So glad we’ve been spending billions building and stockpiling these things for my entire life, only to run out after [checks notes] six months of bullshit that accomplished nothing.

Yup, my friend is a lawyer and he refuses to use self checkout for any reason: he doesn’t want to assume the liability.

This would hold up better if I could get a non-shitty car made in the USA. Alas…

Truly, it would be difficult for the Chinese to do a worse job of making cars than the planned obsolescence crap we’ve come up with.

The USA has almost as many miles of railroad as the entire rest of the world. They’re just mostly freight trains. We’re not into passenger rail.

I live in Seattle. We have North America’s largest superyacht facility here: Delta Marine. Their starting pay ($22/hr) is less than the local burger place, Dick’s Drive In ($23/hr), and I swear to god I am not making any of this up.

The USA has the largest rail network in the world, although the customer service and schedules leave something to be desired.

Was it really that innovative? It was just myspace for college students

In high school my one friend had a big trench coat, and we would use it to sneak rotisserie chickens into the movie theater.

Right? Imagine if all of the money spent "building out" the metaverse had been invested in improving infrastructure in real life...

Cheaper than a large popcorn at the theater 😂

Imagine like four or five of us sitting in the front row of a crowded theater, chowing down on rotisserie chickens with our bare hands.

In retrospect I feel so bad for the people sitting near us 😂

IMO it’s almost worse than if G+ flopped completely. Google+ was actually awesome for the specific world of smalltime pen and paper RPGs. But of course, that one creative community of people designing & publishing cool stuff wasn’t enough to justify its cost, or challenge Facebook for supremacy, so they pulled the plug even though plenty of people were still using it. Just a waste.

Heat gun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QWu-7HddhM

"The last capitalist will sell us the rope with which we hang him" ass energy

watch fire burn = FUN

Not particularly, but I imagine it was just weird as hell haha

A lot more frequently than I see private industry run something correctly/efficiently.

Personally I started using like. 75% less TP once I got a bidet. Combined with spending $30 on the bidet itself, that's easy savings.

You can get a cheap one for like $25-50 and install it yourself (pretty easy, not actual plumbing, just screwing and unscrewing a few things) and they're fine. The more expensive ones have heated water, but you don't need that. I eventually sprang for a "nicer" one, but now I feel that was unnecessary. Maybe I'm a freak, but I prefer the cold water anyway.

I don't practice Santeria/I don't listen to Sublime/So why is it stuck in my head/All of the ti-i-i-iiime

This wouldn't surprise me at all, tbh. My uncle (first son) is way taller than my dad (second son) because back in the day my family didn't have much money, and they prioritized feeding the oldest son. Same genetics, different childhood diet. Uncle is like 6'2", my dad is like 5'6". If there had been a girl sibling involved, she probably would have gotten even less food.