And being fed by humans is amazing.

We laugh at this, but the older generations still remember when the mortgage interest was this high. I don’t know where you guys are from, but there is an old news reel from the 1970s here in Ireland when young families at the time complained of “high” house prices of up to 72,000 pounds, with mortgage interest of 14%. The folks on social media had their jaws dropped on learning of how high the interest rate was, but how cheap the overall property value was back then. Now how much are those said houses at the moment? They are now worth between €690,000 to €1.5 million. High valuation but the interest rate is down in proportion. In any case, only few could afford to buy houses these days due to inflation and wages haven’t kept up with it.

WHAT’S IN THE AIR FRYER?!

Reactance is weird. When I was in school my parents telling me to study actually puts me off from studying. But now I am a working adult, I had to let being bossed around by peers from another team that I support so that I don’t get into trouble. Good thing I got a promotion so I don’t have to deal with them eejits.

I really have no sympathy for people who get screwed over again and again by the same person and don’t seem to understand why.

It’s called coping. They can’t admit to themselves that they’ve been wrong.

That, and pizza, when I was growing up in my home country, is kind of seen as a luxury thing. We only eat pizza on special occasions. Now as a grown up, I can afford to be obsessed with pizza.

I have a 50mm lens that came with the camera itself. However, it’s not great for long distance shot. I need better and wider lens for that purpose.

I really need to buy a new lens for my camera. This meme explains it all for anyone who would like to ask me why I haven’t bought one yet.

According to the latest quarterly earnings, there has been increase in user engagement. However, I also read somewhere that 15% of engagements are from bots. My suspicion is that, in spite of the tiny minuscule amount of fake users posing as genuine, these bots create inflammatory comments to trigger and drive real users into responding more and thereby inflate user engagement and algorithms. These small amount of bots create a snowball effect of increasing user participation. So, in essence, the level of user engagement is fake and inflated.

Spez knows what he’s doing. He is talking to the tech bros to get ideas on how to amass power and now he’s one of them billionaires.

Unfortunately, carbon capture is useless if we’re still burning fossil fuels for power, heat, and transport.

Carbon capture is actively harmful when used as an excuse to build new fossil fuel power plants.

Yeah, it’s a blank check to just produce more CO2.

Send them this. I’m sure they will get it.

I wasn’t aware about this with regards to mobile phone tbf. I know you are spied upon on your phone camera, but mapping the house with the phone? Do you mean like Dark Knight stuff?

When I was growing up, my mom loves using the phrase which would roughly translates to “while you are still going forward, I’m turning back”, which is a thought terminating cliché to mean do as she says because she has experience. She doesn’t say it as much as she used to because she regrets having been a strict parent. But if she pulls that line again, I have a comeback ready to tell her “you’ve turned back, but the environment you grew up in changed”.

Someone used the monkey’s paw to wish politics not to be boring.

Based

What I just do is if I’m not feeling it or feeling it, I will just do whichever is the strongest.

Right…who used the monkey’s paw to wish that politics should not be boring anymore?

Languages have their own quirks and characters, representative of the people’s cultural values and history, and express ideas not even present in other cultures. As many languages have to be preserved as possible for these reasons.

“Memes are mightier than Smith and Wesson.”

Because the right thinks they will benefit from trickle down.