Yeah, a shotgun is probably a better choice.

They absolutely do. Not only Lemmy posts in general, but I have found my own content completely unintentionally on searches several times.

Just search for obscure shitty pocketknife models and my dinkum pictures from here are among the top results, sometimes even #1. I therefore conclude that this is not outside the realm of possibility.

Eh. I torched all my comments when I left (and posts, too) and I’ve said before and still maintain that I’m not sorry in the slightest.

If anything wants to know anything I said that was relevant to anything (and not the usual cavalcade of political bickering) they can come here and ask. I’ll gladly retype any of it.

Fuck reddit. The quicker we can dispose of it and just rip that Band-Aid off, the better.

I will occasionally post a screenshot of an excerpt of a web site, specifically for the purpose of showing it to whoever I’m responding to who is continuing to bleat rather than visit the link I provided and use their eyes, or is attempting to argue with me about the presence of content that is, in fact, right there as plain as the nose on your face. Extra bonus points if whatever they need to click on to get what they want is right there in the header or sidebar menu, without even having to scroll or anything.

I maintain that this method of saying, “look, dumbass” is perfectly valid.

That wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest. For what it’s worth, it wasn’t even part of an arcade. Just standing forlornly by itself in the center of the concourse of a largely empty section of the mall. I know these things are typically privately operated and not part of the mall itself or whatever establishment they’re in. There may or may not have been a bank of gumball machines behind it, I don’t remember.

Anyway, that mall got bulldozed a couple of years ago and given the state it was in, I wouldn’t be surprised if that machine were still in it at the time. And good riddance.

Here’s the story about those damn cut-the-string machines I repeat every time I see one of these.

There used to be one on my local dying mall. Noticing this, and being the clever dick that I am, I came by one day with a powerful laser and cheesed it by slicing the string in half right through the glass.

I subsequently found out that the iPad box that was dangling from the string was, in fact, empty. No “call this number and use this coupon to redeem your prize.” Just, empty. Too bad about your fifty cents, kid. Get fucked.

Do you know, I don’t feel bad in the slightest about cheating that damn machine.

And the landscape of US politics is so fucked at this point that which “side” somebody is allegedly on based on donkeys and elephants, or whose podcasts they listen to, or who they retweet is really only an entertaining starting point to determining what the hell their views actually are.

I’m sure plenty of “right wing” Republican voters actually would agree with us here on a lot of things once you broke down individual topics – possibly with a little bit of rephrasing of things, and after you punched through the layer of bullshit, lies, racism, identity politics, and incessant fearmongering over non-issues that the GOP slathers all over everything they say nowadays.

Liberals and conservatives generally actually agree on these two core concepts, vis-a-vis:

• We want the government to provide for us what we think everyone ought to deserve to get, and
• We want it for “free.”

Wow, I can’t believe I get to dredge up this ancient photo again:

(Obviously this is satire. I furthermore still haven’t quite made peace with the fact that every single item on Daniel Rutter’s web site can now be considered “retro.”)

INB4 he finds out it’s not easy being green.

Here is a completely noncontributory comment.

I stumbled across a copy of a physical book from the author of the comic this is from. I wondered to myself if this meme is in it.

It is.

Yeah, but the point is if they’ve already shut off their servers and moved on to the next thing, who cares? Just let the dedicated fans and other nuts run their own servers and they can wash their hands of it entirely. They weren’t going to make any money on it after pulling the plug anyway.

“Incoming Memo: Stand by to receive memo?”

You’ll put your eye out, Fido.

It’s really maddening, isn’t it? I went in to Autozone the other day fully prepared to pay 3x the online price for a coil pack for the vehicle I was working on in order to have it now. Autozone claimed they had it in stock on their web site, at the location I went to.

They didn’t have it. Their only response was that they could order it – at their full retail price – and have it from the “hub” on their next shipment in three days.

Even with the Hyper Mega Priority Next Day Select Plus Ultra shipping option, it was $80 cheaper to get it from RockAuto and I had it the next day, which wasn’t ideal but still better than Autozone’s bullshit.

I didn’t expect the brick and mortar retail location to compete with online stores on price. I was absolutely willing to pay a ridiculous premium to have that part right then, when I needed it. But what I got was the worst of both worlds: The insulting price, but still no availability. This is because bean counting idiots have decided it’s cheaper to make their inventory “lean” and keep as little as possible of it in stock. And apparently they keep their staff lean, too, because no brain cells were available to notice that a ~$180 component in a box about a foot and a half long was no longer on the shelf even though the computer said it was.

And motherfuckers wonder why retail is dying. Um, yes, that would be because retailers ruined it.

If there’s one slightly good thing about capitalism, it’s the blood-thirsty competition. Some corporation wants your money, and they’re gonna do what they can to capture the market and get your money. Drive up package pickup sounds really cool for a $79 annual subscription (until it eventually enshittifies).

It’s already enshittified. It’s a store. What you are describing is a store.

People have already forgotten this, but in the beforetimes you used to be able to go to a store and they would actually have a selection of products. Like, in stock. You could go to Radio Shack or CompUSA or Circuit City or even Best Buy and get whatever tech gizmo, hobby component, computer part, cable, or whatever it was you needed. Right then and there. And they would have it. All of it. No waiting. No shipping. You could even pay with cash. And you didn’t need a goddamned subscription.

Or you could go to Sears and get just about any fucking thing. Or K-Mart.

Nowadays retail is so damn transient because “everything is online,” so even major retailers don’t keep wide swathes of product in stock and expect you to just buy it from their web site. And worse, what they do have in store is always super scarce, which I’m positive they do on purpose to increase your urgency to buy whatever they do have now, because if you come back tomorrow it’ll probably be gone and out of stock forever.

Got a CEO at your office fuckin’ up everyone’s deal?

All of human societal structure has ultimately boiled down to might makes right.

All of it.

In our modern civilization we have inserted enough extra steps in between to delude most people into believing that this is no longer the case. But still it is. I have said this nearly verbatim on here before:

Who are the cops? Just guys with guns.

Who are judges? Just guys with access to cops.

Who are politicians? Just guys with access to cops and judges.

Who are the megacorporations? Just guys with access to politicians.

Etc.

Maybe not, but we absolutely click on an article detailing just what the fuck e.g. the government is actually going to do about it.

Best I can offer is Moon Lord.