Do people just not decorate for Halloween anymore, or is it just my particular suburban hellscape? Walking my dog tonight I noticed like 90% of houses don’t have any decorations at all, and of the rest maybe 3/4 of them are like one single pumpkin or inflatable. I know there are plenty of kids living here, I see them all the time.

In the 90s, you were in the slim minority if you didn’t have any decorations. Kind of bummed because we probably won’t get any trick or treaters because of this.

I was going to say, at least from my experience with Manhattan, everybody is jaywalking and nobody even thinks about it. I guess the cops like to give minorities a hard time in the other boroughs.

Let me break out the world’s tiniest violin after paying $12 for the world’s most disappointing cheeseburger (and having to ask for ketchup and napkins).

I reduced my fast food consumption by like 95% right around the beginning of the pandemic and I regret nothing. Not wasting 20 minutes of my life in a drive through line for a meal that isn’t good, cheap, or healthy. It takes 3 minutes to boil ramen at home and that checks two of those boxes.

Solidarity with my fellow North Jersey comrades who will likely be dealing with turbo-Zionist Gottheimer for several decades.

The situation is bleak, I’d be shocked if more than 5% of voters here give a second thought to senate and congressional candidates besides the letter next to their name on the ballot. People here are rabid about the presidential, gubernatorial, and sometimes local elections, but rarely more than that. Joshy boy will be with us for a very long time unless he gets caught diddling kids or something of similar magnitude (or hit by a bus )

It’s 2024 and we got irl Sex Panther before global communism, smh

No problem! Unfortunately, I’ve come to learn over time that the best options for home improvement stuff usually turn out to be the more expensive ones and are often a pain in the ass labor-wise. I tend to be a perfectionist though, and I hate having to look at a sub-par job for all of eternity when I know I could have done it better/the “right” way.

I would use neither, you really need mortar for steps. Poly sand is really only meant for one layer of paver that are directly on the ground.

You can probably put the new steps over the old ones, I would probably deconstruct some of what you have there first to make sure the new ones are really solid though.

Didn’t expect Kessler syndrome to strike just yet, looks like that was overly optimistic of me.

He died for our fins

Funny coincidence, 100% of me supports putting 47% of Americans into reeducation camps.

I suppose so.

Not quite as dramatic, but I also frequent the animal ID subreddit because it’s fun to solve other people’s mysteries. There are a TON of people who don’t know what a groundhog is, despite living in areas where they are very common. The top three most common animals on there are groundhogs, foxes, and bobcats.

I’m in a local astronomy group on Facebook, and there’s been a huge uptick in posts over the past week with the comet being around.

The amount of people who apparently have never seen airplane contrails at dusk is VERY concerning. I understand not necessarily knowing what a comet looks like, but there are literally dozens of posts daily asking if what is very obviously an airplane is the comet. Do people just normally never look at the sky? To make matters worse, there was a SpaceX launch visible from my area last week and the group was flooded with posts asking what is was/if it was the comet, no one checking the previous 50 posts which all answered the question.

Man with one arm pokes bear (you won’t believe how he lost the other arm)

The true leftist way is for both of you to write 6 paragraphs back and forth but never reading the other person’s paragraphs.

It’s like jumping into a marathon fresh at mile 25 and then rolling your ankle every 100 feet.

Seeing so many tiktoks of people with the means to evacuate the Tampa area but choosing to stay anyway is infuriating. A lot of these people have young children and pets who will be in grave danger through no choice of their own because mommy and daddy want to hold down the fort over a few bottles of wine until the storm surge reaches their first floor gutters. Our risk/reward analysis as a country is so beyond broken that it’s hard for me to comprehend.

When this shit happens, you do whatever you possibly can to get a few miles out of the direct path or at least to a shelter not right on the coast, because if you don’t, there’s a very real chance that you die. If I couldn’t drive for whatever reason, I would leash up the dog, stuff my favorite things into a backpack, and start walking. If you have gas in your tank, get in your car and drive as far north or south and inland as you can. Better to sleep in your car in a parking garage than die. There is nothing I can do to save my house from a category 3 hurricane while the hurricane is happening, there is zero reason for me to hang around. People would rather flip a coin on a terrifying death for their entire family than subject themselves to an uncomfortable situation for a few days.

I wish Kamala was just 10% as cool as Elon thinks she is

Have you ever noticed that the venn diagram of people who think anthropogenic climate change is a hoax and the people who think a shadowy cabal of global elites have a top secret hurricane generator is a circle?

Everywhere around the gulf coast is going to be uninsurable within the next decade. This will be happening more and more frequently as time goes on.

I thought it was pretty fool hardy a month ago when I saw a bunch of news articles asking “is the 2024 hurricane season a dud?” Bro, there will be no more “dud” hurricane seasons, it’s a matter of when we get smoked, not if.