Waldowal

@Waldowal@lemmy.world
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Joined 1 years ago

As a Gen-Xer who's been beaten into believing you can't realistically "fight the man", I fucking love the Gen-Z attitude.

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As we know from Gore and Clinton, national numbers mean jack shit. Vote!

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"So there I was, watching Fox News on one TV, NewsMax on another, dick in hand of course - I'm an alpha you see. And I see this dude trying to steal my freedoms. I ran after him, and I heard him say something woke. It was either "Sorry - wrong house" or "I want to rape your wife and abort the baby". I couldn't tell which. Of course I had my blue steel beauty in the hand I wasnt using to rub one out - so I started blasting...."

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You don't have to run the rat race to get promoted. You don't have to be at your desk at 7am and leave at 7pm to put on a show. Just be competent. Most people are not. You'll eventually get promoted once you are old and white enough.

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If your goal is rehabilitation, driving people insane with sleep deprivation isn't going to help.

Secondly, think about how irritated and pissy you are when you don't get enough sleep. Now imagine that in an entire prison population. You're asking for trouble.

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I expected another story about a Tesla self-driving passengers to their doom. Instead, "the driver accidentally hit the gas pedal", so it being a Tesla is really an irrelevant detail. Would the headline have read "Hyundai plunges into Norway fjord..." if it were a different car.

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New policy from the corporate office: If you are working in a public place, like a coffee shop, please scream while typing your login password.

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Those are "de-escalation devices". First, you beat them with thing 1. If that doesn't calm them down, you stun them with thing 2. If they are still not calm, you shoot them with thing 3. Repeat until America great again.

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If you remember when this happened, his parents were in interviews trying to turn it into a "This is how the libs come for your guns!" situation. The kid was also reported to have said he hoped "Biden gets impeached due to my shooting". He was 15 at the time of the shooting.

This is a prime example of people being radicalized by the rhetoric from right-wingers. The parents first, then they brainwashed this kid into thinking he'd somehow be a hero for doing this. Sad all around.

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This is going to be my new way to antagonize conservatives I know:

ME: Did you know Harris has had 5 kids with 3 different partners?!

MORON: I don't doubt it. She's a whore!

ME: Oh sorry, I meant Trump.

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I'm really curious about some details. They both meet this guy. He seems interested. Does he just keep talking to one face and ignoring the other? Were he and Abby kissing, and Brittany's all "Ew, Abby, he's gross". When he proposed, was he like "Will you marry me?" And they both say "yes", and he's like "Uh, I just meant the left side"? How do you not end up dating and marrying them both?! Maybe they are in reality, but they can't say that due to polygamy laws?

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Same. Not sure why it would go viral.

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They buried the lede:

Later in her speech, Lawrence joked that Pence was also in New York “receiving a [Nickelodeon] Kid’s Choice Award for weirdest dick.”

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The incident allegedly occurred after the coach -- who also served as a hall monitor -- ordered Michael to do pushups because he was horsing around in the hallway, but the teen declined because he had hurt his hand

Cop mentality. Escalate until someone's unconscious.

Guy on the team rage quits one day. Few days pass and HR goes to clean out his desk. Finds a paper bag full of syringes and a very graphic instruction manually on how to inject something into your dick.

Whatever it was, I guess it can't wait until you're at home to inject into your dong. It has to be at work.

Cherry on top was that HR policy was to box up all personal belongings left behind and have the ex-employee come pick them up. So, if he had forgotten these things were in his desk, he certainly remembered after he came back and they handed him the bag.

Now that Biden doesn't care about reelection, what kind of "Official acts" might he do?

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For reference, this is what 72,000 people looks like:

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I've frequented Cracker Barrel's since I was very little. And it's a family tradition to always stop at one to eat on long road trips.

It's gone downhill, and it started happening well ahead of COVID.

  • Every server used to be an old southern person. They cared about their job, and proudly wore "stars" on their apron to represent their seniority. They were engaging, sweet, and often interesting to talk to. These days, I usual just see teenagers, or people who act like they are working there as a condition of their probation. I assume this reflects poor / eroded pay.

  • A long standing "benefit" at Cracker Barrel has been the unlimited biscuits and cornbread that come with every meal. They used to bring out a huge basket of them - enough for everyone to have 3-4 - often as soon as you sat down. So good. These days, I usually have to ask for them. They usually seem to stall and only bring them with the food. And there is usually only 1 (maybe 2) per person.

  • Similar to above, the portion size of just about every meal has shrunk over time.

  • I know people that used to work there. All the food was either cooked to order or hand prepped and cooked that morning. There was pride in making the food fresh, and not letting it get old, cold, and stale. I'm not sure what they are doing now, but it seems like the quality is way down. It more often seems old, cold, and stale. I'm guessing the cooks aren't paid very well anymore either.

