ButteryMonkey

“Abolish ICE” made up about 70 percent of the entries in the contest among over 13,300 submissions, according to the outlet Block Club Chicago.

lol that’s fantastic

You can usually call to have your billing cycle adjusted so you can either spread them out or have them all come due at the same time. Not every bill from every company, like rent might not be super flexible, but most utilities and subscriptions and stuff are willing to roll a partial month into the next billing cycle to give you a new due date.

My favorite no-notice rage quit (tho I’ve done it several times) was when I worked for a call center dealing with big money warranty stuff. People frequently tried to get the warranty extended to cover whatever, even though it was an extremely generous warranty anyway. My mom had died a few months prior, and of course I got the minimum legally acceptable bereavement time. Three days I think. Maybe a week.

On her birthday, I had to work, and I fielded a call by someone who was giving me some sob story about how she couldn’t possibly have followed up on the warranty in the last three years since the problem started because her dad had a stroke. They were now two years outside of the warranty period, and this was the first contact we ever had with them.

I was like look, my mom died a few months back and you know what I did the next day? I paid my bills like an adult because they were due. Today would have been her birthday, and I have to work because that’s what adults do. If you can’t get your shit together in three damned years, you deserve to pay to fix it yourself. Get bent and don’t try to guilt trip people when you don’t know what they are dealing with.

I hung up on her as she stammered some objection, logged out of everything, took my badge and parking pass, slammed them on my supervisors desk, said “you’ll probably want to review my last call.” And walked out. That call wasn’t why I quit, but it was the catalyst.

Edit: apparently this posted as a top level comment… it was meant to be a reply to the chain about no notice quitting… my bad

Yeah, honestly they have needed to be changed for years now, what with all the data breaches and stuff… Pretty sure everyone’s info was leaked ages ago. Nothing has been done because this is how the people in charge want it.

My embroidery machine is really old, like 30+ yrs, with very basic programmability, and it can do stitches in multiple directions. It has a foot plate thing that moves the cloth as needed, and it works pretty well.

I have to imagine a newer more advanced one would be capable of something like this, tho would probably need to be simplified somewhat.

So the cure for hiccups is milkshakes…

Who knew?

I miss the days of requesting big thick catalogues be sent to you in the mail from companies you’d want to do business with. They’d send you a catalogue once or twice a year and then stop if you don’t buy anything for a while. I think that was a good method, the same way I don’t mind seeing other things available on websites I’m buying from.

I also don’t mind stuff like local coupon/advert mailers that come once a month or whatever, but those tend to all just be big companies advertising “sales” that always run these days, rather than anyone I’d want to try to support. But I like the idea of packaging up all the ads they want to send out and delivering them in one go. Maybe with an opt-out. All other junk mail, stuff you didn’t request, should be banned.

And I think signage on store windows and stuff is fine, as long as it’s not an eyesore, but billboards and rooftop signage should definitely be banned. Protruding signs like that hang off the side of buildings should also go.

Meatspace advertisements are the worst imo, because there’s very little you can do to avoid them.

This comment reminded me of why I haven’t actually played it. I’ve tried it several times and feel the same way.

I think this is probably the one and only time I could get behind slave labor, since it’s explicitly allowed in exactly this way (absolutely should not be, but maybe the rich wouldn’t support that anymore if they saw this happen, and we could get rid of it). Keeping them alive on the public dime with no hope for them being rehabilitated isn’t a great option, but I’m not a fan of death penalty either. That’s too easy.

I say we put them to work on projects to support marginalized communities, especially shit jobs nobody else wants to do. No pay, no perks, just labor in service of the public they wronged. Maybe have them cleaning chemically-damaged sites so they can be used for something good. That sounds good since they directly profit from pollution now.

Quietly move them from place to place so they can’t stay in contact with other powerful people, and maybe that would do it.

This became incredibly obvious to me several months ago. I was trying to buy vape parts (coils and tanks, no liquids or batteries or anything) and the site wanted me to do a 3-D selfie to verify my age.

First of all, absolfuckinglutely not. Second of all, metal and plastic aren’t controlled substances so there’s no reason I even should have been carded, much less asked for 3-D face scan shit… so yeah it wasn’t FOR anything other than data mining.

The chaos might be enough to sow doubt when the claims of rigging start flowing, as we all know they will… maybe that’s all they really want, and everything else is a bonus.

Fuck you for calling me out like this.

🤷🏻 you do you fam.

I’m under no delusion that people aren’t tagging me if their platform allows it. I just don’t care, because it’s a nice way to keep track of who is who and what they are like, the way faces or voices work in person. If someone wants to tag me as an asshole, or whatever, they will.

I try not to be one, of course (tho posts like these do fallow my fuck field, so none grow and I have none left to give), but I have zero control over how people perceive me so I don’t really care.

Oh for sure, I appreciate the effort to help :)

Age 5, yes.

I know that’s why but explaining to other people is easier to just describe :)

It’s not a blocklist, it’s just information tags.

Noon is a whole different ballpark. ;) Very flexible.

I like going through all the posts like these so I can tag people who whine about how men have it so hard or whatever incel nonsense they spout to derail. Have to know who isn’t worth interacting with in certain ways. I always end up with at least 5 new users tagged (across a spectrum of descriptors from mild to extreme). They just… there are so many of them… everywhere…

Edit: Awwwww sensitive dudes downvoting the fact that I’m keeping an eye on who is a shitheel for my own information. So cute, keep it up! Just don’t be a shitheel and you won’t get a tag and it won’t even matter. EZPZ.

Any time I get even remotely bored while needing to focus on the boring thing, I start falling asleep. I can’t help it, my brain just goes into power saving mode when it’s being forced into something completely unstimulating. I desperately wish I could harness this power, but even books about statistics or the history of the concept of zero are too interesting and will keep me up and engaged. It has to be genuine spontaneous boredom. Though the “sleep with me” podcast sometimes comes close because I can’t follow what he’s saying for more then a sentence or two at a time due to his speech patterns.

I got in trouble for falling asleep in class so frequently they made me stand in the back of the room to stay awake.

So that’s how I learned I could fall asleep standing up… same exact nodding off behavior as while sitting.

Tell that to the sensitive skin on the inside of my thighs and inner knees where my cat really likes to knead…