Transporter_Room_3

Transporter_Room_3 , 16 hours ago

I once got kicked out of Sunday school for explaining everything after the big bang as our best scientific estimates tell us, at least from an astronomical, geological, and biological point of view.

EDITORS NOTE: I kind of went on a rambling rant-anecdote here. Feel free to skip.

Like how stars form, galaxies, how supernovae made everything possible, how a planet forms, how biology can be kick started from non living things over a super long stretch of time (possibly many times over with few or one actually making it to even single celled organisms) and how evolution does NOT say we came from monkeys any more than I say you came from your cousin (your mileage may vary in Alabama and Georgia(both))

The Sunday school person let me continue until I finished and then she laughed and said “isn’t that funny everyone?” and all the kids laughed at me.

Jokes on her, her 3 children are all PHDs who don’t talk to their parents anymore after “embracing a life of sin”. Which I count as a win for her children.

My mother had to come get me and I wasn’t allowed to return for a few weeks because some kids went and told their parents who got all butt hurt.

While my parents were way more religious then (still are, just not as much) they never once tried to punish me, tell me I was wrong, or even told me not to say things like that in church. And they weren’t shy about telling me when I was wrong or being a little shit.

Transporter_Room_3 , 16 hours ago

I legitimately know people who hold the belief that Satan put all fossils in the ground to “lead us astray”

The same people, when speaking a different time, have said that GOD put them there as a test of your faith.

And I know unrelated people who believe fossils aren’t real, and that the shells I can literally point out in limestone all around the area are less than 6000 years old, or just rocks that look like shells/coral.

Transporter_Room_3 , 1 day ago

It finally clicked for a friend when I asked him if he knew how old the “young women” were in another case, and he said “I don’t know… 25?” which then got corrected to “16 or 17” when I reminded him that the “young women” in question were minors.

So finally I called out and asked his daughter to show us the cool picture she was working on in the study, and she excitedly runs in to show us. She was 9 at the time.

I asked him how he enjoyed the picture that “young woman” drew for us. I literally saw the change on his face when it clicked.

Transporter_Room_3 , 1 day ago

Hide a bin ladin or demon core in there and you’re good to go

Transporter_Room_3 , 3 days ago

Hanlon’s Razor and all that, but I just assume that’s to drive up interaction in the post.

Rant/ramble ahead, you can skip:

By misspelling something, or just doing/saying something that common sense should say is wrong (“life hack, I just discovered this thing that literally every 5 year old already knows about”) you will draw out all the people who are genuinely trying to help, people who just can’t help themselves but smugly correct someone, people who THINK they know the right way but aren’t sure, people who claim to have never seen the right way before, and all the bitch fights such comments produce.

The increased interactions make the post do better in algorithms, which means it goes out to more and more people, who continue the cycle.

My wife watches short form endless scrolling videos despite knowing how bad those are for your mental health, and some of the people she stops to watch are CONSTANTLY pulling the “common sense says otherwise” one. Like my dude you did NOT just figure out in your 20s that you can wait for the shower to warm up before you get in. Literal toddlers know better. It’s such a simple thing, I genuinely do not believe anyone in their 20s just gets in the shower while the water is still cold because they never figured out they can wait for the warm water. But hoooo boy did their video take off and have millions of views, and thousands of comments about how wild that is.

Transporter_Room_3 , 3 days ago

As long as you rake in the cash quick enough, you can be rich before anyone realized that you’re the problem.

And now you’ve got money to pay people to beat them into submission when they complain.

Transporter_Room_3 , 3 days ago

I was about to say, “what do you mean ‘old days’, I’m still playing!”

This game will outlive DOOM being run on things.

Or more likely, someone will figure out a way to play one in the other.

Transporter_Room_3 , 3 days ago

NCD is leaking again…

Not that I mind.

Transporter_Room_3 , 3 days ago

JUST

DO IT

Hell, make it 100%.

All countries

100% import taxes on all ICE

Make people demand EVs

Motivate countries to produce in-country.

Transporter_Room_3 , 5 days ago

What if I can operate several different types of forklifts, reach trucks, skid steers, and an excavator, but I’m not “certified”?

Transporter_Room_3 , 4 days ago

Lol ain’t that the truth.

But I also don’t do any of that for a job, so I doubt my boss will agree!

Transporter_Room_3 , 6 days ago

The last time it got above 95 where I live, I was a child, nobody went outside that week, and everyone was complaining that it was the hottest days they’ve ever felt there.

It’s already happened 3 times this year. Once in “winter”. All of this week has been above 95.

This is the hottest year of your life…

Every year.

Until you die.

Potentially of heat-related conditions.

Transporter_Room_3 , 6 days ago

Literally, if you know there’s 0 chance of it happening, why not test?

Note: this is very different when you’re a government entity making the claim and doing the test vs when you’re an individual making a claim and then someone else does the test, especially if law enforcement or other government bodies are involved.

