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over_clox

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I am not a robot. I promise.

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  • Check my other comments here if you haven't already.

    I probably should have just spit the blood on the floor right there in the ER, it might have caught their attention to just how much blood I was losing after the bike accident.

    As I was leaving though, I spit the blood in my mouth and emptied the blood tray on their pavement on the way to the car. I really should have done that inside the hospital, because they should have stitched me up right then and there.

    Edit: I also spent the next month or so, waking up with my head stuck to my pillow, from dried blood still leaking from my mouth.

    Gnarly scars yo.

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  • Oh I wish my parents would have sued the fuck out of them when that happened, but I was only 16, and apparently my dad didn't think it was important enough, as insurance still covered it, a week later, at a very late oral surgeon appointment.

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  • No, that's not the beauty of it at all. In fact, I find it rather ugly, ignorant, and damn near caveman thinking style.

    If I was to vote, it wouldn't be on a simple color, it would be on each candidates' values and goals. Sadly I can't remember every last candidate, so I do not consider myself a well educated potential voter.

    But hey, if folks wanna keep voting on simple colors, well my favorite color is blue. So if it's so simple, why can't I just pick up a blue card, write my name and voter info on it, and just submit that?

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  • The emergency room was more like 'Ok, you've been here for 4 hours, pouring blood out the mouth, cheek and chin ripped off the jawbone and still pouring blood, well here's a plastic tray to spit blood in, you can go home now'.

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  • I can't remember who the fuck all is who in the first place, aside from the obvious culprits like Turnip.

    Nominal aphasia sucks yo, how do people even have memory banks to remember all the politicians they've probably never met in the first place?

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  • You must have a really good memory of who is who, by name, face, political opinion, background, etc, on people that for the most part you've probably never even met in real life.

    I do not have such good memory of people. If you took me to a church next Sunday and introduced me to every single person by name, then by Monday I'd be lucky if I remembered your name alone.

    I think it's what they consider a form of nominal aphasia, I'm really bad at remembering who is who in a sea of people I've never met or spoken with in person multiple times.

    TL;DR - If I went to vote, I wouldn't remember (except the most well known names like Turnip), who is who, so I might as well be voting as if I were picking out lottery numbers.

    Sorry, I just don't have the memory banks to be a voter.

  • What truly sucks about life?

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  • Yeah, you're right about shitty computer brands ~20 years ago. Turned out they were all shitty in the long run, as that was back during the Taiwanese counterfeit capacitor plague.. ☹️

    As far as vehicles go, I don't much care for luxury features, that's just more points of failure. And now they got all the sensors, modules, cameras and stuff on the CAN bus, which is good for the manufacturer because it reduces the copper wiring, but bad for the consumer, as one faulty shorted sensor can take down the entire data bus and basically brick your car.

    Just give me a vehicle that cranks, runs, drives, and stops when I got places to go, and is easy to troubleshoot and repair as necessary. The most luxury I care for is heater and air conditioning. I'll trade in the push button windows for hand crank rollup windows as long as the vehicle comes with a spare tire. I don't want any vehicle that tracks everywhere you go, records everything you do, and can be bricked remotely by the police.

    Our current vehicle is a 2005 Hyundai Tucson, roommate's had it going on 4 years now I think, for $3000. At first it had some running issues, but after a new coil pack, crankshaft position sensor, and mass airflow sensor, it purrs like a kitten ever since. And those sensors are cross compatible between Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sportage from 1999 to 2010, meaning both used and new parts aren't too difficult to find.

    And it's not on a payment plan, he outright owns it 👍

  • Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage

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  • Scrap 'em for RAM...

  • What truly sucks about life?

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  • And that's half of how we ended up in the era of enshittification.

    Let's say one of the control knobs on your 15 year old dumb stove fails, shorted out, where as soon as you turn it to low heat the eye is blazing hot at full heat. Do you?...

    • A. Just not use that eye anymore
    • B. Buy a new control knob and get another 10 years out of it
    • C. Buy a whole new stove, that may last 5 years, and wants you to connect to the internet so they can eventually brick the firmware

    We went with option B, way cheaper than a new stove, plus none of the headaches of modern digital technology. Like, why do appliances need modern digital technology? A stove heats food, plain and simple, and that's all it needs to do.

    And look at these new refrigerators coming out, that fail within weeks to months, maybe at best a couple or few years. When your grandma's old fridge was passed down from her mom and has been kicking strong for 50 years, save for that new door seal installed like 15 years ago..

    Sigh, we live in a disposable dystopia anymore ☹️

  • Jim Carrey's new face

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  • I don't see why he'd have anything done, he naturally looked pretty alright even for his age. Oh well, his choice.. 🤷

  • How did you choose your username?

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  • Probably so, I got zapped quite a few times myself.

