[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 16 points 1 week ago

I heard him tell a story about the time he had a close call with guys with machine guns on one of his foreign aid missions, and found himself on his knees with his hands in the air. He said he was worried that they'd figure out that they were safe, and start to let them go, and then recognize him, and say "YOU PUT NIPPLES ON THE BAT SUIT!" and shoot him anyway.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, never saw that coming. Not.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 11 points 2 weeks ago

Reports are that there is no increase in radioactivity at the bombed sites, so there either was no radioactive material, it was stored somewhere else, or it remained contained.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

George HW Bush pardoned him on the advice of William Barr, giving Barr the start of a career helping presidents avoid responsibility for their illegal activities.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 26 points 2 weeks ago

Giving this traitor a television platform instead of a prison cell, was one giant step in making Republicans feel untouchable, no matter how poorly they behaved. Even treason is excused, and rewarded.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Edgar Allen Poe laid out the rules for a fully satisfying revenge in his story The Cask of Amontillado:

  1. The revenge has to be worse than the original offense.

  2. You have to get away with it.

  3. The person has to know who did it, and why, yet there's nothing they can do about it.

Take away any of those factors, and it isn't a fully satisfying revenge plot.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 87 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This reminds me of the Zebra Mussels in Lake Erie. In the 80s and 90s, invasive Zebra Mussels got into Lake Erie, and started spreading quickly. They would cover the surfaces of everything. They were afraid that they would eventually clog up the water inlet that supply drinking water to the region.

There was a near panic among government leaders for several years, as the mussels grew out of control, and no solution could be found. They even announced a contest with a significant reward if anyone could come up with a solution, but nobody could. So the problem increased.

Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes, so pollution and organic matter tends to concentrate there, making it very murky, and impossible to see. But the stuff in the water was food to the Zebra Mussels, and the population kept filtering the water, feeding.

Eventually, the population reached a level that the water was clearing up, allowing the sun to penetrate deeper into the water. It turns out that Zebra Mussels don't like the sun, and between that, and the decreasing amount of food in the water, their breeding slowed significantly. Now they seemed to have reached a good balance. They aren't going away, but they aren't the existential threat that they once were either.

The best news is that since the water is much clearer now, it has caused an increase in scuba diving. Being the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Erie has also known over the centuries as a bad lake to be on in a storm, and there are many shipwrecks on the bottom. They were hard to dive on in the old, dirty water days, but today those wrecks are visible, and attracting diving tourists.

So all they had to do was nothing, and the Zebra Mussels problem fixed itself, and caused a new business segment to boom.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 12 points 1 month ago

Yep, this is how Michelangelo started, painting his bedroom walls. One day, it's the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Well, that's been done, but maybe the food court ceiling at the mall.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 39 points 1 month ago

I had a job I loved, although it was owned by a complete asshole. I got a new job, at nearly double the pay. I agreed to give 2 weeks notice, even though it was going to cost me a lot of money, which I needed (this was my first good paying job, and I was broke).

Rather than understand that I was doing him a favor, my asshole boss decided to torture me for my final two weeks. I put up with it for a week, then told him I was done on Friday. I was essentially paying out of my pocket to give him 2 weeks, but I wasn't going to pay him to abuse me, so I just left him standing there with his mouth agape.

I took the weekend off, and started my cool new new job on Monday (and it was a cool job, one of the best I've ever had).

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 20 points 1 month ago

Cosmetologists have more training than a cop, and they require a license from the state.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 16 points 1 month ago

Tell THEM that.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why would a sovereign country, being attacked by a hostile neighbor, be required to inform ANYONE about their war plans? I wouldn't inform anyone, even my friends. They'll see it on the news, like everyone else.

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