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Watching Very Important People on Dropout

Vic Michaelis is very talented and pretty

listening to the crazy taxi soundtrack while driving for uber

Hexbear devs (@makotech222@hexbear.net ?) could you take a look at the alt text for emojies?

why the fuck do people always make baked beans that are so god damned sweet? idk why this bugs me so much. i used to like baked beans but the canned stuff always tastes super sweet, and then my dad started making his own and made it even sweeter. Why the fuck does every baked bean recipe i've ever heard of make shit taste like fucking candy? make it a savory dish for once

Have you suffered enough to justify your existence today?

For a brief moment in time (till rent's due) I have a positive net worth, which hasn't happened since I was 18. Feels nice, but also scary because the only way this happened was nothing going wrong for a while. I guess if stuff happens it happens so no use worrying, but still...

Did you know that face cards were invented to prevent Christians and Muslims from playing the same card games?

I got an estimate to fix my car and the guy doing it kept talking and talking. He was mostly pleasant, but I have a hard time with long interactions with people who don't know me.

I'm fairly certain I'm neurodivergent because "being normal" is exhausting for me. When I'm with people who know me, I'm fine, I could conversate for hours. But with strangers I feel like I'm an actor in a play I really don't want to be in.

Found out other fighting games cant use the frame bar in training mode because crapcom patented it back in 2019

I want to make falafel from scratch but would need to buy a food processor

Ive been trying to justify purchasing one for a while and I might actually do it this time

Finally at the end of my Lenin biography tearing up at the account of Lenin's deteriorating health and death

i have encountered a new kind of guy: committed "Hungarian Freedom Fighter" defender with her own self-published book about grandpa the "Hungarian Freedom Fighter." did you know i'm a liar for thinking that there being a "Hungarian Freedom Fighters Incorporated" that the CIA worked with to escape some "Hungarian Freedom Fighters" means that the CIA generally supported them? i guess i respect still advocating OG anti-tankieism in 2025 because that's pretty funny?

Mega mega mega THREAD

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What's a good job for when you use public transportation and don't have a permanent address?

Watching the recent Did You Know Gaming video on Gunpei Yokoi made me curious to check out the Japanese biography they mentioned ({任天堂|にんてんどう}ノスタルジー {横井|よこい}{軍平|ぐんぺい}とその{時代|じだい}). I thought it'd be fairly inaccessible, but I was surprised that I was able to get through the intro without too much difficulty—still very slowly, mind you, but I wasn't running to the dictionary every other word as I had expected. It's making me realize I might be setting myself up for failure by trying to read novels, since they tend to have all kinds of flowery language whereas nonfiction has more straightforward prose. I'm not sure I'm interested enough in Gunpei Yokoi to read this particular book, but I'm sure I can find some neat nonfiction books in my areas of interest that haven't been translated yet.

Backed my car into a power pole. So mad at myself. I was hurrying because I wanted to to get home, backed in to do a delivery. The pole had an electrical box on it and it creased a corner on my trunk and broke the backup light lens. Messed up the paint on the bumper when it bent, too.

Car insurance is such a scam. I've given them at least 20k over the years with only one $1400 claim, but if I have to use the insurance, I'm going to end up paying more in increased premiums.

Hopefully I can get it fixed with only a new trunk lid. I'm going to try to see if a shop can get me a junkyard part and blend the paint. Probably be minimum 3000, I bet more like 5000 if I elect to replace the bumper.

At least I can still use it while I wait

Made myself go on a walk and somehow I feel even more sad brain turn off pls

So few hours in the day when you have to keep working doubles. I may go back to my old habits of waking up super early just to exercise.

do germans have the most varied name across languages?

you have: german/tedesco/allemand/nemets/deutsch. Somebody like french spanish italians have semi-similar names, here they are just wild, with different starting points.

One would think it's cause they formed so late, but italy was also non-existent for majority of late middle ages

Chicago Papal Bulls

Barron Trump after Donald ruined his victoria 3 ironman save file by moving the sliders.

SpaceX tried another Starship test, and it went broadly like the last few. That is, the first stage booster pretty much worked as expected, but the upper stage failed. At engine cutoff, it started leaking all over the place and tumbling out of control, then the door they were going to test didn't open and it burned up on reentry again.

Know this people, if comments have more dislikes than likes, then they will fall to the bottom of the page and no one will see them without scrolling.

I keep making posts in mutual aid but so far I'm discouraged because none of them had any replies. I rapidly ended up in the streets but I know this is temporary until I get a rent deposit.

Presinald Trunt and the demacrogs around the world