File: 1683769898865.jpg (6.88 KB, 249x202, 911.jpg)
No. 1573579
File: 1683771467428.jpg (147.18 KB, 900x600, megachurch.jpg)
>>1573563 all forgiven nona
For something on thread topic, let's talk about megachurches. Anyone have experience attending one? What was it like? I actually did go to one myself. Didn't think of anything wrong with it as a kid but we brought my catholic grandma to their christmas service once and she hated it, lol.
No. 1573627
File: 1683779186272.jpg (910.45 KB, 2560x1707, hypatia-h_48ee3e58abdfda10469d…)
>>1573579My parents went to one for a bit when I was young, I hated it. There's nothing spiritual about being in stadium seating and the sermons sucked. The pastor is a televangelist who got shit on for not volunteering his megachurch as shelter when the city got hit with a natural disaster recently. Meanwhile all the smaller churches were actually helping their community with cleanup, and giving shelter and food. That made me really not trust megachurches tbh.
No. 1573631
File: 1683779417199.jpg (58.3 KB, 1200x800, downloadfile-1.jpg)
My family in Texas loves Joel Osteens megachurch. It's literally a cult. I think they just like the entertainment and feeling like they are doing something righteous. They are absolutely obsessed, they know everything about Joel Osteen and his family and framed pictures of them together. There is also this hierarchy of lower "spiritual counselors" that my family spends a bunch of money on. You basically pay so they respond to your texts. It's pretty depressing whenever they force me to go and I have to endure it all and hold my tongue about how weird and crazy it is.
No. 1573678
File: 1683784318167.jpeg (61.42 KB, 638x654, 91D4410E-04F1-4DF8-AAC6-0E58CC…)
>>1573647I think small local churches are just as sinister because there are so many! Especially depending on the neighborhood. Living in the city in a predominantly black neighborhood I’ve never seen so many local churches within a 5 mile radius. It’s honestly terrifying. But I hate churches and think they are being used to further subjugate the black community by making us serve and be beholden to a white god that justified our enslavement so move around me please
No. 1573691
>>1573678a lot of those small churches are run like mini cults by predators who establish strange hierarchies like making attendees call his wife "first lady" and create special names for his kids who he ordains himself. too often, these pastors also groom young girls into relationships with him.
this isn't to say that megachurches don't have the same issues, but they have to be more careful because thousands of people are watching. smaller churches get away with a lot of this stuff in the open because the regular attendants are usually a few dozen at most.
No. 1573694
File: 1683786505374.jpeg (88.69 KB, 1125x713, CB55928E-F9AB-4B61-B1E0-744988…)
>>1573579gemstones nailed it
No. 1573832
File: 1683808570632.jpg (317.72 KB, 768x1024, 28756553718_49e248343b_b.jpg)
>>1573825These soulless cement buildings are probably cheaper in upkeep than real cathedrals and churches tbh.
Kinda wish the US had beautiful old churches and cathedrals tho. I just imagine that your prayers from picrel sound so much better to god than from an ugly stadium.
No. 1573842
File: 1683810339474.jpg (244.6 KB, 915x1034, Stanford_Memorial_Church_Inter…)
>>1573832Oh, nonna, I'm not trying to correct you, but you might like to know similar churches to the kind you're talking about are commonly attached to the big universities. Probably because those are some of our oldest institutions (and they have the money to maintain them). I know the European ones are more grand tho kek
Picrel Stanford Memorial Church in California
No. 1573860
File: 1683813495020.jpg (248.27 KB, 800x1067, St._Peter_Cathedral_in_Erie,_P…)
>>1573678Of course there are loads of small local churches, one for each village/neighborhood.
>>1573691Never heard about this, ew. My local church that I had to go to as a kid along with the CCD program seemed fine it was whatever.
>>1573857https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cathedrals_in_the_United_States#PennsylvaniaThere are also smatterings of old, historical churches too depending on where you are. I don't know about the insides of many of them, but churches always have beautiful interiors even if simple. If you're really interested and you see yourself drive by an old church, maybe go inside of it or something I'm sure it'll be quite beautiful.
No. 1573922
>>1573899See
>>1573918Like yeah I wonder why these stinky 18th century Americans are imitating le superior European buildings that have no connection at all in the slightest to what exists in America bc Americans spawned out of nowhere
No. 1574031
File: 1683825648394.png (965.56 KB, 782x869, US-church.png)
>>1573832>Kinda wish the US had beautiful old churches and cathedrals thoThe US may not have medieval churches like Europe but it makes up for it with the variety of architectural styles.
No. 1574047
>>1574031Nice selection indeed.
I really don't like the triangular ones, the first and second in the middle row. There's something unwelcoming about the shape.
No. 1574181
File: 1683833943941.jpg (216.2 KB, 1600x971, empanada.jpg)
Seeing the street food of many different countries makes me wish that we had something like that. Don't get me wrong, I like boiled peanuts and empanadas, but where I live, these street foods are only sold on special occasions, like at fairs. At least in big cities, street food is more common.
No. 1574349
File: 1683845443712.png (227.77 KB, 1156x1179, joel cube.png)
>>1573631>>1573637LMAOOO nonas, my parents have suddenly become extra religious these past few years (when I was growing up we were always "Christian", but never went to church together) and…out of absolutely nowhere, my mom gave me a fucking Joel Osteen "Inspiration Cube" for Christmas. It's a little bluetooth speaker that plays sermons and "inspirational quotes" from Joel when you push the buttons, I laughed so hard when I opened it because I thought it was a joke, and my mom was genuinely offended. What the hell is happening to our families?
No. 1574518
File: 1683866265484.jpg (82.54 KB, 640x480, streetfood.jpg)
>>1574181Do food trucks count?
Is street food common in American cities? I guess all we have are these, but it's not exciting imo
No. 1575587
>>1575199That happens on instagram too, all the time it's retarded as fuck. Someone will say something and someone else will go "oh you fucking Americans!!" and the original person, understandably confused, is like i don't know at what point in my comment i said i was from america but one look at my profile will tell you I'm [insert demonym]
Weird stuff.
No. 1576344
File: 1683985771944.jpg (207.17 KB, 1055x798, NewColones.jpg)
>>1574482we have the worst paper money in the world, sorry. a lot of foreign currency designs blow our shit out the fucking water. have you ever seen costa rican paper money? the new designs for paper colones are fucking awesome, they've got sharks and sloths on them it's not fair lol - and it doesn't disintegrate if you get it wet and the bills are different sizes so even if you can't see you can still tell the difference
No. 1576347
File: 1683986104259.jpg (249.87 KB, 1200x773, alligator-ride-2.jpg)
was going to suggest this for threadpic but I see I'm a few days too late. maybe next thread.
No. 1576350
File: 1683986434536.png (272.54 KB, 1200x894, california-alligator-park-phot…)
No. 1576351
File: 1683986474658.png (646.54 KB, 1200x1533, california-alligator-park-phot…)
No. 1576932
>>1574518I mentioned food trucks because they are the closest thing to having year round street food. I also like the variety.
Hotdog stands like this are only common in very big cities like Miami and special festivals like fairs.
No. 1577666
File: 1684096385415.png (1.21 MB, 759x1024, specialmonies.png)
I found this in my old childhood stuff today. You guys are gonna be so jealous when they make me rich one day. I'll try to stay humble
No. 1579646
File: 1684284312167.png (45.44 KB, 1044x350, please die.png)
the rudy guiliani leaks are fucking peak milk, he needs his own thread. i was late for work because i couldn't stop reading the court papers. i don't even know what to screenshot because this is so entirely fucked up
https://eddsa.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/public/650033_2023_Noelle_Dunphy_v_Rudolph_W_Giuliani_et_al_COMPLAINT_10.pdf No. 1579714
File: 1684288618675.jpg (335.28 KB, 1920x1080, Tumblr_l_16420145193638.jpg)
What's up California, already in the high 90's in my neck of the woods and I'm sweating.
No. 1579735
File: 1684290566187.png (384.89 KB, 2048x1348, Screenshot_20230516-212826.png)
>>1579646I've only just started reading, i completely understand getting sucked into this my god
No. 1580938
File: 1684433038960.jpeg (205.95 KB, 1179x1506, IMG_8394.jpeg)
Title 42 is finally dead but if I’m reading things correctly it’s harder than ever to seek asylum in the US. The new app sounds awful. Why can’t our government just build the infrastructure to handle the number of people who want to cross legally instead of coming up with stupid legal schemes to not have to do their damn jobs?? We’re gonna wind up paying private detention firms tax dollars to essentially jail people who didn’t do anything wrong, I would rather my tax dollars be spent on actually addressing the situation in a humane way, make some progress instead of pretending our hands are tied, that sort of thing. So frustrating how immigration is always in the news but no one ever has an actually good idea because the politicians don’t know how to actually do anything in the real world except line their pockets with deals with contractors!
No. 1581073
File: 1684440150089.jpeg (244.83 KB, 1179x1719, IMG_8399.jpeg)
>>1580985From what I understand, the Remain in Mexico policy is already causing exactly the situation you describe.
I think it’s really interesting that all the immigration stuff that was so Evil when Trump signed the orders is not remarked upon when the Biden administration keeps it going or doubles down and makes it even worse. The expedited removal process which deports people with no due process was suspended by Biden for like one year and then re-implemented exactly as it was written before! (I have to assume because Title 42 was ending.) Not really surprising though.
No. 1581688
File: 1684512454128.jpg (88.37 KB, 674x1000, 71HiI0QX6PL._AC_UY1000_.jpg)
i really want to dress full-american for 4th July but I've never had any place to go to do so. i mean full out drenched in red white blue sparkle and lights, like all the old usa memes of the 2000s
No. 1581691
File: 1684512643469.jpg (89.43 KB, 1440x810, Squat-Hero-2.jpg)
My state finally banned these ugly ass trucks thank god
No. 1581965
File: 1684533081419.jpeg (130.38 KB, 750x1216, 0F08E8DC-227A-4C0D-972F-C7C619…)
>>1579646The circumstances under which he met that woman are horrible too. What a piece of shit. My family loves Giuliani for how he cracked down on crime in NYC. I think New Yorkers are also somewhat trauma bonded to him because of 9/11 (not sure if that’s the right word).
No. 1582228
File: 1684559172488.png (15.82 KB, 1079x90, podcast.PNG)
>>1579646please, this needs it's own thread
No. 1582831
File: 1684622612030.jpeg (145.5 KB, 1179x1155, IMG_8557.jpeg)
I subscribe to a China news newsletter and it’s very factual and uninteresting, sometimes educational, but this headline got me lol
No. 1583190
File: 1684657407913.jpg (192.05 KB, 1024x680, 4778225385_414a52dba1_b.jpg)
now four people have died and more people went blind or lost their eyeballs due to the contaminated eye drops
>Three products have been voluntarily recalled by their manufacturer, Global Pharma (Chennai, India), in association with this outbreak: EzriCare Artificial Tears, Delsam Pharma Artificial Tears, and Delsam Pharma Artificial Ointment. No other products have been linked to this outbreak.
>As of May 15, 2023, CDC, in partnership with state and local health departments, identified 81 patients in 18 states (CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, IL, NC, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, PA, SD, TX, UT, WA, WI) with VIM-GES-CRPA, a rare strain of extensively drug-resistant P. aeruginosa. This represents an increase of 13 patients since the last update. Among these 13 patients, 6 (46%) had specimens collected prior to the February 2, 2023, manufacturer recall of products associated with this outbreak. These cases were confirmed after the recall date due to the time it takes for testing to confirm the outbreak strain and because of retrospective reporting of infections. Of the 7 patients who had specimens collected after the recall, most either resided in long-term care facilities with other known cases or reported use of a recalled brand of artificial tears.
>Dates of specimen collection were from May 2022 to April 2023. Patients were initially identified from cultures of sputum, bronchial wash, or tracheal aspirate (14); sites related to the eye (e.g., cornea, vitreous; 21); urine (13); other nonsterile sources (3); blood (3); and ear (1); and from rectal swabs (26) collected for surveillance. Adverse outcomes that were associated with clinical (non-surveillance) cultures and reported to public health include 14 patients with vision loss, an additional 4 patients with enucleation (surgical removal of eyeball), and 4 deaths within 30 days of VIM-GES-CRPA clinical culture collection.https://www.cdc.gov/hai/outbreaks/crpa-artificial-tears.html No. 1584725
File: 1684814168596.jpg (46.65 KB, 540x405, Tumblr_l_149102062501193.jpg)
>>1584415Sameses, it hit 100f today and I wanted to cry. This will pass fellow calanon
No. 1584747
File: 1684817931318.jpeg (311.36 KB, 1170x1533, C80CF5E9-D1CF-4548-893E-089144…)
the southwest is simultaneously awesome and awful. here’s some awesome!
No. 1584976
>>1584936If you have turkeys on your property in Missouri I guarantee some retarded young hick will be posing by its corpse before sundown, bragging on social media about his huntin' prowess (even if his target was completely indifferent to his presence)
Theres one thing about Missouri, the dating market is garbage no matter your orientation so don't move here unless youre already with your spouse
No. 1585018
File: 1684851862596.jpg (334.79 KB, 1425x1204, hawk girls.jpg)
>>1584976One, it's illegal to hunt on private property without the landowners permission. Two, you can only hunt in season with the proper permits. Call the Game Commission and tell them that some young hick is poaching and then a grizzled man in a funny hat will show up, investigate, and then tear that idiot a new asshole so wide that he'll be shitting pancakes for the rest of his life.
No. 1585068
File: 1684855071750.jpg (297.86 KB, 1500x875, guineawithbabies.jpg)
>>1584910lyme disease fucking sucks and needs to be treated asap if you don't want lifelong repercussions. i got treated a year late and wouldn't recommend it.
>>1584936 guineas are dope ass little birds, neat as hell, they'll hang out on your roof though and potentially annoy the neighbors as they can get loud. i had some as a kid. their feathers and eggs are really nice to collect too. compared to pet ducks they're less personal but not unfriendly. independent, i guess.
No. 1585100
File: 1684858918520.png (260.2 KB, 960x2079, IMG_0908.png)
Does it bother anyone else that some of the left is trying to push the “No, MAGAts are the real child predators here!” Don’t get me wrong, I hate the GOP and the shit that they’re doing in Florida is retarded. But I don’t think going “No U” is gonna help the situation in the long run aside from pointing out their hypocrisy. We need to teach children that predators can come from ANYWHERE.
Pic related. While I do admire the work she does to an extent, she’s clearly pushing an agenda and I find it rather disingenuous. I have overall mixed feelings on it.
No. 1585365
>>1585327It really doesn’t. When was the last time there was a cholera outbreak here? Certain areas being corrupt and refusing to update old infrastructure (corroded pipes) doesn’t mean all water here is
toxic. People who bitch about how bad everything in the US is always lack perspective. Do you realize there’s still countries where men beating their wives to death is a regular occurrence that people turn a blind eye to?
>>1585321You’re right, a child being pregnant is always a life-threatening condition and I firmly believe doctors dealing with that should ignore any stupid legislation and save the child’s life.
No. 1585407
File: 1684885979005.jpg (125.83 KB, 1409x901, Untitled.jpg)
>>1585397it's not that different and considering USA has way more people, that's way more women being battered.
No. 1585409
>>1585386Unfortunately this varies a lot from state to state so it’s difficult to give advice without knowing where you are. One place you can start is by looking up your state and/or local health department and finding mental health resources through them. In my area it’s called MHMR but from what I’ve seen they mainly do medication management and not really therapy. If you have insurance, they should be able to send you a list of practitioners that take your insurance but call any doctor or therapist before making an appointment because sometimes those lists aren’t accurate. Many therapists don’t accept any insurance and there’s not enough therapists available to cover the increased demand. Best of luck!
>>1585398It wasn’t a random choice; they genuinely have a disturbing problem with violence against women that only got worse with covid shit. They have the audacity to promote something they call the Gross National Happiness Index, I’d suggest reading about them if you’d like to gain some perspective.
No. 1585413
File: 1684886454562.jpg (110.42 KB, 788x525, ricecrossgarden.jpg)
>>1585395yeah a lot of non-Americans (and probably some Americans) think everything American = California. LA and the roundabout area specifically. i live on the other side of the country though. we got swamps, ghosts, and creepy ass roadside tourist attractions.
No. 1585414
File: 1684886601621.png (427.42 KB, 1170x2532, 0DB1E1E6-0E22-4C44-8E09-9BA411…)
>>1585405Because I’m arguing that the US isn’t some hell hole and people who constantly whine about how awful life is here sounds extremely uninformed.
