A woman at a house party saw my driver’s license after she asked for proof that I have two middle names and two last names. She saw my photo and said: “your neck doesn’t look anywhere near as long in real life” I knew it was a compliment, and I’ll never forget it.

And even moderately wealthy Americans don’t usually travel outside their country. If they do it’s usually from the airport to their hotel.

What’s infuriating to me is how casual the paywalls have become. Everyone wants a slice, even the folks who make cheat tables for singleplayer video games have an early access patreon. If you’re not getting a paycheck you better make it a side hustle.

Don’t forget to tip your friend when you laugh at their joke, they aren’t doing it for free.

I don’t think the answer is as simple as memes would like to believe. Personally I suspect the issue, in part, has to do with the cost of healthcare in the US.

Much like Republican voters have a need to pretend the GOP is actually helping them, I think holistic medicine rubes and anti-vaxxers have a need to discount the efficacy of unaffordable healthcare. They don’t need to worry about the price being a multiple of their income anymore, because they just now decided every doctor is a quack and a conman.

I did it in person when I was in like the third grade. A girl four years older than me in my neighborhood would sneak onto the elementary school playground and just take turns describing what our OCs were doing in the story while we swung on the swing set. I can’t remember any plotlines, only visualizations.

I’m not sure if that was a joke but I laughed.

“I bet that guy roleplays”

‘Why would you accuse him of such heinous behavior???’