me and my inner raccoon

Hahahaha, I’ll be borrowing that, thank you

Oh, wow, I didn’t realize masgravel license 365 too.

Even worse, the McD ice cream machine issue was caused my McD themselves, by having requirements around cleaning cycles that were tighter than the machine could do.

The same machines worked fine at other companies.

Found the retard(ant)

Like that’s a bad thing?

Hahahaha, nice!

Hahahahaha, damn Google.

“Help us prevent government from stopping us from being bad actors”.

“No longer”?

You just now realize this?

Right?

$450 and a toaster to use something like the external batteries I’ve used for a decade.

Wow, I never made that connection

SnoBroom/SnoJoe. They’re about $10, maybe $15 today.

Hell, I only had that shitty 2’ brush thing when I started driving, in a place where there was as much ice as snow, and I still cleared off my car.

At least you have an excuse. So long as you learned for your second winter.

Too many people are just fucking lazy.

Except I’ve had experiences that aren’t explainable by alm this:

Discussing a random, never-thought-of-before idea with a friend, in the car. Neither of us had ever thought of this thing before (honestly don’t recall now what it was). Discussed it for 2 minutes, then moved on.

Later we’re both seeing related ads, yet neither of us searched for anything.

And it was something way out of left field for both of us, that neither of us had ever thought of before. The related ads were so jarring that we both told each other about it.

Oh, and my phone was rooted, de-googled (lineage), with heavy restrictions for the apps, no social media (I still don’t have any accounts with any of them, except here), etc. The other phone was an iPhone.

I’ve had a very similar experience.

Once discussed something, out of the blue, something I’ve never been curious about in my life, in the car, with a friend who also has never thought about the same thing.

Hours later we’re both seeing related ads.

Now, I get that the amount of data required for such analysis is supposedly outside the bounds of what phones can do. But I can’t see any other explanation. Neither of us ever searched anything in this subject, we talked about doe a couple minutes and moved on, never doing anything about it. We have very different interests, too.