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popemichael

@ popemichael @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • R Rule

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  • Back during the late 90s era of internet, I got into a MASSIVE amount of troyble over a finger slip in a high school computer lab.

    We were all assigned an African country to write an essay about. We had to only use internet cited sources.

    I was assigned a country with the Namba people. Somehow I fat-fingered an "L" in there in the worst places. (Between the 'b' and the 'a' - don't google it)

    It triggered my school's search filter. Altavista got involved. It was a nightmare.

    The police got in contact with my parents, thinking I was being groomed and in danger of kidnapping.

    It sucked.

  • Share your stories

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  • I still often think about "Flowers for Algernon."

  • Removed Locked

    I guess even Elon has his limit

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  • Didn't Kathy Griffin pretty much do the same thing only with many more times the consequences?

  • TIL there's such a thing as vegetarian Spam

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  • I prefer it to real spam. Way less greasy with more flavors

  • Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet

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  • Dear hackers,

    I want to know how to hack. I will pay you. I am the best hacker.

    Thank you, Xx_hackerman_xX

    PS: What is hacking?

  • Science is Magic

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  • The rules for magic and the rules of existence in most fictional universes are significantly more defined (and, arguably, more solid) than the rules for science and existence in this world.

    Even the brush off of "Its magic. I don't have to explain it," at least indicates that SOMEONE understands the effect and its relative existence.

    If you find 5 people who say that they fully understand a single branch of science then I'd bet all of my money in my pocket that you found them in a padded recovery room sans shoe laces.

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  • In those situations, that is the best class sizes for electricity tomfoolery, sprinkled heavily with bravely, and a side of youth assumed immortality.

    It is also a good class size to swiftly move bodies, of things get too bad.

    I had a similar sized class when I apprenticed as an electrical worker via "future farmers if America" funding.

    I learned so many good ways to fix things correctly, and three times that number in "bad" ways to fix things.

    Guerrilla learning method with pratical daily needed subjects is SORELY missed now-a-days.

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  • I made one of these when I was young, poor, homeless, and imminently dying due to being swiftly being frozen to death (with bone tumors coming in second place in the death race). I was able to get an abandoned metal shead with a small heater working quickly in a sudden ice storm using on hand parts and a pirated "outside" power line.

    Outside of a significant situation like that... it's not a good idea

  • Conservatives push to declare fetuses as people, with far-reaching consequences.

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  • Meanwhile, the "slippery slope" logical fallacy falls over, down a hill, and dies.

    Then starts spinning, creating a perfectly cylindrical hole, and catches fire due to friction, and self cremating.

  • Is anyone else highly concerned with the SCOTUS ruling that the POTUS is immune from criminal liability?

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  • Can the current president hunt the former president for sport now?

  • In sweeping change, Biden administration to ban medical debt from credit reports | The rule, first reported by ABC News, could go into effect sometime next year.

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  • That is literally all of my debt left, so yay!

  • I have unlimited cellular data on my phone but not if I use it as a hotspot.

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  • Companies even do this if you have a 5g modem.

    There is a 2 hour window at the end of the month in which I am miserable.

    I'm at the tip of the US's Wang and have zero access to wired internet, so I am stuck. 😞

  • Derps of Tiktok

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  • Oh well.. whatever. Never mind.

  • After eight years, i resigned as a moderator of my community

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  • Before June 2023, I was a mod on several Reddit communities for about 13 years and outside of Reddit since the turn of the century. I just kinda stepped back once the Reddit BS happened.

    10 months later, my happiness and over all quality of life has improved. Not only am I no longer stressed (bye bye moderation based nightmares!), but I have way more time to dedicate to my passions and goals.

    I thought that dedication to holding together a few niche communities and battling the "bad guys" defined me and gave me a sort of immortality.

    I was VERY wrong.

    Our great grand kids won't be trolling reddit archives, telling everyone how "cool" grandpa was.

    The greatest thing I ever did to improve my QOL was step away from moderating and leading communities on the internet as a whole. Doubly so if they involve political talk.

  • A Nigerian woman reviewed some tomato puree online. Now she faces jail

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  • I can just about hear someone saying, "Do you know who I am?" or "Do you know who my father is?"

    This situation just screams of the diabeetus-loving tomato sauce company bribing the local police.

  • It wasn't a dream, it was a place!

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  • We may not have seen his encounter with the "future Federation" reminding him of the "temporal prime directive"

    That said, can you remember your work mates from half of a life ago?

    Human memory is good, but a life of adventure and an over abundance of scotch can give one "Swiss cheese memory" ala quantum leap

  • Real French

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  • I lived in both 'French Canada', and France at one point in my life.

    In my experience, they all consider themselves the best thing France ever made and the other side are the equivalent of "rednecks"

    To be fair, they both can be right.

  • Not buying a shaver from Philips again..

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  • Coincidentally, I just got a knock-off Soda Stream from Phillips. It's over $150 cheaper and works 2x-3x times better. I wanted to build something similar for a homemade soda bar concept, and discovered how truly cheap it can be to make soda and carbonated water at home. I was shocked at what a simple concept it is, and how much of a profit these sodas water companies make. Phillips even charging $50 for their system is a total rip-off.

    Truthfully, I think the increase in quality in the Phillips machine is due to fewer parts is an "exception that proves the rule" as these in-bottle carbonators seem to work better with fewer parts. It's just a pressure hose connected to a co2 tank. Literally, all of $6 if you were to build one yourself from parts on Amazon (or $3 if you got he Alibaba route)

    I truly believe that the fewer parts the better in any DIY or commercial product due to the less chance of a failure in a part if there are fewer parts. This works fantastically for the "lower quality" producing companies, like Phillips.

    My inventive and engineering entrepreneur friends and I call this "fewer parts the better" concept, a "Murphy's law compensator" as the fewer parts there are, the fewer parts that can statistically "go wrong"

  • Anime pfps rise up

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  • Gamers are the true indigenous people.

    We were typing in games printed in magazines and hand written from friends.

  • Typical japanese isekai plot

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  • That are the plots to most manhwa, too.

    I just eat that shit up, thougg.

    The recent popular "manhwa recap" longform trend on YouTube is the nourishment of my soul some days.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    popemichael @lemmy.sdf.org

    Are Instacart tipping reccomendations insane or am I being miserly?

  • Baldur's Gate 3 @lemmy.world
    popemichael @lemmy.sdf.org

    Will Larian release the BG3 toolkit to allow us to make our own modules?

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
    popemichael @lemmy.sdf.org

    My dad just died a few minutes ago, and the paramedics left a mess hidden under his bed.

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
    popemichael @lemmy.sdf.org

    Politicians need to keep thier lips off children