Mason

Prove me wrong

[Mason @webdevMason]

@bearshrugged @xwanyex The last time we did this, yes, and they told us to wait to get our renewal paperwork in the mail

[Mason @webdevMason]

@justalexoki Whatever the keto people say it's way easier to get chonky on fat vs. sugar, you're going to feel sick after 300-1,000 calories of fat-free candy but you can butter up a single meal to the stratosphere

[Mason @webdevMason]

@eigenrobot Apparently this guest has been married three times and has no biological kids, but is the third mother to two adopted children who have never had a legal father

Probablistically there are worse people to advise married female listeners but I sure don't know who they would be

[Mason @webdevMason]

@bearshrugged @xwanyex Because generally in this context you don't want to leave and don't plan to leave, and at least where I've lived 30 days has been pretty standard notice for rent increases on renewals

[Mason @webdevMason]

@xwanyex I think it's natural to feel miffed that somebody made an effort to estimate exactly how much it's worth to you to not have to move your whole life and family somewhere else in a month, which is what the large corporate landlords are obviously doing

But it's predictable

[Mason @webdevMason]

@xwanyex The only real difference is that there are a bunch of moving costs -- in cash, time and logistics -- that you have to pay in one big lump sum if you don't like the new lease. But it comes with the territory; you should expect to move often if you want to keep paying market rates

[Mason @webdevMason]

@teskinuras @eigenrobot What's sad is that more colleagues, particularly in the sciences and other "passion" fields, should obviously be getting hitched

We're burning out the few habitats for organic romance and easy love that still exist bc people like this play defection games in the worst places

[Mason @webdevMason]

@teskinuras @eigenrobot Yeah, if she "wants to keep it casual" the whole nature of the thing is laid bare and it should end right there

If you're not both falling in love there are like a dozen serious problems that instantaneously arise from this

[Mason @webdevMason]

@ctdonath @Travelsofofs He had enough money to manage the bond and then charter a private flight so yeah, this was all utterly foreseeable

[Mason @webdevMason]

I'm sorry, you told him you're pursuing his execution and then let him go home with an ankle monitor?

Apparently between Gilley's bail proceeding and his flight to Italy, Texas voters approved a ballot initiative to make it easier to deny bail. Terribly unfortunate timing

[Fox News US @FoxUSNews]

A Texas man accused of killing his pregnant wife cut off his ankle monitor, hopped on a bicycle, and boarded a private jet to Italy before his murder trial — and now the Italian government is dictating the terms of his return.

Italy granted Lee Gilley's extradition only after U.S. prosecutors agreed to drop the capital murder charge tied to the death of his unborn child. No death penalty. No life without parole. The reduced first-degree murder charge carries 5 to 99 years if convicted.

Gilley's defense attorney says an appeal is likely, meaning the man accused of murdering Christa Bauer Gilley could remain overseas even longer. Authorities believe he had help fleeing the country.

Full story here https://t.co/H5l7ExPYdV

[Mason @webdevMason]

I'm a sheet ghost for Halloween this year because the 4-year-old is operating smoothly in her lane and therefore dictates absolutely everything Halloween-oriented in this house during the brief window where she is both very cute and the only child able to talk

[Mason @webdevMason]

@CartoonsHateHer I get the amputee actually but ADHD dude's days are numbered

[Mason @webdevMason]

@eigenrobot Anyway, you can't turn to the camera and deliver the Bad Stupid Norm that downplays your extractive behavior and demonizes their extractive behavior without expecting them to do exactly the same thing

Everyone is so tired of litigating bad stupid norms this way

[Mason @webdevMason]

@eigenrobot I think everyone immediately recognizes that both of these people were in very different advantageous positions and used them extractively

It's all good and well to be playful about this if you're falling in love but if you're not it's just gross

[Mason @webdevMason]

@eigenrobot I'm not even going off my own moral code here, but society's revealed preferences

Deep down everybody kind of hates both of these people and can only enjoy any successes or failures in their civil proceedings through the lens of personal wounds

[Mason @webdevMason]

@eigenrobot I'm being 100% sincere, you want to bang the hot subordinate 20 years your junior you can do that

but you do have to start saying "I'm going to marry that girl" almost immediately and you do have to get her a two month's salary ring by 1 year in

[Mason @webdevMason]

@Travelsofofs Apparently the judge's hands were tied in that the previous guidelines required the prosecution to meet a fairly high evidentiary bar in order to even have the option of pretrial detention. The prosecution asked for $3M and the judge granted just $1M, so there's that

[Mason @webdevMason]

@jacobsaysheyyy

[Mason @webdevMason]

First time growing plants from tissue cultures, wish me luck because I went way overboard on quantity here lol

[Mason @webdevMason]

I feel like this clip is proof that you can just come up with inexplicable and bizarre human mating practices at random and somehow they're always going to be more humane than modern dating

[Lee (Greater) @shortmagsmle]

I assume the goal of this video is to make Amish culture seem foolish, given this girl’s slight speech impediment and awkward mannerisms, but what exactly is the problem here? There’s no promiscuity or baby killing or digital prostitution; I’m supposed to think that’s bad?