It’s the summers that we don’t get thunderstorms that I worry about, because those are the years we end up in extreme droughts and those are far more miserable. As for the heat, people find a reason to bitch about every season. It’s too cold. It’s too hot. Eew there’s bugs. Damned pollen. Fuckin’ leaves everywhere. Ice sucks. Bird shit all over. Santa Claus is coming to town, hide your kids and hide your wife.

Southern drawl versus text-to-speech. Bedazzle of the scent tree.

So nice. My giardiasis just finished blooming, the whole yard smelled of it.

It’s because the system is gamed, we all know it, and you would be hard pressed to be able trust anything – even your own grandmother – when it comes to the internet. It’s nearly all psychological and sociological warfare.

If we see 5 stars, we just assume the bad reviews have been hidden or discarded, or simply never existed (since all the reviews good or bad are fake anyway). Because way too often, that’s exactly the case.

And when we see thousands of reviews we tend to ignore the fact that it’s computationally trivial to generate millions upon millions of reviews that are just believable enough to avoid automated detection and/or are easily influenced or corrupted by a variety of means (ex: social engineering, backdoor deals, etc). Psychologically we just close our eyes and ears, yell la-la-la-la-la mentally, and hope that the truth is buried in the myriad of faked/gamed reviews somewhere.

First they told us not to eat the yellow snow, now they’re telling us not to stick spring rolls up our poop chutes. It’s like doctors don’t want us to find any joy in our lives.

First they invented great barrier reef, now they make great barrier ointment. My God what horrors and highlights, the hubris of humankind.

ONLY CHILDREN NEED NOT APPLY

Those are pretty ladies and cute outfits! Hope they drink sufficient amounts of water and stay hydrated, else time may not be kind to their skin.

I’m not defending it nor am I saying it’s typical, but it’s not that hard to spend $500 per person per month on groceries.

It’s definitely doable (and then some) for folks living in high cost of living places. I recently went on a quick weekend trip to such a place. I knew I didn’t have the type of money to dine out, but I figured I could suffice on a few staples from the grocery store. I visited several different stores, and the prices were all about the same (i.e. insane). The little pint (or half pint?) Ben and Jerry’s was $10 - 12. A container of romaine lettuce was $8. A package of Oscar Meyer sliced deli meat was $15. These prices are easily 3 - 4 times what they typically cost where I live.

Also, a lot of people shop at the kinds of stores where you can find everything from apples to Apple watches. And when people do their “grocery” shopping, they’re buying bulk paper towels, a case of wine, a new Switch game for the kids, cosmetics, cat litter, clothes, 30 pack of batteries, a couple azaleas, and a partridge in a pear tree and then calling that their grocery bill. So, it’s not exactly a fair label nor an accurate assumption that the grocery bill is just groceries (i.e. food).

And honestly, if you mean HOW as in how can they afford it: $500 x 4 = $2,000 or $24,000. A lot of money, sure, but median household income (in the USA) is like $80,000 and I’m guessing that $500 a month per person is above median expenditure (especially if we’re excluding the folks that like to include the partridge in their grocery bill), so most people spending that much on food would be earning way more than median income.

This is just so inaccurate. Sometimes it’s 90’s reboots and remakes with talking animals, too.

World War 3D

That’s the general consensus in my social circle as well. It’s not fooling anybody, but we appreciate it for what it is. Fishham with shellfish flavoring.

if you take a digital photo of the [ … thing … ] and post it on the internet as a terribly compressed jpg

That sums up the entirety of the content on a number of popular subs on the R-word site.

Confusing perspective? No. More like confusing JPEG artifacts.

To err is human, to go get is feline.

Truthfully, I want to work. I just don’t like having to play the game because the game sucks and I’m terrible at it. Let me just do the work.

Mom: Honey, we have ninja turtles at home you can watch any time you want, we don’t need to go see the movie.

Enjoy a burger how you want, or not, I could hardly care any less as long as you’re not hurting anybody with your lifestyle choice.

Personally, I just don’t like cooked pineapple very much. It’s a pale imitation of fresh in both taste and texture. Pure disappointment, and I’ve got enough disappointment in my life already, don’t need anymore on my pizza or burger or tacos or spaghetti or upside down cake or colada.

Thought you were going to say “in the butt”, but then you said “In HELL.” and I assume you don’t refer to the butt as hell. Right?

Ass, ass, or ass, no one rides for free.

If they couldn’t get a login reset sent to their email, then that’s broken.

How is that in any way relevant to the situation I am talking about, though?

If they have to create a new email account just for you, that’s bullshit, too.

While I would agree, that also seems irrelevant to my situation. Tell you what, seems like there are some misunderstandings, miscommunications, and/or incorrect assumptions being made here. Rather than me having to completely rewrite what I wrote previously based on guesses about where those misunderstandings may lie and which incorrect assumptions are being made, let’s just schedule a quick call.