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- Comment on Finally paid off my Costco hotdog 🙏 3 days ago:
I have this shirt in white and I love it.
- Comment on What Every Adult Thinks 4 days ago:
I have zero desire to be a kid again. What I want is finacial stability and trust in people in leadership positions to not be huge pieces of shit who make houseflies look like members of MENSA.
The desire to be a kid, I think, is far more rooted in wishing for blissful ignorance.
- Comment on no way right 1 week ago:
The issue I’m having is that yours is a country which sees the far right as something that will always exist with such power. I know the mechanics of it all, what I’m routinely shocked by is the back that the bar is on the floor and the country as a whole just cannot seem to get over it. The Democrats should not be the best you really have to offer, they should be your right-wing party and they should struggle but instead the USA handed a dictator the popular vote and a third of the place didn’t even participate either way.
It isn’t the existence of good people, it’s the complete domination by evil, or even just apathetic, people. I’m genuinely sorry that you’re suffering but, especially as a Canadian, it does not change my opinion about the landfill inferno that is the USA.
- Comment on no way right 1 week ago:
I feel less and less sad for people in the USA as time goes on because of exactly what you say. How did they not see it coming? HOOOOOW? And how did a third push for it, a third sorta try to help, and the other third maybe or maybe not just still doesn’t even know what’s happening?
- Comment on "Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀 1 week ago:
If we’re were forcefully taken to another country and then had children at some point I would talk to them about the people left behind and where I came from.
That’s not how that works, especially when their cultures were specifically purged by the slavers. Your comment reads like the equivalent of saying “I would have just roundhouse kicked the gun away and saved the day” as if it’s the slaves’ fault for not giving their kids rich lessons on their history. It’s amazing that even some of it survived at all.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 2 weeks ago:
Because other than obvious hate-speech, leftists are the ones who actually practice freedom of speech while the right screams and yells and bans books.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 2 weeks ago:
The key difference that your awful take misses is the difference between the center-right and conservatives. The center-right will support business and capital far more than it should and will drag its heels on things like worker’s rights but progress can be made. Conservatives, on the other hand, are angry, fear-driven morons who cause real, direct physical harm to people for he crime of being not who their deranged leaders prefer.
Centrists are worthless and their inaction leads to real consequences but it is the Conservatives’ action that makes them so especially violent and dangerous and as much as the centre-right does nothing they, ultimately, are not the ones causing the right to commit these atrocities. In other words, shut the fuck up, you aren’t helping.
- Comment on Do you think my co-worker will hear about this? 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely a little awkward for a bit. But you got a big friendly hello and that’s a win, yea?
Was just thinking maybe her friend said or offered to say and she went “why the fuck should I care?”. Everything is equally possible, take ‘er easy and remember that you’ve got this no matter how it’s sliced :)
- Comment on Do you think my co-worker will hear about this? 2 weeks ago:
I think just go about your business assuming her friend kept it on the down-low, and it doesn’t seem like it’s led to her treating you worse so all good. Nothing to be embarrassed about if you trust her to be a good person, which you seem to.
I get it, of course, it’s certainly a little awkward and not a position I would want to be in. I’ll bet the not knowing if she knows is probably worse than if you could know for sure she does, eh?
- Comment on Do you think my co-worker will hear about this? 2 weeks ago:
If ya’ll were gunna date she’d find out pretty quick anyway, and if that’s a deal-breaker for her then you’re probably better off staying friends. And maybe her friend is a bro, or at least a professional, and didn’t say anything.
If you didn’t even want to date her at some point, then it really ain’t anything, ya know?
- Comment on Life is unfair to landlords 1 month ago:
One landlord: “How will I pay my bills?”
Their multitude of tenants and their families: “How will WE pay our bills?!”
- Comment on French culture 1 month ago:
In French? Yea, it’s there it’s just called, some of the time anyway, an aspirated H. It’s also pretty rare and I’d be willing to bet that that is due to loan words.
- Comment on French culture 1 month ago:
French does pronounce most of the letters, they just tend to drop the last one. Then there’s our “though” which is often shortened to “tho” with no consequence. English is not creative, either, most of the time the words were actually pronounced in a way that matches and time changed how we spoke them. That and we just kinda lifted the spelling of loan words but said them differently because whichever of our many accents at the time made it otherwise uncomfortable to say.
