I do full size candy bars, but I’ll also drop a handful of loose candy corn instead into the bag of someone who’s clearly too old.

And what am I actually supposed to do about it? Go to a doctor? That’s not how this works!

Don’t believe his lies.

The problem with me trying to gaslight my brain is that I know the guy doing the gaslighting and he’s an asshole who is not to be trusted.

Welcome to capitalism. Infinite growth is required, and when a market is well and truly saturated the next step is cutting more and more costs.

Incidentally, Cancer also pursues a similar strategy.

You COULD be paying for first class seats and getting that kind of treatment, but you’re flying Economy, aren’t you.

I for one can only complain about one problem at a time. If something’s not the biggest problem in my life, I’m incapable of addressing it.

If it makes you feel any better, you’re a mutant freak no matter where you go, but some societies will be better at making you feel accepted.

I’d say this is a great time for even more advertisers to abandon that platform, but really anyone who would care about this should have left a long time ago.

3+5=8 is B tier at best, and probably lower. 3+5=8 is just such trash most of the time, with the sole exceptions of those rare cases where it comes in clutch being the only thing that saves it from the actual dumpster.

Obviously the Pharaohs were literal giants. The reason discovered mummies are all human sized is because their divine alien essence was bled away after death to be channeled into the stars by the divine shape of the pyramids, leaving only a human-sized husk behind which modern “science” thinks is just some kind of dried out human. _/s

For a second there I was so sure this was gonna be Loss.

Kinda depends for me, super situational. The right kind of pressure and yeah I’ll do it, something like an imminent non-negotiable deadline works for me. I’m the guy who files my taxes in the last possible week, I’ll slam out a report a night or two before it’s due.

But someone forcing me to do it? They just get flagged as an asshole who doesn’t have any authority here, even if I’ve asked them to do this, I know they’re trying to help, whatever. It’s the same situation when I try to set deadlines, or rewards, for myself. I know the guy who made those rules, he’s full of shit.

Apple will tie themselves in knots to make it impossible to repair your tech 3rd party, and maybe even refusing to fix it if it WAS repaired 3rd party before, but I’ve never heard of them also requiring that it be destroyed and your personal information given over.

It’s honestly impressive to find out that someone is WORSE than Apple when it comes to repairing and customer rights.

This is your chance to codify Ligma as a serious disease. Don’t mess it up.

. . . I might have ADHD, because this is probably the most relatable example I’ve ever seen.

It’s because they are. Apple wants to position itself as a “Luxury Brand” first and foremost, that happens to sell mostly tech stuff. Look at the absurd accessory prices, like this thousand dollar monitor stand. There is no reality in which that piece of shit is actually worth that much, but by offering their stupid shit at those prices, people can be associated with such opulence whenever they buy other Apple products. They just want to be the Gucci of computers, and it shows in how they have only been innovating on ways to extract money for low quality products, and not in the actual technology itself.

Just give in, do it to one spool, and you can move on with your life. Resistance only makes it hurt more.

IIRC that was a design feature of Phillips screws, not a flaw. Deliberately designed to limit torque to avoid over-tightening.