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- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 25 minutes ago:
My partner is in his 40s and they didn’t have electricity until they moved to the mainland for middle school. There are still large parts of the world that don’t have electricity.
- Comment on Can someone fact check this 13 hours ago:
Did we read the same comment?
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 day ago:
No kidding. I was raised by Tea Partiers, and moving left really needs to be made easier. I’m pretty sure the only reason I made it is because I’m privileged enough to be literate, and that’s exactly why the right has been axing public education since before I was born.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 day ago:
They didn’t see that one group losing rights meant that they didn’t have rights either.
This is one of the areas that made me realize I was to the left of liberals. Too many people telling me to calm down, it won’t affect me, I’m a white woman, stop being dramatic. Like, bitch, I was raised in a red state, I know that being white won’t protect me when they come after women. Just like how being white and male won’t protect you when they come for the lower class.
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 2 days ago:
I get it. There’s a nickname only my estranged family uses.
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 2 days ago:
Yeah, I go by my middle name and nobody thinks it’s weird.
- Comment on IT'S A TRAP 3 days ago:
How do we know it’s an accurate illustration? They might have jacked up the trolley with monster truck wheels or something.
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 5 days ago:
My whole point is that we really can’t blame individuals for being irresponsible when we’ve set up an entire society that punishes responsible behavior and rewards recklessness.
- Comment on True staple of the format 5 days ago:
Especially these days, when disinformation is freely accessible, and facts are behind paywalls.
I can find a million conflicting articles about what a study says, or I can pay out the nose for access to the actual study, for example.
- Comment on True staple of the format 5 days ago:
I lowkey think the website Let Me Google That For You was part of a psyop making people think search algorithms are the superior option for obtaining new information, and therefore leaving people vulnerable to how algorithms have been manipulated to push disinformation.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 6 days ago:
Honestly, same, haha
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 6 days ago:
Don’t feel bad, illiteracy is such a common problem these days.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 6 days ago:
Hey, don’t knock a well placed ‘no u’.
In my personal best moment of pettiness, I was a caregiver for people who had both a developmental disability (like down’s syndrome) and dementia. This man thought night shift didn’t do anything because he thought dementia patients slept through the night (lol), and thought it was okay to leave the chores from the day to the woman coming on shift. He’d already been a pest flirting with all of us, so my trap card was activated.
He was sitting on the couch watching tv, pile of dishes in the sink waiting to be loaded into the dishwasher, and a pile of laundry for me to fold. I wasn’t going to let the dirty dishes sit around, because health and safety, but because of behavioral problems regarding toileting, it was normal for us to do quite a bit of laundry overnight.
When he came back for his shift 12hrs later, I was sitting there watching tv with the patients, and there was an even bigger pile of unfolded laundry for him to take care of.
It was glorious.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 6 days ago:
Right back at you, honey pie
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 6 days ago:
Whatever you say, pumpkin
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 6 days ago:
I saw an opening for a funny, and took it. It’s not my fault you’re getting dogpiled.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 6 days ago:
To quote your own post “it’s called ‘humor’, sweetie”.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 6 days ago:
Also, nobody likes someone that eats poop
Oh boy, is this how you’re gonna learn about scat fetishes?
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 6 days ago:
AI can’t count how many L’s are in “lilly”
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 6 days ago:
I’m using it as an analogy because OP did.
What is the responsible thing to do in that situation? I’m not asking about fault, I’m asking what the correct choice is. Do you go into debt, or do you drive?
It is a fact that most companies in the US do not consider public transit to be reliable transportation and will refuse to hire you if you don’t own a vehicle. It is also a fact that a minimum wage job doesn’t pay enough to maintain a vehicle. That we don’t have basic worker’s rights, that medical care is outrageously expensive and insurance covering what you need is a gamble.
This is a situation that Americans find themselves in at an alarming rate. Yes, having bald tires makes me at fault for a crash, but we cannot expect people to willingly accept the full responsibility for the failure of the system like OP is asking of them.
- Comment on James should have used his money 6 days ago:
pov: your parents have fucked up so hard you’d rather be homeless than ask them for help
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 6 days ago:
And the company isn’t at fault for incentivizing dangerous behavior?
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 1 week ago:
Okay, lets go with your metaphor here. Your kid has broken their leg and needs to go to the ER. You know that the ambulance company in your area doesn’t take your insurance and a ride will cost you six months of rent. It’s raining and your tires are bald. Your kid is screaming and you need to make a decision right now.
What is the responsible thing to do? Anything that goes wrong from this will be your fault.
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 1 week ago:
I was unaware that pilots are underpaid, skip meals to make rent, and could get fired for refusing to fly. If that’s not true, then being a pilot isn’t congruent with my metaphor.
My point is that our hypercapitalist society forces people into poverty then compels them to act dangerously in order to secure the basic necessities of life. In such a system, claiming the individual has sole responsibility is a perversion of responsibility.
I never have to worry if the subway will be running when it’s snowing.
Nice. Over here the bus shows up when it wants to and can’t be relied upon. It only comes by five times a day, and it can be up to half an hour late. I’ve had multiple interviewers tell me that relying on the bus made me ineligible for hire because I’m responsible for transportation.
The fact that society views owning a car as a symbol of responsibility is part of the perversion of responsibility I’m talking about. It’s the same perversion that requires you to go into debt, so you can prove that you’re “responsible” with managing your money. Like, I paid off my student loan debt, so my credit score is now null. If I had to move and find a place to rent, not having a credit score will affect the prices I’m offered. By not maintaining a debt load, I am making my life more difficult, and that is fucked up.
- Comment on Thoughts about responsibility 1 week ago:
I think its because of there has been a perversion of responsibility.
Like, it’s super normal for bosses in the US to require you to come to work during incliment weather, and you don’t get paid if you call out, and rent is already barely affordable. Then you hit an icy patch and slide into a BMW.
I wouldn’t feel responsible, for one. I didn’t want to drive in this, but I am because I don’t want to be homeless. It’s my boss’s fault for not paying me enough to miss a day of work, but the court doesn’t agree.
For two, if I accept responsibility, I am now on the hook for all the cost of replacing a BMW, and possibly medical bills. If I’m struggling to pay rent, where is that money going to come from?
Why is it “responsible” to abstain from medical treatment so I can afford to pay for theirs? Why should I have to lose my job because I’m out a car too, but can’t afford a beater because I’ve got to buy them a new BMW? How is it fair to have a lifetime of debt, with no way of repaying it, because I was operating under duress?
- Comment on So...how the fuck do I trust *anything*? 1 week ago:
Oh buddy, I’ve been there, and now I’m a nihilist. Good luck.
- Comment on Cable management is an art form 1 week ago:
I feel like this is another instance of conservatives making things sound so much cooler than they actually are lol
- Comment on Not rule 1 week ago:
Nah, we all still remember how Caligula tried to pick a fight with Poseidon and how cringe that was
- Comment on Cable management is an art form 1 week ago:
His theological understanding of pokemon was convoluted at best, haha.
He swore up and down that pokemon trainers were witches, and the pokemon were demons they could summon to act as their familiars, and their evolution was symbolic of how much satan’s power had corrupted the vessel.
Like, he thought you started with a mouse, then summoned a demon into it and bound it to make it your familiar, turning it into Pikachu. Then as Pikachu evolved into Raichu, that was a sign that satan’s power is further corrupting the poor mouse, one of god’s creatures.
- Comment on What even is money at this point 1 week ago:
Sure, lemmie just replace my beans