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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what counts as a major stream, but usually streams are smaller than creeks, and creeks can be pretty small. So if there are 255 water courses that are smaller than creeks… I can see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think… you may need to look up the definition of a 15 minute city before expanding on this comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MONOCULTURE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t bayer recently sell to another company? I seem to recall a neighbor who is retired from them telling me he can’t shop at the bayer store anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In a thread about a post about “flyover nowheresville”

  In a thread about a post with the words “The american experiment has utterly failed and I hate you all”

  In a thread about a post with the word “obongocare”

  In a thread about a post with the concept of a healthcare crisis leaving you destitute, ruined, or dead

  “Maybe you’re talking about the US”

  LMAO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll second stray’s opinion, but also add on that you’re typically fighting for a job in those shitty areas. Anon is likely incredibly lucky to have gotten the above average wage job, and will still be in a big competition with others for the average wage jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t remember the video about it all that well, but wasn’t ‘the line’ supposed to be using the concept of the 15 minute city? So, while, yes… there are very good reasons circles are city standards, if everything magically worked out and they built the thing it wouldn’t matter whether it was a line or a circle.

  I hope you don’t have friends in the city centre that you want to see regularly).

  So much fuck this. I have a friend who decided to go that exact route, because it put him ‘halfway’ between multiple family members and friends… and now he sees none of them because they’re all ~an hour away. Suburbs fucking suck, and the car brained society we have is so fucking foolish.

  if you keep stuff compact then you make it easy to walk to places

  Never going to happen in america :( I lived in a small city (2,500), and it was spread out enough that walking anywhere sucked, not even counting the horrible roads (it was a crossroads of two semi-important highways). I want to say it was 4km x 4km. The medium sized city (for the area, it’s medium sized, we’d consider 30,000 to be large [and in fact, the closest large city was ~30,000, and that’s where you had a real hospital, and all the services you would imagine a city having]) of ~9,000 was more like 10km x 10km.

  Those are rural cities. Suburbs get so fucky so quickly… I think the town of 70,000 I lived in for a while was something like 9km x 18km, and that was a factory town. The not factory town suburb of 90,000 was around 15km x 20km. Just mind bogglingly spread out. The developers of an area are trying to maximize profit, and the car culture allows them to buy the cheapest land that’s far away, sell the idiot housebuyers the idea of driving down a (currently, lol, not once everyone moves in) idyllic little road with no traffic to the center of the city and have everything they could want in a 15 minute drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve heard the bootstrap phrase unironically in the past decade. I truly don’t remember even hearing it outside of contexts like this on reddit or similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A half or third of the cost… that has been doubled or tripled due to enough space that you’re not sleeping together. I lived in a flyover town in a situation similar to the poster. A studio apartment sucks. Trying to shove another person in there is a nightmare, and getting a slightly bigger apartment balloons your rent in a cartoonishly exaggerated manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Send military help. It took wwii to get rid of (some) of the nazis from power, and it’s looking like it’s going to be the same course of events in america. They’re starting by bullying their neighbors and wanting to take land (greenland, canada, mexico, now venezuela is actually getting attacked), and you wanna bet that we’re going to see a repeat of germany/russia’s agreement to not attack each other and split poland (the eu)?

  My personal bet is that everything will kick off because trump decides to froth out enough hatred about china to have a fishing dispute escalate into military actions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting it in context, it’s probably right. There are a lot of different swathes/classes of boomer, and the ones that would be able to do the listed in lines 7-10 are probably not the ones that were targeted for conscription in vietnam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the HOA special⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds an awful lot like a redneck cajun hocking a loogey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American exceptionalism⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the factoid is that there’s enough nicotine in a single cigarette to kill you, if all of that nicotine got past your blood-brain barrier at once. Since that’s more or less an impossibility, don’t worry about eating one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve often wondered, did the filmmakers decide to just inflate those with air, or did they subtly show a loss of mass in other areas as the terminator moved things around internally?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are four arrs in your use of raspberry. Try using them in a pie!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The most normal Silicon Valley techbro⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t care if the hook eventually turns back on them. They’ve spent the best years of their lives getting their rocks off by making you waste the best years of your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This song, it's infectious⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh goddamnit. I was listening to the radio with my partner while driving and heard a song that I thought was good, and it was this one. Does that mean I’m infected now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still out there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The name, the instance, and the commenting behavior all sort of add up to something odd. Then you take the specifics of each comment and how they just seem… bland and vague enough they could have been in reply to anything.

