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- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 6 days 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? 6 days 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks ago:
On purpose or by accident?
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 weeks 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! 5 weeks 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! 5 weeks 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! 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago:
Your UPS must be different.
- Comment on Steps To Navigate Discord 2 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 2 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.
- Comment on The world was a nicer place before the advent of leaf blowers 3 months ago:
You think that right up until you see and smell how much poop comes from one cow. If your neighbor had one, you would have complaints.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 3 months ago:
But are getting argyle gun skins?
- Comment on Tabletop Convection Oven* 3 months ago:
It’s a great alternative if your rental has a gas oven and you are rightfully concerned about the indoor air pollution caused by the burning of natural gas. We can’t change the installed range so we use an air-fryer/ toaster oven on one counter and an electric induction burner on the other. We got a wooded range cover and use it as counter space for food prep.
- Comment on Pinterest is finally doing something about its AI infestation 3 months ago:
I started reporting every obvious AI image as Spam- Offensive a few weeks ago. I got more of it for a day o so and then substantially less. You generally have to be really firm with the Pinterest algorithm about showing the same content repetitively. Not just ads, any content.
I don’t love Pinterest but it’s the least stress visual feed I’ve used.
- Comment on Meta axes VR game developers amid $4.97 billion Reality Labs loss 3 months ago:
The AR glasses project is also dead. They laid off the team working on the hardware shortly after Trump took office in a bunch of other layoffs.
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 3 months ago:
Nono, I remember this from JPII’s death. They yell his birth name 3 times into his room and then they use the hammer to smash his ring and seals. Dude was in a coma for a just long enough for us to hope for a Undead Pope -> Emperor on the Golden Throne situation.
- Comment on Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan 4 months ago:
The reason Nebula and Dropout work is they are making their own content. Since most anime are sourced from the Manga or Light Novel sources, I don’t see an independent streaming company being able to get the rights and $$ to make animated content to stream. Also, animation is both expensive and takes a long time so any independent platform would need 2-4 of funding after making content to be able to survive long enough to make season 2 of anything.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 4 months ago:
Sorry, didn’t pay my Netflix cultural tax this year. Maybe I’ll sail the sees for it.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 4 months ago:
It was almost the entirety of AM radio for the past 40 years. Sports and this right-wing trash. On in the background at every work place, hardware store, and cafe until Muzac took over. Had that ranting asshole and his friends pumping into our ears wanting it or not. Many areas of the country had only that and Country Music for hours in any direction.
When I said “if you knew what you were doing” I meant you can build an AM receiver out of literal trash with a middle school understanding of electrics but no one bothered because you had one built in to every car, every tape player, boom box, alarm clock, and anything else with a speaker. You had a radio in every room of the house and 2 in the garage even if you never turned it on. There’s no way to believe that phones have less cultural push than AM radio had pre-1990.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 4 months ago:
Rush Limbaugh was broadcast on the free radio, you could listen to it on $1 worth of junk parts if you knew what you were doing. The ease of access is not what made republican bigotry accessible or popular.