The trick I’ve found over years of people-Ing as the person working is to always end with a statement that can either be turned back with ”you too!” without being awkward, or warrants something other than an autopilot response.

Thanks for stopping in, have a great night

Enjoy your meal and if you need anything just let me/us know

Don’t forget to tell your friends about us, and have a great day

Etc.

That way it’s totally fine for them to autopilot the pleasantries and they won’t feel cringey after.

Definitely mine too. It doesn’t even run faster than 1x… which is sucky slow but my own fault for having too many livestock animals to support my ~60 pawns… (peaceful gets very out of control if you let it) but now I have an outpost mod and as soon as all my kids are adults, most of them are gone.

I lived through a hurricane down in Texas years back, and the poverty “pick up basic supplied” lines were really dehumanizing.

No shade, no real concern for humans, just passing out goods based on queue and hole with someone made it to the queue

And of course performed by cops… you know, paragons of society………………………

I’ve had mine done for… god decades now and I’ve never had that thought even as an intrusion…

But now I will, damnit…

Definitely the pissed one. It costs next to nothing to farm any particular platform via bots, so why not go for anything that might have niche demographics? Destabalizing leftist groups seems to be sort of a goal of certain other groups these days so…

It only takes one.

Just say no.

I think that’s the one inverted color pic that is still widely recognizable by basically everyone, while not being someone particularly famous in a widely applicable way (Einstein and Marilyn Monroe are the only other two I can think of with iconic enough single-frame images to be able to be likewise recognized, but I’m open to other examples!)

Yeah because the economy is totally great right now and finding work that pays the bills is super easy!

— things said by people who are out of touch

Even when the economy was good, it took months to find new employment if you have to have any sort of standard (like minimum income above the minimum wage threshold). Most people right now can’t afford to be out of work for months.

Maybe your area was good, maybe your skill set is in demand, maybe you have zero standards or requirements to support your family, whatever it is, your experience is not at all the standard, and it’s much more likely you just have survivor bias. That’s when you say “it was easy for me, it should be easy for everyone!” While everyone else is struggling.

At least they don’t have to worry about sunburn because that can’t possibly be a comfortable or easy position to maintain for long periods of time…

Imagine a sunburned anal sphincter… shudder

One of the later red dwarf episodes has this. The ship gets upgraded to m-corp, which is pay-per-everything, and subscription-based, and as registered crew lister is the only one impacted. He can only see and hear things from m-corp.

Featured in the… super amazing movie Waterworld (1995)

I made some video game themed Xmas ornaments out of air dry clay as a gift… they turned out fine, but I didn’t realize the paint I used on them didn’t do a good enough job sealing them up. They should have been resin-dipped. In places the paint cracked, moisture got in, and over a couple years expanded the paper-based clay through the cracks so they look super creepy now. Very disappointing.

Mistakes are a great way to learn, though.

This misses the most important part.

Every other part of history is crammed just before the 1900s, as a big lump sum. Who cares how long ago the 1600s are, it’s basically the same as the 1900s, right?

Which is wild considering the spice trades of the… (according to the internet, prehistory through modernity, so that’s a thing…)

I have to assume that 1950s housewives were so thoroughly drugged up that they couldn’t tell the difference…

I know that they made everything in jello/aspic because gelatin was formerly a luxury, like sugar and basically any spices, so they went a bit batshit when they got cheap access…

No, but it also isn’t calorie-neutral, or calorie-reducing like fad diets claim…

Not a veggie in sight, so your whole digestive motility was based on alcoholic diarrhea. (Been there…)

So fashionable to shit yourself in public in white dresses.

I’d use people-finding platforms (not for dating; I don’t do that anymore) if this dude was the typical type of result.

But I’d end up with matches that can’t handle the fem version of this… I infodump ending with hypotheticals all the time. It’s compulsive, because I have no personality. I’d absolutely love to share that energy with someone who has the same.

I’ve learned to just shut the fuck up and mull it over on my own; NT folks typically don’t like autdhd obsessions, and that’s what I’m made of.

Not if this was during the stretch where masks were super hard to get and everyone had to figure something out for themselves…

I’m a fan of pineapple, red onion, and black olive. The black olives provide the salty kick you’d get from the meats.

It sounds weird, but it’s an absolute win.

I spent 172 hours retrying the final boss fight on ff8. I mistakenly saved just before the end boss with 2 phoenix downs, a handful or potions and ethers, and not much else. It took weeks to beat her alone.

I learned many things in those multiple weeks of doing basically the same thing over and over again, with minor tweaks to strategy… the first of which is always maintain a second save at least 3 hours prior to the current save. The second thing was never have an empty inventory even if you legit never bother using any of it. Don’t sell anything until you hit max stax.

And finally I learned that sometimes trying the same exact thing for the 20th time actually does work for reasons. And that was on like ps1 framework. A lot more stuff is a lot more random now.