Sumocat

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

Well, he wasn’t all wrong.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

“In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say.” — Sadly, this part has been solidly disproven.

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

There are those who sing “I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo,” and those who claim to be “the opposite of weird.”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

That dog looks miserable af.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Nah. Everyone knew everyone back then, and my uncle loves sharing his stories. Basically all he did was tell that then-eight year old story, which still holds up.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (4 children)

My uncle was in that story. Decades ago, he told his boss a program would stop working in eight years (8-bit limitation, yeah, that long ago). His boss told him to ship it because they weren’t going to be there in eight years. Sure enough, they weren’t. Eight years later, their IT guy contacted my uncle because he couldn’t figure out why it stopped working, and my uncle showed him the math.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

They’ve done studies: 48% of the time, it works every time.