Please permanentize this!

I always wanted a job that was like sitcoms based around work, where everybody is friends and hangs out. One time a building contractor moved in across the street and had his crew there for a while remodeling the house. I noticed four or five guys sitting at a picnic table in the front yard with beers, and I thought wow, so cool that the crew socializes on the jobsite after work!

It turned out not to be exactly like that - the two women in the rental next to my house were shooting porn in their garage with the door open, and the line of sight was from directly across the street where the guys had their table.

I think it’s fine to have your own biases, because you’re human, and also to be aware that you do, so when you encounter people who are completely out of your normal sphere you will listen to them. It’s folly to pretend to be free of imperfections (or even aspire to that). Nobody’s above human nature, and there’s no reason we should be.

I agree, America would be much nicer if there weren’t so many fucking Americans around.

I used to have a roommate who was in dental school. He said getting dates was incredibly easy because everybody realized it was the last time they would be in a large community of single people their age who were also intelligent and had similar interests and earning potential. And indeed, he went out with probably 20 different women that year. And he was incredibly picky and would write them off after one date - she’s too loud, too quiet, doesn’t drink, drinks too much, swears too much, smokes… Right at the end of the year he found the one, then had to go off and spend 2 years doing public health dentistry in another state to pay for his school loan. After 2 months he found another the one there and dumped the local one. So okay, I’m sure that gripping saga was worth telling lol.

“I hate these polling places, they’re such meat markets.”

Okay I’ve been voting by mail for years, but if I ever have to go to the actual polls again I want to walk up to somebody working there and say, “We’ve been trying to get in touch with you about your extended warranty.”

Interesting idea - move posts to an appropriate community. Or lol maybe just have one called DumpingGround so mods don’t have to decide where they go. I like this idea.

Absolutely!

Apparently Hitler had a dog. So maybe reexamine your beliefs if you think dogs are good judges of character lol.

That reminds me to rewatch Danger 5.

“Your mission… yada yada, and as always; Kill Hitler!”

Yeah I know he got help from various billionaires, but Mr. and Mrs. Middle America ignored stuff that goes against their own character. Most people don’t associate with anybody who’s on trial for multiple felonies. They disapprove of guys who cheat on their wives. They would frown on a grown man saying “grab 'em by the pussy.” Trump is not a person decent churchgoing Americans normally idolize - let alone pastors and ministers. He has an uncanny charm with these people, which I chalk up to his con man ability. But even a con man loses his audience when he drops pretense and acts like an asshole. The Orange Sack of Shit seems unnaturally immune to that.

Putin didn’t GAF about Donald Trump until he became useful enough. By that time the Orange Sack of Shit had already been stiffing creditors and skirting the law for decades, somehow living a life of abject luxury anyway, when if nature had taken its usual course he would have been a bankrupt nobody hustling $10 bar bets.

Sorry we let you down, Bernie, there are just too many shitheads now.

Yeah the Orange Sack of Shit is useful to a lot of people.

What devil has this guy made a deal with? No matter how stupid, obnoxious or abrasive he is, people worship him. He constantly screws himself over and then before he has to face serious consequences he trips on a rock and somehow everything’s alright again for him. At this point he literally can shoot someone on 6th Avenue and get away of it. I think Trump is solid evidence that we’re living in a simulation and somebody is fucking with us, because life just doesn’t work the way it works for him. Somebody’s thumb is on the scale.

Yes, in another comment I explained that many years ago I wrote a software package to map program functions to the F keys, which on my keyboard were arranged in 2 columns of 5 on the left. It was before putting them in a single row across the top became the standard. The software displayed a diagram showing the key functions, laid out in the same pattern as the physical keys. I found it very easy to get the hang of looking at this diagram and pressing the right button without looking at the keys. Each keypress brought up new options, basically a multilevel submenu system, but using the buttons was faster than moving a mouse around and clicking.

Of course the concept is very obsolete for normal computer keyboards because that f-key layout isn’t around anymore. But if the device had the buttons right under the screen the key functions could be displayed above them. I could see that “soft buttons” concept becoming popular.

It’s popular enough for me already. I kind of hope it doesn’t become the online site because that will just attract trolls.

I’ve also been using Trust Café (aka WT.Social) but I like the Lemmy UI a lot better.

I think we’ll see multipurpose function buttons under the display, that change function programmatically depending on what the app is doing.

No I wouldn’t say touchscreens are out, I would say augmenting them with physical buttons is about to get popular.