Mostly_Gristle @ Mostly_Gristle @lemmy.world

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I live in the Rocky Mountains and I see this shit all the time. Everybody thinks they're a special little Disney princess, and they are shocked, absolutely shocked, when Bambi freaks out and kicks them in the face. As if that weren't the sensible reaction to being cornered by an apex predator.

Wild animals are dangerous and unpredictable. Just leave them alone. Even the cute ones can hurt you.

And most significantly, it could hurt our quarterly revenue, which is the worst tragedy imaginable.

Amazing.

For real. I have a lot of problems right now, and there's not a single one of those problems that can't be solved with an adequate amount of money.

I, like I think a lot of people, fantasize about winning the lottery not because I'm desperate to live in a mansion or to have a $500k sports car in my driveway, but because I dream of watching all my problems absolutely evaporate before my eyes.

I for real thought it was from the dad jokes sub. I was super relieved when I realized it was a link to a news story about an actual bear, and not that the punchline was supposed to be that the bear was black and stole something.

They're not doing him a favor by sending him to whatever passes for a "disciplinary alternative education program" in Texas though. Sounds like they're trying to stick him on the fast track in the school-to-prison pipeline.

The Ice Pirates.

It was taken down years ago, but for a while the entry for the song Regulate, by Warren G and Nate Dogg, used to feature a recitation of the story events done in the flowery prose style of a fancy Victorian English gentleman. It was a masterpiece.

Like many weird American things, there's an episode of The Dollop podcast exploring it. I think it's episode 193: When the Cars Came.

I feel like there might have been an episode of the Futility Closest about it too, but I can't find it.

Every picture of Grimes I've ever seen looks like someone tried to draw Madonna from memory.

Word.

Sure.

Row (pronounced like wow) is another word for argument or disagreement. It's most commonly used in the UK. A "political row" just means politicians are bickering with each other.

On the one hand, finding out the openly fascist rich kid from apartheid South Africa shaped a company into a place where bigotry and racial discrimination are rampant is one of the least surprising things I've ever read.

On the other hand, that is an absolutely shocking level of racism for any kind of modern workplace. Like, fucking wow.

There's also Under the Cherry Moon, and Graffiti Bridge.

For what it's worth, I was on Reddit for over a decade and I think I clicked on a stickied thread from any subreddit maybe twice in that whole time. I think a lot of people's eyes just automatically skip over them. Plus, stickied threads disappear under some sorting options. Posting the occasional meme about it might be more effective.

For your consideration stand, you have a good news.

Yikes. Yeah, that kind of bad grammar almost always = scam.

There were/are a lot of dumb subs full of dumb content for sure, but what I miss about Reddit are the subs that have a super deep expert knowledge base. The plumbing sub, the mechanic advice sub, the vacuum sub, the fountain pen sub, etc. I've saved a lot of money and heartache by asking knowledgeable people naive questions in niche subreddits. Lemmy just plain doesn't have the numbers for those kinds of subs to exist here at that level yet. But I hope we get there because for me that was the best thing about Reddit (though I also have a soft spot for the big "what's your true real life paranormal experience" mega-threads that would pop off every few months.)

Nah, there is no reason an employer needs to know anything about your banking details. Maybe some basic routing info if you're doing direct deposit, but even then that's after you get hired. This sounds all kinds of sketchy. I bet they used the words "kindly" and "dear" a lot.

Henry's raw sexual magnetism is too powerful. Men with priapism, women slipping off their chairs: I don't want to be responsible for everyone's arousal related injuries.

It was listed in a column when I posted. The formatting got fucked.