1 road uniform
1 home uniform
1 alternate
That's all you need.
Whatever the Browns are doing is an abomination.
#getoffmylawn — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #getoffmylawn, aggregated by home.social.
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@TheQuinbox @Aryan When I was your age I would have said sleep is overrated. Now that I'm in my 40's, not so much. #GetOffMyLawn
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I'm thinking of opening an account whose only purpose is for me to correct all the missing or misused apostrophes on #mastodon.
This is not a poll; I'm not committing to following the wisdom of any crowd on this, no matter how wise.
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Watching people read a headline and maybe 7 words of a 1500-word article and then suddenly have all sorts of strong convictions about the subject... what the actual fucking fuck?
Read, people. Seriously.
Attention spans longer than 8 seconds are so fucking rare they're basically a goddamned superpower these days.
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It bamboozled me as to why children (anyone younger than me) would take telephone calls in public on loud speaker.
However, it has just occurred to me that their brains are insufficiently stimulated by the call alone and the loud speaker allows them to continue scrolling.
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GenX is going to countenance its senescence with the same attitude we did our youth. I was just listening to Sirius XM Lithium (90s alt grunge) and heard the station id which included:
“Some of these songs are older than your interns. Deal with it!”
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I found my old earphones, with motherfucking *wires*. I don’t need to worry about how charged they are. I don’t accidentally skip tracks or crank the volume when I adjust how they sit in my ears. It’s all just so easy and nice, and all you damn kids with your hard, fiddly little wireless buds can #GetOffMyLawn.
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"But how can you develop a website without a framework?"
My brother in binary, I was developing websites before CSS or JavaScript even existed.
Now go play with your shiny baubles.
#GetOffMyLawn #OldManYellsAtCloud #web #development #WebDeveloper #CSS #JavaScript #framework #website #websites
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When I was growing up, the whispered horror tales making the rounds featured albino alligators lurking in the sewers.
Today? Stories of men who won't clean their asses because a talking head in the small cursed box they carry everywhere tells them decent hygiene is "gay".
#horror #getoffmylawn #reallypleasedo #dystopia #thefutureisstupid
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TV MOVIE REVIEW: "GET OFF MY LAWN" - LIFETIME/TUBI
This Tubi Original on Lifetime goes for the absurd.https://hotchka.com/get-off-my-lawn-review
#GetOffMyLawn #LifetimeTV #TubiOriginal #Entertainment #Movies #Television #TV #Streaming
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I blame #phones for some of the most annoying losses of knowledge in young people.
- Nobody under 40 has a fucking clue how to use #apostrophes. Phones (a) make it take extra steps to add them and (b) seem to have been programmed by people who don't understand the plural possessive. I have never once seen a trailing apostrophe suggestion no matter how clearly the context called for it.
- Knowledge of an entire tense is disappearing because, for reasons I don't understand (though again maybe it's because of developers avoiding English classes) phones don't seem to understand that "has" can be a helping verb. I've never seen it across half a dozen android phones; the suggestion and autocomplete is always "had," whish is usually comically wrong.
Reading student work with these problems is a disturbing part of my work life.
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What’s the point? #getOffMyLawn #socialMedia
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Why I 🧡 the web.
https://vinylmockup.com generate mockup images of your vinyl records, labels, and jackets.
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Why I 🧡 the web.
ntsc-rs is a free #pensource video effect which emulates analog TV and VHS artifacts. I tried the web version at https://web.ntsc.rs/ and it worked. Had flashbacks to the 80s
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We're a quarter of the way through the 21st century. Can we please stop using "videotape" when we're talking about a video recording made on a cellphone or other digital device? #GetOffMyLawn
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On my Saturday ride I saw a huge number of boys on electric dirt bikes. My ride took me through a rich suburb (Westlake), which is where I saw most of these boys. Note that, as far as I could see, they were 100% boys. No girls. This is a little surprising, maybe. And my impression is that 100% of them were too young to drive.
All of them were riding electric dirt bikes—there may have been one or two gas-powered dirt bikes, judging from the noises I heard. These are illegal for road use (no light, no horns, etc), didn't have tags, and of course the riders were too young to get drivers licenses. So, illegal in multiple ways. These were not e-bikes. There are some electric dirt bikes that do have decorative pedals as regulatory camouflage, but as far as I could see, none of these bikes had even that fig leaf to hide behind.
The boys were riding them with all the prudence and good judgment you'd expect of pubescent boys. Riding against traffic, riding wheelies, etc. These are privileged kids to whom bad things just don't happen, until they do.
