For every example like this there are a million examples of poor people staying poor.

Social mobility is much less than we like to pretend it is.

Pretty sure the people insisting on using Japanese names on English websites designed for English-speaking audiences are the ones gatekeeping.

Both the bread and the circuses used to be free.

Now people pay out the nose for all of it, and think it's a great time.

It speaks to everyone. "I'm messed up because I'm smarter than other people" is a seductive fantasy.

The UK using the lion is the funniest shit to me. It just seems like such a sad cope.

You know what uses three times the amount of water per acre? Corn. And almonds use about ten times more water than corn.

And we get food out of that input, unlike a golf course where you get nothing of value.

And people have only just started caring about lawns, that use two orders of magnitude more water, fertilizer, and land than golf courses.

Have you seen a golf course before? They're literally lawns.

a 250k fine

Oh wow, that's like a whole minute worth of revenue for them

Too bad this isn't tech support and it's the landlords job to show up and troubleshoot it himself. The tenant bears no responsibility here besides informing the landlord there is a problem.

Must be something that makes you look bad lol

Otherwise you'd just say it. You owe them nothing and they've broken the fuckin law and you're protecting them? What do they have on you?

That's 150 years away, nobody's going to do shit until 2181, and then the whole world will freak out saying "why hasn't anyone done anything yet!?"

References: climate change, housing collapse in Western countries.

What about gear durability? I hate that shit even more than I hate encumbrance.

Well first you take a picture of lightning hitting a building. Then you put it next to a picture of an exploded toilet.