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[-] JustinTheGM@ttrpg.network 300 points 1 year ago

For those wondering, this played out well! OP found someone to take the job. His wife bit on the prank gleefully, was actually thrilled by the idea that OP had a son he didn't know about. When the prank was revealed, she thought it was hilarious. Ultimately pretty wholesome, OP married a keeper.

[-] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 228 points 1 year ago

We fired our fact-checkers, so we cannot verify whether that is true or not.

[-] talentedkiwi@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 year ago

True or not, this is the outcome we deserve.

[-] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 20 points 1 year ago

It's the outcome I want to believe as well.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

i would like to post a community note saying that i personally believe it to be true

[-] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 year ago

I can assure you it is true as I was there. I was the $100 note.

[-] eltoukan@jlai.lu 3 points 1 year ago

I can also assure you it is true. I was given a $100 not.. uh wait no you didn't hear that

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 year ago

Literally everything about it's anecdotal so the best result a fact-checker could have is a shrug.

Nah they have actual footage from the event

[-] lath@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The AI replacement says this is true.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They couldn't before they fired them either, so not a lot has changed. Their "fact checkers" were poorly written algorithms that frequently flagged benign content as misinformation.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Their "fact checkers" were poorly written algorithms that frequently flagged benign content as misinformation.

I think the goal was to flag benign content as misinformation to push truthful content to the same level as flat earth content.

So doing exactly what was intended.

[-] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago
[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

Look at mister MVP over here.

[-] big_slap@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

ahahahaha, thanks for linking

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

He's playing checkers, she's playing 3d go.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think 3d go is called gone

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[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

$500 minimum, and I'd really have to think hard about it.
$1000, done deal.

[-] tiramichu@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even at $100 it's a pretty reasonable time/compensation ratio, assuming you only have to spend like 10 minutes on actual performance time.

Of course there is potentially travel time and the overhead of communicating ahead of time to set up the prank.

May not be worth it if you have a full time job already.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 29 points 1 year ago

Any acting student would take the 100 gladly.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Any ~~acting~~ student would take the 100 gladly.

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

> Any ~~acting~~ student would ~~take~~ the 100 ~~gladly~~.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

any ~~acting~~ ~~stu~~Dent would take ~~100~~ his towel

[-] Yeller_king@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

It's reasonable for a steady gig but not for a one-off contract.

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Sorry, someone else already has the job. Thanks for your application though!

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

Dealer's choice ehh? Let's go with "explosive herpes".

[-] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Doctor's have never seen anything like it before, explosive, just completely explosive.

[-] Comment105@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Like a minefield around the mouth that usually looks like almost everything just went off. The boils in-between could get pretty huge for the face, too. Like a quarter inch. I actually have a dormant variety because I once tried to hug mom and a few of them popped. She screamed and hit me and made me promise to never do it again...

[-] TheOgreChef@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

To shreds you say

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like something will Farrell would say. Approved.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've got some free time but I don’t think I could pass for twenty. RIP, $100.

[-] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 17 points 1 year ago

Oh shit I wanna do this

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 13 points 1 year ago

Oh I would have totally done this lol

[-] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I really want to know how this played out

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like how OP denotes the actors, as to be very clear in his description of how he's either going to get divorced or murdered.

Let's pretend you accomplish this and she sees the err of her ways. Then what? She's going to kill you when she finds out the kid is not really yours.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Actually it went really well. The wife thought it was hilarious, according to the husband.

"I can't decide what amused her more... the effort I put into the ruse or the fact that I ended up proving her right in the process. [...She said] 'Next time you can save $100 and just assume you're wrong.'"

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'll be damned. He found someone to match his crazy.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's not as uncommon as sitcoms make it seem. My wife--brilliant, hilarious, way smarter and better at things than I am--would probably think it was hilarious, too. It wouldn't work for our situation (we got together too early in life for it to be believable), but I wouldn't expect any backlash.

I would expect payback in-kind, though.

[-] NineMileTower@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My wife found out last year that her mom cheated and that her dad was not her biological dad. He didn't know either. 3 months later he died. Then when she found her biological dad, he had just died too. Then her mom got divorced from her current husband.

Ain't NO way am I fucking around with that right now.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Whoa. Yep, I'd call that...like, the dictionary definition of reading the room. Yikes.

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