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- Comment on Is it even feasebal to find 12 people who have not been screwed over by insurance for the Luigi trial? 20 hours ago:
I have a friend with lupus who votes Trump. She is very, very ill and will be bankrupt soon.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
Oh you will, you will. Trust me.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 1 day ago:
You’re not a researcher depending on funding that barely exists anymore, I assume.
- Comment on Usually, silicone nippled showerheads aren't replaced or cleaned regularly. 1 day ago:
I just rub the nipples when I’m standing in the shower. I know, phrasing.
- Comment on Shout out to my engineering homies. 2 days ago:
When you’re 60 and the choice is either a permanent contract for the army or 1 or 2 years elsewhere, you’re going to choose army.
- Comment on Do people know what the Streisand effect was about? 2 days ago:
There was no “victim” originally. She turned herself into one by pointing out that it was her house. Before that nobody knew.
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 4 days ago:
When you have an android phone you should also turn it off.
- Comment on YSK that the First-Past-The-Post voting system allows a political party to gain an absolute majority with a minority of the votes 4 days ago:
What other European country uses two round elections apart from France?
- Comment on why are they pushing kpop demon hunters so badly? Who makes money off this new group? 5 days ago:
I think it’s terrible too, but if people like it, I won’t yuck their yum.
- Comment on [meme request] Dinosaur or frog memes for a sad friend 6 days ago:
No AI, plz.
- Comment on Black Friday, more like buy stupid shit day. 6 days ago:
In Germany there’s a “previous price” button and they’re not allowed to first raise the prices. I just got a sweater I’d been ogling for months for less than half price.
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 1 week ago:
It’s ablist as fuck, and the stuff does actually remove grease.
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 1 week ago:
You can buy it everywhere in different flavours.
- Comment on Dry Shampoo is the teenage girl equivalent to teenage boys' Axe Body Spray 1 week ago:
I use it because I have chronic fatigue due to Covid and I can’t have a shower every day.
- Comment on Why do big people wear the tiniest shit especially at rallys or riots? Like on Jan 6 I saw a bunch of big stupid people have on bullet proof vest that was only maybe 6inch by 6inch or tinier? 1 week ago:
The downvoting isn’t because the question is stupid.
- Comment on Did the Buldak spicy ramen get less spicy? 1 week ago:
People don’t seem to realise you will build up a tolerance. My ex used to buy large bags of pickled hot jalapeños. Initially he could eat one or two, after a while he’d eat the entire bag without sweating.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Don’t encourage him, dear
- Comment on Wearing a helmet and a hat while biking 1 week ago:
Joke’s on you, I think everyone looks like a twat in a baseball cap.
- Comment on Immigrant children probably never have to deal with the embarassment of accidentally called their teacher "mom"/"dad" because of the difference in language. 1 week ago:
Many languages use mama and papa, so no.
- Comment on Mustaaaaaaaaaard 1 week ago:
Normalize calling everything invasive without mentioning which country it’s invasive in.
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 2 weeks ago:
I have it. I’m used to it. It’s not as if I can do something about it.
- Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out. 2 weeks ago:
Bits of them are being made public all the time. There’s so much incriminating stuff out there, it’s pretty damn obvious that nothing will affect Trump.
- Comment on Brushing teeth before going to the dentist has the same motivator as shaving pubes before going to the gynecologist: If someone's going to be looking inside there, you want it to look nice. 2 weeks ago:
My dentist says most people floss so badly that they push bacteria into their gums, so he prefers it when people don’t floss.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 2 weeks ago:
Oooh, they’re fun, especially when they happen in the middle of the night.
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 2 weeks ago:
Trust me, you can get tinnitus from listening to very loud music just the once. I’ve had it since I stood next to a speaker during a concert. Why the speaker was so low down is beyond me. Wasn’t able to hear anything for a couple of hours and I’ve been hearing gas boiler noises ever since.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 3 weeks ago:
Or long covid. So many people have long covid it ain’t funny.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 3 weeks ago:
My neighbour doesn’t even go inside when she comes back from work, she parks her car, ditches her bag in the bike shed, hops on her bicycle and tears off into the distance. I’ve seen her on her racing bike in a suit.
So, don’t give yourself the chance to veg out, do something on the way back home or go for a walk before you go in?
- Comment on Did y'all ever felt curious about your parent's past? If your relationship with parents isn't close, how does one get their parent's story without making the interaction awkward? 3 weeks ago:
I ask my grandmother. My aunts and uncles are also quite happy to share things about my mother.
My dad happily volunteers stuff he used to be up to in the old days, I don’t have to ask.
- Comment on why are upper middle class or upper class people hated? (if they are) 3 weeks ago:
Upper class =/= rich. Love, European, upper class and skint.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
No, because there was never a let them eat cake phase.