Kid went to a classmate's birthday party today. She's complained for months about a boy in her class who apparently tries to annoy her on purpose. Well at the party I watch this kid like a hawk and (I bet you can see where this is going) that boy has the most obvious crush on her
It's so funny that a goth highschooler on r/ShermanPosting managed to make so many people mad. Like...her other reddit posts are about the cool pants she found at Hot Topic (literally). Just 10/10 stuff.
somone on the vibecamp forum asked:
"I have a raging crush on my boss who is married and I’m EXHAUSTED by this and want it to end. How to get over a crush?"
I enjoyed giving an answer and here it is:
Unfortunately she already accepted a marriage proposal from another boy in her class last year. He changed schools and they haven't seen each other in almost a year but she still occasionally mentions it offhandedly like "when I grow up and marry Brixton*"
*(not his real name)
"32 is really cold and 86 is really hot" is the most English-coded opinion I've ever seen.
"Oi a bit of a hot one innit guvnah" i say in regular T-shirt and shorts weather
Fun fact from someone who actually grew up poor: things like rage-quitting and general insubordination over minor (sometimes completely made-up) slights from bosses is actually a hallmark of blue-collar life!
Travis Kelce is such a good football player because he combines the best genetic attributes of his white parents (blue-collar work ethic, route-running) and the Wuhanese mRNA in the COVID vaccine (cleverness, inscrutability, misdirection)
SO THE TIKTOKER WHO SAID SHE FELT FEMINISM LEAVE HER BODY ON A DATE WHEN THE GUY PAID HAS A DEADBEAT DAD WHO QUIT HIS JOB TO BECOME A BREAKDANCER BUT HES ALSO A CRAZY CRYPTO/ELON/TRUMP STAN AND FOUNDED THE DARTMOUTH REVIEW AND IS COLLEGE BUDDIES WITH DINESH DSOUZA AND LAURA INGRA
@crispfallday
Say nothing. She already stands up for herself and tells him to fuck off (not in those precise words) when he's being obnoxious, but seems fine playing with him otherwise. If she was less assertive I'd teach her how to do the former.
In order -
1) wright brothers did not publicize the 1904 flight at the time and waited four more years until 1908 when they unveiled a plane that thrilled audiences and won military contracts from multiple nations
I know a guy who started dating a goat farmer in rural Ohio and then like 6 months into dating he found out she was living off a big trust fund and her great grandfather was listed in Wikipedia as a "shipping magnate"
several guys moved in next door, students I guess. ive gotten two confused doordash drivers for them in the last week, and their trashcan was completely overflowing with outback steakhouse bags. i don't think they cook. i am feeling such a strange motherly urge to feed these boys
I have a long memory. If you’re fighting Trump and his endorsed candidates politically today, don’t ask for my help in a year with your legislation or your pet projects.
I think people are misunderstanding why this charitable strategy has no effect. It's not bc these people are destined to live lives of high debt. It's because when these charities purchase the *cheapest* debt hoping to maximize their impact they're actually doing the opposite.
Economists see inspiring John Oliver segment on debt relief, conduct a randomized trial to forgive $169 million in medical debt, find this has no effect on quality of life or future financial distress at all.
Pediatric cancer used to be a death sentence and now it isn't.
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (the most common childhood cancer) used to have a median survival time of six months. Now it's a remission rate of 98%, with 85%+ and climbing expected to have it never come back.
The dumbest thing about the University responses to these protests is that they could just wait a lot of them out for like...a week or two because then the semester ends and all the students leave
It continues to be incredibly funny that Starbucks - an operation with zero connection to Israel (they haven't had stores there in literal decades) - gets this treatment simply because there are a lot of locations so they're an easy protest target.
Biden should say that if 5 or more justices say he's above the law he will send all the justices straight to gitmo. A fun game theory exercise for them to work through!
I sort of get "I'm not going to vote for Biden because of Gaza". It's a "don't take my vote for granted" thing. Sort of get it. But it's 100% true that Trump would tangibly be the very worst US President for Palestinian welfare, no? Just based on his existing track record?
They had a choice between using two candles in the shape of an 8 and a 1 on a normal sized cake, or an inferno of 81 separate candles covering the entire surface of a tiny cake, and the PR wizards at the White House decided on this:
This is so funny because every comment is an extremely mad teenage Redditor calling the dad an asshole when in reality this kid needs to just listen to his dad and suffer through a few hours of boredom in exchange for him *paying for a trip to The Bahamas*.
@yourfriendmell
This perception will most likely result in "what am I doing, this is a horrible idea". Which I mostly agree with. But OP or even the part of OP that has the crush has to see that for themselves. It's not up to me to say "don't do it".
3) very famously, Edison did not invent the lightbulb but instead made it *commercially viable*. His first demonstrations lasted tens of hours but what he eventually brought to market lasted up to 1000+ hours.
The Stanford grad student calling for Biden's assassination has a Twitter account and if you check its history before 10/7 he tweeted exclusively about two topics - abortion and the LGBT agenda (against both).
2) turings work was secret from the public but the British bombe was cracking kriegsmarine codes for the first time in the war basically as soon as it was built
Just gonna keep a running list of RFK Jr beliefs:
* AIDS denialism
* Pesticides in the water are making kids transgender/gay
* Fluoridated water lowers IQ
* 5G is a Bill Gates surveillance conspiracy
* Vaccines cause peanut allergies & autism
* Prozac is causing school shootings
4) there are a lot of people in the background of the photo of Alexander Graham Bell using the early telephone because everyone pretty much immediately loved it. Queen Victoria of England, the Emperor of Brazil, and Lord Kelvin were some of its earliest fans.
