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- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 10 hours ago:
The second line of the article really sums it up from my perspective. “President George W. Bush was obsessed with the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and deliberately misled the American people about who was responsible for the 9/11 attack.”
I was curious how the nebulous connection between Iraq and Afghanistan was perceived by those who weren’t as aware of the older Bush’s history in the area. In the hours following 9/11, a common question among my peers was “How will this be twisted into us going into Iraq?”
- Comment on Don't forget to turn purple and remove your arms 13 hours ago:
With respect:
Why is 9/11 associated with Saddam jokes?
I’m old enough to remember both Iraq wars and 9/11 and the associated politics in detail the two subjects are very intertwined in the collective American memory.
But I want to hear specifically why people in 2025 think this.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 6 days ago:
Could it be that these guys are going to “Where are we going, Papa EA?” them in a few years?
(Can’t find a link to the references comic on my phone but basically EA is known for buying up smaller studios and then closing them only a few years later after sucking them dry. This led to a comic of them taking little unsuspecting companies into the dark woods to end them.)
- Comment on Invest 🫘⤴️ 1 week ago:
I had to go check this was real. Containment breached folks.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 4 weeks ago:
It’s authored by the guy who coined the term originally; so however he’s using it, that’s the way it’s used.
- Comment on asked and answered 4 weeks ago:
I asked my family what the last useful thing Congress accomplished that made life better for Americans.
The only 2 answers were the 2010 Affordable Care Act and the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act.
Two actions in 40+ years.
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?? 5 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, the cast grows and grows every episode or so until there’s much more likeable people. Senku is always there but his role gets smaller until he’s tolerable.
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?? 5 weeks ago:
It was 24 eps and I liked it better after like 6-8 but it’s an ensemble cast that grows bigger basically every episode so I’ll once you get the swing of it, it carries you along.
- Comment on Are you fucking kidding me?? 5 weeks ago:
No shit, I had the hardest time getting into the anime Dr. Stone for this exact reason. Thankfully, someone held me down for the first 2 seasons and I learned to love it.
- Comment on bmw 5 weeks ago:
I have a growing personal hatred of people in white pearl-coat cars right now. They are the new BMWs for me.
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 1 month ago:
Interesting! Thanks. That has some more nuance than I was expecting.
PA state government is rife with corruption of every level and so we as residents tend to leap to conclusions that every state official, especially the elected ones, are always committing some kind of crime and it’s just the unlucky ones who get caught and tried. The State Treasurer in particular has a recent bad history.
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 1 month ago:
Source? He was a State Treasurer involved in a complicated bribery and contracting scandal. It’s not a he-said-she-said sort of case. His accuser was a deputy comptroller for Pittsburgh Public Schools who noted contracts were wildly overvalued for the work and called the State Auditor General who called the FBI to investigate the matter. Who are you suggesting was lying?
- Comment on Florida ounces 1 month ago:
Damn, I’m old enough to remember this post the first time it happened on Reddit. I laughed about this poor fool all day. Good times.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid? 1 month ago:
Can we call it the Tri-State so every “Tri-State area” has no hope?
- Comment on Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off? 2 months ago:
On purpose or by accident?
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 months ago:
What proof do you have that your waste is being processed correctly? I have proof mine is not and plenty of news reporting from across the US in the last 5 years that says consumer curbside recycling is basically dead.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 months ago:
I’m just speaking as someone who does carefully separate everything, only to watch the truck put it all the same place. My individual actions mean fuck all if the rest of the process doesn’t work.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 months ago:
It’s hard to blame them entirely when the facilities to separate and recycle the waste were never fully built in the US and we spent decades shipping bales of consumer recycling to Asia where it was often deemed too dirty to use for recycling and was burned instead. You can find tons of great articles about the collapses of consumer recycling and the unraveling of the plastic recycling lies sold to the American public, it came about 2021 and continued to be a hot topic through 2023. Today, my shitty neighborhood has collectively stepped down from a proper waste pickup with bins, to 4 guys and a truck who collect and take the waste to a nearby incinerator. We know it can’t be an “official” waste collection company by the “We Love Junk” signs on the truck enjoying our cans, but we’ve been told this is fancy hand collection that is quieter than standard trash trucks and we should be grateful. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 2 months ago:
In the US it’s nearly impossible since the pandemic. Most waste collection firms are dumping both cans in the same truck and not recycling anything. Plastic recycling in particular turned out to be much more expensive than waste management was prepared to keep doing so they stopped.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 2 months ago:
'96 Saturn Wagon in red. Mom bought it after a car accident left her unable to drive a manual transmission for a year when I was a freshman. She made me learn to drive in it, then as soon as I passed my test she brought herself a brand new Honda CRV with manual transmission and gave me the Saturn. I drove it until I finished graduate school in 06, I gave the Saturn back and she gave me $15k to buy a new car of my choice as a graduation present. My new husband and I chose a Ford Focus wagon, manual transmission, which we drove happily until it’s final demise in 2023. Mom sold the Saturn to a friend in the next state of over for a few grand but she drove the poor thing into a flooded road and killed it less than a year later.
- Comment on Guaranteed NO ONE ever used this on their face 2 months ago:
I have a WeVibe Tango and have loved it for a very long time.
- Comment on Guaranteed NO ONE ever used this on their face 2 months ago:
That’s super pricey for this. Any $15 vibe from Amazon will do.
- Comment on Guaranteed NO ONE ever used this on their face 2 months ago:
Not -always- but when things are really goopy and not going anywhere I can vibe for a couple of minutes until it’s looser and then blow my nose and get my allergy spray in. It’s a nasal spray so I need any room in there to get the meds in. I rub it mostly on my upper cheeks and nose and a little on my forehead.
- Comment on Guaranteed NO ONE ever used this on their face 2 months ago:
I use an intimate vibrator on my face occasionally to loose up my sinuses. Just give it a good wash before and after; there’s nothing wrong with it.
- Comment on Reaction Channels Death: YouTube cracks down on ‘unoriginal’ monetized content with improved detection. 2 months ago:
Presumably, that would be content awareness and copyright compliance’s job to attend to? Enough of the commentary creators I enjoy have moved to a new platform specifically to avoid being demonetized for showing short clips that I assume straight reposting wouldn’t need a whole AI push.
- Comment on Reaction Channels Death: YouTube cracks down on ‘unoriginal’ monetized content with improved detection. 2 months ago:
In your opinion it will be reaction videos? There’s so many other kinds of “unoriginal” content they could be targeting. AI slop, the videos that are a single still image of a product zooming in and out slowly, there’s tons of different kinds of unoriginal out there.
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 2 months ago:
There’s no cord! Without it’s curly whirly umbilical cord how will it survive on it’s own?
- Comment on UPS is like Hooters for women 3 months ago:
Your UPS must be different.
- Comment on Steps To Navigate Discord 3 months ago:
Stuck between reporting this as a spam post and declaring AI self-help the next great copy-pasta trend.
This isn’t even bad advice, it’s just long AF and in shitposts. I guess he’s shitposting us back with arguably useful information? I’m confused.
- Comment on 7 for me 4 months ago:
As a teen someone repeated the myth that wearing a bra to bed can cause breast cancer, “Say no more!” said I and never did ever again.