TheEmpireStrikesDak

u/DakRalter@thelemmy.club
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I once wrote msql instead of mysql and it took me days to figure out where I'd gone wrong. I did the "else echo ("error1"); " thing (sorry, can't php anymore) and even though I found the line where the error was, my brain took ages to see I missed the y. I used to both love and hate coding.

on Convenient · c/politicalmemes · 3 pts · 1d

My mate claims not to do politics, but she lives in freaking Derry. You can't live in Derry without doing politics. The moment you say your town's name, you've done politics.

on Convenient · c/politicalmemes · 1 pts · 1d

"And then I'll cry about how much I'm suffering and now I know who my REAL friends are. October 7th! See? Also sorry for apologising, I didn't mean any of it. Poor me boohoo."

on Brothers.. · c/politicalmemes · 1 pts · 1d

When he talks of his own volition, he's in favour of things like workers' rights and social housing, but he also is a fan of Joe Rogan so he just parrots whatever he hears.

The funniest time was when I told him I was with Unite and was trying to get our department unionised. He came back with a long tirade about how my union is funded by blackrock and it's all a big con. I said I'm going to have to check this when I get home because that doesn't sound right.

Turned out he was mixing it up with Unite student accommodation, which has no relation. No, I didn't let him forget it.

Yeah I know, I haven't spoken to him in a while. But he was a decent mate, he's just been brainwashed by social media, you can tell he's just repeating verbatim what he's seen online. I'm in a position where the people around me are so toxic that he's probably still the best person I have on my side atm. That's how bad things are.

on RatGPT · c/microblogmemes · 1 pts · 2d

I mean, Epstein used gmail. I still can't get my head around that.

on Brothers.. · c/politicalmemes · 0 pts · 2d

I really need to watch that film one day. A colleague recommended it to me once and a few months later, I found out he was a big fan of Boris Johnson and sympathetic to the far right. But he was also a good mate, despite me being the demographic the far right would like to eliminate. I don't know what to make of that.

What? Noooo, so this is how I find out!

I studied Japanese for about 11 years. I used to work in the west end, so I'd have Japanese tourists to practise on. They'd always be like, aaah, sugeeee! And tell me how good my Japanese was. I started speaking in Kansai ben just to throw them off and it always made them laugh. But tbh my Japanese was crap, I just thought I was doing a good enough job bluffing. As soon as they started talking in Japanese, I'd have to say kiku koto ikkomo dekehen waaaaaa 😅

on End of an era · c/microblogmemes · 2 pts · 3d

I've watched my niece and nephews do their homework and since it's all done online, they literally copypaste the question into chatgpt, then copypaste the answer.

This is what happens when you ditch pen and paper (there have also been studies showing that handwriting activates different parts of the brain that increases memory retention or something like that, too lazy to look it up). Anyway, we can look forward to gen alpha coworkers not knowing how to do anything if this is how they do their homework.

on Religious symbols · c/microblogmemes · 1 pts · 3d

If you wanna do it on the cheap, the most difficult part would be finding sticker paper that will reliably adhere to stone and withstand the elements.

For the rest, could you not just host an obituary on a free site like wp.com or whatever, and make a qr code with the url? Obituaries aren't a thing in my culture, so idk.