TipsyMcGee

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

If that were true, it's a dumb election strategy to sit back and wait while your opponent puts an end to free and fair elections.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

I'm not sure what stage of rewilding his garden had reached at that time, don't think there was a lot of moss, mainly flowers and whatnot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

I dunno man, I've made it a point of pride to be rough with my Macbook over the years. They hold up well to repeated beatings and last a long time. I'd rate my 2017 Macbook Pro as hardier than the Thinkpad X1 Carbon I had as a company computer for my last job. And the MacBook might have been cheaper new too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

That place is just flabbergasting nowadays. Click almost anywhere and you're greeted with colorful descriptions of jews and any other kind of bat shit overt comicbook bad guy levelf of absurd racism. Anywhere. What is Twitter's utillity even?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

My dad did the same with his, only to find his neighbour had tried (sincerely) to be helpful and mowed it while dad was out of town. My dad does not speak highly of his neighbor's intelligence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Keeping thieves away by never cleaning the bike reminds me of the old bicycle touring strategy of hanging sweaty and unwashed clothes to dry from your handlebars when parked. Bonus theft deterrent!

Also, I technically do have an engineering degree, which is why the lights and wiring are, ahem, functional. Most of the time.

To be clear, having an engineering degree is cool – it's the very specific (but all too common) type of engineer that wants jerk off into his own mouth when he sees a Cybertruck and organically follows Elon Musk on Twitter, that is lame and has a lot of bad ideas, sometimes about "innovation" of bicycles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Buying used makes a lot of sense, especially for commuting. The design of the bicycle was basically perfected in the late 1800s, anybody trying to tell you different is a fart boofing Tesla fanboy with an engineering degree and zero cycling experience.

(Admittedly, I ride a carbon frame road bike with electronic shifting, not because I'm a shit sniffing engineer with a hard-on for Musk, but because I'm a middle-aged man with lycra for brains).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hah! Shows your morals! He could have meant you could build it, but your thief brain went straight to thieving, eh, thief?

/s