Monument

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[–] Monument 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You’re right, but I googled the wrong thing and googled John 4:16, which is “Jesus said ‘Go call your husband […]’” (It says more, but search cut it off there.)

I had a solid guffaw because these boxes are for 2-way radios. Then I realized that I googled the wrong thing and lost interest in continued research.

[–] Monument 1 points 8 months ago

Wait. You’re telling me the pocket cartel even has a stranglehold on diaper bags?!

[–] Monument 1 points 8 months ago

Tagline: Love is a battlefield!

[–] Monument -5 points 8 months ago

It’s not funny, though.

It’s just stupid. Top to bottom, left to right. There’s no angle that is funny or enlightened.

The twist is lame. The original premise isn’t funny. Certainly not ‘funnier’ than the propaganda the premise is trying to deliver.

The whole fucking thing is just a Schrödinger’s asshole setup with a different sort of joke than we’re used to with those setups.
If you buy into the agitprop, it reinforces purity testing and infighting, while undermining solidarity between people who could find common ground.
And if you don’t, then it’s just a joke, bro.

[–] Monument 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I mean this earnestly, what part is funny?

[–] Monument 9 points 8 months ago

Increasingly, I’m reminded of this: Paul Bunyan vs. the spam bot (or how Paul Bunyan triggered the singularity to win a bet). It’s a medium-length read from the old internet, but fun.

[–] Monument 3 points 8 months ago

The promise of money — even diminishing returns — is too great. There's a new scraper spending big on resources every day while websites are under assault.

In the paraphrased words of the finance industry: AI can stay stupid longer than most websites can stay solvent.

[–] Monument 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It’s not unheard of. The genetic factors for several types of conditions can overlap. Not a guarantee, and everyone is different, but… 🌈💫

[–] Monument 6 points 9 months ago

Mine’s part stink bug.

[–] Monument 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well…

Stewart dropped a line that made Hasan pause: maybe Democrats just need “the right reality host” to take over the party.
Hasan’s reflexive response — please, no more reality hosts — came with one notable exception: “Unless Jon, you’re thinking of throwing your hat in the ring… we can talk about that.”
Stewart laughed. He didn’t deny it. He didn’t wave it off. He just leaned back, smiled, and chuckled.

As another commenter brought up, when the idea has been suggested in the past, Jon has unequivocally and instantly shut it down.

Big “Hmmmmm” vibes here.

 
 

I keep two old box knives in the kitchen junk drawer. One has a regular blade on it, and the other has a hooked blade because I think they’re safer and run less risk of damaging the stuff inside the box. But sometimes, you just need a regular box knife. They’re both old and handle rough, but they have seen a lot of use.

Last night I was painting. While trimming some masking tape against a hard edge I realized the blade on the regular box knife was a bit dull, so I went to change it. While flipping the blade around to the unused side, I noticed there were no more spare blades in the handle.

Today I bought a new pack of blades. They purport to be better quality and will stay sharper longer than the original set of blades that came with the knife, but I guess we’ll see how that holds up with use.
While adding the new blades into the handle, I decided to go ahead and clean up both knives - get all the tape residue out, and clean the internals. Then I gave the slightly rusty patina’d slide mechanisms a couple drops of 3-in-1 oil. I also gave the blades in the handle a drop along their sharp edges for good measure.

They open and close very satisfactorily now.

 

They were power napping between play fighting sessions.

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