AlligatorBlizzard
@AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Me with my first edition harry potter 6 hours ago:
I like Clive Cussler novels and I still agree with you, lol. They’re stupid fun, a cross between James Bond and Indiana Jones but not quite as good as either.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 2 days ago:
Texas and Florida haven’t banned it yet.
- Comment on Bean virus 4 days ago:
So what’s stopping me, a random guy who doesn’t work for uber eats, from walking in, pretending to scan a reciept, and walking out with free random food? What happens when the real driver shows up? Does McDonalds hold their line that they already made and packaged that order? Or does Ubereats insist they never picked it up?
Not a whole lot, actually. It happens on occasion, but less than you’d think - and in places where it happens frequently they hand out the orders rather than doing the shelf thing. If the person ordering has tipped well (yeah the drivers can see the tips) sometimes they’ll get the restaurant to remake it and you’ll actually get hot food, or some of the nicer delivery folks will let the restaurant know the order got snatched before unassigning from your order. And the restaurant has some incentive to remake your food because if you don’t get your food they don’t get paid - support is not good but it’s usually pretty obvious when some kind of screw up has happened. The whole system relies on people being decent, and thankfully people are - at least poor people in cities generally are.
The local places are generally good at using a heat lamp, at least the places near me that allow you to order through their website, for pickup - which I’m usually picking up my own order because, like you said, those delivery apps are stupidly expensive even if you’re ordering from somewhere actually worth ordering from.
- Comment on Ok... i need this. 5 days ago:
Where did you get it? I’ve got a roommate who loves pigeons and I ran across this on AliExpress a few months ago but the listings I found were expensive and the reviews said they were cheaply made and didn’t work well.
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- Comment on They mods dont want you to know. 1 week ago:
I don’t know the full story and I never received any of the messages, but apparently the last few got really dark.
- Comment on God bless the Midwest 2 weeks ago:
This is the right call. They’ve got a “harvest veggie burger” that’s primarily chickpeas and cheese so not appropriate for vegans and it’s pretty mid. Skip the cheese puck, go for the curds.
- Comment on God bless the Midwest 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20% 2 weeks ago:
Planning on it lol. Was just mildly annoyed because I needed a product I have to order through their website anyway and I’ll probably need to get a month supply somewhere else to hold me over until I can get the membership and finally get it shipped.
- Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure it’s legal to call them candy cigarettes though - I’ve always seen them called something else. Yup, it’s illegal to call them cigarettes in the US, and they vary in legality elsewhere.
I only ever see them for sale in places that sell old fashioned candy, I think their decline has to do with the fact they just don’t taste very good (in addition to the changing cultural opinions about cigarettes, but I bet they’ve declined even in places where a large percentage of adults still smoke).
- Comment on Google settles with Epic Games, drops its Play Store commissions to 20% 2 weeks ago:
As someone who just tried to sign up for a Costco membership online and couldn’t get past the first page of registration, on multiple devices, Costco is kinda shit too, lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Most microwaves can be silenced. I figured out how to shut mine up but several hours later my roommate unmuted it, I guess some people like the obnoxious noises.
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- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but they’ve also got a reputation for treating their employees okay by fast food standards. That would be the right move for BK to get friendlier employees, but sHaReHoLdErS!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve once made the mistake of stepping into an anime con game room on Sunday that gave out free samples of Axe body spray. You just end up with Axe + heinous body odor. I’m not sure it’s worse, but it’s not better.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Transfems are you still doing pickle jokes or have y’all mostly switched away from spiro?
- Comment on Political leaning 3 weeks ago:
I wonder how many of those folks grew up under an authoritarian parenting style too?
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- Comment on Littering 🚯 4 weeks ago:
A lot of wildlife rehabs don’t deal with the non-endangered or threatened birds. Several years ago a friend of mine found an injured bird of some sort and we called around trying to find help for it but all of the local rehabbers said if it wasn’t a bald eagle they couldn’t help. So because most vultures aren’t endangered afaik, they just die and probably nobody is keeping track.
- Comment on Guinness wasn't proud of this one. 4 weeks ago:
Funky cheese, relevant username
- Comment on 😐😐😐😐😐 4 weeks ago:
My mom had a manager who didn’t have fingerprints. When the bank they worked at implemented fingerprint login on the computers it caused a few problems.
- Comment on Uhhhh sure? 4 weeks ago:
I’d love to figure out some improvement to CoMaps cycling directions, although I’m starting to use it more as a digital map and doing my own route planning. Both CoMaps and Google make some bizarre routing choices but this is a place where Co Maps has space to really excel. Co Maps might already be slightly better in some regards but Google is usually workable and CM’s route is 90% better and 10% baffling utter nonsense. The goog has absolutely been responsible for multiple occasions where I’ve said fuck no and ended up riding on the sidewalk though.
- Comment on The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics 5 weeks ago:
The folks up at Whipple here in Minneapolis have been chucking dildoes at ICE and local law enforcement. Helps that one of the major spots for local resistance is a sex toy store, and they’ve got a lot of “expired” dildoes around.
(If you see reports of “objects” thrown at fascists, it’s not chunks of ice anymore, lol.)
- Comment on ChatGPT is down for many users in major OpenAI outage - 9to5Mac 1 month ago:
Hank Green has a video on his channel where he ranks AI company logos based on how much they look like buttholes.
Butt it’s not just AI companies - I ordered something from Walmart last year and I was looking at the box in my recycling, thinking the snowflake pattern was kinda cool… then I thought about that Hank Green vid and realized that the Walmart star kinda looks like a butthole too.
- Comment on A new quest appears... 1 month ago:
GE sells LED bulbs that come with a remote, nothing smart about them, I can dim them or turn them off entirely with the remote that lives on my bedside table.
- Comment on Twodaloo 1 month ago:
When you both have IBS but want to spend more time together.
- Comment on HAWK SHARK 1 month ago:
Earlier today I found out that old spice makes a lavender scented deodorant for men. It’s light and pleasantly subtle
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 months ago:
My roommate watched a woman get dragged from her car, bleeding and screaming for help, being disappeared by ICE. They were recording and I’ve seen the video. I’ll probably never forget it. I carry a whistle now but I pray I’ll never need it. We’re like two weeks into whatever the fuck this is and I’m already sick of it. I’m tired of running to the window every time I hear a car alarm, I’m tired of wondering if I hear the wind or a whistle. I’m tired of worrying about more people I know getting abducted, and scrutinizing every vehicle that drives past if they’re going to fuck with me because I’m visibly queer and also trying not to be mistaken for the gestapo occupying my city. Is this an occupation? And I know war is worse. Fuck all of this.
- Comment on The hair even covers its face... 2 months ago:
Nah, piloswine is actually prepared for winter.
- Comment on Ice slipping on ice 2 months ago:
Good news, yesterday it hit 40, everything melted, and today it’s all frozen for proper Minnesota winter next week where we’re supposed to be getting sub zero temps! I’ve never been this thrilled for shitty cold freeze thaw cycles.
