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- Comment on It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language. 4 days ago:
Yeah my daughter is studying ASL in college right now and have learned a lot about sign language recently.
- Comment on Why not just move to a gated community 4 days ago:
There is also more legal protection from trespassing. It isn’t illegal to be on a public road or sidewalk in a neighborhood you don’t live in, and you can’t be trespassed unless you commit a crime. If the road and sidewalk are privately owned they can tell you to leave for any/no reason.
- Comment on 10 Richest Americans Have Gained $700 Billion in Wealth Since Trump Reelection 1 week ago:
I’d love to see a graph of that growth including growth rates during the previous handful of presidencies.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 1 week ago:
My area got flooded with Flock cameras during Biden’s last year. Both parties want the surveillance no question. But they also want to be in power. God I hate those cameras.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 week ago:
I have had a vasectomy, but I don’t have sex anymore so is that a double negative and I’m about to birth millions of new lives?
- Comment on NOW! 1 week ago:
It’s always right around my birthday, and I go camping that week.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 2 weeks ago:
I think usage is regional. Although I’ve never lived in a region where anyone actually used the term wieners. I’ve heard franks used sometimes. But mostly it’s brats, sausages or dogs. Brats are only bratwurst. Dogs are only hot dogs, it doesn’t matter what kind of meat or even vegan, but it’s unseasoned. Sausages are any other seasoned meat in a casing.
- Comment on grocery shopping 3 weeks ago:
Yeah we have a place around the corner called the market where people shop for free. You can only shop twice a month tho.
- Comment on grocery shopping 3 weeks ago:
It’s just as simple as that
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 weeks ago:
No, it’s more of a testament to how car-dependent our area is. You can live without a house, but you can’t live without a car, or access to someone who will drive you. Housing here is comparitively affordable.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 weeks ago:
I work with a lot of homeless, and I have known a few who have rented a car in a pinch. But you’re right, most just have an old beater they own.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 3 weeks ago:
In my area, the majority of homeless have cars. A car rental can be more important than a home to rent for survival for more people than you might think.
- Comment on Metal bands 3 weeks ago:
There must be some other word for a bundle of sticks.
- Comment on Built to last 4 weeks ago:
I still have my original NES and N64 from when they came out. Both still work with zero maintenance. I used the N64 last week.
- Comment on They say remote working less productive 4 weeks ago:
My commute is 20 minutes of curvy back roads. No traffic. Some farms and livestock, some forest. The roads get too much heavy truck use to be safe for cycling, but it’s a really nice drive.
- Comment on Some are too young to understand 4 weeks ago:
The guy is not wrong. I have dozens of HDDs but he’s talking about an actual hard drive. I also have a wife, 3 1/2 kids and my dog just died. I’ve seen some shit.
- Comment on Mmmmm 4 weeks ago:
It’s the ASSMAHN
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I actually agree with the sentiment of this post even though there are obvious exceptions. Your character doesn’t change when you’re drunk, just your inhibitions. So yeah, getting drunk reminds me I can be an asshole and probably I want to be more often than I do.
But you know what I’ve never done while even blackout drunk? I’ve never cheated on my wife. Because I don’t want to do that. I’ve had crazy hot women ask me to hook up and I was too drunk to even say, sorry I’m married. All I could get out was naww.
I’ve felt bad because I have seen devistation in the face of young women being blown off by an older dude but I was too drunk to express myself. I was also probably too drunk to be a great lover at that time, so maybe I did them a favor. But when you’re that drunk and the next morning all you can remember is destroying the ego of a skinny 25 year old, you know you didn’t imagine it.
- Comment on Meh, I'm more of an Aragorn fan... 5 weeks ago:
Is this less?
- Comment on Cause and Effect 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t help that there is way too much shitty, agenda-funded science today. And science we aren’t supposed to question. And science driven entirely by profit. Like, isn’t questioning science part of science? Of course the response is completely unreasonable too. All of my family are research scientists, and if a discovery doesn’t meet capitalistic goals, is it even a discovery at this point?
- Comment on She's got the talent 1 month ago:
Surprise Cincinnati reference. I’m here right now.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 1 month ago:
Between the cost of housing and the cost of food, and the fact wages aren’t that much better than they were 15 years ago - you’d think they would realize they are asking for the scraps people have left.
I’ve always just bought games when they’re on a good sale, I’ve never had a game pass type thing. But maybe they just want to squeeze a bit more out of their most loyal customers and they’re accepting that it is a dying model.
- Comment on Before you could waste hours on the internet you could waste it on the phone with those who you were with just hours ago and who you would see again in just hours 1 month ago:
I know you’re not lying but I didn’t own a bong until '92.
- Comment on Before you could waste hours on the internet you could waste it on the phone with those who you were with just hours ago and who you would see again in just hours 1 month ago:
For me the bong hits were more in the 90s, it was more pipes or joints before that. People talking on the phone all day was more of a '70s and '80s thing. Non-stop busy signal. And then later we added modems to the same line.
- Comment on Before you could waste hours on the internet you could waste it on the phone with those who you were with just hours ago and who you would see again in just hours 1 month ago:
I hated the phone back then too.
- Comment on Taiwan says 'will not agree' to making 50% of its chips in US 1 month ago:
They’ll be absorbed into China soon now.
- Comment on They're coming. 1 month ago:
Yo I love armadillos and I rarely see them, but this map shows them just barely where I live. I hope to see one here soon, I’m sure the first one I see will be on the road, but then hopefully alive soon too :)
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 1 month ago:
There are very few with continuous testicular pain for up to a year, and that group usually also experiences reduced erection quality. That’s the 2%
The smaller 1% experience pain for the rest of their lives. And again, reduction or complete loss of the ability to have quality erections.
I’m somewhere in the middle of those two. Just over a year of nonstop pain, I had pretty much accepted I’d never live without it. But then it went away. It still comes back occasionally, but it isn’t nonstop. And my erections aren’t what they used to be, they vary from completely awful to maybe 90% at best. I got my vasectomy at 35.
There people who have to get it done a second time, but that wasn’t me. I’d rather not live anymore or never have sex again than do that again.
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 1 month ago:
Whenever you have any procedure/surgery, they’ll give you percentage chances of certain side effects. It might be 90% had none,5% something minor, 2% really bad and 1% worse than you would want to imagine. Obviously the percentages and side effects vary based on what procedure they’re doing. But my vasectomy did not go well.
- Comment on Necessary post procedure care for vasectomy 1 month ago:
Man hopefully he’s not a 1 or 2%er like me.