There's a book called How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler that covers this stuff. Don't think it's comprehensive enough to actually invent everything from scratch, but still a fun read.

It's because a lot of boomers think everything they see on the internet is sent personally to them. Took me years (literal years) to explain to my mom that someone's Facebook status was not that person sending her a message.

Most don't even realize the product questions are automated. They think amazon is personally asking them so they feel obliged to respond, even if they don't know the answer.

Not even just the highest rate. The highest number of incarcerated people! Countries with over 1b people still have fewer prisoners, total.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/incarceration-rates-by-country

In their minds, this is loving your enemy. Because Christians are right and everyone else is wrong. So forcing your beliefs on people is a good thing because you're saving their souls.

Maybe if you're doing something majorly illegal, don't piss off your neighbors and draw attention to yourself. Like how when you're driving with drugs you always use your signal and follow the speed limit.

Guess it's good she didn't have that much sense and got herself busted.

I wanted to change my parents' wifi password to something everyone in the family would remember instead of the random default gibberish password.

My dad said no because it took the Comcast guy a long time to set up, so I'd probably mess up the work he did... I had worked in IT for 7 years at that point.

I love imagining him being legitimately confused every night over this. Like, "I don't get it! I said Biden was evil 3 times, said I'd support Trump, AND am not woke. Why don't they like me???"

"mass shooting" usually means one shooter and multiple people hit. So a drunk, mad guy at a party who pulls out a gun and shoots 3 people will count towards the number but probably not make it past local news. Not every mass shooting is a school shooting or terrorist attack, but those get the most attention.

It's a culture problem. My job has mandatory overtime. They say "if you don't like it, you can find another place to work."

But... every place in my field will say that. So I don't really have an option, do I?

It just says "groupa boykissera" in the Russian alphabet. Transliteration.

There is a fan running and then the actual microwave itself. If you lower the power setting, you can hear the fan stay on consistently but hear the microwave shut off and on. If the power is at 100%, the microwave runs the entire time.

A very nice rain coat. Now unless it's a downpour, I still walk places instead of driving if it's raining. And I stay bone dry.

Keep working, drinking, and sleeping. Not much else to do no matter who wins.

What do you mean nothing ever materializes??? They'll probably be found to be breaking anti-competition laws then given a fine equal to 15 minutes of profit.

Plus Japanese 7-11 is considered decent food. Compare to 7-11 here where any food is a combination of salt, more salt, and sugar, with maybe some protein or carbs. I imagine this quality difference expands to other establishments as well.

I'm just glad to see not being on social media isn't such a big deal.

And perhaps some kind of alarm to alert when a sexual person is in the repair area.

Tony Hawk's Underground 2 had this kid as an Easter egg. In the Boston level if you went into one of the apartments, he was there doing his routine.

For me at least, it's more of "conservatives are crazy, conspiracy-led, bigots but liberals are annoying." and this of course only applies to the most outspoken of both sides.

I know plenty of people who vote republican, that are decent people (not antivax, not racist, not homophobic), but are either religious or gun nuts. Hell, I have a coworker that agrees with 95% of democratic policies but will never vote for them because they'll "take his guns." Do I think they're dumb, sure. Do I think they're evil, no?

Liberals I see like vegans. The core messaging is right, but the preachier you get, the more people are going to dislike you, even if they agree with you on principle. Even though I've voted democrat in every election, I couldn't help but roll my eyes when someone told me I should stop using the word "marijuana" because it's racist.

I don't really want to hang out with qanon, racist types or people where I have to be careful of saying "mailman" instead of "mail carrier". Obviously if I had to choose, it'd be the latter, but I don't have to choose because 80% of people aren't that politically motivated every second of their day.

It is kind of fucked up. It's one thing if someone is being abusive/combative and you're filming them for your own safety, but so many videos are of mentally ill people or addicts acting weird but not harming anyone. People in the US constantly harp on about china's social credit system, while basically making their own crowd sourced version without any limitations.