Fester

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Fester ,

Do you use it for “you’re welcome”? I thought it was more of an “I accept your apology.”

For example, if someone said “sorry for the delay,” I’d say “no worries, I also ignore some emails for days or even weeks.”

Fester ,

The manual options are ancient - like a sickle, or a scythe or clip by hand with garden shears bent down on your knees for hours. But fuck all that, you’ll want an electric trimmer for edges.

Fester ,

How about VFW healthcare, Marjorie?

Now I’m trying to imagine Greene doing anything useful or helpful for anyone. I can’t do it. It does not compute. Her constituency sent her to Congress to be vile and cause chaos, so I guess she does that. What a waste of votes.

Fester ,

Why waste time say lot word when few do trick?

Fester ,

I wish I could afford a Boeing, but I go to Starbucks 35,000 times a day.

Fester ,

The point is that Biden needs up his game on making empty promises to keep up with Trump. It’s election year, people want to eat shit and forget everything in January.

Fester ,

If you donate through these buttons and keep your receipts, you can write it off on your own taxes.

I’ve never seen a $20 button - usually they round up to the nearest dollar or have $1-3 suggestions. Not worth the trouble to keep track for most normal taxpayers.

Fester ,

Assuming they’ve selected a good organization to donate to, that’s a shame - especially for local charities that really benefit from the money.

The whole point is that it’s a “rounding error” for the customer, but it adds up. If you round up 50 cents for 50 grocery trips a year, that’s only $25. If 2,000 other customers do it, that’s a $50,000 donation from just one store.

I don’t donate directly to anything, unfortunately, so if I see a good cause like St. Jude or a local charity at checkout, sure I’ll round up.

Fester ,

They do make their own donations, separately, often. Customers’ donations are just another way.

I guess think of it from the charity’s perspective. Checkout donations are steady fundraising for them that supplements their other more sporadic and difficult fundraising attempts. I imagine they solicit the stores to do this for them when they’re not organizing 5Ks and hosting dinners for rich people.

If it’s upsetting that stores get to promote themselves for doing it, then just donate directly. Same difference.

Fester ,

Is this loss?

Fester ,

Ah yes, just increase the tax on working people. So simple. Don’t look too closely at the yearly cap that prevents rich people who will never need it from contributing meaningfully. Let’s be careful to not consider a simple progressive tax that would easily correct the issue by putting an unnoticeable tax increase on the very people who are responsible for making sure normal Americans can’t fund their own retirements in the first place.

Fester ,

This 20k would have really helped me out, but alas, morals.

Fester ,

Man fuck that girl, fuck those cops, fuck that psycho guy, fuck that small town, fuck your cell carrier. Fuck every character in this story except you. And maybe your dad.

Fester ,

They’re talking about installment plans through your credit card. You pay a fee to split a charge into monthly installments, usually of your choosing. By paying the monthly installment and the rest of your balance from other charges, you can avoid interest kicking in, even while you owe the full amount. The fee is usually a % of the purchase, like 3% or 1% per month or something.

It can make sense on a large one-time purchase, but it’s weird to do it for frequent purchases like groceries.

Fester ,

I agree it is, but if you spend that amount regularly, it’d be better to try to reduce your budget, painful as it may be, than to snowball toward ever-increasing payment obligations that match or surpass your monthly total for grocery trips anyway.

These articles make it seem like it’s a routine. If it’s for one-time temporary relief, then that’s another thing.

Fester ,

Me reading this

Fester ,

It’s like a warning about wild animals at a campsite.

Never approach the wildlife or make it feel threatened. Do not make sudden movements. Doing so may provoke an attack. Never feed the police. It cannot tell the difference between fingers and french fries.

Fester ,

That’s because racism, religion, etc. are tools conservatives use to get rubes to vote against their economic interests. For the people in power, it’s only about power and money. They couldn’t give two fucks about culture wars, abortion, immigration, or anything else outside of riling up and distracting poor people so they fight each other and not them. Some tools work best in the US and different tools are needed in India. You just need the right tool for the job.

Fester ,

Not to mention sea level rise’s unpredictable effect on inland rivers. River avulsion can be both directly catastrophic and cause long-term drought and other problems in cities and communities that rely on their rivers being… where they are. Shit’s gonna fuck everyone up.

Fester ,

First I would support campaign finance reform and watch 90% of the problems be solved.

Then I would tackle the other 10% by making voting more accessible - especially in primaries. Make it so accessible that even young voters bother to do it. That way people will choose younger reps more often.

So no, I wouldn’t support putting a bandaid on one issue and ignoring the root causes.

Fester ,

Flattened is what finally happens after you’ve been slammed too many times

Fester ,

In 200 years, AI will hack it for you, but you’ll need a dozen antique dongles to get from USB-Z to A.

Fester ,

They did not, but it’s ok because they’re just feeling it wrong this year. Maybe someone should tell them how to feel about the economy so their income and expenses won’t matter anymore.

Fester ,

It’ll be interesting to see if it applies to facial recognition. In iOS, at least, you need to look at the phone to unlock it. That’s an intentional action. If you look to the side or close your eyes, it won’t work.