>>1585407Did you not consider that a lot of DV isn’t reported there because it is extremely normalized?
https://www.svri.org/forums/forum2019/Presentations/Confronting%20domestic%20violence%20in%20the%20land%20of%20happiness%20Lhamo%20and%20Choden.pdfI chose an easily digestible PDF.
No. 1585464
>>1585453eh? i'll see you around,
nonnie.
No. 1585476
>>1585445Ugh, thank you anon. You said what I’m trying to say much more succinctly. Like of course there’s violence against women everywhere but I’m happy I live somewhere it’s not considered normal and there are places
victims of DV can turn to for help.
No. 1585881
>>1585476You’re a misguided shit bag. My father beat my mother and the cops literally told us we could sleep in. McDonald’s parking lot if we didn’t like it so much help. Drinking the cool aid. You’re not any different than the
abusive parents neglecting their children and using there’s children starving in Africa so you should be happy you got at least one meal while your classmates got three.
No. 1585885
>>1585857Left = lose your rights to trannies
Right = lose your reproductive rights
Pick your poison because either way your fucked.
No. 1586243
>>1586215Eh, it's just the usual media bullshit. I suggest never reading any news.
What is actually happening is that Florida produces a shitton of fertilizer and this crap is a waste product that has no use and is just dumped in mounds somewhere. It was already proposed to be used in roads, but it was denied due to health concerns, and now they want to start a new study to see whether it is actually dangerous when used in certain ways. In either case the federal government is the one who decides.
A general life pro tip I learned is to completely ignore anything that is '"maybe", "think about", "plan", "talk about" because 99.9999999% of the time it never happens and you waste your life chasing one retarded headline after another. If you pay attention to only what actually happens you suddenly lose a ton of anxiety and free up a lot of time.
The media are a complete waste of time only fit for copy pasting government statements and filling the rest of the air time with lies and fearmongering.
No. 1586714
>>1585969Both are equally bad. As a woman I should have autonomy over my own body, have women's spaces where I am free from the threat of men and be able to defend myself from someone that wants to hurt me. In a world of common sense this would be the bare minimum.
>>1586321Trash bags are already recycled into building materials. You've probably sat on a park bench that used to be trash. Diapers are made from the same plastic.
No. 1586927
>>1586770I can’t tell you anything about Oklahoma specifically but if they’re like any other state then there is indeed diners with coffees and waffles. Not sure about how long of a table you’re thinking of though so…maybe? There’s usually a long bar with stools to sit at. Diners have a reputation of being open at strange hours of the day (real real early and real late) so truck drivers frequent them. I’m sure you’ve heard of the famous chain “Waffle House”, open 24/7, rain or shine or natural disaster. They’re often next to or sometimes attached to truck stops, or as they are now frequently called “travel stops” which is just a big ass gas station outfitted for big trucks (16 wheelers, 18 wheelers) but also little regular cars. Looks like Love’s is the poplar truck stop chain in Oklahoma. Those have the best bathrooms in my experience. So truckers frequent those places. And yes there are biker gangs, you can probably find those guys at Love’s too, hanging out in the attached Subway. Or Waffle House if there is one. Typically old white dudes with a splattering of faded tattoos. Either them or their brother or father has probably done jail time. pretty stereotypical. I wouldn’t pick a fight in the Waffle House with them but otherwise they’ll leave fandoms alone of course and often are actually very polite people albeit a bit gruff in my experience.
There are also mom&pop diners. They usually won’t have black and white checked floors but some do. Others I’ve been in usually go for red clay tiles, sticky tables, dirty booths, and an overall dark and dusty aesthetic.
No. 1586929
>>1586927*leave randoms alone
Not fandoms my bad
No. 1587030
>>1586770LOL Are you reading The Outsiders, Nona? Your outlook of my homestate is cute.
There ARE dust storms in parts of the state, but its mostly just visible pollen in the air during the spring. And yes we have coffee and waffles, but the super greasy onion burgers are more well known.
No. 1588010
File: 1685106029965.png (10.44 KB, 587x520, Screenshot 4.png)
DeSantis is running and every liberal and leftist on twitter is freaking out, they made fun of Trump but they seem genuinely afraid of DeSantis and want his assassinated.
No. 1588120
File: 1685115656473.jpeg (278.91 KB, 1000x1333, IMG_5755.jpeg)
>>1588100An American diner and a UK pub have very different styles. Picrel.
No. 1590108
File: 1685286458390.gif (8.28 MB, 638x478, trash it.gif)
>>1588727scrap it and start over, nothing to save here
No. 1590145
File: 1685290213558.png (19.35 KB, 543x392, texas counties map.png)
>>1589221fun texas fact: 20 years ago, there were 14 counties in texas with no doctors. now, there are 33!
No. 1590356
>>1589221I love Texas!
>>1590145I’m assuming you’ve never driven around the state if you think this is at all noteworthy lol
No. 1591020
File: 1685364603412.jpg (28.63 KB, 253x317, tb.jpg)
I just had Jimmy John's for the first time in my life yesterday and it was amazing. My eyes are wide open to the unknown.
No. 1591212
>>1591192Most people seem to go 10mph above the speed limit everywhere. I just go the speed limit until I'm stuck behind a truck. I try to keep as much distance between me and everyone else as possible.
In Georgia it's "free" to go 5mph above the limit. Still technically illegal so if you break the law in some other way or get in an accident it's your fault, and technically you could get stopped by a cop if they wanted to stop you, but the cost of a ticket is $0 for the first 5mph over.
No. 1591551
>>1591295I don’t understand because I’m a white woman with a graduate degree who is living with my parents in the suburbs. I’ve been summoned before and had to defer because of school but I can’t get out of this rn because I’m a NEET/unemployed atm.
Thanks to the anons who responded btw I’m fucking annoyed and pissed that two weeks of my time are possibly being taken up by them possibly calling me in. I guess it’s good I’m not employed because missing potentially two weeks of work is a lot.
No. 1591744
>>1591242Holy shit 80mph, it's only 65 or 60 here and anything above 85mph will get you pulled over.
>>1591263I was on call once which made 0 sense because I couldnt drive, I was doing work and school full time. Called out for the day only to get nothing. Atleast I didn't have to uber there but honestly fuck jury duty. If they want me right now when I'm working like crazy to afford everything I'm giving the most bs excuse.
No. 1595209
File: 1685724268145.jpg (85.9 KB, 1142x1142, FxE2qspWACAnH9P.jpg)
No. 1598694
File: 1686061317003.jpeg (167.01 KB, 1170x1264, IMG_1136.jpeg)
I can spend my whole life working my ass off only to wind up homeless but any person illegally crossing the border can be met with housing and job opportunities taken from citizens? How is this fair? I feel for the women fleeing violence and forced prostitution but most (speaking from personal experience) of the illegals in my area are single moids.
No. 1598725
>>1598694Renounce citizenship.
Stay in the country illegally.
Finally be provided for by government.
You can now get free housing, healthcare, food, education, and get out of jail free card.
No. 1598776
>>1598746maybe they should. anyway it's kind of a moot point because
no one is receiving care or opportunities in real life, this is a retarded idea from a shitty mayor trying to get his name in the headlines.
if this imaginary system were to be put in place it would be bad NOT because an immigrant is getting help, it would be bad because men would use it to keep immigrant women in their houses (like what happened with Ukranian immigrants in the UK) and it's a stupid excuse for the government to turn people's homes into some kind of fucked up Uber-for-immigration and not do their fucking job as the government and build the infrastructure to handle a growing global population and migration
No. 1599547
>>1598845Okay, then where is the help for people trying to move out of their
abusive parents or partners home if it's all about offering people places to stay when they're struggling? They neglect their own people then are willing to drop all the money they can to help migrants. Imagine if European or any other country paid tons of money for Americans to escape school shootings and crap. That's our reality right now
No. 1599822
>>1599547the fuck are you talking about? there's loads of shelters and organizations to help women escape
abusive partners. they could do with more funding and people but you're acting like they don't exist.
No. 1600086
File: 1686166527448.jpg (13.37 KB, 1250x703, 20230607_153434.jpg)
New York looks like hell right now because of CANAFA????
No. 1600202
>>1600086i read there were also fires in jersey that's contributing to it but don't quote me on that
imo i think someone just summoned a deity to punish new york
No. 1600337
>>1600086Welcome to what the west coast has been dealing with the past few years.
I swear the fires were never this bad when I was a kid, or even just a decade ago.
No. 1601744
>>1601425how dare you besmirch Haitians I'm actually mad, fuck lol this retarded conversation got to me
People wouldn't be fleeing Haiti in droves if the US wasn't constantly fucking their shit up, invasions and sanctions in the last few decades, taking advantage of the earthquake, spreading disease, someone assassinated the president recently and it's wasn't the Hatians, etc. Fuck off.
No. 1601888
>>1601822The only way illegals pay taxes is through sales taxes, which tourists also pay but doesn't entitle them to move here, or by haveing a stolen SS number. By the way, illegals, not Chinese or Russians are the driving force of identify theft in the US.
>>1601826I know that there are currently 19 Pueblo tribes but historically, even into the turn of the century, there were almost twice that. Want to take a guess on which side of the border the ones who disappeared were and what happened to them? I know that Geronimo, in his treaty with the US, asked (and was granted) that his people be allowed to carry weapons precisely to protect themselves from Mexicans, who ruthlessly slaughtered them, in part for fun and in part because Mexico has a bounty on native scalps (including for woman and children). I know that Mexico also had Indian schools, like the US and Canada, but that unlike the latter two Mexicos schools were still open until the 70s and 80s and they never formally ended their policy of cultural assimilation. I know that every Southwest tribe has oral history of contact with the Aztec empire and none of it was good. I know that Mexico deports 200,000-500,000 people a year, mostly Guatemalaians and El Salvirorians, that they stick into campus without toilets despite them being decendants from tribes that actually lived in Southern Mexico and that were part of the Aztec empire. The only one thats needs education is you, you entitled decendant of child-torturing, shit-eating, self-mutilating, cannibalisric genocidal colonizing bitch.
(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE) No. 1602132
>>1601760Yeah that too. I’d want to leave as well.
>>1602035What region do you live in? Or like what’s your job that you only see men? I used to live in Pittsburgh and 90% of the Haitian people I knew were women who worked with me in hotel housekeeping even though it paid shit because they couldn’t speak English very well and that was like one of the only jobs you could get as a non-English-speaking woman. They were slaving away like the rest of us wagies and some of them had family still in Haiti that they just saw all this horrible shit on the news and got worried about constantly, someone’s little daughter was still in Haiti but she couldn’t get her citizenship or something (I don’t even know all the details but it was fucked up). I’m feeling defensive because I had a personal connection. I don’t know what you’re seeing. Haiti isn’t safe and they shouldn’t have to stay there if they’re gonna die especially from an American perspective since we keep fucking their shit up. Sorry you have to deal with whatever attitude is bothering you.
No. 1602224
File: 1686348842582.jpeg (69.18 KB, 828x614, 719AA6D7-57E6-44D5-9581-A73102…)
>>1602035Americans will be like not my problem until it actually is. If you don’t like refugees ruining your hometown don’t turn a blind eye when american NGOs shit up theirs
No. 1602696
File: 1686392328289.jpeg (133.22 KB, 1200x800, FD604285-E409-4BC4-BC23-0A03F5…)
yo dogs this shit is getting crazy and I’m loving it
No. 1611347
File: 1687127069653.jpeg (205.36 KB, 1179x1397, IMG_9348.jpeg)
Saw this in the store today. What will they think of next
No. 1611379
File: 1687131061266.jpeg (308.93 KB, 1179x1935, IMG_9352.jpeg)
>>1611372SunnyD is an “orange juice drink” (water, corn syrup, and juice) marketed to children. It’s very American in my mind. Maybe they’re not as popular with kids now since we know you shouldnt feed children corn syrup water and the company had to get into the alcohol game, I don’t know. I was just amused when I saw it
No. 1612136
File: 1687196585611.jpeg (38.95 KB, 1480x834, juneteenth flag.jpeg)
not to double post about the same thing but while I'm thinking about it… I had never seen the juneteenth flag until today (picrel). why is there a juneteenth flag? we usually just use the US flag for federal holidays (memorial day, 4th of july, etc). I'm not really a holiday person so maybe I'm being dumb, but is there a story behind it?
No. 1613053
File: 1687281923879.png (32.84 KB, 1127x609, OceanGate 'Titan' submersible …)
Would this be a good thread to talk about the current missing OceanGate submersible here? I wasn't sure; there's a thread about news we find horrifying, but that's more for violence on women and innocents. Not sure if putting this over there is appropriate. I'll delete if jannies think it's better somewhere else.
This case fascinates me. NGL I don't feel THAT bad for these rich people that paid out the wazoo to board this experimental expedition to gawk at an underwater gravesite. It's still horrible to thing what's happening to them. My tinfoil is that if/when the submersible is found, it won't be a happy end. I'm pretty sure rescuers will either find it too late, or there was a critical malfunction that lead to loss of communication.
I'm pessimistic because there have already been terrible decisions that may have sealed the fate of the vessel. The whole trip was supposed to take approximately 8 hours. The submersible was released from the ship at 10:30 NDT and the boat was supposed to communicate with the passengers every 15 minutes. They lost communication at 13:17 NDT. The boat operators waited until the resurface time, 19:40 without saying anything to authorities! That's crazy! 5 hours without any communication!? The Coast Guard was notified at 20:00 NDT! Why weren't the boat operators contacting authorities sooner!? That's insane. I'd love to discuss this and see what people's theories are. I'm morbidly invested.
No. 1613062
>>1613053Samefag to say that my tinfoil has to do with that fucking game controller they are using to maneuver the submarine. There are
no back up controls aboard the sub just a single button and they didn't even specify what that button does. If they lost control or their navigation they could have just kept descending til eventually the sub imploded from the pressure.
No. 1613722
File: 1687360396475.jpg (240.99 KB, 1733x1155, pleased.jpg)
>>1613106>>1613102Even if they manage to surface, they'll still suffocate because they can't open the sub from the inside lol
No. 1614756
File: 1687456364259.jpg (244.55 KB, 1200x738, msjb64ao_crickets-us-_625x300_…)
Elko, Nevada is literally being overrun by crickets right now.
>The rural town of Elko, Nevada, has fallen siege to thousands upon thousands of Mormon crickets, a flightless insect that has blanketed roadways, can devastate crops and, when squished, smells similar to that of burning flesh>Jeremiah Moore, who lives in Elko County, described to AP that driving on the blankets of crickets feels "almost like an oil slick.">"As we squish them, they just eat, because they eat everything," Lincoln Graves, a fellow Elko resident, said to AP. "Anything in their path, they'll eat, including each other."https://www.newsweek.com/biblical-plague-cannibal-crickets-smothers-town-smells-burnt-flesh-1808010?amp=1 No. 1614761
>>1614179Flex culture is a real and excruciating. So many people can get out of struggle by simply cooking more and not going to vacations as much. Tourism knows this too and hikes up the price of everything in any area that's remotely vacationable because Americans will still spend their every last penny to flex about their vacation and locals get kicked out because of pricing
Kek I still remember that one anon who would cry about needing to go on nice expensive vacations even if they're poor
No. 1614865
File: 1687463529976.jpg (166.64 KB, 1013x863, lawsuit.JPG)
>>1614831>I feel bad for them but the submarine looked pathetic and no one in their right mind would have boarded that thing.I feel zero sympathy for anyone on board nor the people waiting on the mothership for their chance to desecrate a grave site where many poor people were forced to die because rich assholes didn't think their lives were worth saving. Furthermore, the company ratfucking CEO was already getting sued because it was known for YEARS that the craft was not fit for purpose. (Anyone who would willingly hop aboard a soup can piloted by some idiot with a playstation controller deserves what they get.
I only hope this teaches the general public that rich people are not geniuses. A lot of them are dumb as fuck but have enough money to cover it up.
No. 1614867
>>1614831Assuming that they didn't implode a few hours ago, what was that banging noise that was heard? Could it have been the titanic itself making noise?
Anyway, stay away from water anons. Once your feet can't touch the bottom, it's time to GTFO.
No. 1615025
>>1614831Apparently the guy who ran the company would refuse to hire experienced submarine captains "because they were inspiring" then would fire people who suggest safety protocols
I remember seeing a prostitute anons claiming she did it because she would either never get hired or always get fired . It doesn't surprise me most Americans resort to illegal activity to make extra income. There definitely needs to be workers rights and we should do something about the fucktards who run companies having the worst employment duties possible
No. 1615072
File: 1687481095273.jpeg (116.24 KB, 768x1024, IMG_9465.jpeg)
in Georgia and I smelled some kudzu vine flowers (I’m not a southern native so I don’t hate the plant with a passion for being aggressively invasive) and god damn they smell like jolly ranchers! it’s so sweet and nice.
