A flotilla of ducks, surely

They’re two completely different species. The one with the O is North American, and the other is Australian. They only got the same name because people are lazy.

“I have a sportsball team I support, and I like watching TV”

He found himself in England.

I prefer “don’t renew your library books”

if people will wear Crocs in public, I wouldn’t rule it out

Looks like AI slop to me.

Nature is healing

Dad picked it up after retiring at the end of a long career. Shooting zombies sounded more fun than fishing.

If starting a family is no longer an imperative but just one possible option, being in relationships and finding a reliable life partner is no longer as vital. If starting a family looks infeasibly expensive to the point that only those willing to make big sacrifices would prioritise it, dating goes from being an essential part of not being an antisocial weirdo to a sort of cargo-cult ritual for those hoping on some level for the white picket fence and 2.4 kids. If you’ve ruled that out, or resigned yourself to not having it, the steady regimen of dates and couplehood milestones can be the next thing to be optimised out.

The actual pirate shanties of our age

Harsh realm

“groovy” was already only used ironically back in the day, having much the same connotations as referring to Nirvana as a “beat combo”

“Gunzel” is also Australian/New Zealand slang for trainspotter/railway enthusiast. Not sure if it’s related.

Well, since he bought Instagram, he did turn it from a social hub to a slot machine whose payout is fragments of connection to people you care about, carefully metered to be just enough to keep you coming back without leaving ad money on the table.

In this economy?

We don’t deserve cats

That’s not counting ones undergoing lung surgery and being intravenously oxygenated.

That’s the Pixelfed guy, right?

By all accounts, he seems to have been a fairly standard TESCREAL-adjacent high-decoupling libertarian until now, like a lot of tech founders. While some of these end up steelmanning fascism and coming to the conclusion that it’s pretty neat, it by no means follows.