I would love to have my PhD, but the final year of my master's was a real slog. I'm just not sure I can ever go back to that.

I'm shocked neither of them has been publicly punched in the face yet

Really tempted to fill out my customer satisfaction survey with "repair guy did a great job, diagnosed and fixed problem in minutes, but filled my house with aggressive cologne smell and gave me a headache"

At a phone CSR job I had in the 00s they called me out for having too many pageviews online. It was because I used Pandora and it refreshed a lot. We were explicitly permitted to listen to music when not on a call, others had FM radios. A Melvin moment. They didn't tell us they were tracking that.

There's a very under-appreciated combo that I think would be good in a pierogi: bourbon, steak, and gorgonzola.

It's like we learned nothing from Oregon Trail

The THC gummies my husband prefers come in a plastic zip-top pouch, and every time he gets one out his cat is INCENSED that it is not a pouch of her treats being opened.

One of my sisters worked as a civil engineer for her county for years and the people who wanted everyone to think they're just "someone with a trash can" were usually storing thousands of gallons of water.

It's not actually about that, or it wasn't originally. It was to prevent the owners of property along natural drainage routes from collecting up all the water before it can get downstream to where other people can use it.

I improvise a lot of songs for my cats. Today it's "I love you (but I'd really like it if you'd stop wiping you cold, wet nose on me)"

The old guy who cut a board for me at Home Depot said "and here's your change" when he gave me the offcut and I'm sure he's said it a million times but it really made me smile 🥰

The Cybertruck situation in Vegas is bad. There are two in this Home Depot parking lot alone right now.

I have a real love-hate relationship with pizza places that heat their slices up so much that I can't eat them right away.

Every scifi show needs a joke about how long an alien's dick is.

The pro-natalist weirdos and the Malthusian anti-birth nuts are an incredible example of horseshoe theory where the thing they have in common is racism.

In my neck of the woods, the Nevada governor wants to start selling pristine public land around Las Vegas to developers while 12,000 units sit empty. It's outrageous.

I'd love to see higher taxes on landlords but I'm sure they'd just pass it on to their tenants 😕

We subsidize junk food on a massive scale via the corn syrup industry, so it feels ludicrous to try and save tax dollars by cutting off consumers.

A comprehensive reworking of property taxes would change so many communities. Minimal tax on your primary residence to help pay for services. Sq ft to number of residents for luxury homes. Vacation homes taxed ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️

Unsurprisingly, Fallout 76, a game I regret playing every time I log in, is having one of the buggiest weekends I've seen since it launched.

Natural fiber work especially!

I feel the least guilt when I work with acrylic paint. It's cheap, it holds up pretty well, it's forgiving. But there's a reason more than one medium exists!

Stop Giving Men Microphones YouTube video by Sarah Hester Ross

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This is a major struggle I had when I made Fallout/Mad Max/post-apocalyptic stuff. Those movies and games are total fiction, down to materials people are using years after the collapse of modern civilization - electrical tape loses adhesion, rubber dry rots. That thing I made will disintegrate.

When we established lifetime appointments they also had legal duels to the death but somehow originalists never bring that up

Seeing Mae Martin live and yes, I did take a nap earlier to make it through a 10pm show.

Wonder how it smells back there

They should have gotten him an apple box

A package of Bolci brand Dubai (with "style" stamped beside "Dubai") chocolate with American flag visuals and "4th of July / 250th Anniversary" printed alongside

Spotted in the grocery store: 4th of July/ 250th Anniversary themed Dubai chocolate.