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Cake day: January 7th, 2025

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  • I agree with you but it’s a minefield. And the goalposts shift. For example, one time I was leaving a bar after stopping for food on my way home from work. I brought a comic book to read as a signal I didn’t want to chit-chat. This took place in the parking lot, with a guy easily double my age, and I’m no spring chicken.

    “Hey baby” (yelled from halfway across the parking lot)

    “Not interested, thanks.” (Said dismissively)

    “Bitch, I don’t want to fuck you!” (Said extremely aggressively)

    “Not interested in a conversation either!” (Said in singsong)

    “No wonder you are here alone, cunt.” (Intent obvious)

    Like… no shit? I made myself unavailable for a reason, but even minding one’s own business isn’t enough to escape abuse.




  • Having seen an absolute gob of these comments, I’m inclined to agree. They all read largely the same way, there’s an awful lot of comments for being a 1 day account (easily rivaling some of the most prolific humans we’ve had), some of them make very little sense, and they are all top level with very very very few replies to anyone, but they still address other commenters in their top level comment which is super weird. They also only seem to comment on images. Or at least I haven’t seen any that didn’t.

    There was another account, cosmicpancake, that was basically the same. I didn’t realize they were not the same account. That one was purged.



  • MonkeyTown@midwest.socialtoScience Memes@mander.xyzmembrainz
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    2 months ago

    Cats also have them. You sometimes see them in the corner of their eye, or partially covering their eyes when they’ve just woken up or are sick or something. They are sort of a translucent milky white.

    It’s because they evolved in desert conditions, from what I’ve read. They can see well enough through them but it protects against sand and stuff.




  • MonkeyTown@midwest.socialtoNiceMemes@sopuli.xyzWhat's yours?
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    My favorite is in early spring, just after all the leaves come fully out but before they darken to their summer colors.

    Driving/riding through dense woods on a still, sunny day (with the windows down, if in car) everything smells fresh and crisp, and the sun streams through the neon green leaves.

    Magical renewal.








  • You should look into how distribution works. It’s very likely that companies doing distribution, which are shockingly also mostly the major beer companies, simply decided to offer less of it or raise prices for it to push retailers and bars toward things they fully own, which is a sizable chunk of the craft beer market available in stores other than the brewery itself.

    It’s all really shady nonsense collusion shit, but not really the fault of breweries. Most of them don’t benefit either.




  • Maybe it happens in the future, but they come back through the birth channel and all, so it goes a bit further back than the 70s.

    That’s why we ended up with boomers fucking everything up. It’s just how it always went. The few shit-ass survivors of the incoming shitstorm went back and fucked everything up, because they feel it’s their only chance at anything good. Ironic. Causing the very thing you are fleeing.


  • Meanwhile I put my hands in my sweatshirt pockets (zip-up sweatshirt, not pull-over) and flap them like wings while slow-running at them, yelling and stomping each step. Basically do what they do, but I’m bigger.

    I look insane, but they fuck right off, since it’s all signals they understand.

    I used to work at a place that had a sitting pond right against the building with walkways across it and stuff and that was the only way out to the back parking lot… there were always geese… I got fed up and tried that once when I was having a bad day, and it both worked and made me feel a ton better.