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spicytuna62 , 18 hours ago

But then the results of that would be rigged, too.

spicytuna62 , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Show, don't tell. The author also broke that rule in Panel 5 with "sex change occurs sounds" written off to the side. We see the 𝓶𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬 𝓫𝓾𝓫𝓫𝓵𝓮. Clearly, that means the sex change occurred in the context of the setup. We get it, dude.

spicytuna62 , 1 day ago

Speaking of abusive owner, I saw a Cybertruck in the wild for the first time today. Pictures and videos don't do justice to how fucking atrocious those things are.

spicytuna62 OP , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Here's the seat tether

And here's his harness

Any harness will do, really. We don't even use the harness outside of the car. He does pretty well just being walked on his collar. He only ever pulls if he sees a squirrel. That's one area where we're working on training lol

I would be totally unsurprised to find out there's some pit in there. He came from a shelter, and all the local shelters have tons of pits. His history before the shelter is a big question mark.

spicytuna62 , 3 days ago

Some parrots can have very long lifespans. Like if you wait until you're 30 to get one, your bird might outlive you.

spicytuna62 , 5 days ago

Depends on what I need to return to baseline.

• Need to cry to just get it out? Moon Song by Phoebe Bridgers
• Need to scream at everything? Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters
• Need to just piss and moan for fourteen minutes? Beach Life-in-Death by Car Seat Headrest
• Need to feel calm again? Literally the entirety of Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
• Need something to lift me up so I can wear a happy face? Don't Stop by Fleetwood Mac

spicytuna62 , 6 days ago

Brb bouta put some lemon in my milk.

spicytuna62 , 7 days ago

I must admit I was mildly startled.

But I must also admit their timing was satisfactory.

spicytuna62 , 6 days ago

And theeeeeeeen?

spicytuna62 , 9 days ago

What did they expect?

spicytuna62 , 10 days ago

BOB! I LOVE IT!!

Also, my guy has a primordial pouch. It flops left and right when he walks. Very funny. Not fat, just at the upper end of a healthy weight.

spicytuna62 , 10 days ago

nostalgia

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/89978f8e-aceb-48cb-8034-7577ef7b0cd1.jpeg

spicytuna62 , 12 days ago

Mint and Kubuntu are great for newbies. Ubuntu is also great, but the community hates Ubuntu these days so be ready to get replies criticizing Ubuntu or your choice to use it. It still makes a lot of shit really easy.

spicytuna62 , 11 days ago

My small town's mascot was the Tigers. The next town to the north? Tigers. The town west of us? Their school shut down in 1997, but they were Tigers, too. The town south? Panthers. There is a town in the next county north that also is the Panthers.

Lots of big cats. No Cougars/Pumas/Mountain Lions, despite the fact that they're totally a native species. There was one town whose mascot was the Bobcats.

spicytuna62 , 12 days ago

Natty Light made you piss lightning, too?

spicytuna62 OP , 13 days ago

yeah

spicytuna62 , 14 days ago

For those who don't know:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/21f98c63-2c24-4011-a268-5aef4a2037d4.jpeg

spicytuna62 , 16 days ago

MY PKCELL

spicytuna62 , 17 days ago

I used Ubuntu for over 10 years. I loved it. But Canonical does have a lot of baggage. Plus, I wanted to go to the source. So that's why I use Debian. I'd still advise a new user to go for Mint if they loved the Windows UI or Ubuntu if they hated it. If you use and love Mint, I don't think anyone would criticize you for continuing to use it. If you use and love Ubuntu, I'd say Debian is a very easy next step.

spicytuna62 , 18 days ago

"I've no idea what you're talking about. This is my chair, and it's a bloody shame I'm not big enough to move your arse from it when you've stolen it."

Cat, probably.

spicytuna62 , 18 days ago

It's been the same story for years in Oklahoma. For a few years there, we were getting more earthquakes than California.

spicytuna62 , 19 days ago

I'm late to this, but since you asked...

I do my personal budgets in Excel. There are repetitive tasks that could easily be automated. Mostly just duplicating the worksheet and clearing previous entries. Also, I don't always remember to add the 45¢ surcharge for paying my water bill with an electronic check.

So I spent a whole weekend learning some surface level VBA and wrote a macro. It asks for a confirmation in case I accidentally fat finger my hot key. It duplicates the active worksheet. It wipes all of my previous budget entries. It asks about when I'm getting paid so it knows what order to put it in the workbook. It asks if there's an upcoming water bill and, if I answer yes, asks how much, then tacks 45¢ onto that. It asks how much money was in the bank prior to being paid, then how much my wife and I got paid. It asks how much money I plan to spend on gas and groceries. It analyzes how much I have set aside for the mortgage. If there's nothing and it's after the 15th of the month, it does the whole thing. If there's nothing and it's before the 16th of the month, it sets aside half. If there's anything there at all, it sets aside the remainder, regardless of today's date. If the full amount is there, it does nothing. It looks at a section I have set aside for my savings account, totals it, writes the balance forward, and clears the previous entries. It reminds me to set aside money for my credit card payments.

