Boxing Champion of the World
average man by day, average man by night. / you get more points being on lemmy than you do on reddit / movie enthusiast / formerly /u/doug on reddit
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I had a roommate once ask me to come with him to buy a $40 table he found off Craigslist.
We show up, they show him the table.
“k I’m all ready to take this home, the thing is… I only have $20.”Motherfucker brought me in just to help pressure them into his haggling.
I mean yes it worked, but I was so goddamn uncomfortable. I have no idea what happened to him/we haven’t kept in touch, but it sadly wouldn’t surprise me if he was some god awful CEO.
Me: You want my help in haunting this conservative suburbia? Take my hand! Let me down there!
It: Well it’s more nuanced than that, for one thing you die,
Me: Bud I’m dead already.
It: Very violently….
Me: thanks for priming me!
It: …fuck off. If you want it, it’s not as tasty. You gotta be afraid of me for this thing to work.
Me: YOU FINICKY CHICKENSHIT!
Doug@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Roku OS’s home screen now features a large, permanent adEnglish
3·5 days agoditto.
I have the Projectivity launcher on my Bravia; greatest thing I’ve ever done to my TV. But it’s still a Google TV first, and I doubt they’ll allow launchers for much longer. I feel like my time is limited with the setup I enjoy; and seeing ads get more invasive elsewhere paired with clamping down on VPNs, it just makes me think it’s just gonna get worse
Doug@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•Pam Bondi’s Secret Health Battle Is RevealedEnglish
4·5 days agoDoesn’t alcohol consumption have a direct link to heart disease and cancer? If so, it’s the only modicum of hope I have whenever I see them drinking as much as they do.
Then again there was George Burns, who proved you can still win the gamble ‘till you’re 100+
Doug@piefed.socialto
politics @lemmy.world•Did Donald Trump Just Hand Texas to Democrats?English
381·6 days agoDid we write an article that may convince people everything will be OK without them needing to do anything?
Doug@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ agesEnglish
72·7 days agoHm? Did you say something? Sorry, I was distracted.
don’t worry they made a sequel
No no, you heard them, donating to a food bank will fix it all.
You’re operating in black and white in a world of grays, bud. I already stated the catharsis and swaying minds and public shaming, and your response is pretty much “food banks or bust.”
I know dogmatism when I see it, so have a good one.
Woof that’s a take, you think we can food bank our way out of this?
While I would agree these stickers are not giant forms of activism and can only hope it’s not the only thing whoever has this sentiment is doing, I wouldn’t say it’s useless.
It’s cathartic for one, and helps broadcast and share to like-minded people there are allies in the area, while also helping cultivate a sense of shame onto any of Trump’s enablers, which is what they need to have done to them.
Note the distinction between making them feel shame (which is impossible) and shaming them.; these enablers have shown they lack empathy, which means they distill interpersonal relationships down to transactions; what can someone else do for them? If another party can’t do anything for them, then that party is useless and in the negatives, “subhuman,” pretty much.
Shaming these Trump enablers offsets their interpersonal transactions, putting them in the negative, leaving them in a defensive position instead of offensive.
Granted one little sticker is not going to do that alone, but you can’t make waves without drops.
I don’t judge anyone for buying or using these stickers. To each their own.
Doug@piefed.socialto
Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Useful Life Skills [extra fabulous]English
1·12 days agoAnd then I’ll remind you that it’s well within most governments’ capabilities to do their citizens taxes for them. Also any for-profit service you use to do your taxes uses the money you give them to lobby the government to keep the tax system this way. Also your taxes are getting used for unfathomable crimes, and there’s no paper trail or audit done to them to prove your tax dollars are going where you’d like them to.
Doug@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11English
1·15 days agoIt’s like they created a very good phone tree and are trying to shove it into everything that never had or needed a phone tree in the first place.




you have my consent to crank that hog all you want.
I’m a bit curious how one’s motorcycle gets them erect, but I suppose with a bit of vibration, anything’s possible.