I can’t count how many times I’ve heard someone near me say something about how minority groups in the UK are just going around stabbing each other or shooting up drugs, and also immigrants are stabbing everyone and doing all the drugs, and also the teenagers are getting wasted every night… Etc…

Like… What possible news source could you be basing this off? I’ll admit I don’t keep up with global news like I could, but it seems pretty stab-free in the UK and that’s why it’s such a big deal when it does happen.

Also just this past month I’ve heard someone talk shit about gun control because of a shooting in a relatively gun-free country “look how that helped them”… Uhhhhhh yeah let’s just ignore all the mass shootings in our own backyard that don’t even make news anymore because it’s so frequent.

Reality means nothing to these people, only what they(re told to) feel at that particular moment.

Right? Call of duty is basically 5 seconds of setup and then everyone just sprints at each other guns blazing.

Who asked for that??

If I had to guess? Children/minors who don’t like setup time.

Yeah, ruining play experiences by locking things behind paywalls is a terrible thing to do.

The food could have been given to someone hungry before it spoiled in the fridge.

The furniture could have been given to someone else instead of tossing it for the newer model/different decor.

My in-laws throw half-eaten food away every day. They redecorate for every season and usually only keep entire couches for 2-3 years. I’m assuming they’re an extreme outlier, but I know plenty of people who toss food like it’s fashionable to waste half your fridge every week, and get new furniture when I see nothing wrong with the old furniture.

Too few are the type to get a new chair only when the old one has broken in half, and eat everything they made for lunch.

Luigi (who I am not convinced actually did it) only stopped at one.

I bet if we kept going, things would change pretty substantially.

That’s insane to me.

I have money to buy something, and I’m being refused the sale despite this money being legal tender.

The rich fail up and everyone else has to play by the rules or get fucked over.

You’re playing by their rules, and it only matters as long as we allow them to not play by the rules.

I bet they’d stop doing it if they got literally ripped into pieces by horses. Or a horse’s solar-powered motorized equivalent.

100% spot on.

It’s absolutely a scam designed to extract even more wealth from the poors.

No joke, I’ve had a car dealership tell me they can’t sell me the car I want because my credit score was nonexistent (no credit history in 7 years). I was paying in full, in cash, literally in an envelope in my hand.

Grand total of 8k, all in 100s, super easy to count.

But no, I didn’t have a “good enough credit score” so I couldn’t buy that car from them, despite having the money to do so.

Mental gymnastics on that one.

That’s fair.

The obvious choice is “don’t buy tvs that might do this” but if you’ve already got one, open up the case, find the wifi antenna, and pull the little connection out.

So just say no to hanging out, or let the person know you’re bringing company?

I don’t give a shit. That should be their problem not ours.

This should be everyone’s reaction when faced with “but how will [company] profit with [X] ?” questions.

Oh hell yeah.

I mean, by then we had Ronald Reagan, so…

It’s always been a joke.

Someone around my area keeps destroying about a dozen flock cameras, and a few have even got guards or security/trail cameras on them now after being replaced.

I congratulate whoever is doing this, and hope they never get caught.

Fuck surveillance states. Fuck flock in particular.

And the average person has (usually) no idea if what they’re being fed is even correct. But as long as it sounds correct to someone who has no idea…

Yes, but line go up fast enough?

Nah, I think I’ll just continue to smoke and vape to an unhealthy degree in order to disassociate from the banal horrors of modern day. If I keep myself mildly baked and consuming a steady stream of star trek and Stargate, I’ll keep myself from having thoughts.

Ah, the cycle continues.

I want to get a new computer/parts

begin looking into pricing

Find out something happened recently to spike the price of the thing I want to get

Decide it’s too expensive, get something cheap and inadequate

Time passes

I want to get a new computer/parts