Aaaand they're not driving to Taco Bell! It's win-win!

Sometimes you will be in subcultures that stop checking your worst behaviors and even start encouraging them, and it feels like you’re doing something righteous, even good, but even if it feels good being validated in this way is not worth the cost

You can do better

The absolute psychos who make the base of the GOP primaries think "Trump's ideas are popular", when it's actually "Trump says so much bullshit that everyone has stuff to agree with while easily dismissing everything else as hyperbole", so it's really hard to get a new Trump from that pool

And there have been a bunch of calls for insurrectionist protests since J6, like at Trump courthouses, and the militia cosplayers are like "if there might be actual consequences, we're not going"

Tbh, I saw someone sing this at karaoke last weekend, and it turns out the YMCA has like a million verses, this is probably in it

which were basically "airline price war" unsustainable long term. 2, a ton of new consumer services were being run at a loss between 2010-2018, propped up by VC dollars, and it turns out a private burrito taxi costs a lot more when a private equity firm isn't paying for half the cost of every order

2 things that I don't see talked about: a bunch of cheap things had been stuck anchored at $1 and when that barrier broke, went up to $1.50-2 because they had basically been saving up inflation. Seeing a Twix jump from $1 to $1.80 at the checkstand is right in your face, same for Dollar Menus,

Not to be super shady to OP, but are they replacing the sacrificial anode in their water heater every year? I didn't even know that was a thing until a few years ago, when it was far too late to try and replace the one on my 20 year old tank. How much other maintenance am I accidentally not doing?

I was shopping for a 50" 4k to replace my dual monitor setup, looking at Craigslist and Facebook, then realizing that I could get a brand new one for the $250 people were trying to get for their old models. Like, so much screen for so little blows me away

The People* demand people water!
(*cats)

POV: The girl who peaked in HS wants you to remember the good that exists within our stressful and chaotic world, that we fight our inevitable disappointments with gratitude for the beauty that we receive, and while the future may hold tragedy, without hope, we guarantee it

I'm a big "if you had to look to find it, put it back in the first place you looked" believer

Yay! Please criticize the hell out of her - It's important to have a strong left wing too, it's how we drag the country to progress, despite the deeply entrenched status quo