Fascists always eat each other.

Hour by hour, my job evolved from taking calls from clients who owed us money, to then answering questions from agents who weren’t as skilled at it as I was.

In the process of being promoted, I was asked to join a daily meeting of over 100 people talking about the issues affecting our department.

Once in a great while, something came up in that meeting that gave me the heads up to prevent chaos in our department and stress to members.

There’s a whole shitload of cogs turning in modern corporations. There’s also a huge danger of people leaving and nobody understanding why the cogs are there.

Can you explain the refrain in the rain?

My Dad is a Buddhist, so I have some knowledge and respect for that philosophy/faith.

But yes, he was a hippy too.

And I think he would agree that this question is poorly formed at least. But then I’ve never heard my Dad talk about chakras either.

There is a !Buddhism@lemmy.world community.

Probably a lottery where the winner was predetermined.

I blocked it because I browse all and every day dozens of communities were being created. And I don’t need porn communities here really. I just didn’t want to miss out on the non-porn NSFW content, comics like Oglaf.

Edit: Shit I just remembered it was actually because assholes kept posting SFW pics of celebs causing their NSFW communities to show up.

Yeah, if I got that many calls, you’d be 100% correct. I get maybe five calls a week.

Similarly, my ringtone is the dun-Dun-DUNNN from bad mysteries, aka Professor Professorson’s ringtone from Community.

I’ve never seen someone annoyed when mine has gone off in public. I am rarely in public though.

It’s a series of references to a show, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.

I can imagine how it’s complete gibberish without knowing the context.

Dennis has a dating system where he rates women called D.E.N.N.I.S, and in a separate episode implies that he likes taking women out on his boat, saying they’ll put out “because of the implication.” (It’s a dark sitcom, and they’re all broken people failing through life. Some think Dennis really is a serial killer but that implies he has follow through.)

Also, D’awwww means “that’s really cute.”

And the Awwww is “Awwww shit, now I’m on a boat.”

The hobo code and hobo nickels made it into the game too. It was fairly comprehensive.

John Hodgman wrote the book The Areas of My Expertise, which has a list of hobo names for some bizarre reason.

Kingdom of Loathing, in making a multi-player clan hobo dungeon, used that list of names as a random hobo name generator, and then named the boss of the whole place Hodgman, the Hoboverlord.

I went to a standup show where Hodgman was supposed to do a set and he had cancelled, replaced with Brian Posehn. Brian was also awesome but I really wanted to tell John Hodgman how he inadvertently saved my life.

Now the details of how you get that specific item are even weirder but I’m done phone typing.

I once helped someone get a Hodgman’s Imaginary Hamster and in return he gifted me a few IRL pot plants (Super Lemon Haze, a damn good strain) that I used to pull myself and my Dad out of a pit.

Game inadvertently saved our lives, and I still haven’t gotten to thank John Hodgman.

(Yes, the game is that insane and silly. Getting that damn hamster requires at least 10 people working together.)

Very good and very silly game.

To prove it’s safe, he will have… Don Jr do a line in a live conference.

Games have been around the $50-$70 mark my entire life.

It’s a sad reality, but I expect prices of major mainstream games to go up, regardless of tariffs.

For me it was universal from the get go. My parents told me there’s a whole lot of religions all around the world and I thought “Well then all of them must be wrong.”

It’s expressed as anti-Christianity because that’s the one that affects my daily life.

Yeah, sorry about that. I work for an insurance company, but not for much longer. (Not that I ever made that worse for you, I am/was in collections.)

Hey, congrats!

That had to have been a huge relief, finally getting the transplant you needed.