The most painful part is when I go to garden centers and see it for sale.

“Buy it for life!”

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I’m playing whack a mole with my own ivy. Fuck the prior house owners for letting it get out of hand. I got all of it from the trees and the side of the house but it always grows back. I’m still finding sprouts from thick woody vines that have been there forever apparently. I tried removing it from the fence but realized very quickly that it’s the only thing holding it together. 😒

And fuck the English for bringing it over (we both know it was them, even their plants are colonizers).

Thanks, I think I did really well asking my spouse to save this from Facebook, send it to me, and then me posting it here.

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You’re really on a roll with all of this pedanting.

My yard begs to differ.

A Pyrrhic victory is still a victory.

counts useless numbers in a spreadsheet representing useless pieces of paper as society collapses around them

I’m not sure “shut up and fuck… or else” counts as actual policy.

“Regulator angers capital for doing their job” is one of my favorite headlines.

“Today’s findings show that the Lexington Police Department abandoned continued its sacred position of mistrust in the community by routinely violating the constitutional rights of those it was sworn to must bind but not protect,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

“FTFY” doesn’t apply here. It’s still fucked, but it’s more accurate.

the latter features eight additional seconds of unrated footage.

Confused about eight seconds of footage being a selling point, but intrigued nonetheless.

With nobody to use it on. He likely outlived the cretins that framed him.

Please read this next line as if it had alternating/random caps:

“But capitalism improves efficiency!”

Rounded, that’s a clean 42 light years.

I bet it’s Golgafrincham.

The devs said at one point that some of the ideas in ToTK were supposed to be DLC at one point.

That’s it. That’s all some people are processing. “Oh it’s just DLC.” Facts don’t matter. It doesn’t matter that the reason it wasn’t DLC was that they kept expanding on the ideas. It doesn’t matter that the final product was a full game. “But they reused the map!!! 😡😡😡😡”

The “it’s just DLC lol” nonsense will persist until the end of time.

Where the Hell is the righteous anger‽

The ember is still there. Once in a while it flares up. But it burned too bright for too long, and is part of the reason why I’m a cynical husk of a human being. I advocate for privacy-centric thinking among friends and family but it’s either preaching to the choir (in the best cases), blank stares, or they’ve already got an Amazon speaker in every room just to turn the lights on/off and set timers.

tl;dr I’m tired, boss.

At least one neighbor has a stock box holding down the fort.

It was nice knowing you. Looking forward to meeting your AI replacement.

“Fun” fact: Bain Capital killed both TRU and KayBee Toys.

Kurzgesagt videos.

This is really the only part of your rant that I was familiar with. So I can confirm: Kurzgesagt really is one of the best things you can spend time watching.

The local cable monopoly supplies modem/router/AP combos that broadcast unsecured WiFi hot spots. For “convenience” of its customers.

Pre-submission edit: there may be an authentication page upon connecting to verify that you’re a legit customer. I’ve never tried it personally and have no intention on doing so.