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- Comment on I miss myspace 3 days ago:
One of my earliest experiences with the Internet was seeing a picture of a country girl in cowboy boots with a carrot up her ass and an ear of corn stretching her pussy. It was 1991. I also played bridge with people in Asia in the middle of the night.
- Comment on meirl 3 days ago:
Are you young and have no assets? Because managing risk is an adult thing to do. I used to pirate, but decided the risks outweigh the rewards for me at this time. I might again someday, but not today.
- Comment on meirl 3 days ago:
I have Netflix, Prime & Hulu. I’m ready to drop all 3 but my wife enjoys some of their trash. I’m tolerating it, for now.
- Comment on Back by popular demand: 2 weeks ago:
I’m daily feeding a 15yo boy, two 17yo girls, a 20yo girl, a cat, and my wife and I. I thought my monthly food spending was too high 20 years ago when we were just expecting our first kid, we ate out a little more than we needed to. I’m spending triple that now, almost never eating out, and I make less than I did 20 years ago too. It’s completely unsustainable.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 3 weeks ago:
Men are killed more often. But men generally have less fear. We go boldly unto death.
- Comment on The one drawback to walking at night 3 weeks ago:
Gangs drive murder rates. Looking at areas in the US without gang activity, the murder rate is almost as low anywhere else in the world.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
I get about 10-15 spam calls a day, but I do have two business lines forwarded to my personal phone too. If I do answer a call from a number I don’t know because I’m expecting a call, and it turns out to be spam I just hang up immediately.
- Comment on Anon watches The Terminator 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t have to be a gun show, can be anywhere. I’ve legally purchased a handful of guns in random parking lots.
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 3 weeks ago:
I could 100% live on this diet. It is probably almost as healthy as I eat now.
- Comment on Guess I'll starve 4 weeks ago:
I can’t even read my phone without reading glasses and when I’m off of work I often purposely don’t bring them with me. I’d be asking about their accessibility accommodations.
- Comment on Darn it 4 weeks ago:
Eh, young people are racist too. The rules always change, give it 20 years and there will be tons of stories about how racist millennials are. It won’t be about GenX. Nobody remembers we exist.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m not a boomer but sometimes I don’t feel the vibration, especially if I’m wearing looser clothes. But if I have it on vibrate all the time I also start getting phantom vibrations when nothing actually happened. Sometimes when my phone isn’t even in my pocket, I’ll think I got a vibration notification.
- Comment on Boomers with their loud Samsung phone sounds 5 weeks ago:
I have two sets of Bluetooth earbuds/headphones - in ear, and over the ear. But I connect them to my phone, my tablet, my laptop and my PC. They only stay connected to two devices so there are always two devices that aren’t connected. It’s a pain in the ass. I miss wired headphones.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
So you’re an authoritarian who wants to control dialog and define good and evil based on your own worldview? I’m anti racist, anti nazi btw before you start throwing strawmen at me.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I agreed wholeheartedly. I’m a weird mix of politics, radically left and radically right and also sometimes the middle. The radical middle, but fuck centrists. I almost never find like minded people and that’s why I’m here. And why I get banned from echo chambers sometimes. That used to mess with my head. That was a long time ago. I just don’t give a fuck.
- Comment on **It hasn't even started!?** 5 weeks ago:
The news stories about Trump’s actions will slow down but the gap between real wages and living wages will keep widening. Has been for generations now.
- Comment on Now give me a treat 5 weeks ago:
Dogmeat found something.
- Comment on Professional father right here 5 weeks ago:
I own an old pair, I think they’re FILA. I used them as trail runners but it’s been awhile. The more strange and difficult part was finding toe socks to go with it.
- Comment on Be honest. You guessed ass and not air 5 weeks ago:
I imagine most of us guessed both, and cracked a little smile.
- Comment on The surprises found just moving a mattress 5 weeks ago:
She kept trying to get stuck in the dryer, never realizing that you have to fake that part.
- Comment on Enemies 5 weeks ago:
What’s your location?
- Comment on Checking in 1 month ago:
And then you ask people who decided they couldn’t afford college to help pay for people’s useless degrees. I don’t have a higher degree but I’d subsidize engineers. Psychology degrees, gender degrees can fuck off asking me to pay for their schooling . If the degree doesn’t support paying for the education, don’t pursue it.
- Comment on Checking in 1 month ago:
- Comment on JeSUS 1 month ago:
I’m 51 and haven’t had any dental care as an adult. I still have all of my teeth, and no pain etc. They could use a cleaning but a lot is genetics and diet. Not all of my genetics are great though, I’ve had autoimmune issues since I was a kid.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 1 month ago:
Yeah I know about the coating and the US washing method, but that’s probably still good info for someone out there.
- Comment on Anon doesn't wash 1 month ago:
Lots of people in the US have backyard chickens and their eggs have shit on them. A lot of us still refrigerate them though (I do). Once you’re raised with it, it’s a hard mindset to break.
- Comment on Learning a new language is easy! 1 month ago:
As someone who speaks German alright (lived there awhile and studied a few years in school) gendered nouns and all of the versions of “the” are just stupidly laborious and I never cared if I got it wrong. Even if my accent was okay (it wasn’t okay, my US German teacher was Danish and I was sometimes told I sounded Danish) my lack of fucks about der, die, das, dem etc made it very obvious I wasn’t a native speaker.
All of that said, I found that popup kids book pretty easy to read.
- Comment on Le Reddit Army is Here 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 month ago:
I came here to get away from Reddit. Not only is it becoming more and more like it, too many posts in my feed are about it. If I wanted to go back there I would. Haven’t been in at least 14 months. Please go to Reddit to complain about Reddit.
- Comment on I have a good feeling about this one. 1 month ago:
2020 was hell, I got like eight days off and I had COVID twice. The first bout was after the vaccine was available but I wasn’t eligible because I was two years too young. It didn’t matter that I’m immuno-compromised. I barely got through that. A friend of mine shot himself because he couldn’t deal with it, he kept going to the emergency room and they kept sending him home.
My second bout with COVID after getting vaccinated was even worse. It was at least a month and I’m not at at all suicidal but I thought I wasn’t going to make it. I run a small nonprofit and we are still around for now, we’ll see in another few months. Nothing has been the same economically since then.
- Comment on 2025 trailer be wild 1 month ago:
Okay I’m here but they’re saying if I don’t buy a sandwich I have to go. (We don’t have public transportation here.)
