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  • guys who have actually big dicks tend to understate them on grindr and stuff. it’s easier to undersell it and let them discover in person than it is to tell the truth and have to deal with the “oh really? I doubt it.” bullshit every single time where suddenly everyone is a CSI photoshop-detecting photography genius. better to just fly under the radar as average and exceed expectations once they can’t argue it’s “just the angle”.



  • experbia@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCapiruleism
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    7 months ago

    what exactly do these corporations think aggrieved widows and widowers will do when they go to hold companies to justice and are told “no justice for you peasant, get out”?

    do they think everyone who has just lost their life will go “ok… I’ll just live with that then, thank you Disney”? lmao

    i can’t understand for the life of me why all these organizations want to remove the systems we built as a society to act as sensible alternatives to violence. do they want to be violenced?




  • i wouldn’t know, according to them and their folks, my friends and family and I are not people, so I guess my definition of that must differ. moreover, I don’t dispense sympathy for people who would cheer and support the news that me and mine have been hunted down and shot in the street. I don’t sympathize with the aggressors. I’ve just been trying to mind my own business and live my life as best I can, but these people (in sudden newfound need of sympathy and feelings of safety, lmao) have been talking for years of purges of non-Whites and gays, and civil wars, and rounding up the undesirables (that’s me, apparently, by virtue of birth) to clean up the country. might as well be asking me to sympathize with a school shooter over his hearing damage from not wearing earplugs while he mowed down a classroom.



  • so if you’re regularly annoyed (1/4), angry (2/4) and spiteful (3/4) about being forced to participate in this exploitative system designed to bleed you dry until you die, you’re ok still… but if you try to do anything about it (by arguing with or defying “authorities” in any way) you’re an insane person that needs to be locked up and given drugs? cool. that’s really convenient.


  • experbia@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerelatable rule
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    so if you’re regularly annoyed (1/4), angry (2/4) and spiteful (3/4) about being forced to participate in this exploitative system designed to bleed you dry until you die, you’re ok still… but if you try to do anything about it (by arguing with or defying “authorities” in any way) you’re an insane person that needs to be locked up and given drugs? cool. that’s really convenient.


  • Sticking my finger into the coin return of every pay phone

    do you remember being told the urban legends about evil drug dealers putting “needles of drugs” in the coin return slots so you’d poke yourself checking for coins and “get high” and then “be addicted” so you’d have to buy from them? lmao

    same place the urban legends about people putting “drug needles” into candybars on Halloween to hand out came from, I figure



  • Analog audio is basically non-existent

    💀 I feel so old rn. all my computers and TVs have 3.5mm analog connected to a set of separate speakers. I use 2 pair of 3.5mm-connecting headphones every day (work, home). I’m nowhere near an audiophile or anything… none of it is even approaching high-end. I didn’t know people had abandoned non-bluetooth so much. guests always compliment how amazing my TV sounds though…



  • for most Americans, fired also just means you’ve probably just become responsible for your own family’s ruin. for most of our working poor, being more than 10 minutes late is a quick route to eviction and years of more crippling debt for them and whoever else might be at home with them, which could well immediately destroy other’s major life plans like college for kids, moving somewhere cheaper, eldercare, even medical treatments or medication, etc.

    this doesn’t make driving like this less dangerous or inadvisable, of course, but the folks saying what you’re saying should be aware that for a lot of folks, the certain risk of the firing is often similarly dire to the uncertain risk of driving like this.

    if you knew your partner on your work health plan was going to suffer or die without continued treatment if you’re ever more than 10 minutes late to work, you’d probably consider driving like this too when you overslept because you’re sick or something. it only takes one little slip-up.


  • oh no
    it’s me
    i’m the naked window neighbor
    i’m naked sitting on the edge of my bed right now after my shower. my bedroom window, right across from me, is open for fresh air.

    look, it’s my own bedroom. the breeze is really nice. maybe don’t look in my windows? it’s not like i’m trying to give anyone a show, it’s just one of those things in life, like how guys all get naked together in a locker room without acknowledging it, or how airport security people fondle you angrily in ways not ordinarily permitted in polite society and nobody needs to bring it up after. you don’t have to look, is what i’m saying. sorry if you can’t help it. let’s just move on!



  • I agree with your sentiment. I grew up mostly with 56k as the shiny new mainstream internet tech. I got DSL for the first time when I was like… 13? I dislike the “stream everything” paradigm, too.

    But, I do know a thing or two about it, so I want to correct a misconception you have that does make it all seem a little bit more reasonable than might appear for you at first glance:

    download again and again and again instead of only once. Why not keep it instead of constantly using bandwidth for the same thing over and over?

    Most of these streaming systems have built-in, automatic client-side caching mechanisms. This means that when Spotify downloads a song to your phone to play to you, it keeps a copy around in a safe place for a good while, so it doesn’t have to re-download it every time. In a sense, it automates our natural data hoarding instinct and does so transparently, with keep-around durations calculated to provide the most ideal “local-replay to storage-consumed” ratio for their average users’ network capabilities. The computers just take care of it automatically now so people don’t have to think about it. If you only play it once, it’ll toss it out for you. If you listen to it a lot, it’s coming from your phone. “Streaming” is just high-speed managed file downloading.

    100% right about the risk of them pulling content though. They’re still a bad proposition. The DRM and “rent not own” they do screws with the whole value proposition.