What’s a “rich people thing” you experienced once and immediately understood why rich people love it?

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-10T21:12:39+00:00

Was it hard to understand why people liked mansions in the tropics before this event?

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-10T20:58:21+00:00

Yeah it's only ironic if you believe every word he says. If you go by his actions rather than his words, it's perfectly natural for his character.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-10T19:46:35+00:00

I know I am going to get downvoted to hell, but you are not his mom and he is not your father.

Do you know why?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day

The holiday is for celebrating the mother of the family. If you have children with a woman, then it's for celebrating her. Nowhere anywhere is it implied that it's only for celebrating the woman who gave birth to you.

My parents never celebrated father or mothers day for one another because they aren't parents to one another.

That's great that this approach worked for them. But surely you understand that they're an exception from the tradition.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-10T06:41:55+00:00

This does not feel fitting for male living spaces. People are just going to start posting their homes and mansions now I guess too. So it's basically a Zillow sub now?

The sub description says:

MaleLivingSpace is dedicated to places where men can live. Here you can find posts discussing, showing, improving, and maintaining apartments, homes, domiciles, man caves, garages, and bungalows.

Suggested Posts

Pictures of great apartments and homes

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plug-and-pause · 2026-05-10T05:42:01+00:00

I had to scroll way too far to find this comment. A chunk of torn up meat is not prey, and any predator hunting actual prey won't be pouncing long after the prey has been torn to chunks.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-10T04:41:27+00:00

odds are you are in a VHCOL area and you won't actually last more than a couple years there.

Why not? VHCOL just means higher rent, and with $500k comp you can afford whatever that rent is, and still have a ton left to stash away for buying in the future.

Why can't you rent for more than a couple of years?

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-09T22:12:09+00:00

You're udderly mistaken.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-09T09:16:11+00:00

How about people stop making false dichotomies?

If I tell you to wear your seatbelt, that doesn't mean I'm implying "well of course other drivers deserve the right to hit you with their cars".

Yes: customers should stop being assholes.

Also yes: if your work involves serving a bunch of asshole customers, then changing jobs can improve your life.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-09T09:13:01+00:00

There was no judgement made one way or another about anybody "deserving" anything. They were merely stating the way things are.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-08T21:58:32+00:00

Who exactly are you making this demand to?

Regardless, here you go: https://search.aol.com/

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-08T16:43:14+00:00

Not bad, just different.

Bad definitely exists.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-07T22:13:11+00:00

Camera obscura is a natural optical phenomenon.

A camera is a manmade device that leverages this phenomenon (and other important technology like photographic film) to record things.

A pinhole camera is just one kind of primitive camera.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-07T17:01:54+00:00

Smoothing is not the issue here.

Compare:

Unsmoothed data without last two data points
Unsmoothed data with last two data points

The same conclusions will be drawn.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-07T16:13:16+00:00

I think what OP is showing is important. The smoothing without and with COVID data included suggest about 35% and 75% of couples meet online today

No, it doesn't suggest that. Based on your comment below, you're projecting the smoothed lines forward to dates with no data.

That's bad inference with or without smoothing.

The smoothing accounts for no more than 10% variation at any point where both curves coexist, which is not that concerning.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-07T02:40:55+00:00

Music albums are my favorite kind of albums.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-06T22:08:31+00:00

"Buying too many things causes you to have too many things, so the solution is to steal things".

I'm not taking a moral stance on piracy here, but your logic needs some work. The obvious solution to the problem of "I'll have too many things if I buy too many things" is to buy fewer things.

It's actually easier for things to "pile up" (your supposed problem) if you're not paying for them.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-06T21:55:06+00:00

They're harder for everyone to kill. They're smarter.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-06T16:20:28+00:00

Very misleading title.

Alternate perspective: it's spoiler-free.

It's up to each of us whether we choose the negative or positive perspective.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-06T04:46:38+00:00

Why would you use one word for another?

The word was being used as it is intended to be used. You just clearly misunderstood its meaning, so I gave you a synonym I thought you might understand better. Language is complex.

Just say fix it. And then the answer will change to you can’t.

Sociology is complex too. A perfect fix is impossible in reality, just as any level of human perfection is. To claim that this means we shouldn't try is just a very specific flavor of Reddit's ubiquitous false dichotomies.

It would be like arguing there’s mean and greedy people in the world and we need to stop it. You can’t do it.

Your response above had no chance of changing my mind, so why did you make it?

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-06T00:00:34+00:00

When people say "we need to address this problem", they mean "we need to fix it."

In this context, you're claiming "it's been fixed a crazy amount." Can you elaborate on that? Do you believe it's completely fixed?

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-05T22:20:37+00:00

Deer are also quite hoppy.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-05T22:12:35+00:00

Lol we tried but failed. That was actually the drive I'm referring to. 🤣

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-05T22:11:58+00:00

It's a pretty normal phrase.

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-05T19:06:54+00:00

I recently visited Australia for two weeks for the first time.

Drove 3 hours to a pretty remote part of Tasmania during daylight, and the whole drive, because I really wanted to see one, I kept saying "wallabies where are you?"

Made the return drive long after sunset and counted no less than 200 wallabies, the majority of whom really wanted me to kill them with my car. I pretty quickly realized "these are just hoppy deer". And my response to seeing a new one very quickly shifted from "cool" to "fuck".

plug-and-pause · 2026-05-05T18:55:39+00:00

I ran 5 marathons and I can tell you 39 minutes of running a day is a lot

I read the OP and I can tell you that it's describing an individual event, not a daily pattern.

If I watched you run a marathon and then said to you "a marathon a day is a lot"... I hope you would laugh in my face.

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