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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yes, let me protest this thing that just happened by throwing my Android-OS phone that I bought years ago away. That’ll show 'em.

  You’re just as disingenuous and stupid as the morons on the right who smashed their Keurigs.

  FYI, my next phone will probably be a Linux phone anyway and I hardly use YouTube at all these days, and when I do it’s with AdBlockers on, and I never gave a cent to them for premium, so I cost them money to use their platform if anything. If PeerTube or some other non-Google video hosting service could go mainstream, I’d use that in a heartbeat. I’ve de-Googled my life as much as I could reasonably be expected to, and this was before their CEO kissed the ring. So fuck off with your judgemental attitude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine being a billionaire, running one the most powerful, corporations in the United States, and prostrating yourself to Donald Trump in this very public and embarrassing way.⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I already hate Apple products, so I can’t not buy them to make a statement about not supporting fascist loving corpo scum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Republicans so fuckin’ stupid they’re trying prohibition again, but this time with porn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the government forces you to act like a clown for no apparent reason⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just had this experience the other day. Flying SFO to BOS and it was like the security people didn’t even care. Leave everything in your bags, leave your shoes on, leave your belt on. The only thing they asked was empty your pockets, and it could all go in one bin. I thought that finally TSA was getting a bit better about not being such pricks about every little thing.

  And then on my return flight, I got pulled out of the security line three times. Once for a mistake printed on my boarding pass (not my fault, but I had to get it corrected at the service kiosk anyway), once for my CPAP machine that I left in my carry on bag (which is exactly how I did it in SFO and they didn’t give a shit), and once a bottle of liquid that was 8.5oz (limit is 8.4oz), so they made me pour out 0.1oz of fucking liquid.

  They yelled at me all three times and said that I should know the rules by now, but none of those things came up during my first flight. The rules change literally every time I fly somewhere, so there’s no point in memorizing them anymore. There are the “hard” rules which are sometimes not enforced and then there are the “soft” rules that seem to vary from airport to airport, or even individual TSA agents having a bad day or going on a power trip or something. I hate it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You make a great point. My own counter to that would be that not every consequence needs to come directly from the courts. People are more than capable of making up their minds about it with just the testimony from the accusers and then acting on that information accordingly, we just didn’t. That doesn’t seem to be OP’s principal argument, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Could someone just make, like, Raunchy Mastercard and just process payments from whoever the fuck wants it? It seems like the payment processors being puritanical dipshits is a weakness that could be exploited by an enterprising competitor.

  But then again, we’re talking about a natural monopoly that has been in place for decades at this point. I wouldn’t expect them to exactly play fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think a lot of people are completely missing the point. Very similar to how saying “black lives matter” doesn’t imply that non-black lives do not matter, or that black lives must somehow be considered more important than any other life, the phrase “believe women” doesn’t imply that we should start doubting men, or that a woman’s testimony should be held as a higher form of evidence than anything else. It’s pointing out the clear systemic bias against women in a system controlled and dominated mostly by men who do not want to cede their power and authority.

  One of the many flaws of the English language is how difficult it is to condense a very complex sociopolitical message down into a catchy one-liner without losing a ton of the context that got people there in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True Story⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just one more reboot and this time you’ll like the Fantastic Four, you’ll see. Just one more reboot and we’ll start making new films with new stories. We’ve just gotta change up the actors so we have to do the origin story over again, but this time for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess I just don’t understand the way they think. I once gave away an old bike for free on craigslist and the lady who came to pick it up was super nice, she even gave me a bottle of wine in exchange, and she totally didn’t have to do that. I miss interactions like that. I wish people didn’t always feel like they need to get a deal when bargaining for secondhand stuff online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro, it’s even worse if you try and give away stuff for free. I tried for months to offload a sectional that I had no room for in my house and I got so many fucking bullshit calls about it. Finally, I decided that it wasn’t worth selling and I was just trying to avoid paying a fee to dispose of it, so I relisted it for free. It was FREE and I had people get upset that my one condition was that they take it away on their own. I would go whatever it took to get them to take it - I’ll shrink wrap it, I’ll put each piece on a pallet, I’ll even help them lift it onto their van or truck. Even if it takes them multiple trips. But I wasn’t about to go rent a truck to deliver it to them if they weren’t going to pay for it.

  The description was very clear, but every reply was “I want it, but can you deliver it to me?”. When I told them no, they’d always get aggressive and call off the “deal”, as if I care that they don’t want the thing I’m giving away for free. The people who did agree to come get it never showed up, which made it frustrating since I would have to take off time from work to be home.

