sawdustprophet

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

And the right wingers said, "Well we didn't think it would work!"

I recall a number of voters who voted in favor of Brexit who were interviewed and said things like "but I didn't think it would actually happen!"

I also seem to recall a similar sentiment in a case where people voted to strip funding from a local library in Michigan, then were shocked when the library had to close.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Maybe we should chip in and buy a second robot.

Hear me out: three robots.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 7 months ago (1 children)

shit down the government

I don't know if this was a typo, but it's rather appropriate either way.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Where's a good place to start? Is there some overarching narrative or can you read them in any order?

While there are myriad reading orders that have been devised over the years, my method with long extended series such as this one is simple: I consume them in the order in which they were produced/released.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Now I can't read that without hearing Avery Brooks' voice.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (6 children)

You don't actually give the card to the employees, do you?

Typically when I go through a drive thru, I hand my card to someone who then leans back inside to swipe/tap/whatever it, then they hand it back. So yes, commonly I do give my card to an employee for at least a few seconds.

During 2020-2022 more of them were in the habit of placing the PIN pad at the window so it could be reached by customers from their cars, but it wasn't designed to be used that way and I'm sure it caused other issues.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (6 children)

She was a Scottish immigrant and her son is first-generation Scottish-American on her side.

I think the person above you is using the US Census Bureau definition of generations, which is that the first gen is the immigrant themselves, second gen their children. That's how I've always understood it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Gotta imagine that ladder was covered in ice for much of the year.

Assuming this is in fact in Chernivtsi, as the post title says, it's not too bad there. Mean temp falls below freezing for three months out of the year.

Still, probably not fun to climb when there is ice...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernivtsi#Climate

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Dinner time would be around 0.7083 o-clock.

This is fairly similar to .beat time; in that system you would write it as @708. I guess you could make it @708.3 to be more specific.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Next they'll say voting is a major threat to democracy.

Didn't they just declare at the RNC that they don't want to live in a democracy?

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