saintjohnny
101 posts


Someone just told me about this woman on Instagram who genuinely thought "JFC" stood for "just for clarification." She'd been dropping it casually in professional emails for years.
It instantly reminded me of my own mom, who for the longest time was convinced "LOL" meant "lots of love."
I swear to God, she once commented on a Facebook post where someone had shared tragic news: "So sorry for your loss. LOL."
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@gotrice2024 Sweet girl has a brain fart, may not have realized she was being recorded by a helmet cam or something, then the dude put it online to be seen by the world? Feels like betrayal.
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This young lady accidentally put her $10 for gas on the wrong pump. When the confused gentleman at the pump asked her if it was her, she said yes and told him to take it.
When someone usually puts a set amount in there like $10 instead of filling it up all the way, it normally means that’s all she has or all she could afford to put in, shouldn’t he just move altogether so she can have all of her $10 in gas or better yet just fill her tank for her?
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@ComputerLove_ If i was friends with those guys, I would tell random ppl at the bar to approach them and act excited and say "are you the walmart DVD guys?!?!"
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@2grindonmybelt It's because they are in a different space and time via wormholes.
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@Dauria_29 @EricRWeinstein Sounds like a solution for smart people who don't realize how dumb other people can be.
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@EricRWeinstein I had to look it up..
Coase in one sentence: If it’s easy and cheap for people to talk/deal with each other and property rights are clear, they’ll haggle their way to a fair/efficient fix instead of needing the government to force a solution like UBI.
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@iris_seraphina I feel like kids having to type commands into a console to launch games (vs iPad icons), was more important for future tech skills than we realize.
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@LordSnow She looks like that chick your married friends have come over to their house when you visit, and she's super into you, and you're like "aight I guess I'm game". And you have a great 8 months together, but she's just a lil too crazy for you around month 7.
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@Boldyboy1975 "What sunglasses" -NPCs feeling clever getting the joke.
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@gotrice2024 Looks fun but if they carved out a huge hole, the snow had to go somewhere, which is probably taking up parking spaces and/or is in the pathway of cars. Could collapse on a child etc. Def a liability no matter how unlikely.
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A group of men went into their local Walmart, they saw a huge pile of snow left behind by the snow plows. They decide to carve into it and make a little igloo style place to hang out in it, a few hours later after they got it mostly finished, Walmart employees told them they had to leave. They weren’t bothering anyone, why else would they be asked to leave?
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@FightWithMemes We're all laughing not realizing higher beings probably do this shit to us from a different dimension.
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@SkyeSharkie How do you know they're not working correctly? Have you ever looked at yourself in the mirror when you were looking in the opposite direction of the mirror?
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@robkhenderson "I'm socially awkward because I'm a genius", is a lot easier to accept than "I'm socially awkward because I'm dumb".
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Most people who claim to be socially awkward as a result of their intelligence are either lying or overestimating their own intellect. More likely they're not as smart as they think, or have some other personality issue unrelated to their intelligence.

Drew@DrewVento
i refuse to believe people with high IQs struggle to fit in with society. You’re essentially playing a game, and you’re trying to say the smartest people playing the game, can’t figure out how to play it? It makes no sense, likely comes from people who think they’re smarter than they are and are struggling.
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@TaraBull The text book example for darwinism usually involves a large cat.
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@drinkonsaturday Just fake going limp a bit early on so she lets go. Then appear to make a superhuman recovery.
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Master carpenter trainee here. Customer is upset because I correctly installed the fence around the tree instead of cutting it down, and now I’m being told it “looks wrong” and “wasn’t what they expected,” even though this is literally how fences are supposed to be built when there’s a mature tree in the property line.
The fence is straight, level, code-compliant, and allows for future tree growth — but somehow that’s a problem because it’s not a perfect rectangle. Apparently the expectation was for me to defy biology and geometry at the same time.
I explained that trees grow, fences don’t, and this prevents future damage, but they’re convinced it’s lazy or unprofessional despite it being the textbook correct install. Now they want it redone even though nothing is wrong other than their personal feelings.
Love when a job is done right and the only issue is the customer googled for 30 seconds and decided they know more than the person who built it.
Credit - ikhlas

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@PcPhilanthropy It's like wearing a condom; it takes the fun out of it.
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@elormkdaniel Unity gain: the output level of an audio device is the same as the input level (a gain of 1 or 0 dB), ensuring the signal isn't boosted or reduced in volume as it passes through, which helps maintain signal integrity, avoid distortion.
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What VLC does is called software amplification.
Normally, your operating system limits volume to 100% to protect your ears and your speakers. That 100% isn’t the maximum sound the audio file could be pushed to, it’s just a safe ceiling set by the OS. VLC intentionally ignores that limit. When you slide the volume past 100% and up to 200%, VLC applies digital gain to the audio signal itself before it ever reaches your sound card.
In simple terms, VLC takes the original sound waves from the video and makes them taller. Taller waves mean louder sound. This is especially useful for badly mixed videos, old recordings, or movies where dialogue is very quiet but explosions are loud. VLC boosts everything so you can actually hear what’s being said.
The downside is that once you go past the natural range of the audio, quality starts to suffer. If the amplified signal exceeds what your speakers or headphones can reproduce, the sound clips. That’s when voices start sounding harsh, music loses detail, and you hear crackling. You’re not getting “cleaner” audio, just louder audio at the cost of accuracy.
Prasenjit@Star_Knight12
i still don't understand how VLC media player takes volume to 200%
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@JohnnyMnemoniXs @OrwellNGoode You can if you are laying down in the prone position.
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@OrwellNGoode I hate the paper cone bc you can't put it down neatly afterwards
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