One must dance the robot waltz

He/Him Just a tired henchman with a fascination for cryptids and games by FromSoftware

[aryashepard]

yall i don't think i will be ok if he dies

[k-eke]

Cursed cats!

[uoa]

do you ever tell people you’ll be going to sleep but then you don’t and you have to not do anything noticable online for the sake of it seeming as if you didn’t lie to them

[rubensmuse]

the last time i got sloppy with this @tinynaught Columbo’d me

[moosenaround2448]

I'd fucking retire dude are you kidding me

[foone]

I've got one of these. It's from the vtech V.smile educational games console. It's got a really nifty feature: it's ambidextrous!

[themanwiththesuitcaseofflies]

you start beating them and mid match they beyblade their fucking controller to their dominant hand

[eco-socialism]

[angiethewitch]

hey a local town actually did this!

they planted berries, root vegetables, leafy greens, herbs, all sorts. they label each plant and the sign said "free to take, leave some for others to enjoy!"

and people did. they took a bit, but left some for others.

it also fed the homeless people living around there.

bearing in mind this is a tourist town, so i half expected to see the plants gone. but nope, there's always some left.

people aren't naturally selfish, and they will share. the initiative works

[explorerrowan]

And honestly? Most people who don't need it won't bother to stop and pick fruit. It's only people who actually need it who will devote the time. People with money still have grocery stores.

[dramaticowl]

[Image description: tweet by Black Botanist @CreativeTiana: transcript follows]

I was talking to someone about planting food and fruit trees in public spaces and they were like “Why so everyone can steal the food?”

And I was like “See, that’s the problem right there. Why should taking food off a public tree be stealing?”

[headspace-hotel]

"Urban food forest" is something I'm hearing more and more. Do some poking around, there may be an opportunity to help with or start something like this near you.

[kushblazer666]

[hollowedskin]

This man FUCKS

[tooies]

can they change the temperature outside to something else

[justsomeguycore]

SOMETHING LOWER

[lvgvcy-deactivated20260523]

worrying is like worshipping the problem

[otabekisautistic]

and brother i’m on my knees

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

thanks for the warmup folks

[marisatomay]

anyway

[crowsent]

updated version

[certifiedgirlthing]

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[ventraman]

This could save your life.

[instructor144]

BOOST.

[aqueous2]

Absolutely vital information to have if you live where the waters freeze over.

I especially appreciate this guy's commitment to actually showing the steps himself. That cold-shock response is a bitch and willingly subjecting himself to it couldn't have been fun.

[marlynnofmany]

I don’t live anywhere near water like this, but I am still memorizing this knowledge because:

* I might use it in a story someday.

* Any knowledge that staves off the dying is good knowledge.

[lesbiansagainsttheatre]

actually i think graduates of a university should have access to the library databases forever and ever amen

[neil-gaiman]

My dad is making me read American Gods… So like, what’s it about? The copy of the book we have has no dust jacket, therefore, no summary.

It's about three American Dogs who have to travel home from California to Maine. It's a long journey, but they face down a bear and several other dangers, including dogcatchers.

[runelaird13]

I'm sorry, Neil, but that's the plot of The Incredible Journey. American Gods is a series of books about little girls growing up in various historical eras in the United States.

[chrysopeony]

Sorry Runelaird13, but that's premise of the American Girls' series. American Gods is that story about the mice that immigrate to America from Russia but the son gets separated from the family and needs to reunite with them.

[squashybookworm]

Sorry Chrysopeony, but that’s the premise of An American Tail. American Gods is the one about the dumb teenagers learning about (& failing at) sex in ridiculous and embarrassing ways.

[lucy8675309]

Sorry squashybookworm but that’s the premise of American Pie. American Gods is set in the 1960s and follows a group of teenagers as they cruise the streets on their last summer night before college.

[kz3jo]

Sorry lucy8675309 that is American Graffiti. American Gods is about an African prince that travels to Queens, New York and goes undercover to find a wife.

[atrusofmyst]

I'm sorry but that is Coming to America. American Gods is about an escort who becomes involved with a politician's wife while being the prime suspect in a murder case.

[possuminthetrashh]

I peper my steak

[apjvff]

promise me you'll stay on this site for 10 more years okay?

[fishmech]

OK now what

[karnalesbian]

now get sillay

[fruitpilled-peachcel]

what would you do if multiple giant inanimate homunculi of yourself with freakish proportions were placed in your home

[grandestrology-deactivated20150]

I don’t wanna get involved in the drama I just wanna know 103% of the information on what happened

[dredsina]

Ive said this before but swear the biggest skill to learn as an adult is how to resist high-pressure sales tactics. You do NOT have to answer questions with anything other than "Sorry I'm not interested." No matter how nice they are or no matter how many follow up questions they ask or even how agitated they get when you stand your ground. Just keep saying I'm not interested. Don't answer their questions. Don't give them an opening to try to push back on your reasons. Be a fucking brick wall of I'm not interested.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

When we bought our car, I told Sean to let me handle it. I walked in and said "We have X for a down payment and cannot pay more than Y in monthly payments." My Y number had some leeway, but I didn't mention that.

First thing the sales guy did after I laid down the rules was turn to Sean and go, "What's your number?" And Sean said. "Oh, no, you negotiate with Gayle."

So, strike one for the sales guy. Could not divide and conquer us by implying THE MAN would not surprised at what I laid down.

Sales guy then had to confer with his manager and left us at his desk for several minutes. I have a vague recollection (this was 16 years ago) of Sean and I amusing ourselves doing bits about the other people there to look at cars. I am sure we did not give off the stressed or nervous energy they were hoping for.

Guy comes back. His first offer is fifty dollars a month more than I told him we could pay. I looked at him and said "I gave you our upper limit."

"Well, but what's another 50 bucks a month?"

"Something I can't afford."

He didn't know what to do with my open and unashamed admittal that I had a budget because my money was finite.

He went back to talk to the manager again.

It took two more rounds of "I told you what I can afford" before he finally came back 20 bucks under what I'd stated as my max.

The trick to resisting high-stress sales tactics is doing the math at home, knowing exactly what you can afford, and then walking into the room and stating that number minus 15%. Then refusing to budge from that number. Never, ever, meet then where they want. Always meet them where you want. Because at the end of the day, you can walk away and go somewhere else and say "I told the people at Z what my terms were, and they refused to work with me. Here are my terms. Meet them, and you make a sale today."