You're basically paying the lenders to tell you who has finances so bad that they've been totally written off and then studying them to confirm that their finances are bad.
The key is that Tony Stark is one of the only main characters who is ever actually AFRAID of things. Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Vision, Dr Strange, Captain Marvel, even characters without powers like Falcon and Black Widow...never actually afraid.
Lol Strongsuit has deleted their pricing page after people noted that this was a service charging $600/mo for a virtual personal assistant. (Second pic from Wayback Machine)
Hi, I’m Lindsey. A bit about me:
- Ohio mother of 4
- I employ a team of 15 as a start-up founder & CEO of Strongsuit
- drive a used Honda Odessey
- husband works in manufacturing
- The financial future of my company, team and family are at risk w/ the collapse of SVB (1/23)
Yikes unsharing now...I thought his "Letter to America" laying out a justification for terrorism to undermine the global domination of Zionism was insightful, I didn't realize he married an 18 year old when he was in his 40s
PS on the telephone - within two years of its patenting, William Orton, the President of Western Union, told friends if he could get the patent for $25M ($800M+ in today's dollars) he'd consider it a bargain.
Why did he do it?
Four major news outlets have almost the exact same headline for the self-immolation of 25-year old Aaron Bushnell. Not one of them mentions the words “Gaza” or “genocide,” the reason for Aaron’s protest, or the word “Palestine,” his last words spoken.
The cheapest debt is, of course, the debt that's the least likely to ever be paid off. If you can purchase a loan of $1 for $0.01, it means the lender already believes pretty strongly that it's never gonna be paid off.
So I know a lot of people are ignorant of the history here - a refresher. This interview was given seven days before the US led a UN invasion of Haiti to restore Aristide. Biden opposed this use of US troops.
Joe Biden in 1994: "If Haiti—a God-awful thing to say—if Haiti just quietly sunk into the Caribbean or rose up 300 feet, it wouldn't matter a whole lot to our interests."
Honestly the most unlikeable thing about my husband is that sometimes he's just like "hm I've gained 15 pounds in the past two years, I should probably diet" and a month later he's like "I successfully lost the weight"
Minnesota’s humble low-tier low-IQ striver land-grant university stacked up against the premier educational institution in all of France, established in the year 1257
We call New York City the Port-Au-Prince of America. We feel the pain our Haitian neighbors feel as the situation grows dire.
To the people of Haiti and our own Haitian community here in New York City, know that we stand with you today and always.
"Reconciliation Monument" is a name that was made up in 2023 for the Confederate Memorial at Arlington by butthurt Confederate sympathizers. You literally can't find a single reference to it ever being called that from before 2023 on the entire internet.
This is a Lithuanian dress company with 321K instagram followers that denominates their prices in Euros, I think they're gonna be ok with pissing off 1000 extremely online American snowflakes
One of my favorite dress shops- a modest old fashioned linen company- featured a man modeling their dresses. They’re down 1,000 followers and the comments are a dumpster fire for them. I truly do not understand what they expected. Who do they think their audience is?
Bernie: the sky is blue
Newsmax: the sky is blue
Biden: the sky is blue
Trump: the sky is the most beautiful blue we've ever seen, believe me
CNN: the sky is blue
Glenn Greenwald: one more example of how the CIA doesn't let anyone contradict the blue sky Consensus.
@katiedimartin
It's very much of its time; part of the reason it's a classic is bc it codifies what was state of the art at the time. Today, it's just obvious. Things like "spies are important" and "don't wait for fortune tellers to tell you when to attack" were not common sense 2000 years ago!
Ukraine ended its constitutional neutrality in response to a Russian invasion in 2014. It was in the news and everything. I know you know this bc you wrote this in September 2014.
@Bhess
I judge by their actions. Yes, when Ukraine was constitutionally neutral, Russia never attacked them. Does that mean relations were always warm. No. Did Russia use coercive diplomacy? Sure did.
Hamas has claimed responsibility for a shooting at a Jerusalem bus stop that left at least three people dead and 16 others injured Thursday morning.
Read more:
CNN: there was an earthquake
Fox: there was an earthquake
NYT: there was an earthquake
WSJ: there was an earthquake
Glenn Greenwald: yet another example of the global elite uniparty manufacturing consensus
Chomsky explains why neither Israel nor any other state has a "right to exist" and it's perfectly reasonable for Palestinians to refuse to recognize such a right
The basic dynamic of The Culture War is that conservatives attacking liberals is almost always considered Punching Up and liberals attacking conservatives is almost always considered Punching Down
it’s fascinating how normalized right wing media / politicians talking about how crappy American cities is…
but everyone would lose their minds if Chris Hayes posted a video of run-down trailer parks captioned “good morning from rural Arkansas”
@JonahDispatch
This could all have been avoided if 10 more Senators had the courage to convict him of the insurrection charge in the second impeachment.
5yo girl in Montessori: how do you spell daughter I am writing a story about this blue cone who is my daughter and also a unicorn
3yo boy in Montessori: I put these large beads on a string and then started hitting my friends with it like a medieval flail
They're incredibly quiet which is a real surprise. dunno if they're renting or what but I would like them to stick around. Maybe will make a big pot of chicken soup this weekend when it gets cooler.
One of the red flags on Crowder's video that people have missed is that when his wife says she'll call a friend to drive her, Crowder asks "is that a threat?" and tells her to get an Uber. The reason is bc an Uber driver won't notice her husband is not letting her drive the car.
An NPR reporter was fired over his "offensive" stand-up comedy routines. An arbitrator said, actually, the jokes are funny, and ordered him to be reinstated.
A cautionary tale about the boundaries of remote work (and the jokes are pretty good too):