Your best bet might be to try and pivot to in-person college/university if possible. You didn’t say where you are in the world, but in the US, most schools will have on-campus housing you’d be able to stay in for most of the year. The financial part is always the limiting factor of course, but considering how violent your brother can get, it may be worth it. It’s a lot easier to recover from student loan debt than being dead.

Which version? Barrett, Waters, or Gilmour?

Really surprised no one’s mentioned Everclear, but that might just be because no one thinks about Everclear that much

Hemp farmers, back to the unemployment office…

It’s specifically the fact that it’s family that makes it hard for me to buy that it’s isolated (hence “in this case”). It’s possible for sure, but you don’t usually get “my dad picklocked my bedroom door to try and catch me jerking off” without a shitload of other family weirdness.

I don’t see what the problem is. It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

The odds of these two deeply weird incidents being isolated in a case like this is about 1%

If she knew about this list, she’d figure out a way to get herself to the top.

To be clear: there are actually Christians being persecuted or killed for being Christian, just not in the US or anywhere else in the West. The people that Trump and Nicki Minaj are talking about are in Nigeria (and I’m sure Trump would want them deported if they sought asylum in the US, of course). Trump and Nicki both suck but we can at least not make light of religious persecution in other countries, just because Christianity is more dominant here.

I doubt I’m the first one to think of this, but for some reason as I was drifting off to sleep last night, I was thinking about the horrible AI “pop” music that a lot of content farms use in their videos and my brain spat out the phrase Bubblegum Slop. Feel free to use it as you ses fit (or don’t, I ain’t your dad).

Are you not counting “Revolution 9” as a “song”? Understandable.

I cannot post the picture for obvious reasons, but the CEO of [Company My Friend Works For] has a fancy pair of AI sunglasses he keeps wearing to Teams meetings. Friend got a screenshot of it and the guy looks like, as they say in France, “a total fucking douchebag.”

You’re probably right

(“mad dental science”: Silverbook is the mouth bacteria instead of brushing your teeth guy)

Reinforcing my belief that you can find someone who holds any opinion it’s possible to hold, no matter how dumb it is

Honest to God, I thought a “Librephone” was something that already existed. I think I was thinking of the PinePhone or smth.

My late cat (the one in my pic) REALLY wanted my grocery-store sushi one time, but I didn’t give her any, so she decided to lick a big ol’ glob of the wasabi.

She didn’t like it.

I believe that guideline is only for perishable food like cooked foods, meat, etc. For shelf-stable things like bread and most fruits/veggies, it’s basically “do they look OK?”

Omnivore, southeast USA.

When I worked in food service, I was taught that it takes four hours at room temperature for bacteria to reach dangerous levels in food, so that’s what I go with. I assume there’s other factors at play, but four hours is easy to remember and apply and I don’t like to take chances with that stuff.

…well, I was gonna say porn but I actually like your idea better.

I block pretty freely, on all social media. Being both trans and religious means that people on any part of the political spectrum might think I’m subhuman, and I don’t see the point of engaging when that’s the case.