A couple months ago I had run out of weed after the dispensaries closed, and I was working early in the morning. No biggie, I’ll grab some on the way home after work.

That day was the only time I’ve ever been accused of being high at work. I told my coworker “actually this is the first time you’ve seen me fully sober”.

They were just like “oh I see why you’d smoke everyday if this is what you’re like sober” 😅

I yearn for people to let me just read the goddamn instructions. Give me 5 minutes with the booklet and I’ll be good, or you can ramble for 15 minutes trying to explain it and I still won’t understand until like 3/4 of the way through the game.

This is me whenever someone is trying to explain a board game as we’re about to play.

Being Canadian, I always forget that Toys R Us died in the US.

bike lanes piss me off

Agreed! Most bike lanes end up being nothing more than a painted bicycle gutter.

What we truly need is dedicated cycle paths adjacent to busy roads, and low-traffic, low-speed streets in commercial or residential areas where cyclists and pedestrians are prioritized over car traffic (see the Dutch city-planning concept of autoluw)

Like, why is a plumber qualified to teach typing?

They’ll let anyone teach typing. Heck, I was personally taught by Garfield!

The idea of it kinda grosses me out, plus I’m usually too busy drinking espresso for gum :P

Thanks, I appreciate it!

I managed a bit over 2 months without smoking once, I did cold turkey. Got hooked again after a stressful night in the ER where another patient waiting offered me a smoke.

Thanks for the encouragement! EDIT: And congrats on a year!

I live off espresso, weed and nicotine, and then I wonder why I don’t always feel good.

I did just buy some nicotine patches to try and quit the last one. Maybe fourth time’s the charm?

The mullet definitely would make me think you’re queer!

You’d think they’d, I don’t know, google the artist before granting the permit? Even outside of fascists, there are plenty of performances I’d feel are probably inappropriate for a public park, even some I’d personally enjoy.

It’s wild to me that they’d grant a permit without doing any research into the people performing/organizing.

We have a dessert called pets de sœur (nun farts in French) in my region, but they’re more like cinnamon rolls made with brown sugar instead of cinnamon rather than what’s depicted here. They were traditionally made with the remaining scraps of dough while baking pies.

Here’s a recipe for the version I’m familiar with.

Since when do they speak French in the Netherlands?

I read their comment as proposing to aim for potential self-sufficiency. That doesn’t necessarily imply isolationism. Developing homegrown options isn’t mutually exclusive with global trade.

It can just mean having domestic alternatives to assert our sovereignty in case, say, a fascist movement takes over the government of our largest trading partner with who we share the world’s longest border, or something like that. Purely a hypothetical, of course.

Not particularly, and while I admit this can seem hypocritical, the verb “to google” has just become a generic trademark.

When someone says band-aid, or kleenex, or jello, I think of bandages, tissues, or gelatin desserts, not of a specific brand of these products. Same goes with “googled”, it just means “searched the web” now rather than specifically using Google.

Yeah I’ve noticed this user basically inserts a “kagis” into like 2/3 of their comments, it always slightly irks me because it makes me feel like I’m getting advertised at. I’ve never felt the need to proclaim which search engine(s) I’ve used to research any particular comment on Lemmy, and I find it odd that the one person who does so regularly is doing it for a paid service.

Apart from that, their comments are usually pretty good, so I’m not accusing them of shilling or anything, but I find it super peculiar.

I’m really thankful this event was cancelled, but honestly quite infuriated that their permit was approved in the first place. It shouldn’t take public outrage in order to not have fascists preaching their hateful rhetoric in public parks.

A few years ago some drag queen friends of mine received death threats before a performance in this very same park. Queer and other marginalized peoples don’t deserve to be faced with violence in a city-approved public performance.

Why don’t Presidents fight the war? Why do they always send the poor?

It’s even more impressive when you learn his father was killed by a careless driver.