While the whole situation is shitty, I find it hard to believe a massive company would shut down services for 12 hours, losing millions in revenue and likely millions of users, all as a PR stunt for a foreign leader.

It’s almost like the vow he made to protect the constitution just yesterday was completely empty and meaningless.

Years ago I was on the phone with an airline agent and I had to read out my verification number. When I came to the letter V my brain short circuited and the only word I could think of was “vagina”. I sat there in a panic for probably about 10 seconds going “uhhh… uhhh…” before I finally remembered the word “valentine”.

Fold it tip-to-crust with the sauce side facing out and then eat it from the middle-out.

Spank us, daddy! We’ve been so naughty…

I lived in Texas for a few years and can confirm, southern-style sweet tea is just tea-flavored syrup.

As an American, I doubt most Americans could even describe what Brexit was let alone the after-effects of it.

This is how Americans drink tea

I’ll admit I would be the kind of person who wastes critical seconds during a home invasion backspacing over typos and reviewing/editing my grammar/punctuation before hitting send because my brain demands perfection under any circumstance. But I think in those situations anybody should get a pass so long as they can communicate quickly and comprehensively.

That’s fair. Though I do think there’s some irony in wanting to learn a new language only to avoid communicating with people who use it (though I do also understand the utility of knowing a language isn’t exclusive to talking directly to people).

This fucking guy…

Ew but then I have to talk to actual people

/s

This guy looks like he’s 60 cosplaying as a 20 year old

Can’t fail if you didn’t ever really try.

Finally free from the Golden Handcuffs, I’d use my extra time to do something I’ve always wanted, like music production, which would also inevitably be taken over by AI.

Can’t govern by shaming.

I definitely understand social anxiety but also it’s a waste of energy to be worried that a fast food worker is going to judge you for being hungry.

I grew up in Illinois where we regularly had heavy snowfall, sometimes more than a foot. One year, we had an especially heavy fall, almost three feet, and the local university closed for a single day so they could shovel the paths. Otherwise, the city operated as it normally would.

I moved to Fort Worth, Texas for a job in my early twenties and my first year there they had an unusual snowfall. About two inches and it stuck around for a week and the entire time the whole city was in crisis. Things were cancelled/postponed, business were closed, etc. I got the whole week off of work due to the storm and went out to get food/groceries or visit friends a few times and was pretty amused by all the roads that were absolutely littered with bumpers, mirrors and shrapnel from countless wrecks.

“Because my invisible friend says homosexuality is not allowed!”

I avoid them because they keep bursting into flames/accelerating out of control.