Clowns to the left of me. Jokers to the right.

Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.

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Cake day: January 7th, 2025
  • Majorllama@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•I find it funny that American republicans seem to want a king, when the definition of republicanism is a government without a king.
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    13 days ago

    I would say that I out loud laugh at comments here pretty often. Not because they were trying to be funny, but because these people are so unbelievably disconnected from reality that some of the shit they say is just hilarious.

    My only other real complaints on Lemmy is the lack of user feedback and the laughable moderation. Often times I’ll be banned from a sub without me knowing so it just gives me errors for trying to upvote or leave a comment. Just tell me it’s because I’m banned. Giving me an error just makes me wonder if that instance is down or something.

    I have been banned from subs I’ve never even interacted with simply because they saw I had comments with lots of downvotes. That’s ridiculous. I have received several bans for rules I haven’t broken. I have lost track of how many comments have been deleted by “automod” days after I left the comment. It’s clearly just a mod using the automod as a layer of anonymity.

    Overall I have had an alright experience with Lemmy. Some users are very kind and helpful. Many of them are elitist snobs that think they are the most intelligent humans put on this planet.

    I thought reddit was a left wing echo chamber at times and then I got here. I didn’t realize how much worse it could get.

  • Majorllama@lemmy.worldtoMemes@sopuli.xyz•Basic courtesy
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    15 days ago

    I used to work at a Costco. There were two long stretches of parking lot that had no cart corrals anywhere nearby. They were at the farthest points of the lot on either end. Despite all the employees begging them to add a corral in those spots the manager never did. But he would always complain about carts being abandoned way out there constantly.

    I think a 30 seconds round trip to return a cart is more than fair. If you cannot reasonably locate a Coral (or the store does not have one within that walking distance timeframe) I think its fair to attempt to store the cart in such a manner that it doesn’t block someone else trying to park.

    All that being said the average shopper at our location wouldn’t even attempt to find a corral. Often times they would just leave them in the empty space next to their car blocking a parking spot. Usually within 20 feet of an actual corral. Sometimes they would literally yell at one of the cart runners from a distance something like “wouldn’t wanna put you out of a job!” Before they just left their cart slowly rolling across the lot unattended.

    If you ever want to lose whatever small amount of hope you had left for the basic decency of the human race just work at a Costco for a little while.

    People would leave their trash in the carts constantly. They would spill food and drinks all over the kids seats and just leave them there. They would almost never put them into the corrals properly. They would just shove them towards the corral from a distance which almost always cause the carts to jam up at angles and then the corral would over flow and eventually people would just leave them with their front wheels put over the curbs right next to the corrals that was now spilling over with 7 carts because nobody decided to properly put the cart away and instead just pushed it to the edge and called it quits.

    I have worked all kinds of service jobs over the years. Costco by far had the most selfish and shitty customer base out of all of them. You can tell by the way many of them spoke to employees that they felt entitled to treating everyone like shit because they paid a membership. Hell some of them would even say exactly that whenever they felt even slightly inconvenienced or slighted. Just right out the gate with “I pay a membership fee blah blah blah blah”. Every once in a blue moon they had s legitimate argument to be making, but 99% of the time they were just throwing s fit because they wanted to get their way and the managers would bend over backwards for the customers every single fuckin time.

    Sorry this turned into a rant about the worst job I ever had.

    Yeah many people are too selfish to put away a shopping cart these days.

  • Majorllama@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discoveryEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Yeah at some point you just say fuck it and limp along until the problem is big enough that it’s time for a completely new house or you move.

    In our situation it’s one of those things where it just doesn’t seem worth it to properly address because if we are gonna have an electrician cut a bunch of holes in our walls to redo all the wiring we may as well have a plumber cut a bunch of holes in our ceiling to insulate all the pipes they installed in the ceiling crawl space without any insulation. And if we have them cutting holes in every wall and every ceiling we may as we lost have them tear the whole goddamn house down and start over properly lol.