Urban Hermit

@David@setouchi.social @SeaFury@aus.social Yeah, but they are REALLY DUMB. That 20% holds jobs, votes, has children, including children that go off to college, (basically they seem functional) and then out of nowhere they start telling you how the government is putting mind control chemicals in jet fuel and that is why we can see chemtrails. What? How does that even work? Who profits, who does the work but doesn't tell anybody, who is it actually working on? How can any of this fit in your existing world view? 1 in 5.

@HamonWry@mastodon.world the only way we should permit a triumphal arch to remain in Washington DC is if the world's most famous pedophile is hung from it. That is a victory worth celebrating.

@AlexGallagher@mastodon.scot "and the man is not here to fuck spiders." No idea what I am reading half the time, but I love it (Edit) Oh my God there was a Australian to English translation section at the end! "Not here to fuck spiders: here for serious business only, no time-wasting. The most efficient sentence in Australian English."

I am one man, outnumbered by the 9 nicest chairs I have ever owned. One stool will be turned into a table, as soon as I can sand it flat. As the population boom inverts there are more people downsizing or passing on than there are young people to give stuff too. I expect we will see extremes - property, cars, RVs, given away. Resellers flooded with stuff. Boomers and GenX running out of relatives to give hand me downs too. But remember, I called it first, and it started with chairs.

The last time I bought a physical ticket was to an air show. Buying tickets to stuff was so rare in my life that I never found it inconvenient. Every time I have bought a virtual ticket, and got spam in my email for the next year, and had to give their app a lot of access to my phone otherwise the damn virtual ticket wouldn't work, well I never liked those experiences. I think the necessity of being forced to buy a virtual ticket keeps me from going to many ticketed events.

@phocks@bne.social them hoarding information after a specific financial transaction is complete creates what used to be known as an "attractive nuisance". There absolutely should be huge financial penalties. Someday they will have files of your facial print and finger prints. Just more digital data to be stolen with a USB drive by an underpaid employee or a hacker and a 123p@ssword. Your "one year of credit monitoring service" is worthless.

2/2 I mean, it is literally ridiculous. I turn down and pass by nice sets of chairs weekly. I see chairs on the curb. Someone, on Craigslist 2 days ago, was paying anyone $15 to take his chair. I have a rocking chair, a firm wooden kitchen chair, a bar stool with back rest, a papasan for the balcony across from my morning tea sitting chair. I was in Goodwill Sunday and took a picture of 20 chairs they couldn't get rid of. The population is leveling off, and now we have excess seating.

@tuckfrump@mastodon.social I mean..., Would I pay to piss on his grave? Yeah, like $15, admission to a national monument or park service site. And I have to cover the travel expenses. $50 for a fresh corpse I can see.

@davidtheeviloverlord@mastodon.social @MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social the Trump administration is probably right on the verge of Streisand Effecting the dildo protest and have to be talked down from prosecuting people as "Antifa Terrorist cells" everyday. Amazon leans on Trump administration to keep dildos legal. "Terrorist weapons! And grossly unrealistic" Trump shouts as he signs an executive order, with a 5", slim, 'handy man' model on The Resolute Desk next to him.

@miawinter@mastoart.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange it doesn't matter where he got it. Did he bring enough for everyone and what kind of dipping sauce did he get?

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social If we do not do anything to Trump before he takes his dirt nap then the next dictator will finish the job of enslaving us all. At this point I will accept corpse abuse. I will accept his estate being sued for every ill gotten gain. I would accept a National Monument to his colossal stupidity. And every Republican will be asked how he could have stayed a Republican through this Era. The worst and second worst presidency in US history must never be forgotten or forgiven.

@crk5@aus.social a guy once told me how every year the 6th graders in his middle school were led on a field trip, "to the old cracker factory". The way he described it though, the factory had closed down a decade ago, so it was a field trip to an abandoned warehouse. He did not know why this place was important to anybody. This was so absurd I started joking about the name. "The Cracker Factory sounds like the whitest club in Detroit. Everybody be like, 'Hey y'all, let's go down to the Cracker Factory.'"

Tell me when you can smell the Republican on this guy: Bob Simril, former candidate for Portland City Council is leading the Enhance Community Safety Initiative - a ballot measure to divert 25% of the funds in the Portland Clean Energy Fund into a push to hire 400 more Portland Police Officers. The initiative was submitted with 63k signatures out of 40k needed, but after blank lines, duplicates, and nonresidents were removed, 34k were deemed valid. Backers immediately condemned the process.

@Strandjunker@mstdn.social a large number of Christians in name only want their church's restrictions to be magically applied to everyone else, and not themselves. Religion is voluntary, that's what freedom means.

