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  • What's the dumbest/silliest reason you got in trouble for in school?

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  • The first thing that came to mind wasn't actually in school, it was at home, but it was when I had just got home from school so I hope it's okay.

    I was eating nutella from the jar, with a spoon. Like a goblin. I had a huge amount on my spoon. Suddenly, the front door opens and in my embarrassment for eating this large quantity of hazelnut sugar, I quickly shoved the jar away in the cupboard, and snuck by my parents with the spoon behind my back.

    Uh oh. I was planning on eating the nutella in my room, off the spoon, but I realised it was far too much nutella. Maybe I lost my appetite. Either way, the only recourse in my mind was to dump the contents of the spoon down the toilet, and stash the spoon to be returned at a later date.

    Not only did the nutella not flush, but I also didn't notice that it hadn't flushed, leaving a sight that I'm sure we can all imagine. My parents were furious, we actually had guests so they were livid that they could have seen this. They pulled me to one side, were basically yelling at me: "We're not mad you did it, we're mad you're lying to us about it."

    I didn't know what to do. I just kept telling the truth. I was eating nutella and didn't want to get into trouble for the gigantic spoonful so I tried to hide it. Resulting in a stalemate.

    Anyway, I'm not sure they actually remember this happening, but it was quite traumatic for me because I was otherwise quite a good boy.

  • this is why I have trust issues

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  • What is the best Firefox alternative?

  • What thing at work made you rage quit your job?

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  • I have rage quit two jobs.

    A long time ago I worked in a supermarket as a personal shopper. It was a pretty decent job, early start (4am) but an early finish, so it felt that I had the whole day to do whatever I wanted, though I was tired.

    Skip ahead to Christmas eve, where everybody apparently has left their huge shops until the very last minute. Not only through our online service, but also in person.

    Imagine this: You are being pushed to complete orders as quickly as possible and being called out for being slow, not only that, but every aisle is so full of people that you literally cannot push your trolley through them. I literally couldn't move or do my job. I'm fairly embarrassed to say that I walked out, didn't even tell anybody, and to my surprise I never got called out for it (I think it was too busy to notice) and the way the system worked, one of my colleagues would have just got the order and completed it without me.

    The first job I ever quit, I must have been 16 years old. I was working as a promoter for a bar in a small town, essentially walking around with a sign, hanging out flyers, etc. ironic that a 16 year old is advertising a place they wouldn't otherwise be allowed into, but it was cash in hand and pretty dodgy.

    On my first night I was promised $50 for my work, but ended up being given $25 because they said it was a trial night. Suddenly my nightly salary is $25 and as a 16 year old, I'm a bit too scared of this dodgy guy in his car that was paying me to ask for the full amount.

    Skip ahead a couple of weeks (I work maybe 3-4 nights a week, hours are like 10pm-5am) and tonight, it is pouring down with rain, I'm freezing cold, my uniform involves a t-shirt, and it is genuinely just a horrible experience.

    I go to my boss, and tell him that I'm gonna go put my coat on and he says that's not part of my uniform. I get a bit ballsy and tell him I want the extra $25 for the night before, and he said he never promised me anymore money than $25. So I walk home, in the rain, feeling hard done by but also like I learnt a valuable lesson. I never worked for less than I was worth after that.

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • It's easy to hand wave and say, "the other people are idiots who never free think" it's harder to sit and rationalise why people that disagree with you might actually have valid things to say.

  • Admiration

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  • I've tried nothing, and I'm all out of ideas!

  • Smart move

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  • Slaves also had it really good. Square meals, plenty of room to stretch their legs, lots of hard work to keep their minds and bodies active. They also received very good medical attention because obviously, their masters didn't want them falling over dead - they were useful, valued, and had better living conditions of many other humans.

    Not sure which strawman you are referring to. If you believe that "most animals" would choose to swap their freedom in nature for the opportunity to live in captivity, I think we are getting into quite philosophical territory. The only example we can use is Humans, and we can both agree that Humans would choose freedom over captivity.

  • Admiration

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  • On the flip side, any time you want to show somebody something that should be working and you suddenly see an error message you've never seen before.

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  • Eh, so when I ask a user (who is a programmer) "did you restart your computer" and they promise me they did, they are just being impatient and lying to me?

  • Admiration

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  • The amount of times people told me this when I worked IT support, and crossed over to see them on-site, and restarted their machine myself, and found it suddenly magically started working...

    I'm not saying they lied, but the 'IT Support Aura' may be a genuine thing. Like the computer is afraid of getting scrapped so it quickly starts working.

  • Renee Good Not an Activist, Had Just Dropped Son at School

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  • This is not just "good americans" this seems to be a coordinated effort to destablise every western country. It will soon be the UK, it will soon be Europe.

    I have seen right wing people in the UK saying, "The United States of Greeland" as if somehow, handing it over to the US is in our best interest. The world could genuinely be fucked.

  • LIVE: US withdraws embassy staff from Israel and Lebanon

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  • That's fair, I just hate this idea that he's some mastermind behind everything that's happening, when really he's just an old, weak man who says words that right wingers love.

  • ICE Shoots Minneapolis Observer in the head

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  • Being "centrist" shouldn't mean "I support the republicans and democrats equally" it should mean "I can see the value in social and capitalist policies and think there is a middle-ground between them"

    Anybody who claims to be a "centrist" and supports almost anything Trump's party is doing is not a centrist, they are right wing.

  • LIVE: US withdraws embassy staff from Israel and Lebanon

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  • People need to realise it's not all Trump. He is the face of an organisation. He is a spokesperson. Yes he has power but he is not some puppetmaster pulling all of these strings.

  • Smart move

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  • That isn't what I mean by wild horse. I mean feral, undomesticated animals that roam freely.

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  • Is there a problem with wild horses being hunted? I haven't heard about that.

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  • Absolutely, horses have it nowhere near as bad as animals that we farm for food and other products. If we are classifying animals lives in a simplistic manner, then I put horses in the "Slave" category and I put farm animals in the "Horrific torture" category. I totally agree with you that I'd rather be a slave than horrifically tortured.

  • Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck

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  • There is a small bit of intrigue here, imagine you get to a boss and think, 'this is impossible' but there is an ability to observe a ghost of your character taking the boss on in your gear.

    Bare in mind as well that 'AI' has existed as a word in gaming for decades and has nothing to do with LLMs, surely this is achieveable purely with the gaming definition of 'AI' simply coding the PC also as an NPC that reacts to things.

  • Danish troops told to 'shoot first, ask questions later' if US invades Greenland

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  • I don't think it's distraction. Why would they care about distracting? They can keep singing the narcissists hymn until the whole world is under their dictatorship.

    Imagine all of the epstein files comes out, and the police go to arrest Trump, what do you think his cult does when that happens?

  • Danish troops told to 'shoot first, ask questions later' if US invades Greenland

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  • It is a highly complex situation...

    And by highly complex, I mean nobody wants to risk their own economy and relationship with US. All of these 'powerful' countries will publicly denounce actions whilst doing nothing to prevent them.