No. 1615291
File: 1687510834213.jpeg (46.72 KB, 448x527, IMG_6240.jpeg)
Everyone can go ahead and talk about how insensitive people have been, I’m not going to lose sleep over obscenely rich people meeting their demise because they used a mass grave where those who passed away was largely determined by their economic status, as a tourist attraction. Never forget, the rich hate you more than you hate them, and have far less empathy. The one positive of this has been seeing how openly fed up everyone is. Anyone who wants to say criticism stems from jealousy to stifle discussion is a useful idiot.
No. 1615855
>>1615291>yeah see, i'm totally not jealous of these people who have way more money than me, which is why i'm cheering on their senseless death behind my iPhone screen. like i am going to totally ignore the fact that they got conned by le based libertarian, who thought rules and laws was "stifling muh innovation". because see, only rich people do dumb shit like go see famous wrecks and shit, poor people never get taken advantage of! well, er, except that one time. and if you accuse me or anyone else of being envious and hateful, immoral sacks of shit, you're just a stupid bitch who doesn't know what she's talking about. nope, i am definitely not jealous. they deserved it. fuck. them. No. 1619631
File: 1687968482900.png (51.89 KB, 863x817, Screenshot_20230628-180432.png)
Popping into this thread from Europe just to say: it is fucking wild how an American can film someone vandalizing the Colosseum, call him out for being an asshole, and post the video online… only for everyone in the comments to make retarded remarks about the vandalizer "obviously" being American. No he fucking isn't. He isn't dressed like one (like the style, the brands visible, for men it's clear he isn't), his name is fucking Ivan, and he writes the date dd.mm.yy. My question to Americans is why do some of you go into comments like this and shit on yourselves with the stereotyping fuckers who hate you? Because I saw that too.
Oh yeah, and if I write something about the stereotypes, I get "accused" of being American, as if that would mean a damn thing. Anyway I'm glad one of your people videoed that stupid asshole because he will probably get caught. Literally every comment section on this crime is saying the criminal is American. If I were the guy who called him off and posted it, I'd be pretty annoyed about this, because it seems the only "OK" discrimination in the woke world is anti-Americanism and maybe anti-Israeli sentiment. No one can help where they are born. I seriously don't get it.
No. 1620206
>>1619677where I live, you can get sued or prosecuted for saying an insult against a politician or public figure. I don't think that's true in US. I'm not talking about a slander but just calling someone a name on a social media platform can get you in trouble. There are laws against burqa and niqab. I don't agree with making women wear these things but I also don't agree with making it illegal for women to cover themselves. These laws meant that prior to covid, you needed a medical attestation to wear a surgical mask in public. (Also before those laws, I saw just one single niqabi here. ever)
So I mean, those are just a few things US doesn't have. If you need some comfort on a bad day.
No. 1620401
>>1620206Oh also I pay hundreds of dollars a month to a health insurance company but if I end up injured or sick I will still be on the hook for tens of thousands of dollars more. My maximum out of pocket cost per year is 75% of my gross annual income.
It's a billion degrees outside but I can wear a burqa if I want, wonderful.
No. 1620445
File: 1688061157479.png (275.38 KB, 1284x1384, aspartame is giving us all can…)
>>1620418too distracted by aspartame drama and thinking about how bad the FDA is lol
No. 1620523
File: 1688068225740.png (179.48 KB, 1908x1008, national library of medicine.p…)
>>1620508I don't know about cancer but aspartame affects mood very negatively, it's actually kinda fucked up when you read about it
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8227014/#sec8-nutrients-13-01957title No. 1620525
File: 1688068383489.webm (9.44 MB, 960x720, aspartame.webm)
wasn't sure if I still had this video on my computer, now that it's somewhat relevant I'm so glad I didn't delete it
No. 1620529
>>1620418They're not going to let loan forgiveness pass. The thing that spurred this case was Asian Americans filing a law suit against harvard. I predict harvard ironically making their admissions lower. Same with employment…
However I'm surprised people aren't talking about how republicans are trying to kick women out of the workforce. Especially poor ones. They took out Roe v Wade, they are trying to remove no fault divorce and there is nothing stopping sex based affirmative action from ending.
All these things will make it harder for women who aren't upper class elites (most republic political women) to become financially independent and not depend on a spouse.
No. 1620535
>>1620524They took away our reproductive rights, you really think they won't go for our universities and jobs? C'mon
nonnie.
No. 1620539
>>1620537I don't know,
nonny, maybe it's all bullshit I'm not a Doctor Scientist over here. diet soda makes me feel kinda bad but that's anecdotal. I super don't care if they ban aspartame for potentially being a health risk, better safe than sorry.
No. 1620792
File: 1688096216735.png (44.04 KB, 321x416, it_really_do_be_like_that_doe.…)
>spend my whole life hearing about how racist and evil america is, and how superior and compassionate europeans are
>especially when it comes to the police
>Europe starts taking in some 3rd world non whites
>police shootings and riots are on the rise within months(global rule #7)
No. 1620989
>>1619631Leftism in America is entirely built on pathetic self-hatred. Self-hatered for being white, for being American, for not being like Europe. It's a knee-jerk reaction that they truely think makes them cool and educated and not like other gir- I mean Americans!!!1!!
>>1620418So fucking glad, can't wait for people to start sueing schools and corporations left and right.
No. 1621407
>>1621054NTA but it seems like certain cultures need to place a higher value on education instead of attempting to drag each other down. I’m not sure how common it is elsewhere, but around here educated Nigerian parents explicitly forbid their kids from associating with American black people and culture because they believe it to be a terrible influence. At first I assumed my Nigerian friend simply had overprotective parents but eventually realized most Nigerian families in my area were like that.
It’s always really fascinating to me to read about how successful and driven many black people were immediately post slavery and the very high importance they placed on education. Idk, this is a lot of words to say I don’t think it’s some underlying biological difference but something to do with modern black culture in the US.
No. 1621612
Why do mass shooters kill innocent working class and not like Supreme Court faggots or something why why (I know why this is rhetorical but still ugh)
>>1621407I have some tinfoils about this being intentionally done over the years through Jim Crow/segregation, refusal to sell houses to black people in certain areas for many years even after segregation ended, drug war = high incarceration rates and breaking families apart, crack, etc. I really believe they could have had a better turnout and match up to Africans if they were treated better early on, but now as a culture they are traumatized and continue the cycle with each generation.
No. 1622317
File: 1688247901379.png (932.09 KB, 640x853, reqewgswaeg.png)
I live in a very rural/redneck area and honestly everyone here is going nuts for the 4th. There's so much loud music and even some fireworks even though it's not even close to being dark yet. I love the 4th but all the loud noise upsets my cats, who are used to it being quiet. I wish I could give her noise cancelling headphones.
Picrel is not my cat, it's just a cat I thought was cute.
No. 1622660
File: 1688276868214.png (1.14 MB, 1242x863, 1688259914361730.png)
>>1622405I love any excuse to sit in a lawn chair around shirtless rednecks and fratbros while halfassed parade floats with American flags throw the stale chewy bubblegum in the yellow wrappers at me rapid fire
No. 1622700
File: 1688280522604.png (91.66 KB, 600x599, gondolas night on the town.png)
2026 is actually going to be banner year for america. we turn 250 years old and also host the world cup. also its after 2024, so the whole trump election chaos will be behind us
No. 1622842
File: 1688297261031.jpg (46.65 KB, 590x1100, 16d45d2a1e84db45cb03a2041707d4…)
>>1622700>we hold the world cupcant wait to see what kind of calarts abomination you guys come up for a mascot. I liked striker, even though it's fairly generic. Also cant wait to beat your ass in your own soil
>t.argie No. 1623225
File: 1688337235136.webm (7.3 MB, 480x852, consumer product safety commis…)
reminder
No. 1623338
File: 1688347883309.jpg (16.25 KB, 263x350, 71ylccVrrxL._AC_UY350_.jpg)
It's my first 4th of July after immigrating to the US and I am so excited! I got my gaudy stars and stripes outfit, I am making patriotic M&M cookies and potato salad and we are having a BBQ! I feel like a weeb in Japan. It is sooo cute to me how patriotic Americans are and I love it!
Don't kill my buzz pls with your sourpuss posts.
No. 1623348
File: 1688348677745.jpg (311.52 KB, 1200x1800, patriotic-mm-cookies-001.jpg)
>>1623346No fireworks cause we have little ones around that are too young and would probably get scared.
No. 1623403
File: 1688352926916.gif (8.07 MB, 498x498, cat-confused.gif)
>>1623380>Very American post>In the Amerifag thread?
>>1623381>Mature>on Lolcow.farm???
No. 1623601
File: 1688383294273.jpg (44.06 KB, 640x486, Independence Day.jpg)
I know this isn't the movie or TV thread but can anyone recommend me something 4th-of-july related to watch? it could be a war movie or a lifetime movie where someone visits their family on the 4th of july or a holiday episode of a tv show, I don't care.
Independence Day comes to mind obviously but after that I'm drawing a blank.
No. 1623669
File: 1688392701916.png (2.65 MB, 1487x1229, lol.png)
>>1623601kek google recommends these, but from the list i'd go with:
>The Patriot>The Sandlot>National Treasure>Top Gun>Independence Day No. 1623682
>>1623673To add, during that three years I had ALL of my prescriptions covered competely for free, I never paid a single penny, including my antidepressants and acne meds, my dental visits and cavity fillings were competely free, and I went to the eye doctor for free though I did have to pay 50% for new glasses. I know in Canada they don't pay for mental health or psych meds, and most countries don't cover dental or eye care either. Of course when I went to the social security office it was full to bursting with illegals who don't even speak English applying for EBT and WIC and HUD and yes medicaid too.
If you can't get medicine in the USA that isn't the USA's fault, you just suck.
No. 1623696
>>1623438>>1623431I’m not the sperg arguing it’s easy to get healthcare in America but when I was super poor I used this site to help me locate Community Health Centers and I was able to get free care with very minimal paperwork on my end.
https://www.healthcare.gov/community-health-centers/—and it does show locations in Texas and Florida —not that this has anything to do with Medicaid (I’ve never applied for Medicaid and I don’t know anything about it.) Posting just in case some people here have never heard of this resource, it’s very helpful when you’re poor and need some medical services
No. 1623703
>>1623601It’s not patriotic but Twister is very American
>>1623378I used to like fireworks when there was one or two major events to shoot them off at local big businesses (think baseball stadium or casino), with music and food on top of parking lots. When people shoot them off at their houses I find it annoying, and like others say it messes with animals too much
No. 1623752
>>1623719Healthcare is NOT affordable if you aren't either a richfag or a poorfag.
Try making a working or lower middle class income and see what "affordable" options you have for yourself and your dependents. It's a shitshow.
No. 1623779
>>1623338where are you from?
>>1623554kek isnt there always?
No. 1623995
>>1623737Some I can think of
>retail >hospitality >food service >sanitation/custodian>delivery driver w/CDL>vendor for grocery stores>farm / gardening assistant Contrary to what the other anon said most trades require taking classes to receive certification in their field of work. There are very few jobs that don’t require some prior learning, and I would consider someone attending a tech highschool to become a plumber, hairdresser or mason the same as going to school to learn their trade.
College is definitely necessary for some careers, but with how fucked the higher education system is it’s INCREDIBLY hard for the poor to succeed. That’s why some states go hard in promoting community colleges as an alternative.
No. 1624014
>>1623995You forgot one of our great nation’s most common workplace
>call center Some actually pay pretty decent. I live in a med-high COL area, not like NYC or LA or SF or Seattle, but there’s a call center with over 800 employees that starts new hires at $20 an hour plus free Internet. Only requirement is a high school diploma or GED.
No. 1624026
File: 1688428227202.jpg (566.09 KB, 600x880, cookies.jpg)
I made these and two different kinds of potato salad for tomorrow! Also going to cut up some veggies to make kebabs later.
No. 1624067
>>1624055it's not as a joke. I live in the bible belt. I moved away as a teen to liberal environments. and having come back as an adult, I am around adults my own age who never left. I am meeting as a peer, the sort of person I only ever observed from the perspective of a teenager viewing an adult, before I left. I never imagined people my age, would grow into these adults. Christians yes, of course, everyone is here. But I don't know what to think of bible merch people as my adult peers and not jesus camp teens. I can't figure out if it's social posturing, or genuine, or wolf in sheep's clothing, like what is the purpose of this in your 30s. why are you wearing shirts and multiple bible verse bracelets, I am not saying this to be derogatory. Do you think people like this have ulterior motives.
No. 1624209
File: 1688447487778.jpeg (118.78 KB, 749x709, 2B3AD0A2-608F-432B-8EE2-90D249…)
Happy 4th of July!!!
No. 1624306
File: 1688465723703.gif (522.6 KB, 400x307, IMG_0107.gif)
>>1624209Happy 4th of July!
I hope you went to sleep after you posted.
No. 1624428
File: 1688481863823.jpg (180.45 KB, 884x1011, BLSdata.jpg)
>>1623865>actually pay better money than what some people with a useless college degree earn>cringe art history or english literature degreeThe difference isn't that substantial (especially once you factor in self-employment tax and licenses) and good luck getting a union apprenticeship as it's well known that old-timers gatekeep the fuck out of the industry because they don't want competition. Your odds of succeeding are even worse as a woman and/or being a non-white race.
Most people would rather sit in an air-conditioned office instead of crawling under a musty house, digging tampons and diapers out of septic tanks, breaking up kitchen grease clogs, and inhaling
toxic fumes all day long.
No. 1624443
File: 1688482962402.jpg (316.26 KB, 1600x900, crossingthedelaware.jpg)
>>1624209Happy Fourth of July! Let us mourn that moids will never dress like (or be as cool as) our founding fathers ever again. They will never make Britbongs seethe as hard as they did.
No. 1624460
File: 1688484545849.jpg (874.79 KB, 1871x2500, 214063v_0001.jpg)
>>1624443Happy Independence Day, fellow amerinonna. Modern day American moids are fucking trash. They would shame the founders. None are as beautiful as this man right here. Also I'm going to gloat and share that I'm part of the Daughters of the Revolution. On a couple different branches of my family tree I have direct lineage, including one great grandpappy who was part of the most vicious battles in NJ as a 47 year old man. And a blacksmith. Signed his entire property over to his beloved wife and children as he died of wounds slowly over the course of a few months. Fucking legend.
No. 1624498
File: 1688486700492.jpg (673.01 KB, 1280x1648, tumblr_ob1kyiUug41t0lrjho1_128…)
>>1624460> I have direct lineage, including one great grandpappy who was part of the most vicious battles in NJ as a 47 year old man>Signed his entire property over to his beloved wife and children as he died of woundsThat's amazing. Definitely don't hear of men like him today. I'm descended from one of the pilgrims who came over on the second Mayflower, so as a result I'm distantly related to some presidents. I think your lineage kinda trumps mine, though, kek.
No. 1624575
File: 1688495627865.jpeg (133.55 KB, 1024x578, BBDD2C25-3F1D-440D-9F6B-F67326…)
>>1624480Never mind, I grabbed takeout at a little restaurant that was open and they made amazing chicken katsu tacos. Great alternative instead of trying to grill
No. 1624791
File: 1688513765690.jpg (111.53 KB, 1000x560, intro-1573055485.jpg)
>>1624697Happy fourth
nonnie! We celebrated yesterday because our city had fireworks a day early, so today I had a big burger and this delicious bastardization of poutine in celebration.
No. 1624799
File: 1688515808305.jpeg (61.05 KB, 612x408, 4055F5C2-2FFA-4ED0-9279-849D85…)
Happy Independence Day! I had hotdogs with chips and about to start my 2nd beer. we made apple pie too! The weather is perfect where I am and it’s so nice.
feels good
No. 1624802
File: 1688516798083.jpg (39.84 KB, 474x383, th-3262499390.jpg)
No. 1624872
>>1624862happy fourth! My city has a festival every year with fair food and food trucks and stuff and I got the shittiest gyro ever this year.
the mystery meat was GROUND, not shaven off a slab like it's supposed to be and it was disgusting. All good though, I'll get my fix of fair food when the state fair comes along.
