GooberEar @ GooberEar @lemmy.wtf

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Duh. If they let you see how it's done, then you'll know how to do it yourself. And once you know how to do it yourself, you won't need to buy one of their expensive machines every time you want to wash dishes.

Also, things like this can result from not providing a supportive environment where queer persons and their allies feel comfortable enough to unmask and freely discuss why "bussy" probably isn't the best terminology to use in external communications.

Channing Tatum and Jason Statham sitting in a tree. K. I. S. S. I. N. G. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes this dude in their baby carriage.

I get it's a meme, but I'd be hard pressed to find one thing that's not annoying about shopping in these places.

Right hand to baby Jesus, I thought Kmart was basically no longer in operation, when did it become a programming language for nerds?

This is how I found out that 800mg of ibuprofen / Tylenol costs $45 if you get it in a hospital in the USA.

Worst that's happened to me is that I was detained and questioned by the cops while they investigated my "grow operation". I had some old school grow lights in my kitchen window for my window sill plants and a potted hibiscus outside on my deck.

It's sad that the cops couldn't immediately tell the difference between hibiscus and weed nor were they aware that people can grow indoor house plants under those pink/purple fluorescent lights which for sure wouldn't be strong enough to grow marijuana to begin with.

It's also funny that my neighbor at the time actually was growing weed on his front patio, and they never seemed to notice in the 5 or so years I lived next door.

Duh, it's a cloud, you inhale it.

In my early school years, we only had round tipped plastic safety scissors that could barely cut tissue paper. As a kid, I was terrified at the degree of responsibility and potential to take another kid's life those scissors represented.

The adults in charge when I was a kid had us convinced that if we ran with scissors in our hands we were going to kill the other children in the vicinity by accident in the most horrifically bloody and violent manner. They even showed us video re-enactments of children getting stabbed in the heart, neck, and eye complete with fake blood gushing out and Bugs Bunny worthy death performances.

A lot of us thought this was some super common way that kids were dying by the millions all across the world.

This reminds me of a site I used to visit every once in awhile back in the day. It was known for 2 things and 2 things only. Loved it.

I'm in the USA, so if they were made in China they'd probably cost me $30 USD by now.

In the third grade, I won the science fair.

The competition was pretty strong. There was a kid who built a contraption to simulate a mini-tornado. Granted, it was probably his dad who built the thing, but still. There was another kid that built and programmed a robotics project. Again, probably his parents did a lot of the work, but the guy was super smart so I'm sure he did some of that work. One girl came up with an experiment to use fungus to grow plastics or something like that, I don't remember. It's been decades.

Me? The afternoon before the fair I had literally nothing. I grew up poor, we had a lot of junk laying around the house because my parents would go to the county dump site, dig through the trash, and bring home anything they thought was valuable or fixable. I managed to hobble together one of the light sensors from a broken night light to the electronics from a toy radio so that it only played when the lights were off. I stuffed that into a cardboard "robot". And the people judging the science fair loved it.

So fuck you Stephanie Petty, Chris McDonald, and Dequan Shaw and your rich ass parents and your entitled ass selves. I won bitches.

If they were cheap and not made in China, I would buy these. They look neat.

I have known a ton of people like this. The hardest part of dealing with it is that sometimes they are right. It's typically a case where they came to the correct conclusion but arrived there by faulty logic and/or false information.

All they will ever recognize is that the were right, doesn't matter why or how. They never actually learned any lesson, they'll ignore the myriad other cases where they were absolutely wrong, while they continue to use the same baseless methodology to form future opinions and conclusions.

Up until about 6 months ago or so, in my area FedEx was the best of the delivery services in my area by far. Granted, I know that whichever service is best tends to vary from region to region. But, whenever I saw that my package was getting delivered via FedEx, I was generally glad to know it.

In my area, UPS is the shady shit-show that would totally pull some bullshit like this. UPS will open my mailbox and put packages in there (which is illegal in the USA). UPS will claim my package is delivered and then 3 days later, USPS delivers it. They have some kind of agreement with USPS to deliver the last mile, but UPS tracking literally shows the packages as delivered the moment they turn it over to the USPS. UPS will furiously beep the horn outside my bedroom window until I go to the front door to see what's going on, and then have ME dig through their truck to find my own package. Anyway, I'm ranting now, as is the custom for men my age and in my condition.

USPS is just a whole other paradigm of unfathomably terrible shit show. Okay, I'll stop. I have a problem.

Point is, FedEx used to be the best of shitty lot, so I wonder why they've suddenly and drastically gotten so bad as of late.

I'm glad to see you mention that, I was going to make a similar comment. I figure it's a message that's probably well understood here on the fediverse, but outside of this space not so much.

I think there's also an argument to be made for charging subscriptions based on overall maintenance needs. Upgrades, updates, bug fixes, and things of that nature take time and can also cost money.

However, overall, there are way too many subscription based apps that just don't seem justified. If I buy version 2.3 of AppXYZ, and as long as I stick to that version nor need any online functionality, I just don't see a valid excuse for a subscription, other than pure greed on the developers' part.

As a sophisticated man of discriminating taste and impeccable manners, I eat these crazy tall burgers with a knife and fork. Just kidding, I use a knife and fork because they are too tall for my mouth and too messy for my beard.

To get around back, go left. Because left is right and right is wrong so the only thing left that's right is left.

I was just thinking "I need to burn some music CDs for when I travel", just in case.

I went on a car trip earlier this year, but forgot my bluetooth to aux adapter. I tried to buy one while I was on the road, but places were sold out, didn't carry them, or they only sold them via online orders.

As luck would have it, I still had some old CDs I'd burned 20ish years ago sitting in my glove compartment! I honestly did not expect them to work because they'd likely spent at least the last decade+ in that glove compartment, enduring extremes of heat and cold. They were scratched to hell and back and I had always heard that they degrade and become unreadable after a certain amount of time, even under ideal storage conditions.

Luckily for me, though, they mostly worked. I think there were a couple of songs on one disc that skipped a bunch, and everything else played fine. I rediscovered a few great songs from my youth that I'd not heard in so long that I'd practically forgotten about them.

Caring is sharing and sharing is the root of all love so let's gather round and give each other hugs and tell each other how nice our hair smells except for the ones of us who are bald your bald skin smells like sun block and sweat.