Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right.

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

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Cake day: January 7th, 2025

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  • I don’t think it counts as “nobody watching” since many people saw it technically, but I will often pull over to ask if people on the side of the highway need help as long as I’m not running late for something.

    I helped a Hispanic guy recently change his tire since he apparently misplaced his lug nut wrench and he had a blowout. I let him use mine and I topped off the air in his spare that was a little low. Took me a little while to figure out what he needed since he didn’t speak a word of English and I failed Spanish 3 times, but we got there using Google translate, hand signals and grunts haha.

    I do it because I hope that if one day I was stranded on the side of the road (and somehow without all the tools I always carry around) that someone would be nice enough to stop and offer assistance.

    Be the change you want to see in the world n all that.


  • The brightness is one thing but also the alignment. These people install new headlights or the manufacturers just do not adjust the lights alignment correctly at all.

    I installed entire new headlight assemblies in my car upgrading from weak stock crap bulbs to LEDs with running lights, but I FUCKING ADJUSTED THEM afterwards.

    If I am ~50 feet from a wall there is a hard line where the top of my lights do not shine. That line is purposely placed so it won’t shine until cars in front of me unless I am every far away from them or there is an elevation difference. Sitting behind a car at the lights my lights will cut off generally right below the top of the trunk of most sedan models.

    I have never seen a headlight that could not be adjusted up and down with a little screw. Maybe the newest cars need an app or something stupid but I would be willing to bet they can also be adjusted.


  • The fashion industry is one of the most environmentally disastrous industries that serves no real purpose.

    At least with things like coal power you can understand why we are destroying the earth and killing people to keep the lights on everywhere (we shouldn’t be doing that either but that’s a different topic).

    With fashion it is JUST waste. Most fashion these days is made to be worn a handful of times before it falls apart. Just needless waste with no real value.

    I hate the fashion industry with a passion.


  • Hang on I’ll edit my comment in a second with an explanation.

    Copied from my comment in a different thread about this (with typo corrections):

    "Many years ago he paid like 5 bucks on fiver to see if some Indian guys would write “heil Hitler” on a sign and hold it up for a video (they did). He was doing stupid edgy humor and playing with fire like many creators at the time. Many people canceled him “fully” a year or so after that when he had the “bridge incident”. He called someone the n word for camping or something while he was playing PUBG. He apologized and took responsibility for using the word…sorta. He continued to make content for a few more years and then he “retired” in Japan with his wife and child. They post update videos every few months but more or less he got his bag and dipped out after he pulled too many stupid moves and was seen as “toxic” to work with.

    I don’t think he’s a bad person, but that’s just as someone who occasionally watched his videos over the years."

    I am by no means a big PewDiePie fan/expert and I don’t claim to know all the specifics, but this is what I gathered from being on YouTube often from the beginning and having two little brothers who went through a PewDiePie phase.



  • The only reason I haven’t kicked it is because it would hurt people I love.

    If there was some magical way to wipe the memory of my existence from all my friends and families minds I would be booking a first class ticket to hell immediately.

    I’ve done pretty much everything I can reasonably do as someone in my tax bracket. All my other hopes and dreams cost too much and/or seem unlikely to happen at any point in the future so I may as well check out.

    To be clear I am not actively suicidal right now, but I really think we ought to let people check out if they want to.

    I didn’t have a say in being brought into this world and it feels cruel to force people who don’t wanna play anymore to stick around.











  • Majorllama@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.worldHow are you doing?
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    8 days ago

    I’ve got a tweaked muscle in my back from helping my mom move some heavy furniture around last weekend still. Other than that I have no major complaints about life at the moment.

    I do have the minor complaint that people like you think anyone who holds even one single stance that is slightly right of center is a full blown conservative (even when they have never voted red in their lives), but you walked away from that thread to make this post just like most people on this site do when they don’t know what to say to me anymore.

    So far Lemmy users seem to think there are “normal” people who are exactly like them (which is extremely far left) and then anyone who is even slightly right of that is considered a nazi conservative racist Republican shitbag that deserves to die.

    But other than those things life is peachy. How about you?

    Also waffles>French toast> pancakes





  • The data that needs to be fixed changes locations on the spreadsheet monthly. It’s never the same two months in a row

    Look I appreciate your trying to help, but after 3 months of calls and emails back and forth with several people at Microsoft as well as our company’s 3rd party IT guys (I’m the in house IT guy) we have just determined that the only way to get it done is to have me spend a couple hours once a month un fucking the data that excel chewed up.

    It is what it is.