Meanwhile here I’m getting angry reading complaints from potheads who don’t have to spin the roulette as to whether they’re gonna be couch-bound or bouncing around on any given day.

Cuz Murica numba one!

What, am I the only person who always found his looks offputting? It’s like he has some money and okayish starting parameters, but went through typical sleazy ‘pickup artist’ bullshit. Silk shirts and such, eugh.

So in about eight months they should be back to where they were five years ago. Is that plenty far?

Lashing out? I’m not the one whining endlessly every single day on Reddit and Lemmy about the same problems after having elected a mentally ill pedofascist twice. And then being told to smile at my job.

USian when they remembers what their country is called: “stop, it’s cringe”.

I’m not in the US, so I don’t have unreasonable expectations of customer service workers in the first place.

““Happiness””

I got news, dude: all those waiters and clerks aren’t happy to see you. They’ll just be fired if they don’t smile.

Assetto Corsa has something like 700 achievements, because a lot of them are just ‘finish on the podium with this car on this track’.

no one gives a measurement as 1 mile 300 yards 2 feet 6 inches.

When this topic came up yet another time previously, USian engineers proudly chimed in saying that their software accepts any kinds of units and converts between them as needed, so they put in US units without bothering about whether metric units are used elsewhere in the project. Ergo, someone does in fact give measurements like in your example.

Oh yeah, USians are so happy. I open Reddit and Lemmy every day and see feeds full of USians chirping about how their lives are packed with happiness.

Also, show me one scene in ‘Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring’ or ‘Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?’ where anyone does ‘intentional smiling’.

Fedora was originally based on Red Hat. Later it became the main open distro in that family, and now Red Hat Enterprise is based on Fedora.

Turns out the best US healthcare can straight up reanimate the dead.

Now you know how the rest of the world feels about USian mandatory smiles in every human interaction.

Fun fact: the alarm of the enemy’s nuclear launch in StarCraft is the same as one sample on Britney Spears’ debut album. I’ve got a friend who regularly played both together, and he panicked every time the sample sounded in the music.

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Having learned to read at like four years old greatly expanded available entertainment. Iirc by around fourteen or fifteen I discovered Japanese psychological surrealism in the form of Kobo Abe, while spending days at a country house with bupkis to do except read tons of books and magazines. Which discovery definitely affected my taste for the rest of my life.

During the same summer in the same attic, I found a collection of poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with a note from the translator and editor: “we would certainly think that this name is made up, except no man names his longfellow ‘Henry’”.

Technically insects don’t use wings supported by bones or cartilage, but physics works differently at their size anyway. There are flying fish and apparently also gliding lizards, namely Draco lizards, and gliding geckos and frogs — but afaik none of these can do sustained flight.