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Cake day: December 30th, 2023

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  • I wish fucking supermarkets would understand this. I don’t have to be told in a super loud fucking annoying voice that I need to place the object in the bagging area, or switch to the other machine to use my card. I’ve already hit the fucking button to use the cc machine, you fucking nonces! I’ve already placed the goddamn stupid fucking bananas in the stupid fucking bagging area, shut the fuck up! AAAAAH!

    It’s even worse now because you used to be able to mute the mother fucker, but now they’ve disabled that option.








  • Shoot, they won’t just be posting a tl;dr, but a commentary on it, and sometimes really good context from their field or experience. It’s basically the article, but written by a more intelligent journalist who is a part of whatever is being reported on, not just observing from interviews and phone calls (and lame corporate website ‘about us’ pages).




  • Yeah, it gets complicated when formal rules can just be made up. I had a group of professors who published a little sheet saying, “These are the ways we like it, but unless it’s truly horrendous, you aren’t getting knocked for it.” Their rule was something along the lines of pre-Roman fall, names that ended in -s don’t get an extra ‘s, but afterwards they do. So Jesus’, but Aquinas’s… /shrug