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- Comment on Freedom 2 days ago:
You sound like the sort of person that would tell a poor person to go get a job rather than offer them a job cutting your grass or washing your car or something.
That sort of thing is part of the problem too, many would rather avoid poor people than to offer them an opportunity to earn money.
- Comment on Freedom 2 days ago:
Yes, voice systems have been around for quite a while. But there was almost always an easy way to bypass all that and talk to a human. It was just as simple as dialing 0, and there wasn’t hardly much wait time, they tended to have more actual people operating the phones back then.
And you don’t go to the Dollar Store to socialize with people, you go to save money when buying toilet paper and cat food or whatever the hell. But hey, you do you, if you got enough money to piss away just to avoid low income people, then by all means piss away and live in your little bubble. The rest of us tend to look for ways to save money when we can.
- Comment on Freedom 2 days ago:
When was the last time you called practically any company for any sort of customer service? What’s the first thing you hear? AI.
AI has taken over most phone support systems these days, it’s almost impossible to speak to a human anymore, because they’ve downsized the staff and have AI do practically everything.
When was the last time you walked into a Dollar Store? You’re lucky if they even have two employees working at any given moment, because yay self checkout, who needs cashiers anymore? And the damn self checkout wants a fucking tip no less!
And now we got driverless cabs out there, because who needs a job as a driver? Just let the computer do it instead!
Hollywood hardly even needs actors or video producers anymore, they can just have AI crank out new movies for us.
I’m sure there’s way more examples that can be added to this list, but yeah, AI and modern technology in general are indeed taking over jobs.
- Comment on Freedom 2 days ago:
- Trump is firing people left and right.
- AI and automation is taking jobs left and right.
- Big companies are laying people off left and right.
Someone riddle me this: Where are all the jobs at again?
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 3 days ago:
There was a certain type of perfume that seemed popular back in the 90s, that would make me instantly gag and almost puke within seconds. I have no clue how anyone found that as any sort of pleasant smell.
To me I thought it smelled like a woman with a nasty yeast infection, trying to cover it up with potpourri. But it wasn’t even the women’s health causing it, literal potpourri smell alone causes me the same gag reflex, the stuff just smells nasty to me and I can’t be in the same room as that smell for long.
So yes, there are reasons to be offended by particular scents, even if others somehow find them pleasant.
- Comment on Babe can you refill my drink from the cloaca dispenser please? 4 days ago:
Instructions unclear. Sees hole, unzips…
- Comment on what's going on at burger king? 4 days ago:
That wasn’t the question though. They asked…
“What’s going on by the Burger King?”
From what I can tell, it’s a hooker on crack blowing some dude dressed as the King, while fighting off a family of raccoons…
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 4 days ago:
I don’t even have half an idea what all foods do or don’t contain gluten, but I am still almost equally inclined to call out people just plain out being nasty, especially in a public space where they’re about to exchange paper cash.
Like shit, I totally respect paper cash, but FFS, try to make sure your hands are clean when handling or exchanging money.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 4 days ago:
Our park is mostly a water park for kids at the front, with a couple pavilions, and a boat ramp and senior citizen center in the back. So yes, it’s not an official dog park, but unofficial its accepted as one by pretty much everyone.
We keep him on the leash when there’s lots of people or other dogs around, but on days when the park is practically empty, we let him roam free and burn his calories.
He was abandoned for like 5 months out at the park before we decided to adopt him, so most regular park visitors already know him. Police officers approve, they even helped us adopt him.
He’s a medium size dog, and mostly chill, just sometimes playful. He’s never hurt anyone.
Of course that’s not true for all dogs though, hence why we’re very careful regarding what sort of days we might let him roam around off the leash.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 4 days ago:
Even though the woman proved to be a Karen, the cashiers working the store that day totally understood why I was upset. If only they had or enacted a policy of don’t consume any products in the store…
As far as the dog on the lease thing, we’re about 99% in favor of that, only exception being when we take our dog out to our city park, where we adopted him from as abandoned.
Brownie knows every inch of the park and I feel it would be wrong to not let him roam free occasionally when there’s not many people or other animals around. Those sort of days are few and far between though, so 99% of the time he’s on the leash.
- Comment on At first I thought this was the typical warning about the ocean depth rapidly increasing, but now I'm not so sure 4 days ago:
It means sex on the beach is allowed, but only if one of you is about to drown. Everyone knows this.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 4 days ago:
My response might be sligtly convoluted, but I’ll try to keep it simple. It relates to allergies.
For me, I am extremely allergic to oysters, and largely also allergic to shellfish. I’m so badly allergic to oysters that I cannot be in the same room as someone else eating them, the smell alone makes me gag, my eyes water, and makes my bronchial tubes swell where I can’t even breathe.
I however am luckily not allergic to peanuts. Regardless, I totally understand how potentially deadly a peanut allergy can be to those with the allergy, and if I’m in a public place around strangers, I tend to assume that anyone around me might have a peanut allergy.
