herrvogel

joined 1 year ago
[–] herrvogel 37 points 2 months ago

OP read about the "fight the biggest baddest dude you can find on your first day" strat online and didn't stop to think about its applicability.

[–] herrvogel 1 points 2 months ago

I agree with the "cars are not stuck in traffic, they are the traffic" thing, but I think it can be unfair when you make the subject people.

I am currently lucky enough that I can take the train to and from work. Never have to get on the asphalt on my commute except to cross the street twice. It's great. I sit down and it goes. Lovely stuff. This hasn't always been the case, though. My car was my one and only option at my previous workplace. Way too far to bike, no public transport, so I was forced to drive there. I hated every minute of being one of the many single-occupant cars on the road. I'd very much have liked to not be sitting in front of a steering wheel believe you me, but the city simply did not provide any better alternatives. I argue that I was stuck in traffic because I didn't choose to be there in a car to begin with. And that most definitely did get on my nerves quite often, and it did make me more irritable.

Yeah yeah people could and should vote for politicians who'll build that infrastructure, but until those are elected and that infrastructure has been built, there are plenty of people who are stuck in traffic.

[–] herrvogel 25 points 2 months ago

She sits in the window seat, goes to the toilet every 27 minutes, and refuses all offers to switch with the aisle seat.

[–] herrvogel 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's probably a typo. The n key is right above the spacebar. I make the same mistake quite often.

[–] herrvogel 11 points 2 months ago

For some reason that's a very common thing among websites where I shop for 3d printing and electronics supplies. It's infuriating because it forces me to cycle through all the tabs to find a specific one instead of just reading it off the god damn tab title. A gross misuse of valuable screen real estate that's normally expected to display useful information. Fuck you.

[–] herrvogel 13 points 2 months ago

But loud pipes save lives. When a buddy of mine died some years back, doctors said it was because he'd neglected to ear-rape his entire neighborhood while pulling into the garage at midnight.

[–] herrvogel 3 points 2 months ago

Have you not read the relevant chapters in The Wealth of Nations?

[–] herrvogel 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] herrvogel 4 points 2 months ago

If he meets enough Billie Eilishes he can finally have enough copper to sell and buy a house.

[–] herrvogel 10 points 2 months ago

You said no weapons, but no mention of armor.

Wrap me in some chain mail or kevlar or whatever, and set me loose. I will rain down an ungodly firestorm upon any number of squirrels. They're gonna have to call the United Nations and get a binding resolution to keep me from destroying them. I will massacre them. I will fuck them up.

[–] herrvogel 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Its niches are nowhere near as strong as reddit though. The only reason I can't ditch reddit is small hobby subs and stuff like that. Their alternatives on lemmy are just not good enough, because of a hideous combination of lack of users and fragmentation.

[–] herrvogel 3 points 2 months ago

I believe the C in CAT stands for "contrarianism"

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