MelodiousFunk

joined 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

what happens when they don’t deliver?

It will be the fault of The Other. The Other is evil. The Other is ruthless. The Other is mixing drag queen and trans DNA in your child's classroom using your fine silver and selling it to power the space lasers. Lies are the gift that keeps on giving.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Many instances have domain names that look invalid and/or like scam sites to non-techies. Dot world? Dot social? Dot [obscure country TLD]? There's also no guarantees that the domain will indicate that it's a Lemmy site. Both of these become problematic with sharing, as the default (? been a while since I've used the web interface) share function links to the poster's instance and not the community instance. A year and a half ago, the shared links section in my messenger was mostly a Reddit flood. Today, it looks like someone spilled alphabet soup.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Hard to avoid the local cable monopoly for internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Doubtful. Dude ain't got no ups.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Where do pieces end and particles begin?

philosoraptor.jpg

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I have two Vizio panels, a 2017 and a 2023. Neither are connected to my network. The 2017 got a couple of firmware updates via wired connection in the first year but I nixed that after an update nearly bricked it. The 2023 will turn itself back on for a few seconds occasionally (just the electronics, not the panel)... possibly looking for an open network but I have no way to verify. Neither complain about a lack of connection unless I accidentally select their streaming input.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

If it was 20, maybe even 10 years later, I might have been diagnosed with ADHD as a child. But I wasn't disruptive and I scored extremely well on tests. In the 80s, that overruled pretty much everything else. And when I had trouble later, it was because I was "lazy." This is why I dislike the narrative that "gifted means everything came easily until it didn't and then they failed because they didn't face hardship." I didn't have trouble because I wasn't challenged. I had trouble because I had undiagnosed ADHD and autism, but got slapped with the lazy label early and often. Nothing I did was ever enough, and I was told my whole life that I just wasn't trying hard enough. All because I learned to read before kindergarten and scored in the 99th percentile on standardized testing.

Meanwhile, the 5-6 people from my elementary gifted classes that graduated with me all kept excelling through school and into their careers. Which also contradicts the easy narrative that sprang up around "gifted." Not sure how many of them had concurrent neurodivergencies... but I was the weird one even among the weird kids lol.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I just realized that the examples in the meme leave out an important part of the ensemble: calf-high white tube socks with multicolor bands at the top.

If you're gonna rock it, rock it all the way.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Aside from my slab o'flab making people wish my top had not been cropped, those daddy dukes look like junk-crunchers.

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