    That's probably what's wrong with me ain't it? 🤔

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  • Yes. Well, the older ones anyways, before they got full digital phase locking anyways.

    I had a dumb but rather high tech 15 inch CRT for it to have come from 1994. No smart logic though, just a few relays you had to trigger with certain frequencies. No error messages, no safety checks, the thing either accepted the signal or it didn't. Or it could explode, that was the fun in trying, and yeah it actually worked and didn't explode!

    How did I do it? Well, by then I had an XP system and an Nvidia GeForce FX 5200. Wait, this was in late 2005 or early 2006 come to think of it..

    Anyways, I checked all the details of the monitor's supported frequencies, both horizontal and vertical. I found the max resolution, while compromising on the framerate, I used 25Hz interlaced to achieve that, with the Nvidia Control Center of the time..

  • What should be done and over with by now?

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  • No, I was born half blind as a bat, and nobody would let me get close enough to see anything up close.

    My vision is about 20/500 without glasses, meaning that if I should be able to see it from 500 feet, I have to be 20 feet away to see it. Very very blurry without glasses.

    I finally got glasses at age 8, and finally saw a clock at age 9. I had to teach myself how to read it though, but that was kinda easy once I could actually see the damn thing! 🕘

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  • Nah, oldschool ancient Roman nonlinear timekeeping actually makes more sense in this context. In their timekeeping, 6am was sunrise, and 6pm was sunset, no matter what time of the year.

    You wanna prevent people from getting sleep schedules messed up, let's go back to the old nonlinear timescales, where 6 and 6 are always sunrise and sunset.

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  • Quarter mile walk for me, sometimes mom had to get up and take me to the bus stop in a boat after a heavy rain. In pitch black dark.

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  • Yeah, you really expected me at age 7 to walk a quarter mile in the dark to get to my bus stop, when I didn't even know how to tell time until age 9?

    Or vice versa, adjust the school schedule by an hour, I still didn't yet know how to tell time yet.

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  • And then the parent's employers have to shift their times SCHEDULES

    Its not the times that would change, it would be the schedules. Half the year you gotta arrive at school at 6am and the other half you gotta arrive at 7am. Then half the year the parents gotta arrive at work at 8am and the other half the year they gotta arrive at 9am.

    And it would be left upon the schools and businesses to explain all this shit to all the students/employees every time they change schedule.

    Believe me, the numbers would still be changing, it would just get way more confusing and difficult for everyone.

    Easier to change all the clocks and keep the schedules the same, so people get up around sunrise, rather than expect all the schedules to change...

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  • Oh, as far as daylight savings time changes, there are complications to that regarding seasonal changes and when the sun rises and falls..

    • During winter months of the year, school children end up having to go out to their bus stops while it's still pitch black dark for another hour or so. Is that safe? Not at all. That's how children get abducted, being out in the night waiting for the bus.
    • Do you expect the schools to readjust all their time schedules for kids that might barely even understand the flow of time and the change of seasons to compensate for shorter vs longer days?

    There's more to this than the simplicity of the numbers on the clock, there's also the complexity of the seasons and shorter vs longer days.

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  • AI datacenters.

    Aside from the huge drain on resources and the carbon emissions, it's just leading to a future where the younger generations grow up dumber and dumber..

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
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    Can you code with no digits?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    You ever been to Disney World?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    I'm Single, I'm Pringle, and I'm Ready to Mingle...

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Rechargeable electric arc lighters kinda suck for the average person, and will typically end up as e-waste.

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Hose Clamp Security Gate Chain...

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    South Mississippi here, does anyone have any advice on how to get Brownie registered as an emotional support animal?

  • Jerboa @lemmy.ml
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    Jerboa 0.0.84 seems to blindly try to force-open this webpage as a PDF document, when it needs to actually open it up as a webpage for the age verification HTML script.

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    You can't legally drink and drive, but you have to present your driver's license to prove you're old enough to drink.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    I asked Google Docs AI to basically write a document about itself. Here's the results (4 pages)...

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    There are 4 types of people out there. Those that are for a cause, those that are against a cause, those that don't care either way, and those that don't understand what the cause is to begin with.

  • FoodPorn @lemmy.world
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    I had potato chips today

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How far do you wear your daily shoes out before bothering to replace them?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    How do people manage to play Rock, Paper, Scissors so quickly?

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Ah yes, thank you AI, I'm sure my mom loves driving on flat tires!

  • Dogs @lemmy.world
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    Brownie chilling out..

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    I finished a front end alignment on my roommate's vehicle today, shadetree style. 2005 Hyundai Tucson, 2.7L 6Cyl

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Ignoring the internet bill itself, how many paid online services do you have?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Cover Your Banana

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Cover Your Banana

  • I Made This @lemmy.zip
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    There's a bicycle behind this, I promise..