[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 4 points 4 months ago

I do for certain local mom and pop places because then they remember me and give me extra fries/rice/extras and orders seem to go a little faster. With a chain, nah.

[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

Show me them marsh melons

[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 6 points 8 months ago

Sounds good to me and I'm a couple letters behind Gen Z. Either the scenes don't do anything for me, in which case they're boring, or they do something for me, in which case...what do I do when it's over? Do I pause and go take care of it, or sit there all hot and bothered while somebody talks about business stuff or getting the bad guys or whatever? Either way it's annoying. And I'm no prude, it's just, if I want to see sex I'll just watch porn. But I'm not watching porn, I'm trying to watch a story. IDK. It's like if the mall decided every store needed a stripper pole.

[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago

Me too! It'd be like a cross between Fig Newtons and those Pirouette things. I want them in blueberry too.

[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago
[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

Serious question for you OP and I ask it in a spirit of... possible solidarity? Anyway: I tend to word things clumsily, flub delicate social situations, and just generally put my foot in my mouth at the worst possible time. It's worse in high pressure situations. Are you like this too, and if so, do you worry a lot about unintentionally sabotaging your livelihood or relationships?

[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

It took a lot for me to get out of bed today. And then you had to go and show me this.

[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Tell me about it. My brain shows up at 3am with my life's blooper reel full box set on Blu-ray and a bucket of popcorn but is nowhere to be seen when it's time to remember where my other pants went.

[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I think I get what you're saying, and there was a time when I would've agreed. I spent more years than I care to admit on 4chan, years I wouldn't have spent if I didn't think there was some value to people expressing their opinions no matter what they were. But...I dunno man, it's not a ton of people, but I wouldn't call it a "very small" number of people. Also the issue I'm getting at isn't that they have a platform, it's that if you let them they will try to make every platform their platform. And if it's an organized group they will do so in an organized way that is not the same as Uncle Ted cocking off about immigrants again or whatever.

You're correct that you don't have to look at their profile, any more than you have to drink the pube punch. The issue isn't that I had to see the words of meanies. The issue is that allowing white supremacists to use your platform a) makes it look like the platform condones such things, which reflects both on the platform and the other users, which may cause the non-extremist users to leave if it gets bad enough, this tipping the balance of users more in the extremists' favor; and b) encourages people who agree with them. And the number of people who think certain people shouldn't have rights doesn't have to be very big for them to decide to organize and do something about it, including egging others on.

Also you mentioned tweets, so I should apologize for not clarifying before. When expressing concern over extremists inviting themselves, I was not thinking about Twitter so much as I was thinking about the fediverse. I'm more concerned with what people are trying to build here than with whatever it is they're doing at Twitter these days. Elon's gonna Elon and we can't control that. We can, though, choose what company we keep here.

[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Captcha comics and especially Inglip

[-] dumptruckdan@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

And when you first get in, the water is noticeably warmer by the time it hits your feet because you're so warm. When your feet start getting the cool water, then and only then are you done.

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