It’s the summers that we don’t get thunderstorms that I worry about, because those are the years we end up in extreme droughts and those are far more miserable. As for the heat, people find a reason to bitch about every season. It’s too cold. It’s too hot. Eew there’s bugs. Damned pollen. Fuckin’ leaves everywhere. Ice sucks. Bird shit all over. Santa Claus is coming to town, hide your kids and hide your wife.

Southern drawl versus text-to-speech. Bedazzle of the scent tree.

So nice. My giardiasis just finished blooming, the whole yard smelled of it.

I think it’s more than half, and I think the other half just touches themselves in private areas too taboo to mention on a Christian oriented site like Lemmy. Let’s just say, stay away from the devil’ jewels kiddos.

It’s because the system is gamed, we all know it, and you would be hard pressed to be able trust anything – even your own grandmother – when it comes to the internet. It’s nearly all psychological and sociological warfare.

If we see 5 stars, we just assume the bad reviews have been hidden or discarded, or simply never existed (since all the reviews good or bad are fake anyway). Because way too often, that’s exactly the case.

And when we see thousands of reviews we tend to ignore the fact that it’s computationally trivial to generate millions upon millions of reviews that are just believable enough to avoid automated detection and/or are easily influenced or corrupted by a variety of means (ex: social engineering, backdoor deals, etc). Psychologically we just close our eyes and ears, yell la-la-la-la-la mentally, and hope that the truth is buried in the myriad of faked/gamed reviews somewhere.

I know it’s the onion community, but I’m sure some people honestly believe this.

I had a relative somewhat recently make the statement that christians are the most oppressed group in the United States. She said that to me, a member of the LGBT community. Not that it’s a competition, but I can think of several dozen groups of people in the USA who I would consider to be more oppressed, but what do I know?

First they told us not to eat the yellow snow, now they’re telling us not to stick spring rolls up our poop chutes. It’s like doctors don’t want us to find any joy in our lives.

First they invented great barrier reef, now they make great barrier ointment. My God what horrors and highlights, the hubris of humankind.

I live in a rural area outside of a small town in the southern USA. The local electrician, basically the guy almost everybody calls if they need basic residential electrical work, earns almost twice the high end of what that job listing is paying. Granted, he’s basically on call 7 days a week and I’m sure his job isn’t always unicorn farts and leprechaun rainbows, but he’s his own boss and works his own hours.

ONLY CHILDREN NEED NOT APPLY

I completely understand.

I spent a semester of college working at Home Depot. It was a terrible experience and awful in so many different ways that I consider it my second worst job experience, only slightly behind the holier than thou “Christian business” that didn’t pay its employees and actively committed fraud against employees, clients, and the government. 25+ years later, I still don’t like to shop at Home Depot, it was so bad.

United States news. Posted from THE FUTURE! Hell yeah!

Those are pretty ladies and cute outfits! Hope they drink sufficient amounts of water and stay hydrated, else time may not be kind to their skin.

Nice try Steve.

Remember that time I discovered a major bug in Reddit that I reported dozens of times to the site’s feedback form and directly to your user account but I never got a response about and it never got fixed (until I used the exploit in a way that directly affected you)? Well, if that rings a bell, then guess what? It’s me again. Toodles.

I’m not defending it nor am I saying it’s typical, but it’s not that hard to spend $500 per person per month on groceries.

It’s definitely doable (and then some) for folks living in high cost of living places. I recently went on a quick weekend trip to such a place. I knew I didn’t have the type of money to dine out, but I figured I could suffice on a few staples from the grocery store. I visited several different stores, and the prices were all about the same (i.e. insane). The little pint (or half pint?) Ben and Jerry’s was $10 - 12. A container of romaine lettuce was $8. A package of Oscar Meyer sliced deli meat was $15. These prices are easily 3 - 4 times what they typically cost where I live.

Also, a lot of people shop at the kinds of stores where you can find everything from apples to Apple watches. And when people do their “grocery” shopping, they’re buying bulk paper towels, a case of wine, a new Switch game for the kids, cosmetics, cat litter, clothes, 30 pack of batteries, a couple azaleas, and a partridge in a pear tree and then calling that their grocery bill. So, it’s not exactly a fair label nor an accurate assumption that the grocery bill is just groceries (i.e. food).

And honestly, if you mean HOW as in how can they afford it: $500 x 4 = $2,000 or $24,000. A lot of money, sure, but median household income (in the USA) is like $80,000 and I’m guessing that $500 a month per person is above median expenditure (especially if we’re excluding the folks that like to include the partridge in their grocery bill), so most people spending that much on food would be earning way more than median income.

This is just so inaccurate. Sometimes it’s 90’s reboots and remakes with talking animals, too.

I loved my old smart block until they released a firmware update that bricked it.

Any pretty much any physical job comes with copious risks to your body and health, yet these types of employers typically don’t pay for employee health plans nor do they pay enough for employees to comfortably afford their own. Why would anybody want to risk severing a finger, breaking a leg, getting bitten by a dangerous snake, a nail to the hand, etc if they don’t have to, especially knowing they can’t afford the treatment and it could lead to lifelong pain and disability?

Well, hopefully those wealthy millennials will enjoy their distractions, homes, and retirement while the rest of us are dropped into the industrial grinders they use to reclaim the nutrients from our bodies.

World War 3D