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Doug

@ Doug @piefed.social

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average man by day, average man by night. / you get more points using the fediverse than you do from reddit / movie enthusiast / formerly /u/doug on reddit

  • sponsors, ads

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  • I gave into this recently, even though I should know better.

    I saw many ads for Troll Gummy Pops, a frozen version of their candy, which I think is alright. And I’d just recently had some subpar fruit popsicles that were just OK, but I thought why not, I’ll try something new.

    I saw the box at WinCo and it was plastered with ads about something something Xbox, something something Forza. Whatever, so it’s not the generic WinCo brand or the other boring brands I typically get.

    Worst case scenario I don’t like it, best case scenario I have a new treat to treat myself to every now and again.

    No, the worst case scenario is I’m so off-put by the texture of a gummy popsicle that the texture and experience—paired with the over-the-top sugar, causes me to throw up.

    Never again.

  • Former Microsoft VP says Microsoft missed the AI wave like the internet and mobile, as Copilot scales back in Windows 11

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  • It’s like they created a very good phone tree and are trying to shove it into everything that never had or needed a phone tree in the first place.

  • Bitwarden's new CEO has a Private Equity background, removed 'Inclusion' and 'Always Free' from their website -- because of course he did

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  • ditto. works just fine for me 🤙

  • When you have a government job

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  • The battery levels really dove for me whenever I’d check my feed.

  • Vance announces suspension of $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California

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  • and by then countless damage will have already been done and they’ll have moved onto the next bullshit to cram down our pipes.

  • What habit do you possess that seems very normal to you, but would seem odd to anyone else?

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  • Oh I’m positive. The flipside is I watch a lot of reality TV with them as they enjoy our riffing it together; I do not care one iota for most reality TV, including what they make me watch, but I do it for them, and there’s always time later to turn it back to my tastes. It’s a balancing act.

    But also I still keep track of external factors if it’s not enough. I returned two shopping carts to the corral and held the door open at Red Robin for some sort of school visit and by my calculations those were enough points to get me a Heat rewatch with them.

  • What habit do you possess that seems very normal to you, but would seem odd to anyone else?

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  • My spouse does this too. I’m down to MST3K roast a show or movie if it’s bad or I’ve seen it before, but we have an agreement if I care and want to be immersed I’ll let them know…

    …and then if it turns out the movie’s bad I’m down to roast it.

    Sometimes I’m enjoying a movie and I can tell they want to talk, and it drives them insane, but they respect the agreement.

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    “Panic Mode”: Kash Patel Is in Full Meltdown Over Leaks to Reporters - Patel has ordered at least two dozen staffers to take polygraph tests.

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  • ...we all know those things don't fucking work, right? they don't mean a goddamn thing and are a waste of everyone's time. god fucking dammit i want to poop right in his size 9s.

  • LibreOffice 26.2.3 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes

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  • Republican Gov Will Cancel Votes in Insane Racial Power Grab

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  • I don’t think there ever was a slippery slope fallacy.

  • Been a while since I posted a Sencha

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  • I’ll rescind the APB.

  • "The stages of enshittification"

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  • "Subscribe & save"

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  • Trump claims US has total control over strait of Hormuz after Iran seizes two container ships

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  • Better to play everything than get played by everything.

  • The puzzles are too hard

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  • Yeah, I know the name of the Escape Room; it doesn’t make it suck any less.

  • RFK Jr once cut penis off ‘road-killed raccoon’ in New York, new book reveals

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  • My spouse and I still use “the day got away from me” as an excuse for forgetting the stupidest fucking things ever. Like him and his bear carcass or whatever it was he left in Central Park.

    This fucking moron should’ve been laughed out of society along with the others, but instead here we are; wearing jeans in saunas.

  • That Blue Fairy strain is affecting his positronic network

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  • Sorry, but according to the world of Pinocchio, smoking alone gets you sent to the island of donkeys wherein you then become a donkey. Not a real boy ‘till you give up the cigars.

    Hee haw!

  • I operate in much the same way.

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  • Captain’s Cheese Log

  • Magic Socks

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  • if you don’t step the fuck back this quartz is gonna be a rose quartz. 😤

  • Magic Socks

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  • Yeah they’re expensive, but again not a subscription!

    “Hey my rock isn’t reducing my stress.” “Oooooh, what is that the 2025 model? Yeah that’s no good for 2026 stress, you need the new geode.”