“I’d only need it once a year”: People explain what they refuse to spend money on

People mention things like a carpet cleaner, books when you could easily go to the library, and a printer. What would you add to the list?

Woman Files Complaint Against Husband Because He Concealed the Fact That He Was Bald

How do you not notice that before you get married? Maybe plan some dates where you going to learn things about the person that you think are important before you decide to take the plunge and get married. What’s something you learned about your spouse after you got married?

I’m sharing some of my fiction writing as a serialized story. Paid subscribers can read the story each week, but free subscribers will be able to follow what’s happening in the story through news reports from the in-universe site “NewsGator”

The Last Four Years Ch. 13: Smithsonian’s Bold Plan to Save America’s Heritage

In The Last Four Years, a comet is four years away from hitting Earth. It’s not enough time to stop it, but long enough to get bored waiting for it. It is a story about what people do with the time they have left. Families trying to stay together, scientists trying to find a way out, and leaders holding civilization together

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• Tetris Creator Wants To Launch A Rubik’s Cube Into Space To Impress Aliens - I feel like all that would do is anger our alien overlords. Can you imaging how difficult it would be to solve a Rubik’s Cube with tentacles?

• Rare copy of the comic book that introduced the world to Superman sells for $15 million - My wife is about to release her first comic book. It’s mighty entertaining and you can get a copy for a lot less than $15 million

• Gen Z and social media are helping men’s makeup go mainstream. The beauty industry is trying to capitalize - I’m going to pass on that one. Too much work

• Study: AI Chatbots Show Signs of Anxiety, PTSD in Therapy - I’m not at all surprised that some of the questions people ask would cause some trauma for the poor chatbots

• Gen Z are arriving to college unable to even read a sentence—professors warn it could lead to a generation of anxious and lonely graduates - It’s worth pointing out that if they can’t read, they might be anxious and lonely, but they probably aren’t going to be graduates

• No Toilets, No Showers: Marriott Guests Sent to an Outhouse in the Parking Lot - This was all a part of their exciting program to show guests what it was like staying at a hotel in 1776

• Massive iceberg could be days away from ‘complete disintegration’: NASA - Finally, some justice for the Titanic

• Buffalo Bills fans have opportunity to own stadium urinal troughs from Highmark Stadium - Why pay for a brick outside of the stadium with your name on it when you can own something useful to people?

• Buddhist monks and their dog captivate Americans while walking for peace - Not wanting to be up-staged, Forrest Gump was seen lacing up his sneakers for another cross-country run

• Too Drunk to Drive, Father Asks 12-Year-Old Son to Drive Family Home - I mean, I guess that’s better than driving drunk, but pretty still illegal