numberfour002

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[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wonder if they'll go light on him given how many medals he just won in the Paris Olympics for team USA.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A disappointingly large proportion of the general population appears to be unable to tell the difference between centipedes and millipedes. Is it possible that the "centipedes" you saw were actually millipedes? If so, they may have been "fucking", or at least the millipede equivalent of it.

Additionally, it appears that this "fact" is actually wrong (big surprise, huh?). Many species of centipede do have courtship strategies that involve males and females meeting up. The sexes may even employ various forms of physical touch as part of the process. So, it's certainly possible that the critters you saw where centipedes courting each other.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

You see a feral cat injured in the road so you rush over to see if you can help. Despite your good intentions, it delivers a deluge of deep scratches and medically significant puncture wounds from a few well-placed bites.

Perhaps you feel the cat owes you an apology since your intentions were good and you had hoped to be its friend. I would argue if you expected an apology then you were clearly delusional or willfully ignorant, either way not a good thing.

I suppose what I'm saying is, good luck on getting a sincere apology National Black Farmers Association.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't bother. 99.55912432140001521439566917234% of the time it says "Fuck the colorblind" or some variation thereof.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I distinctly remember my last time in a Circuit City. I don't recall the date, but I'm going to say it was circa 2006. I had purchased a Nintendo Wii at one of CC's competitors but the competitor did not have any suitable Game Cube controllers. So I went over to Circuit City to see what they had since they were essentially in the same shopping complex. In a surprising turn of events, they actually did have Game Cube controllers in stock, they had the style/brand I was hoping for, and the price was actually reasonable.

They had dozens of employees out in the various sections of the store, at least one per department. There were a plethora of customers. However, they had literally 1 cash register open. The line was backed up into the aisles. I am pretty sure I waited 45 minutes just to check out with this one single item, and that's only because the customer service manager came over after about 40 minutes and offered to check out anybody with only 1 or 2 items.

Might be a complete surprise to the former corporate overlords, but for some odd reason I decided never to go back after that.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

He's a bitch. He's a lover. He's a child. He's a zombie. He's a sinner. He's a saint.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII just want a fly. Put your arms around me baby. Put your arms around me baby.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

No dead animal pics for me, but lots of random bugs, flowers, mushrooms, leaves, rocks, and sunsets.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never have I ever intentionally shoplifted anything from a store.

[–] numberfour002@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It's infuriating (mildly may be an understatement).

My neighbor ended up getting "a virus" on her laptop. It wasn't actually a virus as best I could tell, but instead, it was a full screen pop-up browser window with no window controls.

The scam had a bunch of scary messaging and loud sound playing an alarm with someone stating that the computer was infected and that it was also infecting Microsoft's servers. Further, the scam insisted that she call the number on the screen or she will face legal issues.

For an older non-technical person, it was frightening.

After this happened a second time, I did a little more digging to see if I could figure out what was going on. Virus scans showed no infection and I couldn't find much online with specifics about what I was seeing.

Turns out, my neighbor was going to Google, searching for terms like "Amazon", and then she was clicking the first ad / sponsored link in the results expecting to be taken to the Amazon website. Instead, the sponsored ad on Google search was linking to a blog on Microsoft's Azure hosting services, which then triggered the full screen non-closable scam.

I even tested it out on one of my old laptops. Went to Google search, tried the exact search term she used, and sure enough, the same exact thing happened. I reported the ad, it is clearly malicious and a scam. It's ridiculous that Google actually serves up malicious ads like this. And the ad was up there for days after I reported it. I sincerely hope nobody actually got scammed by it, but I definitely feel like Google should be responsible for any damages/losses.

I did go ahead and install ad blockers on all her browsers, removed google search from being the default search engine, and showed her how to avoid clicking on ads and sponsored links if/when any slip through the cracks. So, hopefully it won't happen again.

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