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Soapbox1858

@ Soapbox1858 @lemm.ee

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    How are some people able to pass exams with high grades without studying?

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  • Some people are smarter than others. Some people are so smart that they struggle to be interested in school unless it's a challenge, and can simply skate by like your roommate.

    I certainly can't say I am anywhere near that level, but I was smart enough to coast through a lot of subjects I was interested in without studying.

    I also learned from a young age that I could pass a multiple choice test on a subject I knew nothing about just by intuition, looking for context clues, and guessing. Ask me to write an essay on an unfamiliar subject, and I was screwed, though.

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    DEA officer who stole cocaine and switched it with 3D-printed drugs gets 17 years in prison

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  • They gotta focus on the "3d printed" part for those sweet sweet clicks.

  • Should I be concerned that my HDD, which seems to be working fine, is 8 years old?

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  • I've got a 300gb WD velociraptor 10k rpm model that has been running almost non stop in every computer I have built for the last 20 years. I only use it as an extension of my steam library though so when it does die I won't lose anything.

  • Frustrated YouTube viewers seek explanation for hour-long unskippable ads (Update: Statement)

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  • I pay for YT premium and use unlock origin + privacy badger and don't see any ads on YT.

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    Is Michael Jackson still dead?

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  • He lives on the moon with Elvis.

  • How would you forgive someone that poisoned your dog when they only offer bad faith apology ?

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  • Back in the 80s my grandmother had a cat. Her neighbors at the time had some very feral and aggressive dogs in their back yard. One day her cat got out of the house, and those dogs escaped their fence and tore her cat to shreds.

    The next day she mixed up some antifreeze meatballs and tossed them over the fence.

    The neighbors never knew what killed their dogs.

  • If a word can have as many meanings as we assign to it; can we assign every meaning to one word?

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  • I am groot.

  • At what point do you stop calling the years "two thousand and X" and start calling them "twenty X"?

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  • I personally say "o one" "o two" etc. all the way up to "o nine" After that it just seems weird to say "ten" or "eleven" instead of "twenty ten"

    Even referring to 1910 as "ten" seems weird and wrong, though. In my mind, it doesn't make sense to leave the nineteen off until the 40s. For example, saying: "Back in forty-five" sounds right, but "Back in thirty-five" sounds wrong to me for some reason.

  • whatcha gonna watch?

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  • It's the 6th grade. The girls are taken to the gym for a presentation about menstruation. Us boys are put in a room with this cart to watch Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

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  • Does anyone else have issues loading articles on linuxiac? Every time I open a link to an article there CPU usage spikes like crazy, firefox bogs down, and gives me a wait or kill page dialog.

  • What part of clothe shopping annoys you most?

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  • I feel you. I'm 6'4" and the biggest hurdle is pants and shirt length. Unless they have tall sizes all shirts become halter tops if I even slightly raise my arms.

    Pants are a pain in the ass too because I need at least 34" length for them to not be capris on me. Most companies just make all their pants 32".

    There is a reason 90% of my clothing has come from Eddie Bauer for the last 15 years. I'm not particularly brand loyal. They just make clothes that fit me, and most companies don't.

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  • Agreed. Automotive repair is a big exception to my video tutorial hatred. It just makes more sense as it's something being worked on in 3 dimensions. It would probably work well for home improvement stuff as well.

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  • I watch a ton of YouTube. I love it for entertainment and some news. I absolutely hate YouTube for tutorials or guides though. If I'm trying to figure out how to fix a computer issue, I just want to read about it and have screenshots I can look at. I don't want to have to constantly pause a damn video or scroll back and forth to find info.

    As far as tiktok style videos go I just hate everything about them. I hate the auto play, I hate the vertical aspect ratio, I hate the stupid auto voiceovers, I hate the dumb floating captions and comments overlay, I hate the lack of volume adjustment or the ability to pause and rewind or seek. I hate the types of brainrot content that people make to work the algorithm. I hate that the format has infested YouTube and IG with no real way to be rid of it.

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  • My problem with tiktok/reels/shorts is not that they aren't federated. It's the entire format/concept I hate.

  • Straight men, what's the weirdest thing you've been told you can't do because it's gay?

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  • Playing tennis.

    In jr high I had some friends who played football say my other friends and I on the tennis team were gay for playing tennis.

    I had to point out to them that the tennis team was co-ed and we regularly made out with our female teammates on the long bus rides to tournaments.

    While those on the football team were constantly manhandling each other, showering together and slapping each other on the ass to say "good game." But the tennis team are the gay ones?

    They got mad, but dropped it.

  • Having to use windows at work makes me appreciate my desktop Linux experience at home.

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  • Oh yeah, I have noticed that the virtual desktop switching on windows 11 sucks. It's extra shitty if you set a different wallpaper for each one.

  • Having to use windows at work makes me appreciate my desktop Linux experience at home.

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  • When teams is just doing chat things, it's fine. But the fact that it's the only program that doesn't remember which monitor it is supposed to be on, and never remembers the show on all desktop settings, drives me insane. Not to mention that it seems to restart itself multiple time per day and makes me fix its location each time.

  • It's your first date and she/he asks what type of music you like. What's the guilty pleasure you won't tell her/him about?

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  • MC Frontalot.

  • I don't like going underground.

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  • I could never get into 3D "dungeon crawler" games that entirely take place in dungeons. I like open worlds where I can discover dungeons and caves to explore.

    I think It's the maze like endless aspect of dungeon crawlers that I dislike. I need breaks to see the virtual sky.