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Got_Bent

@ Got_Bent @lemmy.world

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  • Smoking PSA

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  • They existed and were more of a new wave instrument at the time, but not heavily used in rock like that.

    I was unaware of Brownsville Station when I was eleven.

    Sorry to have failed your class professor.

    We couldn't all be Jack Black in high fidelity at that age.

  • Smoking PSA

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  • I believe I was in sixth grade when that album came out.

    First of all, it used a whole lot of synthesizers, which were pretty new technology at the time, and I felt like I was living in the future when I heard it.

    As to the album cover, it somehow didn't register with my that it was a baby smoking.

    Rather, it made me think of teenagers smoking in the high school bathroom.

    Motley Crue's Smokin in the Boys Room came out a year later, so I don't think that influenced my mental image.

  • The infamous x

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  • They call themselves a news channel

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  • Weren't they just throwing a collective temper tantrum about paper straws and how you could pry their plastic straws out of their cold dead lips?

  • Dear America

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  • This sounds like a brand new record! For 1990!

  • after 40 all meals are horror

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  • Combination of being salaried plus industry culture.

  • after 40 all meals are horror

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  • It's been years since I've eaten food away from my desk. And God forbid I should forget to bring food and need to run downstairs for sixteen seconds to purchase something. That's truly one of the seven deadly sins.

  • Company creates "solution" to address school "vaping incidents".

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  • A very long time ago, and much less technologically advanced:

    I went to boarding school. We had a little bit of a propensity for sneaking out of the dorm at night.

    New dean comes in our senior year and installs alarms on all the exits.

    Our senior year time capsule contains the controlling keypad to that alarm system that wasn't even functional for twenty four hours.

    I've no doubt that today's teens possess the ingenuity to bypass if not completely disable this thing.

  • Japan wants its hardworking citizens to try a 4-day workweek

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  • The entire scam of unlimited PTO is that the company doesn't have to pay out any unused time when you leave.

    It certainly doesn't increase the time off you get while still at the company. Studies show people take less time when it's unlimited.

  • AI bros

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  • Fucking Adobe PDF is becoming damn near unusable because of this. Frustrating because I absolutely have to use it all day every day.

  • Poorly socialized rule

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  • Am man.

    I enjoy living alone.

    I enjoy owning my house and keeping it clean and maintained.

    I enjoy cooking at a pretty high level.

    I don't particularly enjoy doing my laundry, but it doesn't hinder me.

    I do not enjoy yardwork, so I outsource it to a landscaper.

    I enjoyed being a single dad.

    I enjoy watching my daughter making her way in the world.

    I enjoy it when my daughter calls me to regale me with tales of her life. I enjoy it even more when she calls me for advice.

    I enjoy stability.

    I enjoy the silence.

    I enjoy the autonomy.

    I'm pretty boring.

    Age has definitely begun to take its toll on my youthful looks, especially as all my remaining teeth seem to be rebelling all at once.

    I do not adapt well to changes in my daily routine or my domestic environment.

    I save money. I don't much spend it.

    But I enjoy traveling whenever I feel like it to wherever I feel like to see whichever friends I please.

    I do not own a bidet or an electric kettle, just a dystopian stovetop kettle.

    Life has repeatedly, loudly, aggressively taught me that all of this is woefully insufficient.

    I am not a desirable adult.

    Please, take the bear and leave me be.

  • Could an American please prove me wrong?

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  • I believe that's the European Union free trade zone for bidets and electric kettles. Metric cash only, please.

  • I hate people like this

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  • I don't know. Some people who experience abuse and escape it become far worse abusers when they're in position to do so.

  • explaining the civil war to americans: "imagine if slaves had no burger"

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  • I've never heard of this so did a little digging. I'm not sure this fits the bill of state sanctioned since the "owners" were pretty much immediately prosecuted via joint efforts of the local sheriff and the FBI then convicted of violating federal law.

    While looking through this, I learned of peonage where Mae Louise Miller was released escaped from slavery in 1961. I don't see any legal repercussions for her "owners".

    I wouldn't say state sanctioned in her case either. Maybe state turning a blind eye.

    Nonetheless, whether or not state sanctioned applies in either situation, it doesn't diminish the horrible reality that people were being kept as chattel well into the twentieth century.

    Thanks for informing me of this. I really had no idea it existed.

  • San Francisco State University divests from weapons companies aiding Israel's war on Gaza

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  • Next up, Ken Paxton sues San Francisco State

  • The Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 had a massive impact on my taste in music.

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  • What I found via the experiences I relayed is that most jukeboxes will allow you to download just about anything. Too niche for an old school unit that has a fixed number of CDs in it, but not too niche for the Internet.

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • Go choke on a two ounce kinder egg

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • I mean to tell you that I'm that regular. Once in the morning and I'm done until tomorrow.

    And yes, I wash my body every single day. Are you telling me the paragon of asshole cleanliness that is Europeans doesn't?

    God Europeans are so eager so shit on all of us. Is it the orange monkey we elected? Is that what did it?

  • Bidet anyone?

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  • I know Europe loves to shit all over the US on this topic.

    Unless I'm sick, well over 95% of my poops take place immediately before I shower. I don't really see how this is any different.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Federal judge throws out U.S. ban on noncompetes

    www.npr.org /2024/08/21/g-s1-18376/federal-judge-tosses-ftc-noncompetes-ban
  • FoodPorn @lemmy.world
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    Came into some local blueberries so went to town. Muffins, mini cheesecakes with blueberry curd, and lemon blueberry bars

  • FoodPorn @lemmy.world
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    Burger with caramelized onions and Swiss. No fries because I've had a couple drinks and don't need a grease fire

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    if you had to choose one

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    My phone is just one big shitpost

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
    Got_Bent @lemmy.world

    I took this community a little too literally this morning