There was a store near me when I was growing up that specialized in Beanie Babies. They also sold Pokémon cards. This was back with first-edition base set, then standard base set.

I never thought Pokémon cards would be the ones to soar in value….

“Der Tür” sounds awful, you make a lot of sense

It’s the final frontier of data collection once they’ve hoovered up every bit of data they can from the Internet that isn’t already LLM generated.

A great video on this.

I’ve been almost fired for being late at retail jobs, because they’re suuuuper fussy about being a couple minutes late. Luckily my current job doesn’t give a fuck because they just want the job to get done. I’m never late when I work from home, though!

I was fired before when I worked retail for being drunk at a work meeting after the store closed. I was part of a group of about five people who went to a restaurant. I was the only one who fought it. I had to have a conference call with a manager and a judge. The judge asked “did you have any reason to suspect Rai was drunk” and the manager said “Nope!” I got free money to do nothing for a year.

I absolutely was not drunk. Bless that manager for defending me.

Yah, my partner and I sleep in the same bed and under the same blankets and I sleep best when either I’m snuggling them or they’re snuggling me.

I was so disappointed going from LTE to 5G and realizing the speed difference is minimal. I was so hopeful it would be mega faster! Going from gigabit at home to mobile speeds is sad.

For me it was Not4Sale - TV Sheriff and the Trailbuddies. I actually bought the DVD from OtherCinema, maybe the only movie I’ve ever bought. I don’t think you can even buy it anymore.

Pre-Imagine Dragons Imagine Dragons.

Armored Core time

I was a dumb young bitch who had a friend show me forest porn magazines and I turned out okay

I can’t read anything about this concept without hearing Liz from TrueAnon saying “Bee to bee SaaS” sarcastically

I believe it’s my Atari 2600! I can’t think of anything older that I’ve got that runs on electric juice.

They will last forever.

I still use my 2011 MacBook Pro! He’s got a SSD and 16GB RAM now, but he still works perfectly—and on original battery, lasts for over three hours! (Originally got him for LAN parties, and always used him plugged in. I believe 40-ish charge cycles.)

Peacock = pisspenis

There’s also some verrrry sketchy instances you can join that have to do with stuff that’s illegal in many places (not the fun kind of illegal) and some of those take crypto donations for signup.

Chris Pratt as Link!

When I was a teen, my friend told me he has a crazy spot. We smoke and he guides me. We go through a forest and enter a small town of identical houses, with one big house at the end. The curvy roads are all connected, and there’s only one entrance/exit. As I drive around, people come through their front doors and stare at us, or stare at us from inside their houses.

He brought me to a cult town.

Absolutely Firefox focus.

Firefox focus works amazingly!