Another fun fact is that Al Gore invented the internet in order to spread climate awareness, which is why there’s such a strong correlation between web growth and increase in ecological cocern.

Less wholesome is his other invention designed to monetize the internet: the AlGoreRithm

Damn I absolutely wanted to call BS on that “more than 100 years” bit, but you right. Svante Arrhenius, 1896. And then his theory got mostly confirmed in the 30’s, and now I’m more pissed off than when I thought we first started suspecting a link in the 60’s. The absolute fuck, humanity??

I think the concensus from experts is that the big corporations used inflation as an excuse to price gouge - as in, raising prices way more that necessary to account for the inflation. This was exemplefied in many of their earnings calls when they specifically called out that strategy as a contributing factor for their record profits.

So unfortunately yes, it can be both price gouging and inflation.

Makes me wonder who’s behind the camera handing those thoughts to him

Damned be my pervasive mother tongue! I want immersion! Immersion I say!!

Never been to Ireland so apologies if this is stupid and wrong and dumb - I was under the impression that a large amount of the seaside was mountainous / cliff faces? If someone learned to swim under those conditions I’d say they’d likely be adopted by Poseidon himself.

Apparently, being able to tell the difference between laundry detergent and fabric softener. Had multiple asian-native room mates in college that made that mistake. They were all pretty fluent so I don’t think it was a language barrier issue, but to be fair, Big Laundry doesn’t exactly make it easy to tell what’s what on first glance.

While generally also necessary in the US, I’ve heard of ways to get around that. Some banks accept P.O. boxes in leiu of a physical address, some will work with you personally to navigate your circumstances, etc. I’ve also heard of services that will give you a “digital” (i.e. fake) address to juke the verification, which I’d definitely not trust, if for no other reason than you’d never receive your debit card.

While all that is technically correct, combined it would still be wayyy cheaper than an actual house

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(pssst. Wrong place wrong time. That person needs support, not someone saying they don’t personally have issues)

Those poor, starving children

“Running a business is hard work, you wouldn’t believe the number of meetings-”

Oh yeah meetings where you and “experts” on maximizing profits talk about how many people you can get away with laying off this quarter and other meetings where you work out a deal to buy a competitor startup in order to immediately and intentionally run it into the fucking ground sounds really fucking essential to the world Allan

Lmao @ Catholics being equally represented. I wonder if that’s because the current pope is (by comparison, not defending the guy) relatively sane.

Republicans with their fucking “signals”. Remember that law DeSantis passed about illegal immigrants that the GOP thought would just “send a signal”, and suddenly half of Florida’s industries were suddenly without a workforce?

Jesus christ that took me a second to figure out what the title meant. I initially read it with “head” as a noun and I’m very glad that was wrong.

You’re asking for a very specific answer to something that doesn’t necessarily have a specific reason.

Obviously not everybody is going to agree on stuff, whether by mood or not agreeing with the info, or not liking the tone, or thinking a joke is bad, and that is way better than everybody having the same thoughts about what everybody says all the time. Obviously there are instances where it’s really a mark of a shit person to downvote (i.e. “I hope people having a hard time find happiness”) but anything else is no holds barred. We’re not a monolith.

Man I’ve been there. Once you see the positive mental health gains, though, you’ll wonder how you lasted 11 years haha.

I’m happy for you, and I hope it’s only up from here!

Haha, thank you friend. I’m probably just going to relegate myself to telling everyone who’ll listen to that Capitol One should be avoided though

YEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH