Gullible

joined 1 year ago
[–] Gullible@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is potentially the grimmest perspective I’ve ever read. I don’t think you’re wrong, either.

[–] Gullible@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tony hawk gazes upon the mountains before him. The pale mountains of Switzerland, in the multilingual country of Switzerland, located near the center of Europe. The peaks before him, Swiss mountains of the country of Switzerland in a region predominantly speaking German, beckoned him. He loaded his skateboard underneath his arm and ambled toward the mass of earth that he would make his.

The journey was long and rife with Italian and German-speaking Swiss pointing out his appearance, but he broke free of their eyes and ankles and climbed to the summit. As he slid the skateboard out from beneath his sensuous arm, he awakened. In one fluid motion, he dropped and mounted the board, riding down the mountain like a man in fire, breaking the language barrier as he shrieked affirmations of his identity in hypoxic confusion. Each of his limbs were found in separate lingual regions, leading the world to posthumously dub him “Switzerland’s Exodia.”

 

>be me

>22 and poor in college

>deliver food for a restaurant for a few months

>sometimes people order takeout but don't pick it up

>if it happens late enough in my shift I get to take it home with me

>always ate the best those nights since it was free

>be me now, 35+

>started calling corporate restaurants and ordering takeout about a half hour before close

>always spoof the caller ID to show up as my ex wife

>been doing it for about 3 years

>never pick it up

>gives me a warm fuzzy feeling knowing i gave some young person a free meal and also my ex gets black listed from every restaurant in town

[–] Gullible@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You mention downvotes? Believe it or not, reduce. You mention upvotes, also reduce. We have the best comments in the world because of reduce.

[–] Gullible@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really don’t understand the removal of awards. Why dump a system that makes them money for, basically, Venmo with higher fees. Who’s the target demographic for this?

[–] Gullible@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s this ”B” thing? I’ve seen it a few times on unique accounts.

[–] Gullible@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Sounds like they’re in the market for fight milk, official drink of the ufc.

[–] Gullible@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man, the people who say everyone’s way too obsessed with trans people are way too obsessed with trans people.

[–] Gullible@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I like never reading “should of”, as well. Every browser and phone’s autocorrect aggressively suggests a correction to “have.” Sometimes you don’t notice an apostrophe appearing in the middle of a word, so I can forgive “it’s,” but there’s little excuse for fighting with autocorrect to write “should of.”

[–] Gullible@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not sure whether the issues plaguing Reddit really apply to lemmy, even with a single instance being disproportionately larger than the others, which makes “Reddit 2.0” a bit less derogatory to me. Reddit’s moderator tools were severely lacking for the required output (federation helps diffuse communities, and lemmy doesn’t encourage bots to swarm in order to increase apparent user numbers for investor satisfaction), every big anti-hate decision required a media spectacle to precede it (admins here aren’t free speech absolutists with authoritarian hard-ons), and staff retention at Reddit is an odd loop of promotion into managerial obsolescence which severely increases overhead (irrelevant to lemmy). Reddit 2.0 wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to me.