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- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 1 week ago:
Interesting! Thanks. That has some more nuance than I was expecting.
PA state government is rife with corruption of every level and so we as residents tend to leap to conclusions that every state official, especially the elected ones, are always committing some kind of crime and it’s just the unlucky ones who get caught and tried. The State Treasurer in particular has a recent bad history.
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 1 week ago:
Source? He was a State Treasurer involved in a complicated bribery and contracting scandal. It’s not a he-said-she-said sort of case. His accuser was a deputy comptroller for Pittsburgh Public Schools who noted contracts were wildly overvalued for the work and called the State Auditor General who called the FBI to investigate the matter. Who are you suggesting was lying?
- Comment on Florida ounces 2 weeks ago:
Damn, I’m old enough to remember this post the first time it happened on Reddit. I laughed about this poor fool all day. Good times.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid? 3 weeks ago:
Can we call it the Tri-State so every “Tri-State area” has no hope?
- Comment on Did you ever use your Toe to turn one of these on or off? 3 weeks ago:
On purpose or by accident?
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 weeks ago:
What proof do you have that your waste is being processed correctly? I have proof mine is not and plenty of news reporting from across the US in the last 5 years that says consumer curbside recycling is basically dead.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 weeks ago:
I’m just speaking as someone who does carefully separate everything, only to watch the truck put it all the same place. My individual actions mean fuck all if the rest of the process doesn’t work.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 weeks ago:
It’s hard to blame them entirely when the facilities to separate and recycle the waste were never fully built in the US and we spent decades shipping bales of consumer recycling to Asia where it was often deemed too dirty to use for recycling and was burned instead. You can find tons of great articles about the collapses of consumer recycling and the unraveling of the plastic recycling lies sold to the American public, it came about 2021 and continued to be a hot topic through 2023. Today, my shitty neighborhood has collectively stepped down from a proper waste pickup with bins, to 4 guys and a truck who collect and take the waste to a nearby incinerator. We know it can’t be an “official” waste collection company by the “We Love Junk” signs on the truck enjoying our cans, but we’ve been told this is fancy hand collection that is quieter than standard trash trucks and we should be grateful. (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 weeks ago:
In the US it’s nearly impossible since the pandemic. Most waste collection firms are dumping both cans in the same truck and not recycling anything. Plastic recycling in particular turned out to be much more expensive than waste management was prepared to keep doing so they stopped.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 5 weeks ago:
'96 Saturn Wagon in red. Mom bought it after a car accident left her unable to drive a manual transmission for a year when I was a freshman. She made me learn to drive in it, then as soon as I passed my test she brought herself a brand new Honda CRV with manual transmission and gave me the Saturn. I drove it until I finished graduate school in 06, I gave the Saturn back and she gave me $15k to buy a new car of my choice as a graduation present. My new husband and I chose a Ford Focus wagon, manual transmission, which we drove happily until it’s final demise in 2023. Mom sold the Saturn to a friend in the next state of over for a few grand but she drove the poor thing into a flooded road and killed it less than a year later.
- Comment on Guaranteed NO ONE ever used this on their face 1 month ago:
I have a WeVibe Tango and have loved it for a very long time.
- Comment on Guaranteed NO ONE ever used this on their face 1 month ago:
That’s super pricey for this. Any $15 vibe from Amazon will do.
- Comment on Guaranteed NO ONE ever used this on their face 1 month ago:
Not -always- but when things are really goopy and not going anywhere I can vibe for a couple of minutes until it’s looser and then blow my nose and get my allergy spray in. It’s a nasal spray so I need any room in there to get the meds in. I rub it mostly on my upper cheeks and nose and a little on my forehead.
- Comment on Guaranteed NO ONE ever used this on their face 1 month ago:
I use an intimate vibrator on my face occasionally to loose up my sinuses. Just give it a good wash before and after; there’s nothing wrong with it.
- Comment on Wanna show me? Send a DM 1 month ago:
There’s no cord! Without it’s curly whirly umbilical cord how will it survive on it’s own?
- Comment on Steps To Navigate Discord 2 months ago:
Stuck between reporting this as a spam post and declaring AI self-help the next great copy-pasta trend.
This isn’t even bad advice, it’s just long AF and in shitposts. I guess he’s shitposting us back with arguably useful information? I’m confused.
- Comment on 7 for me 3 months ago:
As a teen someone repeated the myth that wearing a bra to bed can cause breast cancer, “Say no more!” said I and never did ever again.
- Comment on Something something far-left 3 months ago:
I loved working in libraries. But even after becoming a manager, i couldn’t feed my kids. It sucked. I miss it.
- Comment on Something something far-left 3 months ago:
Every food service place in my area fired their under-18 staff. Apparently it was a manager fad to declare minors “too much trouble” and so the only high schoolers I see are bagging groceries or camp counselors for little kids. My kids are 15 and want to start working but the best job in town that allows them is serving dinner and doing laundry at the fancy retirement community.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 3 months ago:
But are getting argyle gun skins?
- Comment on Tabletop Convection Oven* 3 months ago:
It’s a great alternative if your rental has a gas oven and you are rightfully concerned about the indoor air pollution caused by the burning of natural gas. We can’t change the installed range so we use an air-fryer/ toaster oven on one counter and an electric induction burner on the other. We got a wooded range cover and use it as counter space for food prep.
- Comment on Meta axes VR game developers amid $4.97 billion Reality Labs loss 3 months ago:
The AR glasses project is also dead. They laid off the team working on the hardware shortly after Trump took office in a bunch of other layoffs.
- Comment on Put him on the cart. 3 months ago:
Nono, I remember this from JPII’s death. They yell his birth name 3 times into his room and then they use the hammer to smash his ring and seals. Dude was in a coma for a just long enough for us to hope for a Undead Pope -> Emperor on the Golden Throne situation.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 4 months ago:
That would make it a foot measurement, not a shoe size.
- Comment on I'm a 6'1" man with size 3 feet which means every they measure my feet at a shoe store, the Brannock device gatekeeps my gender 4 months ago:
Where do you live that they don’t?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 4 months ago:
I must have read this comment 10 times before deciding you are probably joking.
- Comment on 5 Soothing Solutions for Back Pain Relief (That Actually Work!) 💆♂️✨ 4 months ago:
I propose this has the red flags for LLM created content
- No human uses the number button emojis
- Em dash with spaces used correctly. Not even an English major does this intentionally.
- Crap ass editing otherwise. Whoever hurried to give this “a human touch” also didn’t know WTF they were doing and tried to re-write the Yoga section, pooly.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Hossenfelder is fine but tries to educate way outside her realm. Her cryptocurrency episode made me lose all respect for her.
- Comment on This is what peak performance looks like, sweaty 5 months ago:
No shit. I’m at the Dr asking for PT rx and they don’t fight me one iota. I just motion at my shoulders. “They are behind me.”
- Comment on Receipt checkers trigger me 5 months ago:
Security theater, just like the TSA. They don’t need to stop bad actors, they just need to convince their shareholders that they are taking action against losses.