Not just union jobs, but traditionally union industries like auto workers as well. I have a friend that works in a factory in the US south. Not union, but the pay and benefits are close to keep UAW from gaining a foothold. He would complain about them handing out flyers in front of the plant every so often.

After a recent incident that had him sweating bullets over potentially losing his job for something minor (and having to face management and HR alone), I told him to take the leaflet next time. I hope he does.

I earned my dad joke card in 1985 when I came around the corner carrying a joke book and like 7 kids groaned.

is old

I never did understand how an ocean can contain multiple seas.

This one is just cheating.

Network monitoring engineers: explains for the umpteenth time that a node reporting down isn’t just a single dropped packet

Not all of us forgot 🖖

https://lemmy.world/comment/12669332

Related Wendover video.

https://youtu.be/AIqxfBhlwx0

10/10, well done!

I was getting gas 6-7 years ago. The attendant pointed at my Strong Bad decal and got all excited because he used to sit on his dad’s lap and watch them on the computer.

😒

ExtremeRate should have you covered at some point.

151,822. There will be no recount. 😤

I’m aware. I also have various anxiety disorders and claustrophobia. Thoughts can trigger things just as easily as actual events.

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This entire discussion has me on the edge of a panic attack, even though I am by myself and in no imminent danger.

I would leave about 1/4 acre unmowed on the side

If I did that my entire yard would be overgrown, because it’s smaller than that lol. I did let the backyard mostly go wild a few years ago, had an interesting mix of native species and invasive. Invasive won by a landslide, even while manually keeping the English ivy in check. Creeping Charlie and purple deadnettle went everywhere. Some areas eroded so much due to lack of turf roots (either outcompeted or succumbed to the combo of early direct light followed by shade most of the day) that it’s basically just big baked bald spots. One of these years I’m going to try and figure something out to repair it… just need the intersection of time and money.

Also run all those “mosquito control” companies out of town, because they’re killing all the insects on all the properties around wherever they spray

Had a guy knock on my door a few months ago. They were “doing work in the neighborhood” (of course) and offering to treat the yard for carpenter ants. I declined. “It sure would be a shame if your neighbors all got treated and you ended up with an infestation.” Buddy, if all you got is movie mob threats, your career in “sales” is going to go about as well as the last dozen things you tried and failed at.

heard of it and think it’s some kind of nerdy thing from the past.

This just happened to me on Saturday.

Need? None, really. It’s like when you get to the North Pole, the entire concept of “north” breaks down. It would be the same with post-scarcity. Or should be, except…

Have? Completely up to the whims of whoever controls the technology. Which… takes a look at the planet will be whoever is left standing once the nut jobs wipe out everyone that they hate. “Computer, ICBM, nuclear.”

Same. Bummed that we’ll probably never get remasters of DS9 and Voyager.

Sociopathy, mostly.