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Cake day: 2025年1月7日

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  • Cats also have them. You sometimes see them in the corner of their eye, or partially covering their eyes when they’ve just woken up or are sick or something. They are sort of a translucent milky white.

    It’s because they evolved in desert conditions, from what I’ve read. They can see well enough through them but it protects against sand and stuff.




  • My favorite is in early spring, just after all the leaves come fully out but before they darken to their summer colors.

    Driving/riding through dense woods on a still, sunny day (with the windows down, if in car) everything smells fresh and crisp, and the sun streams through the neon green leaves.

    Magical renewal.



  • Eh, I’ve worked in a few call centers and from what I’ve seen, they just constantly hire, training groups for various contracts are frequent, and people are pulled from closed contracts to fill in when people leave or are fired from ongoing contracts. They also tend to overhire for each training group because a lot of people will quit or not be good at it.

    They CHURN, and they don’t give a fuck because everyone is going to burn out or move on in short order anyway. That’s just the nature of the job. If you don’t seem like a good fit quickly they won’t keep you around. Is all metrics.

    They are horrible places to work. Often referred to as “employment of last resort” by employment services people around here.



  • I’ve genuinely never understood how people can stand chocolate and fruit together. Or fruit and coffee for that matter. Chocolate and coffee taste kinda similar to me though so those mix well…

    But fruit with either is just super nasty to me.

    All that said, the best chocolate I’ve ever had was some imported thing that tasted vaguely of raspberry, but wasn’t actually supposed to. It was just chocolate that got stored with other candies.




  • I’m imagining a t-Rex with a high capacity O2 tank strapped to its back, and a little tiny human size oxygen mask covering like a single nostril…

    But oh no! The O2 is low and it needs to change the tank, but the itty bitty rexy arms can’t reach so it’s just spinning in circles trying to get the strap off. It’s getting dizzy now from a lack of oxygen and, well, spinning. Eventually it just sort of falls over and maybe some other Dino comes and changes the tank for it (altruism isn’t just a human trait!). That Dino sighs and says “you do this every day. Just ask for help, dingus.”.

    Thanks for that giggle :)




  • Maybe it happens in the future, but they come back through the birth channel and all, so it goes a bit further back than the 70s.

    That’s why we ended up with boomers fucking everything up. It’s just how it always went. The few shit-ass survivors of the incoming shitstorm went back and fucked everything up, because they feel it’s their only chance at anything good. Ironic. Causing the very thing you are fleeing.



  • Meanwhile I put my hands in my sweatshirt pockets (zip-up sweatshirt, not pull-over) and flap them like wings while slow-running at them, yelling and stomping each step. Basically do what they do, but I’m bigger.

    I look insane, but they fuck right off, since it’s all signals they understand.

    I used to work at a place that had a sitting pond right against the building with walkways across it and stuff and that was the only way out to the back parking lot… there were always geese… I got fed up and tried that once when I was having a bad day, and it both worked and made me feel a ton better.


  • Ungh I hate missing garbage day.

    Granted, I compost everything I can so it’s mostly just plastic that can’t be recycled, and then my recycling that goes every other week (for which I have two bins because I often forgot to take them out on the correct week, and a month of recycling definitely doesn’t fit in a single bin)

    But by the time I actually go to take out my trash, it really needs to go out. And it’ll still take 2-3 weeks to actually get it out there on time…




  • Omg I would literally kill myself if I tried this. Not on purpose or anything, but frankly I’m amazed I haven’t yet killed myself. My stairs fucking suck.

    They are old original stairs and they turn a corner halfway. Where they turn, there is a four-stair fall in the inner corner if your foot slips. Meanwhile on the far side it’s unclear how much further they go, because they aren’t particularly logically shaped, or even.