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  • When I get deja vu, it feels to me like I’ve dreamt of whatever is happening before, I’ve always pretty easily been able to say “oh it’s just deja vu” and move on.

    But once, I woke up and told my wife about a strange dream involving very specific details of a situation with me and my brother. Along the lines of my brother throwing a beer can, it bounced off the trash can, bounced off me, then back into the trash can.

    A few days later, my brother did exactly that. I was dumbstruck, even my wife was like “what the hell”




  • There’s no requirement, and there’s no reason a white person can’t go to a black barbershop, but black people’s hair is often much different to cut than most white people’s hair, and preferred styles quite different.

    It’s not so much “this barber is for black people” and more so “this barber is owned by black people, so black people can assume they’ll be given the experience they’re looking for”


  • dfc09@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlunholy software..
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    1 year ago

    I had to install a network adapter driver the other day. Had to use my wife’s computer to download into a flash drive and bring it over to my computer with zero network connectivity.

    Granted, this only happened because my network card was broken.




  • dfc09@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlSchool Meme
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    1 year ago

    Thermonuclear take; the kind of work it takes to perform well in school is exactly the kind of work society is preparing kids for, so good school performance can still be a strong indication they’ll be good employees.

    Wether or not our society and schools are right for that is a much more interesting topic of debate. Kids who crush it in school (and continue to crush it all the way through college) will go on to make their companies loads of money for cheap.



  • Not even just that. My dad didn’t go to college, he joined the military at 18. He walked away from that and landed an engineering job with no degree. Now, he’s in a position that would ask for a masters minimum making nearly 300k a year.

    I joined the military and walked away with bad knees and a list of phone numbers to get a job in the trades. Don’t get me wrong, I took it, but damn I’m sure as hell not making anything near what he was at my age.


  • Depends on a lot of things. I started an apprenticeship machining, and now I want to turn my garage into a machine shop.

    I think the important thing is that you make sure you keep some of it for you.

    If I did turn my garage into a machine shop, it would be tempting to start taking orders. That’s where my hobby would turn into more work, having to meet orders and timelines.


  • I agree, but very few self respecting adults are going to voluntarily sign up for a combat MOS, and we gotta keep those gears turning on the military industrial complex!

    For real though, I got lucky. Joined at 19, thought I wanted to kill people, didn’t deploy until I was 23 and much more in the mindset of “what the fuck this is not me at all”

    A lot of the younger guys were vocally disappointed when they found out it was just a peacekeeping mission, low risk. Us “older guys” just said thank God, we’d like to go back to our families at the end of this.