Regular height, but it was on the ISS.

Maybe they mean the poster?

It was within reach 20 years ago, but not today. Median hourly wage in the US is about $23/hr. Median rent is about $2000/month. That’s more than 50% of gross wages, and along with inflated prices on everything else, it’s no wonder that half of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck.

The “average middle-class person” you’re referring to is now upper-class. Not because they’re extremely wealthy, but because they can afford to invest (which was once quite common, but is increasingly out of reach for the “average” person).

Soy sauce, maybe some diced vegetables

Anyone can be allergic to nickels if you throw them hard enough.

Hydration levels vary wildly by the moment

Yeah, does anyone else remember the menu bars that would show up and disappear depending on what you were doing? Those were awful–the ribbon method of context-specific tabs is better (IMO).

I imagine both groups expect to recruit from the other

I already have to do this. My office wants everyone to use the MS authenticator app, won’t run on LineageOS. Even if it did, I wouldn’t install it, but still.

Ended up making them purchase a hardware security key for me instead.

This is a great illustration of Chaotic Neutral

I hope someday to have as much self confidence as someone who lists a “slightly shat” chair for $75.

Capitalism. Specifically, the stock market. IPOs make good companies into bad companies.

Being owned by stockholders effectively removes any amount of “human” in the company’s choices and direction. There becomes a single goal, to which everything else is sacrificed: make stock prices go up in the short term. The C-suite execs will say all sorts of other shit, but any appearance of accountability or altruism is solely geared to making more money at any cost. Any leadership with a soul will be forced to either give up trying to be “good”, or they leave.

And won’t survive things like… getting sprayed with water.

Linux users be like

Easy access to a few key functions is nice, IMO. Though helping someone on their computer and seeing half the taskbar occupied with two dozen system tray icons makes me vomit just a little, so I get it.

When your mom says you’re not getting out of cleaning this time…

For anyone curious: I drink this every so often. It’s very good, but it’s not what you might call “easy drinking.” It’s the kind that fights back a little.

To be fair, peanut butter porters are generally pretty good. There’s a local brewery near me that makes one, and they don’t even have a spot for it on the shelf because it’s sold out before they can stock it.

Yep, I always thought the cartoon renditions of a green blob on top of a brown stick were more realistic than they are.

Scammer 1: “I thought you said his bank account looked like a phone number!?”

Scammer 2: “$9.11 does look like a phone number”