Troublesome Frog

Will not allow frogs to be appropriated for evil.

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

You buy those practical joke "snake in a can" gags, but do you ever consider the effort that goes into making them?

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

A man trying to catch a King Cobra in India

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@ipodmacbook Lawyers default to writing contracts that give their clients everything, even if their clients just want a balanced deal.

I think it's just the nature of their duty to the client. Better to get concessions they didn't ask for than give concessions they didn't explicitly approve.

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@bdquinn It's wild to me that we run our elections on volunteers and pocket change.

Maybe we could hold a bake sale to help.

[Alex Armlovich @aarmlovi]

"The idea that housing could 'filter' upmarket due to shortages or downmarket due to abundance is trickle-down economics & absurd pro-developer propaganda," I type from my $5000/mo Lower East Side apartment built 130 years ago as a tenement for penniless Italian immigrants

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@ArmandDoma @LinkofSunshine Don't they already need to get a license to sell alcohol?

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I have never understood why so many plans require the government to own stock when it can simply demand money from the successful companies.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Instead of having government take a stake in AI labs, you could just raise corporate taxes (and make the corporate tax graduated). That's a lot better for the budget, plus it's guaranteed to be constitutional.

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@moultano @OversightDems Just think of how annoying it would be if your kids started asking you to sign up for a VPN service.

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@buffetbreaker Burgers like this trigger an anger in me like the anger I'd feel if I was eating a regular burger and someone slapped it out of my hands onto the ground.

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@Factoiddd @Team_Angry He requested a dismissal? Oh no! Did something happen?

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@LinkofSunshine I'm sure they would love to support new housing, but we can't build a single unit until we fully end capitalism.

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@OG_Jaybird A while back someone pointed out that if you have a 60 inch hole in your drywall, it's cheaper to cover it with a new TV than to hire a pro to fix it.

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@planefag @ChrisExpTheNews The ewoks were demanding too much in royalties to keep playing Yub Nub.

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@constans When these buildings go on sale for fire sale prices we don't usually see tenants building a co-op to buy them.

If they were paying rent well in excess of the landlord's upkeep cost, this seems like it would be a good play.

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@constans Tighter manufacturing tolerances let you build better tools, but they also give you the option to build cheaper lines of tools without a bunch of them being broken right out of the box.

It's mostly good that "good enough" tools are a viable product now.

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

There are rumors of workers and the smell of beer at Anchor Brewing.

We need an announcement of Golden Tickets and a tour where middle aged men with bad habits drown in a beer waterfall.

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@CameronCorduroy Trump will probably carve something out specifically for him and he'll go back to thinking everything is fine.

[Joey Politano 🏳️‍🌈 @JosephPolitano]

Oren being devotedly pro-tariff and vaguely anti-war puts him in this insane position where he believes “less trade causes higher prices and slower growth” but ONLY for goods coming through the Strait of Hormuz. It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so pathetic.

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

"2020 talk" is the new "locker room talk."

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@OwenShroyer1776 Most of the products and services produced and used in the US are, in fact, not edible.

Not everything has to be food! There are other things!

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@JTTSoundSystem @Ayylmao63963350 @constans And frozen food often completely destroys homemade on price with labor (dumplings, chicken tenders, meals with side dishes, etc).

[Troublesome Frog @TroublesomeF]

@s0ymalia @WalkerEl81677 @oecolamp Right. You need to compare apples to apples. Yes, a pot of beans with no seasoning is cheaper than frozen dumplings. But making your own equivalent dumplings? Tons of labor time at home vs a giant commercial machine that just cranks them out.