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- Comment on Some videogame ads from the 1990s 19 hours ago:
She is. ;-)
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 3 days ago:
Kickbacks.
- Comment on Capsaicin 2 weeks ago:
In a very traditional Afghan restaurant I used to frequent, if you ordered something really spicy, they’d bring you these small mint drops afterwards to chew on, no extra charge. Worked very well for me.
- Comment on Adulting rule 3 weeks ago:
“I am a fox,” said the fox.
“Please - tame me!” - Comment on Rock diagram 4 weeks ago:
Don’t know much about history… Don’t know much palaeontology…
- Comment on No longer dating 1 month ago:
Rachel and I resumed dating.
Well, not each other, but still… - Comment on 7 years ago there were no billionaires worth more than $100 billion - today there are 18! 1 month ago:
On the other hand, if we all work really hard, go the extra mile, burn the midnight oil… we can make that happen faster.
- Comment on How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? 1 month ago:
There are many forums like that, especially if you’re not limited to one language. Most of the ones I frequent have been around for 10 or 20 years or more, but kind of fly under the radar. ilxor being a very good example. AFAIK, the latter also adds only one new user per day. I’d say that’s a good thing, even though I had to apply several times.
- Comment on More trustworthy than what's currently on the road 1 month ago:
No, it’s Ocho!
- Comment on Eureka 1 month ago:
That must have taken more practice than doing a cucumber, though.
- Comment on Wildlife Photography 1 month ago:
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
- Comment on This should be the right address.... 2 months ago:
- Comment on When shitposting becomes constiposting 2 months ago:
- Comment on No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 2 months ago:
What in the world is going on with Elsie’s hand in the “second of the five photographs?”
- Comment on PSA 2 months ago:
Cobb: “I’ve come back for you… to remind you of something. Something you once knew. That this world is not real.”
- Comment on Shart, not fart 3 months ago:
Can’t escape capitalism.
- Comment on xkcd #2964: Olympic Sports 3 months ago:
On a side note, that movie about him was A LOT better than I would have imagined.
- Comment on It’s never been easier for the cops to break into your phone 4 months ago:
As venerable old neuromonkey once said:
Welp. Just let the nukes fly, then. First it’s “on accident,” and before long you’ve got meth addicted baby prostitute warlords running the local Walmart.
- Comment on Hey guys I love Jodie Foster so much any tips on how someone like me can impress her? 4 months ago:
♪ Hinckley couldn’t shoot straight, hit a guy in the forehead ♪
- Comment on Maybe it was someone from the future. 4 months ago:
Maybe another time traveler disturbed the shooter by slightly pushing him because what would have happened if Trump was shot dead would have been truly apocalyptic. Maybe we just witnessed the n-th time loop without remembering the other ones and this is the first one where the bullet only grazes Trump’s ear instead of blowing his brains out so now life on Earth as we know it can continue, and we can post about it on Lemmy.
- Comment on Get in the Hilux 4 months ago:
I believe it was Marx who first observed that superfluous jobs, as well as unemployment, are inextricably linked to capitalism.
See also Marcuse, 1969:The absorption [i.e. disappearance] of unemployment and the maintenance of an adequate rate of profit would […] require the stimulation of demand on an ever larger scale, thereby stimulating the rat race of the competitive struggle for existence through the multiplication of waste, planned obsolescence, parasitic and stupid jobs and services.
- Comment on Remember when planes and hospitals had smoking sections? (Probably a lot of you do not). 4 months ago:
When I was little, I asked my parents why they don’t smoke and they just laughed. I didn’t understand why. Because 100% of the other adults I knew were smokers.
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 6 months ago:
Midnight Oil made a song about it, “Power and the Passion.”
- Comment on hawt 6 months ago:
Found the mathematician that contributes to Urban Dictionary in this free time.
- Comment on Capitalists hate competition, especially when it comes to wages 6 months ago:
I use the wage filter on Stepstone because I don’t want to sift through more than 20 pages of job ads each week. Also, I’m seeing more and more companies asking for your expected salary when applying on their web page anyway. If they don’t, I just put in the number at the end of my cover letter. Cuts through the bullshit.
Sure, I’m getting an order of magnitude fewer interviews this way, but on the other hand, I’m not wasting hours on dressing up and preparing myself, potentially even taking a day off and travelling out to the fucking company because they insist on meeting me in person, only to stare into blank faces after having answered the final interview question about my salary expectations.
Rather recently, when I was in sudden dire need of a job, I could not pull that shit off, obviously, but I still managed to get more than in my previous job. Then again, it turned out to be the fucking worst job I ever had, by far, so there’s that, too. - Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 6 months ago:
I was once offered a job peddling prescription drugs to GPs on behalf of several manufacturers. These marketing companies are mass-interviewing, you know. And so, there’s never a shortage of these hawkers, at all.
Ever wondered why you have to sit in the waiting room for a full hour when your appointment is scheduled at 8? Your doctor is talking to salespeople. - Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 6 months ago:
Isn’t the works committee just that part of management that’s been elected by the employees?
- Comment on Cheesing it up 7 months ago:
Thank you so much for this. The Wikipedia rabbit hole it opened up led me to the fact that “vintage” originally meant “wine harvest”.
- Comment on Reddit moment 8 months ago:
To the top with you!
- Comment on Just to keep it going 8 months ago:
Means… of production.
