MrsDoyle

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I'm on my second Oppo. Decent specs (I like the 512Gb, double SIM slot, superfast charging) and cheaper than anything comparable.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Couple of HR people had sex on a desk, not realising they could be seen from the upmarket hotel across the street. Oops!

There were quite a few other incidents - it was quite a lively workplace - but this was the funniest.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

He then shared particular frustration with the sudden change in his opponent, suggesting that the Democrats had orchestrated Biden's withdrawal to improve their chances.

Gosh, I don't think anyone else has figured that out! This guy is hella smart.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was out walking with a friend the other day and he tripped and fell. His watch told him, “It seems you’ve fallen sharply.” He had to tap the screen to stop it calling the emergency services. The other friend walking with us said his wife’s watch tells her to stand up if she’s been sitting too long. “And she does it!” I’m officially a curmudgeon, grumbling about tech taking over.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

THE WARDROBE.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I’m going with beekeeping as my “field” because it’s my main hobby now I’m retired. So. Many. Misconceptions. The Bee Movie was not a documentary, people! The mating process for honeybees is horrifying and you don’t want to know. Male bees have one job, and then they die. If they don’t do that job, they still die; their sisters kick them out at the end of summer. Plus, I was talking to someone the other day who didn’t realise we let the bees just roam around.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes it’s couched as “team player”. Some jobs I had it absolutely mattered who you were friends with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Back in the 80s TV where I lived used to show Bollywood films at about 1am, which was when I got home from work. So I started watching this film, which was apparently a romance. Sparky career woman rejects advances of handsome fellow. Everyone starts singing and dancing. Ok, a musical then. Thugs burst in and shoot the place up. Woman’s father is killed, she swears vengeance. Uh ok… Local politician tries to shut down newspaper our heroine has just inherited, handsome fellow intervenes. More singing and dancing, ending in fireworks! which is apparently Bollywood for hot sex. Plot twist, handsome fellow is actually a baddie! I had to stop watching at 4am, no idea how it ended up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Do viruses and bacteria count? Antibac resistance is building. I imagine a virus that fritzed our brains would give animals some advantage.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

One Thing After Another.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Culture in general was much more monolithic

That’s interesting - I didn’t experience the advent of the internet like that, probably because I’m from a fairly multicultural background and travelled at lot at that time. I lived near DC for a few months in 1976 and went on a three-week road trip around California in 1990 and did notice how isolated from the rest of the world Americans in general seemed, especially outside the big cities. I was a real novelty, exotic even, and I’m a white cis het woman. Just with a funny accent, from a country they’d never heard of.

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