People have been known to cross the Florida Straight on makeshift rafts, I hear Cuba is very nice this time of year.

To be fair, we’re halfway through this decade and it’s been harder than 90’s, 00’s and 10’s combined.

Ok that one wins

You’re appealing to authority instead of presenting real arguments.

It was infested by Russian bots even before it was bought by a Russian bot

Adding a +1 to this, same situation. For the longest time, I had to keep a running totall in my head, down to the cent, of the few things I put in the supermarket cart to make sure I had money to pay for them.

Life has been kind, and gradually things got better and when it sunk in that I was OK was when I realized that at some point I had stopped counting the cents.

Nowadays I treasure my time and my wellbeing more than money - I won’t do something that takes away from that, even if pays more.

Clearly there’s people who won’t stop at a billion dollars, but for me, the freedom of adding whatever I want to my cart without having to think if I can afford it is all I need to live a happy life.

Never been to America, no idea where Alabama is, but it’s a well known fact that they… love family very much.

Yeah, especially stuff like “start/stop” or “on/off”, that universal language by now.

You must be several fruits short of a salad, it’s clearly it’s comparing bananas and apples.

Ah yes I got this. Bro over here in the kitchen checks notes cooking! Wait no, he’s cooked? Cooked what? And who’s going to do the dishes? People have no respect these days, back when I was a kid you wouldn…

Ok but where are the bananas

If you point Google Lens at it, will it translate it?

Alternatively, they may be complaining about the typo…

Hey fellow programmer! This is definitely a thing for me too, it’s uncanny how frequently some random tidbit about a piece of architecture that I’ve tinkered with as a hobby years ago becomes relevant, and I just blurt out to a colleague “oh, do this and that, and it should work”.

But on the other hand I have to pause for like 30 seconds up to a full minute before answering when is my kid’s birthday, just to make sure I’m not getting it wrong somehow. 😭

As in croissant?

I’m with you, I’m the one who read my wife’s car manual.

One of life’s pleasures, for me, is getting home with a shiny new thing and going over the manual and trying out the features, and of course it will work as described, and somehow that’s very satisfying.

I might be on the spectrum though, my experience is that people find that weird and nobody bothers to read manuals.

Good thing I checked where this was posted, because damn that’s got to be a real unpopular one…

Not sure I’d call them prudes, it’s just that anywhere that serves coffee - every coffee shop, restaurant, bakery, pub, etc - has a grinder and a “professional” (multiple taps) espresso machine, it’s just “standard” - I don’t think I’ve seen a coffee pot other than in niche American-styled dinners, or hotels for tourists. Asking for an Americano is a thing though, but what you get is an espresso in a mug. The “drip” variety usually tastes either very bland or quite burnt, and doesn’t punch the same way, so the common view is that it’s “watered down” coffee and not well regarded.

In your area, that may be true. Around here, and by experience in a good chunk of southern Europe, asking for a coffee will get you an espresso 100% of the time.

Asking for drip coffee will probably get you scorned and sent off, or if they’re nice they may offer to make you instant coffee if they have it.

Bold of you to assume printers can be “fixed”, and not that they just work, or don’t, exclusively on their own and that any troubleshooting, when it comes to printers, is just a glorified prayer.