I’d say ‘keeping up with the Joneses’. Getting tangled up in that whole stress trap is so innocuous that many people don’t appreciate how bad it is to push it all to the point that an affluent household is 2 paychecks away from destitution. It’s just some cultural thing that keeps people awake at night and to even address it with candor is verboten

My experience in the US is like this meme. I gotta show up every 3 months just to be like ‘hey’. And then they’re like ‘hey. Any changes?’ ‘Nope.’ 'Cool. Here are your ‘scrips.’

If you can avoid that rock for around 60 billion years, it’ll be almost entirely lead, and then you can mock it. ‘Not so tough now, stupid rock’

Supposedly putting a cheapo luggage lock on a door latch requires a coordinated effort involving a locksmith or a tow truck

It was a joke. Everything is self-checkout nowadays, so the cashier just narrating the play-by-play

Good GUIs are awesome. It’s just that you often cede control to a bunch of fucking idiots who somehow think if it’s not broken absolutely destroy everything that made anyone love it in the first place. ‘They’ll adapt’

If you’re really paranoid you should buy all your stuff in a brick and mortar store. You’d have to be high up on a list for it to even be worth someone’s time, but intercepting a package and swapping the contents is pretty easy to do, typical Tuesday multi-agency gun ring bust for some postal inspectors

“You can’t change the rules just 'cause you don’t like how I’m doing it.”