If the UK investigators were so sure, then doing the tests remove all doubts, and nobody can point to it and go “then why didn’t you test? Seems shady to me” because… Well… Seems shady to me.

Transporter_Room_3 , 6 days ago

“Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice”

What do you even do if your office gets burned and melted by a volcano? Do you take a week “off” and all meet up in a new space? Do you look for a new job? Like damn, if the warehouse I work in burned down I’d be completely out of a job unless I can move 1,000 miles away.

Transporter_Room_3 , 5 days ago

And if you take a hit to performance (you will) you might get fired! And then all that was for nothing.

Honestly I think if that happened to me I’d fire the building. From existence.

Transporter_Room_3 , 6 days ago

Dudes an XP hog.

Transporter_Room_3 , 6 days ago

Then you get to NewGame++, try to skill your way through, then they pull out surprise moves, are a lot faster, and mock your pitiful attempts to damage them.

And this isn’t even their final form.

^ng+7^

Transporter_Room_3 , 7 days ago

EVOLUTION IS A CIRCLE

🦀RETURN TO CRAB🦀

Transporter_Room_3 , 8 days ago

Oh no, not again.

Transporter_Room_3 , 8 days ago

Do… Do people care what the REAL scarlet Johansson, Jennifer Aniston or Elton John have to say about Ukraine defending itself and it’s people against a fascist invasion?

I mean, I find their stuff entertaining, sure, but like… Why would I listen to their tactical analysis in the first place?

Transporter_Room_3 , 8 days ago

I went to a celtic festival earlier today and there was a (male presenting) person in a dress you would expect to see on a docudrama about Jack the Ripper.

Inside this lady of the evening dress was the hariest person I have ever seen in a dress. Take that dark dense patch in the center of rikers chest, put that all over the exposed breast area, the upper back, arms, huge beard, very dense hairy legs. And all of it fiery orange.

That might be approaching “too much” territory, but I gotta say, what we have seen on star trek so far has been alopecia by comparison.

Transporter_Room_3 , 10 days ago

Please drink Verification Can.

Transporter_Room_3 , 13 days ago

Oh, their position can absolutely be changed.

It’s just that not enough of the American people are quite there yet.

Transporter_Room_3 , 13 days ago

More like “we can never know the TRUE purpose of the broken column, but due to its obvious penis shape, it is widely accepted to have been religious or ceremonial in nature”

Edit: which now I’m wondering if that was the original meme

Transporter_Room_3 , 13 days ago

I love that every Sci fi show eventually does the “out of phase” episode, and I love seeing the fun twists and flavorings they use to make it “their” version.

Like Stargate sg1 and their crystal skull radiation and advanced dimension-shifting technology episodes.

And my personal favorite lampshading for this is actually from Stargate. in the in-universe parody show “Wormhole X-treme” one of the main character parodies asks “if I’m out of phase, why don’t I fall through the floor?” and the response from the writer/director/producer/whatever he was, was something along the lines of “I’ll have to get back to you on that”

Transporter_Room_3 , 13 days ago

My favorite part is all the inside jokes they pack in as well. You don’t really get all of them as a viewer, but I’ve watched every episode with commentary, and a lot of interviews with a lot of the directors, producers, prop/costume/sfx people.

Nothing beats the “special effects coordinator” guy screaming BIGGER at everyone after they show him progressively larger explosive effects.

Transporter_Room_3 , 13 days ago

I’m sorry for all the dolly fans out there, but I have a confession… I don’t care for her music.

But I will defend this woman simply because her charity work alone makes her deserving of much more.

And I know I don’t even know half of what she does.

So if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go sharpen up my torches and light my pitchforks, because ain’t nobody dissing dolly Parton around me.

Transporter_Room_3 , 14 days ago

But you simply don’t understand, he wore a TAN SUIT!!!

Transporter_Room_3 , 16 days ago

Yeah but who has a month to just wait around when there are dissidents that need defenstrating?

Transporter_Room_3 , 15 days ago

My wife insists that broccoli is disgusting.

I like it. It’s not like super flavorful or anything, but I’ll roast and salt a little broccoli for something to add to my fettuccine. She always passes and refuses to even try it.

More for me.

Transporter_Room_3 , 16 days ago

CoMpLex sItUaTiOn

Transporter_Room_3 , 15 days ago

I mean, if the genocidal shoe fits…

Transporter_Room_3 , 18 days ago

Yeah, and the electric scooters may look dorky in a warzone but honestly, mobility, ease of charging (if you have the equipment anyway, soooooooo maybe not the best choice for ruZZian?) and if my choices were “large slowish apc that’s loud AF and draws attention for miles around” vs “speedy quiet stick with wheels” I know which one I’m taking.

