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Cake day: July 10th, 2025

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  • Personally, as a US American, I find it offensive that other languages are so specific and pedantic about their foods that you can’t even call a dish “noodles” without a thirty down votes and at least one 20,000 word essay on why you’re wrong and why you’re wrong for being wrong and yet here we are, several minutes into a thread and nobody’s pointed out that this is a cheeseburger.

    Also, its name would be Lucas.


  • Getting vaccinated for COVID last year was such a ridiculous experience for me. I think it took like 4 attempts.

    First time I tried, there was a shortage and I was told it wasn’t available in our area. Second time I went to a walk-in place, and they turned me away because it was going to be about an hour wait and they’d be closed by then. Third time, I got turned away because I said said “kind of” when they asked me if I’d been around anybody in the past two weeks who tested positive, even though I explained that it was a brief outdoor exchange of hellos from a distance and the neighbor didn’t test positive until a couple days later.

    I ended up getting it at Walmart of all places, and they didn’t even ask any of those qualifying questions (i.e. exposure in the past 2 weeks). They just wanted to know my insurance info and which arm to give the shot in.

    Now that I’m a caretaker for a medically fragile adult who has never fully recovered from their prior COVID infection, I’m hoping that my situation is covered. But if not, I’ve already been trained on what to say to “qualify”.





  • Also, chiming in with Yes.

    At my prior job, it was a generic company-wide career development goal on our yearly assessment for the past 2 or 3 years.

    Those of us on the software development side of things had it easy, we could just say we used copilot or chat-gpt to write our unit tests and tada.

    For a lot of other folks in non-technical positions, it sounds like they just bullshit their way through it. Used ChatGPT to describe how they used AI to craft their update to the AI goal itself, thus fulfilling the goal successfully.

    But when it’s one of your yearly goals, you gotta complete it or it will affect your bonus and any raise you might receive otherwise.


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    If you’re in the USA, the system of laws is so convoluted and complex that you literally cannot know if you aren’t breaking any laws at any given time and simultaneously, pretty much every functional adult has broken some law at some point in their life.

    But, all that aside, it doesn’t matter, because in practice the police can pull you over and detain you for almost any reason or no reason at all. Even if that’s not legal, there’s pretty much nothing stopping them in the heat of the moment.

    I know this might sound overly pessimistic, but it’s actually largely true. For example, I was driving home from the bar just a couple hours ago, and there were hundreds of people driving the wrong way down the freeway. Nearly spilled my drink a couple of times trying to avoid them all.





  • No, it’s because money is green and money is the root of all evil so since plants have roots, plants are also green. Except for all the myriad different species and cultivars that aren’t green at all, they ain’t got no money. They ain’t got no car to take you on a date. Tthey can’t even buy you flowers.