Apathy Tree

lol he swapped seats and everything, that’s great! Not the drunk driving, ofc, but to be a fly on the wall for that stop, woof!

Melancholy, misanthrope, and asocial were game changers for me. Learned them young, use them frequently even now.

This is a genuine photograph of six men in striped bathing suits in the early 1900s. However, we’ve found no evidence to support the claim that it was taken at a beauty contest.

The earliest internet postings of the photo we could find came in articles concerning the early days of swimsuit fashion. In 2012, Angus Trumble, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia in Canberra, provided a little more information about the photograph’s origins.

In a brief anecdote, Trumble wrote that the photo was originally available as a postcard captioned “Schöner durch Streifen. Mitteleuropa um 1910,” which translates roughly to “men made more beautiful by stripes. Central Europe around 1910.”

You… toast it and then egg wash it, and then eat it without cooking the egg…?

I mean that sounds nasty af to me, but you do you :)

There was a bar near me that still had one of these things until quite recently, and yeah it was always on the ground and gross and stuff. I just used a napkin the few times I went there.

But then they had a fire and got rid of them. Now they have a freestanding roll of paper towel that’s always wet and falling on the floor which is much better…

A prior owner of my house was a mason. I know this because I get his union stuff (I’ve lived here for 15 years; at this point it’s not my problem).

He installed a huge fireplace and hearth… on top of 2 layers of old hardwood flooring… so when I ripped that out, I made the hearth unstable. Yay! It’s also an absolutely massive radiant structure, and everyone is shocked that it’s… designed for a small pellet stove.

It’s both well done, and not well done at all.

If there’s fake ones and people show up for them because they saw them on the map, are they fake?

I’ve been invited on a few cruises.

I was in the navy, and immediately launch into a tirade about how top heavy and unsafe those things are.

“Well it’s never been a problem for us”

Okie dokie, I took statistics, so hard pass all the same :)

I saw a depressing comic like that… civilization has collapsed, no humans left, and the invisible hand of the market keeps raising prices.

I tried to find it for you but there are a lot of invisible hand of the market comics and I’m not good enough to find it :(

That’s what H1B visas are for! Then they get dumb labor, and cheap skilled slaves beholden to them to keep their visa and thus life intact!

(Wish I were joking, but this is all facts)

Stop redirecting them. Make it cost them.

Tell your neighbors to file an “it arrived late” or “it didn’t arrive” complaint. Get two and send one back. Their fault for being shit companies.

If something is delivered to you by mistake, it’s not your responsibility to fix the mistake, you just got free stuff.

If it goes through USPS, it might be a federal offense to open stuff delivered via USPS, but is that true of third party parcel delivery? Almost certainly not, because USPS is a government org and those third party shit delivery companies aren’t…

So now any package that’s delivered to me by anyone other than USPS… it’s mine now, and I open it to see if I want whatever trash my neighbors are buying.

I used to try to fix the problem… but then I realized it’s NOT MY PROBLEM.

I had a diskman when they were dying to pure MP3 players.

It was an ATRAK3 plus (a proprietary compression format) and CD player combo that came with software to burn whole libraries on standard CDs, complete with folders and everything.

It was cool as hell, a built-in an/fm tuner, and I used it for work for years along with a single rewritable cd. I had different folders for different languages and genres and shit.

You can buy them on eBay now for like $30, which ironically is more than I paid for it in 2002-4 or whatever it was, however the software to convert to the ATRAK3 plus format was super super hard to find even in the early naughties, unless you have the installer disc.

They should have put one of those into the museum. Would have been way cooler and more informative and shit

In some English dialects, we have a middle distance indicator for those sort of… ambiguous distances.

We have:

This here

That there

And we have “just over there”.

If someone said the third option, you’d know it wasn’t far by the use of “just”, but also not close enough to count as here, even if it’s not technically formal language.

Some dialects also have an additional category to indicate things so far you can’t see them, like “over yonder”

Did you know that in old English, Þ þ was a thorn, which was pronounced “th” like the word the. In Middle English, the shape of the thorn got, well, sloppy, because people are lazy as shit, and eventually took on the shape Y.

Thus, when you see a sign in “old English” (actually Middle English at best) that says ye olde shoppe, you should read it boringly as “the old shop”.

Off I go to ruin more days!

I’m usually 5. I have a lot of uncomfortable issues, but I’ve learned to find positives in life where they are, and just roll with things I have no control over.

This comment is the closest I’ve come to understanding the problem, can you be more explicit about why bussy is a thing?

Is it because pussy? But the bum? I’m so confused.

When I moved into my last apartment, my entire storage area was full of bags of cans.

They belonged to a neighbor, who was using my empty storage because his was full, I found out 2 weeks later when he came ripping up to my door demanding to know what I did with his money.

When I found out he meant the cans, I laughed, told him I threw out his trash for him, and told him if he ever darkened my door again I’d call the cops.

They weren’t even crushed. His own storage was probably plenty if he’d be less lazy.

5,6,9 only ones that really make a big difference in the grand scheme of things.

Being super strong would mean you’d likely end up doing a lot of physical activity for yourself and others, but it would also mean that your resting metabolism is significantly higher than baseline which handily takes care of the fat/weight problem.

Being taller would be fine I guess but, and I say this as a woman in the bottom 25% in height, it wouldn’t actually make any substantial difference in life, beyond being able to touch the floor in a standard chair.

Having a lot of money takes care of shopping without stopping it, As well as the followers thing (rich people are often famous, and if not they can dump some money into something to make them famous if they want) and I feel being happy over-rides forgetting your ex, cuz you wouldn’t feel bad about it.

Some days, to avoid disturbing my sleeping cats, I sleep sideways across the head of my bed curled around them. Those days I swim in a sea of pillows.

So I guess d?

I have these for all my chargeable things. Bought like 4 packs with multiple port types, so I have tons of extra cables in case some die. They are great for game controllers, phones, tablets, rechargeable keyboards, and all sorts of other shit. All you need is multiple ends, and you can use the same cables for everything. It’s glorious if you have a mix of port types.