I don’t think I get what you mean when you say “Walled Garden” in this context. Can you elaborate?

Interesting. Ugh, I feel the need to go peek at it now, but I also expect to really not like it. Oh well, here goes.

Yeah, I’m not a fan of the microblog format, but I’m pretty sure everyone here is going to agree that Mastodon is the superior Twitter replacement.

I bet rent is still above the national average.

Ugh, I want to say old internet things, but I kinda like this place and don’t wanna get banned :,(

Zac Efron.

The girl I was crushing on in high school crushed on him really hard as he appeared in High School Musical. I spent wayyyy too much of my youth trying to emulate Zac Efron as a result. Eventually, that whole style just kinda became my whole style. Seems like a good fit.

Oh no, now we have to ban them all?? What a shame!

/s

Yeah, its like someone tried to convert a Toyota pickup into a 2-door jeep.

I’m actually really down with this concept.

Sorry, was definitely reading this 90% asleep as I rolled out of bed. Thanks for the extra link anyway.

Can you pass a link?

So which brand is it?

I can’t tell if this is real life or sarcasm…

Did I really miss the memo on this one?

I respect your willingness to take a moment and think about your opinions.

U.S. born and raised. I’ve traveled a moderate amount and have literally never heard this (most of time spent in Mid-Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and Southwest)

The dude is my wife’s gay best friend for life.

In our early days of me dating my now wife, dude was my wife’s roommate. The two of them moved to a larger apartment to better accommodate two people and pets. Guy almost immediately quit his job and stopped paying rent. He contributed nothing to the household (didn’t cook or clean) while also feeding the cat enough treats to make it obese (something that is having follow on consequences years later). He also didn’t eat home cooking, and racked up a massive debt by eating McDonalds almost daily.

His above actions left my now-wife with a drained bank account and in a horrible mental wellness condition. She needed to travel for work, and so as she left, he moved in with his “big farming daddy” on the other coast and I had hoped he was going to be out of our lives forever.

Apparently that relationship didn’t work for him. So he moved back to his parent’s place where he struggled to keep a job. After ~2 years of no job or education/training, he was eventually kicked out of his parent’s place.

And so right as my wife and I finally have a stable working situation with our careers that we could make work for the next 25-ish year (read as: to a slightly early retirement), ol’ boy shows up on our doorstep with <24 hours notice saying he needs a place to stay while he “attends college”…in one of the most expensive areas to live in the U.S…“just out of coincidence”

He is the same age as I am, and I’m having to take my ass who worked through a STEM college degree, a military enlistment, and YEARS of network building to build a stable life for me and my wife and put it on hold for him. We had hopes of an early retirement that are being postponed to ensure this leech has money for gas and food to eat in campus.

So yeah, I hate that bastard. But he’s my wife’s friend and is reasonably charismatic, so no one “gets what my beef with him is”.

Dude tell your toasters to stop performing copulation upon my uncles.

I have heard that my grandmother’s secret to perfectly sticking cheese on her pizzas was by adding 2.5 oz of Elmer’s Non-toxic Glue to the sauce. Its mightily tasty on the tastebuds.

Upvoting for admitting you were wrong in your edit.

I wish more of the internet acted that way.