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- Comment on This woman has nothing better to do 2 days ago:
The transgender issue is not a problem with a bunch of mentally ill people running around demanding everyone call them the wrong pronouns.
The transgender issue is a problem with a bunch of mentally ill people running around feeling a compulsion to seek out minority people and say things to intentionally make those minority people’s lives worse.
In an average year, I might encounter what, I’m going to say maybe about three people who I think might be transgender. Maybe I’m bad at noticing. Let’s be generous and say twelve. One per month. When I read a person complaining about “so many transgender people”, my first thought isn’t “Oh my God the transgenders are coming to get us all!” My first thought is “What is it about this person that makes them so laser-focused on seeking out and harassing these people that I almost never see anywhere?”
- Comment on This woman has nothing better to do 2 days ago:
Find this woman’s name and ban her from all Burger Kings.
- Comment on He escaped 2 days ago:
Look, we’ve gotten to the point where without backstory and evidence, police in the United States don’t deserve the benefit of the doubt, so until I find out otherwise, I’m not even remotely disappointed that the guy defeated the police officer.
- Comment on Do turkeys that tell you to cook from frozen usually turn out as good as thawed ones? 5 days ago:
If a turkey ever tells me how to cook it, I’m not going to cook it.
- Comment on ‘The most anti-union president’: how Trump turned his back on US workers 2 weeks ago:
PSY
CO
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Understand what that means.
- Comment on Bunnies are metal 3 weeks ago:
I am convinced that dinosaurs looked completely different than is being guessed with their skeletons.
- Comment on We redesigned your flag 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war 4 weeks ago:
I always thought Bill O’Reilly was a bad person.
But for Jesse Waters, I have a hard time even classifying him as a person.
- Comment on Attorney general: ‘Everyone is Welcome Here’ sign cannot be displayed in Idaho schools 4 weeks ago:
I hope to God that they don’t take down the signs.
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 5 weeks ago:
I noticed this on a relative’s YouTubeTV, that when I paused to read the screen, it threw garbage up on the screen over the text. “Mildly infuriating” is right!
- Comment on California just passed a law forcing mandatory DRM in 3D printers 1 month ago:
Did Luigi Mangione do anything wrong?
News to me.
- Comment on This is what happens when Billionaires own the news media. 1 month ago:
In a weird way, the person who wrote the headline “The smartest way to make the rich pay is not a wealth tax” might have a point.
- Comment on BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong… 1 month ago:
Always remember that when an employer says you’re screwing coworkers over by taking leave that the employer was free to hire another employee to make it so the workload would be reasonable, and that you as an employee had no such ability to influence the situation. All you are doing is taking leave for your own personal health.
ALL leave is health-related leave.
And any company offering you “unlimited” leave is just making it known that they’re the kind of company to make efforts to not have to pay you. “Unlimited leave” is a big red flag.
- Comment on Only boomers can use this bench. Meanwhile, they're trying to get rid of their own property taxes. 1 month ago:
You can tell that you live in a society that’s about to totally collapse when you see signs like this.
- Comment on Skill Issue 😓 1 month ago:
The proper thought to have when an employer says they’re short staffed is “Why didn’t you hire enough people?” not “Gee, I should chip in!”
- Comment on Once you reach a certain age 2 months ago:
I hate you.
I hate the fact that I didn’t get it and then not only closed the window and scrolled down to the end of the Lemmy page and then clicked on the next page, and then it loaded, and THEN I got it.
- Comment on Me this morning 2 months ago:
At about 3-4 I notice that something has changed. I do think I need to request an increase in dosage to make it a little bit later in the day. I’ve been on the Ritalin for less than a year.
The crash later in the day helps me feel ready for sleep in a way I’ve never experienced before. Usually I would just be awake at all hours until my brain couldn’t take it anymore, but now I legitimately do feel like sleeping. And with the edible, man, my schedule is closer to everybody else’s than it’s ever been.
- Comment on Me this morning 2 months ago:
I have an extended-release Ritalin prescription that I take every morning. It’s amazing. Best stuff in the world.
But oh, man, adding an edible 2-3 times a week before bed leaves me SO much more able to function during the week.
Before those two, life was stressful as all hell.
But with those two things, I’m kicking ass and taking names all week long.
- Comment on How Romantic 2 months ago:
- Comment on School pupils to be taught strangling during sex is illegal in new lessons 2 months ago:
I mean, unless they want you to and survive.
- Comment on How Romantic 2 months ago:
If you’re in the U.S. you’ve probably seen them in grocery store parking lots. They typically are like a trailer hitch with a bunch of solar panels on it, and then a pole, and a multi-directional camera on the very top of the pole, with a blinking light. I’m colorblind, but I think the light is blue.
They claim to be for the security of the business, but what they do is to monitor all license plates and all cars that come into a given area(and they can identify the same car even if the license plate is changed).
And I wouldn’t have so much of a problem with that if individual businesses wanted to have closed-circuit video for their parking lot, but these things are networked nationwide, so this company can track the exact location of your car nationwide, each and every time one of your cars drives by these things.
The operation of these things should be a felony, and it makes sense that people are destroying them now. I completely understand why.
- Comment on The store that sells them is not dumb enough to use them 2 months ago:
I’ve had a Roomba, and I’ve manually cleaned a floor.
There’s nothing dumb about not having to vacuum and mop.
- Comment on Is there music I haven't heard because I only speak English? 3 months ago:
Okay, look.
I took it a step further.
I highly recommend taking an intro class in any other language. And then start listening to the music. It’s like you’re studying but you’re not even trying. You’ll be listening to banger after banger and just getting better and better at the other language.
Some recommendations:
- Comment on Music just isn't good anymore 3 months ago:
And I’m over here mostly listening to music from other countries and loving it.
Sometimes it really is that the music in the U.S. isn’t as good as it used to be.
- Comment on $37 for a burrito 3 months ago:
Yeah, the U.S. stole the “$” from Spain, but, for example, Mexico actually inherited its use from Spain.
A menu having “$” doesn’t necessarily mean the prices are in U.S. Dollars.
- Comment on Polanski calls for workplace temperature cap as Labour dithers 3 months ago:
What in the actual fuck?
As if workplaces aren’t cold enough.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Who is putting “so much focus” on that one area?
It’s literally a sleeveless dress that accentuates that particular area.
I literally have no problem with whether she shaves or chooses not to shave, or stubble, or whatever. As I stated before, I am completely capable of being attracted to women who don’t shave their armpits.
And like I said, I think that if a man goes sleeveless and his armpit hair is visible, that also looks pretty bad.
My recommendation was just “In that situation, maybe get a different dress, one that doesn’t accentuate your armpits.”
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I would imagine that some are harder to shave than others, depending on their shape.
But man, shaving a scrotum is a good way to accidentally castrate yourself.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I actually don’t care at all if women have armpit hair, but I don’t want to see them that particular way, if it makes sense.
But for exactly the same reason I don’t want to see a man’s armpit hair.
It’s not a sexist thing. I fully support women’s ability to have armpit hair, but if you’re going to have it, maybe the dress where that’s all hanging out isn’t the right one to choose. It’s literally the same as if some hairy bro wore a wife beater and had his big hairy pits out.
And I will state very clearly that I can be completely attracted to a woman who doesn’t shave her armpits. In fact, that’s not a fetish of mine or anything, but there have been some very specific cases where me knowning that a woman didn’t shave was something that I found really weirdly attractive.
But still, wearing a top which exposes a lot of skin, same thing as if a guy did it. Kind of gross to put so much focus on that one area.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 months ago:
How familiar are you with the year 1793?