Rules

And I'm sure they already take creative liberties with it

It showed up out of nowhere, made the most bank in history (for a movie), refused to explain and disappeared for like 15 years, then came back out of nowhere with a sequel movie, a AAA game, and like 3 more movies in the works.

Edit: I think it now has like a Lego line too?

This dog knows before anyone else when food has been dropped;

is always first on the scene;

and he's generally got whatever it is half-way in his mouth before I say he can have it.

... i think i'll get him a yellow flashing light for his collar next birthday.

We are just finding out about a child sex trafficking ring involving politicians and billionaires, the world’s richest man does a Nazi salute at a political rally, and the President being an adjudicated sex criminal is probably not the worst thing he has done…

Meanwhile I’m standing here in the checkout line feeling guilty about whether or not I should tip a barista

Something is wrong with our collective notion of morality, and my individual understanding (Oh well, here we are)

I feel like the people I interact with irl don't even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

The vast majority of voicemails that I get from unknown numbers are a prerecorded pitch about improving SCO. Too bad I registered some websites before there were privacy options to prevent personal info from appearing in a whois lookup.

Even better: let me set a list of keywords that flag or delete messages if they appear in the transcription. Sigh.

If you don’t know what it means, you’re probably going to need to look it up.

Like use a cheap brown paper bag and stick the label on that. Cheaper and much less plastic waste. If I wanted a pill bottle, I can buy my own.

They think that huge truck is gonna make them feel accepted and thus loved and actually they’re just sad that their parents didn’t hug them enough and tell them it’s okay to feel pain or sadness

As in, I remember that back in my apprentice days I knew how much I got paid per hour.
Now recently I had to look trough my documents to find out what my monthly salary even is because it's raise season and I have to give my manager a number higher than that so that he can advocate for it to the board of directors.

I still remember my yearly salary semi-accurately (like within 10%), but I bet super rich people either go by decades or don't know at all what they make in a year.

On the other side, my friends who work retail jobs have a decent estimate of what they make per week or two week span, even if they are paid monthly.

That’s not what I mean….

I was just listening to a biologist podcast about tardigrades and learnt we've been subjecting them to all the extremes to see what they can tolerate: super-fast speeds, radiation, you name it we've done it to them...

Think if super-advanced aliens did this to us. Oh. Oh god. 'How much velocity to squish us?' 'How much sound to shake us apart?'

Suddenly anal probing doesn't seem so bad.

e: ‘we’ll stick an appropriately-sized thing into an orifice that seems made for that’ sounds downright friendly by comparison.

Maybe it'll be an apocalypse movie

Are they just casually having a professional game whenever their cat gets bored?