I’ve heard “what if there’s an emergency or fire,” and I feel like the answer is “take three seconds to put on pants.”

So funny enough, as an American, I have the majority of that while being in the military. We even currently have three months of maternity and paternity leave, which can be used as the member sees fit through the first year after birth.

All except the privacy laws and employee protection laws, though it can often be exceptionally difficult to fire people for reasons that don’t involve the politics of the people in charge. And even then, lawsuits usually get those people backpay.

I’d be advocating for the US Coast Guard with this right now, but the current administration is shifting our focus from being a life-saving/preserving service to another border control agency, so… not a great time to be joining if it’s for moral reasons. sigh

I like how it says “defensive and will bite if provoked,” and apparently, according to this thread, opening their cage is sufficient provocation.

What is this supposed to mean? Is the implication that for the past ten thousand years, everyone should have lived in constant misery, thinking of nothing but the suffering of innocents, without a moment to spare for joy or silliness?

Or are you trying to twist their words to suggest that the suffering of innocents now isn’t important because it’s been happening for 10k years? Because that was clearly not the message being made. The closest I could imagine is they may be pointing out that some treat pointing out innocents suffering as a fad, where people all of a sudden care and can’t believe that anyone else can do or care about anything else (and will burn out and stop caring once the fad is done, whether the issue has been resolved or not).

Either way, if you spend your whole time doomscrolling and never leave yourself a space for moth memes (or whatever), you will be no help to anyone and live in impotent misery.

Basically, moth memes are self care.

My method is “live in Alaska.”

I was going to say VHS Michael Jackson Thriller and Making Of Thriller.

Her and Olivia Rodrigo are my go-to for teaching my daughter “how not to be.”

I had never heard it before, but it sounds like a song that would play on some straight-to-dvd knockoff of a Disney movie with janky 3d animation, with the director’s daughter playing and singing the lead role.

Yeah, I still can’t hear “Cheek to Cheek” without getting residually wrecked.

What Dreams May Come is incredible in so many ways. It’s incredibly beautiful, incredibly sad, and just hits everything so perfectly. It just hits on so many emotional points and uses in such artistry to convey it. I love it so much.

Great work. Way to stick your neck out.

(Accidentally dropped the comment on the main post instead of this comment, oops)

deleted by creator

I was just thinking how much I hate that song. Not enough to automatically put it on the bottom, but it’s close.

I feel the same about “Daughters” by John Mayer. That song sounds like my will to live gently sapping away.

I didn’t have a solid answer to the question until I read this. Absolutely gets the worst response from me.

First two chords and I’m like “nooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”

I bet kids couldn’t pass a cognitive test designed for cephalopods.

I’m usually honest but brief.

“Hey, how are you?”

“Tired. You?”

Or:

“Hey, how’s it going?”

“Ha ha. Ha… ha. grimace It’s going. You?”

“Yeah, about the same.”

Wait, wait…

So war in Iran… helps Ukraine. But it also supports Israel. This is a little too complicated, I want bad guys and good (or at least less bad/powerful guys), not one bad guy causing problems for another bad guy which causes problems for another bad guy.

Hey, Israel! If you want to just bomb the shit out of weapons manufacturing facilities in Iran and quit your shit in Gaza, I will support you and my government tossing money at you for that purpose.

I think a simple matter that if you roll around on the ground “in pain,” you get removed for medical attention and for the rest of the game for monitoring. If you’re injured, you’re injuried. If you’re being a whiny baby, you don’t deserve to be in the game. If you’re faking, you deserve to be ejected. But in all cases it comes to the same conclusion.

Oh, and this doesn’t automatically mean a foul. It’s not like a person can’t get hurt when no foul occurs. I hurt myself stepping out of bed in the morning.

Our combination microwave/air fryer/oven has this cool function where after the timer hits 0 but before it beeps, it keeps turning until it is back in the original position (so if you have, for example, a coffee cup in there, the handle will face the same direction as it did when put in. That buffer to pull it out without beeping was kind of amazing.