It looks like a $5 watch today, but I'm sure back then it cost like $200 because of new technology.
I fully expect you to go snowboarding naked when you're 60.
Except, don't do that. That's dangerous for your health at any age. You need insulating clothing to keep warm!
Well not with the cost of eggs these days!!!
......wait......I think I just uncovered a completely insane but also totally logical conspiracy theory.
THATS WHY EGGS ARE SO EXPENSIVE!!! TRUMP DOESN'T WANT TO PAY EXTRA HOURS FOR CLEANERS TO CLEAN HIS BUILDINGS WINDOWS EVERY 5 MINUTES!!!
Does that check out, or am I just high?
I see it now...but it kinda looks like a dragon.
Only into an active volcano
you grain money
Is that why the kids have been calling money "bread"?
2 dogs on the right: Yeah, yeah we get it. We fully know he's a cat, but Tony likes him, and if Tony vetted him, he's cool with us.
Cat: Wow this snow is cold! Ahhhh, this is SO COLD!!!
Tony (dog on the left): THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN!!! THE BOYS ARE BACK IN TOOOoooOOOOoooooWWWWNNNN!!!
All 3 dogs AWWOOOOO!!!! (you know, because they're huskeys, and dramatic)
You should stay home. Everything the Switch 2 has shown me has been disapointing. I WANT to like Switch 2. I just don't.
Also why isn't it called the "Switcharoo"???
Iwata is missed.
Anything is a mug if your willing to drink out of it.
My butthole for instance.
Put this guy as the head of marketing. Now Greenland and Canada can join in. I know they want to get in on the fun!
50 states, 50 protests, 1 movement.
Ireland: "Can we join in?"
I mean, I appriciate the support, but now we need a new name.
50+Ireland501 just doesn't have the same ring to it.
I'm reading this while on a bus packed to the brim of people going downtown for a protest.
I read this exactly as you did.
I see commitment. I see improvement. I see weight loss. The slider is going in the right direction.
Ok.....as someone who spent 2023 with stage 4 cancer, and had to fight to beat it, WHY is it that every food wants to kill us??? How is it that every food causes cancer???
You have no idea how frustrating it is to eat healthy, and then find out "oh, actually, no. That causes cancer!"
I just started going to the gym for the first time 2 weeks ago.
First day I said "I'll do some dumbells. Where should I start? 50lbs?"
Mistake.
I kept sizing down on that first day until I could find something that I could lift on each arm for 20 reps. Then I take a 5 minute break. And do another 20.
I had to keep sizing down until I got to 10. By the middle of the week I got to 15.
And then this past week I got to 20.
I tried the 25, but tapped out around 13 reps. So not there yet. Maybe this week.
I don't think I'm seeing the value here. Why would you want to track him?
This makes me feel old. I came from a time when schools didn't have public shootings, and so bullying was more accepted. I CANNOT imagine for the life of me, even if it had been possible on Windows 95, anyone willingly sharing the fact that they do this.
If ANYONE in 6th grade showed off something this pathetic, they would be on the ground clutching their gut, which had just been punched so hard that they are struggling to breathe.
The end result is that people understood common sense that it's not admirable to be pathetic and weak. So people would show off themselves getting better and stronger.
I feel like all that bullying 30 years ago made a lot of kids better for it, because it forced them to at least ATTEMPT to stand up to me. Even if I laid them out in the end, they learned not to be a loser.
And now, we've had decades of not encouraging bullys. THIS is the end result. THIS is what these insecure cowards turn into.
Now I've never seen OP, but I'm willing to bet he COULD be going out and getting pussy for real. It's not hard. I am not a good looking guy. I'm not rich. I don't have a sports car. I don't have a mansion. What I do have is a confidence in myself instilled into me at a young age that I can do it. Where "it" is an interchangable variable that applies to most things.
You know how I got that confidence? By being a fat pathetic loser 8 year old who got bullied. Until I hauled off and just decked my bully. Who was bigger than me. You get a reputation as the kid who knocked out the kid 2 grades above him. Then you start believing in yourself. You start pushing your own limits. You start kicking your own ass. You toughen up. You take on the world, and win. And women see that confidence. The VAST majority of women are attracted to a man who knows he can do it.
You know how I got my first girlfriend? I called the girl I had a crush on. Straight up asked her out.
She said no. I'm not her type. Fair enough. Because if a woman says no, there's no sense in insisting, or getting mad.
