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- Comment on Bean virus 1 day ago:
Yeah, I’ve heard people have to resort to some crazy stuff once porn stops working for them
- Comment on Bean virus 1 day ago:
Looks like Brer Rabbit really hates beans you guys
- Comment on Paid for by...boobs? 3 days ago:
Right? The question mark in the post caption implies a mystery. Which is itself a mystery.
However, in reading the comments for clues to the caption, I misinterpreted your feet comment as an attempt to justify how this driver could possibly have profited from only fans. “I can’t possibly operate on this patient he’s my son” vibes. But now I don’t think that’s what you meant, you were maybe just drily reminding everyone that there are also feet.
- Comment on end times are here 3 days ago:
Looks like 15 hours ago :(
- Comment on Did We? 3 days ago:
That watermark needs font help…looks too much like Captain Kink
- Comment on Paid for by...boobs? 3 days ago:
OHHH, is that why this is mysterious? Because people are assuming truck = dude? Which it certainly could be…but seems less likely
- Comment on Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college? 6 days ago:
Upon closer reading, I think the key was imagining what you’d do with a future partner. No one imagines how much nothing they’re really gonna do nowhere
- Comment on Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands 6 days ago:
Looks like they’ve pulled the file. Good.
- Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company? 1 week ago:
With media and the public discourse in the state they’re in today, this would surely be impossible to enforce. Every viewpoint can be argued to have infinite counter viewpoints and people treat it like a sport. Maybe the people of 1949 were naive enough to reckon there were two sides to every argument, but implementing this today would be akin to outlawing any kind of controversial statement or discussion in the media. Perhaps the end of politics as we kn…
Ok I’m starting to come around
- Comment on Did I discover a fake conspiracy theory? 2 weeks ago:
To be fair, the context in which they invoked the case assumed we’d all remember those details already.
- Comment on Do smoke detectors have little speakers inside them? If yes, would it be possible to hack them to play a little jingle? 2 weeks ago:
Beeps don’t usually come from a speaker, no. You might find this old ELI5 about electronic sound interesting.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
And music by Ben Folds
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 3 weeks ago:
I wonder where this idea originates. As an American, I genuinely don’t know of any restaurant that serves any of this (although I suppose you could special order “plain” things most anywhere in the world). I can’t begin to guess what people eat in the privacy of their own kitchens, but no one I know serves themselves these foods, either. I will say I’ve heard the same lore of “deep fried butter” existing at Midwestern fairs somewhere, but again, I’ve never encountered such a thing irl.
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of wisdom here. OP may appreciate it even more after they’ve dug themselves out, because this mindset will allow them to keep from letting it get so bad again…if they can teach it to their mom.
- Comment on When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer? 3 weeks ago:
It sounds like a way of raising the price while incentivizing cash payment (because maybe just maybe they aren’t claiming all their cash sales)
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for this info. I wouldn’t have thought to look into such a thing. It reads to me like it was created by marketers, though, not politicians. It says “the Cheese Bureau, a marketing body affiliated with the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency” created it in the '50s.
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 weeks ago:
I agree, but since some chickens are small and some people are big, I figured I’d err on the side on the minimum. It sure as shit ain’t one guy, we agree on that!
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 weeks ago:
A good meal for two, but a good meal nonetheless
- Comment on A succulent meal 3 weeks ago:
Is that a pickle or some pickle?
- Comment on 10+ year manager named Joe was apparently fired for bringing cookies to be thrown away before their sell by date to a food pantry in my town 4 weeks ago:
I’m not accusing you of making excuses for them, because all you’re giving is a reason, and you’re right. And at first it does feel like an excuse. But “management finds that it’s easier” deserves more of our focus and pressure. If they’re big enough that it’s hard to manage basic employee rules/discipline on the ground, they’re probably also big enough to be pocketing loads of profit. It’s reasonable to expect that they’d to allocate some of those spoils to finding better solutions than “throw all the food away.” For instance, if you pay people what their work is worth, they’re less likely to risk termination by taking your old cookies.
- Comment on How are locks and keys mass produced? 4 weeks ago:
When you buy keyed doorknobs and deadbolts, there’s sometimes (always?—not sure, but def sometimes) a sticker on each package with a code. This lets you look through the available inventory to find and buy additional locks with the same code so that if you need multiple locks for the same house, they can all use the same key.
So no, as others have said, mass produced locks aren’t unique, but sometimes that’s a benefit.
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 1 month ago:
This is a fun idea, but unfortunately Amazon’s search results are pay to play. (That’s why they’re always so bad.)
- Comment on Why do SO MANY reviews now talk about "phone wobble"? 2 months ago:
And hardware fingerprint scanners :(
- Comment on If your federal government cut internet access to your whole town then where in your town would you think that "the people" would get together to protest ? 2 months ago:
It’s generally tougher in the U.S. because a lot of our smaller cities were founded post-automobile, post-suburbia and post-shopping malls, and as such they don’t have town centers. At best they might have a main retail corridor.
- Comment on The decline of democracies, ideas and freedom around the world is one of the results of the downfall of social media 3 months ago:
I’m not sure what they even meant. Possibly that social media replaced real communication and made inroads into our social lives, all of which have now been taken over by all the bullshit? Because yeah that sounds right
- Comment on Take a guess 🤣 3 months ago:
The other explanation is right but what’s freddo?
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 3 months ago:
In practice, inference [which is to say, queries] can account for up to 90% of the total energy consumed over a model’s lifecycle. Source.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 3 months ago:
You can’t say with certainty that you’d derive no stimulation from that, since you have not tried deriving stimulation from it.
The multi-billion dollar entertainment industry isn’t there because we need it. It’s there because we like it. What we need is to connect with the real world, which is a skill, and as such requires practice.
- Comment on And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair. 3 months ago:
Afaik, it’s not recommended to have them in kitchens, because harmless culinary mistakes can set them off so people end up disabling them in annoyance. You have to have one in a common area on every floor, but ideally not the kitchen.
- Comment on if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people? 4 months ago:
If you aren’t willing to work on your social skills, you need to stay in a position where you don’t need them.