No. 1626071
File: 1688640472627.jpg (364.26 KB, 825x825, 0000511_nikko-blue-hydrangea.j…)
I just found out the south has bushes of hydrangea in blue, white, pink, purple and I'm beyond jealous. They're one of my favorite flowers but there's no way they'd grow here. Straight up magic that they exist there. If only there weren't so many tornadoes. If any anon knows a cheap state that is humid with good conditions for flowers and no tornadoes please tell me.
No. 1626080
File: 1688642884767.jpeg (298.61 KB, 1024x768, IMG_0177.jpeg)
>>1626071Don’t you have that backwards? Southern US isn’t the best for hydrangeas, hydrangeas are perennial in US hardiness zones 3-7 (the whole north and middle). In the south it’s a bit hot for them, although there’s a native type in the southeast that’s happy but looks a little different (oakleaf hydrangea)
No. 1627230
File: 1688747539478.jpeg (1.21 MB, 1170x2047, IMG_0414.jpeg)
He probably wasn’t real
No. 1627865
File: 1688793644402.gif (9.32 MB, 640x640, DB190B46-82A8-4E92-B5DE-0493A8…)
>>1627860I remember Mcdisease being 24 hours as well as Walmart wtf happened
No. 1627946
>>1627230What is this? I don’t do social media or television and am perpetually out of the loop.
>>1627860I appreciate you posting this because I wasn’t sure if I was going insane if if this was just a local thing. Nothing here went back to being open 24 hours after covid bullshit. Circle K is the only place I know of around here still open all night. I’m extremely self-conscious and practically agoraphobic but I feel more comfortable late at night so used to go grocery shopping in the middle of the night. Now I’ve almost exclusively done grocery pickup since covid and feel more hopeless about integrating back into society. I know it’s pathetic but I miss the sorta anonymous feeling I’d have while shopping in the middle of the night lmao
No. 1629202
File: 1688923169492.jpeg (658.5 KB, 1179x921, IMG_0299.jpeg)
The recession is basically here but no is saying it yet
No. 1629706
File: 1688955572913.jpg (58.11 KB, 800x800, shirt-1643951918-557777e5d3d0b…)
Today I ate Taco Bell for the first time in my life. I didn't have any meat, so I hope I will not get diarrhea. Pray for me nonnies. It was pretty good tho, but I do not like the concept of a taco. It is too messy to eat and stuff keeps falling out. Burrito and crunch wrap is better and the ingredients are all the same anyways.
No. 1629969
>>1629960Wow stabbed multiple times even. I'd feel bad for him but I don't at all! Child molesters do very poorly in prison, and his crimes were very publicized so probably everyone in there knows what he did.
That case pisses me off because the FBI did such a shit job, they could have arrested him way sooner. Really makes my tinfoil vibrate.
No. 1630997
File: 1689099017103.jpeg (913.59 KB, 1800x1440, photo by patrickmccormac.jpeg)
big flooding in Vermont right now
No. 1631937
>>1631925Just realizing this now? If there weren't riots when the decision first came out there won't be any now.
They only codified protections for gay and interracial marriage into law because it affects men.
No. 1632731
File: 1689263010788.webm (1.38 MB, 480x270, chinese blood-drinking 5 year …)
you ever watch the news and you're just like… what the fuck are these guys smoking? I had to watch this like 5 times just to parse the insane things he was saying. Our tinfoil thread is more grounded in reality than this shit. where do they find these guys and why do they air their insane ramblings? news is just completely and totally fake and dead now?
No. 1633011
>>1632664We're not agreeing. They're saying trannies aren't really a problem and women are being fighting them as a distraction and that they aren't a threat/their potential threat is overblown/not real, when I'm saying that they really are a problem that threatens womens rights and contribute to the whole loss of abortion. We agree they distract from real issues, but disagree that they aren't a problem/real threat. They're a real threat that has been introduced to direct womens support to men (as long as they're pretending to be women), or to fighting the loss of rights and protections women face in the law when men are allowed to identify legally as the class they oppress. They're both a real threat, but were created as a distraction/the natural conclusion of men controlling everything and enabling their retard porn addict selves.
>>1632840You said that the fear of trannies isn't a real problem or that their threat isn't a real threat. They absolutely are. They are partially to blame for the whole abortion being lost thing.
No. 1633430
File: 1689329476286.jpg (146.42 KB, 736x920, e034c425268486394c7e1947622d3c…)
I need to move out my city by the end of the year. California Tech moving here has doubled the cost of living over the past few years the population has grown +1mil during my time here. My city has a sprawling metro and all of it is affected at this point, thoroughly crowded. I've been looking out of state and think I'll end up moving to Tucson. I hate moving and I don't even know if it will be worth it. Job prospects are questionable. I just don't feel like I have much choice and I don't know where tf to go.
No. 1633837
>>1633827It's not legal at all
>The government fee to renounce U.S. citizenship is $2,350. Additional costs might apply if you have to become tax compliant. You must be tax compliant for five years in order to renounce your US citizenship.
>In order to renounce your U.S. citizenship, you need to have a second passport (citizenship of another country). You will be required to bring this with you to the renunciation appointment. The State Department will deny anyone the right to renounce their U.S. citizenship if they do not have a second passport.
>You will need to prepare a few forms and fill out form DS-4079 before your appointment, which is a questionnaire for determining the possible loss of U.S. citizenship. According to the law, if you want to renounce your citizenship, you will need to do it in person by visiting a U.S. embassy or consulate abroad.A judge can also deny your renunciation if they feel like it. Basically, America doesn't want us to ever leave and to milk us for money until death. If your friend hasn't gone through the process they still owe the IRS money and will be in for a surprise if they ever want to return. I've read stories about people doing shit like that or bailing on their taxes and getting denied entry. The bans are effective for 7 years at a time, I think. I'll have to look it up again.
No. 1633911
>>1633827There are loan forgiveness options for teachers, you can work for 5 years and get up to 17k covered, or if you work for 10 years in low income schools (ofc) they’ll cover all of it. Depends on the states and schools too though.
I know someone whose brother had a fuckton of debt from art school and after graduating they became a teacher in China to avoid paying the loans back
No. 1633961
>>1633932>my only hope is for my parents to die and hopefully leave the property to meyou're probably not serious but even as a hypothetical that is such a bizarre and psychotic thought. Live with them in the house while they are alive holy shit. Boom, roof over your head. You take care of them as they get old or you hire a personal home aide if they have complex needs. If you send them to a home you don't deserve the house, and if they were
abusive and you cut them off you have to actually cut them off not have psycho fantasies about them dying – that boat sailed and you don't have parents. Seriously, get your mind right.
No. 1633980
>>1633940Yes. They are reluctant to admit their mortality and so are shying away from making a will. I have two siblings to compete with and I am not the favorite. I have expressed interest in buying the house so that they can retire, but they don't believe me.
Nursing homes cost $70,000 per year for cheap ones. My father could also have another a heart attack and the resulting hospital bill be literally a million dollars, which if they then died, the property would be sold and the profits given to the hospital before any inheritance was handed out.
>>1633961I am completely serious. Why is it psychotic to think about your inheritance and what will happen to the family farm? Do you not have your finance timeline planned out into your retirement? That's pretty irresponsible unless you're still in your teens and you need to get your shit together. Also, I don't think you understand how debt and estates work. Even if I were to spend the rest of my life taking care of my parents and living in their house, if they were to have a sudden hospital stay at the end of their life, say from a stroke, the hospital bill would quickly reach over $200,000 after insurance and the property would be forcefully sold and the money given to the hospital.
It's just fucked up man. Not having children, getting good grades in school, and putting your nose to the grindstone should have resulted in me being able to buy a shitty little farm that I could spend my life working on. Instead, I would have to make $6000 after taxes to afford the same amount of land in today's market.
No. 1633992
>>1633980Nta but
>Do you not have your finance timeline planned out into your retirement?LOfuckingL
No. 1634033
File: 1689384315496.png (61.57 KB, 893x566, burgerpricing.PNG)
>>1634027Most burgers can't afford to rent in the places we grew up, let alone buy a house with property. It's not even about some dream location, it's our own hometowns.
No. 1634038
File: 1689384530699.jpg (30.46 KB, 500x375, bF6Cp.jpg)
>>1634026Please stop romanticizing it.
Farm life isn't easy. My grandparents had a ranch and I spent many summers with them. Even with hired help it was non-stop work from sunrise till sundown. They eventually had to stop due to health issues. My father and his siblings all left that life behind to move to the city as fast as they could, and it was a good thing they did because healthcare is fucking expensive once you develop chronic illness. Burial costs aren't cheap either.
>Well we have the luxury of working onlineNot everyone has a white-collar job and not every white-collar job is remote work.
No. 1634054
File: 1689386446054.png (74.65 KB, 799x766, 1970sto2020shouse.PNG)
>>1634043kek this is either retardation or bait. Assuming it's just retardation, houses on average are up 132% in the last 50 years. Wages have also been stagnant since the 1970s. Where is anyone supposed to get the money for that down payment and mortgage?
https://www.marketplace.org/2022/08/17/money-and-millennials-the-cost-of-living-in-2022-vs-1972/ No. 1634075
>>1633965>not everyone has a good relationship with their parents.yeah I covered that. if you have a bad relationship with your parents it's weird to pine after your parents house, you should want nothing to do with it and you should know better than to count on it. we've gone over this in threads past but the parent/child family home situation is absolutely wrecked in the US. all the same there's no need to literally have house daydreams about them dying. I'm not the weird one for thinking that's weird.
I didn't even go to my dad's funeral so I'm not trying to say anyone is a bad daughter for not nursing their parents through old age, but actively anticipating their death because houses are so expensive is fucked up.
No. 1634134
>>1634076My first apartment was a shitty 2nd floor walk up without a washer and dryer hookup. Smelled musty, like an old water fountain at a mall. 40 year old building. Had just been redone, though, gutted and repainted with new floors and ll new fixtures and a new kitchen with new appliances so that was nice. The on site laundry was disgusting and overpriced and the other residents all warned me to never step foot in the pool and that it might as well be for show because you’ll get cut up by fiberglass shards if you try to swim in it. It was a 1/1 in an okay area of an okay suburb. $765 a month in 2015.
Same exact place, but now has not been redone since 2015? $1350 in 2023.
No. 1636034
File: 1689569597330.gif (246.46 KB, 220x132, 1F3C7DB8-B493-42A8-8FE5-B21DEC…)
Man, oh man, can’t I wait for election year 2024 next year. I’m actually impatient. It’s like we all collectively lose a few marbles for a year. I love it!
No. 1638093
File: 1689794701841.jpeg (96.31 KB, 1280x720, maxresdefault.jpeg)
Incoming rant, I'm a registered Dem but I'm so sick of the shitty laws that they keep passing here in California. Stores near me are getting ransacked constantly because of the law that stealing $1,000 or less is now considered 'petty theft', so thieves have banded together and they literally rush the stores in groups of 5 or more, just grab a bunch of shit, and throw it in a van and drive away, and nobody stops them. A security guard at a store in "the nice part of town" was just stabbed and almost died trying to stop a man from stealing, and earlier this year a hardware store employee was gunned down and killed by another group of assholes stealing shit. None of the criminals here are afraid of consequences anymore, and you hear people joke constantly about how "stealing is basically legal!" now. I'm sure you've all heard about how Walgreens and other stores are shutting down in the bay area because they're hemmhoraging money from all of the mass thefts. There have also been a ton of break-ins that have ramped up in the past few years, and apparently the law extends to your personal property, too, so someone can break in and steal a bunch of your shit and 'oh well, too bad'. I've even heard some ultra-lefty I personally know argue, "Well, those people probably just fell on hard times and they might need that stuff more than you." Like. What?! What the actual fuck? I feel like I'm living in Bizarroland or something and we can't even criticize any of these policies without being accused of being a far-right Trumper or something.
No. 1638248
File: 1689803559019.jpg (937.14 KB, 2000x1333, NYPICHPDPICT000014164080.jpg)
I'm curious to know what nonnies think about the Alabama roadside kidnapping thing.
No. 1638251
>>1638248The fat proselytizer
femcel is going to be so upset when she finds out
No. 1638328
>>1636294Nobody seems to be running against him. Every time someone tries, at least for these two terms, they get blackballed by the DNC. The DNC blackballed Bernie Sanders and people completely blew out of proportion the "pocahauntus" thing for Liz Warren, nobody likes Pete Butterkeg, Yang dropped out, Kamala cow towed to become Biden's VP. More young voters feel stuck between a rock and a hard place because a lot of them don't want another Biden term, but he'll likely be running unchallenged and nobody will emerge to oppose that.
DNC has to appeal to boomers somehow and there's really not a lot of good democrat candidates who are willing to run against Biden anyway. Unless someone emerges last minute as a new powerhouse it's doubtful
No. 1638390
>>1638379been considering this, as i live in an open carry state. interested to hear from gun havers about what they have and what their upkeep is like, if they go to ranges, etc.
I think the data for gun control in countries that enforce it leading to less murder, less domestic violence and less suicide speaks for itself. I also believe there's no closing the pandoras box in america at this point. theres just too many guns and too little will to turn them over. so, id like to understand them better and i want one.
i recently had an experience that gave me a reality check about the physical strength differential between men and women and im not going to be caught out like that again.
No. 1638888
File: 1689868917296.jpeg (688.18 KB, 1170x1384, IMG_1292.jpeg)
We’re burning alive, lord Jesus help. It’s 108 today where I live and it’s going to be 111 this weekend. Help
No. 1639193
>>1638328>>1638093>if I just Democrat harder things will get betterLmaooooo
The current state of the US, Europe, and your third-world states in particular are a direct result of your shitty, entitled, delusional worldview, morals, and politics. You choose to uphold and celebrate criminals, niggers and spics, trannys and homosexuals. You reviled in and spread a hatered of hard work, capitalism, and actual American values. You crafted a sick morality based on worshiping the biggest burdens on society, violent assholes and degenerants, because they cry the hardest and you share with them an unbridled greed that's far uglier than the greed of anyone rich. You activly hate everyone and everything that made this country great, and when when we got 4 years of relief after the hell of King Nigger Obama's regin, 4 years where everything was better than it is now, you shit your pants in rage because OMG DUMPT IS AN EVIL SEXIST RACIST HOMOPHONIC ORANGE BULLY!!! Everything you've bitched about is the direct result of leftist logic and priorities. When will it get better? When people like you are dead. Every single one of you Democrat bitches desrves to suffer and I activly wish rape and death on you.
(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE) No. 1640193
File: 1689994808508.jpeg (1.25 MB, 4032x3024, IMG_8219.jpeg)
>>1639193>unironically going full mask off racist>worshiping capitalist scumfucks>in the amerifag threadelon musk and his cronies won't save you
No. 1641463
>>1641056It's not just America, this shit is repeating in every country. South Africa is a perfect example of where Democrat nigger-worship and greed is going to take America- a country that was one the the most successful country on its continent, one that fed all of its people and provided for their basic needs and had nukes, to a barren shithole that genocides white people and is hurtling back to the stone age. Sweden is seeing shooting on par with places like Chicago, something that supposedly was impossible because they banned guns and had such a wonderful, superior social welfare system. France just had 3 weeks of border-line civil warfare driven by 2nd-4th generation shitskins, because a police officer dared to shoot a little punk theif who tried to run him and another police officer over. Then you have these stupid, disgusting cult members whine because OMG the spics and niggers and trannies and pedo homosexuals are making their cities horrible!!! They can't just admit what the problem is though, that would make them racist and it would mean they're wrong and their dads and Donald Trump and evangelical Christians were right!!! Other bitch Democrat white women might accuse them of not having proper nigger-worshiping credentials!!!! So instead of facing reality, that the solutions that your side purposes have been tried over and over and always fail across time and space, just bury your head in the sand and pretend like things would be better under Bernie Sanders and wonder who will run against Biden in 2024. Delusional idiots who will sacrifice anything and everything just to prove they're morally superior because they love shitskins and junkies and sexual deviants the mostest <3
(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE) No. 1641900
File: 1690143873816.jpeg (69.95 KB, 640x438, 29FE452D-361F-4214-9FC4-242035…)
Do you think Biden will be president next term?
No. 1642274
File: 1690169978333.gif (5.65 MB, 540x480, dcbicki.gif)
anyone else's small town have small businesses that consist of candles, car "freshies", t-shirts and Tumblers (which all have designs that mention "mama" or it says something that sounds like its from the 2010's in the worst font possible from Etsy), beaded keychains and lanyards, Paparazzi jewelry, etc. etc.
I usually see these people end up selling their equipment a few months after they start their business, but somehow new ones keep showing up.
