CandleTiger

Mark Twain talks about tipping over outhouse and other pranks as the main activity on Halloween. So I guess if we assume he’s an honest narrator of his time (definitely in doubt..) then trick or treating is a mass extortion

I'm probably the only Fediverse user who sees your thorns and thinks, "No actually do that more,"

No, ðere are two of us.

If they were hoarding cats, or rusty cars, or old refrigerators, or piles of scrap metal, etc., the authorities would intervene, and get them help for their mental illness.

This is a common misconception.

“The authorities” (USA viewpoint) are really extremely unlikely to intervene in any way at all with hoarding, and even more extremely unlikely to provide any kind of useful mental health intervention.

If the hoarding is causing a public safety hazard then the authorities may eventually start fining the hoarder until they do whatever is minimally required to clear the hazard.

Much much more likely, if the hoarder is renting, the landlord may evict them which is one of the many paths to homelessness.

But by far the most common outcome is that the authorities do nothing whatsoever to stop or help with harmful hoarding behavior.

In this way, crazy aunt Florence and Elon Musk are similar.

From the article:

we do not claim it is true

That’s some hard-hitting journalism right there

April 28

I don’t think deserving things (or not) is really a relevant consideration for people like that. They just have things that they want for whatever reason and the power (or not) to have them

I guess different people have different special talents.

You really do. Have you tried it?

Is eating erasers going to get you more ostracized than constant nagging from the teacher to not eat erasers?

unless they force people to stop and wait to get their money

Do you really feel like inconveniencing us is unlikely?

A few years ago before I moved away, PNC bank had a few branches with new ATMs that made me tap through ads for loans and special checking accounts.

My family calls them charging doots

Edit: or also sometimes “wall-to-usb adapters”

Plex was great in ~~2001~~ 2004 when I had videos on my Macintosh and I wanted to play them using the ~~PS2~~ PS3 hooked up to the television.

20 years is a long time for a rug pull. I think they just found themselves more excited about money after a while.