I know you mean well here, but this is fully bonkers. This is not how friends behave with each other.

They absolutely don’t owe me shit. We lived with them for a month before they moved, all in same house, for free. So there’s money we didn’t spend right there. We shared meals, shared hangovers, and shared their other friends in a place we were just moving to, which is priceless. But if you’re still really worried about money, they sold us their car for well under KBB as well. The guy’s brother and mom were who we called when stuff broke, and who brought us pupusas randomly when they were in the neighborhood. We trust them and they trust us, so we aren’t going to fuck up their house, and we got landlords that respond to shit immediately. I’m not going to ruin a 20+ year relationship with some tankie notions about “oh, bro, you owe me home equity.” And you can trust that anyone doing something like this knows when they have a good thing going without having to explain details.

Do you mean bad incentives?

And sure, I don’t disagree, but these people are also not actually that smart. I would worry more about this getting hacked in a week way before Elon gets a chance to use it against anyone.

I’m sure there are, but no one needs to be worried about Addams Family cannon.

Might as well spend all your free time worried about Flintstones or Felix the Cat canon. The people making the media certainly don’t care to follow any of it, it’s not ever going to make sense. Just live in the moment and enjoy it for what it is!

Quick everyone, install this just so that if Pete Hegseth invites people to the next airstrikes chat group, your satirical JD Vance account will be next to the real JD Vance’s account and he’ll probably add you both and figure it out later.

Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.

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Nya! Wow, yeah, that’s better than rhino horn. WHOO, definitely lead-based paint in that shit! WHOOO!

I am genuinely shocked at little these days.

I am absolutely floored that Trump, of all people didn’t devise a way to sell tiny little bits of the East Wing to MAGA chuds for $4700 an ounce.

Like, you want a cognitive test he just failed? A pure gold grift just passed him by. Someone call a doctor, he’s not doing OK.

AWS server US-East 1 went down yesterday, causing a massive internet blackout. It was an internal oopsie, someone did something that caused a problem with DNS resolution. Basically, you go looking for something and the server was like “Uh…Oh, I should know this? Oh, shoot. Uh… uh…I give up,I dunno.”

The screencap is from the end of Blade Runner 2049, a movie about humans and “replicants” that are really good cyborgs. I won’t spoil the movie for you, but it’s a joke about AI in a context about AI kind of thing.

I once rented a house from friends that were out of the country. We paid exactly their mortgage payment (plus utils and I did and paid for handyman level stuff, they covered big stuff), which was $600 a month less than the market rate for places a step down in quality.

Once we left I told them to increase the rent by $200 for higher insurance and a real handyman and whatever else and it’s still a huge favor to anyone they get by word of mouth only. The next couple thought they had won the lottery scoring a place for almost $5000 a year less than the rest of the area.

In Serbo-Croatian, the acronym is САД. It transliterates to SAD.

Take a massive dump in the closest bathroom to where everyone is, clog that sumbitch right up, shit water overflowing. As you open the door you let the host know, “you will never recover from this financially.”

Holy Fuck, how can a world leader be so pliable as to capitulate to the last rich person to talk to them? JFC, show some self-respect!

Stahhhp.

Nooooooooooooooo!

Hey. Hey.

Y’all remember when he closed USAID for sending too much taxpayer money overseas?

USAID’s budget was fucking $44 billion to work in 130 counties.

Now T is sending that all to one guy. Literally one guy.

Exactly!!! ¡!!!

It depends, but I would rather deal with a pack of 20 Brits than 3 Russians and their klingons.

Americans, stop thinking their accents sound smart! Look! Just look! They’re as stupid as us! And drunker, which is fine, but still! We are the only country that still takes them seriously!

This is typically for seasonal work. The legal max is 37 days per year, only for 1 employer.

Considering Greece’s tourism industry is just an inhumane crush of cruise ships and pale dickbags for 3-5 months a year, and large scale construction projects can demand what are essentially “sessional shifts” of surge work, there’s ample room for young people to get paid hardcore for 3 months of grueling work, and then, as one Greek person explained to me what tourism industry folks do off season, go hole up in a house on a mountain all winter and not see people at all.

Source: Have worked in tourism industry; Greece is one of my most favorite places.

1 million percent correct here.

100% yes.

I am privileged to be able to travel for fun, but also live in and get immersed in other cultures thanks to work.

The Americans that spend 5 days in Cancun, an all-inclusive in DR, or “went to Africa” by touching Morocco on a day trip from Spain…ugh. Y’all look bad saying box-ticking is anything else than that. It’s not a competition; what did you actually personally gain from the experience? What makes you grow as a person with greater understanding of our world? Sometimes the answers surprise you, but largely, it’s about saving money and being a dick to people you wrongly assume don’t speak English.