I actually used to stand brooms up when I was a kid working at Hardee’s. I’d get like 3 or 4 of them standing and then this pothead Joe and I would try to land dishrags on the handle like we were throwing a disc golf putter or something. Manager was not impressed

2017: Buy 2x 1080 Ti for 1500 bucks, your build is GOATed, have fun spending half your time tinkering with your overclocks and fishing for the perfect SLI compatibility bits in Inspector

2026: This. It’s a shame

I’d say ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. Getting tangled up in that whole stress trap is so innocuous that many people don’t appreciate how bad it is to push it all to the point that an affluent household is 2 paychecks away from destitution. It’s just some cultural thing that keeps people awake at night and to even address it with candor is verboten

I always think of amperage as a cat trying to use its jawline to prise open a cracked door. The door is ohms and the volts is the cat’s energy levels at that point. Wide open door you just hear the cat’s claws frantically scraping a thud when it slides into the wall

My experience in the US is like this meme. I gotta show up every 3 months just to be like ‘hey’. And then they’re like ‘hey. Any changes?’ ‘Nope.’ 'Cool. Here are your ‘scrips.’

If you can avoid that rock for around 60 billion years, it’ll be almost entirely lead, and then you can mock it. ‘Not so tough now, stupid rock’

Supposedly putting a cheapo luggage lock on a door latch requires a coordinated effort involving a locksmith or a tow truck

It was a joke. Everything is self-checkout nowadays, so the cashier just narrating the play-by-play

Good GUIs are awesome. It’s just that you often cede control to a bunch of fucking idiots who somehow think if it’s not broken absolutely destroy everything that made anyone love it in the first place. ‘They’ll adapt’

If you’re really paranoid you should buy all your stuff in a brick and mortar store. You’d have to be high up on a list for it to even be worth someone’s time, but intercepting a package and swapping the contents is pretty easy to do, typical Tuesday multi-agency gun ring bust for some postal inspectors

“You can’t change the rules just 'cause you don’t like how I’m doing it.”

I have a set of spanner drive screwdrivers, I’d walk right over this design

I bought a 3 pack of Corsair LL120 RGB case fans directly from Amazon-dot-com (as the seller) before and got a 3 pack of someone’s old case fans instead (the old swapperoo). So Amazon told me to just keep them after I sent them many photos of the box and the LPN sticker on it, and they sent me another. Take a guess what was in that box? Yup, more swapperoos. But this was back in 2016-2017 so they may have changed up how they handle returns since then, or how they isolate their own products from 3rd party ‘FBA’ sellers

I actually had to see for myself if this was for real, and apparently he drove his car through his neighbor’s fence in order to access (and subsequently destroy) the back door. I’m not sure how I’d feel about that on a random Tuesday lol.

But he was also charged with burglary on top of other things and I kinda feel that it’d be impossible to show he had any criminal intent, given that he was tripping balls to the point of hallucinating a fire

The wild thing is that, at the time, the abandonware DOS games I was playing in the late 90s were more recent than Skyrim is right now.

Eventually the precedent would just become ‘poor people’ fucking over everyone, including other ‘poor people’ just trying to start their own business. I get what you’re saying but allowing squatters to create entire catalogues of domains for the sake of sticking it to corporations is probably a shitty answer

I don’t think they’re modern in the sense that they were recently invented/introduced, but modern in the sense that they’re now becoming a lot more popular in places that have municipal/city sewer hookups.

Anecdore time: my grandparents built a little cabin on an island when they retired (more Puget Sound than tropical, they weren’t bajillionaires lol), but they had one 30 years ago, alongside an outhouse, simply because draining a septic tank on an island cost a fortune. Septic service company basically uses a pontoon retrofitted with a tank and built up to float with that much weight, and they’d have to transfer that to a septic truck in order to haul it away on the mainland.

They’ve been around for quite some time, but 20+ years ago you’d probably only encounter them being used in niche places like that, or in a recreational vehicle, or in other parts of the world where the cost of municipal water is a consideration