I once actually thought that when movies and shows were developing, I thought that they were being made within the year of their release date. I didn’t know that these projects were sometimes done in advance or took years to make.
That when ‘Commercial Breaks’ happened during shows, I thought they meant that the actors needed a break before resuming. Not realizing that episodes are already made and commercials just interrupt things to just sell you shit.
When I learned food and drinks were energy for your body, I actually thought that when I got sleepy or tired, I just needed to drink or eat something. Not realizing that it wouldn’t have mattered.
A perpetual motion machine! I love it!
Eric Cartman, is that you? There was an episode where he tried to kick a girl in the balls. It did not work.
Unironically has some truth to it. As someone who feels strongly about minimizing my commute, I am baffled about how many people I have known who have long commutes for no significant reason.
Rarely there will be a reason like “My kids have a better school here”, but often after digging a little I find out someone is actually paying higher rent and commuting 45m+ to a lower rent area because moving is a hassle or some similar motivation. I knew a guy who commuted 3 hours one way in Alaska because he liked having a big yard. Like, when do you see it? You get home and immediately sleep.
Absolutely crazy to me. Never more than 30 minutes again unless I truly have no choice.
i do wonder why more people don’t just live where they work, spending and hour or 2 every day just shuffling inbetween work and home never made sense to me.
is it just an affordability thing? if some real estate mogul wasnt a rent-seeking piece of shit and just built a business around building/selling as many quality homes/apartments as possible for a decent profit (instead of maximized extraction at every level, as it is now) wouldn’t more people chose to live closer to work?
I would choose to work closer to where I live, not the other way around unless the only available job was hours away. That said, there are jobs closer to home than my current job, but I think they kinda suck.
Okay so in our case it’s very California-specific. We managed to buy a house (hooray!) after the housing crash. Because of the way California handles property taxes, we will never move unless we decide to leave California for good. If we take a job that is not close to us, too bad, we’re factoring commute into the offer, because we can’t move. My husband seriously considered a job that would require either a 1.5 hour drive or train ride because the money was amazing but ended up taking a much lower-paying WFH job, and the commute was a huge factor.
You just invented the Maglev xD