What's the logic on the rainy day thing?

Excuse me. I have to go take care of something.

You're not overthinking it. The complexity of the logistics of getting lubricant in mass quantities to your sexual assault victims can't be overstated. I'm guessing they weren't pinching pennies so a convenient, disposable solution likely won the decision.

I hope I don't end up on a list for this comment.

Ever hear the term Satanic Panic?

Rewatching old Batman TAS and am surprised how many times I take the criminal's side. Batman there just reinforcing the capitalist patriarchy. Turns out he's not the hero we need.

Jesus fucking Christ. We're all so broken.

Get two if you can, especially if the first inspector was recommended by your realtor. An inspector who gets work from a real estate agent is going to have an incentive not to jeopardize the sale, lest they not get called for the next one.

On top of that little bit of misaligned motivation, of the three home inspections I've had none of them found things that ultimately ended up being problems. The most recent move I did the inspection myself, wrote up a little list with pictures, and got the seller to fix most of it right up.

The OP is a first time home buyer and I wish them luck! Home ownership takes work even with the the best kept home. I just hope they take heed and go into it eyes wide open and we'll informed as possible.

Got randomly screened once. Seemed normal until the next three people were also randomly selected. Two of those were attractive young women who now had to stand in a line with their arms out and get groped by a female TSA agent in the name of security. "Ah", I thought. "I was the smoke screen so it didn't look suspicious."

Can't prove it but that is definitely how it looked to me.

I've always wanted to contribute to an open source project but by the time I get done with the grind of the work day I don't have the mental energy to effectively work a second job competently.

IANAL, but my family lives comfortably on our income. I've had the opportunity to peek behind the curtain and get to know (professionally) people with seven figure incomes and eight figure net worths. The "contempt born of familiarity" resonates for me, intimately.

What surprised me and continues to haunt me is how trapped they are in the same system as the rest of us. They were keenly aware that not "playing the game" for even a moment would mean they're out of it. No single millionaire can change anything much more than you or I. The system would destroy them for trying. Even if an entire company of top executives were to collectively band together and try to make change the market would dissolve their wealth in a heartbeat.

And that is what keeps me up at night... there are no heroes, no saints, no saviors. Just a system put in place generations ago that is going to have to implode under its own weight, likely violently and at great human cost, for anything to get better.

I got one of these scam calls saying they were my bank and they saw suspicious activity on my account and just needed me to read back the numbers on the SMS message they were about to send me to confirm they reached the right person.

Um, no. That's not how that works. But I realized just about everyone in my less tech savvy family would have done it instantly. I called everyone I could think of and warned them never to do this but I have no idea if it really sank in.

The design is based on the false assumption that Google's page-ranking algorithm favors accurate results and not SEO-gamed garbage. Google Search has been broken for some time, and now the company is relying on those gamed and spam-filled results to feed its new AI model.

God I love this so much. Though I'd bet there will shortly be two Google search algorithms, one for us engines of consumption and one directly from 2016 only for the AI to feed from.

At thrice the energy consumption, of course.