• Rose@slrpnk.net
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    I didn’t like talking to other people in 1995, and I sure as hell aren’t going to start enjoying it now.

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    When my family goes out we usually have to put our phones away. It was my rule, but now I break my own rules and my kids have to tell me to put my phone away. I guess my kids are better than me now.

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    7 hours ago

    If you put this passive agressive bullshit up ima gonna smoke indoors and pay 25c for my drink.

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    6 hours ago

    We Do Not Have ✨WiFi✨

    Use The Hotspot On Your Phone Like A Normal Person

    Or Get A Data Card For Your Laptop IDK Or Care

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      There’s a place near me that I don’t go to very often, and almost never if I’m alone. They have great food and it’s pretty cheap, but they don’t have WiFi.

      That normally wouldn’t be a problem, because I rarely use any of my cell data, but it’s a super old building full of interference and I can only get cell signal if I happen to get one of the 3 seats within 10 foot of the front windows.

      If I do go by myself, I get weird looks for bringing comic books or video games and just existing by myself, but there’s nothing else to do while waiting for food so…

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        Yeah, I think there’s about two games you can download to your phone that will run without an internet connection. Even fucking Balatro—what do you need internet for? People have paid for the game!

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      except that in america at least lots of data plans somehow block you from using the hotspot function, i do not fathom how the fuck it’s possible but people keep talking about it so i have to assume it’s a real thing…

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          the US is completely fucking insane, all the stuff we hear about countries like china and north korea basically actually happen in the US and no one gives a fuck, and americans just find it so normal that they don’t realize others would think it’s fucked up

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      Oh yes. If you’re a Dutch soldier you even get free drinks, and it only costs your honor.

      "Toast of shame" - Mladic and Karreman drinking together

      Happy 30th anniversary. Cheers to the Dutch Army.

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          The most striking image yet to emerge from the fall of Srebrenica comes in a BBC film to be screened next week. It shows the indicted Serb war criminal General Radko Mladic presenting the commander of the UN peacekeeping force at Srebrenica, Colonel Ton Karremans of Holland, with gifts wrapped in Christmas paper. Mladic was evidently in a expansive mood and he had good reason to be: at that very moment his troops were preparing to massacre the 4,000 men and boys who the UN had handed over to him.

          https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/nov/17/features11

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          In the middle is luitenant kolonel Thom Karremans, leader of the Dutchbatt peacekeeping force near Srebrenica, to the left is Ratko Mladic the last of the Serbian forces.

          Mladic promised the to let there population of the enclave to go free, and Karremans believed him.

          They were slaughtered instead.

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      Your welcome! Enjoy your styrofoam cup coffee from a deli that smells of Malboro cigarettes. The sugar has weird moving black things and milk has been left out for 3 days.

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          It’s actually because they started offering syrup filled, whip cream and caramel covered drinks directly on the menu. They were briefly infamous for like 1000 calorie macchiatos.

          Little espresso shops had flavor shots before, but the rest were pretty much donut shops that sold regular utility coffee, and the sugar and fat was external (donuts sandwiches and pastries).

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          this made me look up “bucket toilet” and actually you can very much make an actual toilet like that, which is good to know.

          big bucket, plastic bags, some sawdust in the bag, and a toilet seat ontop.

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    I once was in a lunch group where one of the people honestly asked the restaurant staff about wifi, standing almost next to this sign. The guy smugly pointed at the sign and said nothing.

    It was cringy for everyone involved.

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    Cool. Lemme just paint the ceiling with my brains so I can approximate what it was like when I wasn’t around.

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    Do you think McDonald’s has the monopoly picks for the 1996 Olympic Dream team yet? There is no way they can be as good as last time right… Bird, Jordan, Magic, there wasn’t a bad player on the team!

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        Former police officer stole the winning pieces for years, made $24 million for him/friends/family apparently. Was supposed to go on trial September 10 2001. The next day 9/11 happened and no one paid attention to what happened.

        3 years prison for postal fraud or some shit. One year he sent the pieces into a charity, that may have been 1996 like you asked