  Just, for instance, look at the two comments made in this post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you eat too much oats and sleep⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  By turning it into an encapsulated form using bubbles, apparently. Good for what ails ya.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Karl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t they have tunnels from france to england? Surely maintenance fellers walk those tunnels, so there would be a way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The blood/urine/breath samples come AFTER the arrest. At least where I live, blood needs a warrant, which they aren’t getting without enough ‘evidence’ to convince a judge. Hence the roadside sobriety tests. They can take a breath sample because the law requires that you give one if you have a driver’s license (it’s part of all the legal paperwork you sign when you get one), but you can’t really force someone to give a breath sample because it’s not a simple thing.

  The breathalyzer and blood are definitive tests, but they aren’t needed for the arrest or the conviction. A cop that I know said the best cases were the ones where he stood a driver in front of his car’s camera for about five seconds and you can see them visibly fall over or stumble while just trying to stand there. Criminal cases are always about convincing a jury, and that means that ‘evidence’ like a car swerving on the highway, the smell of alcoholic beverages, the field sobriety tests, the general appearance or manner of the driver, the statements made, etc., all matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The cop will have one more piece of evidence to arrest you on. No dwi is made solely on you failing a single test, the judge would laugh their ass off for that. But when you tell one, “he was swerving across multiple lanes, smelled of alcoholic beverages, couldn’t say the alphabet starting at e and ending at t, had XXX nystagmus (there’s like three types they check for), did PZY clues on the walk and turn test, and admitted he had been at the bar an ‘hour or so ago,’” they suddenly have a very different conception of what failing to remember the alphabet means.

  Remember, don’t answer any questions on a traffic stop, kiddos. It’s always shut the fuck up friday. ALSO, fuck people who drive drunk, but mostly don’t give cops the time of day if they ask, much less any other info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fuck Jar⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would hope the ‘neutral word’ was said at the same volume/rate/tone. Otherwise, yeah, it would definitely be a factor. Just like we can make ourselves angry with our thoughts, there must be a large difference in adrenaline released depending on how you emote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statistically, probably with the beetles. 🪲⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’d go with the moths. Least likely to kill me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I support this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think someone on 4chan once answered this question: It’s the only form of segregation white folks are okayed to use, so they cling to it like they do guns and religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I support this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Calls someone a retard

  accuses them of not having compassion

  Boy howdy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m now going to hear crotchet every time I read crochet, thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨car producers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is ram really failing? I see those shitty trucks spewing black smog everywhere around here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did ya’ll ever implement a more realistic reaction set to executing people? Always thought it was odd that my faction would suddenly hate me for executing the asshole king who had been raiding us for decades, killed my spouse/kids, ate the last grape, and then decided to burn villages to the ground.

  Anyway, let us know when the dlc goes on sale for <$5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “You have received your standard ten minutes of hand holding, please exit the couch and proceed to the kitchen for nutritional time. Five minutes are allotted for hand washing and table-setting.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this would be it for me. If my partner didn’t want to have sex, fine, not a big deal. But if my partner didn’t want to sit next to me and lean on me? If my partner didn’t want to hold hands or hug me from behind while I’m cooking? If I didn’t get a sudden jump into my lap and an insistent plead for a shoulder rub?

  Those would break me. Even for the folks who don’t want to admit it, there is a driving need for intimacy, and sex just often sort of fits that need or is used to mask it.