I grew up when you’d read the same shampoo bottle 10 times every time you took a shit, hoping you’d find some new detail you once missed.
Tell me your family didn’t have a subscription to National Geographic without telling me your family didn’t have a subscription to National Geographic.
Slackers used it, but that story is an urban legend that goes back long before that. When I was a little kid in 80s my dad told me that exact story about a guy who supposedly did that at his college, and he went to college in the 60s.
Don’t worry they’ve included a free year of credit monitoring from a company they recommend.
It’ll be Experian, and you’ll get ten times as many emails trying to get you to sign up for some credit card than anything related to your credit status.
Using Shoe Goo to hold a patch in jeans. It’s orders of magnitude better than those crappy iron-in patches that usually fall off after a couple times through the wash. It lasts longer than needle and thread because it gets into the weave, stabilizes and reinforces the weakened denim around the hole/tear.
Shoe Goo is great for fixing lots of stuff. It’s basically liquid duct tape. Of all the things I’ve attempted to fix with Shoe Goo, the only ones that failed were, ironically, shoes.
Big difference between having cops, and having cops that you can trust to protect you.
Also, even if for argument’s sake we assume that the police will act in your best interest when they show up, not everyone lives in a large city where you’re never more than five minutes away from a cop. The US is huge, and the vast majority of it is rural and isolated. If you live in one of those places help from police might be hours away rather than minutes. You’re on your own until they show up. If they show up at all.
Man, it’s been a heck of a year for Tren De Aragua. Just a few months ago they were completely unknown, then a single slum lord in Aurora Colorado uses them as a scapegoat for why his tenants have to live in filth and squalor, and they’ve managed to take that clout and spin their organization up into an Escobar-level international drug cartel in an implausibly short amount of time.
Say what you want about TDA, but you’ve got to admire the hustle.
/sarcasm
As someone who worked nights for a long time, there is a crazy amount of people who don’t have the mental capacity to conceive that a different work/sleep schedule is possible. The number of people who, upon finding out I worked 11pm to 7am, genuinely assumed that I still woke up at “normal” time in the morning, and just sat around watching TV all day until it was time to go to work again was pretty astonishing.
Almost certainly fly as in birds came first. Trousers with a fly are a pretty recent fashion development, like within the last 200 years or so, whereas people have been watching birds since before the invention of language.
Ok. 3-2-1, let’s jam!
Pulling that stupid ahegao face. I don’t know who that’s for, but it’s definitely not me.
It depends on what the puller is intended for. Tie rod end/pitman arm pullers and u-joint pullers often have fixed jaws. OP didn’t include anything in their picture to indicate size, but the tool in their picture looks almost exactly like an old tie rod puller my dad had from the 70s or 80s.
No, Walmart is kind of an outlier by having a greeter. In other places that have a “greeter” it’s usually an extra layer of security/theft prevention, or it’s a place like Costco where you need a membership to shop there. That said, it’s basically standard for an employee to seek you out and ask if you would like help finding anything fairly soon after you walk in the store. It’s generally seen as good customer service, and in larger stores it’s not uncommon to be approached by several employees asking if you’d like help finding what you’re looking for over the course of your time in the store.
American customer service culture tends to be a little extra. There’s a premium on going the extra mile that’s tied into America’s self-image of the “land of opportunity,” and the hustle culture that goes with that. But when that’s what you’re accustomed to dealing with, the customer service cultures of other countries can be kind of jarring. I know from my own travels through Europe that shopping in some countries can range from feeling cold and indifferent, to feeling actively hostile.
That said, most Americans wouldn’t think of complaining to your manager about it. It’s only a specific kind of over-entitled asshole that does that. Sounds like you had a real karen on your hands.
On the plus side, considering the average lifespan of Samsung appliances, you probably won’t have to put up with it for very long.
Oh, it “has ties” to Tren De Aragua? Given Trump’s track record I have to assume that means they accidentally merc’d a random fishing boat from Guyana and are saying it was a Venezuelan drug boat so they can be like, “Um, it’s actually good that we murdered those people, actually.”
It’s supposed to blow through the restrictions of the Posse Comitatus Act and normalize military violence against US citizens; or against anyone who disagrees with, or tries to resist, the Trump administration.
Ibuprofen.
Or did you think people were just like, “Well, my knees were kinda sore going up the stairs today. Guess I’ll go slash my wrists?”
South Park didn’t invent Casa Bonita. It’s been around since the 1970s. It’s basically impossible to overstate how much people who grew up in Denver love that place, even in spite of how famously terrible the food is.
In all fairness, you don’t have to spend very long working in retail to feel like sex work not only probably pays much better, but is also probably a lot less degrading.
I’ve seen that message a bunch of times, but only when I’ve had a VPN running.
No. Not really. They’re different things. Enshittification is a term coined by Cory Doctorow to describe how previously good tech companies break their own platforms to maximize short-term profits. The AI bubble is just a regular investment bubble where people are throwing too much money at a product that can’t deliver on its own hype.
A good example of enshittification is why Google search sucks now. A while back they noticed that the number of search queries was hitting a plateau. It hit a plateau because Google controlled over 90% of the search market, there are a finite number of humans on Earth, and there’s a limit to how many things a person needs to google in a day. But Google is a publicly traded corporation and line needs to go up. So what Google did was to make their search engine worse at searching so that people would have to perform multiple searches to find what they’re looking for. More searches = more ads delivered. More ads delivered = line go up. Their flagship product doesn’t do the only thing it’s supposed to do now, but the shareholders got a bigger return on their investment that quarter.
The AI bubble is the tech industry promising a fantastic blowjob machine, and selling investors on the vision of a future of unlimited bespoke orgasms where you’ll never have to foot the bill for taking a woman on a date, or pay a prostitute, ever again. Everybody started throwing money at that because, duh, it’s a magic blowjob machine. But now that people are using it they’re finding out that, yeah, sometimes it sucks your dick, but a lot of the time it just punches you in the balls, or it hallucinates that the definition of “blowjob” is anal penetration with a leaf blower. And sometimes it randomly turns into a nine-legged spidergoat that vomits acid on your crotch, and nobody really knows why. Also, it seems to be burning through a crazy amount of energy and water just to punch me in the balls. So now people are getting less and less enthusiastic about throwing money at it. And when the market can no longer buy into the hype because of all the testicle punching, the big investors will dump their holdings while they can still do so at a profit, and the bubble will pop.