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I didn't know that black squirrels were rare in some areas. Here in Michigan, we see them all over the place -- daily. heh.

Get your BB guns out

Not my thought: a round pizza pie comes in a square box, so maybe a square pizza should come in a round box.

Subject line of a spam email I got: you have won an Milwaukee power drill.

nonamesleft wrote:

A few months ago I started getting multiple e-mails every day claiming to be from Wal-mart, Lowe's, or some other well known company saying I had won a prize. Sometimes I get the exact same e-mail two or three times in the same day. The e-mail does not address me by name and says I needed to take a survey to be entered to win a prize worth $90. I guess the law on fraud changes when the amount is over $100. The return address is always some very long string of letters that is probably from a random generator so blocking the address will be useless. I dutifully report them as spam, but few get send directly to my Junk folder. If I click "unsubscribe", I get a message saying the page it is taking me to is unsafe. I've been using the same e-mail address for at least 20 years and the amount of work to change it everywhere would be enormous. I have two addresses and actually tried to change my e-mail address for a restaurant Rewards program and it wouldn't let me.

I get those emails a lot, too. Gmail's crapty filters won't let me set it up to automatically delete them, so I have to go in and mark it as a phishing attack (which is what they are) and it took months but it's finally getting rid of them.

The unsubscribe option is fake, they use that to make sure someone is reading the emails and so they can bombard them with more crap.

Random thoughts? Alright...

My friends are getting divorced. I'm friends with both of them. It's weird. I'm trying to be there for both of them while remaining Switzerland about it all, but it's hard. They're both my friends, and they both do their best to make the other one unlikable. Well shut up friends, I'm not gonna take sides.

I started a job almost a year and a half ago, working at Costco. I'm in a call center. I got hired for their eCommerce support. I didn't know Costco had call centers. We didn't have one in Oklahoma until they bought the old Hertz call center building a couple years ago. Anyway, now I'm in a different department and it's amazing and I love it.

I need a gavel.

I started getting edibles about a year ago. The idea was that it was supposed to help with anxiety and depression, though I'm not sure how well it's been doing at that. I'm pretty non-plussed, but I feel pretty good. Thank goodness for the spelling corrections too. They also make me terrible at video games.

AEW has been crap for the better part of 2022. After the March one where Punk and MJF fought, it's been downhill. I have mixed feelings about WWE, but they're definitely telling better stories right now.

I have too much crap. Some of it needs to go. I also have too much debt. Selling off too much crap won't cover the too much debt. If I do that, I won't have enough money to put a good dent in the debt, and I'll be all out of cool crap.

I need some wall shelves and/or a bookcase or some sort of shelving apparatus to display all my Funkos. I don't really want to get a bookcase, since I don't know why. But I just don't. Kinda think I want the cube organizers, but I don't wanna spend the money. All I know is those Funkos need to get out of my closet.

I'm too fat. I need to do something about it. But I'm too lazy. Excuses, I know, but also facts.

BucketofJustice wrote:

At the end of the day you might have to, or you will lose both of them as friends. Depends on the reason for divorce, also sometimes how contentious it ends up being.

AEWs getting back on track, a bit of course correction happening.

I hope so. I hope all ends well sooner than later. I don't think it's going to be easy, or quick, but I can hope. They're both good people, just not to each other.

AEW needs to get it's crap together on camera. As much as everyone sucked for Brawl Out and ensuing drama... having the stories be bad or not followed up on or in some cases both... it hasn't been good. The wrestling has been, and always will be, good. Though, if they stop thinking it's Indiemovemania every Wednesday, there may be less injuries, which would let these guys wrestle better, for longer.

Every little bit of debt relief helps. I'm working on it myself for the first time in 11 years. I'm in sales so when the economy goes down: my pay goes down.

You didn't go fully into debt in a day, give yourself more than that to get out. I'm of the mind that it's fun to see how you can still get the things that are important to you, but cutting out things you don't really care about or took for granted. Like we went out to eat at least 3 times a week. Now it's a special treat when we do it. That sort of thing.

Does anyone have an Ea Play subscription? Is it me or are they just not really adding games to it? Except for Fifa like a few months before the new one comes out

I loved the sub at first bc i played through a bunch of the games on there (Unravel 2, Titanfall 2, Mass Effect trilogy, It Takes Two, A Way Out), but now it’s just kinda useless

I have it through Game Pass. It definitely isn't great.

I honestly don't know where I first heard about this...I am really thinking it was here. But this is really freaking me out because of just how real it looks. A website that generates pictures of people who don't exist:

https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

That's insane.

rayzor6 wrote:
Wow! That's seriously impressive. A bit scary. Almost feels somehow wrong in a way.

