People call 911 because they are having a medical issue, cops show up and shoot them and their dog, plus the neighbors dog for good measure. Shitheads actually attempt a coup, try to hang congress people, invade government offices, somehow only one of them gets shot. It makes 0 sense.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/c/unixsocks

I fucking hate it. I’ve lost all my friends because I was just spamming anti AI memes from Lemmy to everyone I knew. They’ve all blocked me, but I’d like to think they will think twice before “doing AI”.

Same, I’ve installed Arch on my ThinkPad, shaved my legs and put on knee high stockings. I also give every car a middle finger and swear when walking past parking lots. Lemmy has radicalized me in surprising ways.

>be me >high T alpha male born to breed and lead >go to doc to confirm I am the most alpha of all >doc says your T levels are through the roof >fuck yeah it is I am a total chad >doc is like nah bruh you got the big C >mfw I only have 6 weeks to live

The other day my brother and I were talking about some science experiment we were doing as kids, how we had a lot of fun until our dad barged into the room and got mad at us for messing with that stuff. We were laughing about it and were like yeah our dad is such an asshole. Then my brother went like: “Yeah do you remember what happened next?”. I was like: “No I don’t remember, I remember him being angry and shouting but not much else.” This was a typical Tuesday for us back in the day, so I didn’t think there was more to remember. My brother said: “Yeah he beat you up so bad you went unconscious for over a minute. I was scared he had beat you to death. Our dad turned white and stormed out of the room as soon as your eyes opened again.” We both laughed and were like “Damn that’s fucked up”.

Nah they just want somebody to do what they want and Trump was that somebody in the past. As soon as he isn’t useful any more, they will drop him like somebody falling from a window.

The tape measure is telling the truth, from a certain point of view

Oh you don’t have a seventeen sixty-fourths? No problem, just give me a letter H sized drill bit, that’ll do fine.

Wait, you guys are getting kills?

I’m still amazed how money is so important that even an unsubstantial amount can prompt a change in behavior. It isn’t even the money itself, but more the thought of something costing money that prompts the change.

I first noticed this around covid times. Where I live you have to put money in shopping trollies to get them. When you neatly slot in the trolly where it is supposed to go, you get your money back. It’s only 50 cents, so not a big deal. And because it’s so normal most people have a suitable coin sized keychain. In most cases if you go into the shop and ask, they will give you a branded keychain for free.

With covid this was deemed a health risk, as people fudging about with the mechanism isn’t very hygienic. Plus the shops were required to clean the carts after every use, and the mechanism was hard to clean. So they disabled the coin mechanism and set out a worker to give people cleaned carts and receive used carts to clean. As restrictions lifted, people had to clean their own carts and as time went on less and less people bothered.

So in the end the situation was as it had always been, but the coin mechanism was still disabled. In no time we saw American scenes with trollies being left all over the place, abandoned in the middle of parking lots etc. It made me so angry, how can people be so inconsiderate? Covid made me angry about selfish people a lot. At one point I saw someone give their trolly a shove on the parking lot, almost directly into my bicycle. I shouted at him and he just called me a faggot and drove off.

As soon as all the restrictions lifted almost all places went back to the coin mechanism. These days depending on which shop and which location, some have the coin mechanism disabled again. Not sure why, maybe as a convenience to the customers. Mostly people put them back properly however, even in places where during covid people didn’t. Maybe because the world is more normal, people are less selfish? Not sure.

My world kinda broke when I realized 50 cents was all that stood between people being decent and people being selfish assholes.

If you try smoking out of PVC pipe, microplastics will be the least of your concerns. PVC is a thermo hardening plastic, which means it doesn’t simply melt but instead starts to decompose when heated. As it decomposes it releases fun stuff like toxins, carcinogenics and chlorine gas.

In the past PVC was everywhere, these days it’s mostly gone. There has been a big push to reduce the use of PVC as much as possible. For sewage it’s still used a lot because the risks are low, but a lot of other places it’s gone.

They really were the first ever to go brrrrrrrrrr