No. 1642742
>>1642274I live in a major city and see this shit here too. I think worthless people with no job skills take out a huge loan to start a business because they're tired of employers paying them $17/hr, but they still have no skills, so they fill their shop with useless overpriced junk, the kind of shit they themselves impulse buy to fill the void, a decision made on their own likes instead of reasonable market research into consumer needs, and then cry when they inevitably go under because they entered a saturated market because every other skillless loser is trying to do the same thing and one neighborhood only needs so many junk shops. yesterday I walked into a witchtok store and they were selling stones I know you can buy for 15 cents each wholesale for $18 each. Then they are in denial that their wares are overpriced worthless garbage only destined to become someone's clutter problem, and they compensate by being aggressive salesmen whenever someone walks in the door, pouncing on them and talking their ear off to coerce them into buying something out of guilt.
Most small businesses deserve to be burned to the ground. They don't even make anything themselves, they buy crap online and scalp it to nitwits who dont' know any better.
A lot of plumbers make six figures. everyone wants to sell crystals and fluttery clothing and crap from ali express. No one wants to wrench shitpipes.
No. 1643813
>>1643346At least 50% of Coca Cola's sales are from food stamps. Coca cola has every reason to press the government and economy in to keeping people on food stamps, Plus the people on food stamps are fuckin dumb to waste their money on expensive soda pop that rots the teeth out of their heads and fills them with high fructose corn syrup.
I have little sympathy for poor people who waste resources.
That's the kind of stuff that bothers me.
No. 1643851
>>1643813>50% of Coca Cola's sales are from food stampsYou've fallen for a trap. The math whoever used to calculate that was off, they conflated retail sales with manufacturer revenue completely ignoring the fact that SNAP participants buy the soda from a grocery store not Coke. But the soda companies do lobby to keep sugary drink included in SNAP benefits, of course they wouldn't want to lose the revenue whatever the real percentage is.
I looked it up and 10% of SNAP purchases go to sugary drinks (technically SSBs = sugar-sweetened beverages, such as flavored milk, sweetened coffee drinks, sports drinks, and carbonated nondiet drinks.) It's not all soda. Some of it is bottled water and some people have to buy bottled water (anyone in Flint, for a famous example). Orange juice (I know it's not real orange juice but that's an FDA problem not a SNAP problem). Electrolyte drinks are questionable health-wise because of the additives but they are very helpful in preventing heatstroke for a lot of warehouse workers, mailmen, any outdoor job…again that's an FDA issue if they're unhealthy and need their ingredients regulated.
I think you need to think about where your anger should be directed and why problems of this scale (such as the actual food value of beverages allowed to be sold and corporations lobbying the government to influence policy) are not solvable by using bottom-up methods that restrict the lowest class of citizen/consumer.
No. 1643871
>>1643346I used to work in a really poor town and the lack of resources for people who are disabled and/or unemployed is the worst. There used to be two grocery stores and one was closed down and replaced with a dollar store, and that’s not even going into THREE Dollar Generals opening less than 5 miles apart from each other (and this company intentionally targets low income areas). Unless anyone has a car or makes a garden at home they have almost no access to fresh food.
My hometown (same town, but it’s split in 3) also had a terribly underfunded library that closed like 10+ years ago. The town didn’t want to repair the building because its materials were made with lead and asbestos, so they decided to just not have a library instead of moving it to another spot.
No. 1643876
File: 1690303073148.jpg (145.77 KB, 1080x831, 20230725_123505.jpg)
>>1643346Samefag, but also I've seen the opposite of this happen where people complain that people on EBT bought food that's
too good. Obviously picrel was probably ragebait or something, but it's like poor people are supposed to only buy canned food and MREs. No junk food and no top of the line good food either.
I think people being so concerned about what people on food stamps buy has a lot to do with the individualistic mindset we have where we are so resistant to helping others, especially when we think those people aren't working to "earn" it and contribute to this country. I personally just don't care because I don't see food as a privilege you have to earn.
No. 1643884
File: 1690304141595.png (19.09 KB, 110x94, JoybiePiddlePantPink2.jpg.png)
Just got a federal court jury duty summons, nonnies it's over for me.
No. 1644019
File: 1690315549416.jpeg (185.58 KB, 1080x810, IMG_0597.jpeg)
Why is most the U.S. so fucking ugly? I thought only my state was ugly but after driving through 6 states I noticed they all have the same industrial boring Walmart look with the exception of nature, farms, and downtowns.
No. 1644026
>>1644019>nature>farms>downtownsYep. Pretty much the only nice places here
nonnie. A lot of cute downtown areas and small town mainstreets are surrounded by very cute walkable established neighborhoods, which is really nice, probably the best place to settle. I feel like my Nigel and I struck gold with our shitty little starter home. No HOA bullshit, we can walk to our historical downtown and live across the street from a 100+ year old university with gorgeous grounds that I love roaming late at night bc it’s beautiful and there’s security ppl on golf carts that always nod/smile/wave at me. Most of the country sucks ass and is butt ugly but I love my gorgeous little area of my cute little town with the historical lamp posts and rolling hills and 100 year old oaks.
No. 1644028
File: 1690316114365.png (2.1 MB, 2048x1536, IMG_0599.png)
>>1643876She made it all up. She used the straw man argument to argue why we should let poor people starve to death
https://god.dailydot.com/costco-ebt-card/ No. 1644137
File: 1690322373531.jpg (60.79 KB, 680x350, log-home-Margaretville-680x350…)
My dream of buying a log cabin house in the woods will probably happen this year. Have fun in the cities, suckers!
No. 1644282
File: 1690330561249.jpeg (324.96 KB, 1024x683, 750B24BB-294C-497A-848A-9BB8D9…)
>>1644241Yes ma’am
>picrel is Florida No. 1644310
>>1644137congrats
nonny! this is my dream too, i've been working towards it for a few years. tell us how it is when you're in your cabin!
No. 1646263
File: 1690473645449.jpg (48.1 KB, 648x356, vxM.jpg)
>>1646100I mean, they literally referenced the Magna Carta in the US Constitution and talked about their rights as Englishmen. The patriots didn't see themselves as distinct from the British, they saw themselves as "more British than the British", who they viewed as being led by a war-crazed half-mad German married to another German with an ugly face. Patriot propaganda emphasized the "foreignness" of the British royals from English society. Interestingly enough, centuries later black nationalists would take these writings and willfully misread them and try to claim that British royals were actually black, mind you not one of Charlotte's contemporaries thought she was black. They just empathized that they thought she was ugly.
No. 1646375
File: 1690483130424.jpeg (714.08 KB, 1170x1311, IMG_2007.jpeg)
Amerifag here, a fight broke out at the Barbie movie because someone was letting their kid watch videos on their phone DURING the movie, in the theater. What the fuck? Idk if it’s just me but I feel like in the 30+ years I’ve been alive, public spaces have become more and more trashy and ghetto no matter what city I live in
No. 1646383
File: 1690483583023.jpg (92.04 KB, 640x634, photo_2021-07-08_15-00-34.jpg)
>>1646375Your issue is living in a city.
No. 1646540
I don't feel like paying student loans. They kept selling the debt to this and that company. I don't even know where it is or how much it's supposed to be now, or if the amount is accurate, and they have my name wrong. before the pandemic pause I had them on deferment because I was making shit money and unemployed half the time. I mean, why should I pay these things? How do i know this random company even has the legal right to collect this debt? They want me forking over $x00 a month because… some retarded database says so? I just don't get how this debt is supposed to be real and legitimate, or why i should repay it when they forgave the PPP loans to millionaires. Is anyone actually going to just, start sending money to these random companies, because they got a strongly worded email about it?
>>1643884When i get jury duty notices, I throw them in the trash. Nothing has happened so far.
No. 1646589
>>1643884I think nonnies are missing that anon in question got served federal jury duty, not state/local/whatever kek. It's a lot harder to get out of and you definitely can't throw that type in the trash, they'll come for you with legal action. Regular jury duty is whatever and easy to get out of, federal sucks ass. Good luck
nonny.
No. 1646710
File: 1690500464238.jpg (108.76 KB, 640x640, ARTICLE-1216-PIC-1.jpg)
I have to say, the most interesting thing about the US to me as someone who only recently moved here is how many commercials there are for medicine, especially poop-related stuff. Is the average American's diet really that bad that you need to pump yourselves full of fiber-supplements, vegetables in pill-form, laxatives, anti-acids and all that other shit? I went to Walmart today and saw they have a whole fucking shelf of pepto-bismol, laxatives and other stuff like that. It's actually appalling.
Do you shart in the mart, nonnies?
No. 1646829
File: 1690508252916.jpeg (119 KB, 630x630, 7C4D4452-F4FE-4F3E-A9BF-623009…)
Are there any US nonnies that actually like where they live? Can I come? I’ve already been priced out of my home state and I’m starting to be priced out of the place I moved to.
No. 1647805
>>1646910I live in a rural area and my options are Walmart, Kroger and ALDI. We usually go to ALDI but they don't have anything. What's wrong with Walmart?
>>1646951I will take a picture for you next time, but there is unironically a whole aisle of shart and fart medicine at my Walmart. I was looking for evening primrose oil if you must know. They did have that in the vitamin aisle which was one aisle down from shart city.
No. 1648444
File: 1690665254372.png (498.68 KB, 700x1750, IMG_0710.png)
Some senator im on a mailing list for sent me this. FYI I guess, haven’t seen anyone else talking about it and odds are someone here at least knows someone who should do this
From the email
>I'll cut right to the chase: if you're a veteran who was exposed to toxic substances - including burn pits or Agent Orange - during your service, you have until August 9 to file a claim, in order to receive full backdated health care benefits under the PACT Act
The burn pits are what gave Joe Biden’s son brain cancer and killed him
No. 1648480
>>1647805if walmart is the best option where you live, then like I said no judgement it's where you gotta shop. In my experience a lot of the food there is overpriced or just average market prices and it always rubbed me the wrong way it's hyped as some really affordable place to shop. but they're a big store that has things you can't find elsewhere in a rural area sometimes.
It used to be "bad" to shop there because they were a big corp that shut down small stores and they didn't pay their workers well enough, but the federal minimum wage is so bad now that people actually like walmart wages so everything is just upside down, I haven't met anyone who had anything bad to say about walmart wages in like 10 years. I'm sure they could pay more but it's like low on the hierarchy of issues at this point lol
No. 1649224
>>1646100Maybe in the past this was true but the British ancestry is not the case anymore for most people in the US. Especially when you consider how many Hispanic people we have now. I’m white but all of my ancestors came in the 1900s and I don’t have ties to colonial America. America has its roots in British independence but the immigrants post-revolution were not just British.
Also as for the Americans who tie themselves to European heritage, I feel a bit differently. I feel blessed to be an Italian American and not an Italian. Our food here is better in my opinion. No offense to anyone who feels upset by my comment but I’m just saying that some of us are happy to be in America with the remnants and further adaptations of our ancestors culture. Otherwise I wouldn’t exist so lol.
No. 1649599
I hate that our healthcare is tied to a job. We pay more per person than ANY other country, and are put under severe limitations which fuck everyone over constantly (EG tied to employer). I have so many health issues I can't get help for because of this fucking shit. So if I can't convince some grumpy old scrote to hire me I ought to just sit there and die? Between that and the lack of public transit and walkable cities I seethe in fury every single fucking day that I am forced to live in this complete shithole. No transit, no healthcare, student debt, what does this shitty government actually do for me for all the tax I pay to them? Their only interest is bombing random countries.
My shitty parents fed me shitty sugar-laden food as a kid and I got a bunch of dental issues because of them, which, surprise, don't magically heal and go away after age 18, so now I'm just fucked for life, and I can't even pay for it, and I have to sit here in terror and agony. Is it getting worse or is the snakeoil working? Who knows. If parents fuck their kids over, the kids should be able to sue their goddamned neglectful asses for all of the consequences with no time limitation. The one thing this fucking country is supposed to be good for is frivolous lawsuits, yet so many people fuck me over and I have no recourse. And every time I turn around a landlord (it's been all of them, let's be honest) is fucking me over, against the law, and I can't do anything about it.
I don't know how we're supposed to go on, rent gets more expensive constantly and jobs never, ever pay more. All I can afford to do is sit here on a laptop or reading books. Even a coffee out is fucking $10 anymore. Sorry if ranty but this country is failing our generation. Most of these issues wouldn't exist if I lived in Europe. They have their own problems, but the US is particularly godawful.
No. 1650008
File: 1690803824168.jpg (275 KB, 856x529, IMAGE-Hurricane-Outlook-May-20…)
was looking up hurricane season predictions and they weren't very useful. all right then keep your secrets.
No. 1650009
File: 1690803894512.jpg (14.03 MB, 16000x9950, IMAGE-Hurricane-Outlook-May-20…)
by the way Nigel is on the name list this year lol
No. 1650504
File: 1690847759158.jpeg (96.8 KB, 894x1080, IMG_0099.jpeg)
Hello nonnies britbong here possibly going to nyc soon and thinking of staying in Brooklyn… anywhere I should avoid/anything I should avoid doing/general tips??
No. 1651147
File: 1690917263471.jpg (41.5 KB, 736x714, 549d670637b06781e53692b1b42a8d…)
Although the history of my people in America very nasty and our government sucks, I love being in America. Everyday I remind myself that this is the land of opportunity, a place where I can do anything I want to. And the cultures and communities we've built with each other are beautiful! I'm still leaving this country eventually but I love you guys and I love Americans. I'm just filled with love today and I have to let you all know.
No. 1651416
>>1650504Do: walk all over manhattan especially the area around central park. Go to Met Cloisters, and the art museum at central park. Ferry to staten island and back to see the statue of liberty. eat at hole in the walls, not tourist traps. walk the brooklyn bridge (but stay out of the way of cyclists). have coffee at a small diner for breakfast. go to chelsea market and walk the highline. little italy actually does have legitimately good food despite being a tourist trap and overpriced, but everyone telling you frank sonatra ate there is full of shit (he ate everywhere).
don't: go to harlem or queens. avoid central park after dark. do not wear headphones while walking or you'll be mugged. don't walk in the bike lane. the pizza is shit, ignore people who say otherwise. do not go swimming anywhere. don't use taxi, just take the train. do not go out after 11pm. do not walk slow or stop in the middle of the sidewalk. do not rent a car for the love of god.
>>1650553brooklyn is nice
No. 1652266
File: 1691026608438.jpeg (198.28 KB, 1440x1028, IMG_2574.jpeg)
Where my Califags at
No. 1652309
>>1652292people are definitely fucked since the grand coof. they're weirdly aggressive, can't drive for shit and get in constant crashes like they're playing bumpercars, their attention spans are fried worse than a zoomer, they randomly get in pissy moods and are just angry and shitty all day, and they flip moods harder and more instantaneously than a bpd-chan. road rage shootings are massively up. i've had a scrote harass us because we "stole" his parking spot at a public park, while his kid was in the car with him, he was out acting like a monkey. people have no chill anymore, they're like rage zombies. and the retarded thing is these dumb assholes are the ones who wanted the lockdowns, now their normie psyches are fried from it. i stopped eating out because i had a waiter chase me down the street for not leaving a tip. they didn't even refill my beverage. like, seriously. all of these fucking people are mental.
after the mask requirements stopped i had a fat manchild in a grocery store standing and screaming at me for not wearing a mask while i checked out. no one reacted, so he screamed it again. like every petty squabble is suddenly a galaxy-shifting epic death battle to them. tiktok and marvel movies have turned their brains into pudding.
No. 1652959
>>1649599https://fraserinstitute.org/studies/price-of-public-health-care-insurance-2023-edition>In 2023, preliminary estimates suggest the average payment for public health care insurance ranges from $5,373 to $17,039 for six common Canadian family types, depending on the type of family.>The 10 percent of Canadian families with the lowest incomes will pay an average of about $644 for public health care insurance in 2023. The 10 percent of Canadian families who earn an average income of $80,946 will pay an average of $7,715 for public health care insurance, and the families among the top 10 percent of income earners in Canada will pay $44,314.Can you please explain how you can't afford $200-$500 a month for a low-tier Obamacare plan but if only you were born in the blessed land of single player you could somehow afford to pay $500-$1,400 a month? Keep in mind you don't get to pick and choose when you pay this like in the US, you can't cancel your insurance and put the money towards something else during times when you're not having health problems, or delay getting it when you're young, from the time you turn 18 to the time you die you pay that money EVEY. SINGLE. MONTH. If you make any money at all.
