pete_the_cat

@pete_the_cat@lemmy.world
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Haha yep, he keeps clinging to that.

Half the time I didn't even bother looking in the store she something when I know I can get it off of Amazon I'm like a day.

I've been looking for Dot's Pretzels around me and can't find them at Publix, CVS, or Walgreens. Amazon has them for one day delivery.

My dad is 74 and is a climate change denier, it's maddening. He says he doesn't deny that it's happening, but doesn't think that industrialization and cars are the reason, but it's a cycle the planet goes through every few thousand years 🤦‍♂️ He cites The Ice Age as proof of these long-term climate shifts and says we don't have climate records from anything beyond like 150 or so years ago so it's all conjecture.

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Musk made 151 tweets on Sunday

Assuming he's awake for 16 hours, that's over 9 tweets an hour. Someone is definitely scared.

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I was gonna say "I worked desktop support for years...so pretty much everything" 😂

This is why I became a Linux admin.

He doesn't listen to facts a lot of the time 😑

Wow, I thought it had been a longer stretch of time

Absolutely. People love to point to some societal issue, but the sad truth is that some people are psychopaths/have personality disorders and this is just what they do.

A few years back, about a half hour away from my hometown in NJ two teenage kids offered to help a young teenage girl fix her bike. They did, and then wanted payment, which she apparently refused. They killed her and threw her body in a dumpster and took her bike like nothing had happened. It was just a normal day for them.

Stop using the "why won't someone think of the children!" Fear mongering. This kid is a psychopath, it wasn't caused by then watching CSI.

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I've brought that up, he just says the science of it isn't entirely accurate 🤦‍♂️

They live in NJ and I moved to Miami back in October, it's been practically the same temperature in both places (for those not in the US, Miami is subtropical, New Jersey is 1300 miles north and has a coastal climate) for about the past month. The only difference is that it's about 10-20% more humid down here in Florida. The "Real Feel" is always within a few degrees though. For a few days here and there it's been hotter in NJ.

I thought that was Trump? 🤣

You definitely can't shut down their server at your request 🤣

You can cancel your service.

That's also not the definition of private property.

You're missing one! 😺

Before I even looked at the story I was thinking "this is what happens when you decide you want to cut yourself off from the nation's power grid". This is what, the THIRD, serious incident they've had related to power?

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It's probably slightly more difficult for them to make, compared to pressed pills, also marketing is at play and they are trying to make you think it's worth the increase, but it's definitely not. I'm in the US as well, and the prices are definitely ridiculous. Apparently Tylenol Liquid Gels are a relatively new thing (I swore they had been out for like a decade) and I remember seeing a bottle like 6 months ago that was $27 for like 30 pills! A regular bottle of solid Tylenol was like $15 for 65 pills. Who in their right mind would opt for the Liquid Gels?

"this is fine"

Once the Abrahamic Religions (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) became huge. It's all about "Women are evil sluts who do nothing but sin and tempt the good and pious men", it's pretty evident in modern societies that have large populations of people that follow these religions.

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This isn't as ridiculous as the headline makes it out to be. You still need to be licensed, which means a college degree. You can't get through college without reading. They're trying to get more teachers by reducing restrictions, although what they should be doing is making being a teacher a higher paying, less grueling job.

My mother was a Special Education teacher for 40 years and was at the top of her pay scale at 89k. I work in tech and 5 years out of college I was making 4 grand less than her. 5 years later I'm now applying to remote jobs where they're offering $60-75/hour or upwards of $150k/year! I worked for Disney+ and was making $110k/year not including benefits and was literally doing nothing half the time, meanwhile she would literally have to bring work home with her multiple times a week. People I graduated high school with were working in her district and were making like $35-45k/year which is fucking ridiculous.

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Data from Brownsville ISD seen by The Observer showed its officers made 3,102 student arrests between May 2021 and Nov. 2023. Nearly 60% of those were on felony charges and 76 of those kids were in elementary school.

What the everliving fuck is wrong with these people?

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This is why Wi-Fi is annoying, I'll take a wired connection over Wi-Fi any day.