But how do we know they're not actual people? (present or past)

It's trained on millions of faces, so in a way it is. It's just randomized in a way that you actually getting a 100% facial match would be like winning the powerball six times while being struck by lightning twice.

You really wanna go loco, check out https://thiscatdoesnotexist.com/

Imagine you're flipping through that site and see a perfect picture of yourself...

DarkFact wrote:
Just checked it out. It generated a cat with such green eyes, woah.

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Sometimes when I feel that the weather has gotten cold and not to my liking, I look up the weather in Fairbanks, Alaska. It's not necessarily always colder there, but sometimes the weather there is MUCH colder than other places.

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UMMMMM, well let's see last week it was -27. It was an early cold snap. The coldest it will get here over the next 30, is -24 but that is at night.

About 30 years ago, my wife and I decided we would drive from southern Indiana to Mackinaw Michigan the first weekend in February to watch the Mackinaw Mush dog sled races. When we woke up that Saturday morning, the radio announced that it would 30°F below zero with a wind chill of 50°F below.

A couple of years later we decided to go again. The weather was in the mid 20°F range overnight and just about 32°F during the day. Some of the racers cancelled saying it was too hot to run the dogs. Others were concerned the snow on the track was melting during the day and freezing overnight creating patches of ice that would be dangerous to run on. They sent out crews to shovel snow over those areas.

Unfortunately, they stopped holding the races due to lack of interest and sponsorships.

I can't go further north than Cadillac without an awful good reason, too fudging cold and miserable

3-6 feet of snow expected in Buffalo this weekend.. Insane!

shadyfozzie wrote:

A long time ago (before I was born) my grandpa's job wanted to move him to Buffalo and he and my grandma decided against it for this reason.

DarkFact wrote:

Just as a point of interest... I grew up in Cadillac. 2nd grade through high school. Graduated from Cadillac High in 1991.

I was in first grade in 91! 25ish miles south right off 131 tho. K-12 and then some

I tell you what tho, I made special trips up there for Taco Bell, nobody else did their Chalupas right. Things I miss. I miss Olga's too (GR), though I see Goldbelly's got kits for sale, might buy a big pack after Christmas for the memories.

DarkFact wrote:

Fudge I’m old.

loztdogs wrote:

I imagine DarkFact repeated kindergarten 16 times because he kept mouthing off to the teacher.

Cue a Billy Madison remake

My left ear just closed up on my way home from work. Like an earplug slowly expanding. So far 4 hours of hearing like I have an ear plug in my left ear. This year sucks worse than the last two combined for me. I think I've only been healthy for a total of maybe a month.

benstylus wrote:

They kept passing me because I was such a crap, I like to think. I was placed in advanced classes and they sent me to college on the weekends to learn how to sign "Heal the World" by Michael Jackson and sing Happy Birthday in Spanish. Eventually I got tired of trying and asked if I could go learn with the dumb kids again because they had fun looking toys to learn with

I still remember the lyrics but I do not remember ASL at all. When they say kids are a sponge and absorb a lot at a young age, that doesn't mean they remember the practical stuff, they can just repeat and mimic a lot. The only thing I remember from that age is the Contra code

DarkFact wrote:

To be fair, that's about the only thing from that age that is still a useful life skill.

benstylus wrote:

And 867-5309

KCPenguins wrote:
I heard the following trick. Maybe it will help you. Maybe it depends on why your ear got clogged, idk. But here it is. Sit down, and lean forward until your shoulders/chest area are leaning on your knees and your head is below knee level and hanging down. Probably won't hurt to try.

Tried Arby's el diablo return. Still good, hot, not quite as flavored as I remembered. Best actually spicy chicken sandwich though. Didn't get a milkshake with just the sandwich... :(

recently I was googling the potential dangers of consuming food dyes, and came across this photo of a girl apparently consuming red. (which allegedly is associated with ADHD and aggression in children)
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/red-dye-40

and I thought, ok, I hope to god they didn't tell a child to consume junk food for the photo, maybe the child was eating it anyway and all they did was take a photo, or maybe the photo existed beforehand and they borrowed/licensed it. The morality on this seems kind of hazy but I something tells me it doesn't work. I'll be damned if it isn't an effective photo though. "Gasp. Look at that garbage that girl is being given! The shame! The parents should know better.."

egg wrote:

My son can't have red dye.. he accidentally had it once after not having it for months and he was saying how he felt like his body was on fire and he was bouncing off the walls.. the Dr. told us to give him Alka Seltzer to counteract it.

egg wrote:

Looks like the kid is just having an otter pop or other freezer pop that comes in a plastic sleeve, not just downing a tube of red dye

benstylus wrote:

well, obviously, but my point was the freezer pop has red dye in it. Not to mention it's obviously way too big a treat to give to a child that young. At the time of that photo she was most likely doped up from all the sugar.