No. 1653001
>>1652994you: OMG euros have it so much better than us
euro: maybe like 20 years ago but now I make the same amount as you but have to pay 5x as much per month and also our wait times have ballooned to where cancer patients can't been seen for 8 months
you: NO YOU'RE ONLY SUPPOSED TO SAY THINGS I AGREE WITH GET OUT OF THE THREAD LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU
Lmao
No. 1653034
>>1653021you're not wrong I don't know shit about shit I was homeschooled but this isn't the euro healthcare thread, talk about it in the right thread and link to it if you want to wrangle someone from this thread to discuss it.
>>1653001nice strawmaning. I'm not the one who replied to a 4 day old post that literally said "europe has its own problems too" to argue about it in the wrong thread.
I don't want to act like crabs in a bucket – I'd live to learn about the pitfalls of various healthcare systems and be informed in case we ever get a chance ot change ours – but learn how to use the site ffs it's not reddit it's not twitter don't come here to argue in the wrong thread and get your feeling hurt at imaginary intentions
No. 1653081
File: 1691104460343.jpg (177.53 KB, 1079x1163, OUT.jpg)
No. 1653140
>>1652971you're the ones always posting about how great your free healthcare is.
>>1652959in most cases doctors are worthless. they can prescribe pills, but aren't good for anything else, and the pills are just moneygrabs that keep you sick and dependent on them. i don't think healthcare is worth the cost. every problem i've ever had, google has done me better than doctors. usually there's some $10 supplement that solves the issue, whereas you can go to 15 different doctors and none of them has a clue what's wrong with you.
i wouldn't even pay $1 for health insurance. i dont' even know why people go to doctors. i cannot fathom how anyone could have $500 of healthcare costs a month to make the insurance even start to be worth it. like, just not being fat eliminates 99% of potential health issues. i hate salad, but if i have to choose between salad or $2000 a month in healthcare expenses, i'll eat that salad like a rabbit.
No. 1653145
>>1653140salad won't stop you from getting cancer, dear god I hope you get pap tests and check your breasts for lumps at least.
Also I'm sure you would feel differently if you had type 1 diabetes of cystic fibrosis or something… some people need medication to live.
No. 1653168
>>1653155Adams is thinking about putting all the illegals in tents in Central Park since NYC is so overwhelmed by all… 95,000 of them.
>>1653163So your answer is to add even more taxes that we can't get out of paying? How does that make sense?
No. 1653172
File: 1691114763444.jpeg (411.83 KB, 1170x689, 5C962022-908F-4441-A94F-FC2980…)
>>1653170Samefagging to post this link so people can educate themselves on how taxes worked in the USA before we became a corporate welfare state in the 1980s. Tbh 1963 tax rates are even better than the ones in the 1970s, of course there would need to be adjustments to the brackets to account for inflation. But honestly a single person should be taxed 90% of all income made over 200k, and married couples should be taxed 90% of their income over 400k. That would make it so companies could stop being so goddamn greedy and stop hoarding wealth and overcharging for everything, because after a certain point it’s silly to keep trying to make even more money when you’re being taxed at a 90% rate over a certain amount of profits. Not only would our government have the money to pay for universal healthcare but we’d have a better society that wasn’t so profit and breed driven. Also we’d finally be able to put an end to the house hoarding a short term rental issues. This would also solve so many cultural and societal issues.
>https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/fed_individual_rate_history_nominal.pdf No. 1653183
File: 1691115355577.jpg (210.25 KB, 1137x1882, florida.jpg)
Florida banned AP Psychology.
No. 1653189
>>1653175Nope, not what I'm saying. Just that class status, rather than politics, is more indicative of criminal behavior. And being male, kek. These factors are obviously influenced by the larger societal factors, like cultural and ease of access to deadly weapons.
>>1653184OP was was a european asking for travel advice? Just being honest about crime levels for comparison. sry
No. 1653211
>>1653174It does not cost $500/month to get screened for cervical cancer ever few years, seriously anon there are basic health checks all women should get, don't you have free sexual health clinics in your country?
And breast cancer screening is just as important, even if you don't want to pay for insurance these are things you should get done.
I'm in the UK so we don't pay insurance as such but please don't reject all modern medicine because you may really need it one day.
No. 1653222
>>1653172Okay but that's a pipe dream. No country, even the ones with single-payer, actually does this. Instead what happens is they have a slightly higher tax rate for the rich and ultra-rich, a hugely higher tax rate for the middle class, and a higher tax rate for the poor. Hence why, going back to
>>1652959, the lowest 10% of "families" pay an average of $644 a month. Which if some is already struggling and can't pay for their state's cheapest Obamacare plan, how in the hell are they supposed to afford 2-3 times that in the form of tax?
>>1653171Paris, London, Malmo (Malmo is especially bad with the literal grenade warfare and bombings), basically every large city in Europe has crime rates on par with with worst of America and it's only getting worse year after year. The only cope are Europeans who still think they're living in the Europe of a generation ago.
No. 1653223
>>1653211we were discussing health insurance. and a cancer screening neither prevents nor cures cancer. Also educate yourself, pap smears are bullshit.
https://forwomenseyesonly.com/This is the america thread, you seem to be really quite fucking lost.
No. 1653246
>>1653223I'm not the original anon you were talking to, you said you basically see no point in going to a doctor, I was trying to point out why women need to.
The point of cancer screening is you try and catch it whilst it's still curable, that's why we don't screen for brain cancer.
Cancer screening standards are extremely similar in western nations, bitch I'm just trying to say, maybe don't write off all healthcare. Fuck sake just don't want you to die of fungating breast cancer.
Cervical cancer screening is changing a lot, how we screen has completely changed in Scotland where I live in recent years so they test the cells for HPV first now in hopes they will catch more cases (which is based on research).
I honestly don't understand what you have against screening for something that can kill you or seriously maim you for the rest of your life.
Women's health clinics exist for a reason, but I guess you think that's oppressive?
No. 1653256
>>1653246>didn't read the linkI suppose you want me to type an essay repeating what the website already says to spoonfeed you. You would have been defending lobotomies if you were born 100 years earlier.
I'm really not here to talk about this. What I said was, health insurance costs more than it would benefit me. And it does. It's simply a shit deal.
No. 1653268
>>1653256You are acting as if you linked me relevant ground-breaking academic papers.
…and no obviously I would not support lobotomies, that was literally started by some mad guy based on no research so I do not understand how you can compare that to cervical cancer screening in western nations in 2023 but okay.
No. 1653273
>>1653271You are so fucking weird to sexualise a medical procedure, like your comment made me throw up in my mouth a little.
Seek therapy and seriously reconsider ever reproducing.
No. 1653287
>>1653280Have you even went for one yourself?
A speculum is inserted, not fingers.
No. 1653296
>>1653268the evidence is on the website. i led you to water. i cannot force you to drink. I am not wasting my time typing out what they already provide.
I love how I'm being attacked for saying, "health insurance costs more than it is worth." That is what I said, and you are losing your mind over it. To be frank, I do not care about your opinion. You can continue to pay out the nose for this bullshit, but I will not be participating. If my employer wants to provide it for free, okay, but I wouldn't pay one cent for it.
>>1653273That poster isn't me. There are two (or more) people talking to you.
No. 1653319
>>1653294Well that's fucked up. Examination in UK is only done if they see something abnormal, otherwise it's just the speculum and inspection.
>>1653296I'm sorry but your link really isn't that relevant, of course during any medical procure there's a chance of infection, that's just how microorganisms work.
And I'm not denying how fucked up gynae teaching used to be, they used to just have medical students perform vaginal examinations on women who were under anaesthesia for surgery without consent but it is not like this now and it is really important to get checked for cervical cancer/HPV.
No. 1653330
>>1653326Men need a lot of prostate exams as they get older, most of them develop some kind of prostate cancer if they live to be old enough.
They piss themselves constantly and end up needing catheters because the prostate is like a big fat donut growing around their urethra.
No. 1653499
File: 1691141607021.png (85.19 KB, 253x321, 1683053503136661.png)
>>1653493>twirls hair ehe why are you so aggro about browbeating women into unnecessary invasive testingDunno just feelin quirky ig
No. 1653545
>>1653223I'm in year 3 of med school and on the fence about this. On one hand if it's a young woman with no genetic risk and no history of STDs there's basically no risk of cervical cancer at all. I do agree it's
sus how only invasive procedures towards women's parts (breast and cervical exams) are basically bombarded to young women with no risk but no one seems to care otherwise if it doesn't involve talking about breasts or vagina. I'd bet people pushing frequent pap smears on women are nowhere to be found when it comes to lung cancer even though women are at highest risk of non smoking related lung cancer or the fact our products is loaded with cancer causing chemicals
No. 1653574
File: 1691149968353.jpeg (360.7 KB, 1200x1200, cancers.jpeg)
>>1653571Dont give medical advice related to serious conditions unless you're working in Healthcare. Breast cancer is easily treatable and very common if you have a relative with it, that's why it's prioritized during check ups compared to other cancers. It's also much easier to do routine controls on and again much easier to detect than other cancers.
You've been shitting up this thread about medical misinformation because you're upset were talking about cancers specifically women have.
No. 1653577
Im so discouraged. Living in Texas, heat is killing my mental health. I get winter depression too bc cold and lack of daylight. Rent increased, paycheck decreased. Nigel and I are barely making it where we had 400 to 600 dollars extra a month when we moved into this place 3 years ago. Nothing has changed except cost of rent and health insurance. Idk how we can even afford to move at the end of the lease. We cant save up for a deposit and moving expenses it seems, we really want to buy a house but both of us need to do a lot of educating on how to's and the only way the house is going to happen is a down payment help program as we cant put anything down as is. Im trying to balance so much and the time is ticking. We need to get out of here. We have one of the cheapest rents in the area already though. My landlord owns this house, so our rent isnt even going to a mortgage. Almost 2k a month. We moved in and it was 30% our income, now its around 50%. Well, the heat has killed my business, so at the moment it is more like 60% because I cant make much money right now. Im about to go get another job, I am so stressed. My 'good' season is coming up, and I feel by the time I get one I will either need to quit or I wont quit and it will cut into my self employment opportunities that perk up a lot when it cools. We already do things as frugally as possible. Cook and eat at hime, no 15 dollar starbucks no real outings at all actually. Even if we had 50 dollars to go do something fun, it is just too damn hot. On the bright side I think the housing market is beginning to crash. Just barely, but I hope we can manage something in the next year or two. But wow is this stressful. I hope all us burger nonnies hang in there. One thing I hate is that we are paying so much for this house each month, but it is literally falling apart now. It has degraded so much since we moved in. Its foundation issues, cheap trim separating from walls, massive cracks, leaking faucets maintenence cant seem to fix, windows that have separated leaving gaps so I have to use packing foam to help keep the heat out. Just sucks.
No. 1653602
>>1653587We have a few mentally ill and a little mentally challenged anons who like spreading Healthcare misinformation thinking they're speaking their divine truth. They usually stick tinfoil thread but this time they leaked here.
They're not worth leaving the site for.
No. 1653634
>>1653574This is my first post and it's only risky in women who have a family history of it
>>1653587Moids would be actively forcing women to get pelvic and breast exams daily, if not doing it themselves
No. 1653642
>>1653634Most women who get breast cancer don't even know about their family's history, they could still get it even if no one else in their family had breast cancer you ignorant stupid fuck.
Uterus cancer is a very aggressive form of cancer that takes the lives of women very easily if it doesn't get spotted fast but you wouldn't know that since you don't even have a vagina and you are a xy moid troll like the majority of recent posters here who r trannys trying to larp as women and that's also why there is so much racebaiting in this site lately and tinfoiling. Go join the male suic¡de statistic.
No. 1653728
>>1653634>its only risky for women who have family historyStop spreading misinformation. I'm in Healthcare and literally everything in your post is wrong. I hate it so much when a retard tries to minimize women's health problems or tell women mandatory check ups aren't important.
Also are you retarded? Why would random men "force" women to get check ups on cancer? Why would they care?
No. 1653761
>>1653634This is so fucking untrue, you know that men get breast cancer too right?
Not all breast cancers have a genetic link or we would just screen people by testing them for BRCA1 and BRAC2.
I've actually worked in multiple one stop rapid diagnosis breast cancer clinics in the UK and what you are saying is just plain wrong.
No. 1653800
>>1653569it actually boggles the mind that people use all these cleaning products. the ONLY thing you need is cheap white vinegar. (and the pink stuff if you have a glass stovetop, which is a physical abrasive, not chemical.)
if you look at the actual risk of cervical cancer it's absurdly rare. yet we're smacked over the head day in and day out that the sky will fall unless we let some moldy old scrote shove a speculum in our vagina. it's honestly total bullshit and I don't care what the unhinged UK anon thinks. both pap smears and mammograms have such a high false positive rate that the test OBJECTIVELY does more harm than good. if people don't want to listen to science and reason and want to repeat dogma for the cult of the pap smear like it's a religion, they can go get violated. women are subjected to so much fear mongering and coercion over pap smears that it is to the point it's the catholic church of pap-smear-christ.
No. 1653823
>>1653772"nooo, anyone who goes against our dogma is an [insert boogeyman]"
You can get as many pap smears as you want. No one is stopping you. Just saying, cervical cancer is so absurdly rare it's not even worth the absurd nonstop fearmongering over it, and even given that, a pap smear is obsolete torture. they have at-home self-administered tests and the HPV test, both of which are superior. yet women are still subjected to the butchery and brutality that is the pap smear. and if you mention that maybe this isn't the ideal anymore, people say you're spreading "misinformation" to shut down discussion, because god forbid a woman has an opinion that differs from the scrote establishment's dogma.
so there is the crux of the argument: even if you think screening for cervical cancer is worth it, a pap smear is still obsolete for that purpose. better methods that cause less trauma exist. but they aren't being spoken about, because the moid doctors are dead set on invading people's vaginas.
i'm really tired of talking about this and i don't understand why you are losing your mind. i didn't even want to talk about this. what I said was, "health insurance is not worth $500+ a month" and no one has yet to make a firm argument against that statement. I feel like I lost 5 IQ points participating in this thread.
No. 1653912
>>1653823Did you ever have a check up in your life? Because all you talk about is fingering vaginas like a moid but pap smears are not the only thing to exist for check ups. They also do vaginal ultrasounds which are less invasive.
Honestly I'm hoping you are a moid because it's even worse to me when a woman is this ignorant and giving out horrible home remedies like telling women to wash their vaginas with white vinegar.
Also its not just cervix women can also get uterine cancer and ovary cancer, endometrios, etc etc so knowing the health down there is important.
I'm sorry if you had a traumatic experience by some doctor since you keep talking about fingering but not all check ups are like that.
A relative of mine had ovary cancer and it was horrible, she was peeing blood and was battling the tumor for a couple of years now and thankfully she survived. The tumor was a monster and was fighting to kill her, the tumor would have moments where it would get smaller giving the impression that it was getting better and then a week later and it would get bigger, it would get big then small then big again. Thankfully the tumor died.
Honestly you are garbage human being for saying pap smears are "libfem" or trying to call health check ups sexist….wtf.
Honestly spiritual home remedy tradthot bitches like you are even worse than some moids because you scum are everywhere including the medical field. That relative I mentioned had a retarded female doctor who told her that what she has is not a big deal and that she should go the natural route and prescribed her some plant tea, this of course did not work and her tumor got bigger and more aggressive so she had to go and find another doctor and that doctor prescribed her actual medicine that helped her dry up the tumor.
I hate people like you to my core.
No. 1654009
>>1653912Thank you for your post nonna, there are a lot of younger women on this site who can be really afraid of pap smears and other obgyn related checkups, but they are absolutely necessary. I truly do think it's a moid trying to do damage.
For any nonnas who are anxious about or have never had a pap smear: I don't want to say what goes on during a pap smear so this dick rotted turnip will get off to it, but the "fingering" this chode won't stop wailing about isn't sexual or fingering in any way. There is a very brief pre-speculum insertion that is done for reasons that become extremely obvious once you are there. Also, because you don't want to find out you have vaginismus via speculum. The "pain" experienced during a pap smear realistically varies from woman to woman, and comes from the cervix being lightly scraped with a medical brush. Pap smears aren't "brutality" or "a torture". Discomfort can be common, but you're just as likely to feel very little to no sensation.
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/gynecologic/index.htmAnd since these dorks were bitching about the "cost of insurance" and how it "totally isn't worth it to pay out for cancer screening", that is a link to information on gynecologic cancer. There is a "Low-Cost Screening" link on that page that also covers breast cancer screening.
