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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • It’s still valid today.
    Payroll fucked up and I didn’t get a deposit a few weeks back. They gave me the choice of waiting 2 weeks and having the deposit added to my next paycheck, which is totally undoable, or they would cut me a paper check that day.
    I took the paper check.
    I decided it would be easiest if I could use my Bank apps Mobile deposit but it only allowed me to access $500 of it that day, the rest had to wait until the next business day which was Monday.
    If I would have thought about it I would have done it this way so I could have had access to the whole check before the weekend.


  • When they eventually deorbit the space station they’ll need a way to close and lock the door from the outside when everyone else is out.
    Yes, they won’t need an atmosphere if there are no people on board but undocking the station side hatch open would cause it to vent the atmosphere and anything not tied down. This could cause the station to spin uncontrollably and potentially do damage to the return craft with the crew on board.
    So there must be some sort of way to manipulate the lock from the outside on at least one of the docking ports.
    This would also be necessary in an event where they needed to evacuate the station.



  • My girlfriend jumped my ass a few days ago because I did all the chores.
    I get home a few hours before she does and she’s been stressed about work and the long drive so I’ve been doing all the chores and getting dinner ready. I figured she’d be able to relax instead of being strung like a bow and since I have about 3 hours of time before she got home that we’d be able to spend more time together too.
    Turns out I’m making her feel like she doesn’t contribute enough by doing all the chores and she needs to feel like she accomplished something when she gets home.
    So, I got blamed for making her look lazy when my intent was just to give her time to chill.



  • How much do you know about mechanic work?
    You’re likely to pick up something that needs a little work the owner isn’t willing to put into it for cheaper.
    I picked up a 1996 Chevy Cavalier for $400 2 years ago because it needed ball joints, wheel bearings, and struts. It was a weekend of work and cost me an extra ~$500 or so but I’ve been driving it for two years and it cost me total of $900 to get on the road.
    But I also did the work myself which saved a bunch of money.





  • If we’re extremely lucky it’ll stay the way it is now with no person-to-person transmission and it’ll only kill the idiots who drink raw milk.
    That’s a slim chance though, a fraction of a percent…
    It’s more likely it’ll evolve and become infectious in the not too distant future and it’ll kill a huge number of people.
    I’m not religious at all but the fact that we get a plague every time this fucker is in office raises even my eyebrows. I can’t see how this is lost on the evangelical idiots, it’s something straight out of the Bible.





  • It’s worse than simply surrendering privacy rights, they actually pay to have them removed.
    People will pay top dollar for a the newest Apple or Samsung device every 1-2 years that scrape your personal data at the OS level and come packed full of bloatware that does the same. And most people pay it as a subscription when they pay over time on a new device and trade it in before it’s paid off, literally paying a monthly fee to have their data harvested for further profit.


  • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlPatience is a virtue
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    10 days ago

    Unpopular opinion:

    Alienating liberals doesn’t create more leftists, it only causes people to be dismissive of the term and dig in their heels.
    Insulting them rather than educating them does nothing but divide anyone left of center and after the last election I think it’s abundantly clear that we need to be unified rather than divided.
    No one is going to argue that left leaning candidates aren’t far from perfect, but they’re a hell of a lot better than the far-right fascists were about to have in power in less than 2 weeks.
    Yes, I agree modern liberals are too centrist and ineffective but at the end of the day they’re light-years ahead of the far right, and I’d rather be agitated about having another centrist administration than alarmed and outraged at the onset of fascism.