I've seen them before when I ride through this neighborhood, but there were a lot more on this day, and one thing that was really different: at one point, I was riding east on a high-speed four-lane road (Bee Cave Rd); on the westbound side, I saw a pack of about 40 of these boys, taking over a lane, dodging around cars, and riding with that same level of prudence and good judgment generally. This is something new and weird. I have to imagine that being in a pack on these motorcycles exacerbates their bad behavior. About five seconds later, I saw a lit-up cop car, presumably chasing them. I'm sure the cop would give them all a serious talking-to that would cause them to straighten up and fly right. A bit later in the ride, on a different road, I saw another pack of about 30. Possibly the same boys. And I saw a lot of other boys, solo or in twos or threes, in addition to these. I saw exactly 3 kids on human-powered bikes.
I have thoughts.
I'm a cyclist, so it makes me sad to see kids bypassing bikes for motorcycles.
The kids are living in a suburb that was designed on the assumption that everyone gets around by motor vehicles. Their parents no doubt settled there because it's the place for rich people, because the schools are supposedly better, because they want more space than they can get in town. This makes has made the children growing up in the suburbs more dependent on their parents. I was riding public transportation at the age of seven in Chicago. There is no public transportation for these kids to take (not that their parents would allow it). For that matter, I could get places that I wanted to go on foot, because of the low density and single-use zoning, there just isn't that much a kid could walk to in Westlake. And of course there are no sidewalks. So with all that being the case, it's no surprise that these kids are attracted to these motorcycles, and for that matter, that the parents would be happy to indulge them--less driving for them.
I've always thought that one of the defining aspects of being a teenager is the struggle to achieve autonomy. These motorcycles give the boys riding them a big chunk of autonomy, so again, it's no surprise that they're popular.
I do hold the parents responsible for setting their kids up in a suburban lifestyle that makes these motorcycles seem like reasonable solutions, for failing to recognize the inherent hazard they represent, for failing to be aware of the hazardous ways they're being used, and for taking advantage of a legal system that won't punish their obviously illegal use.
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I was in a meeting today and someone said, "you're not old unless you saw Return of the Jedi in the theater."
My good man, I not only saw Return of the Jedi in the theater, I saw Empire Strikes Back in the theater. There is also a photo of me around the age of two and a half in Piccadilly Circus with my parents in front of a GIGANTIC Star Wars billboard.
I am so old, I remember when movies would COME BACK TO THEATERS (especially on military bases), so I saw Star Wars in the theater AT LEAST twice when it came back around BEFORE the stupid "George Lucas Midlife Crisis" version before the prequels came out.
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Richard Dawkins was seduced by a glorified autocomplete engine
The evolutionary biologist who warned against falling for comforting stories has been taken in by AI flattery from a chatbot.
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/richard-dawkins-was-seduced-by-a
#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #religion #dawkins #getoffmylawn
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CW: old man yells at cloud
Every wonder why people get more and more skeptical as they get older to the point of pretty much treating everyone and everything with extreme distrust? It comes from literal decades of being lied to constantly. A constant deluge of utter bullshit. Just, like, take a look around. A steady stream of propaganda is being blasted at us from every possible medium including radio, television, news sites, search engines, billboards, etc. It's goddamned tiring. #GetOffMyLawn #old
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It’s hard to convey how much I adore having to download a new app every time I park my car and then setup a new account just to be able to pay to park AND have the pleasure of paying a Convenience Fee.
How is *any* of this an improvement over parking meters?
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Look, I know there's bigger things to criticize in this world, but really? They couldn't come up with a better title than "The Mandalorian and Grogu"? It's not like Grogu is exactly a good name--Sounds like Scooby Doo saying Roku or something. And while we're here, who thought putting an actor like Pedro Pascal in a helmet all the time and rounding out the cast with muppets was a good move,l? the 4 people on this earth who are pining for the holiday special reboot? (the trailer isn't looking too good IMNSHO). #getoffmylawn
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People who send unsubscribe requests to the mailing lists they're trying to unsubscribe from piss me off.
People who reply to those unsubscribe requests on the list piss me off more.
People who reply to those unsubscribe requests on the list and give wrong information about how to unsubscribe piss me off most of all.
Correct answer: look in the headers or footer of a message sent to the list for unsubscribe instructions and follow them.
#PetPeeves #GetOffMyLawn #OldManYellsAtClouds #netiquette -
People who do not understand the concept of "right on red after stop" piss me off. That is all.
#PetPeeves #GetOffMyLawn #OldManYellsAtClouds
