You read the word Yawn several times in a meme, guess what

Thats the second living president.

(Deadass I read the title literally and went looking for the second one, immediately locked eyes with Busty McPresident)

Sponsors maybe? Adding features because somebody influential wants them to be there. Either for money (like shovelware) or soft power (strengthening ongoing business partnerships)

I love DeArrow so much. Best addon I’ve ever donated to, very worth it

Because the ‘we’ in ‘we allow’ is also congress

As in, the desired results arent permanent. I’ll edit to rephrase.

Yet the big changes typically aren’t the cosmetic surgery, they’re the damage. Either literally, or an attempt to treat it.

They might remove some cheek fat, but even that is them trying to catch up: because degraded filler makes their face look puffy and their lips ill-defined.

The filler is spread put around their cells regardless. It is impossible to remove. As is any muscular damage from long-term paralysis.

And yes, agreed. Reconstructive plastic surgery has lower risk, but when it comes to soft tissue cosmetic surgery, the only winning move is not to play.

It’s largely incidental.

Soft-tissue cosmetic surgery doesn’t last. They’re foreign objects in the body, so over time your body tries to break them down. Lip filler slowly diffuses around the bottom of your face, for example. Botox paralysing muscles affects strength and elasticity.

So it’s a cursed treadmill. You can’t stop getting surgery once you start. A single surgery will look worse than your unaltered face if you only have one, so every few years you have to get it again.

But… all the old stuff is still in there. The muscle damage accumulates. The filler accumulates, and is impossible to remove. You might remove some of your own tissue to ‘reshape’ as it gets more advanced, but many just ‘top up’.

Either way, you are permanently altered. They don’t choose to look like this, they choose to make minor adjustments to look younger/hotter/etc that slowly turn them into this.

My ebike is Gusteau (Gusto), or Gus.

Ngl I suspect a smaller brand using sneaky bait and switch

I figured it’s an issue with hagglers that haggle for haggling sake, and not about the value of the item.

If I want to sell something on marketplace, I put the price up, because I know somebody will ask for a big discount for a quick sale. I’m happy to move this faded couch set for $100, then I’m listing it for $200… and selling it for $100 to a person who offers to pick it up, too.

It’s that kind of reasoning and makes haggling pointless imo, because sellers either don’t take your lowball or they knew you’d lowball and charged high to start with so they have room to negotiate.

But as that one JC Penny guy accidentally proved, people love the illusion of good deals more than they love good value.

I’m reminded of a story somebody shared on reddit years ago.

An arborist, working with his team. One of his crew had the chainsaw kick and come back and severely main him. He’s bleeding so fucking fast. They need to get him to hospital, and they can’t afford to wait for the ambulance to arrive.

The woman in front won’t let them past. She’s going slower and slower to make a point. They’re honking at her, but she lines up with another lane to box them in. That car slows down too.

The guy is fading fast.theyre using his shirt to staunch the blood, but it’s not enough. After several minutes, they finally have an opening they can take. They speed past her little car, throwing the bloodsoaked shirt out the window to slap wetly on her windshield.

They meet up with emergency services - first, a cop. The woman pulls over to talk to the cop about their reckless driving. While arguing, the ambulance arrives. The injured crew member, and the storyteller, are taken to hospital.

It’s too late. He dies.

…don’t fuck around man. You never know. It’s no worth it. Do the safe thing and make space or pull over. Safety over spite.

ESU is inherently bullshit. So they’re going to make security upgrades for the OS millions of people are using, but you only get them if you pay? Even though they’re committing dev time to make and deploy them, the SECURITY upgrades to the OS yhat millions have already paid for?

What a grift. Either you’re paying ESU and there’s no dev work (free moneyyy!) or it’s literally a ‘protection fee’ for dev work they’re doing anyway (nyeehhh nice PC ye got there, be a shame if we extorted you for it)

While thats also true, Im talking about reading comprehension, not Poe’s Law.

If you’re using "s, it indicates that it’s not something you’re actually saying. You’re quoting somebody else, including a hypothetical person that you’re satirising. It’s explicitly saying they’re not your real words.

That’s an issue of reading skill, and while we can certainly work to make writing more accessible for those that aren’t great at it, I don’t appreciate how people blame the writer for the treatment they receive for what is, at best, a mutual misunderstanding.

It’s gotten bad enough that I can say in the comment the person I am satirising, and again in a concluding statement. But without the ‘/s’, people still accuse me of being a monster for believing a heinous thing I deliberately used provocative language to describe.

If those "s were already in your comment, you shouldn’t have needed it :/ satire on the internet is getting harder to make I guess

That’s just the money their making itself. When it comes down to what are we subscribing for, it keeps being ads again. They keep deciding that subscriptions make money by removing ads.

Like, why not subscriptions that actually add something gainful? Subscribe to stream your games to any TV, subscribe to get dog food delivered to your house monthly, subscribe to Socks of the Month Club. Those things exist in other industries, but tech?? Nope, it’s just ads, or subscribe to less ads.

Are techbros so bland that they really can’t think of literally any fucking way to make money that isn’t just ‘ads’?

Thank you, I’m not American but MS has so many ‘features’ that have been destroying my sanity, I will look into this tool when I’m back at my desktop 👍

If you’re in the US,

Is it US specific, or do you just mean if you’re not in the EU?

If the people you thought you were close to have ghosted you and are supporting her instead, consider that she may not be honest about the reasons you are divorced and has convinced them she is the sole victim.

It sounds horrible, and one would hope a true friend would ask for your story first. But it’s pretty common to readily believe the women are the victims in unhealthy relationships, especially of men.

We dont want to judge, dismiss or blame victims, so we readily believe people when they claim to be one. This is especially true of women.

It absolutwly can be small talk.

Small talk is a low stakes way to build rapport without exchanging any information that is intimate, vulnerable, or confrontational.

Talking about the weather is boring small talk. I hate boring small talk very much, but small talk in general is important for building rapport with people you don’t know well enough to be vulnerable with.

Talking about pop culture, like [TV SHOW] or [LOCAL TEAM], are also small talk.