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I own the least profitable company in the entire state (as in it does not profit at all and in fact bleeds money) which is great for taxes but not great for convincing people you know what you’re doing
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Bought 275 rounds of 9mm irl and was so suddenly happy that ammo has no weight in Fallout
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It is bonkers to me that people give so much authority to the catholic church. If they were doing the right thing the child diddling pieces of Fluffle Puff were in jail and excommunicated.
about 15 days ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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@nerthos Sounds great! I was not very informed or I forgot the news about that. I guess my avoidance of religious news is the culprit.
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@nerthos Plus, the vast majority of said CSA cases happened in the 60s and 70s. At the same time hippies were taking 14 year olds to concerts and giving them drugs to sleep with them, Michel Focault (of marginality theory fame) was leading a political movement to remove age of consent laws in France, and universities worldwide taught that you should do LSD and pedophilia was actually a very good thing for the kid's development.
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@adiwan Yeah it was nice. They excommunicated like 900 priests between 2004 and 2014 when serious investigations took place.
Obviously there will always be incidents like with any crime (there are over 400k active priests plus a whole lot more clergy staff, nuns, monks etc) but the cover up policy is over. Now they try to do an internal investigation first and if they find anything, excommunicate and report to secular law, unless it's within the vatican, which as a sovereign state has the authority to trial.
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I mean, the current Pope was in elementary school in the 60s
about 14 days ago from web-
@nerthos and what was he doing there then? http://rainbowdash.net/url/876713
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@zeldatra Studying I'd imagine, he was born in late 1955
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I learned recently that I have near identical political views to Daniel Tosh. If I said this fourteen years ago you guys would’ve dog piled me on Skype.
about 15 days ago from web-
@zeldatra Lucky for you I'm as unaware now as I was 14 years ago about who that is, so no bully
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Also I can verifiably say I was one of the pope’s first six thousand followers on Twitter, this should make me eligible to be a bishop
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I know this is going to come off like some lame joke, but today I watched White House security wave in two 20-somethings in suits riding Razer scooters into the drive
about 16 days ago from web-
@zeldatra Rise of the Blartists, don't mess with their mall
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18 naked cowboys filing for bankruptcy because tariffs are hurting small businesses
Ram ranch is under foreclosureabout 22 days ago from web-
@zeldatra US marines in their black ford raptors going hungry today
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I think this idiot's parents celebrated the pregnancy with daily shots
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Digging out tree stumps is hard. Stupid roots. I had to buy a new saw with large teeth to make it rip better through the very wet wood of the roots. The previous owner had cut off three trees and let the stumps behind some bushes and I created some of my own. I really want a greenhouse there some day and these idiots needed to go.
about 23 days ago from web-
@adiwan You can use a drill to make holes in a stump and pour acid in to rot the wood quickly and make it easy to dig out, but obviously this makes the wood unusable.
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@nerthos Thanks. I'll try it with an old bush next to my terrace that will be a cherry to remove. I have a bottle of Hydrochloric Acid and some Citric Acid powder.
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I've disposed of my jalapeno plants. They were not in good health, floppy leaves and all-around yellowed and had a silvery layer (mildew?) on the leaves. Despite having flowers in bloom and some growing fruit I went to the decision to get rid of them in case they spread mildew to nearby plants.
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I find that the screen keyboard on my phone seems to be more or less of a piece of crap depending on what app or field I'm typing into, but in no case is it unlike trying to speak with one's tongue cut out and jaw wired shut. I hope there's a Hell bad enough for Steve Jobs.
about a month ago from web-
@scribus One thing he did was good: kill off the Adobe Flash plugin. It was a lot of trouble security-wise and performance on PC and especially mobile was atrocious. My HTC Desire Z could run Flash but more on paper than in practical terms. Also this move has eradicated Flash websites. They work now as good as they did back then, not at all.
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@adiwan OK yeah, Flash did need to go, but we still could have kept physical keys!! :p
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I've operated an electric chainsaw today for the first time. It went easier than thought. I wanted to use it weeks earlier but the fuse in the electrical box always triggered because the starting current of the motor was too high. I bought a current limiter for this case and now it triggers only half of the time instead of always. The current limiter is just on the limit of the fuse's limit at 16A. At least I can use the chainsaw. Also I have a miter saw that also is kinda trigger-happy, so the bought current limiter is useful for more than the chainsaw.
about a month ago from web-
@adiwan They're pretty nice, but the cable gets annoying sometimes when you're on a tree
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@nerthos I am not that bothered with a cable. I throw it over the shoulder and it mostly works out. I rather prefer power tools with cables. I am annoyed by batteries not performing as long as I want and by the need to charge them at the most inconvenient times. The only tool I accept being battery-powered is a drill and even that sucks. I have two batteries and at times I was using one while charging the other and constantly swapping them back and forth.
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Delving into smaller youtube channels. The sponsor segments are definitely weirder than the ones of the bigger and more established channels. It surely shows the desperation the creators have. A furniture modification/restoration channel that is sponsored by a LED beauty face mask? Questionable meets desperation.
about a month ago from web-
@adiwan As someone who shaves maybe a fraction of their face, maybe once a week, I just laugh at the wasted sponsor money every time I see one
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@scribus Me too. I shave once a month and wait until it gets itchy. I only have a simple safety razor and an electric shaver. It is sufficient but I like neither of those because my skin is easily irritable. I'd like to permanently remove my beard with lasers but I fear it'll destroy my skin.
