And they pay for terrible health insurance and health care

Especially if he lives in a vacuum.

Can someone please translate EoP for me?

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It’s a fantastic book about comics and visual arts in general.

Sad to hear this news.

You’re not wrong!

My point was, I think they would both be pommes frites.

Balatro and Slay the Spire both have a lot of reply value. Very different games.

How to the French tell the difference between fried apples and fried potatoes?

Maybe context.

Not OP, but I’m OOTL - is the green service Who Loo?

They are in competition with Mastodon, and have a marketing budget.

Five years from now, those platforms will become enshittified as their budgets dry up. They will need to milk the users for revenue. Well see another surge in a few years, until they learn that Mastodon is actually better.

That’s Cameron’s story, of how he survived having a shitty dad and a shitty friend.

About 59 I think.

Once again Gen-X is ignored. It’s Gen-X hitting grandparenting age.

My two kids probably won’t be parents, and I’m ok with that. I want them to be happy more than I want to enjoy grandkids. Whatever they choose, I’ll be happy with.

I felt pressure from Boomer parents to have kids, and I didn’t want to do the same to my kids. That’s a hard nope.

Does beer come with that?

The random dumb people would still be bribed.

Bluesky seems to work better as an alternative.

Until they run out of VC money.

Then the enshittification happens, to pay the bills.

“My pets aren’t spoiled. They are compensated fairly for the services they provide.”

There’s always an xkcd for every forum thread topic.

A legal “Act of God” is a term of art in legal documents, though - usually found in a force majeure clause. I don’t think you need to have a God to have an “Act of God”.

It’s just a good portion of our legal code and its terms are derived from English law from several hundred years ago.