Exactly. I wish folks would stop with the memes.
When Trump won last time, there were multiple raids in my neighborhood within a couple months of him winning. My part of town has a large population of immigrants (I am one myself) and ICE was everywhere. A couple on Next Door, from the Middle East, was freaking out because while they’re here legally, it didn’t stop ICE from harassing them and threatening to take their daughter away.
This shit is not funny.
Have you never gambled and lost with a fart?
Once or twice, I had diarrhea as an adult, and thought it was a fart, and wound up sharting.
Can’t be that uncommon.
Same. I’m AuDHD and his show was calming and positive. He spoke and sang about anxiety and fears for a kid who was full of both.
Also, people forget or just don’t know how much garbage was on TV at the time. First of all, there was only one day a week dedicated to kids programs and what little else there was, was pretty awful. As an immigrant, with a family dealing with PTSD from fleeing a civil war, Mr. Rogers calming voice and attitude was halcyon to my little brain.
I legitimately loved his show as a kid.
What kind of bug?
This is over the top. It’s a tool.
Can’t read the article without creating an account. Anybody wanna summit up?
First past the post system is designed to keep the liberal and neoliberal parties in power.
It’s because nobody gives a F about you.
My spouse told me about a number of times people stopped to help her when she had a flat or her car broke down. Also, one time when she bought something at an autoparts store and they helpfully installed it for her.
I had someone pull over to help one time,out of the dozens I’ve been broken down by the side of the road, and that one time, it was a cop. The only reason they did was bc it was 3AM and they probably wondered what I was getting up to. Other than that, never had anyone stop to help.
When I went to the store she’d recommended, the guy man-shamed me when I asked for help installing a part.
Generally speaking, men don’t get much mental, physical or financial help.
I’m not saying women have it great (they don’t), but there’s a lot more to it than “guise suq!”.
Books as a subscription is the ultimate FU.
It is now morally imperative to pirate and freely distribute information.
Hookers & blow for the producers?
You know what reduces copyright infringement? Making content available, affordable and accessible.
In the golden days of Netflix, I hardly torrented anything.
There’s also a “I’m not going to get some bullshit masquerading as the movie I was looking for.” thing in place.
I belong to a couple private trackers. I use them nearly exclusively and have never once downloaded a bullshit file/virus/whatever. It’s happened a couple times on public ones.
I know who the good uploaders are and know that seeding on the private isn’t going to get me flagged to my ISP, which happened twice before going off public.
I guess what I’m wondering is: why wouldn’t you use one if you can find what you’re looking for?
Wages have stagnated. I was lucky to get any raise, but it was significantly less than the cost of living.
Meanwhile, eggs are $4 a dozen. Other staples are $$.
Food overall is much more expensive and we’re not even talking about discretionary items or entertainment.
Used cars are almost unobtainable, housing and rent are through the roof.
By what metric is the economy doing well? Stonks?
Love this story.
Zydot. I’ve personally used it to pass tests. You have to follow the directions exactly, but it works.
Some real axis of evil shit going down. Anyone who questions if they’re the baddies at this point is intentionally being obtuse.
Yeah, that part is super fucked up. I have IoT in my ceiling fans. I had to call their support line to have them remotely turn off the beeping that accompanies a button press.
The feature can’t be deactivated locally. I literally had to have my ceiling fan join my Wi-Fi network so that support could remote in and disable a beep that no one could possibly want.
Oh yeah, my oven has Wi-Fi. What possible reason could there be for my oven to have network access? It’s beyond ridiculous.
And then there’s the subscription model. Where you don’t own or even license software. You just continually pay rent.
Thanks! I appreciate the context. Never would have understood and it would have confounded me.
Fantastic read! Really nailed how I feel about it as well.