Turned out to be not so catastrophic in the end!

Okay so in our case it’s very California-specific. We managed to buy a house (hooray!) after the housing crash. Because of the way California handles property taxes, we will never move unless we decide to leave California for good. If we take a job that is not close to us, too bad, we’re factoring commute into the offer, because we can’t move. My husband seriously considered a job that would require either a 1.5 hour drive or train ride because the money was amazing but ended up taking a much lower-paying WFH job, and the commute was a huge factor.

I was a big fan growing up. Really liked Achtung Baby and of course Joshua Tree is a great album. I even liked Zooropa and Pop. Went to see them live in the 2000s but by then the shine was wearing off; I was getting older and being a fan of things wasn’t as important to my identity anymore. But I was curious recently, so I looked up when their partnership with Apple started… Yeah, it was exactly the time I stopped liking them as much. It was both validating and depressing to make that connection. I’d always nodded along when people talked about bands selling out, but U2 was my band and they weren’t supposed to do that! Now I feel like they’re the poster child of selling out.

This is niche, never expected to see a meme about Schenker of all people on a very generalized community. I dig it though.

I think so; that’s why we run the water.

That’s a fair case. We don’t use one of our tubs and every once in a while we have to flush it with water because we get sewer smell. Unused bathroom facilities apparently cause problems.

This is not a problem I have. What happens when chapstick goes through the wash? Is it just the chapstick that gets ruined or does it mess up the clothes too?

Not at all. One of my kids only likes to watch the same thing over and over and over. I think it must be comforting in the same way that we like to listen to the same music over and over; we recognize what comes next and there is a comfort in having that power.

He has earbuds! But he doesn’t use them. Phooey

I was just getting annoyed at my husband for exactly this and your post was literally the next one in my feed. Felt like kismet.

Anyway YES it drives me crazy. He seems to love watching videos on his phone. I don’t get it at all.

Puce?

Can attest. Dropped Facebook in like 2016 and am not on anything else aside from Lemmy. I constantly felt like I wasn’t measuring up to people’s perfect family pictures and exciting vacations, even though I knew intellectually that their pictures were posed and their lives were edited for social media. The world still sucks but at least I feel less inadequate.

My brother does it to my mom specifically in crowds. He picked it as a scout during crowded meetings and it stuck. He’s in his 30s now.

In a related vein, specifically scissors in blister packs. It’s like whoever made the decision to package scissors that way wanted to put more evil into the world.

My friend describes this as vacation people vs trip people. My husband and I are definitely trip people generally, but with kids in the picture it’s nice to get an actual vacation (relaxing) in once in a while. But there’s so much in the world we want to see!

I did that to my husband in our 20s and 30s. Now in our 40s I can no longer tell which one it was that was rogue because there are too many competitors… we gave up.

Wait wait, are you saying it’s impossible to change people’s minds about cats, or impossible to change cats” minds?

I mean, maybe both lol

I’m primarily a fantasy reader. I never assume anything related to time or place, lol.

Because I respect my partner’s desire to see his parents? Grow a heart.

In all honesty, it’s a pretty limited silver lining considering people aren’t eating because of the shutdown. And my in-laws would probably blame democrats anyway. But at least they’d feel a modicum of suffering, not getting to see their son and grandchildren and all, because of their own voting patterns.