Lean in and give them a hug. You will instantly be their best friend and it will shut them up. Stopping the feedback loop of negativity can be good for them too. Like, let people feel listened to and validated, but boundaries.
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Daaaaa-AAAAaaad.
That’s why you plug your power bank into the charger and plug your phone into the power bank.
“What the fuck is my dad on (like drugs or something) dude?”
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Music@lemmy.world•Kid Cudi Fires M.I.A. From His Tour After She Is Booed During Republican Rant: ‘I Won’t Have Someone on Tour Making Offensive Remarks’English
1·1 month agoMatangi is a first-class hot mess start to finish. 🤌
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What commonly given advice is actually wrong or toxic?
382·1 month ago“If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all”. Your silence in the face of injustice is what enables abuse.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Don't pay for AI, frame your questions like you want Maccas.
5·1 month agoThe Amazon Q&A bot also responds this way (or at least it did last I checked).
Ceci n’est pas une porte.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What tv show has the best theme song?
4·1 month agoDidn’t see Golden Girls mentioned yet so I will nominate that one.
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memes@lemmy.world•Or the person wearing a thin jacket in -20C
1·3 months agoI am from around so I can’t say definitively what is Canadian about that. I meant “shat” as in the past tense of shit and a word that sounds like shattered, like the bad robot in Terminator 2 when he froze. Never the best joke if it needs explaining; I was just being a bit silly.
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memes@lemmy.world•Or the person wearing a thin jacket in -20C
15·3 months agoI am from Winnipeg. Natural selection has made us immune down to -40.
Edit: but then we just shatter. My tombstone will say “Jim shat himself to death” and there will be a statue of me wearing shorts.
Welsh cat! Bapahdahbabapadahdah.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gapEnglish
1·4 months agoNow that you mention it, there was that story about Air Canada’s chatbot misleading a customer which ended up costing them $800. 😔
Edit: I know, legal fees and such, but there didn’t appear to be any punitive component nor incentive to change course.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Mamdani to kill the NYC AI chatbot caught telling businesses to break the law— New York mayor says terminating the ‘unusable’ bot will help close a budget gapEnglish
241·4 months agoIt was costing the administration around half a million dollars.
How? Surely this was put in place as a cost cutting measure. I mean, terminate it, sure. Pay actual humans. I just have questions.
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Technology@lemmy.world•What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CETEnglish
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JimVanDeventer@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Just play the piano BillyEnglish
6·5 months agoSing us a song, you’re the singy man.
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People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•John Carmack reviews your home's user interface.
3·5 months agoThis was just a small restaurant in Hyderabad. I also think the L is for lights, but I didn’t play around with the switches to find out.
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People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•John Carmack reviews your home's user interface.
7·5 months agoEverything about electricity in India is scary.















If this is actually from the real author and not some rage bait meme, this is a surprisingly whiplashing take. I stand in solidly with the second panel.