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@adiwan I go the easy route and trim with scissors, then correct with the razor. Should probably buy an electric shaver but eh
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always feels good when your background check comes back and says “not a sex offender”. gonna put that on my resume.
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Oh gawd I'm not back around to Fluttershy now, am I???
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I need to find me a good IE punk bar
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Who wants to get in a heated fight over who is best/worst pony like the old days? No guns, but knives and clubs are ok to bring
about a month ago from web-
@scribus I know she's so cute
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@firestormdangerdash That smugness is why she's my favourite, even 15 years later.
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@adiwan Wife tbh (mushi will kill me for this post)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0rvFX3EQV0
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Can... can we use RDN as the log in server to log into bluesky? I dont want to make "another" account for 1 thing. Heh...
about a month ago from web-
@firestormdangerdash Pls don't touch the relic-engine, it suffers from mr burns disease and any minor change might kill it
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Strongly heating up the remaining red jalapeno made them bearable. Beating heat with heat. I put them on a pizza and they were not so bad. Degenerating capsaicin with heat is the key. The sauce I made a little while ago was never heated so much or long to break down the hot stuff. Fresh and uncooked will never enter my digestive tract ever again.
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One jalapeno in my salad got me the wrong way. I cut it too small to remove it, too much salad to toss out. I ate through all of it and with enough ranch dressing it got less of a sting.
The current Jalapeno plants are dying, so this season I will plant only one or two and give them more care. Currently my 4 Jalapeno and 1 Cayenne are putting out weekly one or two ripe deep red chilis. Maybe I should collect them when they are still green.about a month ago from web-
@adiwan Mostly, at least out my way, they are harvested and sold or processed while green, I do believe they just get hotter as they age and ripen
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@scribus BuT rEd OnEs LoOk BeTtEr! Yeah... I have currently a hand full of green ones on my plants at this moment. I'll harvest them tomorrow. Hopefully they won't stab my tongue with a hot dagger like the red ones.
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@adiwan Red does look better, lol. I get excited when I find a red jalapeno slice on my nachos
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My dad was showing me something of an old guy from Maryland, where Dad's from. Dude had a wicked thick accent, but I could mostly follow him while he was talking with the interviewer. But once another local came up and they started talking, man, I swear it went from "dialect" to "whole new language" as far as I could hear
about a month ago from web-
@scribus western Maryland and the Baltimore-DC area may well be in two different parts of the country if I’m being honest.
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@zeldatra My dad has the absolute thinnest accent of his side of the family, and even he was able to be pinned down to what part of the Chesapeake Bay he grew up on by a dude he met in Long Beach for about ten minutes
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Working for a project in northern Germany. Every morning it begins with everyone greeting with "moin". It is not a abbreviation for "morning" but it is an old lower German word for "good" and "pleasant".
about a month ago from web-
@scribus Just to be clear: Lower German is not that common, however in casual conversation it has some foothold in everyday use, especially common expressions and traditional stuff like in food or handiwork or hunting. In comparison the Bavarian dialect is 20 times more common. It is not dead but there is definitely a dying trend. A local broadcaster has a one hour news block that uses lower German throughout.
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The Minecraft movie is not good, but I laughed a lot
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at 27 years old it has occurred to me that I don’t HAVE to make boring sandwiches, I can just choose to buy something more interesting at the deli instead of the Potato Knishes I normally get
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7 hours into my 32th birthday I've already caused all sorts of romantic chaos, had my crush hint very overtly that she would like me to fight with her boyfriend over her (won't, she made her choice) and had a drunk gay friend confess to me in an absolutely obsessive, self-destructive and pathological way (which would have been really hot if it was a girl)
It's turning out to be a VERY eventful day and I'm very happy for it.
I joined this place when I was 18 and I'm glad I haven't mellowed out at all in that time. Here's hoping in another 14 years things will be just as crazy still.about 2 months ago from web-
@adiwan Pretty sure I'm not! but it's a funny life for certain and I put in a non-insignificant amount of work into keeping it that way.
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@nerthos "Death and illness aren't scary to me, being bored is." Words to live by right there
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@elli I'm a stress free kinda guy
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To be perfectly honest with you crashing the stock market was just about my biggest hope for Trump, I just didn't expect him to do it in three months. Cheers to my brand new stock portfolio! ...once things cool down.
about 2 months ago from web-
@zeldatra He said he'd lower the prices and he did
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I've grown weak. My capsaicin resistance is barely existing.
about 2 months ago from web-
@scribus I have one Cayenne plant and 5 Jalapeno. They don't bear a lot of fruit but right now I am plenty served by them. I planted seeds for their replacement, as they are supposed to be living about one year. I don't get cold sweat or anything but their hotness can be slightly overwhelming. Maybe I need them to cook for a lot longer. They were basically fresh when I put them into the sauce. As of now I wouldn't go eating any hotter stuff than that.
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Nobody does war songs like the Irish, prove me wrong
about 2 months ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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Wow, talk about a throwback. Hi RDN, you probably don't remember me XD
about 3 months ago from web-
@pandaexpress Around that long yeah, glad to hear it came around for you in the end.
I've been pretty well all around. 2017 was kind of a mess but other than that, there have been a lot more upsides than downsides. Some losses sure, but death is unavoidable, all that is within my control ticks under my rythm and that's all that matters to say life is good.
Made a lot of friends, got new certifications and a different job, dropped my ex and had a lot of fun these last 8 years. All I can possibly complain of right now is that the stock market is not as good as I'd wish lol.Emily likes this. -
@pandaexpress much the same. Purpose in life does wonders for a person.
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