So, I think this CEO has it all wrong. My guess is she's going to turn it into another Applebee's that gets some attention for a while for being new and interesting. Then, in a few years, it goes out of business.

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With this type of publicity over his racist and misogynistic comments, he's decided on a presidential run instead.

If you love dark milk, then sugar love than actually more.

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Wait a sec. In the event of rape, I thought God stops the pregnancy. Or, the women's body magically rejects it because they are not soul mates. Or, whatever other evil, disgusting, nonsense, bullshit these idiots dream up to try and justify torturing women.

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"We want to charge you more, but we want to make sure you blame our wait staff for it."

I wouldn't be surprised if the QR code sends you to a website bitching about "the current administration".

EDIT: https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2023-07-03/after-lawsuit-jon-and-vinnys-change-service-fee-language-on-bill

Obviously, we're dealing with a next-level political mind here:

Come to Georgia. It's close. We're a swing state now. We could use your vote.

The only thing I'll miss is that gag they always do on SNL Weekend Update where they show a picture of him smiling and say something like: "Mitch McConnell, shown here watching an orphanage burn down..."

Gets me every time.

Trump and the GOP are directly responsible for killing the part of ACA that required people to have insurance in 2017. That is what allowed all the young healthy people to drop their insurance which caused costs to go up for everyone else. It de-socialized it.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Cuts_and_Jobs_Act

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Did he hit his head? The lead kick in?

I'm only half joking. I had a neighbor who I used to describe as slightly conservative-leaning. He suffered a brain injury on the job and is now a full tilt QAnon MAGA goofball.

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Something isn't right with this article. I'm suspect:

  • Type 1 is where your islet cells die off and you lose insulin production. Type 2 means your insulin production is fine, but your cells are resistant to the insulin. A Type 2 should have plenty of islet cells so adding more doesn't seem like it would do anything. Your body should regulate those cells to output the same amount of insulin as before.

  • This same treatment has been done in Type 1s already. It's not new. The problem is their body eventually kills off the transplanted cells and you have to do it again. Plus, you have to take immune suppressing drugs forever.

  • "Despite a kidney transplant, his pancreas still doesn't produce insulin." - This is just nonsense.

With AI based routing, the switches will use AI to read the destination IP, look it up in the routing table, and send the traffic there. It's the same as it was before, but AI. Also, it will occasionally hallucinate and send your traffic to someone else.

Don't worry, it will be presented like this:

"To continue offering you high quality original programming like X and Y, we have to raise our price for Amazon Prime. But don't worry, we're now adding a lower cost ad-based alternative called Amazon Subprime."

So, as usual, most people will be fine with it and put the plastic bag back over their head.

Only corporations should get bailouts! Maybe if all the students formed an LLC, transferred their debt to it, then filed for bankruptcy. It would be fine then. That's the American way!

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One of my favorite Onion headlines is: "Landlord forced to increase rent because they thought of a bigger number."

Playing in the yard when I was little, I had sharpened a stick to a point. I saw my little brother running across the yard. In my head, I imagined throwing the "spear" through his legs and tripping him. That would have been enough of a dick move. Instead, I skewered him directly in the ankle. He had to get stitches.

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Probably Musee d'Orsay in Paris. It holds many of the most famous paintings ever. You can walk right up to each piece and get a close look. And it has several nice cafés where you can sit and have lunch or a coffee. It's very chill.

By comparison, the Louvre is a mad house, the popular stuff is roped off, and the cafés are more like a snack bar.

If you're into U.S. (pop) culture, I think it's hard to beat the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. It's got historic aircraft, movie props, costumes, etc. Fun stuff. And it's mostly/all? free so you can spend the day going in and out, having lunch nearby in DC, seeing famous monuments right outside, etc.

But what about Dr. Chiropractor on Facebook that says that vaccines actually change your DNA?: "Through the RNA transcriptase of the aortic Golgi bodies?". He's a doctor. Those are big words. Plus, it involves me being victimized by a shadowy organization. It must be true!

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Glad the roof is not monitors

Once they fired the old CEO that partnered with Warner Brothers and had a streaming-first mindset, the service has gone way down hill. Most of the new content is dumb shit like syndicated reality shows.

I may tune back in for the occasional series releases like Rightous Gemstones, but then I'm out.

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This portal is a dumb idea, but most developers know you don't let on when a hack is attempted and you detect it. It's common to return a "success" message in hopes the "hacker" stops trying and moves on. Meanwhile, you log the attempt (and don't actually cancel a voter registration).

Though, I don't have high hopes the state actually built a secure site here.

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He could have just said he had to go real bad, but instead he says this?!:

Blakeslee's defense? He said he didn't target anyone but had a habit of putting his feces in Pringles cans and randomly throwing them from his car. He claimed he pulled the Pringles prank at least 10 times that year.

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