So I called the other girl I had been talking to. I said "You wanna go out?" And she said yes. We dated for 4 years until I learned she was a narcassistic psychopath who trapped our cats in the closet all day while I was at work, after dropping them in freezing cold water. I was not ok with that. You hurt animals, and you're a damn monster. BUT! It was a relationship that failed not because I was weak and keeled over. It was because I happened to choose the wrong girl based on information I didn't have. It happens. Not every person on this planet is a good person. Her parents failed her in showing what empathy is, and how to be a strong woman who can handle life. So, that was a dud, but life moves on.
Now rewind that story. Imagine I just stayed in my moms basement, and ate cheetos, and tried playing video games all day in a dark room crying that woman wants me. Do you think I'd EVER get a girl? Her or otherwise? Fuck no! If that version of me existed, afraid to be bold, afraid to take life by the balls, I'd be some lonely dweeb 40 year old virgin without the humor of Steve Carell.
So to OP, I'll say this. I see life has failed you in a spectacular way. You should have been beaten as a kid by other kids, and weren't. You should have had the chance to beat your bullys, but couldn't because of school policy and anti-bully culture. Life failed you. You have no confidence. That needs to change. Go look in the mirror. Take a good long look. Do you enjoy seeing the person who stares back? No. We see you the same way you're seeing you. So you need to change that. Nut up, and go join a gym. Take a boxing class. Get hit in the face. Take it. Again. Again. Hit back. Be the person who's burried underneith all your insecurities. Fuck those insecurities. You have no room in your life for insecurities. Work out until you hurt. Jelly legs where you're so tender that walking is hard. Jelly arms. Do it again tomorrow. And the next day. Do it about 4 days a week for 6 hours.
Be better. Improve yourself. You're lonely and insecure? Yeah, that's because women see you being gross and not worth talking to. BE worth talking to. It only gets harder as you get older. You can spend your 20s sleeping around, but you better find somebody by 30. Because after that, it is slim pickings unless you want a girl with like 5 kids by 3 different men but she's insisting you go bareback. There's a reason she collects so many checks. You wanna be next?
Or do you want to avoid that now by being a better you?
Because this? This is sad.
That makes sense.
Wait....I haven't been following the story. Why is him buying Instagram a bad thing legally?
The guy who burned down his own house is named James Brown.
What are you not getting?
We should just start refering to any tarrifs now as "trump tax".
I figure if we make this the standard and normalized way to refer to these tariffs, then it will really drive home the point to republican voters that THEY did this. THEY are getting hurt by their own party. Because I'm sure right now they're trying to find a way to blame obama, or biden, or hillary, or kamala, or whomever.
Fuck that.
Your goods now cost more because of trump tax. Plain and simple. It was an uneeded and nonbeneficial policy set by trump and no one else, in his obsession with hurting china.
Well I don't fully disagree that china needs to be dealt with, as they're becoming a global powerhouse that threatens to dominate the global ecconomy. I get that. But these tariffs are like trying to kill a house fly with a handgun. Even if you somehow hit the fly, you do more damage to your own home for no reason in the process.
I propose we storm Toronto. Search every building until we find Nicole. The fediverse chick!
Maybe then she'll SHUT UP! Oh my god, is there a single person on this platform who doesn't get these messages every month???
Guys, you all KNOW what I'm talking about, right? Gonna have to go get Tim Misney on this case! And you KNOW what he DOES! eyebrows
Did grandpa predict covid?
First time you start the game, grandpa is on his deathbed dictating a letter to you. It's kind of weird we see him talking, but this is supposed to be a letter. Are we the player made to believe that the main character is imagining his grandpa saying this as he reads?
Anyways, the reason you can tell it was made in the 2010s is, one of the first things grandpa says in the letter is:
There will come a day when you feel crushed by the burden of life
And you can tell that was last decade, because I assure you, anyone living on THIS side of 2020 has absolutely passed that day long ago.
Life is agony and it'll never get better. Everyday is just a new low. And you're in 2020 thinking surely thats rock bottom, right? And then 2025 is like:
"Buckle up shitbag, because we're about to take a fucking nosedive."
With all the crap going on in the world right now, comfy cosy games like stardew valley are about all that's keeping me hanging by a strand.....but at least there's a strand.
Conan visits a German dominatrix
Pretty sure Conan just took his show on tour, and his writting team was trying to come up with segments they could film in Germany, and Conan was like GERMAN DOMINATRIX!!!
And his staff was like "....what? We can't do that on...."
"WE'RE DOING GERMAN DOMINATRIX, AND TBS IS PAYING FOR IT!!!"
And so it was.
What would happen if Punxsutawney Phil comes out, and immediately dies?
Like, he pops out of his little hole, and just.....his heart stops.
Do we get 6 more weeks of winter or not? Maybe we get an apocalypse instead?
Sometimes the advice "just be yourself" is bad advice.
