Look at Mr. Fatcat over here eating out while we’re on the verge of a recession.

There’s always time for one more bad decision, lol.

Oops, said the quiet part out loud again.

I can almost guarantee this was some stupid marketing exec’s idea. Someone had to write the code that interprets that you’re watching an episode that someone else has available for streaming. Any software dev worth their salt would have seen this request and said “This is the dumbest fucking idea I have ever seen in my life” and they probably had to make it anyway because it pays the bills.

Can’t get that sweet sweet ad revenue if your content isn’t 100% in line with advertising expectations. God forbid there are any deviants on a site that positioned itself as weird and quirky for the first decade of its existence.

“Next time, baby.”

I will never not laugh my ass off thinking about that.

At the time?

“Correction, we have three potato.”

• Politburo

This is how most supermarkets (Walmart/Kroger/Target, etc.) in the U.S. look brand new - they’re effectively warehouses that sell product directly to customers. Smaller shops and boutiques have finished ceilings that hide the ductwork and such because they’re meant to be more flexible commercial/office space, but large stores like this do not, except for specialized locations like electronics, jewelery, or pharmacy, that can be gated off from the rest of the inside of the building for reduced operation and security.

What’d you say about my moms?

Funnily enough, I do feel like an adult, mostly because I’ve been aware enough for long enough that everyone else is making it up as they go, that I can sense when people are on their bullshit and navigate it pretty effectively.

Also I’m making a lot of decisions that will hopefully insulate me from the consequences of my inevitable failure, but I hold no delusions that the safety net will ever be perfect or even good, or that some arbitrary amount of austerity would have bought me a house at this point, so I don’t starve myself of the little pleasures in the moment - today is the rainy day. I use my PTO, I get a little treat every once in a while, and I make myself as comfortable as I can. My life satisfaction has increased drastically with that in mind.

“But if we don’t vote Republican, the Democrats will eat babies!!!1!”

I’m so tired of this shit.

Yeah, Disney’s no peach in all this, lest we forget, among other greasy shit, DisneyCorp tried to trademark the phrase “Dia de los Muertos” in order to sell movie merchandise.

I mean it might help their value proposition to not attempt to sell monitor stands for a thousand dollars. I will never forget the audience’s collective incredulous gasp at that reveal.

Nature’s candy in my hand,

Or a can

or a pie.

We all know damn well the four day week inevitably comes with a pay cut. Big business won’t cede anything without getting theirs back.

Still all for it. Four day workweeks are better for the environment and mental health.

The Gadsden flag, notable for the text “Don’t tread on me,” on a yellow flag with a coiled snake in the center. It’s popular with cishet white male alt-righters and libertarians who feel persecuted for whatever reason. People use the phrase “No step on snek” with a cartoonish snake illustration to mock the idea that the most privileged groups today would ever compare themselves to the people of the American revolution who fought and died under this banner.

Even around the interstate you’ve got plenty of people flying flags on their houses and their trucks. It’s funny, the fascists where I live have abandoned their Trump 2024 flags for No step on snek. I guess they figure he doesn’t trigger the libs as much with one foot in a jail cell. Or maybe against all odds they grew a sense of shame.

Like, even within the bounds of the ‘thought experiment,’ the good lasts maybe a couple minutes if it even happens and the bad lasts an entire fucking lifetime, of course OP is going to get shouted out of class, the shit falling out of his mouth would make his ass jealous.

It’s a nice fantasy, but I’m sure some sites would actually collapse. I’d prefer it and I think it would be more realistic if there were legislation capping the amount and formats of advertising that could be displayed on a webpage or over a certain period of time to an IP address. No more double ads before every video and every ten minutes within - it’s currently getting to be as bad as cable TV used to be, and I don’t know what hosting user-created content costs these days but I’m sure it’s cheaper than what cable companies had to pay to buy content from studios for broadcast and then actually broadcast it.