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Cake day: July 12th, 2024

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  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettomemes@lemmy.worldSkilled labor
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    2 days ago

    The self checkout at the grocery here makes you have a worker check and enter your coupons for you. Even though they have barcodes. And cameras galore. And they mail you dozens of coupons every week.

    What’s even the point of self checkout at that point? It took longer waiting for them to come check and approve my three coupons to save $1.50 than just going through regular cashier line, and I didn’t even get to avoid talking to someone. Did that twice and won’t do it again.

    If they want me to work for them, I’m gunna need an employee discount. I hate everything about self-checkout. I have yet to find an implementation of it that is better than the default cashier experience.

    (This is not meant as saying you are wrong for your preference ofc, I just don’t understand how people actually like them)



  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettoCanada@lemmy.caFuck aboot
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    2 days ago

    Specifically the upper peninsula region, and probably more rural, they sound quite similar to that stereotypical Canadian accent. The first time I met someone from there (born and raised country boy), I legit thought he was from Canada due to that stereotype (I’m older and wiser now).





  • If they wanted me to do the main story first they wouldn’t have made side quests and collectibles to pad out the play time immediately available.

    This has backfired big time from time to time, for example horizon forbidden west, all that side shit is much easier if you actually do most of the main story asap…

    But typically it just means the end boss is easier and that’s ok.


  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettoAutism@lemmy.worldPreach
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    5 days ago

    My partner and I went to a resort town while things were in the weird not-entirely-closed-but-weird post-lockdown phase. We figured it would be absolutely dead and we were right.

    It was mid spring or so, and we walked from our hotel to a nearby private pier (owned by a condo or high-end hotel or something), with a growler of beer and some glasses, hopped the gate and sat there on their deck furniture, naked, drinking in the dark on this lake for several hours. Not a soul in sight. Just the night sky, us, and a good time.

    Then a cold breeze rolled in and we hurriedly got dressed and walked back to the hotel down the center of the street.

    It was super surreal, very enjoyable, and had that liminal space feeling to it.








  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.nettoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comme_irl
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    8 days ago

    Awesome thanks, I’ll do that.

    I’m not really into vampire stuff but it came up when looking for comedy type stuff (because sci-fi has gotten overall quite depressing and I need something that isn’t), so I nabbed it and there it sits.

    But I’ll give it a shot with the movie at least. :)