That fact wasn’t as cromulent as they made it out to be.

ETA: also, the myth about birds exploding by eating rice. An entire generation used bubbles at their weddings instead, in part because Lisa didn’t fact-check a myth. (Not complaining about the result though: bubbles are lovely floating orbs of happiness, whereas thrown rice is a messy waste of food.)

Well obviously. Horses clearly evolved the shape of their feet by repeatedly attempting to use horseshoe crabs as shoes.

The only gatekeeping allowed in punk is the one that keeps nazis out.

Fuck nazi punks

However, they’re not necessarily picking up on nuance, or subtleties. And they will often not take into account how the sentence they just read fits into the overall context of the piece

Which explains sooo many internet arguments.

As my Polish-speaking mom likes to say, “Would you like to buy a vowel?”

Same. Have an appointment 20 minutes away? Ooh, better leave 40 minutes before, just in case.

With the traffic, road work, and detours sometimes thrown in the way, this habit has been quite helpful. The last appointment I had let me in early because there was availability as soon as I arrived, so I got to leave earlier than expected.

I use modified “HorseBatteryStaple” style passwords. I have a couple base phrases that I always remember, with special characters and numbers inserted. I modify them bit by bit for different sites, and keep a list of the changes - only the changes. Anyone who looks at the list would see random words, numbers, or symbols without context; only I know how it all fits together.

For example, let’s pretend HorseBatteryStaple1! Is my default password. I may have “cell phone, machine 5” on the list. That would mean the password for my cell phone’s payment website modifies the default password by changing one of the words in HorseBatteryStaple to “machine” and the number 1 to 5.

I know password managers exist, but I like to try to remember my own passwords. Especially since I may need them across different devices, including my work laptop that I can’t download new programs onto.

I legit have seen an American here on Lemmy argue, “Why do you think you should get health care for free?” Like it’s some absurd request to support the literal health of your nation.

The selfish mentality has poisoned so many of my neighbors, and we’re all the worse off for it.

Is that what it means? I never would’ve guessed.

Not sure if I’m out of touch, or just successfully avoiding cesspits.

Well, yeah. As soon as we see it, we can begin the Apocalypse Orgy.

We know why they do it. That doesn’t make it any less inappropriate. These guys don’t care who they make uncomfortable in their quest for validation. It’s like a kid that throws a fit to gain attention, uncaring about who they might hurt in the process. Except unlike a developing child, these men should be mature enough to know better.

If they’re too bitter for consumption, they can probably be composted and used in a garden. Either way, we’ll get a rich meal.

As far as having a personality and sense of empathy? Absolutely. I also like knowing that people love me for who I am, rather than because I’d have money.

But to not have to worry about affording the roof over my head would be pretty nice.

In our one-bedroom apartments that we still struggle to afford. Not sure how we’ll be able to take care of them full time when we’re also still working full time.

And people think we can afford to save for our own retirements. Lol.

At today’s prices, a family would need to earn $126,700 a year to afford monthly payments on an average home purchased in 2024, up from $79,300 annually in 2021, according to a report from the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies.

We are so screwed.

Is that really his name? Infantino? Like “infant,” but with the diminutive -ino, making it more like “little infant”?

At first I thought that was a new nickname for Trump.

At first it seemed wild to me that you weren’t taught it, but now that I’m thinking about it, I don’t know where I learned about it from. I might have learned it in a high school class, but I came out as an atheist at that time and did a lot of research on my own, so I’m not sure.

It doesn’t seem like something that should be esoteric, but something that should be taught alongside other educational and civil rights battles and milestones.

Just another reminder that there is no war but class war. The rich and powerful will try to split us by whatever arbitrary division they can, but the differences we have between each other are nothing compared to the differences between all of us and the ultra rich.

The universe saw how we’re wreaking ourselves and decided to put us in quarantine.

And yet people deny that we’re decended from the same lineage. If humans didn’t wear clothes, I guarantee some kid would start a grass-in-the-butt trend too.