Of you are anything like me, there is an age where the best thing is a day with plenty of fresh air, the barest hint of a breeze, and the absolute best temperature ever. And you just marvel at it. You are caught telling your slightly younger friends, "Isn't this just the best temperature ever!" and they act like, "yeah, it is air dude, we got things to do.." But honestly, there is nothing better than to stand still and marvel at how good the absolutely best temperature ever actually feels.

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social I like the fact that uptight conservative types are sure to take this so seriously, because repressing yourself constantly is such hard work. I would be like, "Hey, the government is giving away free dildos!" Just to embarrass the tut, tut brigade. Also, presumably these are rejects. Could you tell anything about popularity of features from a cusory examination of what's on display? You think the national guard put "dildo removal" on their recruiting posters?

@cmconseils@mastodon.social A friend and I had a mutual who occasionally talked about riding horses on her father's property. But my friend did not realize she was rich. "But they have horses," I said. "Maybe they make them work or something." Nobody makes a living working horses anymore. They are giant pets you can ride, so long as you own a lot of property. We lived in apartments, they owned enough property to have horses. The mutual was okay, but she made more sense when you knew she came from privilege.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social let's hope the next POTUS ran directly against everything Trump stands for and gets to personally grap Trump and kick his rummply ass as he is thrown out the door, because he refused to leave when everyone he paid off abandoned his doomed cause. Maybe the first criminal charge that will finally stick to Donald is trespassing.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social You always make time for a banana call, and excuse people who need to take a banana call. Cuz people who place calls on a banana got some powerful Juju. Now taking a call on an orange? That's just silly!

"Do you know something I don't", he shouted, clearly trying to shut her down. She draws on her experience as a professional reporter to explain why her question was valid. In the mean time I am shouting at the radio, "YES, Yes, we all do!! The NUMBER OF THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW COULD FILL A DOZEN SILOS! YOU WAKE UP AND INVENT NEW THINGS TO BE ABYSMALLY WRONG ABOUT!! YOU HAVE MORE INTELLIGENCE RESOURCES THAN ANY ONE MAN ALIVE AND YET YOU CONTINUE TO BE WRONG AND SURPRISED ABOUT THINGS, DAILY!!!"

@catsalad@infosec.exchange the long form is Matthews.

@In_Otter_News@mastodon.social I agree with Steve. This is objectively a great cat.

Have you noticed that chocolate is both ridiculously expensive and you are getting less than ever! I'm blaming Trumpflation. Trumpflation is the additional mark up that a chaotic fool that definitely never earned their influence over a global supply chain adds to everyone's costs, through incompetence, malevolence, or grift. We don't grow chocolate beans in the US. I don't know who Trumplethinskin has a beef with now, but it is driving up the cost of my Herseys bars.

@dev@discuss.systems (all aimed at the original author) God fucking damn. The goose laid the first 3 eggs too. Where do you think those fucking eggs came from. The goose has all the value. 74! Also, no input cost? Magic golden eggs come out of a magic goose butt with no goose input? What is this, a ponzi scheme?

@jaykuo@universeodon.com the day after Trump won his first election I went to work, turned to a friend and said "Well," then did a slow pan of our work place where a large number of Vietnamese women where slowly aging out of the work force to be replaced by mostly Hispanics solderers, and said "how many of these people can you fit in your attic?" 2016, I was able to make an Anne Frank joke because we had elected the most ignorant and bigoted president in history, and everything has just gotten worse from there.

@briankrebs@infosec.exchange I think a man who most of us think is the closest a US President will come to being the actual, literal Antichrist, who rides around in "the beast", who signed bibles in a church, who reposted art of himself as Christ magically healing the sick (with weird 4 horsemen of the apocalypse figures in the sky) - while threatening to kill everyone in a civilization, who erected a golden statue of himself... He probably should be more aware about calling himself "The Goat”.

@StumpyTheMutt@social.linux.pizza @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt yes, but you need a tuna fork.

@MissConstrue@mefi.social at this point, I would vote for witches over anyone else. Real witchcraft. We need some "newt-i-fication". Witchcraft with attitude - Bitchcraft! Because you know what patriarchy has brought us to - the whole world may become uninhabitable in the next 100 years. Why? Because the preservation of unregulated Capitalism must be preserved. Somebody must make a profit, and it must be so huge that it bends reality around it. Oh, wait, that's delusion. Enough money to live in delusion.

@dalias@hachyderm.io @condret@fedi.absturztau.be @JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange Actually, that is the way to bend this. Tons of green energy because wind and solar is just cheaper to install and highly available during the business day. Continued storage solutions. "For all the datacenters". Charge the ones that are built premium pricing. Then, let the hype bubble collapse. Now you have enough extra energy capacity for new electric cars, and got VC money to pay for it. Bend this social trend toward solutions.

