jubilationtcornpone

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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

True story. One of our dogs is a toy poodle. When he was a puppy, we had to closely monitor how much he ate because he would overdo it and have explosive poops in the middle of the night.

And when I say "explosive", I mean the dog is covered in shit. The top, bottom, and sides of his crate are covered in shit. The floor outside of his crate is covered in shit. This dog weighs two pounds and is completely surrounded by like five pounds of shit.

I wake up at 2:00 AM, after just letting him go poop outside an hour ago, and this is what I find. All you can really do is stand there for a minute wondering how the hell this even happened. How did that much poop come out of one tiny dog? It shouldn't be physically possible and yet here we are.

Thankfully he grew out of that. ...just in time for our other geriatric, blind, arthritic shit rat to develop incontinence.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 24 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Having access to information doesn't help people who can't read or don't have the ability to comprehend what they're reading.

 

I think it's pretty safe to say that when your country is run by a murderous tyrant who has his own mother arrested on [presumably] fabricated corruption charges, human rights are of little concern.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 153 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I'm sorry, but if a prospective employer is asking me to do seven rounds of interviews, I'm going to take that as a giant red flag that they a.) don't respect me or my time and b.) are woefully incompetent at every other aspect of their business.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I see these types of posts on Craigslist all the time. "1959 Cadillac. Perfect candidate for restoration. $2,500 firm."

And it's like, uh, no. I'm positive that at one time that WAS a 1959 Cadillac. But, the floor pan is completely rotted out. The engine consists solely of the block. The rest of the drive trane and hood are gone. And the rest of the car looks like someone heard One Piece at a Time on the radio and thought it was a repair manual.

At best you've got $500 worth of scrap metal and that's if YOU load it on a flat bed and haul it to the junk yard yourself.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"I am definitely going to remember putting this here."

Narrator: "He forgot almost immediately."

Hamas was hiding on Alderaan.

If they could detain him indefinitely, that would be great.

Frasier and to a lesser extent Cheers.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago (7 children)

Lol I can't even find my firearm. I know it's around here somewhere. Somewhere really stupidly obvious. I just set it down like two seconds ago. 🤔

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Definitely not exclusive to the US but still a significant and shameful part of our history. LBJ said it best. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored [brown, gay, trans, etc.] man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

 

An actual conversation with my two year old:

Her: "Daddy, I have super powers!"

Me: "Really? What kind of super powers do you have?"

Her: "I can stop planes and save them."

Me: "Oh, cool!"

Her: "You have super powers too!"

Me: "I do? What's my super power?"

Her: Giggling "You're old."

Me: "Uh... My super power is that I'm old?"

Her: "Yes! You're old. That's your super power."

Now I really want to have a chat with whoever is qualifying and delegating super powers because this seems very unfair.

 
 

Went out for an early morning hike. We have lots of waterways near our house so sights like this are common. Watching this crane hunt for bait fish with the steam rising around it was kind of surreal.

 

This sign hangs on my basement shop door. I didn't know Don personally. I think he was the first husband of the lady we bought our house from before he passed away. I've never seriously considered removing it. I don't know why exactly. I guess it feels sort of symbolic.

My shop was once his shop. Even though he's long gone, there's still at least one piece of evidence that he was here. One day it will be someone elses shop. Even though I'll be gone, there will still be evidence of my work. The labor of past generations that went into making a house "home."

Who would have thought woodworking could be so philosophical.

 
 
 
 

I've had a little 12 ft (3.28m) aluminum boat with a 6 HP Johnson outboard for years. The motor is big enough to get from point A -> B but not big enough to push the boat up on plane if I'm the only one in it.

I try to put as much weight at the bow as I can but it's usually still not enough. Yesterday, I was going fishing for a bit and I thought, "I wonder what would happen if I put this cinder block up front?"

It worked great. I don't know why I didn't try it years ago.

 
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Make Smallpox Great Again (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
 

Smallpox is the only infectious disease to be successfully iradicated. The last case occured in 1978. However, the US (CDC) and Russia maintain samples of the virus for research purposes, despite the WHO's recommendation that all samples of the virus be destroyed.

Given the current state of things, I wouldn't consider it completely impossible for some very stable genius to accidently -- or maybe not accidentally -- release the virus back into the wild.

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