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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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I think I`m gonna buy a cheap used sewing machine.
Monday, 01-Nov-21 21:28:22 UTC from web-
@scribus Well... It's not fun when all the stitches by hand are crooked, uneven, and take too much time.
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context to my earlier post: i was racially profiled on my way home from work today because i'm brown and have a beard so a cop literally followed me from my store across town to another store because he thought i was doing a terrorism. literally was following me until I parked. saw me get out of my car, THEN made a u-turn and left the parking lot.
Monday, 01-Nov-21 00:58:39 UTC from web-
@scribus The county sheriff would probably help Myers find teenagers to kill tbh, they're worse than useless.
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Welp... I have now 3 bikes. The newest addition is a folding bike. I got a used one for 120€ in a pretty good condition. I only have to add a dynamo and lights. The bell works but it is very prone of ringing by itself on a bumpy road, so I get a new one.
Sunday, 31-Oct-21 20:18:01 UTC from web -
Got a note from a Republican running for office in my district claiming to want me to reach out to chat with him about his platform. Did just that, because his platform was appleing insane and would be more at-home in Nazi Germany. Am eagerly awaiting the response I am totally going to get
Thursday, 28-Oct-21 05:37:37 UTC from web-
@zeldatra That is outright ghastly and entirely un-shocking. Have they started saying that 1/6 was "just a little riot" like MTG?
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@scribus This is more or less the last time in probably a while that Republicans have a shot at winning a statewide election in Virginia, historically we’ve always voted against the incumbent party no matter what but that anti-White House sentiment, while not totally gone (Biden won the state by ten points but polling shows the race as a toss-up) is kind of diminishing (we used to see swings of like twenty points, now it’s closer to five) and by 2025 it’ll probably be gone entirely, so this entire campaign has just been a big last-ditch effort to maybe hold Richmond one last time. Nothing is too low if you’re going out anyway.
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@scribus Glenn Youngkin for his part has tried to distance himself from Trump and January 6th mostly because he can’t afford for the DC suburbs to turn out against him and that’s exactly what they’ll do if they think he’s too much like Trump.
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Got a modest 3% raise.
Wednesday, 27-Oct-21 17:07:27 UTC from web-
@scribus It helps to keep financing my monthly dose of comics. The raise is about as much as I pay for comics. And I read a ton of comics.
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Here’s the thing. I didn’t *really* know her all that well. I’ve been at this store for two months and we worked in different departments. But I know her husband. We worked the evening shift together almost every night at my last store. Dude’s torn up right now and I feel so bad for him. Don’t mango talk his dead wife to me, or we’re gonna have major problems that involve your head and your ass meeting one another for the first time in your life.
Tuesday, 26-Oct-21 22:14:58 UTC from web -
Seems the latest is, someone took the gun or guns target shooting or hunting over the weekend
Monday, 25-Oct-21 17:25:27 UTC from web-
@scribus WTF if true. In the United States of Gunmerica this sounds more likely than in any other part of the world. The neglect of safety measures around guns is baffling beyond reason.
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Customer came in complaining that her cake order didn’t get finished on time. Told her that the baker died and so we were unable to finish today’s orders. She then asked who was going to make her cake because she needs it now. Certified customer service moment.
Sunday, 24-Oct-21 14:51:52 UTC from web-
@scribus Usually there is someone responsible for the props, inventory, and blank ammo (without bullet).
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@adiwan Yeah, it's been a real screwjob. The head armorer expressed doubt she was qualified, the union camera crew walked out mere hours before the incident because of two accidental discharges the previous week.
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Well, day three of Adderall, and I'm pretty sure my leg bouncing mostly ends within the first hour
Saturday, 23-Oct-21 18:26:58 UTC from web -
Hey guys, take it from someone who is now having to do it for the second time in as many years: having to pretend that an associate at your store is still alive until everyone is notified that she died in surgery this morning is Not Fun.
Saturday, 23-Oct-21 19:42:12 UTC from web -
Well I just took my first Adderall. Time to see if it's ADHD or not, I guess!
Thursday, 21-Oct-21 16:43:42 UTC from web -
Clearly not much of a problem anymore. Dole was simply born too early.
Sunday, 17-Oct-21 20:39:53 UTC from web -
No, not Donald Trump telling Republicans not to vote if he isn’t reinstated. Anything but that.
Thursday, 14-Oct-21 00:41:34 UTC from web-
@scribus Oh, also, if he WERE “reinstated” he technically would be allowed to run for a second full term because the only method possible for “reinstatement” involves Republicans winning back the House, making him Speaker, and somehow winning 17 extra Senate seats with a map where they’ll be lucky if they get three, then impeaching/removing Biden-Harris simultaneously for ?????, which obviously would not be possible until 2023, when the next Congress is sworn in. So long as he is sworn in on January 21st or later, he would be allowed to run for another four year term since finish that term would bring him to just under the constitutional limit of ten years. If that’s his plan, it’s an incredibly contrived and unrealistic plan, but it is technically a plan nonetheless.
