I wish. Are you kidding me? I work in the spreadsheet mines of an adjusting firm.

At least I get to hear strange and grim fishermen’s tales. The rest sucks though.

You kidding? I’m paid based on my billables, I’m busting ass over here.

…When I’m not bitching about it on the internet, leastways.

It’s impressive that they got him on the show, but he’s not even the most unhinged person on it. Rosie is downright feral.

Word. If I would have smiled at you when you said it in person, it’s got my upvote.

If I’m just talking with someone and there’s no vibe, it’s a neutral.

I try not to talk to people who deserve my downvotes. I do fail sometimes.

In my job I’ve seen American ambulance bills that cost more than that. And if they used a helicopter or even just a fixed wing medevac it’s usually at least 10x as much.

Hell, I’ve seen routine injections billed higher than that come to think of it…

the sloth eats the moth

Apparently this is true? I’ll be emotionally processing this one for the next week. I wasn’t prepared for that.

I might have drifted from the norm

Because I kind of assumed this was what we were all thinking when these memes started rolling in

Wrong takeaway lmao

Looks like someone should have kept their damned mouth shut about the shezzarine

People have always been this weird. These days people fly their freak flags and everyone has to be all “haha gross!”, or “this has awakened something in me”.

Back then you’d hide this from everyone but your partners - sometimes even them - and if you were important, a spook would find out and use it as leverage in a bid for corruption or espionage. Ah, the good old days.

A low-uptime server to backup my current one

Or a really crazy sex toy maybe, depends on how responsible I’m feeling

For a second I thought this was some brainrot BG3 mod that makes Withers look Balenciaga-style

I don’t think there is such a thing as a left wing echo chamber. We bicker incessantly. The other day I was making a joke at the expense of the car-brain mentality and someone came at me for ableism.

I’m not mad at them, it’s just illustrative of my point. We don’t take shit from each other, and we take each other to task over jokes. The right will, meanwhile, forgive literal pedophilia, rape, and murder of each other. I’m sure as hell not saying we should, but we will never create an echo chamber as good as they do because of that.

Flirting is just part of seduction. It’s not just to “make intentions known”, people are more dynamic than that. Being flirted with will often actually create feelings that weren’t there before. If you enjoy how someone makes you feel, you open up and become closer. Merely being liked by someone can be quite flattering.

That’s darkly solipsistic. Risky sort of thought to entertain. Life is chaos and it’s all real. Just do your best and be kind to yourself, and others.

Solipsism, yeah maybe.

Can you try to figure out whether this person is hilarious or anti-intellectual? I scratched my chin off trying to spot the difference

I’d only heard of council juice

The Aussie slang “I’m not here to fuck spiders” just took on a bitter but satisfying depth and flavour

In leftist spaces, the word liberal often has a different connotation more focused on economic liberalism.

They don’t usually feel the need to clarify, and everyone gets mad. It must be incredibly fun to be an asshole these days.