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/cervical/statistics/index.htmhttps://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/statistics/index.htmAnd since there was also a lot of snotting about the low rates and risk of breast/cervical cancer with no actual numbers, here are links to their cdc statistics pages.
I hope this helps a nonita decide to get screened! Please take care of yourselves. You don't want to become one of the women who realizes they have cancer much too late. I don't want that to happen to you, I don't think any of us do.
No. 1654013
>>1654012America sucks
Source: American
No. 1654126
File: 1691190975031.webm (1.43 MB, 486x360, playground accidents.webm)
a chilling psa from the US Consumer Products Safety Commission
No. 1654208
>>1654013America is great. You suck. Get out.
t. American
No. 1654616
>>1653995>lucky to see young breasts Your friend should've reported the doctor if he sexually harassed her instead of telling you, he's going to harass other patients as well.
Though I don't believe this because first of all, breast checkups usually don't start when someone is super young. Second of all, young breasts are MUCH HARDER to screen (because of dense tissue appearing similar to cancerous tissue on mammography) and usually mammography is useless so you have to use other screening methods. And mammography does hurt because it has to compress the tissue so it can be more precise, you can't blame the doctor for that unfortunately as it's the only easy, cheap and accurate method of screening for breasts.
I don't know why but there's an uprise in anons who are saying women shouldn't go to female cancer checkups yet same anons are saying prostate cancer is overlooked, literally makes no sense considering female reproductive health related cancers are much more serious than prostate cancer. It's so weird for anons to care about a male cancer that doesn't even kill yet pretend breast cancer isn't worth screening for because it's uncomfortable as if it doesn't affect 1 out of 7-9 women.
On another note, we're not doomed you retard. Women are less likely to get cardiovascular or cancer related deaths until much older age compared to men. Stop posting false information about female health to make anons feel worse about themselves.
No. 1654622
Sanefag as last reply, replying again since I just saw this.
>>1654385You should get on either birth control or get an iud if you're sexually active in that case. I'm sorry to hear that, anon. Do you have any chances of moving to a mofe liberal city in the future? If not, please consider birth control as mistakes do happen and even if you can get abortion it's a very dangerous operation.
>>1654585This reply combined with the anons advising others to not go to cancer check ups or pretending breast cancer is rarer than lung or prostate cancer make me suspicious.
No. 1654677
>>1653800fuck the moid one-liners replying to you, it is absolutely
valid to question why medical care only seems to get pushed down women's throats if the procedures make women as vulnerable to abuse as possible (breast and cervical exams)
as for cleaners go, young women are gaslighted into being ~crazy conspiracy theorists~(check out the ppl who replied to you) for even QUESTIONING the ethics of things pushed, nevermind the fact companies have laundry lists of lawsuits and recalls that never went through until people started dying (check out roundup, lead baby products and walls, etc)
now moids are mocking women for using yuka and avoiding BPAs/hormone disruptors because apparently we aren't allowed to question our environment and instead take 20+ pills that make us fat, stupid and nauseous when we have hormonal issues
it's funny how these same anons are happy to admit how throughout all of history, medicine has been devious towards women and now we're supposed to believe they're suddenly enlightened and pro-woman as soon as 2010 hit as if it's not still 100% legal to perform pelvis exams on unconsenting women under anesthesia but nothing remotely close is the same for men, I'm actually shocked how fast anons are willing to shut this down considering how western medicine has a weird fetish for pushing pelvic exams on women
No. 1654682
>>1654675They don't enjoy scaring the kids, they enjoy fantasizing about women getting assaulted on these exams and tell women not to take them because they can't stand "their woman" being touched by another person even if it's for health reasons.
While I agree that it's fine to be uncomfortable and scared of such checkups, no one should minimize THE MOST COMMON types of cancer in women.
They're arguing that lung cancer and other cancers are more commonly although they're not so women will be less likely to get checked up for breast cancer. This isn't female behavior, what women doesn't know how common breast cancer is nowadays?
No. 1654754
File: 1691236315039.png (175.07 KB, 1679x1082, cancerdeaths.PNG)
>>1654740ayrt, that isn't really related to what I said. I was talking about the medical establishment as a whole and not individual doctors. The medical establishment doesn't have the capacity or responsibility to deal with individual patients so its advice is necessarily going to take the form of broad prescriptions, such as the recommendation to that women get screened for breast and cervical cancer. Cancer is the second most common cause of death among women and breast and cervical cancer are the most common forms of cancer that are specific to women so this advice seems very reasonable. Is advising that men get their prostates examined a medical conspiracy to allow doctors access to male buttholes?
No. 1654764
>>1654744No anon askhually it will! I don't want to see my gf - I mean myself get touched by a doctor just for a disease that can most likely kill her. Don't you realize how uncomfy the screening will be? It's much better for you if you don't let any men-I mean doctor touch your privates for your own good!
It's a moid and he's upset that women's bodies are being touched in a way he doesn't approve of. He's literally been told of the high likelihood of both cancers and he's still arguing rare diseases are somehow much more likely than breast cancer. Just ignore him. He's probably the one who attacked the anon that was worried about abortion and birth control.
No. 1654857
>>1654677Thank you, this thread made me feel like I was going insane.
>>1654679>everyone I don't agree with is a moid!>>1654701They just found out that ~40% iirc of women/girls are literally anemic from menstruation's ravages and no one gives a fuck to stop the unnecessary menstruation or at least provide recovery options. They also don't bother providing pain relief for common procedures like IUD insertion, meanwhile a moid gets full night-night time to get his nuts clipped. I wouldn't be surprised if they give moids laughing gas to get a pimple popped, but tell women to shut up and deal with it getting a biopsy. There you fucking go.
No. 1654860
>>1654740This nonna is correct. There have even been entire books written on this subject. It was covered in Unwell Women for example. Women are treated barbarically by the medical industry and I'm tired of being silenced for saying so.
>>1654764Cervical cancer is absurdly rare compared to the overwhelming fearmongering about it. Diabetes kills more people than cervical cancer, but we aren't fearmonged and brow-beaten about cupcakes. When it comes to gyn issues logic and reason fly out the window and everyone is emotionally charged and screaming in blind rage.
And don't even talk about "but I know someone diagnosed with an abnormal pap!" because literally 97% of abnormal paps are false positives for issues that would have resolved on their own. The test metric is flawed. But even given that, self administered paps are still not ever offered, women are held down to have a giant cold metal speculum crammed up there, and lambasted if they complain about it. Even if you want to talk about cervical cancer screening, as I've said repeatedly, the pap smear is not even a good test for that, and better options exist, which aren't discussed and are not offered. You've yet to address that.
>>1654742gaslighter
No. 1654861
File: 1691250098374.jpg (159.22 KB, 1014x567, newpelvicexamlaws.jpg)
>>1654829>>1654831You know damn well what you're doing by fearmongering like this. If you had any good intentions at all, you would have brought up the issue of medical students performing pelvic exams on anesthetized women
separately from the fact that breast and pelvic exams will always be necessary for women's health. Begone scrote.
The phenomenon anons were referring to is mostly based around teaching hospitals. Residents will perform pelvic exams on unconscious women who are sedated for surgery, whilst arguing that it is necessary hands-on experience for students, and that the women gave consent to "medical students being involved in their care for training purposes". Lately more and more states have been passing legislation requiring explicit informed consent for these exams, in addition to the five states with laws already instated. Linking an archived version of the article picrel is from since it is paywalled.
https://archive.is/uWA8mI feel very badly for Ms. Weitz in particular. You know that disgusting old scrote purposefully sedated her so he could get off.
>>1654857Sounds like you need to get a better PCP and stop bitching at nonnas like we're all retards when you're the one who can't stand up for yourself in the medical room. My doctor treated those issues easily and without my prompting.
No. 1654865
>>1654829Great point, I hadn't even mentioned that yet. In america it's legal for a doctor to give you a pelvic exam (IE rape you) without your knowledge or consent while you're in anesthesia for another procedure. A few states made it illegal recently (I mean like, 2019 level recent.) In half the country a doctor can use your vagina as a training exercise and he doesn't even need to inform you or ask your permission. Which is devastating for women who have issues. I get microtearing easily. So a doctor can legally rape me while I'm under for a procedure, can cause me pain and suffering and physical damage just for his funsies, and I can't even complain about it because it's all legal.
And this is the medical establishment that nonna wants me to put blind faith in that they have my best interests in mind. Fuck this shit.
The fact is that women do not even have human rights in this country. This is the ONLY country where this is done. This is also the only country where it's routine for doctors to withhold birth control prescriptions until you consent to a pap smear whether it makes sense in your situation or not. (It's illegal, now, but it's still done every single day to thousands of women.) I had this happen to me so don't even gaslight me that it doesn't occur. There is a reason I'm so fucking angry at the medical establishment and I'm tired of that asshole telling me I'm a scrote for it.
>>1654861What the fuck is your problem
Actual what the fuck about what i fucking said has you frothing at the mouth. Pap smears ARE NOT EVEN THE BEST TEST FOR CHECKING FOR CERVICAL CANCER. Why are you defending a painful and outdated procedure that is no longer even recommended? Do you sell pap smears for a living? Are you a gynecologist who hasn't taken your continuing education courses? What exactly has your tits in a twist about this statement? Even for screening, a pap smear still isn't even the best test for it. Go ahead and address that.
No. 1654868
>>1654866They have iirc a blood test for HPV as well as self administered tests for performing a pap, which eliminates most of the associated trauma. However, in most cases pap smears are not needed as the test is notoriously overadministered in the only for-profit medical system in the developed world (the US). Europe has a saner screening recommendation. In the US girls as young as 12 are held down and raped for the sake of billing insurance for another pap smear. They'll do it even if you're a virgin. They'll do it even if you're a minor (it's no longer recommended to be done on women younger than 25, but it is. every day.) It's also not recommended more often than every 3-5 years if you have no history of abnormal tests, but it's still pushed as an annual "well woman exam", which is entirely driven by profit motive and not research-informed. Doctors are hell bent on administering frequent and early-age in office pap smears when the academic literature advises otherwise. They are also notorious for holding birth control hostage until the woman concedes to a pap smear, which is illegal medical coercion, but it's still done every single day with no repercussions.
You also have the right to request pain management for an IUD insertion or any other procedure, but most medical practitioners gaslight women that their pain is imagined, or just anxiety, and the procedure doesn't actually hurt when it really does. Again, the medical industry is absolutely notorious for doing this. This is not tinfoil. This is documented.
No. 1654884
>>1654622This anon has been shiting up this thread for years because she's a fat retard who wants the world served to her on a silver platter. Never once has she actually needed an abortion, or even mentioned being sexually active (because she's not), she just wants to wail and gnash her teeth because someone, somewhere might need an abortion and they'll only have SIX WEEKS!!!! to get one, which is the same thing as having no abortion because reasons!!!!!! She's spent years whining about medicaid, but she doesn't have the decency to just roll over and die and make the world a better place, nor does she do anything to improve her situation. She could have learned to code and be making $$$$$$, she corks go to Mexico and get cheap Healthcare and be out of the meanie poopie USA, she could have done a million things but she never does because she's just a spoiled brat that wants to whine. She's been enable by people like you and the stupid mods because of uncontrolled
Toxic Empathy and you get mad when someone won't coddle these completely useless wastes of space.
(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE) No. 1654890
>>1654884a 6 week ban is a de facto ban due to logistical and practical reasons I wont type out and you can look up for yourself. NTA
america has unaffordable healthcare and she's right. also lmao everyone who learned to code is now out of a job.
No. 1654899
>>1654857>~40% iirc of women/girls are literally anemic from menstruation's ravagesthe FDA has always set a generous daily requirement for iron, more than enough to compensate for the effects of normal menstruation. It's not their fault if women keep ignoring this advice in order to subsist on junk food or go vegan without doing any research.
>They also don't bother providing pain relief for common procedures like IUD insertionagain, this is a decision that occurs on the individual provider level and isn't related to the medical establishment at large. Most vasectomies are done under local anesthesia anyway, which is very much something you can ask for from your doctor.
No. 1654908
>>1654899>it's individual irresponsibility that causes checks notes 40% of the population to be deficient in an essential nutrient you're insane and are speaking from a position of malice.
if something affects 40% of the population, it is not an individual moral failing, it is a systemic problem. grow an empathy as well as a brain sometime.
No. 1654944
>>1654935Because we don't live in France or Germany you retard. And in America, a pregnancy test from the local CVS costs $12. So do you sincerely expect women to pay that every 2-4 weeks? That's an extra $150 a year just to make sure she catches pregnancy at the earliest possible time to satisfy a medically unnecessary ban on abortion.
Oh and btw not every region of the US has equal access to abortion clinics. If you live out in the boonies your nearest provider could be hours away. California has countless PP offices dotting everywhere outside the Mojave while Nebraska has like three and they're all near the Iowa border.
No. 1654946
>>1654941Um. She is not one in a million. That can happen pretty often. She should still be able to get blood tests and pregnancy tests despite being out of the norm, because her doctor should be listening to her when she says something is wrong.
You sound hangry, eat a snack and hide the thread
No. 1654954
>>1654940Yep, I probably should hurry up and get that bisalp, thanks nonna. i just have autism about randos digging around my insides but it might be less traumatic than a fetus setting up a lawn chair in my uterus
>>1654935b8
No. 1654967
>>1654944>Because we don't live in France or Germany you retard.Retardanon is constantly wailing about how America is so bad and she would be so much better off else where despite never even needing an abortion to begin with. Anon comes in with a rare occurrence that even if she were in most other countries she would still face. You're trying to play Oppression Olympics and pretend that a six week ban is the worse thing ever but you ignore how the rest of the world also had bans after a certain timeframe.
>And in America, a pregnancy test from the local CVS costs $12. So do you sincerely expect women to pay that every 2-4 weeks? That's an extra $150 a year just to make sure she catches pregnancy at the earliest possible time to satisfy a medically unnecessary ban on abortion.Yes I do. Stick pregnancy tests aren't free in your precious Europe either, and doctor tests are paid for through taxes which are a lot more than $120 a year, this thread just went through that conversation and none of you could provide an answer as to how someone who can't afford prices in the US could somehow afford a tax comparable to the ones found in Canada or Europe that finance their healthcare.
>If you live out in the boonies your nearest provider could be hours awayOh nooo, you might have to drive somewhere to get something done??? Like rural cancer patients have to do all the time? Like many people have to do for many things all the time? As I said before you are just a spoiled bitch who wants the world served to you on a silver platter and throws a shitfit when everything isn't 100% to your preferences.
>>1654946>>1654947False negative on an individual test are not uncommon but multiple false negatives on a progressing pregnancy are.
No. 1654977
>>1654967Nta, but kek
>stop complaining about your shithole country when other countries are shitholes tooooo waaahhYou're not gonna starving children in Africa us, but good try. This is a thread for burgers about the issues we're dealing with in burgerland. Why would we be talking about France and Germany.
Besides that, abortions should be freely available to all women at any time. "But what about third trimester abortions!!!" Actually, if you don't give a fuck about women who have false negatives and who can't get an abortion within the timeframe a bunch of scrotes in office decided for us, then I don't care about 3rd trimester abortions and never will.
>just drive you lazy bitchHold on, so someone who can't afford "$500" of medical care coverage is supposed to drop thousands on a car, keep up with maintenance, pay for yearly fees, and keep up with insurance? Yes this is definitely a problem we are all making up in our heads and you're not just here to spergout kek
>As I said before you are just a spoiled bitch who wants the world served to you on a silver platter and throws a shitfit when everything isn't 100% to your preferences.Why are you so hangry nonna. All those quinoa salads that save you from paying medical insurance must be hard on you. Eat a snickers.
>>1654970Based nonna. Abortions for all forever all the time.
No. 1654985
File: 1691257744223.jpg (81.71 KB, 1006x748, reddit being based.jpg)
>>1654977Today, reddit was based. I did some snooping and the most permissive law I can find outside of certain US states is Iceland at 22 weeks. Why is their any limit at all? I agree with this, the length of time the fetus has spent in the uterus does not revoke the woman's bodily autonomy. They have us fighting over gestation limits and celebrating it as a win, when there should be no limit at all.
