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[Baffler]

Is it unusual to have acceptable living standards without being married in a capitalist society now?

There's a whole thing about it, actually, and a lot of controversy around it. Married people (at least in the USA) do tend to be more well off near as I can tell because of tax incentives and because dual income is a possibility. Kids change the equation a little (and the dual income trap is a thing) but in general it seems so.

[hops]

Yeah but still, maybe she's just financially responsible?

[Dunamisdeos]

Ok sorry this is a WTF based on a TV show but

Like... Supergirl they show the inside of the Sister character's apartment (been too long, forgot her name)...

And she is just a common DEO (think of it like... CIA, FBI, MIB) soldier MAYBE a lieutenant at most... and her apartment is gorgeous! she even seems to have a king sized bed... and she is single!

This is true of almost every TV show ever.

[Jopax]

If it isn't explicitly explained assume rich ancestors, it's simpler that way.

My WTF of the day is somewhat NSFW. Someone saw a hole in the sex toy market, a hole shaped like cthulhu dildos. So they went ahead and filled that hole.

[Descan]

you just wanted to make a hole-based pun

[Jopax]

I actually stole it from the site description, I feel dirty now, and it's not because I'd like to stick one of those dildos on a shelf so it menaces visitors into uncomfortable silence.

[Dunamisdeos]

A happy WTF:

The Littlest Cheesemaker updated today.

If it isn't explicitly explained assume rich ancestors, it's simpler that way.

My WTF of the day is somewhat NSFW. Someone saw a hole in the sex toy market, a hole shaped like cthulhu dildos. So they went ahead and filled that hole.

I see what you did there.

[Lord Shonus]

I've also heard that if you suffer from bad sight from fixing at a certain sight for too long (such as a computer screen) you can also regain some of it by doing "eye gymnastics" and training you ability to focus at different distances. (Or in other words, not staring at a screen so much )

Both parts of this statement are long-debunked pseudoscience. You cannot harm your eyes by reading, using a screen, or anything of that sort (unless, of course, the light level in question is ludicrously high, in which case the light alone is causing the damage) and "eye gymnastics" have been proven to do absolutely nothing many times over the last century.

[Rolan7]

Wikipedia says "physiological afterimages", the things you get from staring at a still image, are benign (:  The rods and cones are just temporarily adapting.
That's different from the purplish streaks from too-bright lights, like the sun, which you should not stare at (duh).

I used to get painful eyestrain from reading in the dark, glad it wasn't actual damage.  I had a feeling it wasn't.  Of course I'm even happier to live in an age of LCD monitors and book-sized displays.  CRTs were awful.

[Iceblaster]

What school do the people who have stories of like, secretely playing quake or doom during computer lab go to? Because it's pretty unbelievable that they'd be able to do that without immediately being caught by a teacher :v

EDIT: Grammar

[MetalSlimeHunt]

In my school the teacher was in on it. We'd occasionally close out the last hour of shop and use the flight sim classroom to play Halo.

For an abrasive woodworking instructor in his late 40s, he got pretty good at headshots after a while...

[Rolan7]

For Starcraft, it was a *weird* situation where AP Computer Science and regular were being taught in the same classroom...  Even though one was C++, and the other was Office.  The teacher put us AP students on the back row, with a clear row that he would occasionally come back and lecture from while the other students practiced spreadsheets and such.

After the first couple weeks we were mostly just going through prepared challenges/tutorials on our own.  He was so relieved that, as long as we were on schedule, we were allowed to play whatever as long as we kept it a secret from the administration and other students.  So we installed Starcraft, which we somehow got working on the LAN.  A friend and I also hotseated HoM&M2 a lot.
I didn't really learn the value of object oriented programming until Java at university, but I did well on the AP test.  I'm still rubbish at C-family languages.

We only had that class for a quarter, sadly.  In another quarter we had network engineering, and the teacher struck us a similar deal except the whole class was in on it.  That worked a bit better, because we were getting proper instruction *and* a strong incentive.  *ANOTHER* teacher even let us come in during our lunch to play Counterstrike and Team Fortress.

A few years later this was apparently still going on.  My younger brother got me into an all-night LAN party and Red Vs Blue marathon...  Overseen by an awesome teacher.
My first high school was pretty awesome TBH.  Third one had more AP classes but was preppy and unfun (rich area).

[Parsely]

Your high school experiences were way cooler and more replete with doritos and mountain dew than mine ever was.

[itisnotlogical]

The computers at my school barely worked, and the rooms were locked any time you'd be free to use them for non-school purposes.

[Levi]

When I was in high school we had taken all the ram out of one side of the computer lab and put it into machines on the other side.  That way we could play games and the other side would barely compute anything.   

Mostly played command & conquer, doom and descent.