Good thing DOGE saved us so much money that we can now easily afford to pay for completely logical projects such as this.

Your tax dollars at work.

Why do we like reading? It’s just arbitrary characters, really, in a sequence.

My initial response: “Haha, no one could possibly eat this onion.”

My reaction after double-checking which community this was in: “…”

“Let’s see if doom-scrolling the imminent collapse of the world order as we know it manages to lull me into a peaceful slumber.”

Brilliant spin on the “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln…” riff.

Yeah, every time I think about getting Doordash, they sucker me in with promises of $1 delivery fees, etc. Then I take the time to find out what I want, put it in my cart, get excited, and…then I see the final price.

That’s when I close out of my browser and go preheat my oven so that I can put in a frozen pizza.

We’re overdue for Rexit, round 2.

Joy Division. It took several years of being a New Order fanboy before I revisited the earlier band and realized its genius.

Conspiracy theory: Spez is orchestrating some sort of pump & dump scheme.

It got bad several years ago, which is when I permanently jumped ship to DDG. It’s nowhere near as good as Google used to be, but on the other hand, it’s also nowhere near as bad as Google is now.

I’m also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

Yeah, I’d say that this is definitely the way to go. My .mp3 player only has something like 8 gigs of storage, but it takes a MicroSD card. With a 1 tb card, I can carry all the music I want (and realistically, given that your collection is pretty small, you could get away with a whole lot less than that).

I live in a “first past the post” country that forces a two-party system and penalizes voting your conscience unless it aligns with one of those parties. While there may be flaws in Ranked Choice Voting that could emerge in fringe cases, it is so obviously superior to our current system that it is hard for me to worry too much about the nuance of how it might not be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Any (democratic) system is better than what we have now.

I’m fine with language evolving; my issue is that there used to be a word that succinctly conveyed a particular idea, and now there is no way to concisely convey that idea in English.

“Gay” changing its meaning isn’t the same thing, because there are still plenty of ways of saying “happy” in English.

The word “literally” has been forever ruined by people who use it to mean “figuratively.” Worse, there is now literally no way to actually convey the original meaning of the word “literally” in a concise, clear way.

You have to say something like, “A is literally 10 times bigger than B…and I mean that ACTUALLY literally.” And then people will STILL assume that you’re speaking figuratively.

There was a time in my life when I was wary of wearing out certain songs, but now I just play them to death if that’s what I’m in the mood for. Life’s too short to deny yourself the pleasure of hearing a song that you really want to listen to…and if you DO get tired of your current earworm, so much? There’s so much great music out there that it shouldn’t be long before you discover something new that you can immerse yourself in.

Thank you! This was exactly what I was looking for.

Black olives are the shit. Green olives are shit.

“My parents are complete idiots and that’s not OK”

Long live Garry Chess.