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Well, my entire phone stopped responding until I closed literally everything, so explain that, liberals.

I completely agree

I don't know if the previous owners just kept this as a mud room or something or if this is actually the real pattern and it is supposed to look like this, but it is absolutely horrifying. Just dirt marks everywhere, and they will not come up. That's not all though. I have lino upon lino in my kitchen. Literally. I can see the old lino underneath. I'm not sure if it's any better though. Only one way to find out.

It's out of stock. There must be some way to trick the website into letting me click 'add to cart' even though that button is missing right now. How hard can this be? Currently combing through 'inspect page' on Firefox. I am not a programmer.

I live on a natural hill, or so I thought, until I started digging and hit rock less than six inches in. Between natural rock, discarded bricks, tiles and plastic, I am in hell.

What is this, is she a dog? I have never heard a cat growl before

I don't know whether to blame this on reddit, toxic masculinity, or plain old British culture, but it seems that men on the internet will take absolutely anything as a sign of weakness, which means you don't deserve their help.

If you don't know the answer, just say so, don't be a little bitch about it and tell me to give up.

Can't believe I made an account for this.

It seems people will do absolutely anything except take their anger out on people who might deserve it.

Beat your wife and kids? OK

Run over brown people with your truck? Terrific idea

Shoot your boss? What, never

Well, I know why, it's because the media rallies themselves to get you all riled up about the gays and the browns, so your rage won't have any consequence

They do the same with Islamic extremists in eg Pakistan, funnel people into stupid fundamentalist orgs so they won't look into Marxism, and bonus points, the extremist orgs you're propping up will even hunt communists themselves, the same way conservatives in the US despise anything socialist (in the UK we don't know what communists are, we just hate scroungers, trans and immigrints 😡)

Kind of following up from my post the other day about CEO salaries, still thinking about it, I honestly don't get how senior management are able to kid themselves when they only earn £200k themselves, real serf behaviour

I wish I could not pay 1/3 of my income to credit card debt, I should be fine now I am no longer paid in beans and instead finally make a human being sized salary, but I pay so much towards credit card debt each month that I am still forced to go even deeper into debt just to get by, not even to thrive. I can only count my blessings that most of it is interest free, and in time, I will reach an equilibrium where my income is finally high enough to make a dent in it.

So I have heard people sometimes say the reason for no aliens is that complex life requires so many coincidences it is just incredibly unlikely to indecently arise anywhere else in the universe. I think it is a bit arrogant to assume all life has to mimic life found here on Earth, so forgetting the goldilocks zone for a minute, you still need life to emerge from nothing over the course of billions of years. Then you need complex life to emerge from that, and eventually civilization. But you know what else you need?

Extinction.

No extinction means no fossil fuels means no industrial revolution means no spacefaring. If it wasn't for the dinosaurs, we would have nothing. Makes you wonder what we're here for.

I conclude that any advanced alien lifeform that gets to this stage will have to use a source of power not used so much on Earth. Hydro and Thermal seem unlikely, it's less portable and requires huge facilities, so it will probably have to something else. I imagine rivers of liquid gas, a space-faring civilization built upon lakes made up entirely of methane.

Edit:

It has been brought to my attention that fossil fuels are not in fact made up of ancient dead dinosaurs, and even if they were, we wouldn't need a meteor to make this happen. I just like Dinos

I always assumed it was like Lemmygrad and the ML stood for Marxist-Leninist but I don't leave my island and the visitors I see always have the worst takes

I have been very lucky to be able to work from home and move to the middle of nowhere for a tiny deposit that I did not even have in my bank when I was approved for a small mortgage last year. Believe me, I am grateful every day that I do not have to put up with black mould and awful landlords. Nevertheless, I have worked out now that if I somehow get into the top 5% of earners for my country and even if I pay no tax, I will... have enough savings, including the increase in value on my own house minus the money I still owe, to buy a very slightly bigger house.

Imagine a salary today of £80k, maybe that grows to £110k in 15 years, then I can borrow £550k for a mortgage. By then I would have £60k left to pay on the house, and it will probably still be worth less than £200k, so call that £140k. Now, supposing in the extreme case, I can somehow move somewhere without tax and get paid a better salary, and suppose still, I can even save up £5k per month, and then if I do this for ten years, that will be £600k, maybe £800k if I can invest it competently. Supposing I do all of this, I will be able to afford a house worth less than £1.5m in 2039. You know what that is in today's money, assuming the same rate of house price inflation we have had for the last 40 years? It's £450k max. Do you know what that gets me? In the middle of nowhere, you know what that gets me? A fucking box, but don't worry, at least it has a garage! Maybe.

I don't have the privelege of being in a power couple, so everything we have, I have to make myself, and because of tax, a couple earning £30k each will earn more than me, so that's what I'm competing with, no matter how smart I am, no matter what cheats I take, no matter if I am extremely lucky and everything goes my way, I am totally average, and average in this country fucking sucks. Everyone is poor, and everything is tiny. There is no way there is this little space on this planet that we all have to be crammed together like sardines.

I will never make a significant amount of money, and I will never own a spacious home. I try so hard to think of a way I can ever make my dreams a reality, and even in this absurd scenario, it is just completely impossibe. As far as I can tell, everywhere else in the world has this problem as well, so I can't even flee the country to make my problems go away.

For me this means I am not gonna have kids either. I didn't mind growing up in small house, but guess what, now I'm an adult myself, I want to have space, and if I can't have enough space, fuck it, I'm not doing it, fuck you, fuck everyone.

Anyway, if this is the situation for me when I make up crazy unrealistic scenarios for myself, what the fuck is everyone else supposed to do?

I just want a house like you see in American movies. Fuck, I want to have a house that you see in adverts for what kitchen you should get. I want the one in the adverts for Nintendo Switch and PS VR where people can just stand up and there is space to move around. I want to be able to have different rooms for different things and not do every single activity including work, sitting and eating, in my living room. I want an office. I'm going to be 45 years old and working from home, I should have one. Is that so crazy? I just want space.