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Lovable Sidekick

@ LovableSidekick @lemmy.world

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  • Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month [Smooth Dunk]

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  • This is one thing I wish people who either love or hate companies based on how they outwardly appear to support their pet causes would understand. With very few exceptions, they Really Don't Care. Like, at all. Your passionate belief that Company X is on your side is probably just another tooth fairy, and so is the cozy feeling that you're doing The Right Thing by buying toothpaste from them instead of the Evil toothpaste company.

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  • because you're in middle school?

  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • We also get to assume whoever we're enaging with is the dumbest or most vile human being that ever wasted oxygen, and dump all the frustrations of our lives onto them, which they richly deserve for making that typo or misusing that semicolon!

  • The walls have ears

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  • Yes, it does seem like a lot of processing. Now google any word and see how fast it returns 200,000 results. Consider that Google delivered the same experience to millions of other people at that same time. Then consider what size drop in what size bucket the processing you described really amounts to.

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  • I see a lot of "hmmm..." images where the poster seems to think part of the image reminding them of a dick or whatever is a universal human brain function. Generally I chalk those up to middle schoolers who probably also wonder if putting mirrors on shoes to see girls' panties really works.

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  • Sure dogs need mealtimes, but once they're house-trained no dog I've ever had has shat on the floor unless they're sick. It works if you give yourself time to feed the dog and go outside for a little play and a shit before rushing off to your day.

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  • Instead of conversation we now have contentious arguments about whatever randomly scrolls in front of us.

  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • One thing that's missing is the sense of wondering about something. "I've always wondered..." is kind of an anachronism, now that it's trivial to look up almost anything we wonder about. "I've always wondered" has become, "For some reason I've never asked this extra brain I carry around all the time."

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  • Dogs don't need bribes to eat. If your dog won't eat it means your dog isn't hungry yet.

  • What is something you are superstitious about?

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  • Not even monsters under the bed? Because I mean, when you don't check is when they show up!

  • What is something you are superstitious about?

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  • That's the origin of theatre people saying, "Break a leg!" The idea that it works both ways, so wishing for disaster makes things likely to go well.

  • What is something you are superstitious about?

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  • Way back in the 80s a dispatcher I was dating told me that very often they would see a little burst of activity right during shift changes - like burglar alarms going off. She said during the brief handoff period there was often a slight bit of confusion, or at least not 100% efficiency, and that "the bad guys" knew the schedule and would time their actions to take advantage of this.

  • What is something you are superstitious about?

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  • Murphy's Law says anything that can go wrong will go wrong. My more optimistic version is that the way to make things go right is to make it impossible for them not to. This just makes me proactive - for example, I assume that if I set a bag of groceries down next to a wall without thinking, it will lean away from the wall and tip over. So I just always give bags a half turn before I set them down, and Bingpot! they obediently lean against the wall and stay standing up. It might not exactly be a superstition because I don't think mystical forces are involved. Rather I think a perverse part of our own brains subliminally plans these little accidents for amusement. But once you start using the conscious part of your brain to subvert the plan. those little snafus start not happening.

    Similar principle applies to looking for things - say like I'm trying to find my tape measure. I've learned that if I can't find it in a very brief time and consciously decide to do something different - like go to the store and get another tape measure - most often within a couple seconds I will look right at the tape measure, or whatever it is. Pretending isn't enough - I have to sincerely decide to give up searching. My theory on this is that deep down I know where the object is, but part of me is enjoying the treasure hunt so it won't let the knowledge rise to the surface. Once that part of me realizes the game is over, it stops hiding the information and I seemingly at random look right where the thing is.

    Maybe believing in these little brain functions is the superstition.

  • Heaven [Sarah’s Scribbles]

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  • Scientists confirm, if humans vanished from the planet and cats remained, within six months every object on Earth would be knocked on the floor.

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  • If you do, please report it here so I can go there and upvote it again!

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  • Cool story bro. I enjoyed this about as much as the Rome Sweet Rome thing on reddit 15 years ago. What gets me most is that somewhere in the world there might be a person who knows exactly what happened, who is reading this right now and smiling.

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  • Reminds me of one time when I was getting my lunch leftovers to take home from a fridge in one of the break rooms at WotC. Sitting on the wire rack was a plain baloney sandwich with a single large bite taken out of it, like it came from a cartoon. When I say "plain" I mean two pieces of wheat bread with a piece of baloney between them - no apparent mustard, mayo, or anything. Also no plate, no sandwich bag, just this pathetic, dry looking, worst sandwich ever, lying directly on the wire shelf.

    Next to the sandwich was a Post-It that just said, "SRSLY?"

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  • Sticky notes not as in Post-Its but as in notes that are... sticky.

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  • Mind of the beholder?

    I'm reminded of a college Art History prof who thought every ancient image or object that was round represented Mother Earth, and anything long was phallic. Nevermind that these were the same people who figured out agriculture, medicine, fermentation, engineering, laws... [all the things the Romans did for us besides Nothing]... but somehow they were only capable of two artistic concepts.