jballs
@jballs@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Living a lie 3 days ago:
It’s always a shock to me when I interact with someone providing customer service that is t using a customer service voice.
I was checking into a hotel (a large chain too) a while back and the person checking me in was having some trouble. She goes “sorry, this system is just retarded some times.”
I actually laughed out loud because it caught me so off guard.
- Comment on FFFFFUUUUUUUU 1 week ago:
I remember legitimately thinking rage comics were hilarious back in like 2012. Now I look at them like “wtf was I thinking?”
I can’t even blame it on being young. I was in my 30s then!
- Comment on This entire community 1 week ago:
Lol is this a cross post from the same community? Well played.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 1 week ago:
Exactly. I can’t remember where I heard this - it might have been a podcast like RadioLab or something else - but it was talking about how happily married, intelligent couples talk to each other .
It turns out, it’s not usually super deep, intelligent conversations. The vast majority of conversations are just meaningless bullshit. Most of the time, couples aren’t even really talking to each other, but they’re just kind of thinking aloud. Stupid stuff like, “I swear I saw a dozen blue Volkswagens today.”
It turns out that people who are comfortable with each other don’t need to have deep conversations all the time. They can just relax, unwind, and be themselves.
- Comment on The Daily Wire is now trying to pass off AI slop as actual footage from Palestine. 1 week ago:
It doesn’t look all too different than these AI videos from 6 months ago. The length is about the same as many of those examples as well.
- Comment on BlackRock is Suing UnitedHealth for Giving “Too Much Care” to Patients After the CEO was Murdered 1 week ago:
Not OP, but I revisited the article after your question on their behalf. The biggest gripe I can find is the headline mentions they’re suing for United providing “Too Much Care” in quotes. It’s mentioned in quotes later in the article as well, which would make you think that is mentioned either in the lawsuit itself or in the original CBS article referenced by this article.
I’m too lazy to check the entire lawsuit, but checking the CBS article I didn’t see anything at all that mentioned “Too Much Care”. So yeah… OP got down voted a bunch, but they might have a point. This article does seem to be a bit inflammatory and is making claims that don’t seem to be backed up by the source articles.
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 1 week ago:
I remember in 8th grade, my buddy got the first pair of JNCOs in our friend group. He was so excited, he goes “AND JUST LOOK WHAT I CAN FIT IN THE POCKETS!” and proceeded to pull out an entire 2-liter bottle of Mountain Dew.
- Comment on Aggressive negotiations 1 week ago:
You’re outta your mind. Chili-cheese Fritos are fucking amazing.
- Comment on Breakup 1 week ago:
I NEVER LIKED THAT PIECE OF SHIT!
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Oh, you’re getting back together?
- Comment on True wisdom 2 weeks ago:
Especially if you’re laid up for a while afterwards.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
In Colorado, one of my wife’s friends is what most people (I say this, knowing the Lemmy political scale is vastly different from most Americans) would consider super liberal. She’s also very outspoken and politically active, so she has no problems telling everyone she knows how to vote on every issue.
Last election, we were at her house and she mentioned that she was against ranked choice voting. When I asked her why, she pointed to her voting guide provided by the Colorado Democratic Party. She just blindly accepts that because the party says it’s bad, then it’s bad.
After seeing that, it wasn’t surprising to me when the proposition failed.
- Comment on I'm baffled 2 weeks ago:
It goes like this: 0.25, 0.20
- Comment on Must secure the castle 4 weeks ago:
Fuck all the cops who used to use my driveway to try and catch people speeding
Wtf that’s wild. I couldn’t imagine a cop setting up a speed trap in my driveway.
- Comment on May the 4th be with you 4 weeks ago:
I booked tickets for opening day to see it after work. I was browsing /all before the show and /r/4chan had tagged all their posts “Kylo Ren kills Han Solo, his father”.
Those fuckers.
- Comment on The first driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes | CNN Business 4 weeks ago:
As of Thursday, the company’s self-driving tech has completed over 1,200 miles without a human in the truck.
That’s not an impressive number. That’s like 2 days’ worth of driving.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah the controls on the early N64 games weren’t as intuitive as controls now. It wasn’t really until Halo that 3d games felt good to control.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 4 weeks ago:
That’s what’s mind blowing to me. The difference between games used to be staggering. The original Mario Bros compared to Mario 3 was huge. And jumping up to Mario 64 in less than a decade was even bigger still.
Obviously games have continued to improve since then, but we’ll never have such rapid massive leaps again.
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 5 weeks ago:
Had to look this up: www.tiktok.com/…/7440554144097668395?lang=en
Seems like Darius is a guy with autism that makes noises on TikTok. His caretaker (mother?) seems to think it’s healthy to express himself and let off energy.
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 5 weeks ago:
You block Fox News using a Pi-hole?
- Comment on Lest you scar yourself for life 5 weeks ago:
Lol nope, it was just an unlabeled camcorder tape. There’s a lesson to be learned here, which is be careful with unlabeled tapes. Hope you don’t find anything similar on your mom’s tapes!
- Comment on Yep 1 month ago:
- Comment on Lest you scar yourself for life 1 month ago:
Think of this from our perspective. We are two teenage boys. We find a hidden tape. We don’t know what’s on it. What’s the next logical move?
Or if you’re saying once the guy in the tape does his intro, what are you saying you’d do differently? Are you saying you’d send your brother out of the room so you could watch the tape of the guy jacking off by yourself? Cause that’s weird as fuck dude.
- Comment on Lest you scar yourself for life 1 month ago:
I reminded my brother of this and he responded youtu.be/reNvytfN820
- Comment on Lest you scar yourself for life 1 month ago:
Growing up, my brother and I found a camcorder tape hidden in the basement of the house we moved into like 6 months prior. We had to buy a mini tape to VHS converter so we could play the thing on our VCR.
It was a tape of some young dude in the our (now) basement going “this is going to be a video showing you how to make love to beautiful women.”
Me and my brother were like “hell yeah!” Then the guy in the video goes “but before you make love, you have to learn to love yourself.”
The entire video was then just this dude jacking off. We were so mad we went out of our way to buy a VHS converter just to watch this dude beating his meat. There were no beautiful women to be found.
- Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. 1 month ago:
Would be hilarious if Hollywood moved away from chess to show someone being smart and instead showed the yelling at teammates in League of Legends.
- Comment on Google is excited about money! 1 month ago:
Edited for clarity:
Back in my day we used our phone plan money to pay for google play purchases / hand jobs.
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 1 month ago:
Moran*
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I assume it’s purely for her to get US citizenship. She posts lots of thirst trap pictures on Instagram.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
My divorced 43 year old friend just did this. He’s got a smoking hot 21 year old Filipino fiance. It’s weird as fuck.
- Comment on The Ring is a lot cuter than I remember 1 month ago:
I saw The Ring in the theater and people legit freaked the fuck out when she came out of the screen. One person straight up got up and ran out.
