Phew I’m glad someone else made the wheat field joke, I was worried that whole horrifying period of time had been the product of sone kind of fever dream

And you can go to a cahoot nest and feed an adorable babby!

Yeah I couldn’t believe how insane it was. Her charger was, of course, inside the car….

At least she was nice and brought me cookies the next time I saw her :3

This is the dumbest thing. I had to rescue a Tesla owner a couple of weeks ago, she was stuck in our lobby because her phone battery died and she couldn’t open her car so I went back to get her a charger

I am in Britain, Fs in the chat

It hasn’t been too bad because short trip but my father in law at breakfast started talking about how the Palestine protest camp in Oxford was “wrecking the iconic lawns”

Or two wooden coffee stirring sticks

I have only played MH Rising and don’t recognise any of these mfers 😭

I liked the dargon that blew tornadoes at you and the slinky water girl and the polar bear

I remember as a kid doing Beijing - Changsha in 2 nights/3 days on the old bunk bed trains. It was kinda fun tbh because you stopped for a while at the bigger stations and you could buy street food from the vendors on the platform. But being able to do it in half a day now is so sweet. My parents live in Guangzhou now and they can see my grandparents who are still in Hunan any weekend they want (and they can visit). It’s really awesome how it’s enabled families to see each other more.

“nope!”

stupid wheel

Depends on if you want to feel like you’re doing something by fighting a moral fight or if you want long term change. I think a lot of people would urge confrontation or cutting her off, but long term the best way of getting people out of those rabbit holes is to spend time with them on other hobbies and shared interests so they don’t feel like they need to go to a cult for a sense of belonging

Tales of having a lib fiancé pt 2648

Last night he tried to tell me that western countries should enact laws which allow them to seize assets of individuals and companies to pay for damages their country has done (like Russia in Ukraine) because “then the laws would bind them as well and western companies would have to act more responsibly / lobby their governments to not destroy things in other countries to avoid having their assets seized” and that it could also be used to punish companies that cause pollution etc.

When I told him the west would only ever use this tool as a cudgel to defend imperialism he was like “wow weird that I’m more left than you on this” because apparently the state seizing assets = leftism and how could I support nationalising industries and corporations but not this. He wanted us to ignore realpolitik and argue on an idealist basis only

Anyway I told him fundamentally he needs to realise that there is no “fix” for capitalism and we need to remove the private profit incentive and then fell asleep before he could respond lol

(Pls no responses telling me to leave him we are very happy)

The Chinese brand that made the mini shredder the Israeli ambassador used changed the product name to “Israel Ambassador to the UN same model”

The advert says “you deserve to own one” lol

Congrats you’ve invented crypto

Getting a water bottle that keeps ice cold for the whole day changed my life

This was a good read on what happened with search specifically.

tldr they pushed out one of the original architects who cared about search and user experience and replaced him with a guy whose previous job was running yahoo search into the ground

Sorry to hear that friend, so stressful. I found when I tried intermittent fasting that my mental health got way worse because I was constantly tracking / looking at myself in the mirror and judging

Just tell them to fuck off. You’re not obligated to argue on their terms and doing so is giving them power over the conversation.

Got to e11 with this baby earlier

I cannot condone this

Sorry to hear things are rough comrade. I saw you spoke about depression, but it could also be worth looking into if you have any underlying conditions like attention or sleep issues. Your description of college life sounds a lot like mine was and if I had known about ADHD back then I feel like my life trajectory would be very different. Not that I think everyone has it or anything! But always worth looking to see if there might be something deeper causing depressive symptoms. Hope things improve soon!