I heard him tell a story about the time he had a close call with guys with machine guns on one of his foreign aid missions, and found himself on his knees with his hands in the air. He said he was worried that they’d figure out that they were safe, and start to let them go, and then recognize him, and say “YOU PUT NIPPLES ON THE BAT SUIT!” and shoot him anyway.

So how much did this cost?

It’s Biden’s fault.

It’s going to cost a fortune to feed that beast.

And he’s going to hog the bed.

There were other serious problems standing in the way of making them pets. Probably the worst is that they pee everywhere, and the pee is extremely foul smelling, so you can’t keep them in the house, no matter how friendly they might be.

They also don’t make cute or useful sound like a bark, or a purr, they make a really loud, very annoying wail, that gets on the nerves of even the most ardent fox lover.

Even after all these years of breeding, these serious issues remain, keeping them from becoming viable pets for the foreseeable future.

Exactly. My wife hasn’t used an actual computer more than a handful of times in the last several years. She does EVERYTHING on her smartphone.

I have never owned a laptop, because my desktop unit is where I do most of my business stuff, and when I’m away from that, my smartphone is good enough.

Of course, the most important thing isn’t that we account for two less computers than a few years ago, but the smartphones that we have replaced laptops with, run Android. So that’s actually a net loss of 4 MS products.

And after all these years, Windows products still make me frustrated and infuriated. You’d think they would have honed it to a perfect product by now, but every few years they completely reconfigure the UI, and make us have to navigate a whole new, buggy system.

They’ll find out that he donated a dollar to a charity at the grocery store checkout when he was 12, so he’s a Democrat.

Jesus being led by the Roman Guards to see Pilate.

This photo did not have the propaganda effect they were expecting. It had a propaganda effect, but for the wrong side.

They’re going to fuck up this case so bad, Luigi’s going to walk, and the MAGA Nazis are going to go apeshit. Next summer is going to be wild.

They aren’t innocent, they are knowingly creating a devastating weapon of mass destruction for a regime who has declared that they intend to use it. While I don’t support this sort of unprovoked attack, I can’t get too worked up over the demise of literally mad scientists.

I have a similar story with ex-partners, but not as long and convoluted, and also without such a successful outcome, but I definitely understand how dastardly ex-partners can motivate you to want to succeed without them.

Yeah, the interest idea doesn’t make sense, especially since for most of the 21st century the interest on savings accounts has been negligible.

If it cost $6 on the $1500 loan, that’s most (of not all) of the interest right there, and it takes time for that interest to accrue significantly. It’s not going to happen in a couple of days.

If this was the scheme, then your ex-boss was no criminal mastermind.

Edgar Allen Poe laid out the rules for a fully satisfying revenge in his story The Cask of Amontillado:

1. The revenge has to be worse than the original offense.

2. You have to get away with it.

3. The person has to know who did it, and why, yet there’s nothing they can do about it.

Take away any of those factors, and it isn’t a fully satisfying revenge plot.

It’s a tiny bear, imported from Russia. $8000.

This is going to be the threat that EVERY employee will hear over the next several years, whenever they ask for any sort of a raise, promotion, etc. “Just be glad we don’t replace you with AI.”

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When everyone started getting excited about The Cloud, all I could think about was how stupid it was to trust EVERYTHING in your life to some third-party corporation. What could possibly go wrong?

He’s just mad because his daughter has a working willie, and he don’t.

Yep, this is how Michelangelo started, painting his bedroom walls. One day, it’s the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Well, that’s been done, but maybe the food court ceiling at the mall.

I’m trying to figure out to move to another instance, and found my mod logs. Turns out a lot of my best posts have been deleted, often for stupid reasons. Apparently Lemmy isn’t much better than Reddit as far as tolerating free speech.

I managed to find a new instance, but my posts haven’t ported over. Looks like I’m starting over.