Yup. At my job it’s fairly common for annoying “urgent” requests to come in late afternoon on Fridays. Often from some of the upper management folks who do very little work. They finally realize “whoops, the weekend is almost here!” They suddenly want to check a box somewhere to make it look like they actually did something this week. And, of course, the requests are always a hand-off to someone in my department to do the actual work (which the requestor will take full credit for after we close the ticket).

No thanks. But nice try, travel agent cartoonist!

Joke’s on them. I get up at 5AM and I’m a worthless member of society.

I’ve been to Vegas a couple of times, many years ago. I enjoyed the shows, food, and silly debauched spectacle of it all. But it gets old after a day or two.

Did almost no gambling at all. The machines are very boring to me, and I’m too intimidated to play at a real game with other humans. I would misunderstand the rules and the odds, and screw up the etiquette. I know enough to know that the house has a significant edge in almost any game you play against them. Even on the “best” odds games.

One of the guys that I went with made a decent chunk of money at Texas Hold’em. He said he really wasn’t that great at it, he just got lucky and found a table full of drunk tourists who couldn’t play for shit, and yet they would try to chase after it.

The casinos that have popped up in my home town all look dreadfully depressing.

It’s sad how normalized gambling addiction has become.

Meh, Gordon Ramsey vibes.

Here’s how I frame it to myself: that person is basically screaming into the void after I block them. Sure, other people on here can see what they wrote, but 99.9% of them won’t care or remember. I was their “intended target” and I’ll never see their stupid comment. If it makes you feel any better, I’ve noticed a lot of troll types really hate being blocked and complain about it fairly regularly. You blocked them, you won the peace of them no longer existing for you.

Also, if you’ve blocked them for being obnoxious, others probably have, too.

This same phenomenon is how Trump rose to power. A lot of Americans are dumb AF and traditional politicians sound “fancy” and condescending when they speak, making them notice their own stupidity right in the feels. People like CK and 47 talk at their level and make them feel good about themselves, their regressive ignorant hatred of “libruls”, and so on. It’s Idiocracy in real life.

My pets depend on me and I love them.

Lot of judgement ITT. At least these guys have someone.

My sense of direction and route memory are complete dogshit, and always have been. When GPS became commonplace it was a godsend for me. But some people are still assholes about it and give grief for using GPS for 95% of my driving. Especially older people.

Thanks!

Dumb question: what is this illustration from? I recognize the art style, but can’t place it.

I’m even crankier. I’ve seen a handful of tats that I thought looked awesome. All the rest looked like some bored jr high kid doodled on the person’s skin.

I love that aspect of lemmy.

The ACKSHUALLY snipers, not so much.

I have noticed a few messages slipping through the past several weeks, whereas I used to get basically zero spam.

It’s a staple used in a fuckton of recipes in addition to being a go-to breakfast item. Many Americans stupidly ignore politics, but still pay a lot of attention to the prices of common goods like milk, eggs, bread, gasoline, etc. Folks are living hand to mouth because the billionaires hoard all the money.

I don’t like it, either. And I’m not a fan of the “obsessed with sex while shaming other people for being obsessed with sex” vibe of shit like this.

If you return ‘too many’ items they may suspend or even ban your account. I’m not sure what the threshold is.

And these disruptions can be more than just an inconvenience. People can lose their jobs for being late. They can miss medical appointments and procedures.

Tariffs hurt America. The messaging is that simple.

Watch as we fuck up the messaging.