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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re all mentally conditions on this blessed day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This unclickable X⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I see shit like this, I click the X a little further up at the top of the tab which closes the whole tab and then I never go back because fuck complacent and/or incompetent developers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who piss on the toilet seat in a men's restroom.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I piss into the sink instead. And since I didn’t have to touch any surfaces beside my own wiener, I don’t even have to worry about washing my hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m honestly at a loss on how to even begin with a response. I suppose I should have added qualifiers to my statements like “realistic” and “practical”, so the fault there was definitely mine. I thought there was a chance we could have an honest and reasonable discussion, but no worries. You do you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need an adult⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was young, I agreed with the pedants.

  When I am old, I simply no longer give a fuck.

  Call them what you want. The words are all made up anyway, and the pedantry doesn’t matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad that folks are in the comments factually educating others about this.

  But truly sad that there’s this amount of … ignorance, particularly of the willful kind. I thought that was for the nazis, pedophiles, and their supporters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate media, owned by billionaires, refuse to recognize the wave of democratic socialism⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I"m a libby lib lib, so libby lib lib that everybody right of Bernie seems to like to name call me “Commie” but the absolute stupidity or more likely propaganda that it takes to ignore that this isn’t a binary thing and that “do not support” + “support” = 100% is … fascinating.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So, yes, let’s move the goal posts! I’m all for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fascinating. How do you envision that working? And what do you currently do to support this being a possibility?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am pretty confident that there’s no way you read “reasonably guarantee” and understood it correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's great to see a politician that's progressive and Not a Millionaire.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 0.000000% issue with elected officials at the federal level having investments in the stock market.

  So long as it’s done in a way that can reasonably guarantee they aren’t manipulating the market, doing insider trading, etc. This includes things like investing in mutual funds (with caveats obviously) amongst other options from publicly accessible financial services firm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social Security can be saved. Scrap the cap!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Social Security is financed through a dedicated payroll tax.

  It is a tax. That is a fact. That sentence is literally from the social security website https://www.ssa.gov/news/en/press/how-is-social-security-financed.html as of August 15th 2026.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the issue here is that the damage has already been done. The taxes should have been in place a LOOOOOONG time ago to at least partially prevent getting where we are now. This is the equivalent strategy of running out the clock while you’re ahead. They’ve done that already. Focusing on the worst of the worst is a fool’s errand.

  Doesn’t mean we can’t update the rules moving forward, of course, but you’re going to find that your ideas are not as popular as you think if and when people realize they have to voluntarily make compromises. Amazon could be harmed, perhaps mortally, quite easily if everyone would stop buying from their e-commerce site and businesses would stop using their web services. Good luck with that. Walmart would cease to be a thing if everybody stopped shopping there. You know the song and the dance, but that shit’s not happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an…⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even for me, with health insurance, one of the reasons I tend not to seek health care is due to the surprise and unpredictable costs. I’ve already fallen into that trap twice this year alone.

  The very first thing I did when I was choosing a plan for this year was filter the list down to the ones I could afford which said they covered all my prescription meds and for which my current health providers were “in-network”. That left 2 options.

  When I went to get my first round of refills, several months into the year, they said I had to have prior authorization for one of my meds. After going through that process several times, provider who writes the prescription has to jump through the hoops with insurance to get the authorization, the insurance finally came back and said “we don’t/won’t cover this prescription.” My provider was able to find a cheaper, older alternative that works, but I pay out of pocket 100% for it.

  Then came my annual physical, which is free with insurance. Because of the meds I’m on, the nurse said they needed to do some blood tests to check for signs of problems. Never mentioned that those tests would cost me extra and obviously I did not know. Wouldn’t have mattered, because they wouldn’t have been able to tell me up front how much it would cost so that I could make a financial decision about it. In the end, that free annual visit cost me almost $400 that I was not anticipating. The bills started showing up months later, so it completely blindsided me.

  Last year was even worse. I had one of the best insurance plans offered through the ACA. Then I had an accident that landed me in the hospital. The ambulance ride was not covered at all, the service was “out-of-network” so I had to pay 100% of that. The 2 tylenol I was given for pain management in the emergency room cost me $40 because insurance would not pay for them without prior authorization. I hesitated to even call for help, hoping I could stop the bleeding myself, because I knew it was going to be an expensive trip to the ER and boy was it ever. Not to mention the follow-up appointments and treatment that was required.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  WRONG. It’ll be just the one Mar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro, it’s not acid, either swallow the weed or smoke it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw you peasants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a community gathering in support of a rural hospital that’s in danger of closing specifically due to medicaid cuts. Some of the attendees had signs and one of them said something like “Healthcare for All”. Shit you not, 3 different vehicles that drove by shouted out the window some variation of “How are we going to pay for it?”

