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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rich ppl live longer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Granted those that realize this already are not perhaps even a majority now int eh US.

  Yeah, that’s the thing.

  There are pockets of people who are clued in and take the time / have the time to process what they read/see & hear. Those people seem to be fewer and harder to find.

  I don’t think people are generally just plain dumb (I know unpopular opinion), but I think a good majority of us are in sensory and informational overload and human understanding of the world has likely never been so complex nor moved so quickly.

  This is all happening during a modern renaissance period for malicious misrepresentation (i.e. convincing lies). And even if people are too “dumb” to tell truth from lies, they do recognize that the lies are coming in rapid fire and from every direction. Easier just to tune out and not think too much about all that, otherwise it’s depressing.

  Don’t forget that older folks are aging into cognitive issues, younger people have only known this as their reality, poor people are struggling to make ends meet with no time to stop and think, and so many of the ones who’ve “made it” are doing their best to keep it all conveniently compartmentalized away and out of sight.

  So, yes, sometimes you do have to be direct and spell otherwise obvious things out for people. The struggle is real.

  This is a case where it’s obvious there’s no direct causation, but so often it’s not this clear, and even the really smart people sometimes mess that part up – intentionally or otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A reminder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All but $4 million of it evaporated before it actually hit her account. But also, this was hyperbole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A reminder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nuh-uh. I have an uncle who lives two doors down from a lady whose nail stylist’s daughter’s teacher just won 10 million dollars from a scratch off lottery ticket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every payment option has a fee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Allstate has, by far, the worst customer service I’ve ever experienced from a car insurance company. I personally will not willingly do business with them ever again.

  BEWARE

  Every time I called, it felt like I was on trial. It was like they were interrogating me, picking into every little detail, looking for ways to prove I owe them more money. At one point, they threatened to increase my rates because I have a parent living with me at the same address. A parent who has no license and is not physically able to get to the car without my help. They forced me to submit documentation to prove all this under threat of having to pay more for my insurance.

  When I was looking at renewal, they sent me a quote that was an order of magnitude larger than what any other insurer quoted me. I ended my policy on the spot, and then had to fight to get a prorated refund from them for the remainder of my policy term. They still tried to charge me for the new policy, despite having cancelled.

  And that’s not all, that’s just some of the “highlights”.

  Good luck to you OP! May the suffering you are about to endure cleanse the karmic debts of your past lives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Groceries are expensive and they're too busy talking about culture war⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen ads from / in favor of a number of GOP candidates from around the country lately. More and more of them are running with affordability crisis talking points. Hypocrisy, sure, but what’s new?

  For an uninformed voting populace, being the cause of and the solution to major problems is a viable plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent rant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead, there was no baby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent rant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mofo, it’s 2026 ain’t it and you just read one!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Excellent rant⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sting Jesus, while obviously a joke, doesn’t really make sense does it? Wouldn’t it be Sting Mary? Or Sting Jesus’s Mom? I’m not a Bibleologist of course, I only play one in the internet.

  Big wheel keep on turnin’. Sting Mary keep on burnin’.

  I’m extremely surprised ‘’‘’‘they’‘’‘’ would think there’s any species of shark could father babies with a ray, though but then maybe I’m just a big ole dumby for thinking they would be in reference to the keepers and support staff who cared for and/or studied Sting Mary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Avocado Oil that claims to be “0 Calories” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re all mentally conditions on this blessed day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This unclickable X⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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” 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  WRONG. It’ll be just the one Mar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw you peasants⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?!?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day we could all fit in grocery stores⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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