No no no no…it’s about what kind of food your mom cooked when you were a kid.

Which makes me…uhhhhhh…clown? I don’t know. She bought a lot of McDonalds.

Beer is expensive, and gives you colon cancer.

Me: "I should upload a series of daily videos where I speak exclusively jibberish, while doing insane movements/“dances”

“USHNXMBXSGJLOCXRH OJCSSIKBFHHFDUKFSYKM TKJFSTJVDDJVCDIBCF”

meanwhile doing hip thrusts and cartwheels simutaniously while my neighbor below bangs on their ceiling with a broom

How about Micheal Cera, or Steve Corell? Or is that TOO far in the opposite direction?

I have worked in toxic jobs like that before. I took it out on my bosses. The only customers who I took it out on were the ones who were asking for it. Which most of what I’ve seen from Walmart employees just isn’t true.

I worked at Target twice. Two different times, each about 10 years apart, and at two different locations with totally different people. It was the same exact experience both times. Management playing favorites, and playing games with employees they don’t like. Unfair expectations from some management team so far up you don’t even know their names or faces. Coworkers who all claim to be just doing their best, but then you find out they’re politicing behind your back. All of this for barely above minimum wage.

My first time was when I was 19, and also working with my girlfriend. I didn’t tolerate people treating her poorly, and so I walked out with her, when we both realized what was happening. She was getting bullied, and I was getting smile to the face knife behind the back sort of deal. 10 years later, I wasn’t with her anymore, but got basically the same experience. Which leads me to believe that once you’ve been there a while, Target culture leads you to act this way.

I also remember watching the same anti-union video both times upon being hired. Like…the literal same exact video 10 years apart.

But, to get back to the point, yeah, I do blame the employees if they act like that to everybody. At Target, I can’t remember a single customer acting so far out of line as for me to yell at them. It wasn’t until years later that I worked at a shady hotel that I had to put some customers in line.

You tryin’ to find a job?

Not only that, but they’d also be one of the only retailers that actually carry items IN THEIR SHOPS!!!

I recently bought a 4TB SSD 2.5" for my PC. Take a guess at how I bought that drive. Just mentally lock in a guess at how my purchase happened. Have you tsken your guess? Ok, cool. You’re wrong. I don’t even need to know your answer before I know that you are incorrect.

First I tried Best Buy. I wanted to just go to a store in person, buy a drive, and be back home in about an hour. Best Buy does not sell the WD Blue 4TB in store. You can ship it to store, but it’s not just already there. Same with Target. Same with Walmart.

So I figured “ok, I need to buy this on Amazon.” Amazon was filled with so many sketchy listings. I know people sell fake drives especially when you get up to the shit in high capacity.

So I tried to find listings where Western Digital was the seller. I figured that’s my best bet. Couldn’t find them. Everytime I found them, I’d click their product, and in checkout it would say some shit like “Sold and shipped by S.A. Industries”, or some equally unheard of company.

I couldn’t even FIND anyone claiming to be the official Best Buy Amazon store.

So I thought “Maybe I can find the Western Digital store on eBay?”

I could not. I did however find the Best Buy official ebay store selling it with free shipping at MSRP.

Now I COULD have gone through BestBuy.com, or Target.com, but they’d have charged me shipping. In the Walmart and Amazon pages I felt overwhelmed with the barrage of fake listings. On ebay, pretty much the same until I found an official ebay seller for a legit brick and morter chain, selling merchandise that should be inside their store, but isn’t.

I still need to buy some smaller SSD’s, and I’m already exausted just THINKING about it. I’d gladly walk into a legit trusted store, and buy at MSRP from trusted brands if I could.

I don’t know why these massive size stores want to be massively empty. Best buy got rid of physical media a year ago, and now their isles are like 19 feet wide and empty. Are they expecting an elephant parade? They used to have a room specifically to experience projectors, and home theater. Now that room is just closed and locked.

If Walmart just ACTUALLY sold goods, I might shop there again. I wish I lived closer to Microcenter.

The First Person to Ever Have A Name!

I JUST foung out about this, and was about to post this exact same thing. Except I was debating whether to post the Daily Tech News Show episode with timestamp, or if I should post the Engadget article I found.

AAAHHH!!! IT MAKES ME EXCITED!!!

Please let this come to Android!!! AND!!! The Flipboard company itself is now part of the Fediverse! So this app may end up being the most complete way to browse and experience PeerTube. I’ve tried 3 different times now to browse Peertube, and 3 different times I’ve gotten WILDLY different experiences. Part of the problem is I don’t have a peertube account. I don’t know which instance to sign up on.

But with an app like this, I could sign up somewhere, and just pull all the feeds of my own interest into ME. I could search all the instances for my own interests, instead of searching for instances, and hoping there’s something on that instance that matches my interests.

I’ve been in a tech mood lately. I’ve frankensteined the hell out of my PC.

I hadn’t been inside a walmart in like 10 years. And I was at the point where I was like “Wait…why don’t I shop here anymore?” Then I stepped inside and it was like “Oh right…”

I don’t know if this is just my area, or of it’s Walmart in general…but EVERY employee in the Walmarts near me treat every customer like an asshole.

