Great. Show up to the primary and maybe nobody has to hold their nose to vote.

curious that O’Leary doesnt want to build that DC in Quebec. I wonder why. You’d think he’d want it close to home, since it’s so good for the economy and all.

Because specific kinds of plastic (like polyurethane) undergo hydrolysis when exposed to moisture, which causes what you see in the op

i have to imagine new yorkers would be quite annoyed by this

You can actually get to almost 10000 on your fingers using Bede’s finger reckoning technique.

The first would have been taken during Apollo 11, as that was the first manned mission to the surface of the moon.

Wait til you hear how they handle breaks

brain dead take

Dear lord candlejack has retu

The service I got was slow. I come here all the time, so i should know how things should be around here. My waiter sucks, I demand that he be fired.

[Paraphrased, but this is actual feedback I got the day before mothers day, when our dishwasher was broken. And yes, he stiffed me, because of course]

I’ve also had a father tell his children that “tipping is optional and they should be happy with 5%” after I spent an hour and a half busting ass for his family’s ridiculous requests. After taxes and tip out 5% can literally be less than zero into your waiter’s pocket, fwiw.

Y’all suck. I assume anyone I see bitching about waitstaff getting tips, or implying they dont tip, is an asshole, because IME those are the complaints of an asshole. Tipping culture in general is a whole other topic that there can be reasoned and nuanced discussions about, but if your take is “tipping sucks and I don’t have to,” then you are willingly taking advantage of a system that denies people of the fruits of their labor.

At this point half the reason i use Lemmy is curse management. I can’t tell you how many times a week I’ll be going about my business and then wham, I get hit with a curse. The other day I sat down to eat dinner and found that my burrito was full of spiders. The spirit that haunts my apartment block sure does have a sense of humor. Not sure if he was a shaman or a wizard or what. I’d move, but the rent is cheap, and sometimes the curses have a silver lining. My kitchen tap ran red with blood the other day, so I made sausage. Tastes awful, but probably saved me a good $40 with the amount I was able to fit in the freezer. Anyway, I appreciate the semi-regular curse-lifting I get from lemmyshitpost.

On second thought maybe collecting things made of volatile petroleum compounds wasn’t a good investment

Unfortunately they had to shut down the Bermuda Triangle due to austerity.

That’s a great observation —the sycophantic nature of ChatGPT can be really offputting when you’re not used to the way the AI writes. Would you like:

• tips and tricks on using ChatGPT?
• advice on creating your own GPT prompt?
• suggestions on less sycophantic AI chatbots?

I’m here to help. Just let me kn

can’t do it anymore the bit isnt worth it ew ew ew

They could replace it with an area that has a bunch of different modes of transit and gives you a scavenger hunt of bus stops as a goal, maybe with flavor of the week interactive futurism/science exhibits at each one they have to write down a fact about. It could handle thousands of guests, and have infinite replayability. Collect all the badges. Kids would love it, parents would see it as STEM enrichment, and everyone would secretly be learning how to read timetables and routemaps. Then again I have an agenda so of course I would like them to build world’s biggest model trainset in order to indoctrinate the youth

Look, all I’m saying is what you’re expressing now is fucking textbook, dude. There is no way you have a complete list of every brand that has ever pissed you off. Heightened emotional arousal makes you more suggestible. Not less. As long you’re human, that’s how it works. And understanding that, understanding that you are not immune to propaganda, is the first step in fighting back. Not violent fantasies, or visions of revolution, not by “if only everyone else would…” Not by getting pissed off, even though they’re infuriating. By avoiding them when you can, and trying not to react when you do see them.

Edit: On a reread my tone here sucks. My apologies. Clearly I need to take my own advice about not getting pissed off about stuff a screen puts in my face. I stand by what I said, not by how I said it. I hope you have a good night.

Have you ever heard of the “third person effect?”

Okay, you’re the one rational detergent actor. They don’t have to get you. They want your mom, your neighbor, your boss. Your kid. Saturation works, it’s literally proven. Repetition legitimizes. They do studies on this shit.

Yeah, but you still gotta buy laundry detergent. You are not immune to propaganda.

bad news