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-George Bernard Shaw

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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • “No one in Australia will be allowed to glorify or profit from acts and symbols that celebrate the Nazis and their evil ideology,” the press release said.

    Glad to see someone mention the Profiting part.

    I’ve always suspected a lot of this was due to grifters stoking these A-holes up to increase sales of the flags, shirts, hats, etc.

    The Brandon thing was a big boon to the Maga grifters as it created more new things one needs to collect to show your true level of being a Patriot.

    You could then change out your Trump flag curtains for the Brandon stuff. Some are brave enough to change them out for the Nazis stuff when the time is right too. It completes the set when combined with the Southern Surrender flags as your curtains or bath towel.





  • Yes we never really know what someone else is up to. Often they can be straight up A-holes, but there are those in emergency situations.

    When driving especially my truck and camper many were confused why I pulled over so often to let vehicles by on 2 lane roads. I slowed down in passing sections to manage traffic behind me safely to pass. They were expecting people to hold them up as it is everyone else for themselves especially when passing lanes come and the slow pokes only speed up for those. The worst are those that ride in the passing lane without moving over and get into the I’m going to show them and block them in.

    I loved driving down in the states with several lanes to the highway with lanes for every speed. I could pick a lane and not hold up people that wanted to go faster than the 80 miles/hr in Texas. 80 m/hr is pretty fast for a loaded truck and camper so I was relieved I didn’t need to hold up people in these situations especially people like me in my Volvo 850 T5 that have places to go!


  • We are trying to add more bike lanes to city centers in places in Canada at the cost of existing car lanes.

    I use to bike everywhere as a young teen in my rural area but once I had access to a car those days were left behind me.

    The issue is many people commute daily in from the suburbs over a hour away (up to 120kms or like up to the distance of Hanko to Helsinki) by highway, other roads, and biking these long distances isn’t as feasible for those that live outside the city cores which so many do. In the East many drive up to 2 hours each way due to traffic conditions.

    It’s a huge challenge to rework the suburbian sprawl to the affordable housing in the outlying areas.

    In North America we don’t think anything of driving 4 hours for a road trip on a weekend. I think that could mean going through a few countries in Europe and often we haven’t even left a state or province after 8 hours of driving.

    In the west the transit system has vast distances its trying to cover for a lot less people than in the east. It’s overloaded often and there’s not enough of it in many places. It’s a tricky issue with not enough population condensed into a smaller area.

    The suggestion of 15 minute cities is viewed as evil oversight by government by some of the car culture people in the rural areas. While it would make more sense to have people living closer to their higher paying jobs many just can’t get use to this type of thinking outside of the city cores which many left decades ago for the promise of safety in suburbia.

    During covid it was proven working from home is a pretty good option for many so that is a partial solution, however many companies have called these workers back to the offices and the congestion has returned.

    Then there is the issue of the homeless in many of the city cores and the rampant bike theft.

    For me I do wonder coming from a wet most of the time in winter Vancouver how those that commute by bike in the rain stay dry?













  • Yes back when they were pretty expensive still for a 20 year old. It was a old 386 DX with 1mb of Ram without the co-proccessor that they replaced with a 486 in their business. The 1 mb of ram was on a daughter card with many chips before EDO came out.

    I was raised on Macs in high school and Apple IIc before that. I recall my first access to a computer was a Apple in grade 5. We had one in the class. I think only the principal knew how to use it then. He was troubleshooting my Basic assignment for me as I did more than change the color of the square. I made a snake that moved around the screen and changed colors with his help.

    Later on a IBM was something we used in Graphics class while we did our Accounting classes in the Mac lab. This was backwards as Apple products were big in my district. The IBM lab was the exception. We had more Commodore 64s than IBMs but they were never used when I went there.

    I eventually got the 386 with 1mb of ram on dial up internet with AOL. Can’t even imagine how slow it was then…




  • I wish I had this password request when first trying out DOS commands on my first PC. I came across a book of Dos commands and was playing with FDISK. Wiped out the drive in the process. Learned Dos and windows pretty quickly after as it was a computer my mother in law gave us.

    It went from Dos 5 with a shell to Dos 6.22 with Windows 3.11 once I went to the library and learned about them. Yes library, I’m that old.


  • WashedOver@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldShitty deal
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    Reminds me of years ago of a team I played on. They turned out to be some collection type guys. Didn’t realize at first. They were petty good to me and they were the first team I joined as I was pretty young then.

    In the locker room before one of the games as we are getting ready, one of the guys pulls out of his hockey bag his lady’s double dong and starts tossing it around the room like a hot potato. I’m not sure I want to know why it was in his hockey bag as those things can get pretty gross as it is.

    I’ll never forget that episode. It was never on the list of first ways to see as double dong in real life.