Open and authentic people have no problem making small talk and connecting with others, this has nothing at all to do with pop culture. Dude needs to reacclimate to freedom, a lack of structure, and engaging in relationships in an unfamiliar environment. Talking about fucking tiktok is more likely to make someone seem inauthentic and shallow

I mean no offense, but this is terrible advice. The man’s leaving prison after 11 years, learning the latest social media fads is nowhere near the top of the list of important things he’ll need help readjusting to.

Are ya winning, son?

Speaking as a…USian?..many of us know about these already and are ashamed of them.

The Houston Museum of Natural Science is a fantastic museum and I love visiting, but the entire top floor is basically propaganda for oil companies who made big donations. It’s under the guise of teaching about petroleum engineering, but it’s just so blatant and gross. If you go (which I highly recommend), skip the top floor

I think crack users don’t bother with hallucinogens because they’re looking for high impact dopamine hits, not a lengthy psychedelic experience. I don’t think vice versa is true, people who use psychedelics aren’t necessarily avoiding cocaine, but they’re probably using higher quality cocaine rather than crack

Musk has staked Tesla’s future on self-driving vehicles he has promised for a decade but hasn’t delivered, making Austin’s robotaxi launch closely watched as a potential milestone. Some analysts and investors attribute the majority of Tesla’s stock market value to hopes for robotaxis and humanoid robots it has yet to deliver.

We’ve had Waymo and Zoox operating in town for years. Waymo started road testing here almost 10 years ago now. Tesla is so far behind on this it’s not even funny. I expect their cars to be subject to vandalism, also.

Edit to add: All they’re saying they don’t want released are deployment patterns, like how many cars, where, and when. Whatever, that info is basically useless anyway. That they’re fighting so hard to conceal useless info demonstrates they already lack confidence in their service

Crack cocaine has always been a poor man’s drug. It’s highly adulterated and thus much cheaper

But none of us knows anything about the details or merits of that case, so…

Are you ok?

Crack cocaine use is pervasive among the lowest income folks in my area, as are meth and K2. And those people sure as hell aren’t doing mushrooms or acid. My point is that cocaine use definitely has a bimodal distribution

This was a civil trial, “guilty” was never an option

Bari sax

Why don’t you think he’ll sign it? It was passed unanimously with no partisan objections. This is as big an issue for farmers as it is anyone else, because farm equipment companies are pulling the same shit tech companies and appliance companies are

Here’s just one, and there are many. What you cited above doesn’t contradict what I said either…my point is it wasn’t created to intentionally slow typing down

The QWERTY keyboard was designed to speed typing up, not slow it down

According to their “About Us” page, they were a small business that is now financed by Post Road Group and Bain Capital. Creating competition for Comcast is a great thing, but I’d bet over the years those capital partners are going to demand enshittification for profit. I’d still drop Comcast like a rock though.

The excavation in the street sounds like the same thing Google Fiber did in my neighborhood, microtrenching fiber in the street along the curb. Has worked great for me for almost 10 years now

Who were the “good guys” in the Syrian Civil War? Did you read beyond 2016?

I have the second most upvoted comment on that post: https://mander.xyz/comment/19100228

This is a shit take. Ahmed al-Sharaa renounced al Qaeda years ago and has demonstrated leadership as a moderate who protects ethnic minorities. He aligned with al Qaeda in Iraq in 2003 against the US invasion that most of us were protesting at home