  Of course those drive-by naysayers never stop to actually discuss it with folks.

  Keep in mind, these specific people are almost certainly locals whose friends and family will ultimately be negatively impacted by the closure of the hospital and we were there trying to make sure the community knows what’s happening, why it’s happening, and what they might be able to do to avoid it closing.

  Go figure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't add up⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You see, honey, when a billion dollars and a billionaire love each other very much …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to ban money in politics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All that spending and I still haven’t gotten my Soros check. I haven’t moved recently, but I wonder if he sent it to my prior address by accident.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly...How She Do It?!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When you’re a star, they let you do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day we could all fit in grocery stores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The maker of this meme-thing is personally calling me out, and I know it, because I’ve complained about this exact issue like at least a dozen times on this account/username alone.

  The chain grocery stores and major retailers in my part of the world have all done post-COVID renovations in the past 3 to 4 years. Somehow defying the laws of physics, but they’ve reduced the spacing between aisles, increased the number of aisles, and yet they’ve also reduced product selection at the same time.

  Pretty much all them now only have barely enough width for 2 well carts directed by well-behaved customers. However, roughly 1/3 of all aisle have some kind of obstruction, like support columns or hanging displays, mini-displays on the floor, so that it creates a bottleneck where only 1 cart can pass.

  Honestly, some times I just want to compare products, read the ingredients, maybe do the math to compare prices but I can’t without inconveniencing folks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  According to Ebay, Amazon, Walmart, Temu, Etsy, and so on, you can buy blue rose seeds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have none of those traits but I do love to watch tiny little critters going along doing their thing without a care in the world. Except for the invasive ones and the parasites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perception is everything.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of Shelly Lowdry’s cat named Precious. She swore up and down it was the cutest thing ever. I’m not the type to be hurtful so I just kept it to myself, but that thing was the ugliest cat I ever seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GinkNo.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty flowers they remind me of my dearly departed Harold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Target acquired⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ya’ll joke but I’m old enough to remember how fucking annoying it was when the dinosaurs were around. The fuckers shat everywhere, just like a gigantic gaggle of geese, but some of those assholes were big enough that their poop was basically the size of a goose. Sometimes they’d poop right where we made our stone tools and we’d have to spend days depooping, just absolute days wasted doing that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-fish language⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re all bony fish on this blessed day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anti-fish language⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, the scales are tipping in the right direction. And while we’re on the subject, can you go ahead and stop using “crappy” to imply any sort of negative connotation. Crappie are beautiful, vivacious, and gregarious fish who have fascinating behaviors and are important members of their native aquatic ecosystem. That they also taste delicious, well, maybe that’s a different discussion for another time when we’re not talking about how there’s nothing crappy about crappies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every fucking time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The things that irk me are: Narrowed aisles / space between the shelves and reduced selection.

  The local Wally World was the worst about all of the above, but the grocery store in town also remodeled recently and seems to have done the same thing.

  I think one of the reasons it irritates me is because it makes no logical sense to me, they’ve moved the shelves closer together and reduced aisle space so they can fit in more shelves, wouldn’t that theoretically mean there’s room for a bigger selection of items? How is it even possible that the aisles are smaller and yet so many of the brands/items I bought regularly are no longer available?

  Actually, in the case of Walmart, I think I know the answer. The main aisles used to be wide enough for 6 - 8+ shopping carts minimum, except from September through early January when all the displays of holiday junk would be placed out. Now, they’ve placed a mix of seasonal and non-seasonal displays in the center of all the main aisles year round, using all that space people could use to traverse the store more quickly.

  Most of the year, those displays are filled with the exact same brands and products that are also sitting and taking up regular shelf space as well. Heaven forbid if I want some Marie Sharp’s hot sauce. They’ve got 8 types of Texas Pete, and a display of Texas Pete hot sauce in the main aisle, and a smaller display on an end cap near the meats. If I want some Dolly Parton cake mix and icing, there are 4 places in the store that they keep it. Suppose that’s also why they stopped carrying my preferred flavor/brand of gum.

  YELLING AT CLOUDS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snek⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My theory is that snitty count would be biologically decoupled from the number of offspring in a single birth because virtually all snake species are self-reliant in terms of feeding themselves once they hatch and thus the role of the snitty would not be for feeding the offspring.