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I wear hearing aids and air dryers annoy the hell out of me because they're so loud. Almost as much as leaf blowers annoy me.

Hearing aids don't have the ability to filter noises so it's like plugging a microphone into headphones and trying to carry on conversations. Mine can now reduce loud noises a little bit so they don't damage my already horrible hearing further but that wasn't the case when I had them as a kid and air dryers started getting more popular, that shit hurt.

Prince made this statement way before Matrix did

I put Amazon in the same category these days

Laws don't mean shit anymore and stopped doing so when a convicted felon got elected as President. Well it doesn't mean shit for rich people.

This is a complete upheaval of the Bill of Rights and the First Amendment of the Constitution per Wikipedia's entry on Separation of church and state:

Jefferson and the Bill of Rights

In English, the exact term is an offshoot of the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state", as written in Thomas Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. In that letter, referencing the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Jefferson writes:

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.[6]

Jefferson was describing to the Baptists that the United States Bill of Rights prevents the establishment of a national church, and in so doing they did not have to fear government interference in their right to expressions of religious conscience. The Bill of Rights, adopted in 1791 as ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States, was one of the earliest political expressions against the political establishment of religion. Others were the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, also authored by Jefferson and adopted by Virginia in 1786; and the French Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789.

The metaphor "a wall of separation between Church and State" used by Jefferson in the above quoted letter became a part of the First Amendment jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was first used by Chief Justice Morrison Waite in Reynolds v. United States (1878). American historian George Bancroft was consulted by Waite in the Reynolds case regarding the views on establishment by the framers of the U.S. constitution. Bancroft advised Waite to consult Jefferson. Waite then discovered the above quoted letter in a library after skimming through the index to Jefferson's collected works according to historian Don Drakeman.[30]

As an atheist that agrees more with Buddhism and Paganism than any organized religion this infuriating. I went to Catholic Church and school for 18 years of my life, I know what it's like to be "forced" to believe in something you don't.

Are they going to keep records of who goes to what churches and arrest people if they don't go to the correct church at the correct time and day?

I don't give a shit what anyone believes as long as they are not an asshole, that's their own business. I've had people try to shove their religion on me and it's not fun. If I had the financial means to leave this country I absolutely would now even if I was a Christian and went to church every Sunday.

This is REALLY freaking dangerous and scary on top of all the REALLY freaking dangerous and scary other bullshit Orange Man and his Disciples of Dumbasses have been doing since January 20th.

HUD housing is already a shithole in most areas. I guarantee nobody on DOGE even understands what HUD does. I live in HUD housing because in on SSDI.

I’m going to be homeless soon, if I’m not disappeared before any changes happen to HUD.

As someone currently on SSDI and terrified by what's been happening in the last 100 or so days.....that's not funny 😜

There was a traffic stop a month or so ago where the city police were called by BP for assistance and they actually assisted them in kidnapping people. The mayor is pissed and says that can't happen due to our sanctuary city status (since 1986) and now the federal government is suing us. We have a HUGE population of immigrants from all over the world here as refugees and to attend our two universities and this is going to get ugly.

The head of C&BP is coming to my city this week because of all this. Something tells me ICE is going to be crawling all over this city the whole week and longer. BP already crawls all over the city because we're on the northern border.

I live in a HUD building. I see ICE searches without warning in my near future because of how many immigrants are here. My cane might be useful for more than just balancing me while walking.

As someone with multiple mental illness labels and struggling to do basic levels of self-care often, I’m terrified of this. But I also unrealistically think it works make my life easier. Besides the torture.

This is beyond evil. Like I think even evil people are nice to kids with cancer

His time at DOGE may “drop significantly,” but in the same call he made it clear he intends to continue his political work until (at least) 2029. “I’ll have to continue doing it for, I think, probably the remainder of the president’s term, just to make sure that the waste and fraud that we stop does not come roaring back, which will do if it has the chance,” he said, adding he still plans to spend “a day or two a week” at the quasi agency.

He’s just not going to be in the spotlight, but he will absolutely still control Trump and DOGE on a daily basis

Don’t these two countries have nukes? 2025 is a shitshow

8 currently in my 40’s. When I’m 70 I can’t even imagine

Which makes the debt ceiling fight that's coming up even more interesting. (article from March 24th)

The U.S. is most likely to default on its $36 trillion national debt sometime between mid-July and early October if Congress doesn’t act, the Bipartisan Policy Center predicted Monday.

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Debt limit forecasters are expected to release a narrower X-date prediction after most tax receipts have landed at the IRS in April. While it’s “quite unlikely,” there is still a possibility that the U.S. could run out of borrowing power in early June if that gush of tax revenue comes in far below projections, the Bipartisan Policy Center cautioned.

The cost-cutting efforts of the Department of Government Efficiency effort headed by Elon Musk could also affect cash flow enough to change the X-date prediction, along with the strength of the economy, tariffs and any new spending or cuts Congress approves, the center said.

Given how DOGE is inflating it's cost cutting savings by over $140 Billion, the tariff trade war, and congress' habit of pushing things to the brink when their luck is going to run out sooner or later -- this could get ugly quick.

I'm on the northern east coast. I have friends in California that try to get me to move there but I have no interest in experiencing an earthquake first hand -- blizzards and ice storms are traumatic enough.

If this is done on the east coast and we start experiencing California-level earthquakes....

U.S. Gen Xer here about to give up on doctors again. In my 20's it was pill pushers, 20 years later I had physical and mental health issues that are complicated and that I had ignored because I didn't want to just have another pill shoved on me and decided to put trust in doctors.

At first, it was pretty good because I was seeing a NP who took time to listen to me and it felt like I was in on the decision of MY health. A couple of years later the hospital system decided in their interest of not making enough money to stop using NP's in that location.

I tried....I really did. I've given it a couple of years and we're not to the point of pill pushing (although with all the docs I have I'm on 8 different meds now 🤦🏻) but I've lost the ability to advocate for myself because either he's too quick and I don't think that fast or I do think that fast and he dismisses me. Testing that might be helpful in figuring out what none of the other doctors or him can figure out is denied by him, most likely because he doesn't have the time to fight with insurance (in my case Medicaid/Medicare) rather than doesn't see any value in a test. But instead of being honest with me he just says it's not helpful, at least that's what my cynical ass sees.

I'm getting my physical soon, they made a mistake with the bloodwork dates and I had to send them a message to get that corrected. I decided to advocate for a test that I thought could be useful that was just drawing more blood and he flat out denied it as helpful. Once I get my physical I'm going to try changing doctors, with the expectation that either none of them are taking new patients or have a year or longer waiting list. Oh and the message back was also just short of blaming me for their mistake.

Doctors (at least in the U.S.) are overworked, understaffed, and if you don't fit neatly in a box they can check they throw their hands up and say who knows rather than working with you to figure out what's going on. Better yet, they blame symptoms on mental health to deflect -- only to have therapists (unless they are trained in addiction and trauma-informed) disagree and refer you back to the doctor. And the cycle repeats over and over again until you are worn down enough to stop caring.

Agreed.

says the adult who enjoys Looney Toons, LEGO, and finger paints due to hand pain

I am terrified this is going to happen to me being on SSDI and in HUD housing. Glad to know my fears are justified now 🤨

EDIT: Uhhhhhhh......11 million out of 73 million purged? 🫣

Anything demeaning another human in an effort to make them less than everyone else is pure hatred and is hate speech.