@tuban_muzuru@beige.party @kibcol1049@mstdn.social the people still exist, and some of us are capable of great things. But our stupidest have been weaponized against good government and progress, so we are not as dependable of a nation as we once thought we were. Caution is warranted.

@cdarwin@c.im so, 'we' are the ones committing war crimes by purposefully targeting infrastructure of the civilian population, basically because Iran has no big ships, planes, or tanks to target. We are bombing people half a world away, and they do not have a modern military to target, except some drones and speed boats. We make a huge deal about their nuclear program, because what else could we legally bomb. We call them "state sponsored terrorist" when they targeted civilians.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social it can be built on the former grounds of his presidential library, after he runs that into bankruptcy ordering gold statues of himself be put up everywhere.

@tuban_muzuru@beige.party @kibcol1049@mstdn.social I believe right now that our diversity as a country of 50 states is what is keeping us from being controlled even more. It is confusing and confounding for the people dumb enough to want absolute control.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social we have national monuments that explain slavery and the underground railroad. Like that. We can explain the deadliness of stupidity without giving any ground for admiration. How about a wall of lies. One lie for every day of his two terms. And one sentence that tells why it is not true. There were more lies, and days where 20+ were spewed, but we can choose the best and stupidest. Stupidity - arrogance, ignorance, and apathy - needs to be marked for all time, like radioactivity.

@davidaugust It is the Epstein Ballroom, or The Epstein Memorial Ballroom - as it was intended to be a diversion of everyone's attention away from Trump's obvious bromance with Epstein, who only tolerated him because he paid for access to young teens. The GOP, Ballroom Republicans? Perfect, no notes. (Okay, one note) Not every Republican is a pedophile, but every Republican likes the idea of soliciting dark money from billionaires on Whitehouse grounds.

Thoughts during my first break at work: 'A boiled egg. Boy these are rubbery. How many foods do you eat that are rubbery? Wait, are all foods that we eat rubbery for some degree of rubbery? Cheese is rubbery. Grapes are rubbery. Hmmmm cheese.' Homer Simpson style drooling for rest of break.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social this screen doesn't taste anywhere near as good as I hoped.

@Lkdc@dmv.community at least people like you enough to want to help, but they want their contribution to be easy, and the idea that "oh, did you think of this?" will be the radical answer that unlocks the vault presumes you were just too stupid to think of it. 🙄

@moriel@chaosfem.tw Yes, (looks shifty eyed) THEY are the reason.

@dev@discuss.systems Author has no value.

@mkljczk@pl.fediverse.pl @ElenLeFoll@fediscience.org Good point. Google, if Gemini is as useful as you hope it will be, it is inevitable that it will just come to be known as "Google" and AI answers to direct questions is just a feature of Google search. Google, if Gemini is unreliable and can not be reliable, why are you letting it tarnish your brand?

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Dear Voters, Please understand, Donald J. Trump needs this ballroom. He has a deep and compelling need, a fetish bordering on a mania, to lick the balls of America's leading billionaires for their pocket change. Do not deny this man his enormous but mostly private space needed for these orgies of capitalistic worship and excess. Let him be the whore he was always meant to be. So many American oligarchs with fetish exhaustion, who can only get off from presidential ball licking.

@DocAtCDI@mastodon.social Heinzsight is one of the lesser super powers. The ability to look at half eaten food and realize this would have been better with ketchup.

@transworld@masto.ai This is a school library, but it begs the question for any library: If a truly conservative community has procedures so they can have influence over their public institutions, would you as a librarian compromise the integrity of the library so the community at least had some sort of library? Or close it, a compromised library is no library at all?

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social he looks like he forgot what he normally looks like and tried to dye it and part it like a normal person around him. A brain like moldy cheese, and the GOP still follows their pedophile, because they may never get a chance to be this bigoted again.

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social which one?

@cmconseils the holy fur ball is about to emerge.

@KO6YQ@pnw.zone that 88° day in PDX 2 days ago came out of nowhere and all the weather apps on my phone were still showing a predicted high of 75° for hours afterwards. That is a case of the historic highs influencing down the prediction. A bad sign. But it's still early. The Rose festival traditionally has some of the hardest pre-summer rain in the first two weeks of June. If we see those rains earlier or not at all, then this summer might be brutal. In 2021 we had 3 days in late June: 108°,112°,116°.

"Straight of Hairmooze" It is not cool to make fun of people, unless they are really awful monsters who hurt others for their casual amusement. The guy who made up this name for the potential Trump wig, nailed this moment. https://www.comicsands.com/trump-new-wig-names