As Miss Manners would say, an invitation is not a summons. You are entitled to tell your friends “sorry I can’t make it, have a great time” and live with the fomo. If you are friends with reasonable people whom you make some effort to spend time with, it will be fine
I was planning to see you can see anything but honestly the discussion of the movie on here has exhausted my desire to think about Elizabeth Holmes
I’m kinda glad that everyone who was too young to have meaningful memories of Obama era politics gets to experience how insane republicans are about him for a moment
I get that people who are obsessed with Goodreads dickmeasuring are annoying, but literally nobody honestly logging 100 books a year on Goodreads is doing it just to brag
not calling it Hucklerobby was election interference cause who the fuck is Dennis
Nonsensical figurative language remains the most reliable tell of AI writing
One thing that's been really bugging me lately about AI writing, not because it's AI but just because it's bad writing, is the negation of stuff that nobody was saying or ever really would say.
"Every ingredient has a job on a steam table."
On the surface, this seems like an informative statement, but it's completely immaterial. Every ingredient in something always has a job. Otherwise why would it be there? The whole construction is a waste of your attention.
if you really want to force yourself to read, draw a bath, make a drink, and take only the book and the drink in with you. Then you can’t look at your phone and don’t want to go get ityour phone because you’re in the bath and if you get out, you’ll be cold and wet
I know you ghouls dgaf about trans people, but this language also benefits cis girls, who are prematurely adultified by being lumped in with “women”
"People" do not menstruate. "People" do not have ovaries. "People" do not get pregnant.
Women do. To suggest otherwise is absurd.
Health boards and public bodies must drop this woke nonsense and focus on the day job
southwalesargus.co.uk/news/2…
a lot of people On Here underestimate how many relatively mild but chronic conditions will have doctors telling you "take otc painkillers as needed" because the alternatives are more expensive and riskier
hating the Narnia trailer not because of trad concerns about the sanctity of Lewis, but because Stairway to Heaven sucks
These tools are always flawed in that the perfect day depends on what time of year it is. 70 degrees in January sucks actually
I made a tool where you can see where in the world has your favorite weather most often (it's the California coast).
You can also pick a given day of the year (like today, October 11), and see where on earth is most likely to have it.
weather.theojaffee.net



















