shalafi
@shalafi@lemmy.world
- Comment on I think it's extremely invasive that amazon is telling me this 1 day ago:
The media has pumped us full of terror. The gun thing is a perfect example, but comments on that aren’t welcome around here. I’ll just say, the danger is nothing like most imagine.
Went to pick up a kayak from FB Marketplace, got the wrong house. Lady wouldn’t answer at first, and that’s with a German Shepard barking at me though the door and a Ring doorbell looking at me. When she finally came, she wouldn’t open the glass, talked to me through the door.
For context, this is in the bougie suburb and I’m a well-dressed, middle-aged white guy. And I’m small. Hardly a scary man for the time and place.
On Nextdoor.com I see 1,000 idiot posts.
“Did you see the strange man walking down Oak Street?! I’ve seen him twice now!”
“A teenager came to my door today and I didn’t know him! Has anyone else been terrorized like this?”
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 1 day ago:
Yep! I see zero problems with a woman sharing a small space with strange men.
So yeah, you’re a man or you might have seen a woman’s point of view. Do I get to call you a misogynist?
- Comment on Chemicals in vapes could be highly toxic when heated, research finds 3 days ago:
Far safer, agreed. After 20-years of smoking, I quit coughing within 3-weeks.
OTOH, I just quit vaping (10-years) and started the nicotine pouches. Game. Changed. I had no idea how bad vaping was for me. (That was bad for me personally. YMMV depending on several factors. I basically vaped like it was air.)
- Comment on Always happens 3 days ago:
Imma sell a “smoke diverter” that’s a wide piece of cardboard on a stand. Put it opposite your seat at the fire, boom, no more smoke.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 4 days ago:
Say it out loud. We’re both pirating content we’ve paid for. What a dumb system.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 4 days ago:
Same. And I still steal Prime videos. Why hassle?
- Comment on Passions. 4 days ago:
IRL Betty White.
- Comment on Gender-specific toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England 5 days ago:
You know how I know you’re a man?
- Comment on Students suspended at Yarra Valley grammar school over ‘disgraceful’ spreadsheet rating female classmates 5 days ago:
Expelling grammar schoolboys for this?! Very helpful I’m sure. Those boys have certainly learned to be model citizens.
People like you are the reason our schools look like the worst parts of The Wall. Every child must conform, march in lockstep, or face the consequences. Authoritarian liberals are a close second to authoritarian conservatives.
In my day this would have been a trip to the dean for a solid dressing down and a week in detention. Done and done. And Jesus, the social woes from such an event were unthinkable.
!BigMikeAustin: “Fuck them! Deprive them of education and social skills! Give them nothing, and take from them everything!”
(In case you didn’t catch on, expelling them taught them nothing except to lie down and keep certain views on the down low. I’ll make it even simpler, you want to teach them to lie to avoid harsh consequences.)
- Comment on Sony - Helldivers fans -- we’ve heard your feedback on the Helldivers 2 account linking update - PSN no longer required 5 days ago:
Yes. This is exactly how capitalism is supposed to work. The corporation bows to the wants and needs of the consumer, or they risk being replaced.
And this is an even greater example, consumers telling a mega-corp to get fucked and getting results.
But don’t let me get in the way of you kids and your anti-capitalism bent, typed on a machine made possible by capitalism. If I could send every fucking one of you back to the 70s and let you get an eye full of communism, I’d deport every one of you to the USSR.
- Comment on War 1 week ago:
I think that every time I hear the frogs go off.
"Pick me! PICK ME!
“Fuck me, fuck me, fuck me…”
- Comment on The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be on the Verge of Collapse 2 weeks ago:
Bull. It doesn’t get redder than NW Florida and the rooftops are covered in solar. There are massive solar farms going up everywhere.
- Comment on Check out the free spooky fan game Aliens: Redacted 2 weeks ago:
I’m all in!
- Comment on Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits 3 weeks ago:
This is a first-term asshole who just happens to own a bunch of Smoothie King franchises.
All the legislature did was move it out of committee for a House vote. Still has to pass the Senate and Govenor. This is not a done deal.
- Comment on 'Psychic' conman jailed for swindling 1.3m Americans 3 weeks ago:
“Runner was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, eight counts of mail fraud, four counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
He was found not guilty on four counts of mail fraud.”
Might have slid by without the money laundering.
- Comment on San Francisco bill would let people sue grocery stores for closing too quickly 3 weeks ago:
San Fran laws often strike me as bug fuck nuts. OTOH, this is like so many of the articles we see that have liberals freaking out. It’s a proposal, nothing has happened, nothing probably will.
LOL, I’ll eat crow if they do manage to pass it!
- Comment on self-defence deez nuts 3 weeks ago:
Just like peppers, a sort of odd evolution when humans come into play.
Peppers devolved capsaicin to keep mammalian herbivores from eating them and grinding the seeds up. Birds have no capsaicin receptors, happily poop whole seeds everywhere.
Along come humans. “Let’s grown and refine that shit!”
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu 4 weeks ago:
You can skip the MS account, but it takes effort.
Do NOT connect to the internet, or you hosed and will have to start over.
SHIFT+F10 to get a command prompt.
cd oobe
bypassnro
It’ll reboot and now you’ll have options to skip the MS account for a “limited experience”. Once you get a desktop, connect to the internet.
- Comment on US to end 'gun show loophole' that allows sales without background checks 4 weeks ago:
Were you under the impression that the NRA was still a political force?
- Comment on Tennessee legislature passes bill banning marriage between first cousins 4 weeks ago:
You do know it’s legal in many other states? Including loads of liberal states? Or were you just taking a dig on Tennessee?
- Comment on Animals 4 weeks ago:
Got me. Danmnit.
- Comment on Animals 4 weeks ago:
Got me. Danmnit.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago *smoke machine activates* 4 weeks ago:
I have this haircut still.
- Comment on This is a Test 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t trust a doctor to clear a weapon. It’s stupid easy, if you know what you’re doing.
- Comment on The real personality test 5 weeks ago:
I cuss like a maniac. Some systems seem to pick up curse words and escalate the caller to a rep. Used to work better than it does now.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
a functioning alcoholic in IT who was somehow able to pay for extra rent increases yet also didn’t have his shit together enough
Son?
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 5 weeks ago:
That’s dope!
- Comment on China has flooded the market with so many solar panels that people are using them as garden fencing 5 weeks ago:
I’ve heard China is moving idle construction workers into solar production. LOL, they certainly don’t need to build more houses.
- Comment on Greatest train robbery ever 5 weeks ago:
LOL, my first thought. There’ll be deer guts everywhere.
- Comment on Greatest train robbery ever 5 weeks ago:
There’s a country town north of me where those idiots often bolt straight into the sides of cars.