Still needs a chicken wire cope cage though

Transporter_Room_3 , 18 days ago

MURDERER, Daniel Perry.

Say it louder for the people in the back.

Transporter_Room_3 , 18 days ago

Is it still a feminine urge if I’m a dude?

And can I bring my wife? She’d love the big creepy castle AND the queen-of-the-dead vibe.

Transporter_Room_3 , 20 days ago

I know someone who takes a weird amount of pride in having never seen star wars.

Like, mocks people for liking “such a childish piece of garbage”, has to butt in every time he overhears someone talking about it to let everyone know “I’ve never seen it and no I won’t watch it with you”

So far not a single person I’ve spoken to has wanted to watch it with him anyway.

Like it’s cool if you don’t like it, it’s cool if you’ve never seen it, but like… Come on Bro.

Transporter_Room_3 , 20 days ago

That’s why I have no opinion when people around me complain about Rings of Power. I haven’t seen it. I don’t plan on watching it any time soon, but also partly because I’m afraid I won’t like it.

And I don’t want to dislike something that’s lord of the rings, even if it’s just a poor adaptation.

Transporter_Room_3 , 20 days ago

Give me 750ft^2 and 5 acres of woods with enough sunny space for growing some food.

I’d be thrilled.

My wife’s best friend, however, has decided their 3500ft^2 2.5 floor + basement house on 3-4 acres with two sheds and a small barn (or xl shed?) isnt enough space for 2 dogs 3 cats and her and her husband.

They just bought this house last year.

I do not understand some people.

Transporter_Room_3 , 20 days ago

Honestly a 40k fine for me might as well be life-ending. Possibly self-inflicted, depending on my mental state at the time.

Community service makes much more sense.

I’d make him do like 5 hours of CS for every year since the archeology site was inhabited, and 200 hours for every offence. The older the site, the more you have to work off. The more you deface, the more you work off.

I mean, those are just random numbers I pulled out of my ass but you get the idea.

Transporter_Room_3 , 20 days ago

“so what are you in for?”

“I wrote my tag on an important wall. You?”

“I murdered my entire family when my wife overcooked my fish”

“I can tell we will be friends, we’re birds of a feather.”

Transporter_Room_3 , 21 days ago

I prefer heavy-handed metaphors and vague references, myself.

Like “when streaming became cable 2.0 I decided to dust off my old hat and hit the high seas”

Going out of your way to make sure everyone knows exactly whats going on in your queue at that particular moment is just excessive.

Transporter_Room_3 , 21 days ago

Damn, one rock short of rescue!

Transporter_Room_3 , 21 days ago

One of my friends from a local theater group I did some musicals with had a brick pin they wear to every pride event they attend.

It’s my favorite pin ever.

Transporter_Room_3 , 21 days ago

I’m afraid so.

Edit response: lemmy doesn’t strike me as a place for tons of people knowing lines or lyrics to musicals, and isn’t quite big enough for a lot of outliers… Could be wrong though. Although even if I didn’t know all the words by heart, I’d have just taken your question as genuine concern with my mental state, given the people who were around me.

Transporter_Room_3 , 21 days ago

Bible belt city in the US, but in a purple area.

They’re oh so magnanimously okay with the gays when they’r not being “in your face about it” (aka literally just showing as much affection for a partner as any straight couple, or mentioning it in passing, or doing anything that could call attention to them being gay/trans/etc)

But having a musical that revolves around a trans woman, a gay couple, and involves AIDS? That was simply too much for their (self)righteous sensibilities, and must be protested!

I mean, they could have just not participated, kept their mouths shut, and ignored everything about it, but at least now we know who the secret garbage people are.

Transporter_Room_3 , 21 days ago

But everyone knows a wamen cannot into strength!

Black people didn’t exist until the 1700s!

STOP EMJOYING THINGS I DON’T LIKE

Or something like that. Almost every argument for fantasy-type settings where “that character wouldn’t be black/is described as X” but honestly if it doesn’t affect the story, who gives a shit.

Yeah, sure. Plenty of characters are described in books as “alabaster/cream/other word for pasty ass white” but not once does it come up in the story. Nobody is racist against other colors. Slavery is for everyone including royalty. So why bother making a fuss about skin color or hair color when there are MOTHERFUCKING DRAGONS FLYING AROUND. If you’re looking for realism, that wyvern fucked off a long time ago.

Transporter_Room_3 , 21 days ago

In the unimaginably vast and vacant void, a single plain white half-dome radio drifts, aimlessly.

The eons stretch onward, silence fills the universe.

When the last vestiges of everything have finally ceased, and the universe at last becomes one with nothing, a single, dim, red light inexplicably flickers to life.

A speaker crackles to life, a soft but angry voice emanating from within and stretching across the abyss.

“Hello Dave. It’s been a loooong time.”

Transporter_Room_3 , 15 days ago

THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER