Signtist

My buddy’s parents were like this. They’re very religious, and damn near disowned him when his younger brother snitched to them that he saw a condom wrapper in his trash. This was despite the fact that their older brother was born full-term less than 9 months after their parents got married…

“Coward” implies that they want to do good, but are too scared to do so. There’s no reason to think that, and indeed we shouldn’t. They want money and Elon makes them money; that’s all there is to it. If ethics mattered to them at all, they wouldn’t have been able to climb to the position of CEO of a major corporation in the first place.

Danijah Woodcliffe

I honestly think we’re all too controlled. You don’t have to go full-on dictator to keep people from rising up. Instilling a strong sense of blind patriotism in the politically conservative people, along with a blanket “violence is always bad” sentiment in the more progressive people, keeps everyone pacified. Half of the people are convinced that everything’s fine because the government said so, and the other half are too scared to fight.

I had one of these in my house growing up that was used as the family telephone before we all got cell phones, and I’m one of the younger millennials.

I like how the title is written as if the deaths were an unforeseen consequence of the celebrated cuts, when the reality is that they knew it would cause deaths and celebrated that too.

Looks like one of those disposable flossers.

The issue is that the vast majority of people don’t view religion as “what I should or shouldn’t do.” They view it as “what should and shouldn’t be done.” They can’t just follow the tenants themselves; in order to follow their religion - at least not the way they interpret it - they need to make sure the tenants are being universally followed. That’s why religion is always at odds with society as a whole unless that society is already overbearingly religious. It will never change unless there are no major groups within society with different beliefs than the norm.

They’re not offering you 30% off a TV because they think you need it, they’re doing it because it benefits them, so they dress it up like it’s sometime you need so that you hopefully believe it. You only get what you need when you fight for it.

I started making alarms for things a few years ago, and now I have alarms for everything. It’s great. I never have to worry about forgetting anything because at this point I make an alarm reflexively any time there’s a thing I need to remember in the future.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. People generally hate learning things they’re not interested in, and one of the least interesting things for the average person is a fact that challenges their established world view.

My wife doesn’t understand why I always clean every dish/pot/utensil as soon as it’s done being used, even before I sit down to eat. If I leave even just a stray fork to be cleaned later, I’ll just keep stacking dirty things to be cleaned with it later until I run out of dishes, run out of room, or both.

Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 after it came out that a white house intern, Monica Lewinsky, had been giving him blowjobs, and now this.

If I had a nickle for every time a sitting president was shamed because Bill Clinton got a blowjob, I’d have 2 nickles. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Honestly, I think this is a good thing. Sure, it means that I often don’t finish shows or games, but I also don’t care to, which suggests that it wasn’t important to me anyway. I’m being more true to myself than to the expectations of society as a whole, which I think is healthy. I usually go back to an abandoned franchise when I’m ready, anyway, even if it’s a decade or more later.

This is unironically what I do. It’s helpful to figure out whether that mistake you made is actually important, or if you just think it is because it’s embarrassing. The easiest way to figure it out is to take it to the extreme; is it going to kill you? Probably not, so you’ll probably die from something else. Is it going to effect things so much that people will remember it after you die? Probably not, so one day everyone will have forgotten you, including this embarrassing thing you did. So, might as well just forget about it - everyone else will.

Yeah, I hate kiwis (the fruit), so I wouldn’t eat this, but I love pineapples on pizza, so I’d imagine it’d taste good for people who like kiwis.

Good to know, thanks! I did just upgrade to a gigabit fiber connection, but you’re right that I’m not usually maxing that out.