  I’ve basically given up on trying to use online marketplaces to sell used things. They’ve been completely taken over by the most frugal cunts imaginable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking the generational barriers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just pour the grease from mine into a ramekin and then put that in the refrigerator, optionally cover it with plastic wrap if you are worried about contamination or smell. Most people use a jar with a lid but I don’t cook fatty meats often enough to need a jar for all the grease I produce. If you left the pan out after cooking/overnight and the grease solidified before you could pour it, just heat it up again on the stove or in the oven until it turns back into a liquid. Obviously, wait until the pan has cooled enough to handle it without burning yourself while doing this pouring step, hot grease burns like hell and will send you straight to the emergency room with 3rd degree burns if it gets spilled on you.

  Once it’s in the container and in the refrigerator, it will solidify into a scoopable/spreadable semi-solid with a texture somewhere in between butter and ice cream. You can use it in place of fats or oils in other recipes (for example, if you need to grease a pan with butter or cooking spray before cooking, you can use a spoonful of the solid bacon grease instead). If you don’t want to use it and just want to dispose of it safely instead, just wait for it to solidify in the fridge and then scoop it into the trash. Takes about two seconds and won’t clog your plumbing

  It does go bad eventually. The grease will get rancid if left alone for too long, and it will start to smell foul and anything you cook with it will taste terrible and make you sick. If you are going to save it, use it within a month or so if you leave it uncovered, or covered it can last longer but give it a smell test before you put it in a pan - it should have a neutral smell at room temperature and be white in color or have a very slight yellowish hue. Throw it out if you see any spots or discoloration.

  A steak cooked in bacon grease is next level delicious. You should try it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing left to be proud of. Just vague platitudes about freedom and performative military worship that have been socially beaten into people since 2001. I have no faith remaining in my fellow countrymen. I am unable to clearly see a future for myself living here as I am now. What is left to be patriotic about?

  All the true patriots are dead. They were buried long ago. Modern patriotism is a marketing gimmick. I refuse to be a party to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anybody who has ever been unfortunate enough to have to apply for any of these healthcare or food stipend programs would know that it’s not as easy as the government makes it seem. In fact, the amount of bureaucracy, means testing, and highly restrictive income limitations means that most people don’t qualify period and people who do qualify have to spend an inordinate amount of time waiting to hear back from the government to know if they have been accepted or not, all the while hoping and praying they don’t get sick and can manage their money long enough to continue feeding themselves.

  Case in point, my fiance is out of work right now and actively seeking work. She applied for both MediCAL and SNAP and was denied for MediCAL because she had earned too much already that year to qualify and the SNAP benefits totaled out to $20/month in food stamps, based on historical income, which is insufficient even for the most frugal of individuals to make work. This is for someone currently earning $0/month and being almost entirely supported by me.

  After a certain point, it becomes a massive drain on your time and resources that could be spent looking for a job, so you stop bothering with the system altogether because who wants to spend hours doing paperwork and submitting claims just to get enough spare change to buy a bulk bag of rice to feed yourself a struggle meal?

  I don’t want to hear shit about “handouts” from anybody. My fiance paid her taxes faithfully for years without ever having to rely on the program, so where are her benefits? She has undoubtedly paid more into the system than she will ever extract.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I don’t use social media and never have.”

  So what are they going to do if someone fires back with this? Deny their visa because they didn’t agree to be spied on by a few of the worst companies on planet fucking earth? Is the government going to be able to somehow make me prove that I don’t have social media?

  We have the stupidest people in charge right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sign me up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no, you see the the issue they have is that a woman is holding the whip. We only want to be oppressed in patriarchal chattel slavery societies, the way the God of Abraham intended!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have searched far and wide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I also remember it having it when I was a kid. Before Costco had it’s Kirkland brand, they sold Fruit of the Loom underwear with the cornucopia logo, I’m sure of it. I think there was probably a knock-off/counterfeit brand that somehow wormed it’s way into department store/warehouse club supply chains, which is why so many people remember it that way, and also why FotL just denies it because they never discovered the replacement of product. I’d be willing to be there are some corporate folk out there who could say for certain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have searched far and wide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone likes to blame the universe splinter on the Harambe Event, but I like to think we were once living in the Berenstein Bears timeline and something went terribly wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have searched far and wide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does the version with the Cornucopia look so much better? If it isn’t their logo, it fuckin’ should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s still the purpose of the second amendment, for people to own guns to defend themselves and others against tyranny

  It isn’t, and has never been. The language of the constitution is plain as day:

  “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.”

