GoofSchmoofer

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I think everyone that wishes for the fall of civilization should have to read The Road - That was a bleak story.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

That would suck to have to have done that, sounds like he was at least a empathetic human.

It's horrific to witness that kind of death, or it was for me.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, it took a while to get over that shit, but I guess it worked because I sure as shit changed my ways.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago (6 children)

As a result of being a dumb ass teenager the state gave me 50 community service hours. I got assigned to an animal shelter that was being managed by some very deranged people. I witnessed some horrific things that mentally unstable people will do to animals when no one cares.

My job was to pile up the euthanized animals in a pickup and off load them at the landfill. Fucking grim.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

That we are emotional animals that sometimes have logical thoughts. But we live in a society (at least in the west) where we have to pretend that we are logical animals that sometimes have emotions.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

Kroger is the largest grocery store chain in the U.S. by revenue and owns a number of different brands, including Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Pick’n Save, Food 4 Less, and Dillions, among a host of others

Kroger told Gizmodo... “customers are shopping more with Kroger now than ever because we are fighting inflation and providing great value.”

... or maybe customers don't have much of a choice ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

If I notice that I am spending too much time trying to cover all the bases so someone can't nitpick or acktually my reply I just give up and hit cancel. I appreciate an entertaining comment thread, what bug the shit out of me are people that reply to a comment with an obscure edge case or who are just pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And its because of this real lack of quality care for the elderly (outside of the wealthy elderly) that I workout and eat right as much as I can. I probably won't be able to afford a good retirement home so I need to stay as health and fit as I can for as long as I can.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

Just posted about this in a different thread:

The US senators: mitch mcconnell, ted cruz, and lindsey graham used fraud to win their respective seats in 2020. All three were in tight races according to the polls but all three won with bigger margins than was to be expected.

This idea came from a few articles that were discussing this issue a few days after the election, then those articles all just disappeared.

Maybe the articles disappeared because there was no fraud

Maybe the articles disappeared because there was?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What always confuses me is why don't they hire a few people that actually do repair and take the business? It seems like a simple way to keep the locals from getting suspicious.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These scams are effective because of a thing called Amygdala hijack which

"is an emotional response that is immediate, overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat."

You can get any human to do dumb things if you can by-pass their logical brain and have them work off the lizard brain.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

I can see a future where the Internet is completely run by bots and AI to the point where no human actually uses the Internet anymore.

It's like an island that gets overrun with rats - there are just too many to deal with so you leave.

 

Covering large parking lots with solar panels is an idea that goes back decades but in America at least it's an idea that has never really taken off.

What is the reason for that? Is it due to the overall cost or is there something else that keeps Walmart, Target, Costco, Sams Club, Malls, etc. from covering their parking lots with these panels and selling the power?

 

This question has been around for a while but I'm curious as to your answer

 

Sometimes you just want to brag about something you excel at but never get the chance or you're just to modest. Now is your chance to tell a bunch of internet strangers about your amazing talent.

 

When I tell people I've never seen the Lion King they are really baffled by that.

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