That’s when I put the thing with my keys, so I’m forced to see it when I go to leave. Doesn’t work when the thing I need to remember is refrigerated, though. (I forget to bring lunch so often, my work locker is full of back-up snacks.)

Really? My initial thought was, “We deserve it.”

Our neighbors elected Trump twice. It’s clear they’re not the most intelligent folks in the world.

Lousy loser machines

The kid from the “Happy for You” meme deserves a cat like this.

had a mobile phone in their pockets, which at the time had exactly three apps

At the time I was in school (90s to early 00s), cell phones were for making phone calls. There were no “apps.” There was no texting, no camera, none of that. Smart phones came out the year I graduated high school. Before that, cell phones were not anywhere near as common as they are today. At a certain point, they were even a status symbol. My elementary school teachers definitely didn’t have the money to afford something so fancy in the 90s.

The closest thing I had as a kid was an “electronic organizer” with no phone/internet abilities. That had a calculator and a calendar, but it was more of a novelty and a toy - not something I relied on or would bring to school.

Not yet, but according to the article, it will be available for free soon.

The Guardian, which co-produced the film, would make it available online for free in November after its initial theatrical run.

For those that want to read more, here’s a paywall bypass link to the article: https://archive.is/ci2Ni

If it makes you feel any better, if I had to steal toilet paper from someone, I’d definitely steal two-ply from someone else before going after your stash of single-ply. If it takes the same amount of effort either way, might as well nab the good stuff.

I definitely have both. Before 2016, my anti-depressive medication did an amazing job.

But then there was an election in the US, and that one day made me realize just how fucked we all were in a profound, unmitigatable way. I never looked at the people in my country the same way again, I never looked at the political system the same way again, and my perpetual-hopefulness for the world was completed crushed.

I know some people will say that’s overly-dramatic, but those people clearly hadn’t been paying attention or connecting the dots. I knew immediately when that election was called that there would be no peaceful way back. All this fascism and violence was written on the wall that day. To be able to recognize the patterns forming, but lacking the ability to stop it (and even being called “alarmist” for pointing it out), meant being stuck in a perpetual feeling of helplessness. It’s been 10 years, shit’s played out just as I feared it would, and the only sliver of hope I’ve seen ever since was the rise of Mamdani in NYC. However, awesome as that is, it’s just not enough to lift me up anymore.

I also know I’m not alone. We are collectively traumatized, there’s no other way to put it. It’s going to take a long time for us to heal (if we’re able to at all.) The worst part is, this was all done on purpose. Those in charge of the Republican party absolutely, 100% wanted us to feel this way - Project 2025 proved it.

Then there’s the non-political stuff that I didn’t predict, adding insult to injury. Like a network of cameras being installed everywhere, and gen AI furthering the confusion between reality and fantasy. Oh, and that whole year where the world shut down due to a disease, which was more bizarre than anything I could’ve expected on that first election day.

Anyway, you’re right, there’s no amount of nature walks or breathing exercises that can resolve the perpetual stress so many of us are under. I don’t want to be a “doomer” but how the fuck am I supposed to not feel doomed? Even if I didn’t look around and try to understand the world, there’s my own empty wallet, grocery stores full of disease-infected food, all the clothing available is shit quality that starts to unravel before being worn (so it has to be purchased more frequently), and the never-ending bills that get higher even when our wages stay the same. It’s not like we’re working hard in order to eventually get relief; we’re just working hard today in order to survive to work harder tomorrow. There’s no end in sight.

Everything truly sucks and now I daily contemplate things that I never thought I would have before, even with my anti-depressants.

Anyway if the gouvernement deem necessary to create flyers to tell migrant rape is bad I dont want them as neighbor.

The government saying something isn’t a smart thing to base your decisions on. The government can say whatever propaganda they want. Hell, in the US, the government said immigrants were eating people’s pets. It’s a bold-faced lie, but it’s far from the first lie a government has made to influence their population.

Codification of rules always follows egregious disrespect to social norms and/or misunderstandings.

Yeah, all rules are 100% put in place with good intentions. Like the rules that prevented people from harboring runaway slaves. Such egregious disrespect! Or was that an “oopsy, just a misunderstanding” rule?

Sorry, not trying to come off aggressive, but it’s a naïve take to assume all rules are put in place with good faith. It’s also naïve to assume that “social norms” are all appropriate, and should never be challenged. History shows that isn’t the case, and it’s worth it to look around at our own societies and rules with a skeptical lens.

Crap, the time between when the moon landing happened and when I was born (late 80s), is smaller than the gap between 9/11 and today.

And it always will be, by an ever-widening margin.

… I think I gotta lie down

No, the nipple-rubbing was for cable companies (and was more fantastic satire.) The BP CEO included the guy lying naked on a rug in front of a fire place.

My parents got one of these for their old house, for a brief time when my grandma was living with them.

10/10 recommended. You can sit and let the hot water wash over you, or take a few minutes after a regular shower to enjoy the steam and warmth on a cold winter day.

Just make sure to move it around (and, obviously, clean it) periodically so the bottom of it doesn’t end up making scum/mold spots on the shower floor.

Similarly, legalizing gay marriage was supposed to usher in waves of people wanting to marry animals or something.

You lower most of your fingers if they tried to cut you off.

I love how you phrased this.

Lived in the states my entire life. Never heard of that.

This isn’t an oversight; it’s a promise. TDF says that if your work can’t leave the building for legal or privacy reasons, the only way to prove that later (during an audit, for example) is if the software never gave it anywhere to go.

I love this. It’s a subtle burn, but it’s well-aimed.

I’ve been staring at this picture for a few minutes and whatever’s going on on the left side still doesn’t make sense.

First I see what appears to be a cardboard cat house, that’s cute. Then behind it, the top cat seems to be sitting on a small wooden piece of furniture. Okay, so far so good…

But then it looks like a TV or monitor behind the cats, and a cabinet behind the TV. The surface the top cat’s sitting on seems to fade into everything else (I can’t tell how wide that surface is at all.) And… that’s where my brain breaks. Why is a TV between two pieces of furniture? Why is whatever the cat’s sitting on in front of a cabinet, rendering the cabinet inaccessible? Or is the cat’s surface somehow part of the cabinet? What is happening?

Are we peeking into the secret cat dimension, where all of these things can occupy the same space without contradiction?

get a job that pays less but allows you to breathe.

Cries in poverty