• RION [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I think I've clicked on a sponsored result maybe one or twice in my life. Most of the time it's garbage with little relevance to what I'm looking for, and the rest of the time I just don't trust it

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
      hexagon
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      2 years ago

      More than a decade ago I taught my dad how to remove sponsored results from google. Within a few days his wife removed the adblock filters and they were seeing sponsored content again. Because she went out of her way to tell me how helpful that shit was - I knew she was lying. My dad passed away a few years ago. I hope she clicks the sponsored shit and gets totally scammed. And more than once.

      She's a real piece of work. I never used the term "my stepmom" for my dad's third wife. I always used her name or called her "my dad's wife".

      Edit: I fixed a mistake.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        It’s hard for me to conceptualize a person who’s computer literate enough to remove Adblock filters but also wants google sponsored results. Who the fuck is this woman??

        • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
          hexagon
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          2 years ago

          She was petty and awful. She's the sort of person who is sure she's right 100% of the time. Anyway - she's out of my life so please don't get me started.

          • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            My dad's last girlfriend once tried telling me that Cozumel, Mexico was not an island and when we looked at a map declared herself correct because it's a couple miles off the coast of the mainland, practically a peninsula.

            • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
              hexagon
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              2 years ago

              declared herself correct

              It's so nice to never have to deal with my dad's second wife's bullshit. Her go-to phrase to lecture me was "You said...". I tried to have a smile and expression that said "Oh, really. Are you fucking kidding me with this shit again?" I don't think she even noticed. My dad did though.

                • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
                  hexagon
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                  2 years ago

                  I envy you. My nemesis didn't lose her temper. She liked to get her revenge cold. She'd wait and then display her fangs with "You said..." And I'd have to be the one not to lose my temper.

                  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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                    2 years ago

                    She once had a job review where her boss told her she was an overly emotional control freak as anytime she got comfortable at a job she'd start acting like she owned the place and would get in petty power struggles with other employees.

                    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
                      hexagon
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                      2 years ago

                      My nemesis was an "artist" so - for example - she'd make a two foot high metal elephant-shape sculpture by welding mostly rectangular pieces of metal and painting it a sold bright color. She called it lawn art but I called it crap. Somehow she sold stuff fairly frequently at local galleries.

                      I don't understand people. I really don't.

                • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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                  2 years ago

                  To force the hand of someone like this and reduce them to a banshee is always viscerally satisfying and entertaining

      • Llituro [he/him, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Ha, reminds me of growing up my mom would always refer to her brother as "my mother's son."

      • RION [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Hey that's what we do with my late grandad's second wife! Good times :yea: