it needs to asexually reproduce itself and affect others in the company.
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@scribus As any good cryptid should be. A hideous creepy crawler that "explains" a bad thing in life and that multiplies itself by inflicting more of the bad thing.
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just found a metric kiwi ton of alt-right memes featuring the character "columbo"
Wednesday, 22-Dec-21 07:24:07 UTC from web -
I'm surprised Equestria Daily is still kicking after all these years
Tuesday, 21-Dec-21 00:56:51 UTC from web -
anyway, i like bees now. Sorry mom http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876053
Monday, 20-Dec-21 22:06:19 UTC from web -
Enjoyed s4 of Aggretsuko.
Monday, 20-Dec-21 06:37:40 UTC from web-
@scribus I perceived the season more on the meh side. As much I appreciate the layoff narrative and commentary I think that the season was a little bit all over the place. The aftermath of the idol career was extremely side-lined and Retsuko's relationship plot with Haida was weirdly piecemealed. The rest was fine.
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@adiwan Yeah, it wasn't the best season, but it helped pull me out of my funk for a while. I agree it felt scattered, like they were told this would be the last and they needed to cram two seasons into one. By the end I almost missed having a job, but that's probably just the two++ years of isolation talking, heh
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Hmm, maybe I just needed 12 hours in bed, so I could actually get 8 of sleep? Of course I wake up with a dehydration headache, heh
Sunday, 19-Dec-21 19:21:52 UTC from web-
@scribus Nope today still sucks and it was only half length and that isn't even half over and I didn't do jack squat
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I was 160lbs before Covid started and now I’m 230, it’s honestly disgusting how much weight I’ve put on in such a short amount of time
Friday, 17-Dec-21 05:06:55 UTC from web -
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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