You can’t cast spells, but it does do magic.

People go with the information they are given. People don’t do academic research into these things before forming an opinion (myself included). Through cold war times, capitalism was advertised as a morally correct choice (and not just as one type of economic system). Even within this, the American flavour or neoliberal capitalism isn’t the only choice. There can be a more heavily regulated capitalism like in Europe with elements of strong social support. America’s economic success is taken as clear evidence that neoliberal capitalism is clearly the winning strategy and makes them the best.

These aren’t isolated economic theory concepts anymore. These are ideas linked to people’s identity, politics, social groups, morality and sense of justice/right and wrong. This is compounded by a false sense that we live in a meritocracy and just world. As if the world will give money and success to those who are right and good, so we shouldn’t stand in the way of that.

I got a floral smelling perfume that was labelled “for men”. Really liked it. But got told a bunch of times “someone’s wearing a lovely women’s perfume”. Maybe I just want to smell like flowers too goddamnit.

Rest? In this economic system?

Conversation with the wife:

“Are you pregnant?”

“No”

“Well some asshole left his trash on my windshield. And can you believe that a 3 course meal from a midrange restaurant costs $300 now?? WTF.”

Fucking love everything about this comic. And I’m sad that I can’t find an RSS feed of the artist’s content without looking to shitty social media platforms.

If you can’t repair or use that, it will still sell for quite a lot these days on eBay.

That feel when my wife really wants to know why I’m laughing and I have to explain a meme that is 3 references deep and she loses interest and says “this is dumb” when I’m just starting to explain level 2.

The list absolutely exists for me. It just has more hours of content than 3 lifetimes and I don’t have nearly enough time to get through things at the pace I want.

I don’t have many alerts setup, but I use Mattermost anyway and I send alerts into a Mattermost channel. Sonarr and Radarr report when a download is complete. Jellyfdash reports when someone outside my home starts streaming something over Jellyfin.

I’m going to walk into my organisation and pose as an executive and cuss out everyone there. Thanks for the idea.

I feel bad for anyone building now. I built my gaming setup + NAS and server PC and upgraded my Steam Deck in the past 2 to 3 years. Going to get as much milage out of these as I can till things settle down.

Then in 5 years when things have only gotten worse and this is the new norm then I’ll cry alongside everyone else. Or maybe China will get their fabs up and running and swoop in to undercut these bastards to save us all.

Hey that’s the town I used to live in before I was concieved!

To get the proper drinking experience, make sure to let it age in your bladder for at least a couple of hours. If you’re not going to age it properly then might as well use it for the washing machine.

This is not mildly interesting. This is a pretty big deal.

And it’s fucking disgusting

The list goes on.

Why did you stop? Gimme more.

You hate Mondays too? I thought I was the only one!

Oh dang, I thought this was social media lingo like “trauma dumping”. The guy wrote a book and the wikipedia entry brutally points out right in the introduction that there’s no evidence for any of this.

“The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate is a 1992 nonfiction book by Baptist pastor Gary Chapman. It outlines five general ways that romantic partners express and experience love, which Chapman calls “love languages”. Empirical evidence does not strongly support its core claims.”

It is good. That’s a lot of radiator heat dissipation.