  The mythos of the 2nd amendment being this poison pill for a tyrannical state government is only so pervasive because institutions like the NRA perpetuated it for decades in service of arms manufacturers and their bottom line. No sane government anywhere in the world would bake such a clause into their constitution, it’s antithetical to government itself.

  The 2nd amendment is absolutely an artifact of a bygone era of American history where, as a fledgling nation, we did not have a powerful standing army to rely on for defense against foreign adversaries. A people’s militia was the final defense against such a threat.

  However, all that being said, I agree with your sentiment that leftists should be arming themselves. Just because the 2nd amendment has almost completely lost it’s original intent or meaning, doesn’t mean we can’t take advantage of the fact that it exists with tons of legal precedent to strap up in preparation for what might come next. Things are unlikely to get better from here, and if things get worse you will be glad you have a firearm for protection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Former non-water drinker here.

  I was addicted to caffeinated/carbonated sodas. I never had any problems drinking almost exclusively diet coke for a long time. My caffeine consumption was well over the FDA recommendation for maximum daily intake.

  I would still drink water, especially when doing sports or exercise, but it wasn’t my go-to for hydrating myself throughout the day.

  Several times in my life, I quit drinking them, but I would always circle back around to it because I missed the taste more than anything, and I had never noticed any kind of significant health benefit to stopping.

  Recently some months ago, I was having some pretty severe bladder issues. Sudden onset urge to urinate. Like going from 0-100 in a racecar, the rapid urgency was the main issue. One minute I was fine and if you asked if I needed to use the bathroom I’d say “Nah”, and then 5 minutes later I’m literally dancing my way to the nearest toilet to just barely make it in time, like literally almost peeing my pants it was that bad.

  Went to the doctor about this, obviously, and that was when he told me that the extreme caffeine intake is causing irritation in my bladder and diagnosed me with Overactive Bladder Syndrome. I was instructed to completely cut out caffeine from my regular drinking habits, no tea or sodas, but I could have a cup of coffee in the morning to get me going, although initially I would want to quit cold turkey to purge my system of caffeine and let my bladder settle down. So water it was. Within about a month, I started to feel more regular again and I didn’t need to rush to pee as often and when I did I could hold it for longer periods of time.

  Now I pretty much drink only water all the time. I take a big 54oz jug with me to work and refill it towards the end of the work day. I’ll have a cup of coffee now and then in the mornings on weekdays, but I try not to make a habit of it, and I’ll have a sip of a soda at the movies or something, but I don’t even miss the taste of cola anymore. Occasionally I will buy the flavored waters at the grocery store just to get the carbonated experience, but I can’t drink those all the time. Water is great, it just takes forever to get your brain used to the idea that not everything you put in your body needs to have flavor. It’s super refreshing to get the filtered water pitcher right from the fridge, maybe pour it over a glass of ice, and drink it straight that way.

  In short, chugging sodas never used to bother me at all, but I guess as I’m getting older my body is just not having that shit anymore. Just like how I can’t eat straight junk food and not gain any weight like when I was a teenager, my metabolism has finally caught up with me on my soda/caffeine addiction and I had to cut that out too. I realize that I am better off now for it and I’m going to try and keep up the good habit I’ve started to form and keep drinking water.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thx brah

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank fucking christ. Now hopefully the AI bubble with burst along with it and I don’t have to listen to techbros drone on about how it’s going to replace everything which is definitely something you do not want to happen in a world where we sell our ability to work in exchange for money, goods and services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cancelling a pre-loaded pride event because you’re scared of right wing nutcases being mean to your playerbase is the very definition of letting the terrorists win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These cops are fucking scum and anybody who wears the LAPD badge should feel ashamed to be associated with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shooting an unarmed woman who was just trying to walk home: just LAPD things⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  America’s oldest and largest gang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can ChatGPT actually play chess now? Last I checked, it couldn’t remember more than 5 moves of history so it wouldn’t be able to see the true board state and would make illegal moves, take it’s own pieces, materialize pieces out of thin air, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people like Melon Tusk get tired of the shit they gave you pull through literally every day ? I mean doesn't the guilt of bad decisions pull them down enough like the rest of us ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you’ve never met a narcissist before. They are bad enough when you have to interact with them in your daily life, and I feel sorry for people who had to grow up with one as a parent. Letting multiple narcissists be in charge of the government has proven to be one of the worst decisions Americans have ever collectively made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always hope for a horsey⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s 2025. Pawn equality NOW!