Leader: “I’m going to become a king!”
Person 1: “Guys i think he might intend to become a king”
Person 2: “Oh stop listening to cicerian propaganda, he doesn’t want to be king! He just wants to make our lives better!”

Cut to collage of the leader’s GOLDEN FUCKING TOWER NAMED AFTER THEMSELF

well, that’s certainly one way to say “i have never read any actual historic accounts of what roman culture was like”

why did people just keep doing that lol, surely all the people with power should go “hey guys maybe let’s find an excuse to not make a child the emperor?”

makes you wonder why companies selling AI services don’t just cut out the middleman and scam everyone directly

are we writing headlines or entirely unrelated short stories? come the fuck on

in the case of larson: “The curtains were blue because that felt funny somehow, idk”

oh god it’s your mom!

different causes: people are having less kids in the US because they’re living in misery, whereas in europe we’ve long had fewer kids because better education and less need to have 8 kids so one of them survives and can take care of you as you get old.

can you really not reject citizenships?

💯

I just want to check though: Do you wear motorbike safety gear? Because you REALLY REALLY should, e-scooters are great but the one thing they are not is safe (if you go faster than a moderate run).

even if i did, why on earth would i blow it on something so utterly pointless as a suit?

Return to medieval peasant’s clothing: cheap simple fabrics dyed with flowers and stuff.

yes, through the magic of eliminating every expense i can.
My expenses are: Rent, electricity, internet, phone service, home insurance, bus ticket (in the winter), and food (of which i’ve been steadily finding cheaper and cheaper things to cook, most recently discovering that you can just fry the shit out of mixed frozen vegetables and it tastes amazing).

It’s slightly terrifying to see what other people spend money on, like paying 5€ for a SINGLE CUP OF COFFEE… Or, like, owning a car at all. Buddy maybe you could afford to heat your luxurious mansion if you weren’t blowing half your fucking income on a living room with 4 wheels?

An incredible amount of people, probably most people, just seem to be fundamentally incapable of recognizing expenses as being expenses. Their brain just classes that cup of coffee as something required to live and thus the cost doesn’t exist. They’ll buy it every single day, even as it doubles in cost, and i’m not sure if the act of paying even consciously registers.

there’s no point to a budget if you minimize all costs anyways, and it means i get a surprise amount left over at the end of every month which i can do whatever i want with.

Which is usually just letting it pile up because i don’t know if my welfare will be denied at some point and having that buffer means i can afford to replace things every now and then.

KDE plasma: A random contributor helped implement a nice little feature that somehow makes you 20% more attractive, nice!

Windows: We’ve killed your cat and replaced it with an AI-generated version that will forever occupy a fourth of your screen.

“And lo The Lord said unto Cyrus: That’s good shit my man, keep it up fr fr on Me.”

but like if this was true, surely i’d hear about it? i also a quick search doesn’t even show any sites that claim it as an aphrodisiac…

finns inhale licorice all the time and i can’t say i’ve ever heard of them being particularly raunchy

then again maybe it just brings them back up to a normal level, and that’s why they self-medicate with licorice…

ah, america

swedish gas stations are boring, they’re all clean and boring with completely normal products being sold. Weirdest stuff you’ll find is fuckin o’keeffe’s working hands…

this is also why i actually think hard candy that’s basically just solid sugar, is the best kind.
Because you’re sucking on it and the sugar dissolves into your saliva you get a lot of sweetness that lasts a long time, rather than constantly shoveling stuff into your mouth.

Now, i have no clue how terrible it is for your teeth to soak your mouth in sugar water for hours on end, but it’s not like that doesn’t happen with other candies, and i’d imagine it’s pretty good to avoid chewing on sugar?

while “sabbath mode” does indeed seem to be real, i cannot imagine this is something that sees any serious amount of usage, and i’d imagine most rabbis would tell you it’s kind of silly because the point of sabbath is to not do work, and these appliances specifically exist so we don’t have to do work.

If you start considering “putting food in the microwave and turning a dial to start it” as violating sabbath, you quite obviously then also can’t go around turning door handles or using keys, or taking on/off clothes, or filling a glass of water, etc etc etc