NABDad

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[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

If you don't have a car that can drive in snow, don't drive in snow.

Last blizzard I was in, I had to pull over to try to help two people get up a small hill.

The first woman was afraid to steer while me and and a tow truck driver pushed her up. She wanted one of us to steer her car, but that just couldn't happen. She ended up paying the tow truck driver more than $300 to tow her.

While that was going on, a Honda Civic ended up sliding backwards down the hill. I pushed that one about 100ft along the road until it leveled out enough to move on its own.

We have a Civic, but it sits in the driveway for blizzards.

If you get serious snow where you're moving, and you have to drive, get something with all wheel drive. Just remember that all wheel drive doesn't mean you can stop. You still need to drive like a Granny in Sunday church traffic.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

For a little while longer.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 21 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

My father-in-law had a brother who looked just like him. His brother was, of course, at his funeral.

My young daughtern did not know that grampop had a brother who looked like him.

She told us afterwards that she was freaked out by this at his funeral.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Gingrich, who faced his own scandals, cited Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent split from the Democrats as further proof of disillusionment with what he sees as their corrupt influence.

Seriously? He thinks the brain worm guy leaving the Democratic party to side with the Republicans is proof that the Democrats are bad?

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Came here to say that exact thing. If only he would read it.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Bowties are cool.

The bowtie wasn't the problem.

It's the person that makes it uncool.

I'd argue that the fact that he stopped wearing the bowties when he was mocked for it says more about him than the bowties do.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago

Yes, just what we need! Finally there's one source of news without that left wing bias!

/s

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 65 points 2 days ago (3 children)

We often only get a couple trick-or-treaters every year, and this year was no different, except we left the front door open all night, which means we heard and saw kids walking past our house.

I'm one of the few groups that came to our porch, I heard one girl whisper to her friends, "that's the creepy house"

So, I guess our house is the haunted house of the neighborhood. I'd be ok with that if we actually had any ghosts.

We've been here for over 140 years, and I've never seen a single ghost.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Always has been.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

So frustrating

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (27 children)

That doesn't explain why she's on the list instead of the multitude of other, more noxious billionaires.

It makes it look more like someone just doesn't like TS so they're trying to say she's as bad as musk or bezos.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 108 points 3 days ago (30 children)

I'm not going to argue that Taylor Swift doesn't deserve to be on the billionaire list somewhere, but if you were only going to include 4, why would she make the cut?

 

I have no idea what a kangaroo has to do with my employer, but they brought in a baby kangaroo for an event, so I waited in line to hold it.

 

This is probably a stupid question, but if I want to add a line to a PDF telling people to direct any comments to my Lemmy account, how would I specify that?

 

Obviously teenager is 13-19.

"Young adult" would start at 20, but where's the cutoff at the upper end? Similarly, what's the range for "adult", "old", "elderly", " ancient"?

If someone asks for responses from "old men", how do I know if it applies to me?

 

Title is my question. It seems like refusing to recognize other state's driver licenses would be blatantly unconstitutional. Is there something I'm missing?

 

I tend to at least look at every work email I receive. Likewise for Teams messages. If I see a notification of a new communication, I tend to check it and see if I need to respond. I don't always respond, but I always look at the message.

In various virtual meetings, I've seen other people's notifications when they share their desktop, and it seems like some people just don't bother even looking at them.

Am I the weird one? Does everyone just ignore messages they receive at work?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/191646

This morning I was driving to my son to swap vehicles when I encountered road work on Moyamensing.

Blocking the only road that leads to his apartment.

When I got back to my office, I had to check Google maps to make sure I didn't miss anything.

 

Just lost all my contacts in my Android phone.

Galaxy S10, Android v12.

Tried different contact apps, tried rebooting, tried googling (yes, Internet, I have the apps set to display all contacts).

Tried restoring contacts, and it says 0 restored.

They're still in Gmail, so I tried exporting them and importing them onto my phone, but the phone won't let me select the file.

I'm thinking I'm going to have to do a factory reset.

Any other suggestions before I bite three bullet and wipe the device?

 

Simple question. Which distribution was your introduction?

For me, it was SLS Linux in '92-93, followed relatively naturally by Slackware, which was followed by Redhat.

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