The other day my wife called CVS trying to get her prescription filled at a different location. I listened to her for 10 minutes in an infinite loop of listening to an automated voice and hitting menu numbers. At about the time I thought she was about to murder someone I asked “would you like help!”. She said annoyed “I don’t know what you’re going to do that I haven’t, but sure”. I proceeded to hit 0 every time it tried to talk and it took hitting 0 like 50 times before it let me talk to a real fucking person. It’s insane just how hard it is to actually talk to real people anymore. I don’t care if the person barely speaks English and I have to use Google translate to fix my problem, you’re expensive AI isn’t better.

My brother and I share an account. Awhile back we were having an issue where every time one of us got on, the language was set to Spanish. We each thought the others kids were doing something stupid, but after a little bit he I guess figured out someone in Mexico had got his account info. So maybe try changing your password.

I’ve never understood the idea of being mad about what another industry is making. They make more money than you? Great go put in an application. Don’t want to work in that industry? Then maybe they deserve the better pay. If you truly think you are that superior to the other industry then use their pay to bargain at your own job.

If you’re a nurse who’s working long hours at a job that requires an education and you’re getting paid the same as a McDonald’s cook, don’t be mad at the cook, be mad at your employer. Go to them and demand a raise, and say I could work there for the same pay, spend more time with my family and not be responsible for keeping people alive. Pay me or I’m going to peace out.

Theaters just call it stage right and stage left

I’m really just a data nerd who also likes working on cars. I often find excuses to make unnecessarily over complex spreadsheets, this one is just actually useful.

I use an excel spreadsheet that I made. I use conditional formatting to tell me when I need to change something of at least check it. If you’re interested in making your own just ask if you have any questions

I used to slip in to a bit where I was sarcastically a character that took on beliefs basically the exact opposite of my own. I would make sexist or lightly racist (stereotype) jokes that I didn’t actually believe but thought were funny. The jokes were ofter at the expense of myself or people like me but involved bringing up other races, sexes, and ethnicities.

I made an effort to stop doing this for a couple reasons. The first being that idk if I’m really good or really bad at sarcasm but a lot of people just wouldn’t get my joke and I was afraid people actually believed that was who I was.

Secondly, I had a kid. I realized that she parrots everything I say and do, and she wouldn’t understand the layers of the joke and could potentially become what I was making fun of.

I listen to a lot of comedians in podcast and I envy their ability to slip in and out of bits with other comedians knowing they all get it, but for now I make an effort to end that bit.

Reddit refuge here. I’m super sad to see people trying to turn lemmy into reddit, this is our chance to make it better. Stop filling the new feed with reddit archive bullshit.

Secondly, I’m fine with the porn. I miss scrolling r/all and getting the surprise boob. Surprise boobs are the best.

Although I will say the furry community on lemmy is fierce. I’ve blocked like 40 communities and I’m still getting dog dicks in my feed. How many different communities do you people need?

I don’t really see how it’s click baity. Click bait implies that it’s lying or exaggerating something, and that thumbnail is basically spot on. You click that link and you get exactly what you expected.

My god! It looks like a huge…