I wonder what set off the wearing caps too high. It made kids at my school look like they had enormous heads

“It” and also probably a few anti Asian slurs

Imagining this scenario triggered my anxiety

I think some people wanted “dronies” to be this, but personally I find the counter insult thing a bit weak.

Oof, it does remind me to update my medications on my license :(

shakes fist in u-dub

I miss mine. Good battery life. Big hard disk. Chugged a bit on google docs with large documents. Hot processor. Liero

Gotta keep the tap of cheap labour flowing (by preventing sex education, contraceptives, and abortion)

It sounds like what happens in a manual if you bottom out your RPMs in gear. Maybe your car isn’t shifting down or disconnecting the gear properly, especially if it happened while stopped.

Cutting down on alcohol. Due to Australian tax, it’s actually pretty expensive (except cheap wine). Beers at lunch add up.

Pirating media

Buying a large set of 500 mL plastic takeaway boxes with lids (Chinese takeout boxes). They’re more useful than just poverty Tupperware, you can use them for storing lots of things, as small mixing bowls, etc.

Buying spices in bulk. There’s a store here where you bring your own jars and stuff, all the cumin is loose and you just pay for product weight (which is way cheaper than mainstream supermarkets).

Asian grocers. Everything is generally cheaper, and they sell these large jars of minced garlic with big chunks of garlic (rather than the puree from woolworths).

Generally, the more interesting yet low effort you can make your cooking, the less you’ll feel the need to eat out or splurge on “reward” meals. Asian food can be very good for that (east asian, south asian, middle east), and you’ll impress your white friends.

Canned and frozen versions of vegetables, instead of fresh. If you’re making a stew or curry, it doesn’t really matter. Also, frozen broccoli is more floret (the tree bits you pretend to be a dinosaur at) by weight.

Just steal stuff. Do it irregularly, and always be a polite smiling face to service staff. Bring your own bags and hide your stolen produce under the bags. Leave the bags in the trolley and fill up stuff you buy on top of them.

Service what debts you can.

Really, the biggest costs tend to be emergency vehicle servicing, hospitalisations, and rent. Any way to reduce those (sharehousing, having friends that can do those sorts of work, spreading the work out amongst the community) will go way further than a lot of things I’ve just listed. Community is hard to find though

I used to host bad movie nights, and of them Birdemic was probably the least competent thing that arrived to our screen. It did have a plot. And, um…

Compared to the other classic bad movies, it was the worst.

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats was surprisingly arthouse given the ridiculous premise

I feel like everything is a green flag until a red flag pops up. Like how an open road is functionally a permission to cintinue driving.

There are things where I get excited about a person, but even then red flags are more important. “Never admits to wrongdoing” and “Thinks kicking down a door and screaming at your partner is an appropriate response to leaving a mug in the wrong cupboard” is going to flatly be more important in a relationship than “does activism” or “is house trained”.

That said, I don’t like arguing all the time and do organising stuff irl, so it would be nice to agree politically on a bunch of things. Responds to texts/messages and seems excited to build conversation with me.

It is very dry here :( I didn’t hear about last week’s one until I mentioned this one to someone in the room.

Another one in a week!

A Lagrange point or whatever?

Dang, it sucks that death somehow causes misunderstandings of empiricism

When we do these wealth calculations, do we include debt? I would say the majority of my friends have negative wealth (tbf, a self selecting group of overeducated underemployed people)

This is a … thing for him to say, but also everyone in this thread read both Losurdo’s Liberalism: A Counter-History and Kruze’s One Nation Under God

I remember I had a thought that maybe they feel the need to claim so because the line that they were going into Iraq to establish democracy created lots of democracy fans (however misinformed about the US’s goal they were) that would otherwise be part of the republican base.

It’s probably just because their policies are actually deeply unpopular and they need a fig leaf to cover for the fact they’re pursuing legal-but-undemocratic means to achieve their ends.

Ohk