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Cake day: August 21st, 2023

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  • Was back when I was 19 or 20, was hanging out with my buddies from home over the summer while on break

    We were at a McDonald’s at 1:30 or 2 am. Kid around our age comes screeching into the McDonald’s parking lot, going over curbs and everything, sparks flying from two wheels. He had punctured both his front tires and was riding on rims. Turns out one of my friends knew him - he takes a look, looks at the guy, goes “yo man, you probably don’t wanna drive on those”

    Kid goes “yeah well I really want McDonald’s I’m gonna go home after”

    My friend goes “you live about 15 min away, you really shouldn’t drive.”

    He gets his shit and starts driving, sparks still going off. Were a little concerned so we follow him. 200 feet later he gets pulled over, so we pull over behind the cop. The cop looks at us and goes “do you guys know this idiot?”

    My buddy’s like yeah…

    Cop says you should get him in your car.

    Kid refuses. Drives 8 miles home in rims. Smoke everywhere, most awful sound you’ve ever heard. We follow him home, I find out he’s dumb rich.

    We go into his guest house, which was bigger than all of our actual houses, smoke one, then leave.



  • That is of course a possibility and we cannot discount it, but I think it far more likely that we wipe ourselves, and in addition a ton of other life off the planet, but there will always be some that survives. Same way that when the dinosaurs died mammals came up. Maybe they won’t be mammals. Maybe some other form of life, but it will most likely exist after us. And once we are Gone and not constantly throwing more planet warming and toxic gasses and toxic materials out into the world, the earth will slowly correct itself and disseminate that.

    Right now our feedback loops are occurring because we are not really changing anything in what we do.


  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldButter is serious business
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    3 months ago

    No it’s not it’s specifically that companies can sell Americans the same food they sell in other countries but in those countries, the same food is made with much better ingredients.

    Look at the difference between the ingredient list in a Heinz ketchup bottle in the EU vs in America.



  • Having worked in IT about 12 to 15 years ago I can honestly say I just stopped believing people when they told me they did things or checked things because 99% of the time it was just a flat out lie.

    And taking them at their word meant wasting my own time because usually it was just a quick fix that I suggested in the first place.

    It quickly, quickly taught me that 99% of people are fucking idiots, and that even the smart ones who actually knew what they were doing with a computer could be idiots too.



  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldA lot.
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    6 months ago

    At the same time, apparently the distress call went out moments before. A ship that size is not going to be able to turn in time, and a ship that weight is going to impart a hell of a lot of force even if moving slowly.

    Someone very well may have fucked up, I would say the chances are pretty high, but I feel like that happened well before the power went out







  • LotrOrc@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldRamen
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    10 months ago

    Let people drink/smoke

    Obviously don’t let people drive drunk and have specific areas for smokers in public places

    But if you’re chilling at your house or apartment and want to smoke one outside that shouldn’t be illegal