If you're a terrible petson, maybe don't follow that advice. For example, if you find yourself seig hailing, ever, maybe try being someone better.
Can someone explain stoffers spaghetti to me? I don't understand.
So, I'm in the frozen foods isle at the grocery store, and I see chicken marinara, I see ravioli, I see lasagna. And then I see stoffers spaghetti. No meatballs. Nothing else. Just noodles and sauce.
And I'm thinking to myself "Why the fuck would you pay $8 for a little self serving of spaghetti and sauce??? Do you people realize that it's just noodles and sauce? Do you have ANY idea how much money you're overpaying???
And it's not even like it's all that much easier. I'm a TERRIBLE cook. I know like 3 dishes, and they're all dishes you probably expect a teenager to be able to cook. Spaghetti is one of them.
So I'm just looking at this package in the isle screaming in my own head WHY DO YOU EXIST??? YOUR EXISTENCE IMPLIES PEOPLE ARE BUYING YOU!!! WHO IS BUYING FROZEN NOODLES???
It was about this time, I had to admit to myself that I'm developing some serious anger management issues. Part of me wanted to just stand there, next to that door, and act as a bouncer for anyone who wa
Middle button scroll wheel zorinOS
So I noticed something a while ago, and I'm just now getting around to fixing it.
I notice that if I click the middle mouse button on windows, a scroll icon comes up. If you then drag your mouse down slightly, the page scrolls slowly. If you drag your mouse down a LOT, the page scrolls a lot. Then you can left click anywhere to turn off the scroll mode.
Except in ZorinOS, I don't get that. I click the middle scroll button, and......nothin. What do I have to do to get scroll mode?
Telling people "just google it" is wrong.
Scenario:
You're talking to someone, and you mention the treaty of versailles. They say "the what?" and you say "The treaty of versailles. You know, when Germany lost WWI and had to give up land and other military functions?"
and your friend just stares at you and says "......what?". So you say "Just google it."
Well your friend is an idiot. You should have seen that coming from the fact that they don't know basic history. Be that as it may, you're trusting your friend to use the most powerful search engine on earth to find things he doesn't know what he's looking for. So he searches "Treaty of her thighs"
Which for some reason returns THIS RESULT. No really, I was hoping it would return some porn result, and I could have made fun of that. But no, top result is an Ohio war. Which may be because I'M located in Cleveland, so google is like "You're searching for dumb shit, here have an Ohio war instead". But I can work with
I declare this community the official community for all things Cleveland. Based on my official power of.....nothing really, but THIS IS THE OFFICIAL CLEVELAND COMMUNITY, OK???
GUYS!!! Why are there like 4 Cleveland communities, but all of them are dead??? Let's all post here, and let's all say all the Cleveland things!
And since I know controversy creates engagement, and will get you guys to post in this thread, I'll go first.
I don't like the west side market. I don't see all the hype, and quite frankly, the only perk they have that makes it slightly worth thinking about is the fact that you can easily get to it via the red line rapid. Outside of the convenience factor, I don't see what all the hype is about. And my one visit to Sokolowski's left me unimpressed!
NOW COME AT ME WITH ENGAGEMENT!!! LETS GROW THIS COMMUNITY!!!!
Dear Aldi's....
Dear Aldis....
Why are you like this? I show up to buy ramen noodles, and I can't find them. So I think "Did they move them? There's not an empty space on the shelf where they used to be. Either they moved them, or they no longer carry them."
So I ask a person, who's stocking shelves with a look on her face that tells me she's now 3 hours behind schedule and worried about being tied to the rack after her shift and whipped mercilessly. That mixture of anxiety and fear make me even hesitant to break her concentration. So I ask another employee who's seemingly having a staring competition with a milk carton. I can't tell if she's winning or losing. Either way I'm fairly sure she's high as balls. I ask her if they've moved the ramen noodles. The response I'm met with is "Oooooh, yeah, maybe."
........ok? Can you maybe point me in the right direction?
"Well, they're probably getting ready for valentines day. They sometimes change the packaging to be holiday themed".
At this poin
Mick Foleys entire wrestling career is just a story of a man with mental health issues who's progressive losing more and more of his mental faculties as he gets hit in the head more and more.
I wrote this from the perspective of a kayfabe fan. If you've never heard the term kayfabe, it's an old carny term. It means to go along with the routine. Basically carnys are trying to scam you, and so they all work as a team. If they're in character, maybe one pretends to be an average carnival goer, such as yourself. They pretend to be just part of the crowd. And if they see you're being roped into a scam, they walk over, and rope you in further using the disguise as not being part of the scam to gain your trust. Then encourage you to fall for more scams.
