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You should read Kafka’s “The Castle” if you haven’t. It’s a surreal book about navigating an insane bureaucracy. It hit me harder than Metamorphosis, personally.
My head immediately went to tell tale heart.
Poe had lots of fucked up stories. The red death is another that stuck with me.
I would throw mud on his car every time i saw him until he paid up.
Turns out “teaching someone a lesson” can go both ways.
rainwall@piefed.socialto News@lemmy.world•The Mystery of the Strong Economy Has Finally Been Solved | Turns out it wasn’t actually that strong.English9·1 day agoBased on reporting, it looks like the BLS didn’t have the staff to do the legwork anymore after the purge of the federal government, so they used various models to “guesstimate” the totals for May/June.
rainwall@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversationsEnglish3·2 days agoIm sure they’ll try to get you to order ammo as they explode.
rainwall@piefed.socialto World News@lemmy.world•How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza?English5·2 days ago“Saving gaza from obesity” was literally one of the pro-Israel talking points a few months ago from a UK lobbyist to justify Israel use of famine as a weapon.
rainwall@piefed.socialto People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Lindsay Lohan explained why she moved to DubaiEnglish55·3 days agoHilton was also kidnapped and shipped off to several “scared straight” torture camps by her family as a teenager..
She had some horrible shit done to her, and apprently vowed to make her own money separate from her family. The vapid, “that’s hot” party girl persona was her succeeding.
Shes come out hard against what happened to her and tries to help current victims. She managed to get legislation passed to help them, but also takes a more direct approach.
I’ve never heard that pointer bullshit at all. Can you link it?
“Man” for “manual” is just an antiquated term kept around by Unix curmudgeons. “Help” is much better as it requires no explanation and conveniently is automatically abbreviated to its full name. It’s the common term used in most other systems that aren’t linux.
'Man" isn’t sexist, it just sucks.
Yes, we’ve had first
master
branch, but what about secondmaster
branch?
rainwall@piefed.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Canada plans to recognize Palestinian state in September, Carney saysEnglish2·3 days agoStamers conditions are more complicated than that. Most are in the article i linked. Hes demanding a two state solution and a lot of concessions from Israel when they are likely to meet none of them.
The UK has basically committed to recognizing Palenstine as a state.
rainwall@piefed.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Canada plans to recognize Palestinian state in September, Carney saysEnglish22·4 days agoIts when the next UN general assembly meets:
The 80th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) opens on September 9, 2025. Two weeks later, High-Level General Debate kicks off Tuesday, September 23, 2025.
As the United Nations marks its 80th year, global leaders will convene in New York City to build consensus and confront complex global challenges. Eight decades after its establishment, the UN remains the only place on Earth where countries can gather to work through their differences and find common ground — shaping our shared future.
Spacing it to September is both a deadline and a stick for Israel. If acknowledged as a nation by enough countries, Palenstine gains rights it doesn’t currently have to redress/self governance/etc. Its largely symbolic, as enforcing them will be challenging, but it makes a lot of what Israel has done to Palenstinies harder.
Israel very, very much does not want this to happen. This is some countries like France saying “fuck it, we aren’t covering for you anymore now that the starving kids pictures are showing up” while countries like the UK are saying “fix the dying kids or else” and countries like Germany are saying “we committed genocide against you so we wont begrudge you your own because we consider letting you murder children some kind of weird german liberal guilt thing.”
rainwall@piefed.socialto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•SlurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpEnglish41·4 days ago*Should be running a cryptominer
Buying things is literally the economy. People spending money into it improves the economy directly. The velocity of money is a key part of a working market, and the rich impart very little of their wealth into it.
rainwall@piefed.socialto Television@piefed.social•HBO's IT Prequel Promises To Unveil Pennywise's Origins: "Some Mysteries Remain. Some Mysteries Are Created."English4·7 days agoThe job was literally called “computers.” People that did long and tedious calculations to output mathematical tables.
rainwall@piefed.socialto Comic Strips@lemmy.world•Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LessonEnglish9·8 days agoThe extra panel hidden by the red button is also a great magic school bus callback.
rainwall@piefed.socialto News@lemmy.world•Family sues after funeral home sends son’s brain in unmarked leaking boxEnglish271·8 days agoSounds like someone separated his brain from his body to either sell to medical science, a university, or the army, and instead fucked it up.
Maybe legal, probably not. Its common in the US, and deeply fucked up.
rainwall@piefed.socialto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Should've thought of it soonerEnglish291·8 days agoI dont know the article, but looking for work generally helps me when im absolutely fucking done with a job.
Yes, its more work, but it makes all the “huge and terrible” problems of your main job seem smaller, isolated, even stupid. They matter less because you dont have to depend on that job anymore, so you actually do get better mentally.
Then, if the job search is good or the second job is enough, quit that first fucker and be totally done with all the stress.
rainwall@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•From games to reminders to drink water: The rise of 'streaks,' rewards that keep you hookedEnglish15·9 days agoCheck out mango. Its pleasant and has a really nice interface.
You can use your library card for free premium access.
Brandon is a next level DM, easily on par with Mercer. His voicework, improv, experience and enthusiasm for DnD is amazing. Hes been DMing for over 20 years, has run endless campaigns, and D20 has sold out venues like madison square gardens for shows. Hes got serious chops.
It will be different, it may be worse, but it may be better.