During Black Friday I got reminded why I never shop Walmart anymore. Their website forces you to create a profile. You can’t shop as guest. On top of all that, they at some point began letting unregulated 3rd party vendors sell things on their website. So you don’t even know IF walmart carrys the products on their own website. That in turn makes it hard to use their website to check if an item is in stock before you leave your house. Because you search for something, and you get 5 results from 5 different vendors, but they’re all the same product. One of them may OR MAY NOT be sold by walmart directly. You now need to look at each listing individually. Calling the store directly is even more useless, as the employees will just leave you on hold for 20 minutes. Then you go there in person, and see employees turning red in the face SCREAMING at old ladies who don’t understand their keycard screens. She’s just trying to pay and asking “where’s the tap thingie?” And this employee just screams “IF YOU DON’T PAY AND GET THE FUCK OUT I’M WALKING THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!! JUST PAY!!!”

“But where do I…”

“JUST PAY!!!”

“I’m trying to, but it isn’t…”

“JUST FUCKING PAY, BITCH!!!”

Eventually the machine took. And this employee is yelling “YOU’RE LUCKY MY SHIFT ISN’T ENDING! I’D BEAT YOUR ASS IN THE PARKING LOT, AND SMILE WHILE I DO IT!”

She was just trying to buy 3 video games and I have no idea what happened before I got there, but I already decided long before it was my turn in line that I wasn’t shopping here. I only stayed because I wanted to make sure this guy wasn’t going to actually punch this elderly woman.

I came for this $39 tablet, but even if they DID have it, I wasn’t buying anything now. This is an extreme example, but most of the employees I see are just angry and hostile all the time. Most of the customers too.

I can’t even remember this EVER happening at Target, which is right across the street.

Hmmmmmmm, so what you’re saying is, if a walmart employee is pissing me off, I should just start asking him what they think of the “union organize target wage increase fuck this job easy to steal”

Too many guns, too many people willing to shoot those guns, not enough politicians prioritizing mental health

I thought it was ALWAYS part of the fediverse. Am I going crazy? I thought that was the whole point of this thing. Tiktok for the fediverse.

…AM I GOING CRAZY!!!

This has nothing to do with worker safety, or loss prevention. This is to basically spy on their employees.

Alright. Fine. But then I insist that when depicted in media, they use the REAL sounda it makes.

Click here if you’re unaware what I mean

Then you can choose to block twitter. But don’t say that because YOU want to block twitter that EVERYONE should.

THIS is what I keep telling people. The fediverse will win in the end as long as it bridges out to everyone. Because eventually the centralized services will die, or lose popularity. Myspace is dead. HotOrNot is dead. Digg is dead. Friendster is dead. Facebook is dying. YahooIM is dead. AOLIM/AIM is dead. ICQ is dead. MSN Messanger is dead.

All these communication services died because they were centrally supported. But if MissKey dies, the fediverse doesn’t die. The MissKey users just migrate to a new service.

Now if twitter, and threads, and facebook, and reddit, and instagram, and all these other services integrate with the fediverse, the fediverse benefits. And if meta dies in 2042, that’s fine. Threads will go away, and facebook, and whatsapp, and instagram will all go away. But the users will say “Now, I heard about pixelfed. Instagram is gone, lets just go to pixelfed.”

Whereas HotOrNot users didn’t have a fediverse they COULD federate with. So back then, the website just died, and nobody’s heard of that concept for a website. There was no replacement. The userbase just ceased to exist.

The pillars for centralized services will fall in time with or without the fediverse. But WITH the fediverse connected before they fall, you implant the suggestion that there IS more out there to an audience that otherwise had no idea the fediverse existed.

Only reason I know of Lemmy/the fediverse is because I got autobanned from reddit. I went out of my way to search for a reddit replacement. Prior to that, I had no idea the fediverse existed. I think I vaguely heard of mastodon…but had no idea it was connected to a bigger network.

You say that like I don’t want to federate with twitter, and then choose who I block.

Because let’s face it, 95% of the profiles ARE on twitter. Not everybody who uses social media gives one shit about open source. I’d say most on mastodon DO, but I’d say the vast majority on bluesky DON’T.

This will help you understand why bluesky has 24.5 active million users, and mastodon has 1.5 million active users.

Twitters new reputation is a rightwing hellhole. THAT’S why they’re bleeding users. Bluesky is exactly like twitter in functionality, but left wing leaning.

Mastodon isn’t political by nature, but functions very differently. The people who care about open source, and decentralized, and all these other things, those people signed up for mastodon. Everybody else who didn’t care, didn’t.

Now to be fair, mastodon has 10 million registered users, but only 1.5 active users. Compare that to blueskys 25 million users, with 24.5 active users.

Given mastodon’s older age compared to bluesky, it suggests to me that at some point in the past, people signed up for mastodon as an alternative to twitter…and by large have left the platform.

My speculation is that it probably happened when must bought twitter 2 years ago. Before bluesky became popular. Then they left when they realized mastodon works differently than twitter.

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!