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Cake day: July 22nd, 2023

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  • Worked tech support for an ISP. The tech side was well managed and smart. (Left when that changed.)

    The customer service side fielded TV and account related calls. They were driven by average calls times. What a cluster. Guess who straight hung up on customers when the call went too long? Some people would call be 4-5 times.

    Meanwhile, we could take all the time it took to resolve. A 1-hour call is way cheaper than rolling a truck. Yet some assholes would roll trucks for nothing, then bitch there were no trucks left.






  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlHow old were the founding fathers?
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    2 months ago

    Could a reply be any more perfect?!

    Louis: Hot as balls, forever young, immortal, never grow sick, never die, best friend is a literal rock star, has to eat a poodle now and again.

    “Woe is me!”

    I’m in the woods and swamps a lot. Always think of this line:

    “Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi…”



  • shalafi@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlYeah but the economy is doing great
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    3 months ago

    Can I nitpick a thing? 01/06 gave me fucking PTSD. I watched for 8-hours that day and can’t watch 60-seconds now. I really can’t. I can barely glance at a picture. Now I truly know what triggered means.

    But those animals weren’t “armed” in any sense of the word as we typically understand it. Yes, some had guns “off campus”, but they were too pussy to bring 'em.

    Anyway, sorry. I’ll be the last human on Earth to downplay that day.

    If they want to start showing out armed? Aight. Not all liberals are gun shy.





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    3 months ago

    This is why Half Life was a game changer. Played that on a 400Mhz machine with an 8MB graphics card. Ran like a top.

    50MB fully playable demo, hooked me. Took all night and several tries to get that over dialup, but I got it done and played till dawn.

    Even Half Life 2 could be played on crappier hardware without too much sacrifice.



  • Knowing it would be appealed, no matter the ruling, the lower court found it was an insurrection. The next court had to take that as a factual finding. They could not argue or retry that question. It is now a legal fact.

    Brilliant move! That judge took one for the team, called a coward and a traitor. And you see what we have here today. (insert wasted.meme)


  • Back in 2002 my manager was hosting his own little site on his home webserver. Shared it with all of us, and the company’s managers who were our sole source of income.

    “So Jay, the Google search widget is pretty cool, but when I stary to type “a”, “Angelina Jolie porn” comes in the results. Who all you share this with?”

    “Oh shit! Are you fucking serious?!”