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  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneR Rule
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    2 months ago

    Back during the late 90s era of internet, I got into a MASSIVE amount of troyble over a finger slip in a high school computer lab.

    We were all assigned an African country to write an essay about. We had to only use internet cited sources.

    I was assigned a country with the Namba people. Somehow I fat-fingered an “L” in there in the worst places. (Between the ‘b’ and the ‘a’ - don’t google it)

    It triggered my school’s search filter. Altavista got involved. It was a nightmare.

    The police got in contact with my parents, thinking I was being groomed and in danger of kidnapping.

    It sucked.




  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    3 months ago

    In those situations, that is the best class sizes for electricity tomfoolery, sprinkled heavily with bravely, and a side of youth assumed immortality.

    It is also a good class size to swiftly move bodies, of things get too bad.

    I had a similar sized class when I apprenticed as an electrical worker via “future farmers if America” funding.

    I learned so many good ways to fix things correctly, and three times that number in “bad” ways to fix things.

    Guerrilla learning method with pratical daily needed subjects is SORELY missed now-a-days.


  • popemichael@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    3 months ago

    I made one of these when I was young, poor, homeless, and imminently dying due to being swiftly being frozen to death (with bone tumors coming in second place in the death race). I was able to get an abandoned metal shead with a small heater working quickly in a sudden ice storm using on hand parts and a pirated “outside” power line.

    Outside of a significant situation like that… it’s not a good idea














  • I parents owned a cockapoo while growing up, and my siblings and I didn’t like it because it was aggressive as hell and my mother treated it like an actual factual babby.

    Once my sister was eating a hot pocket, and the dog wanted it, so it mauled her badly. It jumped up on the table randomly and mauled her face. It took several surgeries to get her face back to normal. My mother lied and told the police she had it destroyed.

    About 3 years later, it became paralyzed from the waist down after it attacked me. It jumped for my face and landed wrong. It didn’t die, and my mother blames me for the incident to this day, 30 or so years later.

    It would piss and shit all over everything until it died of old age about a decade later. All the while, my mother treated it more and more like a baby because it couldn’t get away, and it wore diapers when my mother wasn’t too lazy.

    I’m sure most of my issues with the dog were due to the owner being a shitty person.

    Though after it ate part of my sister’s face, I’m convinced that it saw everyone but my mother as “meat,” which is why I couldn’t get along with the dog. I mostly tolerated it until I emancipated myself early.


  • I’d rather remain comfortable not buying games from Ubisoft and EA.

    I refuse to waste a single dollar on every game from both companies, since we were all bent over and continue to get bent over because they just don’t care about anything but making more money.

    A good example from Ubisoft is the handling of the Driver series. They kept on releasing the games in the series in a near unplayable state before when most people had dial up.

    A good example with EA was the failed DRM with Spore. They only let you install the game 3 times, which glitched out to the point where people had to turn to piracy (warez and crackz) to play a game they paid for.

    We vote with every dollar spent, which gives me hope when people rally around good companies that do the right thing.


  • He’s one of the few people that you can openly hate on the internet, where half of the fandom will readily agree.

    One of the open secrets about people like Mattpat and other personalities is that the personalities are not real. What we see is an act.

    I firmly believe that he would be in a much better place if he stuck to brand building, where a lot of his hard-earned talent lays.