Rich people are stupid.

You know how someone who plays a shooter using an aim-bot and god-mode is going to be bad at the game? Same principle. They have money, they don’t have to really struggle or practice, they never get good.

My current cat does not help with bugs. One time a giant centipede looking thing came into the bedroom, on the ceiling. He looked at it, got up, and left the room.

I see a lot of Nirvana shirts on the youth and I’m never sure if they like the band or just the shirt, either.

I did see a blue-haired youth with a My Chemical Romance shirt the other day and I’m pretty sure they were a sincere fan, though.

Sure, for a generous definition of “possible”. However I don’t see how you get from there to “either all are, or all are not”.

Like, you could at some point have said we don’t understand magnetism. You couldn’t from that argue that either all metals are magnetic or none are.

Ehh. It’s hard for me to relate to low executive function, but you’re not wrong.

I think the key metric isn’t time to reply. The stakes matter- replying quickly to a meme is less important than, like, making plans. If someone isn’t responsive about if they want to go, then I probably don’t get a ticket for them, and they can’t come to the show with us. Sorry. You were busy.

And the quality is also important. I’ve got friends that will reply like a day or two later, but then we usually have a whole conversation.

If someone is replying every few days with “lol” tier responses, it’s going to feel like a waste of my time.

either all plant matter and all animal matter are consious or they are all not

man what

Seems reasonable. I’ve seen other people proposing that or similar solutions to the supreme Court.

You’re making me grapple with how expensive housing is here. A down payment for a two bedroom apartment in Brooklyn is going to be like $100-200k.

It’s fine, I tell myself. I can walk to everything I need and take transit to everything else.

$50k is a weird amount.

If you’re currently financially in crisis, it will probably save your life. But if you’re doing okay, it probably won’t change your life much. And if you’re even mildly rich, like six figure salary, you might not even notice.

I’d probably just put it in vanguard or a high yield savings, in preparation for bigger expenses that are probably coming (eg: moving, unemployment)

I’m happy I never developed a soda habit.

I pretty much only buy snacks and junks for parties. A normal sized bag of chips was like $7 yesterday. The smaller tostitos were labeled like $5.50.

I’d love to see some sort of general strike or mass boycott, but there’s not enough organization, and things aren’t bad enough for it to happen en masse spontaneously.

I’d never heard of this person before, except last night at a party someone mentioned them. No one else had heard of him. I’m okay not knowing who online people are.

Surely this guy has an address

Not only has shit gotten expensive, I got laid off from a good paying job and could only land a middling salary. I used to buy more varied food. I’d order delivery when I had guests over. I’d buy seltzer.

No more. Fuck em. If they don’t want to pay me I’ll keep my spend to a minimum.

Even if the electricity was renewable sources, there’s the opportunity cost. You spent that electricity on AI instead of something more useful and immediate.

Conservatives are often nice to people they know. The in-group. The problem is when it’s a scary other. So they’ll let Jose couch surf for a week while he sorts out his housing situation, because he’s a good guy down on his luck, but they’ll rage against Those People getting anything.

I will continue not giving Microsoft money. Fuck them.