Why would they have to be unexpected? Want a list to see if something surprises ypu?

Or Prince.

Severe illness or a gulag.

50 lb over 8 weeks is pretty insane. 1 lb/week is pretty good. 2 a week is pushing it.

50 isn’t going to happen without consequences.

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Not necessarily phrases, but some words or actions. I personally find it irritating AF. Like every time I do (action), my brain reminds me to do (action) a certain way even though I know how to do it.

Since trump got elected that seems to be all they have. Biden, like him or not, actually had some decent policy. Yes, yes…could have done a lot better, but it was more than “we’re not trump”.

But since trump won? They’ve caved on pretty much everything.

There’s 3 states. You could probably subdivide it further, but the basics are -

1. Fuck yeah, make kings and inflict suffering
2. can’t be bothered to deal with it for whatever reason
3. How the hell can we stop the crazy train?

But what are they reading? Being a better reader or writer is only as good as the information exchanged. Is it memes? Clips? How about per capita?

But a great actress let you know it.

Nothing that they’ll let us see.

Good for you.

DIY filter change? $25 give or take depending on the filter. Service company doing it? $100 for the luxury of them arriving, $30 filter, $150 min labor rate to maybe do a service check, then whatever $ for issues they find.

FWIW think it’s good to have pros check stuff once in a while, they’ll see things I won’t know to check.

They don’t know what happened to Pretti’s phone that he was recording ICE with.

They don’t know what happened to Pretti’s gun.

Blender is safe.

Nothing is impossible to fuck up when you have enough money and/or lawyers.

You’re not wrong. Just have to be selective which brand printer you buy - and I say that with the awareness that a company can enshittify an online printer capable of monitoring cartridge use/ID at their whim. BS Proprietary cartridges that know when they’ve been used up and tattle someone’s refilled them and refuse to work (looking at you, HP).

Reading card files in libraries.

Servicing and repairing many things in the house, but devices were far more easily diagnosed and repairable due to not being computerized. Really the “it’s broke and I gotta fix it” ability across age groups has really dried up. Doesn’t matter if it’s changing a tire on a car, or a kid having to fix a punctured tube on a bike tire to get to their friend’s house. They don’t ride anywhere for that matter. Changing brake pads. Changing the air filter in the home HVAC. People don’t do this stuff anymore.

Being bored.

Reading newspapers, books, magazines, etc. I don’t think people read as much anymore.

Hobbies. I think they’ve kinda died off, at least the physical ones. Model planes, trains, building stuff in your garage, cars, etc. Some of it’s been priced out of range or has gotten too technological for some, like cars, but manually creating something as a pastime has really disappeared.

Remembering a lot of phone numbers in your head.

I’m sure I’ll think of more, but it’s been a while since I was a kid and thought about pre-modern tech society.

Dayum that’s adorable.

All the presidents combined for the last century have only amassed $40 million in wealth while in office despite the whining and complaining by the right about the Clintons or Obama. All of them, combined, a century’s worth…$40 million

Trump has stuffed his pockets with $3 billion in since he got elected. In one year.

I’m getting a lot of miles out of Orwell these days.

This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance. Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

• 1984

And you’ll pay him to do it.

I have a DDNS setup. Pretty random site name. Nonetheless, it’s been found and constantly probed. Lots of stuff from Russia, China, a few countries in Africa, and India. A smattering of others, but those are the constant IPs that are probing or attempting logins.