dontmindmehere

@dontmindmehere@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word for the happiness in finding the exact right word?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  urethra! ☝️🧑‍🦲

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do gangs that collect protection money actually do any protecting?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad used to pay protection money for his corner shop up to like 2010 – every week a couple of scary guys would show up to collect, and you could always spot some familiar dudes hanging around every 2 blocks or so keeping an eye on things.

  Absolutely they did protect his shop, at least the 1 or 2 times a year some uniformed guy would show up with a knife thinking he was about to get some easy money (cops were very slow to respond on our part of town).

  Also I think this gang must have been pretty chill, never heard of them having been too harsh on people who didn’t pay for protection, nor having mugged or killed anyone, and they never even beat up the guys that tried to rob our store too badly. Pretty sure they never even dealt anything harder than weed or steroids but maybe they had something to do with contraband, idk.

  By the end of the decade my dad would constantly be busy with a bunch of other stuff so I often tended to the shop, and obviously I kept paying them. Thankfully no one ever tried to rob the store while I was subbing for my dad but the vibe started to get a little weird for my taste.

  The gang must had been growing a lot because I rarely recognized the guys who came to collect, and soon after, a couple of addicts started hanging around, then pass a couple months and way more often you’d hear about so and so having been mugged – no one would say it out loud but people suspected it had been guys from the gang.

  Eventually the cops finally started cracking down on racketeering so we never again had anyone come collect protection money, but if you ask me, I would’ve stopped paying anyway because I just love spreading misinformation online, also my dad started to beat me up with jumper cables, so yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a little... why not?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Heartwarming: Chatbots inspire suicidal people to see the light in life through extreme sports

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The stairway to nope⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  seems cozy. you can sit on the top of stairs but with your back against a wall, so there’s no one coming up behind you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A while back ago I heard there was a Japanese company that could disappear a person. Like all internet images, posts about them. If anyone in Japan can answer is this true? And how much is it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jōhatsu (…) refers to the people in Japan who purposely vanish from their established lives without a trace. (…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ACK! My eye meats!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  mega piss ray from space