Among other things. It took probably took 30 hours to figure it out and write it. But now, given that I use Excel a lot at work, it's something I can take to the office.

Since getting my toes wet with VBA, I've also taken to some very basic bash scripting for things I want to automate on my computers.

spicytuna62 , 20 days ago

I would hardly run the AC if the hottest it got in summertime in Oklahoma City was 90°F. But last year, we had several instances where it got up to 100 or 105. And the dew point was 70-75 degrees all summer. So your sweat hardly evaporates. I run my AC all day to keep it 80 degrees and swampy indoors.

I would love to redo my whole house's HVAC system where one smallish central unit cools the kitchen and living room and each of the bedrooms have their own ductless mini split. This is one way to achieve zoning. There's no reason to cool the entire house to 65 degrees if I'm about to be asleep in the bedroom for the next 8 hours. There's no reason to try to keep the whole house cool when I'm about to spend my day in my home office. Just cool the room I'm in and leave the rest alone.

I could also do window units, but for some reason, my wife is vehemently opposed to them. Her parents just put window units in all their bedrooms and one in their living room. They don't use the central unit anymore. They only cool the room they're in right now, and their power bills went from $400 to $150 in summer. They paid for themselves in one season.

spicytuna62 , 23 days ago

AI rice cooker, anyone?

Spoiler alert: the rice cooking function was analog the whole time.

spicytuna62 , 24 days ago

This makes me wonder how many Lemmy users have optical drives. I do.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2d98b74b-03d1-4669-8f94-eb3301dab5ec.jpeg

spicytuna62 , 25 days ago

I'm a business/accounting grad and I can verify business majors look like this.

spicytuna62 , 25 days ago

I don't think this lake named itself.

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldatlas.com%2Fr%2Fw768%2Fupload%2Fc5%2Fea%2F56%2Fgreatslavelake-01.png

spicytuna62 , 25 days ago

Don't forget the soothing splat once it hits the floor from two meters up.

spicytuna62 , 24 days ago

My guy gets high up and projectile vomits to inflict maximum damage lol

I'm sure it's a soothing place for him but damn, does it make a mess sometimes.

spicytuna62 , 26 days ago

I finally deleted Windows 10 on Sunday. Ubuntu too. Now Debian is my only OS. I realized that every time I log into my Windows partition, it’s got a trillion updates to install because it’d been weeks since I last logged in. So why bother?

If I really need it for something again, I’ll just virtualize.

spicytuna62 , 26 days ago

My thing is I’ve got years of experience in Linux. I began using Ubuntu in 2012 because my laptop’s hard disk failed, the sticker with my product key had worn away, and I wasn’t paying $100 for another copy of Windows 7.

I’ve only been noncommittal about it this this long because of my Steam library. But with the Steam Deck and Proton being so damn good, and all my games working just as well on Linux as they did in Windows (many times, better), I just stopped using Windows altogether.

So there I was, staring at GNOME Disks for a couple hours. Knowing that like a bad relationship that was doing something for me, but also hurting me, it was best to break things off. And then I nuked that bitch lol

spicytuna62 , 26 days ago (edited 25 days ago)

There was a promotion around at the time where if you bought a Windows 7 laptop within a certain time frame, you could get $25 off your Windows 8 Pro license, which cost $40 on launch day.

And so on launch day, I paid $15 for my retail copy of Windows 8 Pro and installed it on my new PC.

Everyone shits on Win 8, but I had some shell extension that brought back the Win 7 start menu so I have somewhat fond memories of Win 8. I almost never had to deal with the Metro Start Screen.

spicytuna62 , 27 days ago

I also use private mode for searching things that I myself would be appalled to find in my own search history.

spicytuna62 , 28 days ago

My favorite is Cardi B = Cardigan Backyardigan

spicytuna62 , 1 month ago

McDonald’s has lost their place. They think that just because they decorate their stores like a Millennial’s minimalist dream hellscape that it suddenly makes a McChicken $2.49. No. It’s the same god damned sandwich I could buy 15 years ago, 2/$1. A couple friends and I once bought dinner there on couch cushion change and the few bucks we had in our pockets. And it was glorious. And I know the McDonalds’ around me are still paying $9-10 an hour. Like they were in '09. I’m not convinced the cost of everything else justifies the annihilation of the Dollar Menu.

It used to be that I went to McDonald’s because I was broke, tired, and hungry. I wasn’t going there because I wanted to be there. I was going there because I was burning the candle at both ends and was just desperate for anything that wasn’t meatless spaghetti I cooked last Wednesday. It was an inexpensive morale boost. I just can’t find a reason to go there anymore. For the money, there are WAY better options. We have more local chains that blow McDonalds out of the water.

Taco Bell is going the same route, but at least the food is consistently pretty good. I mean, it’s pretty hard to fuck up a bean burrito. But is a bean burrito really $1.79 now? I get they can’t be 79¢ forever, but damn, man. I just feel bad for broke college kids these days. You really can’t get a cheap meal anymore.

And don’t get me wrong - I’d happily pay today’s prices if I knew the workers were being paid $20 an hour like they should be, but I know they’re not. Not in Oklahoma.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.