Also, fun fact, but there’s a sabotage field manual on cia.gov.

I live in an area that gets a ton of visitors and I often have to make sure people understand the pet names they’re hearing are for my yorkie (Things like ‘cutie bootie’ or ‘sugar booger’.)

Proof that God hates billionaires.

Fair points.

I’m not saying you’re wrong, just that unemployment means something very different in more extreme capitalist countries. :)

Oof.

Doesn’t Finland have UBI though? They’ve also basically solved homelessness.

Oh, to live in a country where THIS is the most pressing legislative priority.

I’m jealous.

Sorry to say, but no idea.

We used separate applications for seven years (Jabber for IM and Asana for ticket management), and for me, that’s what I’m stuck with using Teams for, at least until Microsoft drops AI into and it eats itself.

Agreed.

I like it here.

I just walked my dogs through a shopping district and stopped at a store that gives out puppy treats.

There were two siblings screaming and fighting. I felt bad for the parents, but relieved for myself.

I’m stuck with Teams in my job.

I fucking hate it.

Just like every time the pope takes a ride in the popemobile.

True, but if the shoe is ever on the other foot, I’d like someone to help me when I’m helpless.

10000000000% good boi

Oh yeah.

Let me eighty year-old parents borrow my car so they could drive for DoorDash a year ago with the stated intention that they’d save for their own.

Still waiting for that loan to end.

In a lot of ways.

My parents are 80 and still working (for DoorDash) because they parented so many, requiring them to spend, and never saved. This creates a massive burden on my siblings and I, and in fact, they’ve ‘borrowed’ my car for over a year to work. I can wake up on any random day and there’s a plumbing problem in their house or the A/C goes out, and suddenly, we have to find a few thousand bucks to fix it because they don’t have it.

I started my adult life $3,000 in debt, having let my mom use my credit card to pay for some tickets to Universal Studios on a vacation. She promised to repay it, but only made payments when debt collectors called, so the debt notched up for two years until I graduated and realized just how bad it was. (I am glad this happened while I was so young, though, because I became financially literate as a result.)

My siblings’ ages cross generational boundaries, so it’s hard for us to have healthy relationships being the products of very different times.

My mom and dad don’t have any organic friendships, because my dad had to work his entire life and has no time, and my mom is only happy when mothering someone. (And she has dozens of grandkids, so there’s still opportunities for that.)

I’ve had my heart broken enough times too, but at the end of the day, I’ve just found I enjoy my freedom more than I enjoy being with someone. It’s that simple.

I grew up in a big family so I did a lot of parenting without my consent and never had that romantic veneer about parenthood that some people do.

Being single and childless is the best decision I ever made in life. Good on her for never having to do anything she doesn’t want to do.

100%

Yes, but that is for good reason: sanitation.