Yes, so true.

Everyone I’ve ever talked to who has been poor and is not anymore has the same story of the moment they realized they weren’t poor anymore: grocery shopping.

— Erynn Brook (@ErynnBrook) May 15, 2018

When I got out on my own, at first I still shopped like I was poor — like my family did when I was a kid. We literally used free bowls and plates that came out of dog food bags (some kind of promotion) when I was young — and they were better than what we had been using. We were that kind of poor, especially when I was 11 and younger.

Then I joined the army, made a good bit of money in the stock market, and one day in the grocery store realized: I don’t have to look at the prices any more. If I want the damn thing, I’m buying it.

That was indeed a huge moment. That was more life-changing than many other supposedly (from a societal perspective) larger changes in my life, that being able to slough off thinking like the poor person I was no longer.

A TECH MAN: Lol look at u dweebs reading Foucault. That's nonsense gibberish. Get a job losers. Learn 2 code

*five years later*

TECH MAN: *ripping hair out* it's…. it's almost like…. the technological and political and social are… somehow related

— sarah jeong 🐱 (@sarahjeong) May 1, 2018

Ha, yes. I once heard someone at work say, “I wish people didn’t bring their politics into tech. That’s not why I got into this field.” People in tech are often just shockingly clueless.

This has been going around.

What do you hear?! Yanny or Laurel pic.twitter.com/jvHhCbMc8I

— Cloe Feldman (@CloeCouture) May 15, 2018

I hear both at the same time. Not sure how anyone can hear anything else, but they obviously do. I suspect my perception is partially because I used to spend long, long hours (before the internet) decoding nearly incomprehensible song lyrics of obscure 90s bands.

The sounds of “Yanny” and “Laurel” are overlaid at different pitches, like many songs’ vocal tracks. I also have wide attention, so these sorts of things rarely have the intended effect.