- Comment on French culture 1 month ago:
The Concorde was just loud and cost more money to run, and in 27 years had only one fatal accident wherein a DC-10(American designed) left a piece of debris on the runway which ultimately kicked off the incident. It was a pretty good plane from my understanding.
If we’re calling out specifics, the Airbus is an incredibly successful plane.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Except that even if your commute is 20km that’s still going tonlast you all week. Obviously there are other trips to make but it’s definitely not stopping 99.9% of people in the middle of their commute, or even their workday, to charge.
I don’t know why so many people think whatever they buy needs to be able to handle every single fringe case they’ve never even experienced or why they think that something being absolutely adequate for their own use is somehow bad. It’s room-temp IQ bullshit and I’m tired of it.
17k for a vehicle powered by a watch battery(exaggeration) is pretty sick and more than practical, even for people in North America.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 months ago:
Also shows how much they actually can’t or won’t leave based just on just a (much needed) tax increase.
- Comment on We must conserve 2 months ago:
No Nut November was months ago it’s ok.
- Comment on THE CLASS WAR IS BACK, BABY! 2 months ago:
Wait, did they think the bathrooms were special and cost money? Many places just slap a paper “gender neutral” sign on their washrooms and call it a day until a nicer sign can come in. The really good places knew this shit ages ago and already saved themselves the trouble by putting in a shared sink area and having stalls with real doors. As someone who has literally had to fit washrooms into floor plans I can guarantee that if cost and ease were problems then we’d only have gender neutral washrooms.
- Comment on Saving this one for posterity. It will make a great before/after, trust. 2 months ago:
I love how the last bit is like “if we stop talking about him wanting to throw out the constitution, wanting to invade Canada, and all the tariffs, then he’s done a great job!” and like even then no, he hasn’t, but imagine being such a failure that you think that any of those aren’t huge deal breakers.
- Comment on but what happened to logsday? 2 months ago:
And that 8th day will absolutely be a working day for reasons.
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point. 3 months ago:
Yea, we’ve all gotten so used to online shopping that we’ve forgotten what we’re allowed to do when it comes to local stores. I even worked retail in a motorcycle shop selling gear and ordered stuff from suppliers all the time.
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 3 months ago:
What are you talking about? Of course we do, all the time.
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point. 3 months ago:
To be honest, since most places ship from their physical locations(which may not have stock or carry something at all due to demand) and Amazon’s incredibly predatory practices it means that they are pretty much the only option. I’ve gotten stuff from Etsy as well(but it doesn’t help for, like, water filters and certain appliance parts), and I really have always tried to avoid Amazon, but there are just some things where they’re the only ones where I can buy some of this stuff.
And like I said, I’m gunna have to just start asking outright for stuff even if whatever store doesn’t carry it normally. It’ll take some patience but I’ll live.
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point. 3 months ago:
People gotta start working the hours they’re paid for. If I’m working my shift well then it’s not my fault that the company is understaffed and I am not gunna bust my ass to cover for someone’s poor leadership.
- Comment on Amazon accused of using algorithms to push warehouse workers to breaking point. 3 months ago:
There actually are things that one just cannot find elsewhere easily, and most of the places that reliably carry them locally are places like Walmart which aren’t better. That said, it’s always the very last place I look.
With all this nonsense I’m going to start asking local stores if they can order stuff for me, though, and just be extra patient. For example, it’s wild how little there is for mandolins at local music stores but at least the British strings I’m going to try switching to are there so that’s something.
- Comment on One in 15 Americans has witnessed a mass shooting – study 3 months ago:
The headline isn.t misleading, you had bad reading comprehension and are unable to face the fact that the country is a violent shithole. Cope harder.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 3 months ago:
Oh, some rents are getting crazy and the buildings were purchased 10-20 years ago so the mortgage isn’t that high. It’s all a scam.
- Comment on Mandatory Minion/Musk Meme 3 months ago:
“And then they did, even though Musk is not a comicbook super villain and could probably be defeated in combat by a particularly aggressive child.”
- Comment on Do you see what's going on yet? 3 months ago:
Compete for jobs they screamed were “unskilled” and didn’t deserve a living wage. Boy I’m so excited to tell throw that argument back at them.
- Comment on Gotta dig this hole for myself somewhere. 4 months ago:
Are you…threatening us? “Let us in or we’ll force our way in anyway”?
Good lord, go fuck yourself.