Progenitor of the Weird Knife Wednesday feature column. Is “column” the right word? Anyway, apparently I also coined the Very Specific Object nomenclature now sporadically used in the 3D printing community. Yeah, that was me. This must be how Cory Doctorow feels all the time these days.
How we have lost perspective. When I was that age I was forced to walk to school, a distance of about 1.5 miles.
Forced, mind you, because if you were considered “too close” to the school you were not eligible to ride the bus. Other than the land directly adjoining the school grounds, the roads I had to use also did not have sidewalks. The number of children killed, maimed, or injured by this during the years I attended that school were, to my knowledge… zero.
I’m finding it hard to believe that there is anything new to say about the Oak Island Money Pit at this point. Everyone and their grandma has stuck a shovel in it by now, and the only things of any note whatsoever that most recent excavations have found has been crap left there by the previous excavations. There is no suspense. There is no new discovery. There is no big reveal. There is no treasure there and there never was.
Oak Island at this point is just a lame joke, a meme of about the same caliber as all those little old ladies in the tabloids who totally saw Elvis alive and walking around at a motel outside of Omaha.
The fact that anyone can continue to blather about this “story,” and that anyone will still listen, is just a testament to just how badly our education system has failed everyone for the last half a century. The only topic about which it says anything at all is the stupidity and credulity of the public. So, business as usual for the History Channel these days.
He is not a sitting president yet.
He was not a sitting president when the offenses occurred in 2016, either, when he had yet to be elected. Even if the “presidential immunity” ruling could somehow be twisted to apply to this as if it were an official act, he was in no way shape or form president at that time.
INB4 “But Mario Bros. DX already exists.”
I dig how the graphics have been reworked and tile size reduced to provide roughly the same field of view as on the NES.
I mean, there’s nothing that’s officially the front page but the default view is usually considered to be it. “All” ignores your subscriptions, and only honors your blocked communities/instances/users.
It’s the default feed you get when you navigate to your instance (lemmy.world in this case) as opposed to your subscription view or any specific communities/subs. Here it’s either “local” (posts from just this instance) or “all” (posts from this and other federated instances).
They’re one of the most prolific posters on here. Maybe 1/3 to 1/4 of your front page will be their posts at times. I was ribbing the parent poster for implying that anyone who posts on here frequently “must” be a bot, which is obviously horseshit.
Some of us genuinely have nothing better to do.
Not that I’d know or anything. ¬_¬
You have, like, met @[email protected], right?
Knives are prohibited
Tru fax, I am never working where you do, ever, so long as I live. I’d melt like the Wicked Witch of the West, I’m sure.
You can just send 'em back and buy something else. Amazon will take any damn fool thing back.
We could only hope.
Shout out to B&H. I bought my drone from them, and they offered the same model bundle at a slightly lower price than Amazon and also offered next-day shipping for no charge.
They also have a physical retail store and real live people you can call if you have a question, unlike either winding up talking to a chatbot or being redirected to Mumbai after a 45 minute hold.
I don’t know these guys from a hole in the ground other than that, but they beat Amazon and that was good enough for me.
The clandestine sharing of gun buyers’ identities — without their knowledge and consent — marked a significant departure for an industry that has long prided itself on thwarting efforts to track who owns firearms in America.
I was going to mention exactly this, but it seems the article already beat me to it.
This is the second comment I’ve seen in this thread about swordplay, and now I’m confused. Where do swords enter into it?
Anyway, everybody’s got a plan to fight a monkey until it’s actually time to fight a monkey.
Nah. Even if it’s local, I’ll burn my CPU cycles on what I want to, thanks. That’s like installing a bitcoin miner in your PC and claiming, “But it only runs in the background.” Fuck off and buy your own hardware, Microsoft.
I.e. an atomic wedgie?
Nope.
Back in the box and straight back to the store.
I’m interested to hear what the deal is now with all those damn “EcoATM” cell phone buying kiosks now, because to my knowledge those were operated by the same outfit (Outerwall) as Redbox is/was. Are they bankrupt, too? My local Dollar General has had one squatting in their foyer for over a year with an out of order sign taped to it and apparently nobody from the mothership has noticed or cares.
Those damn things are theoretically full of cash.
But it’s abandoned on their property. If you abandoned something on a commercial property and never came to reclaim it, eventually (probably quite quickly) the store management would dispose of it. They’re not going to keep it around stinking up the place forever “just in case.”
I’d doubt somebody could officially just unilaterally throw the thing away, but the business on whose property it’s parked absolutely has some kind of contingency to deal with crap left there by one of their vendors. Or they will if they’re a retail operation worth a damn.
That, or even street drugs are so expensive now no one can afford them. Damn inflation…