Yeah, the firefighters were like “clearly he’s one of us and just hasn’t awakened yet”

Companies aren’t required to go public in the first place so it’s a rather moot point. They actively choose to be in the situation where they are beholden to shareholders.

If you owned a company you could just, like, not go asking rich people for money to grow or whatever (what IPO is, basically) and grow naturally on your own merits. Then you don’t even have to worry about what kind of votes people might have.

Personally I think the stock market should just be banned outright. Go back to pensions or some sort of UBI or even have companies pay into universal pensions or something, whatever, but tying retirement to gambling needs to stop, and the entire gambling on the economy thing is clearly not working well overall what with it being pretty easy to manipulate, to the destruction of all, and all…

Spiked whipped cream is definitely a thing, if thats what you mean. I can get it around here, but they have flavors other than just vodka. Chocolate, vanilla, orange cream, mint. There might be unflavored ones I’m not familiar with. :)

That trend is because a lot of them start life as “light novels” (similar to young adult novels, have a few scattered pictures and stuff), and those are intentionally titled so you have an idea of what you’ll be reading, because there are a freakin’ lot of them. It’s basically the synopsis blurb, just as part of the title, so you read it while looking for a book rather than going out of your way to know what its about.

Is the tattoo problem better or worse than stuffed animals watching? Or real ones, for that matter?

My car has physical buttons for all the important stuff, standard dash interface for the panel, and runs open source software on the relatively small central infotainment screen… And the telemetry and transmission stuff can be easily disabled by pulling a fuse or removing a module behind the screen, depending on your goals. It’s a 2023 bolt base package, no bells and whistles unless you count lane assist, which can be disabled, and the backup camera. If chevy stops supporting it, it’ll become a community project.

There are choices. Not many, but they are there.

I was like 30 when I realized how much nicer it was to live alone, rather than cleaning up after sone partner or other who couldn’t be bothered to do their share.

Not exactly what you are talking about but might as well be. Functionally equivalent.

Needless to say I refuse to ever cohabitate again, if I can avoid it. If I cant avoid it, it’ll have to be a duplex or individual apartment shared building sort of situation. Im just not interested in doing that much work for someone who doesn’t appreciate it. I don’t even like doing it for myself, and I do appreciate it.

I’m not doing a lot of gardening this year because I’m getting everything rebuilt for next year. So far rebuilt my chicken run, next is a new coop, then im going to install the 2 dozen metal raised beds I bought once I can get the weeds knocked down. Considering building a greenhouse over the space as well.

The stuff I am running this year is doing…… my potatoes seem to have died last week, 2/3 of my raspberries died, 1/4 of my grape vines died… we get a week of brutal heat followed by days of drowning wet. Is just hard on them, and insects are exploding.

I hope this shitty summer means my lawn grass dies the rest of the way this year. I’ve been overseeding with clover for years because it stays green through august when we get real hot and dry. I’d love the clover and violets to take over the rest of it. They already took over under my trees and most of the back yard, and I love never mowing those places. They are adapted for the sort of weather we get here and don’t die nearly as easily from this climate abuse.

This looks like one of those find the hidden things pictures. Like it has that vibe for whatever reason.

Yeah and those green lasers are no joke. I use one (with an absolute abundance of caution) to sight my telescope when I’m way out in the middle of nowhere, where there aren’t many flight paths, because you can see it clear as day against the sky. The whole way up. They are wildly powerful, despite being fairly cheap.

I’m constantly paranoid about bringing new people viewing with me because they inevitably want to play with the laser… I can’t blame them, that and the UV laser I’ve got are very very cool, but they demand respect for both the laser and the laws around their use.

Goes well with the jar of bees

I did some rough math and they’d eat about one cow every 4 days on average, or a herd of about 100 adult cows per year, assuming that was their only food source which seems unlikely when chicken or game birds are cheaper, easier, they eat garbage food and their production rate is almost 1:1 feed to meat. Plus far more available to say nothing of egg and mice/rats, which are also easy to raise on garbage food. I just don’t want to do the math when I already went for cows for whatever reason.

Whomever inherited responsibility for those cats (I’m guessing servants, since thats who was caring for them to begin with, lets be real) was probably incredibly thankful for the substantial wealth transfer for their loyalty. That used to happen back in the day. Rich people wanted to be remembered for giving their riches away. So many public works and private wealth transfers are a result of this post-humous restoration of their image. (It wasn’t enough to deprive their offspring, of course)

Lol yeah, like I wanna live like a refugee in my native country. And I’m wrong somehow for not being OK with that?

Get fucked with that shit, friend. I’m not willing to gamble what little I have on possibility, better infrastructure or not.

Probably the evolutionary arms race between rapey males and females. Males have long corkscrew penises that inflate rapidly during copulation to fill the tract of the female. Females, what with their desire to choose mates and all, have evolved corkscrew vaginal tracts with dead ends and stuff that spirals in the opposite direction. Forced mating frequently ends without insemination, as a result.

I am genuinely unsure of the mechanism by which successful mating actually happens, considering the anatomical arms race and all (maybe it’s like dolphins, which have a similar problem. Female dolphins have a false vagina and can choose where the male’s sperm goes by changing her tail position), but they seem to be able to reproduce, so it is what it is, and I’m not super keen to look it up at the moment.

According to the first inflation calculator I found, adjusted for inflation in today dollars thats $3,682.67/cat/yr, and I think thats probably plenty.

I rub my chin against their heads in the same motion as licking would produce. They seem to interpret it as grooming behavior, as they’ll start grooming me back when I do it, whether or not they know I’m not actually grooming them. Well, the one tries to shove her nose up my nose when I do it, but close enough.

I’m not who you replied to, but this is a stupid take.

My area doesn’t have public transit to speak of, its semi-rural small town, and everything is in another town, so I’m forced to drive. Everywhere around here is like this. I explicitly do not have the option to move to a more urban area because I live in a very low cost of living area, which means very depressed wages, and I genuinely cant afford to move, much less live somewhere with walkable infrastructure or decent public transit, without better wages first. Because no, getting rid of everything and starting over isn’t an option, nor should it have to be.

And I didn’t choose to be here in the first place, either. When you are born into a very low cost of living area, you often get stuck there or can only move somewhere even further behind, because wages are so depressed you can’t save enough to get into a better area. The only way you get out is if you can land a good job before moving, which is insanely difficult, since remote work usually scales to the local wages, and who can afford to travel for in-person interviews?

Just move is easy to say when you can bring home more than you pay in bills, or have enough in savings to cover a few months until you find work or whatever, and its really easy to say when you already live in an expensive area. But its not actually a practical option for many of us.

So idk about that other person, but yes, I’m fucking tired of being told to just move if I don’t like how things are. Condescending out-of-touch bullshit, is what it is.

I think the word you were looking for is extradite, which is sending someone home/to the country where crime was committed, to face their justice system.

Excommunication is kicking someone out of a religion/the church, specifically christian afaik, though not all use that word :)

I’m like 90% certain its crabdance/crab rave, something I’m not actually familiar with but which many many many people on the internet say they will be posting when certain horrible people die.

Why, I do not know.

If you can get these materials you should try these cooling packs. The materials should be cheap enough to give them to everyone you know.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqxjfp4Gi0k