So if you’re conscious, you can’t easily be forced to unlock the phone with your face and eyes if you’re able to resist. But if you’re unconscious, then maybe they could use your face (assuming your eyes aren’t rolled back into your head because the cops gave you brain damage.)

Fester ,

There’s also the bonus of showing kids that good dogs come from shelters and not just breeders, and definitely not from puppy mills. These kids will remember this when it’s time to get a dog.

Fester ,

So, does the interest just start accruing again after it’s cancelled? Until a future president decides to throw another bone?

And I don’t really like that the long-promised 20-year forgiveness plans are being portrayed as dependent on the whims of a benevolent president. That shit needs to be locked in as the permanent bare minimum light at the end of the tunnel for borrowers who signed up for it in the first place, whether it’s today or 20+ years ago.

Fester ,

I wonder how many stared without protection, and how many were scammed with fake glasses.

Fester ,

no one has beef

I’m guessing you have two certain large instances blocked

Fester ,

No they do. They care about scratching their donors’ backs, then telling rubes it’s for them, which they eat up despite not actually seeing any benefit. They also care about wrecking the deficit so they can screech about it the moment they lose power.

Fester ,

Phone = small

Tablet = medium

Desktop = big

Laptop = worst mashup of everything

Fester ,

It’s also an easy way to show new users one basic front-facing feature on Lemmy that is different from Reddit - which is a good idea on its own, but especially because Reddit used to display upvotes/downvotes this way and then removed it entirely, probably for manipulative reasons.

It’s good to be able to customize, but better to have the default option be an improvement over the alternative. Even more-so when the change isn’t jarring.

Fester ,

Also

Mark 10:17-25

The Rich Man

As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: ‘You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; You shall not defraud; Honor your father and mother.’ ” He said to him, “Teacher, I have kept all these since my youth.” Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, “You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions. Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” And the disciples were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”

That was Palm Sunday lol. Fuckin murdered the guy later that week.

Fester ,

I think there was a common saying “it’d be easier for an elephant to pass through the eye of a needle” to describe something really difficult. Camel was substituted in regions where they had camels but not elephants. Jesus was memeing irl for his local audience.

Fester ,

So it’s whoever decided to make Easter the first Sunday after the first Saturday after the first full moon after the spring equinox’s fault, this year.

Fester ,

“Where’s your teeth? Smile with your teeth. Hurry! More teeth! Everyone smiles the same!”

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Fester ,

Sounds similar to garlic producing optimal allicin about 10 minutes after being minced/crushed. Not only does allicin make garlic more flavorful and aromatic for cooking, but properly prepared garlic was used as an antibacterial before antibiotics were a thing. It’s not nearly as effective as modern medicine, but I once successfully used it to self treat an infected broken glass wound when I didn’t have health insurance. (USA obv.) Now I take it regularly and I “feel” like I get sick less often, maybe…

In garlic’s case, allicin is a self defense mechanism to protect itself from some bugs, and it’s partly responsible for why garlic is so famously easy to grow.

I wonder what other veggies have similar secrets.

Fester ,

My cat says he sees them, and he hates them.

how can something be so courageous and yet so true ( slrpnk.net )

Edit: Jesus Christ, people. If you buy a $150 Thinkpad made by slave labor instead of a $1,200 MacBook made by slave labor, you're still supporting a capitalist economy based on slave labor. We all do. We have no choice. The number of smug liberals in the comments saying "well I buy a cheap used laptop" or "well I buy coffee...

Fester ,

When people make memes about you using it, you’re supporting the company with good exposure. They should be grateful.

Fester ,

And they profit from it. That’s mentioned there too, and it makes it that much more infuriating. They know exactly what they’re doing, and they do it on purpose, for money.

And at the end of the day, they’ll settle (who are the plaintiffs? Article doesn’t say) or pay some relatively inconsequential amount, and they’ll still have gained a net benefit from it. Another case of cost-of-doing-business.

Would’ve been free without the lawsuit even. Lives lost certainly aren’t factored in otherwise.

Fester ,

Ok but can he play Bond AND Batman? If not I’d rather he take Batman because the franchise needs to finally be perfected.

Fester ,

In fascist America, melting pot melts you.

Fester ,

Every Wilhelm scream in Star Wars Episode IV

Fester ,

Excuse me, waiter, there is a wrath in my gazpacho soup.

Fester ,

Here’s my Supreme Court fantasy:

Every president appoints one justice, but only in their second term if reelected. Fuck cares how many justices there are at any given time.

Here’s the catch: There’s no term limit and technically no age limit… but in order to qualify, any nominee must have served at least 20 years as a federal judge and have another 15 years in the legal system (as a judge, attorney, whatever), for 35 years total experience. Oh and they should have a law degree, since that’s not a requirement right now lol.

This way you get someone with a judicial record to consider at confirmation hearings, and make sure they’re incidentally old enough that they’ll die or retire relatively soon in case they turn out to be fucking horrible.

Fester ,

[x] doubt

Fester ,

You’re supposed to have at least one painting of The Last Supper, but with dogs.

Fester ,

“She said she votes for human rights, so we know she votes for the wrong team.”

Fester ,

DOD says it’s OK for the public to have a little info, as a treat.

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