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Got_Bent

@ Got_Bent @lemmy.world

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

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  • Jesus Christ. I met my ex-girlfriend through mutual music tastes. We both followed bands that are well under the national radar.

    I couldn't take her to bars because she would load up the jukebox with hours worth of the music we listened to.

    I'm the first to admit that it's an acquired taste, not necessarily something you want to blast throughout a bar full of drunks who don't know it and more likely than not won't like it.

    This happened over and over. Got thrown out of a couple places because she would get in fights over it.

  • Texas megachurch faces exodus of worshippers after a sex abuse scandal set off a summer of turmoil

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  • I used to work at a place where several partners were members of this church. The open disdain directed toward me for not being a churchgoer and the ostracization the occurred were a significant factor of my decision to leave.

    After I left, one of the partners harassed me for several years via phone calls, text messages, and hand written letters mailed to my home trying to get me to turn my heathen ways around.

    One of those letters said something asking the lines that while I had chosen eternal damnation for myself, I owed an opportunity of salvation to my daughter, so I needed to bring her to this church.

    I don't remember how many years this continued, but it finally stopped.

    The hell is the matter with these people?

  • US Army speaks out against Trump

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  • I cast my first vote in 1990. It was the first and last time I ever voted for a Republican. Please forgive me. I was eighteen and raised under Reagan. I didn't yet know better.

    Anywho, I concur with your assessment. We've fallen so very far.

  • Costs Less? When That Happened?

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  • I had an Apple ][+ in 1982 and an Apple ][c in 1984.

    Cost less is a relative term depending on application.

    They were cheaper than full business model IBM computers (who hadn't much entered into the home computer market) but significantly more expensive than other home offerings such as commodore or (shudder) radio shack.

  • Removed

    shitty little snowflake has to be special, can't just act normal like everyone else

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  • This goes through high school now? Granted it's been quite a few years, but as a child of the ultra 'murka fuck yeah Reagan years, I can't remember having to say the pledge after elementary school.

    Raised my daughter in Texas, and they expected the pledge AND the Texas State pledge. She considered that absurd at a very young age and I think she just stayed silent. But even then, I don't recall her mentioning it after elementary school.

  • DuckDuckGoose

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  • Not in computers. I'm an accountant. I don't have enough money to throw the double middle fingers. Can somebody please, for the love of all that's holy, show me the way out or, you know, come sneak onto my property when I'm not looking and delete me?

    Edit: JUST now, I got told that I'm unprofessional because I refuse to give my personal cell phone number to all three thousand of our clients. I said that my private phone funded by my personal money is not a business asset and they can give me a company phone if they want me texting clients. This was met with a huff, turning of a back on me, and storming off.

  • DuckDuckGoose

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  • There were a bunch of geese around my grandparents' house when I was a kid. God those things would torment me. They had free range of the property and I tended to completely avoid the area they hung out because they were hyper aggressive and would chase after me every time I got anywhere near them. I was six years old, so it felt like they were as tall as me and they were definitely faster.

    It wasn't so bad once I got a little older, a little taller, and relied more on my bicycle than my feet for movement.

    Nonetheless, those things gave me childhood trauma to the extent that I still can't stand geese some forty five years later.

  • a weird time to be living in

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  • God I'm glad I reopened the original picture. The Folgers and fruit loops didn't seem at all out of place with this guy, so my brain automatically assumed it was legit.

  • turns out the solution was "criminalize homelessness and build for profit prisons"

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  • That's why you make suckling baby farms. Way more tender than their pork counterparts.

  • TIL Pablo Escobar was worth 25 billion at the time he was a drug lord.

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  • I think I read not too long ago that there are still bales of cash buried around Colombia that were never accounted for.

  • [Bagpipes intensify]

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  • welp

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  • They'll make you listen to Vogon poetry. If your head explodes, you're not a bot.

  • Autocorrect Rule

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  • Women are so I don't know what to do with it but I think I have a lot of stuff to do

  • Do cats experience existential dread?

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  • Now I wonder about elephants given that they have funerals and mourn their dead.

  • LEGIONARY TITUS PULLO IS WITH ME! ARE YOU WITH ME?

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  • Irish person: What have the Romans ever done for us?

  • Facebook

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  • I remember when Facebook was solely for college students. Now it seems to have a three denture minimum.

  • TIL that whales were saved from massacre when kerosene appeared (1860s) because, until then, whale oil was widely used as illumination fuel.

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  • Biodiesel was gonna be the next big thing before EVs started gaining traction. Arnold drove around a Hummer that was modified to run on vegetable oil while he was governor.

  • TIL South Korea has the fourth highest suicide rate, in part due to elderly isolation.

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  • Use Zotero

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  • I hope that wasn't a stupid question. I've been out of that game since before most people on the Internet were born, so I didn't want to make assumptions based on "that's how we used to do it."