DoorDash has, for many people, become a substitute for frozen meals, despite being less convenient and radically more expensive. And a lot of frozen meals taste fine, plenty of chain restaurants are actually serving that.
You can get a Stouffer's whatever or a Marie Callender thingy and it's still like $4 and you can heat it up literally whenever.
This Marie Callender pot pie is a delicious dinner and $3.48 is a totally reasonable price for something that requires no more work than filling out the DoorDash thingy.
sometimes capitalism is not what is holding you back from the successful life you deem yourself entitled to; sometimes, it is that you are an unambiguous sociopath
in a socialist community, you will have a worse time, not a better one, because social capital will be more important, not less, and you will be lucky to make second-chair turd wrangler
(because you are, and I mean this extremely sincerely, fucked in the head in a real way)
starting to think pelosi just did it for the thrill of watching all of china wail and convulse at her proximity
like you're old, you've done a lot of things. but then you're like a ha ha, one last one for the road, i'll make china attempt to do donuts with its two shitty ass aircraft carriers in the *judge doom* EAST SEAAAAA
imagine being able to make a country of over a billion people quake and start shitting out league of legends cutscenes made out of hastily edited jet fighter footage
For those of you who are smart enough for your curated internet experience to deny you a window into this, a pretty big chunk of teens and even college-aged kids have gotten weiiiirdly and viciously puritanical. And it's not the really hyper-christian ones it's the other ones.
Like, "you aren't allowed to consume media starring someone under 18 even if it has no sexual or sensual content, or else you're a pedophile" weird.
One of the wilder conclusions they drew a while back was that it was sexually predatory to masturbate to the idea of someone without their permission, so you had to ask first. I'm going to give you a minute to process how that'd go.
Years ago, I saw a pitch on one of those Shark Tank type shows for "watermelon straps". Pretty sure I'm not making this up. I dismissed it at the time, but for some reason, it has remained lodged firmly in my brain. I think about watermelon straps all the time. Let me explain:
Watermelon straps were some straps connected in such a way they'd let you easily carry a melon. My 1st response is: this is not a problem that needs a solution. However, it always gives me pause because I think... is this a *truly* unnecessary product? It feels right on the line.
Watermelons are *actually* a hassle to carry, so it's not a complete non-issue. They also don't fit readily into other carriers or containers due to weight, bulk, and shape. Like a regular plastic bag can't accommodate a watermelon. So there is *some* problem this solves.
In Victorian times, they believed fiction was unsuitable for a lot of children because they could not distinguish what was real and what was not. It was the biggest shock of my life to realize that they might've actually been right about this, but with respect to many adults.
There are, and I mean this extremely sincerely, a lot of adults--who are not even the especially stupid ones--who fundamentally fail to grasp aspects of what fiction is and how it works.
It is astonishing how many people cannot distinguish the difference between an in-universe and out of universe explanation for things that happen in a work. They sometimes seem to honestly grapple with the idea that these are not real people.