Well in the old days of pro wrestling, it was presented as a legitimate competition. The scam was it's all rigged, and it's predetermined. Who wins and loses is all based on what will scam you out of the most money. Back then nobody realized this pro wrestling was all just a carny work.
And so I'm writing this unpopular opinion examining the character(s) that Mick Foley portrayed from the perspective of someone who's been taken
Is lemmy slow for anyone else?
Usually when I post a comment the spinny wheel takes 1-3 seconds. Today it's taking 45-90 seconds. So I reset my phone, thinking it's just me, but no.
Anyone else having this issue, or is Verizon throttling Lemmy for me?
What would happen if somebody kidnapped the president?
So, if the president dies, the procedure is that the vice president would then become president for the remainder of the term.
But what would happen if some extremist group somehow kidnapped the president (any sitting president, so this isn't targeted towards trump specifically, although I guess for the next 4 years it would be).
Like, lets say every Monday at noon, this extremist group did a live stream somehow, showing that the president is still alive, still coherent, but ballgagged so they can't just blurt out where they are.
And lets say that nobody is able to figure out where they're broadcasting from. For years.
Would that president remain president? Or would they treat them as dead, even though they're shown to be alive, and vice president becomes president for the remainder of the term?
I've decided to let go of any remaining sanity I may have left.
Call it a midlife crisis. Call it a justifiable reaction to what reality around me has become. Call it a complete breakdown of my mental well being. Just don't call it a comeback. There's no coming back from this.
I figure I'll just let go. Go into the light. I'm still alive, but mentally I'll be already gone.
Weeeeeeee!!! Let's fall down on the ice again, and explode into a million pieces, and eat some rock candy! That's not candy! It's my toe! That's what Joe Walsh used to say. Smoooooooke on the water......a pencil in your eye........
stares blankly at a wall
That leprechaun smells like toast.
The Switch 2 BETTER have this feature...
So I just got home from work, and I was playing Nintendo Switch at work. Well, the battery died.
So I get get home, plop that bad boy in the dock. Turn on the TV, turn on my controller, and.....TV has no signal, controller isn't connecting.
I walk over, and press and hold the power button while it's in the dock, and it's not doing anything. I pull it out of the dock, and press the power button. It's showing me a blank screen with a red battery symbol to indicate no battery.
Yeah, that's fine. The dock has external power. Use that. Except, no. It's not. I need to wait for it to charge for a few minutes. At least enough to turn it on. THEN I can run off of wall power.
I understand the BATTERY is dead. I get that. But why can't you just draw from AC if it's in the dock? I don't even care if it's charging right now. I just want to play. It can charge later when I go to sleep, and it's just in the dock all night.
I want the switch 2 to just be drop and play, even with a dead batte
Ouchie!!! I falled over.....
So I'm walking home, and there's this little tiny bit of ice. Psssshhhhh big deal. I got this. I walk over worse ice than this every day! This is childs play! Bitch please!!! This ice ain't nothin!!!! Why you makin' my life worried about ice? Ain't nothin but a thaaaaang! Just some frozen water on the sidewalk! No big deal!
What I'm trying to express is that I was not concerned about a thin layer of ice on the sidewalk.
Well I step over it. I thought I stepped over it. I stepped on it. So I start slipping. No big deal, I'll just position my other foot on the unpacked layer of snow, to get some traction. All of this took place in all of 0.5 seconds.
Well I do that, and turns out I stepped on MORE ice. So I'm like "oh shit, there's a genuine chance I might fall here.......oh, actually, I think I'm falling. I think I might legitimately be falling. OH SHIT I AM FALLING! I should prepare an impact stratagy. Ok. So basically I want to tuck my chin forward, spread my arms and shoulders,
RetroAIM
Self-hostable instant messaging server that makes classic AIM and ICQ clients work again. (Independently developed, not affiliated with or endorsed by AOL) - mk6i/retro-aim-server
I just heard about RetroAIM. Which is a way to use AIM (AOL Instant Messanger) in the modern day, running your own servers.
If a play is defined as a performance told by a set of actors, engaging in a story as written for the capturement of emotion...then The Harlem Globetrotters is a play.
Good vs Evil. A story as old as time itself. It's a story of a legitimate basketball game, played by the greatest basketball players of all time, as told from the perspective of a Harlem basketball fan.
Don't trade Kwan!
I have like 10 favorite players. Steven Kwan is my favorite player.
But also Jose Rameriez is my favorite player.
But also Josh Naylor is my favorite player.
But also Bo Naylor is my favorite player.
AAAAAHHHHH!!!!! And don't even get me STARTED on the pitching rotation!!!!
gets scared every off season of trades