Last couple times this happened I called a plumber I trusted. The first time they used a “snake”, the second time they used a sink plunger. At the time I had a bit of money and could afford it, and I didn’t want to break a pipe or put the wrong chemical down there or something.

Somehow I feel more “represented” by VLC than I do by any of the astronauts.

ikr the more I think of it, the premise of @blarghly@lemmy.world 's story is flawed.

Mid-sized midwestern cities usually have 1-2 universities and often a couple smaller colleges too, which means at least 1 walkable neighborhood with cafes and art galleries and smaller concert venues and populations of people who graduated and stuck around to form co-ops and quirky small businesses because they like the quality of life and cost of living. Not to mention most major acts tour all those cities.

Pharmacy tech? I can easily think of 3 friends who I wish had a job that good. iirc it requires a background check, so that means if you got that job then you don’t have a prison record nor do you have a drug habit that would lead you to start swiping the opiates.

“Sure, it might be a little cringe to see an older person dressing alt,” Sergio said as he looked in the mirror. But you know what? There’s a whole legion of people who don’t care about that, who wear dark clothes and fishnets and dark makeup, who make it a point of pride that they can’t be touched by those people who think that they’re underachievers, those people who call them scrubs, who think that they’re too fat or too poor or wear clothes that don’t quite fit… YES! Crack open a Faygo and put Milenko on loop! For the MC of the story will always be welcome among the JUGGALOS!!! WHOOP WHOOP MMFCL !juggalos@lemmy.world !!!

Reminds me of the poem “Whitey on the Moon” (more timely than ever!): https://youtu.be/3nzoPopQ7V0?t=23

Last time we talked about this someone suggested there was an Area of Effect property to water blessing. Like you can’t just bless all the water in the biosphere so that all vampires in the world get killed by Holy Water Vapor.

wow that’s a great job! I was searching sector-by-sector but still didn’t see it. if I was a little rodent in that yard I’d def. be dead.

One of my earliest memories, right after I learned how to read as a kid, was coming across one of my parent’s college textbooks and seeing a cartoon of the grim reaper mowing down a wheatfield representing dead soldiers in WW1. You’re right, some future kid is gonna see…

a problem entirely fabricated by YT

I agree with your basic point, tho to be fair, server costs are a thing, so it’s more like a problem fabricated by… capitalism? the commercialization of the internet? The centralization of resources? I guess it depends on what you think the long-term solution is.

brand recognition. IOW, when you are at the grocery store, you think of Coke in general rather than any specific ads.

Agreed. More specifically, I think brand association plays a part. Even if you never drink cola of any type, the ads make you think “Coke is the kind of drink for people who (whatever)”. Then when you see your friend drinking one you say “Oh you drink coke? I guess you’re the kind of person who (whatever the ad campaign says).” It’s really insiduous.

Some of those old books had ads for cigarettes in them! Mostly the cheaper paperbacks. For some reason it wasn’t as annoying, it was more of a historical artifact, an indication of the context in which the book was originally read.

I will sit on my floor with nothing, for hours, before i watch ads.

I notice that I don’t pay attention to videos as much any more. It’s just stuff playing in the background while I game or edit an image or browse piefed or something. So if it “hangs” for a couple seconds while ublock fights the ads, it doesn’t really bother me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

ikr whenever I visit my elderly aunt, she has cable TV on. I timed it once and there’s like 10 minutes of ads for every 20 minutes of content.

Aw yeah we did a watch part of this last year: https://piefed.social/post/782629 Looks like the peertube and archive links are still up tho it left tubi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Bridge_(1940_film) The plot seems like it has that old-time twisted morality tho.

Apparently the derivation goes back to vaudeville and stereotypes about immigrants:

“Bozo” was in fact a personal name among immigrants to the United States from Serbian and Croatian regions. It seems likely that vaudeville’s Bozo originated from this immigrant name and stereotypes surrounding eastern Europeans (akin to the use of palooka to refer to an oafish boxer, probably related to the Polish name Paluka).

https://www.vocabulary.com/articles/wordroutes/where-does-bozo-come-from-lets-not-clown-around/

I was gonna send this to someone but I looked up the original and it’s a lot clearer to read:

(its an edit by someone on fucking facebook of a scene from “That 70s Show”)

I hope you realize I’m gonna be texting and emailing all my friends this evening saying “are you all right… are you REALLY all right? you’re deep and profound to ME, you know!?!” and they’ll be like “have you been watching depressing anime again?”

Fam, this was great. Seriously, I go to readings by the fiction and poetry students at the local college, and this would be politely applauded. One point of order tho:

as she ages out of the goth/punk/emo scene in the mid-sized midwestern city she never bothered to leave, she finds her social circle shrinking more and more

afaik most goth scenes are pretty welcoming to “original generation” people. I think this is also true about punk scenes. I don’t know much about emo but I read that it’s having a bit of a revival, i.e. clubs are having nostalgia “emo nights”. So I don’t think she would age out as you describe. What’s more likely is that as her peers move away or drop out of the scene, she’d become bitter and/or gatekeepy and/or passive-aggressive so people would just start to be emotionally distant around her. Hmm… come to think of it, yeah, her social circle would shrink. But it wouldn’t be directly related to age.