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Guess the asshole part of that depends on whether you’re a Kuwaiti or Republican Guard…

G. W.'s round 2 (electric boogaloo) version was an entirely different exercise in absurdity. Bush 41’s war was not really comparable.

Better call her then.

I mean, it’s right on the sign.

Another post mentioned just giving cash anonymously and I think that’s easily the best option. You would almost certainly have access to their mailbox if it’s a suburban stand alone type? If not, an unmarked envelope under the door, with cash, would preserve plausible distance from making the neighbor feel like they have to decline out of etiquette.

Don’t think about it more, they clearly need the help if they mentioned it, and if you can help without feeling the impact just do so without strings or direct attribution. They’ll suspect it, and can if they approach you in genuine thanks if they want, then you’re able to be gracious about accepting, or simply act surprised and happy that such a nice thing happened if not.

I’ve had people clearly embarrassed at the grocery checkout take a 50$ bill I claimed fell out of their pocket before several times. Preserves their dignity even if it’s just a pretext for helping. Puts the ball in their court at least. “Hey man, I don’t know what to say but it’s not mine. Pay it forward for someone who needs help if it’s not yours” is the worst that’s ever gone for me before. Nobody likes being a charity case.

Should be required viewing in every middle/highschool class.

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Sorry for your loss…

Finally! Life begins at inflation, and the cops need to be punishing anyone who doesn’t respect the sanctity of bblife.

Yeah but the rest of us aren’t savages though…

Kidding, much love to the Aussies. Using fortnight unironically and eating Vegemite voluntarily… you crazy emu-battlers are always up to something wild down there

Can you do me a quick favor?

I’ve never met anybody with this kind of access before, so could you punch the guy who decided to get rid of the little tabasco bottles in the face real hard?

Alternatively, (preferably both) if you run into the guy in the hallway carrying something hot, would you please trip him?

Thanks! -everyone in the army

Hey, everybody!

THIS GUY DOESN’T CARRY TRAUMA SHEARS IN THE FIELD!

Get a load of this guy lol

I completely disagree. What this place needs is a bunch of bot accounts that endlessly spam the top comments from when whatever’s posted was on the front page last week.

Or the week before that I guess…

Thanks for the detailed break down! One thing I really do miss about old Twitter is how easily I could get a huge variety of great news sources at the same place.

There were always problems with the site, but nothing has come close to that level of centralized convenience (that I’ve found so far at least). It may just be the new normal since that same centralization makes any site vulnerable to the same fate twitter has met with. But man I sure underestimated how much worse twitter could get…

I’d love to give bluesky a shot for a bit, but their invite policy has me disappointed having waited for nearly a year now without any sign of opening up for regular users like me. Mastodon is good, tildes better (but tiny) so far, but I still miss having all the journalists who cared about journalism practices in one place…

Sigh…

Signed up months ago but still hoping to check it out. Not to pile on as another invite pest, but man twitter sure has become unusable lately!