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Money can’t buy happiness directly, but it can buy stability, which does provide happiness. The unhappiness comes in when someone has a fully stabilized life and continues pointlessly amassing wealth, incorrectly thinking it will continue to provide additional happiness.

My dad’s got that exact style that he uses when camping. I didn’t drink coffee, but he says it’s great.

My family calls the TV remote a “gonk” because apparently my grandpa called it that once back when they were still a pretty new thing, and it stuck. My mom and her siblings passed it on to their own kids, and now there’s just a small packet of people in Minnesota who call TV remotes gonks, much to the confusion of our peers.

Multiple major dictionaries seem to define computer hacking as: “to gain unauthorized access to a computer network, system, etc.” or something similar. So yeah, it seems that using a password you found somewhere to access an account that isn’t yours would indeed be considered “hacking.”

Thanks! I couldn’t get past the idea that they were somehow using telepathy to see their own futures without her in them.

Dang, I often use these for baking if I want to add some flavor to a cake or something. They’re fun for mixing into carbonated water, too!

Hey, now, I remember Party Rock! That was the only dance song of the 2010’s, right?

Well, the work I did last month made my company over 4 million dollars, and my salary earned me about 7k. That’s a normal salary for my position, but if you and a partner made that much money together and they took 99.8% of the share, it’d feel pretty scammy, right?

I’m not sure how much money my ISP, electric company, grocery store, or hospital make, but I can imagine that they have a similar issue where the people doing the work get way too little of a piece of the pie. We consider it normal because it’s so prevalent, but it used to be that the CEO and other executive suite members had a much smaller piece, allowing for everyone else to get relatively more.

Sure, the higher-ups always took the biggest chunk and always will, but at this point our economy is entirely based on the idea of extracting as much wealth from the people generating it as possible, which is definitely a scam.

A Hawaiian corset tests hundreds; indie hero icon hence absolved.

I’m sitting here wondering why I ever trusted one that didn’t.

You’re expected to bring your own. Have you not been doing that? Awkward…

Bavarian cream-filled donuts

Source: I’m classified as Bavarian by diet

You might be interested in the furry community.

Some might call that intelligence.

I specifically chose my instance by what content they did and didn’t choose to block. I turned away from several otherwise appealing instances because they didn’t block some of the content I would’ve wanted them to. I know I can do it myself, and I do when I need to, but I want an instance that aligns with my interests enough that I don’t have to worry about blocking every problematic group as they pop up. If something changes and the instance ends up blocking things I wouldn’t want blocked, I move to another instance. It’s as easy as moving to another seat on the bus - barely an inconvenience.

Nah, we’re the Big Cherry:

Good to know, thanks! I’ve seen a lot of good things about Hyundai as well, though I do get concerned given how many issues I’ve had with my 2 Kias over the last several years. I was considering waiting to get an EV Corolla when they apparently come out in a year or two, but I also don’t know if I want to wait that long.

Usually when someone is contacting someone else while working on making peace with their feelings about that person’s behavior, it’s because they want to have a discussion with them about it. It’s unusual for it to be a one-and-done text without expectation of a response. But if a response is expected, it’s then unusual to follow up that text with another concerning a completely different topic. If I were in this situation, I’d find it hard to begin a discussion about her annoyance, which is valid and deserves to be explored, when the current topic is now a winery van.

A lot of the republicans I know honestly believe there’s a huge swath of people on wellfare who are totally healthy and could work if they wanted to, but instead they take government handouts and make a whole bunch of money doing nothing by convincing people they’re needy. I always ask them to point to even one of these supposed people, but they always change the subject.

Yes, cops and soldiers are meant to have different roles, but when we’re focusing on their shared propensity for killing innocent unarmed people, there’s not much of a distinction.