Last year, I was in line at a gas station, and the woman in front of me waiting to pay had bought boiled peanuts. And she was fucking shelling and eating the peanuts while waiting in line, the bitch couldn’t even wait to pay for them, with cash, and exit the store first.
I called her out on it, and even pretended that I did have a peanut allergy, and what she was doing was not only nasty, but also a danger to others handling her peanut juice covered money.
She proved to be a Karen and not give a fuck, but I did speak my mind, on behalf of people that could possibly fucking die over her nastiness and carelessness.
- Comment on Special thanks to fellow user ShittyDwarf for the inspiration 👍 1 week ago:
Interesting.
I saw a couple weeks ago where someone said TACO TOFU…
“Trump Always Chickens Out, Trump Only Fucks Up”
- Comment on Special thanks to fellow user ShittyDwarf for the inspiration 👍 1 week ago:
Fun fact:
STRAP ON spelled backwards is NO PARTS
You’re welcome.
- Comment on Car 1 week ago:
LOL!
That randomly reminds me of a random post I saw on that other site years ago, goes something like this…
‘Get 4 pigs, and paint them with numbers 1, 2, 3, and 5. Then let them loose in Walmart, and after they catch those 4, sit back and watch them look for #4…’
- Comment on Car 1 week ago:
We’re going to have to balance your engine then, so we’re gonna have to remove plug #6 so it runs sorta smooth.
Good luck 🤞
- Comment on can't be much longer 1 week ago:
Amateur, real men drink Tabasco Sauce!
/s
For real though, 49 views in ~6 hours?!
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 2 weeks ago:
I know right?! You could fit your entire wallet in there, and they’d never guess the password!
Don’t ask how I know this, I don’t have any trucknuts…
- Comment on Car 2 weeks ago:
I was the weirdo that could change a filter with my left hand, while eating my lunch sandwich with my right hand totally clean.
There were still oddball incidents though, like magnetic oil plugs getting stuck magnetically and spraying my face with hot oil :(
- Comment on Look at my french popsicle! 2 weeks ago:
🐸
- Comment on Car 2 weeks ago:
It appears that cylinder 3 is now locked up, but we can have a couple helpers push your car out. Put it in neutral Karen…
- Comment on Car 2 weeks ago:
Me as the pit dude, like your oil drain plug is missing, you have no oil, how the fuck did you make it here?
- Comment on Look at my french popsicle! 2 weeks ago:
How many licks does it take to get to the center of a what in the holy fuck is that?!!!
- Comment on Chickenslap 2 weeks ago:
How fast does it cook in a vacuum?
- Comment on Don't tell me what to do. 2 weeks ago:
Well thank goodness I’m not a patient…
- Comment on I hear a lot of "ACAB", why don't I hear "APAB"? (P as in Politician) 2 weeks ago:
Well today I learned, that school board members are elected. I assume you’re referring to the US?..
I’m 42 years old and just learned this today. I attempted to run a petition at age 15 for our school of ~1200 students to keep the pizza lunch line, and I got approximately 420 unique signatures.
I still actually have the signatures somewhere in a file drawer in storage. Back when I did this, I asked people where to turn in my petition. Everyone told me to go to the superintendent’s office.
But nobody would actually tell me where the fuck that was, nor would anyone take me there ☹️.
I got more than a third of the students to sign my petition, but nobody would tell me where to take it, like what the actual fuck?
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 2 weeks ago:
We’re also not supposed to have a felon for president in the first place, he shouldn’t have been eligible to even run for office. But here we are, guess you poll workers didn’t protest that either huh?
You can’t sit and blame people that didn’t vote when the poll workers fucking allowed it to happen.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 2 weeks ago:
Well riddle me this…
Since I haven’t had an opportunity to even go through the process of voting, despite trying, waiting for ~2 hours, only to close at 8pm and officers ordered everyone still waiting to leave, I have no experience with the actual process of voting.
So how does the process actually work? From my understanding, unless I’m mistaken, don’t people get to vote on numerous positions at once, not just the president?
Like, I’d be looking at the options and be wondering who half or more of the candidates even are, and also not even being sure exactly what the nature of their job is in the bigger picture, not knowing a damn thing about them to make any educated decision.
Also, from my understanding, in my state, if you vote Democrat, you have to vote all Democrats, and if you vote Republican, you have to vote all Republicans. Like what the hell do names and campaign goals even mean if you don’t have the option to vote Democrat for one office, but might actually like the campaign goals of a Republican for another office?
It’s like what the hell do names even matter, if I’m a registered Democrat voter (which I am), then shouldn’t they already know how I’d vote anyways?
If I’m mistaken on any of this, by all means please let me know. Please be willing to educate inexperienced people as to how the voting process even works before giving them shit for not voting after trying, only for everyone still waiting to get sent home.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 2 weeks ago:
When the pill workers go home and lock up, what am I supposed to do, break in and turn the machines back on?
The poll workers should have protested, the potential voters couldn’t do shit.
- Comment on So um, america just started another war in the middle east. We're going to need a shit ton more memes to distract americans from the nightmare they are enduring. Thanks in advance... 2 weeks ago:
Um, wasn’t that largely Biden’s administration?