any time I ask fleetwood mac fans what makes them special, it’s always that they were really awful to one another, and the person telling me about it always gets really excited like I should be impressed that they were really awful to one another.

rules aren’t there to be enforced, they’re there so that when you break them you take a second to think about why.

This doesn’t reflect my housemate’s experience in Italy at all. Evidently if they detect an American accent in your “buongiorno” they’ll just spend the rest of the day mocking you in Italian and occasionally just yelling “DONALD TRUMP HAMBURGER TRANSGENDER” at you.

your conclusion doesn’t follow from your premise. the ability to live indoors is going to be important to people even if they think the system by which we decide who is allowed to live indoors is kinda shit.

How do you think it came to be that most Americans believe that in China you can have your home seized for being impolite?

the strength in being vulnerable enough to accept outside help

Get out of my head. I lost my first apartment because I refused to ask for help when I needed it. I wasn’t evicted, but when they turned our power off the landy decided he wasn’t gonna renew our lease. I had to get humble and move home, then I was able to finish my degree and get a new career (I went tech instead of medicine but the parallels are there). Now I’ve got the dopest job ever where I’m respected and well paid, I’m married, I own a home and I’m happy.

They had a tray of coke in the drop down ceiling in the bathroom.

2000s, oxycontin, break room but other than those little details hard same

I legit had to take a break because I started having the same nightmares that I used to get when I worked in restaurants.

18 years in restaurants checking in: The Bear is a documentary. As soon as I saw the promo shot of Jeremy Allen White sitting on a loading dock next to a dumpster, wearing an apron and a thousand yard stare, with a cigarette in one hand and a quart to-go container full of ice water in the other I knew that the people who made this show knew what it was like to work in a store that gets absolutely blowed out every day. I binged the first season in like 3 days, then I had to take a break because I started getting panicky server dreams again like I did when I was in the business.

My first job taught me to understand Indian accents, and my second taught me the tiny differences between Mexican and Castilian Spanish

Programmer? You want either middle east or (vaguely) American white guy.

Don’t discount Scandinavians here

bizarre restrictions around background play

there’s nothing bizarre about it - the free version is shitty on purpose

Mfw face when Pizza Jimmy eats his 2 millionth pizza on a given day

deleted by creator

that would condemn my rats to a lifetime of constant terror

Luckily i built a home office and gym with all the money I saved not paying for 2 hours of commuting, parking and getting lunch 260 days/year. I’ve never been in better shape mentally or physically!

The vast majority of human waste is generated by a fraction of that 8 billion

to what end do they generate all of this waste?

If you want a picture of the future, imagine 8 billion orangutans all pooping— at the same time

George Orangutanwell - Nineteen Eighty Fur

Wholeheartedly agree. The only thing I’d add is that I think it’s in theoretical discussions that we underestimate how much a wild animal’s life sucks shit. In the US at least there’s enough forest that if a person wanted to get lost and be totally self-reliant they could take an honest shot at it. I think each of us has had that thought deep down in our secret hearts and, when we do, in that particular moment we make a very frank, honest and accurate estimate about how much fun it would be dying of an infection while lying face down in the cold muck. And this coming from a person who prides himself on being “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

I keep finding dead things in my yard because of this. There are at least 3 “neighborhood cats” that someone lets run wild. They’re definitely fed, groomed and collared, they have somewhere to go at night. Do you know of any techniques to reduce the impact short of just letting them come into my house during the day?