When people start going on about “what they put in vaccines” I grab any processed food item I can find, hand them the box, and ask them to read the ingredients out loud.

Usually they can’t pronounce most of the big words, and most of the time they realize what I’m doing and stop trying to read and get super defensive/offended.

If you get offended by me asking you to read ingredients in your kids pop tarts, I can’t imagine how you react to an actual problem.

I have lived near two solar projects in Ohio in the last decade.

In both instances the fields had been completely unused for years. With one being completely unmaintained and growing wild, to the delight of all manner of critters I’m sure.

Both had been sold by the property owners, and not to industrial owners. One was even helping power my house and a local hospital when they got it turned on.

Both had people in pickup trucks plow through during construction that damaged a ton of stuff.

Both had sudden extremely vocal opposition out of nowhere, with signs popping up all over yards and intersections about how we should be using farmland “for food, not wokeness”

Both have had drive-by shootings in the middle of the night after completion that ultimately only damaged a couple things (probably because rednecks aren’t exactly accurate when shooting from a moving vehicle, nor do they usually know the important tech bits to target for maximum damage)

I just think it’s interesting that people who have never set foot on a farm suddenly got concerned about a plot of land already not being used for farming that would continue going unfarmed. Especially since some of them I knew personally and up to a point had been praising the solar projects for “freeing people from profit hungry power companies”

Almost like they didn’t know much about it until someone told them what to think…

I mean, they can literally say “it only counts for #45 and #47” and exactly who is going to tell them they are wrong?

Historically they aren’t even okay with you talking to your imaginary friend who’s gonna do you a solid after you die if it’s not the exact same flavor of imaginary friend.

And I mean exact

“Felon who has had no need or interest in the price of oil, gas, vehicles or lumber makes statements about the necessity of oil, gas, vehicles, and lumber”

Fixed the headline

“… Did I leave the stove on?”

Every single part of this comment just screams “It just wouldn’t be proper!”

And I’m sorry, but I can’t seem to care about what’s “proper” when half my friends now have reasonable fear for their lives, not just “comfort of living” just because they are lgbtq+ living in deep red country.

I tried explaining tariffs to my in-laws.

They genuinely think that other countries will be paying the extra cost for the privilege of trading with the USA.

Completely refuse to believe they have to pay the extra cost out of their own pocket or the company will sell elsewhere.

Edit to add, these in-law’s also think China is still mostly like their media-based perception of feudal Japan. As in “they only have two modern cities, Beijing and Tokyo” type of “knowledge” of China.

Okay here’s the plan.

I gonna slam the door open, run straight in, and attack with the most basic of attacks I can think of.

It’s foolproof.

I used to hate when this happened to me. Someone reviving a post from ages ago to answer a question that I already found months/years ago.

But hey, it could help someone else in the future if I didn’t go back and post the answer to my own question (spoiler alert: I didn’t) so now I just do what OP does and thank them for their time, move on with my day. Chuckle at the stupidity of my youth.

Some people get angry about things like that. Just be chill, they probably didn’t notice how long ago it was posted.

My family usually get an “okay I’m gonna go now. I’ll see you later” and that’s about it.

But by then they can tell I’ve had enough of people today and want to leave so they’re never surprised.

And if anyone wants to think I left because they arrived, so be it. I am not the shepherd of my family’s emotions.

I can’t just leave without saying anything though. Not unless they pissed me off.

I’ve got a pretty nice system.

1: PANIC

B- Go

You may notice there’s no conversation before the final step. This is because my anxiety doesn’t allow me much talking until I can decompress.

It’s worked so far.

“It was great seeing you again”

“but… You just got here five minutes ago”

“SO great…”

May I… Stand unshaken…

“…thank you…”

I’m not crying YOU’RE CRYING

I got a new laptop last year, and now the old one is sitting next to my laser engraver, probably hoping I will never open it again but it’s going to be my dedicated laser laptop now.

At least the programs I’m using on it are all 5ish years old, so it’s not straining to keep up with new software.

I can still feel it heat up a lot just being idle, and I’d like to clean it up to improve it’s response time.

This comic has made me feel bad for my old laptop…

I’ve been seeing a lot of comments on lemmy, youtube, various forums and 3d printing sites, of people promoting bambulabs printers lately.

I’m not saying they’re definitely paying people or having employees go make comments pushing their products, but I do have a foil hat on standby…

I’m content with my own ender 3 setup with some modifications in an enclosure but for a split second, I actually considered Bambu for my next printer.

They killed my desire completely with all their proprietary shit.

Let me use whatever I want to use with the thing I own, or get completely fucked. Preferably by a cactus, but pineapples are an okay substitute

The only celebrating I do is eating slightly more unhealthy, take the day off work unless it’s going to be a short day, and maybe look to see if any games in my “maybe if it’s on steep sale” list are on sale.

That’s it.

I don’t remind people, I dont expect anyone to remember, but it’s nice when they do.

My excuse for missing people’s birthdays is I DO know the date… I just don’t know what the date today is. Sure I know my sister was born on the 12th, but that doesn’t matter if I think today is the 10th and it’s actually the 15th…

So if I have that much problem, it wouldn’t be very chill to be upset with others for missing mine.

Indeed.

I had put so many hours into trying to sort my bases for NG that I didn’t even want to try and start over for NG+.

If I ever DO decide to pick it up again, assuming the save is still compatible I made a separate save file before finishing the game just to be sure.

Who knows, maybe someone will make mods to make it the game we all wanted it to be and I’ll give it another go.

Star field couple have been a lot of things if people who haven’t picked up a controller in decades hadn’t decided to try and make it as generic and casual as possible.

And maybe it’s just me, but the second I

, I lost all interest in playing the game itself.

They made the content of individual plays not matter to me, so once I did a few speed runs to the finish line I just deleted the game and haven’t played it since.

Also i could never figure out their base management system. I was hoping for something like “fallout 4 settlements in space” but all I got was “way less complicated Satisfactory”.

I stopped playing about a month after it came out, so there’s a chance they fixed some issues that I didn’t know were issues, but I still haven’t had the desire to try playing it again.