To my European mind, 50K is a very high salary

China playing modded Minecraft while we’re stuck on vanilla smdh

Oh, I see, YOU don’t want to live in a world where everything is transactional and we can’t just help each other. Why don’t you center someone else’s needs for once smh smdh mddh ghfddsdccgghg

Something something “price of eggs”

Her lawyers are arguing for leniency from the judges on financial grounds. They say that while she is under sentence of death it will be hard for her to negotiate the best price for selling her assets and investments, and so harder for her to raise $9 billion.

Lmao at this. They should make a reality TV show out of it

I still use Gboard but I feel like it’s got a lot worse in recent years

Ouuuhhhhh

So glad I ignored the hype and stuck with usenet

In anglo-Christian culture ghosts were explained away as souls in purgatory, and this led to a Catholic/Protestant split wrt whether they existed or not, because Prots denied the existence of purgatory. They are still religiously problematic really — think about how often the ‘ghosts’ in American media turn out to be demons in order to keep things in line with scripture.

I personally believe there’s something much more terrifying implied in the English folk-tradition though: a spirit bound to the last physical vestiges of their time on earth, going through the motions as what little is left of their mind after the trauma of death unravels completely. They’re dead — it’s over. They can still do the things they did in life, but it doesn’t mean anything anymore.

Obviously there are very powerful resonances here for anyone who has witnessed a person sicken and die.

Ah ok. I guess they just hated us then lol

waoow (basedbasedbased)

When I worked in McDonald’s (UK) we weren’t allowed to accept tips — they had to be donated to the Ronald McDonald’s Children’s Charity so they could be used as a tax write off.

SAME. “Conceptual art” is what happens when art becomes a speculative asset.

The thing about horror though is that it’s a question of tone. Looads of horror movies play the booba card, to great effect. The silly horniness of Friday the 13th is a vital part of the recipe, for example. What doesn’t work is trying to grimdark at the same time. But these people demand both SERIOUS and BOOBA at all times

They don’t want to be reminded that the act of sex exists, and that people other than them are doing it all the time, just booba

I mean, what’s the alternative? He won the game by the rules they themselves set.

*Obvs the alternative is to stop being libs lol

The prison infirmary is going to have to open a new wing

It is weird hey because “JOBS JOBS JOBS” was the go-to neolib line not so long ago. It’s not just in the US btw — it’s the same across the West. I think they know they can’t keep promising the same things without delivering, but are running out of things to promise.

Very very few people think Die Hard isn’t a Christmas movie; far far too many people think it an interesting observation to point out that it is