I’m positive it was meant as hyperbole.

What a casual strat. Real men wear one of those magnetic rings and use it to diddle their laptop’s Hall effect lid sensor.

Every man has his price at which he’ll abandon any cause. Running a business is hard – It’s a big gamble and full of costs and expenses, you have to warranty the crap you make, source parts, fight with vendors, the whole lot. It’s a pain in the ass. But taking a big cash payout is easy.

I’ll bet these guys had student loans. And I’ll bet you they don’t anymore.

Here’s this again. I get to bring it out every time this sort of thing comes up. It never ceases to be a masterpiece.

The inimitable Daniel Rutter presents: Your Computer Is Not Alive.

This column was written in 2002. Human nature being what it is, it is still relevant.

I.e. hiring some Mexicans to do it, and then bitching about Mexicans stealing our jobs.

My SO and I discussed that engagement rings shouldn’t be expensive.

Correct answer. This indicates that the two of you have at least some kind of head on your shoulders.

I used a literal piece of costume jewelry for the proposal. It was very shiny, but only $10. The point of this was, we got a “real” engagement ring afterwards and she could pick what she wanted rather than me doing it for her and getting it wrong. We ultimately settled on a moissanite rock which is, it must be said, hella sparkly. And significantly cheaper than getting a diamond which she’d be forever fearful of losing or smashing out of the setting, or whatever. After visiting quite a few jewelry places, believe it or not the place where we found the one she loved was at Walmart. I still feel sophisticated to this very day.

Fellas, if your chickie is more worried about how shiny a pebble you’ve brought her is rather than, you know, the person bringing it, what you have yourself there is a problem.

I just realized I don’t own a single pair of jeans.

…Fuck.

People just can’t resist the urge to say something, even if it’s useless. Especially if it’s useless. (Even me, here I am saying something.)

But in this particular community, if you don’t actually know with certainty what something is it doesn’t seem to hard to just shut the fuck up. There’s no value whatsoever in conjecture. I had no idea what the hell this thing was but I was interested to find out, but I sure as hell didn’t feel the need to speculate…

VHS was 2

VHS did have a halfassed copy protection technology attempted, though, which was Macrovision. It didn’t really work worth a damn in the end, but even in that area the media giants were already huffing on the DRM crack pipe.

It’s easy as long as you’re okay with only being able to fit probably 1-2 minutes of video, the resulting disk not playing in any consumer player ever, and probably not even being capable of real time playback on a powerful PC with a fast drive.

This is pretty much 8mm, which is widely used in blank guns already.

A guy I know bought a house in my town which still had a “no sales or subletting to negroes” clause in its deed when he took possession. His realtor told him it was totally unenforceable in this century, but would be a hassle to have officially removed. I have no idea of the veracity of the latter statement, but I did see a copy of the covenant and the offending clause was indeed present.

People say, “it wasn’t that long ago that we cast off that kind of racism.” Uh, no. It still hasn’t actually been cast off.

thus there are scams based purely on that.

There absolutely are. The ownership of the company I work for is of a particular nationality, and every single time we have been given counterfeit bills as payment it has been from another member of said nationality, which the owner thinks is one of his “buddies.”

Every time.

And it’s usually those same guys trying to rip us off in other ways, too. I keep telling him that these motherfuckers are trying to take him for a ride about 75% of the time and it’s plainly visible from an outside perspective, but he won’t hear it. They’re his countrymen. (No, I won’t say which nationality.)

how is my calculator app going to find me a date?

You could turn it upside down and spell “boobies?”

I’d doubt this is a thing that’s unique to Lemmy, but A) moderatorship in general attracts a certain kind of individual and B) Lemmy as a whole seems to attract a user base with a fairly consistent mindset which tends to be overall left leaning and a little bit radical. A lot of the normies are probably still on reddit, or wherever the fuck.

…Says the chump who moderates three communities (one of which is dead), so everything I say on the matter may be bullshit.

There are exceptions, like the various infamous tankie instances. The thing about Lemmy instances is anyone with thumbs and a credit card to pay for hosting can create one and then make it their own ideological hobby-horse.

ToS had the first interracial kiss shown on television. And then there was this entire episode.

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

I’m always down for any justification to trot out this D.C. Simpson strip:

I am positive I did, but I was making what is known as “a joke” about your assumption that the statistical distribution of states that do/don’t require front plates would have squat to do with it. Did the Ohio bit not tip you off?

You might be right, but it sure looks like a mini split to me.