What in the Hooverville is this hot take? Now having a bedroom is a luxury?

Great, now let’s see how they can make it terrible.

There’s a lot, but the shortest version is that he never saw a war crime he didn’t like, and he was in a position to make a lot of them happen.

For the record, I’ve never worked anywhere that this was the case. I mean, yes, if you get hammered and act stupid, that’s obviously going to impact your job (probably, unless you work in the kind of place where your boss is right there with you), but pretty much everywhere I’ve ever worked, people came if they felt like it, had a drink or two and some snacks, and not one person ever gave it another thought.

Caveat: I’ve worked for the government for my entire career. It might be different in more sociopathic industries.

Ultron and Project Insight. It’s like the people in charge watched those movies and said, “You know, I think Hydra had the right idea!”

To UK politics? Only kind of because I’m not from there. It’s just mind boggling that there’s really no one better, apparently.

Well you know things are going fantastically when you have to bring Cameron back. Christ, was there really no other viable candidate in the whole party?

The thing with human mouths, though, is that they’re gross. A dagger will fuck you up, but a mouth may hurt at the time, and then later it’s ✨BACTERIA TIME✨. I think maybe they can get a little bonus for that.

Millennials can have a little radicalization of the youth, as a treat.

I mean, I’ve moved further left the older I’ve gotten, so I’m on board with encouraging the next generations to recognize exploitative systems and to stand up for themselves. I wish a lot of us had figured that out sooner instead of so many buying into the narrative we were fed about college being practically mandatory with the promise of good things at the end of the rainbow and then being told we’re entitled when we point out the massive rug pull that shit was.

Are there enough of us here to give them the attention/drama they clearly crave?

You’re right, this is from the one in Larkspur.

I just tell people upfront that I’m not the person for them if they want someone who wants to talk constantly, especially via text. I don’t have the energy for it, especially with my current job being so social, and I know I need someone equally independent for there to be any chance of a relationship. Other people like that exist - my ex and I used to spend a ton of time in the same room, gaming or watching movies or whatever, and we’d only talk occasionally. We were content to be with each other but doing our own thing. We didn’t work out for other reasons, but that part was always good.

Anyway, I think it’s helpful to weed out people ahead of time. Not in a negative way, because a shitty attitude will ruin your chances with most people, but just in the way of, “this is my communication style, looking for someone compatible with that.”

Huh, his art is technically fine, but I’ve seen photorealism done better (and really, it tends to be one of the most boring genres of art imo, because it’s usually more focused on accuracy than on any kind of meaning or feeling). I probably wouldn’t have thought twice about him if I ever came across his work, but now my impression is that he’s not particularly likeable in addition to being a pretty mediocre artist. Especially since the original review was very fair - maybe nicer than he deserved. That chicken hand was rough.

Yep. One of my friends works in sales and has worked from home for 3 1/2 of her 4 years with her current company. She’s in the top 10 performers out of 250-ish people in her division and her company is going to lose her if they stick to the demand that people return to the office. She’s waiting to see what happens, but she’s already had recruiters put out feelers once the tentative plan got out, and there are other top performers ready to jump ship too.

Nothing says, “we’re definitely not planning to do some war crimes, and for sure no genocide” like banning people from telling the truth.

I would love to cancel it. I almost never watch it and there’s nothing I do watch that I couldn’t live without. Unfortunately, my mom does watch it constantly, and she’d just sign up for her own account if I got rid of mine, so in the interest of keeping her bills down, I’m kind of stuck. At least I got her to dump Hulu’s outrageously overpriced live tv option, so I got that going for me.

A middle aged person saying, “I would rather retire young and do things that are important to me before those things are no longer possible, instead of spending another 30 years working my ass off hoping I’m financially and physically capable of doing anything at the end and that the world isn’t literally on fire” is hardly the same as a 20-something doing a bunch of drugs, but sure. Silent mediation. That’ll solve global warming and capitalism.

I’m 39, and my bucket list mostly involves traveling to historical sites and trying lots of different food, so I don’t think we’re particularly comparable.

No shit. Depending on how things are going in the next 10-15, I might retire way early, do as much bucketlist type stuff as possible until the money runs out, and then check out early. I probably have enough to live for 5 or 10 years if I move somewhere with a lower cost of living, and better that than working until I’m 75 while the world burns.

Enjoy your counterfeit deodorant that’ll likely give you cancer, I guess? Most of what they get people these days is fake garbage that’s the same shit on Wish and Temu, but somehow being on Amazon makes it seem more trustworthy to anyone not paying attention.