This is a good point. Affleck seems like the kind of person that has hit the inflection point of constant media attention being obtrusive, rather than flattering. And that point was probably during his personal problems. I get the sense that he is over it and established enough to not have to pretend to care.

One is a private conversation, the other might not be confidential in any way in their circle. It might even be information the principals involved want known. So, no, not hypocritical.

I’ve always felt that Ben simply hates the paps. He was unrelentingly plagued by the paps during his alcoholism and failing marriage to Jen Garner. What we see in images of him is an absolute refusal to “smile” for the photographers: the exhausted visage of someone who simply feels harassed. I wouldn’t be surprised if…

As an equally old person, I posit that the phrase “healthy level of support on TikTok” is an oxymoron.

Aren’t there several of these kind of youtubers doing things like that?
One had build some hobby room bunker and underground paths from his house to it and a (underground?!) garage or something like that.
Things that I was more then sceptical if everything is by the law.
Just remembering how much paperwork I had to put …

Noise, runoff, potential sinkholes, potential damage to water/sewage/electrical/gas/telephone/tv/Internet lines. Need I continue? This woman is a menace and why HOAs, despite being a pain in the ass sometimes, need to exist. And she's continuing this knowing her neighbors are immigrants of questionable legal status,…

Exploiting the possibility that neighbors might be hesitant to call the police (or inspectors, etc.) to get away with endangering their safety and property. Or were you unaware that the word “exploitation” has uses beyond an arbitrarily strict extractive sense?

Aside from the fact that she could have been buried alive (and may still), or blown up hers or her neighbors houses, like... why? What is the motivating factor here to dig a big ass pit on your property? People are so f’ing weird and crazy. Also, “Still, she maintained a healthy level of support on TikTok,” might…

This is insanely irresponsible. Our friends had crazy neighbors who decided to dig in the backyard without getting any county approval or engineers’ opinion or anything, and they broke into a gas line and set our friends’ house on fire via the kitchen...destroyed all their possessions and the whole house had to be…

Pretty sure there isn’t an HOA in the world that has a rule that says “no tunnelling under your house”

How dare engineers and geologists tell this woman she’s asking to get crushed to death! She knows just as much as they do!

Everything you said you could be replaced with “doctor”, “pilot”, “nuclear technician”, etc., etc. etc.

The biggest issue a lot of the “experts” seem to have with her is that she is not a formally educated “expert.”

sometimes a story comes along that explains why HOAs exist and make me the teeniest bit thankful I live in one. And it’s because people can’t just be trusted to be fucking reasonable.

Credentials typically exist for a reason beyond snob-vs-slob gatekeeping. I would 1000% want and expect a neighbor to be credentialed and have the appropriate clearances before digging a giant pit next door. This isn’t someone being uptight about a few pink flamingos in the yard or a garishly pained mailbox; there’s…

a blindfolded fetus balanced on an umbilical cord pedestal

That’s because men like Reynolds only evaluate women on what a woman can contribute to the life of the man who loves her. Men don’t see women as individuals who can exist independently as well.

I just hope that the literally unholy alliance between right wing, fascist Israelis (Netanyahu et al) and right wing, fascist Christian nationalists (the US Republican Party) is finally being exposed for the evil nightmare it is.

“Jeez, I prefer democracy to a dictatorship and see that repubs are doing everything they can to destroy this country and its institutions, as well as obliterating long-standing norms in pursuit of holding on to power so they can enact their fascist policies. But Biden seems like he’s not pro-choice enough... so I am…

Meanwhile Yost says all other laws on the books about abortion that run afoul of the amendment are still in effect until he’s told otherwise. Because risk-averse doctors are going to go out of their way to test the boundaries of what’s now constitutional.