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Yeah, they neglected to mention ads once in that article. I'm pretty sure that's the reason why no one wants it. I uninstalled it after like 20 minutes upon seeing the ridiculous amount of ads on a fresh install.

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Notably, former first lady Melania Trump has not joined her husband for any public campaign events since his presidential announcement in November 2022 and has not appeared alongside him at any of his court appearances.

I think his new goal since his last term is "let's see how hypocritical I can be and still get elected"

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This literally sounds like a mob guy coming into a store and "suggesting" that you need to pay "protection money" or else something bad may happen...

I've used Gmail since 2005 and don't ever remember seeing ads, but then again I use ad blockers on pretty much all my devices.

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Cartels: "we have four minutes, guys, we've been planning since 2017 for this, get ready!"

He did this before with the "I'm going to kick all illegal immigrants out of this country when I become president" and people with illegal immigrants in their families still voted for him!

I remember a new story shortly after this happened of a woman who voted for him crying because her husband was being kicked out and her words were "I thought he was only going to kick bad illegal immigrants out of the country! My husband isn't a criminal!"

These idiots are all for this shit until it affects them personally.

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So they sold tickets to a cruise... But they didn't have the ship ready.

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People forget, my ex sold her laptop on eBay, but forgot to wipe it and it had a bunch of nudes she had sent me over the years on it. After she realized what she did she told him to wipe the computer because she forgot to 🤦‍♂️ this was like a decade ago before BitLocker/encryption was standard on most laptops. The dude definitely saw her naked.

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I'm still confused regarding the picture....

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It's not about money, to him it's about helping the enemy.

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This is one of the coolest damn things I've seen in a while, she's a true cyborg!

I think the coolest thing is that she has a limited sense of touch.

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So that should cover everyone in this day and age since everyone asks for a tip now /s

After being in IT for a decade it never ceases to amaze me how incompetent people are when it comes to tech.

At my first gig in NYC I worked at a smaller financial firm (about 100 people) and every mid-level and above employee was given a work phone. One time I got a ticket that said "my smartphone is being really slow, can someone please take a look?". I went up there and it was a guy in his 40s (I was like 30), suit and tie, I think he was a Junior VP or something like that. He gave me his Galaxy S5 and I looked at the RAM usage and it was all taken up by Chrome. I opened up Chrome and he had 99+ tabs open, I told him that was the reason and he said "Oh.. I thought those automatically closed when I exited (he meant switched apps, not killing the process)...", I told him they didn't and started swiping them away, after the first few it was about 90 tabs of (teen) porn 🤣. I had to stand there in front of him, straight faced for a good few minutes cleaning up his porn. Afterwards I said "it should be better now, just remember to close your tabs when you're finished with them." and left. Once I got in the elevator I nearly pissed myself laughing so hard.

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He'd have a full-blown meltdown. It'd be glorious.

A while ago someone posted a picture on Reddit of an old cast iron rotary food grater/slicer and asked "what is this thing?". A bunch of people said it was for grating things like cheese or slicing vegetables. Some people posted the original French or Italian names of it, which was difficult to find. Someone said look up "Rotary grater" and they're all over Amazon for dirt cheap. I bought a cheap plastic one for like $20, figuring I'd use it a few times and forget about it.

I use the damn thing multiple times a week for grating blocks of cheese. It can grate a 1 pound block of cheese in like 30 seconds, 2-3 rotations usually gives me more than enough cheese for myself. It's so much easier to use than a box grater, and no possibility of destroying your finger tips or knuckles!

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The imperial system is a nightmare. A lot of us hate it and agree that metric is far easier. I grew up with the imperial system and still don't know the conversions between quarts, pints, ounces, and cups. Blame the French and British, we got it from them!

I'm currently calorie counting in order to lose weight and I weigh everything in grams because it's easier.

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Officer: "What's your name, sir?"

DK: "Deez-Nuts"

Officer: "Alright, get out of the car, smart ass"

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I worked at Disney+ until a few months ago (got laid off after 5 years, how nice of them), everything was still segmented internally. Even a year or more after the Hulu merger we still operated essentially as two separate companies. They did their thing and we did ours, practically no communication between the teams.

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And this concludes the enshitification of everything.

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