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  • Genuinely curious. Why does a tiny town even have a police department? Why doesn’t the sheriff handle it with the neighboring towns?

  • Ok, probably going to get downvoted, but here we go. I HATE hate hate hate children and especially babies. They cause a visceral reaction in me and it’s not good.

    Their awful high pitched squeals, their sticky filthy hands, their germ carrying drippy snotty faces, their awful baby talk that doesn’t make sense, their smell (barf), that awful cooing/laugh I could go on forever. Add in the terrifying idea of carrying one of those parasites in my for 9 months and then popping it out, while destroying my body? No fucking thank you.

    Add in that if you say you’re childfree people ALWAYS try to convince you that you need one. “Oh when are you and husband having baybeeeeees?” Never. “What!?!?!? Why!?!?!? They are soooooooo pwecous”. “You need to have at least one. They are miracles, and gods gifts.” “Who will take care of you when you’re old, if you don’t have kids. How will you have purpose in your life?” Idk Karen, maybe I have other interests, and hobbies, or volunteer. I’m fully satisfied with my life WITHOUT kids. Of course this doesn’t ever shut people up.

    There are very few places on the internet, and really anywhere, where childfree people can actually, openly say how they feel. If you say things like “god won’t someone shut that screaming brat up” in public, best case you get the look of death. More likely a bunch of people chastising you for not being sympathetic to the poor mom, whose REALLY stressed out, obviously.

    All of that eventually breed the comments like “I’m going to put the baby in the microwave”. I know I’ve had to resort to it a few times with extra pushy people, who pester me every time they see me about kids. You get macabre enough and everyone eventually stops asking. Plus hyperbole is fun.

  • Most human babies look like a sack of potatoes or Elmer Fudd. They aren’t cute. Ever.

    I admittedly do not like children, do not find them cute, and don’t want to see them. Plus, I have a HUGE issue with people posting their children on social media sites, when the child can’t give consent. On top of the security issues with posting a pic of your kid, their first name and location (at least in the data if not stated). “Oh look at little Johnnys first trip to the blah blah lake” not cute.

  • I can feel the tortitude

  • More accurately, a for profit system is the real problem.

  • I'm fully aware of why, but it doesn't change the fact, that I as the end user, get FAR less care than I did 5 years ago. AND I keep paying more and more and more every year for even less care.

  • I know. I logically do. I get it. BUT there is a huge mental block for me on that one.

    FWIW I wasn't trying to be rude, or an asshole.

  • I know you're not wrong, I just don't think I could ever get my hand involved in that. I've seen portable ones, that are what you describe. I've also seen what look like the sprayers we have on our kitchen sinks, all the way to the crazy Toto ones that are part of the actual toilet itself.

  • Sure, people making more money is a good thing. Well, as long as it's distributed relatively equally. The issue that I personally take with their salary, especially when considering inflation (which most of us can't say the same) is the massive decrease in care. I don't think it's fair for doctors to make more and more money every year, while providing CONSIDERABLY less or worse care.

  • It says further down in the article that he was busted down to private and is in the brig for 11 months. I suspect that most people don’t understand how the military ranking systems work anyhow, so it really means very little to most people, until you throw around words like general or commandant.

    @Dashi

    @GFGJewbacca

  • @jungekatz all the other answers are far more nuanced, and explain a lot more detail, but the most simple answers to your question are 1. Propaganda and 2. Herd mentality/echo chamber thinking.

  • Can I promote a community I started, when I migrated here? I had hoped it would pick up a little steam, but sadly, I'm alone there. If you're a woman runner, check out https://kbin.social/m/XXRunning

  • That OSHA warning is great.

    It sounds like I'm about the same age as you. Yeah, it's crazy how well it worked. I remember those VHS too. They were so awkward. It's also crazy how many people my age STILL thinks things like unions, OSHA, workers rights, never talking to other employees about your wages, etc are bad. Like does no one look around?

  • I'm in my 40s, and I'm still not ready to have grey hair. I'll keep dying it until I'm ready for it. As for the rest of the stuff people put themselves through, no thanks. I'm not trying to spend huge sums of money on treatments, peels, products, or plastic surgery.

    I have a bunch of younger cousins who are like you, they just don't give a shit about it. They and their friends don't think it's required to shave their legs/pits. They aren't dying their hair, or any of the other things to keep looking younger. They saw they parents doing it all, and just don't want to participate. I'm a little envious of their no fucks to give, but like I said, I'm not there yet.

  • I understand this. My early life was pretty bad. In my 20s, I got away from my family a lot more, and started living my life (mostly) how I wanted to. I'm in my 40s now, and I look significantly younger than most of my contemporaries. I'm not saying this to brag in any way. I'm simply trying to point out that stress and all those things in early life don't HAVE to lead to anything. They make us stronger, more resilient, and capable, as much as that sucks to have gone through.

    Not trying to preach or tell you anything you likely don't already know, but as for exercising not feeling good, change it up! Find a new sport. Take a break from your usual workout. Start walking more. Look into yoga. Yoga is truly one of those things that everyone should do. It's crazy how much is affects your day to day. Everyone I know over like 30 complains about back pain, and I used to too. I have NONE (unless I do something stupid) after I started doing yoga 5 days a week.

    Also, evaluate how you eat, and what you eat. I've started noticing A LOT more that what I eat the days before a workout have a much bigger impact on my workout than ever. I ate terribly this weekend, and yesterday, and my morning run was so much worse than normal today. I was dragging ass, and it was HARD, even though it was my mostly flat fast run (spoiler it wasn't fast today)

  • The ones in my area frequently have all the self checkouts open, and no registers with human cashiers open.

  • Full disclosure, I have no idea what I'm talking about.

    I don't know if it would have been a larger scale exchange, but I think that it would have affected the US population more, as it may have been on US soil.

    Had USA not sort of kinda of forced japan's hand, with all the restrictions/resource cutoff, it's possible none of it would have happened at all. Japan was in no way innocent, but USA had a hand in it happening the way it did, and then some.

  • I'm genuinely curious, and I'm not trying to start an argument, but why do you think that OP should pay for the cab ride home? I'm going to assume the woman was not an escort, that she went to OP's place of her own accord, and was a willing participant. So my questions is why is it seen as the "right thing to do" to give her money to get home?

    I ask this as a woman, who would never assume that I didn't need to figure my own shit out, after a night of partying, because it's my responsibility. I get it is probably the nice thing to do, maybe, but even then, she theoretically had fun too.

    @MrBubbles96

    @KujoD2407

  • Paying for sex is negotiated ahead of time. Always.

    If I had some fun with a random dude, and he asked me for money after (without any discussion beforehand), I'd laugh in his face. Largely because, um what, but also because that's not my thing.