Roald Dahl, trying to have nice last words, to his family: “You know, I’m not frightened. It’s just that I will miss you all so much."

Actual last words, getting hit with a needle of morphine: “ow, fuck!”

“She’s a brick and I’m drowning slowly”

I’m looking for the same thing at the moment, actually. I don’t know your flavor of Linux, but someone on a forum for Mint suggested an applet called Power Manager, so there’s stuff out there if you’re willing to dig a bit.

SOMA for sure.

the sound of sandpaper slowly scratching a desk as a clock ticks in reverse

Dr. Teeth. “Golden teeth and golden tones, welcome to my presence.”

which comes with higher speeds and more frequent lane changes

Go kiss a concrete pillar, ya duds

Referencing the original 404media article:

“I want my MONEY MEXICO,” a user of the Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters Telegram channel … posted on Thursday. The message was referencing a claim from the DHS that Mexican cartels have begun offering thousands of dollars for doxing agents. The U.S. government has not provided any evidence for this claim.

Lol. Rofl, even.

On occasion I’ll check in on some niche hobby boards that don’t really have an active Lemmy variant, or large archive of content yet. Sometimes you want to see a flashlight beamshot comparison of a Nichia 519a 5000k led compared to a 5700k from a particular manufacturer, and it’s just not on Lemmy.

That’s awesome! I heard that his only question before saying yes to the role was whether or not you’d see Elvis’s penis.

Bubba Ho-Tep. Nursing home Elvis fights the Mummy? Silly as hell. But they nailed it.

Aaaahhhhhhh. Sssssssssss. Aaaahhhhhhhh. Sssssssssss. Aaaaahhhhhhhh.

V….P….Nnnnnnnghhh

Hydroflask has been my go-to for stuff like that, and I believe they’re the only (or one of very few) major company that doesn’t use lead solder in the manufacturing process.

I can’t wait for the DLC: Bo4derl4nds

People who trained the AI and got replaced know how to get wishes.

“I want to be a millionaire…WHO has a Ferrari…THAT I use EVEN THOUGH I can fly around and fight crime… WHICH happens nowhere near my mansion… ON a private island near Hawaii… WHILE…”

Reminds me of this.

Hey, almost-same boat here! I’m guessing in your late 20s/early 30s, you were likely surrounded by people who were in the same environment (higher ed), or who were sussing out your potential. But when you’re out of the ivory tower, it doesn’t mean shit.

Humanities degrees are critical thinking in a way that people generally don’t want to engage in. There’s no neat solution, and it will eventually make you confront your own ideology, or the one you’ve been in the grip of, and people really don’t want to think about that. Even more simply, higher ed is a stand in for “liberalism,” and in the last couple years, a thing to outright and wholly reject.

I don’t tell people that my English Ph.D. primary list straight up said “communist theory” at the top. I’m happy to let everyone think I just proofread stuff after 16 years of school, and I’ll say I should’ve been an electrician every time. I think a rich inner life and infinitely more nuanced understanding of the world is better than whatever my neighbor’s got going on.

Yeah, it’s like 1 good item + 2 bullshit items and a drink for $9 in the deluxe box.

This myth needs to die hard. Inheriting off daddy’s blood emerald mine allows you to start businesses and buy people to make them work. This takes zero intelligence — it takes capital which was not earned. It continues to make money through the labor of shady accountants who know how to keep you from paying taxes, the labor of H1-B visa holder slaves, non-unionized assembly line workers, etc. who you crush and exploit for more capital to keep repeating the same unethical and dumb shit.