[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

This is the photographic equivalent of Lewis Black's "if it wasn't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."

It doesn't make sense at first, but your brain has to rationalize it so it comes up with a plausible explanation. It doesn't have the context to know if that's the right explanation, so while you're driving to work and going about your day it's still trying to process this in the background, quietly pushing you toward an aneurism years later.

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

"Subscribe and save" is a scam.

They advertise that you will save 5% by using subscribe and save, but then the price of the item you are buying just happens to go up by 30% on the day they decide to use as the basis for your order, which is not the day you ordered it or the day they pulled it off the shelf. It will occasionally go back down to a normal-ish price, but there will also be random months where it goes up 50% or 100%. I've seen $15 case of paper towels go up to $45 some months.

Then they keep prodding you to add more items to get 10% off your entire subscribe and save. I added some items a few weeks ago, got the extra discount percentage, but when they priced my order a few weeks later, the cat food I've been getting from them at a pretty stable price suddenly went up in price by the exact amount the extra discount was saving me.

Amazon essentially took the "four square" concept that car dealers use to shift higher costs to an area of the transaction where you are less likely to notice it.

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The Secret of NIMH 3: Dragon's Tale

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

The meme leaves out the part where the progress bar starts over again, completes, starts over, completes, repeating ad nauseam, rendering the progress bar element completely devoid of meaningful information.

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

Some women look at a man and think:

...I can fix that...

Though they're more likely to think:

Oh please... I'm not a miracle worker

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

France has ordered the empire to issue a software fix for elevated radiation levels detected from the dStar 12 or face a nationwide death star recall. The empire responded with a link to an article on its EmpireNews app that states the radiation levels are fine.

Members of the local Force Usergroup say they are hopeful this latest revelation will prompt citizens to migrate to the Pine Moon of Endor, but many people are not in a financial position to abandon the dStar 12.

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Finally ditching Apple's "Music" player for MOC after watching Apple dismantle/bury basic features over the last decade.

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Merlin is amazing. I heard birds outside my new apartment and thought of them as nice background noise. Within days of installing Merlin, I could tell sparrows, cardinals and robins apart without seeing them. Whenever I heard a new bird, I'd grab my phone and open Merlin.

One day it sounded like a robin and a cardinal were having and argument while both simultaneously having a stroke. Merlin figured out it was a catbird, a relative of the mockingbird that learns the songs of other birds then strings pieces of them together in a disorganized song to impress the ladies. Basically, the male catbird who can sing the weirdest songs using the most species signals that he has "been around" for enough seasons to learn all those songs and therefore must have good genes the females want to pass on. It's mind blowing to learn all this about things that are going on outside your window.

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

It seems to me that we need some software that intercepts the data being sent to Google, replaces all proper nouns with "Sundar Pichai," all numbers with a 10 followed by 100 zeroes, and randomizes everything else before sending. The data they receive would look like it was smuggled out of a Being John Malkovich parallel universe.

Or we could just use Firefox. Or Lynx.

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I somehow read this comment in the voice of the cleric performing the "mawwiage" ceremony in Princess Bride.

Cleric: "Sunwise...." long, uncomfortable pause. "And for the exact same weason." Pause. "Clocks go clockwise because their pwedecessors did... and what were their pwedecessors?"

Humperdink: "Look, can we hurry this up?"

Cleric: "Sundials."

Humperdink: "Just skip to the end!"

Cleric: "Countewclockwise... as said in another comment... would be... widdershins."

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The screaming could also mean:

"I have been up all night watching these babies and I am exhausted! Not one of them was hungry! I need some me time with my face in the catnip plant. Someone watch them while I'm passed out... and no more catnip for the babies! They all still smell like catnip from the last time you looked after them."

[-] southbayrideshare@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uno, dos, meow, meow, tres, cuatro!

Pretty little kitty chased a thing she saw.

Had a pouch of catnip and a feather boa

Furry purry, furry purry.

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