A Reddit Refugee. Zero ragrets.

Engineer, permanent pirate, lover of all things mechanical and on wheels

moved here from lemmy.one because there are no active admins on that instance.

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Cake day: December 22nd, 2023

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  • I sometimes wonder if the excessive use of cutesy babytalk langauge can negatively affect the development of children. They learn exclusively through mimicry of their parents and those around them, if a lot of what they hear is “look at my widdle babykins” then that’s how they’ll start their speech development…



  • Theyre smart to that already, most of the ad pumps I’ve run into have speakers hidden inside the housing that you can’t access anymore, and the “bottom left button on the screen mutes the ad” trick is disabled.

    At this stage I just boycott those stations, leave a 2 star review on Google and deal with paying an extra 15c a gallon a couple blocks away.

    Edit: Jesus Christ y’all are way too quick to jump straight to felony vandalism over fucking advertisements


  • yeah same. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve ripped lock tabs off, meanwhile the number of times the stiff protective boot makes it impossible to unclip when it is cold or more than 5yo is easily in the thousands.

    Also reterminating a plug with a broken lock tab takes like 5 minutes to cut and crimp… Or be a real chad and throw a strip of duct tape to hold it in and say fuckit.