Cold southern gales blasting across Slope Point - located on the southernmost tip of New Zealand’s South Island - has given rise to this unique natural phenomenon: the trees here, being persistently battered by powerful winds coming in from the open ocean, have a permanently wind-swept appearance to them.
May 16, 2023 - A swarm of bees in the Encino neighbourhood of Los Angeles attacked an “LAPD volunteer”, which is a thing apparently. The bees are quoted as saying “ACAB includes volunteer cops!“ [video]
This isn’t really funny. Anyone could die from this. Look how fast he went down.
“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy
Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than ¼ of your income.
Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.
After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.
i think one of the most important things you learn about making connections with others is that a significant portion of the time people just do not know theyre doing what theyre doing
sometimes someone is acting selfish because they just didnt think you had any interest in what theyre hogging. sometimes you dont get invited to the movies because your friend could have sworn that you said no. sometimes you think someone is mad at you because theyre bad at hiding how little sleep they got. we are all like little worlds that briefly crash into one another from time to time and we just arent physically capable of seeing the whole picture at once in those moments. and learning that really changed everything!
Scientology is such a fascinating brainrot to study because it really is something that could only happen in - and functions as a microcosm of - the general hypercapitalist and terminally tacky hellscape that is the United States of America
Scientology as it exists would be structurally impossible without the United States’ insane tax haven policies for any organized crime/political machine network that calls itself a “religion.” Scientology’s litigiousness and secrecy wouldn’t exist without the most batshit capitalist IP laws that have successfully enclosed the commons several times over and rented out what’s left if its corpse. Scientology’s influence wouldn’t exist in a world where celebrities aren’t treated like gods and the hyperrich effectively are. Some dead bloated sci-fi author’s extremely fucking lame sci-fi LARP would have no appeal to a people not terminally alienated and atomized and nihilistic. Scientology is America quite simply.