No. 1655069
>>1654970I'm a Texan and the stories of the women who wanted to keep their babies but had complicated pregnancies after the six week heartbeat law mark were heart wrenching. These women witnessed their own babies die or had to go to other states to abort the fetus, when it could've been just as easily done pre-heartbeat law. I hate this state. Anyone who unironically supports these dinosaurs in our office who hate women needs a fucking lobotomy, every election we creep closer to a blue tip, but we never do, and all the obnoxious transplants moving down here are either influencer tax dodgers or more conservative fossils who'll vote to keep senile abbott and zodiac killer cruz in office
Power grid goes out for over a week and the senator takes a vacay to Cancun. Attorney general has been under investigation for as long as he's been in office for fraud and people keep re electing him, now he's been caught being an infidel. Governor is a cripple who legally forbids the courts from making damage disability payouts to injured plaintiffs. But gotta get that sweet NRA money while people continue to die in mass shootings, amirite? Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!
No. 1655086
>>16549356 week bans are face saving way of completely banning abortions. It is exactly at 5-6 weeks that a vigilant woman may discover she is pregnant. Gestation is calculated from the first day of your last period, regardless of when conception actually occurred. This is even more dire for women with even slightly non-exact periods.
Week 1: period
Week 2: nothing
Week 3: possible ovulation
Week 4: possible ovulation
Week 5: conception
Week 6: “I’ve missed my period”
Dick swinging lunatic: “UM why have you left it so long!?”
At least one American woman is both poor and lives far from an abortion clinic. Even with a steadfast heart and mind on the decision to abort, she will 100% not be able to immediately get to a clinic after taking a pregnancy test. This uncommonly careful and sure woman has been intentionally prevented from legally accessing an abortion
before the formation of an embryo. That’s what 6 week limits are meant to do. The VAST MAJORITY of American women will not be able to get an abortion at “6 weeks pregnant”. Laws are made with human capabilities in mind and this is a malicious example of that.
No. 1655095
>>1654924>If you can't figure out how to get an abortion in a whole-ass month and a half you're just a moron, that's reality.You are a braindead, ignorant degenerate. So obnoxious and vitriolic about a law that has already killed women. A pawn for forced pregnancy fetishists because of how much you hate women. Reality is that your opinion is only ever held by actual morons.
Gestation is calculated from the first day of your last period. Not one woman will actually get A MOnTh aNd A hALf to secure this procedure. You will at the very most luckiest get 2 weeks, maximum.
A woman with irregular periods can be barred before she even conceives. You’re an evil bastard who wants women to suffer, alternatively, a plain moron.
No. 1655097
>>1655086The thing is the majority of women who need abortion or latter term abortion aren't doing it by choice or out of laziness, it's usually the baby having a birth defect. Should the woman have to suffer and birth a deformed child, especially if she wanted the kid, watch that baby die, and face the repercussions it has on her body and mind? The humane thing in sparing them the suffering
is to let them have abortions, most women who go to clinics aren't crackwhore addicts getting incidentally pregnant by johns every few months, a lot of them have real reasons for needing one. But what's wrong regardless of allowing women to have that autonomy over their body if it means less miserable or dead children in the world?
No. 1655174
>>1655097It's also so batshit insane when I hear anti-abortion scrotes talk about it like "WoMeN wIlL jUsT uSe AbOrTiOnS aS bIrTh CoNtRoL"
Like as if we're all "tee hee might have a horrifying invasive procedure for funsies"
No. 1655344
File: 1691279888258.jpeg (1.14 MB, 1170x1778, 3F9C8FC5-D8AC-4970-BC9F-1A1C1C…)
>>1653577Same but Florida the fucking electricity bill was over $300 and even though we own this shitty house. our mortgage went up from $980 to $1250 because our homeowners insurance TRIPLED (our roof is 4 years old we don’t live by water) and our shitass governor isn’t doing anything to slow down the rate hikes on either.
No. 1655387
File: 1691281851206.gif (5.87 KB, 180x132, hot.gif)
>>1655344in georgia my electric bill for July was $350, I wanted to cry. It's set at 77 all day, I thought that was reasonable… the landlord doesn't have screens on the window I don't have ventilation without it even if I wanted to turn it off!!
No. 1656806
File: 1691410075780.jpg (446.95 KB, 1080x2015, Screenshot_20230807-070430_Bra…)
Chemical fire in Garland TX. Currently the health dept is assessing if evacuations are needed due to air quality. In the DFW area, this feels like the 3000th toxic fire within a few weeks. There have been a handle in the news lately. Semis burning on the roads, a bridge/railcar carrying toxic chems was burning, etc. This poor planet. I wonder if the unrelenting heat had something to do with the paint plant explosion.
No. 1656807
>>1656806this is horrific
in reference to that article a nonna posted a bit ago, do you guys think the government is going to be releasing more content into the media encouraging us to bare with the heat and adapt because scientists say its OK while they scramble to answer to climate change? im so tired of this shit not to bring religion or spirituality into this but i hope that there is some greater land or meaning beyond this destruction, greed and power that triumphs against virtuous people and innocent animals and nature
No. 1656817
>>1638839I'm so glad she's safe, my heart stopped when I first heard about her getting kidnapped, but I hate that she did this. Surely there was a better way of getting the time off of work?
>>1640166Yesterday some stoned fucking ape literally smoking weed while driving almost hit my grandma in the parking lot. I wanted to call 911 so badly and ruin her life, but 911 is down in our city again so I didn't want to waste an hour of time on hold just to be told that they won't be coming.
No. 1656821
File: 1691412349843.jpeg (561.45 KB, 828x1378, IMG_0916.jpeg)
>>1656806I assume everyone here ignores the air quality alerts because they’re near daily “ozone action days” suggesting one should take a bike when it’s 110 degrees outside and 20 miles to get anywhere in DFW. Also kind of funny how “take the DART” isn’t one of their proposed ozone actions either, but I learned the other day they drop the DART speeds down to like 10-20 mph when it’s over 107. Which it has been for nearly two weeks.
No. 1656846
File: 1691413853844.jpeg (344.54 KB, 1440x1028, 1691026608438.jpeg)
>>1652266This meme is for cowards. Make the woman wokjak look as human as the men. She's a new mother who just created and pushed out an entire new person, not a domesticated momo.
No. 1656900
File: 1691417329233.png (2.63 MB, 2056x1374, average man.png)
>>1653273I have some absolutely terrible news if you think male gynecologists don't sexualize women.
No. 1656927
>>1656919>>1656922It's not completely down all the time, just on certain days/times, it's just that you're on hold for a really long time and the police won't come out for hours for most crimes that aren't murder. Like the one time I had to call last year I got car jacked and it took four hours for the police to show up once I got through to 911. I don't want to dox myself to the mods, but basically if you don't consider your city murdertown, you don't live where I live.
God this place is cancer. Truly it rots your soul to live here and I cannot wait to go back to my hometown.
No. 1656969
File: 1691421472793.png (780.73 KB, 1406x938, manometry.png)
>I wouldn't be surprised if they give moids laughing gas to get a pimple popped
Topkek this reminded me that when I recently had a manometry done (picrel for those unfamiliar), the technician told me that her office has performed the test on kids as young as 7, yet men far and away are the biggest babies to deal with during the procedure. She said she's never had a female patient pass out, but she's had several men who fainted as soon as she started putting the catheter up their noses. God, men are useless and the biggest fucking pussies. The fact doctors take them and their pain more seriously is such a cruel joke. Oh yeah and this test cost me $1400 to have done and $500 for some doctor to read the results, and that was after my insurance covered it. God bless America
No. 1657017
File: 1691423070498.gif (571.94 KB, 220x132, bruh.gif)
>>1656934>country is literally on fire>it must be the Russians or the Chinesesister, that is a cope if I ever heard one lol
No. 1657082
>>1656910My city has 911 up, but the police non emergency line will never answer. No matter what day and what time you call, they never pick up. Our governor had the brilliant idea that if you don't let citizens report crime, that means the crime didn't happen and you don't need to do anything about it.
>>1656922>Gothamhonestly i feel that way sometimes. our streets are certainly flooded in…characters. lately they've been ramming trucks through shops to commit robberies. the police are as good as non-existent. women get harassed, mugged, and raped every day and no one even cares.
>>1656934I also sub to that particular tinfoil
No. 1657115
>>1656821I look at them every day, but what can I really do? Im in TX too. I already wfh but I work outside making things, my allergies (?) are killer and all my neighbord mow every 3 days woth their gas powered equipment. I actually dont mow til I get a notice kek and only the front, use electric. Iirc when I grew up in OK, ozone days were subject to fines if you used gas mowers etc, and fire hazard days were also subject to tickets and fines if you grilled or did brush burning. But idk if that is a thing still in OK. In TX, what does anyone do about the air? What regulation are we supposed to follow aside from "bike to work" which is potentially fatal as you said. And maybe, dare I even say,
ableist. If they cared then they would ticket people who mow on ozone days at least, not businesses cuz I get that you gotta work- but individuals. Who doesnt want an excuse to NOT mow? But idk what else there really is to do. Wear a mask? Not in this heat I am not, unless it is really really bad I guess. Ive been getting nosebleeds, I wonder if somehow I have shifted to the 'sensitive' group kek.
No. 1657239
>>1655873I personally foam at the mouth over condos and townhomes because they all require HOA payments on top of taxes so you’ll never actually own the place and the HOA fees can randomly increase and are often over the $350 a month I fork over for electricity during the hottest parts of the year. Also I don’t want someone else being disgusting and filthy making it so I have bugs or bad smells in my home. I don’t wanna share walls with the average American. You underestimate how careless and filthy people tend to be. And if the people who share walls with you don’t run their ac when it’s humid then you’ll both get mold.
My first place was an apartment 8 years ago that was a 1/1 and overall decent. Not nice but not a total shithole. It was under $800 a month. Now the same apartment is $1400 a month. Even with the mortgage for the 2/1 I have now plus the electric bill being $350 instead of $75 like the apartment it’s still a better deal. And I don’t have to deal with shitty neighbors on either side and below me and hear all their fucking goings ons and their screaming baby to my left and two howling pit bulls to my right and a nearly deaf Spanish lady below me blaring telenovellas all day and night. Plus I’m loud myself I like to hoot and holler sometimes and I like not hearing people I share walls with dirty talking at night.
No. 1657306
File: 1691446001150.jpeg (123.31 KB, 1170x1115, 72955EB0-9FAB-482F-9FC8-6217B9…)
>>1655087Like an anon said earlier, I also vote picrel to be next threadpic
No. 1657350
>>1657328I think it's funny in a black humor kind of way, but autists like you can't understand it I guess. I don't think either joke is in good taste but Japanese people get so butthurt over shit like
>>1657327 mentioned, the barbieheimer poster, and then unironically produce media like kancolle. It's like how Italians get mad about the mafia or cooka da meatball or French people hating 'omelette du fromage' or some shit. Get a grip it's not that serious.
No. 1657381
File: 1691453684666.jpeg (286.23 KB, 1581x1053, B607639A-9E1E-4660-91BC-EA9854…)
>>1657299Actually, most of those states have at least medical. But I get what you mean. I moved far away from my southern home state and never plan to go back. They’re all shit holes.
No. 1657440
>>1655065Florida's in-state tuition is still pretty cheap (20-25k cost of attendance) plus there are really accessible state sponsored scholarships. Students with a 3.0 GPA and 1300 on the SAT get free tuition. Even if you don't qualify for special scholarships you can still go to community college which is just as cheap here as anywhere else in the country.
I didn't pay a penny for my bachelor's degree, personally.
No. 1657458
File: 1691464841697.jpeg (242.21 KB, 765x1093, FF8CAB6E-E0C0-483C-8345-5A849F…)
>>1657350I’ll never forget the Italian nonna who legitimately was pressed about cooka da meatball
No. 1657927
>>1657448Sorta same here. I just cant seem to inderstand. I have a 2 year degree but that is basically meaningless, I have noticed lately that when people say 'college' they mean a 4 year degree, and 2 year degrees are overlooked. I want to figure out how to make my 2 year into a 4 year now that I am older (29) and even reading about how things work just seems like mixing up oil and water in my brain. It just wont make sense no matter hpw hard I try. I graduated with almost 20 extra credits for my 2 year for 1) not understanding how to navigate shit and 2) my degree requirements changed multiple times
while I was actively enrolled. But I need more money and I think I need to go back to school….it's so complicated. I do great in the actual classes, but navigating the system makes zero sense to me.
No. 1658389
File: 1691537986996.jpeg (227.03 KB, 960x1200, IMG_2506.jpeg)
Does anyone know why JCH looks like this? I google his name and no recollection of what happened that caused him to turn out like this is posted anywhere
No. 1658581
>>1657306These “jokes” will never be funny. How absolutely devoid of empathy do you have to be to make jokes that trivialize murders of innocent people? You know there were children on the planes that flew into those towers right? Wow haha! So hilarious!
>>1657340Because you’re so unfunny you can’t come up with anything else kek. Nta but maybe if you saw the childhoods of kids who never had a father because he died (for non-comprehensible reasons that no one wants to explain until you’re older) then you might not be such a heartless prick. Well now you can think about those babies wondering why daddy never came home from work that day.
I know one of you edgelords will try to bait me further, this is all I’ll say on it. Idc if you have no connection to 9/11 or terrorist attacks or whatever murders but making light jokes of them is despicable. I truly hope there is a hell so people who make these jokes (mostly moids) can burn there. No. 1658651
>>1657306As someone who was also alive for 9/11 and finds what happened to the
victims and rescuers horrific, I think this is hilarious and should definitely be the next threadpic.
>>1657327Kek I feel bad bc they were probably trying to make a point but didn't realize how much of a meme 9/11 is to Americans
No. 1658972
>>1658821Kek, nobody is angry at her. We're making fun of her.
>>1658947Nope! I'm more embarrassed whenever I talk to someone from a country we destroyed, subjugated, or politically sabotaged for our economy.
Also, I don't think "most people" are "selfish and brainwashed". It sounds like you suffer from main character syndrome. Get well soon.
No. 1659018
File: 1691602008390.jpg (81.44 KB, 940x480, untitled-design-2023-08-09t111…)
>>1658316I finally got a chance to watch the video and honestly..I shouldn't laugh but that shit was funny to me kek. Jumping off of a boat to swim over and fight somebody is hilarious. The cops weren't even trying to stop the fight. Why the fuck were they even fighting?
No. 1659088
File: 1691608114386.gif (1.61 MB, 448x480, IMG_9762.gif)
>>1659018Drunk white idiots on a pontoon boat were illegally parked and the black security guard who worked at the docks told them to move their boat because it's a ferry dock. The white boat people then proceeded to gang up on and beat the security guard. One of the guards coworkers, who appears to be a white kid in a vest, attempted to initially defend him, only to get pushed out, and then the black kid (Blackqaman) who swam from the boat who I believe was also his coworker came in to defend him. The initial fight erupted into an all out brawl when people came down to start beating on the white people who beat up the black guard.
The most hilarious thing was when the security guard threw his hat up in the air like the bat signal. But yeah the video filmed from the ferry of the guard trying to convince the people to move their boat is out there. Also hilarious is the crowd of people on the boat chanting Ludacris's Move Bitch and the boaters still won't get out the way. They argue with the guard for several minutes before he first gets punched. The not so funny part is that this all likely started because of public intoxication and racism, which is unfortunately very, very Alabama.
https://reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/1On6FFBxXp No. 1659096
File: 1691608560891.jpeg (28.48 KB, 348x348, IMG_9688.jpeg)
>>1659093Not to mention the family mini mart getting bombed with negative reviews and then one of the owners admitting they only want "white dollars"
Why couldn't they just move their fucking boat in the first place
No. 1659123
>>1658389UPDATE: This guy beat some asian dude into a near fatal brain hemorrhage and he is now not going to prison because his lawyer verbatim stated “I am AntiFa, and I will remember every one of your faces” to the jury before they deliberated. Fucking pathetic joke of a court system. Imagine being too afraid to
enforce the law because you’re scared that some little basement dweller is going to doxx you. Just kill yourself at that point tbh
No. 1659139
File: 1691610912209.png (133.73 KB, 1500x1281, 1687988713150683.png)
>>1657038>>1656934I think its more of rich 'influential' people being really, really fucking retarded and filled with hubris that their corner cutting tactics that they used in Walmart will work at chemical plants or anything that holds dangerous chemicals that shouldn't be fucked with.
The covid vaccine and Ocean gate proves that these people aren't some evil 900 IQ masterminds but just retarded people that are too stupid for their own good.
No. 1659181
>>1659172But nobody gives a shit about the millions of covid
victims. Who cares. 9/11 was a literal inside job and a means to feed a propaganda machine to make us cool with an oil war.
No. 1659198
>>1659144So wayyyyy back in 2019, attention whoring faggot journalist Andy Ngo is photographing and recording a large AntiFa riot on the streets of Portland. Some individuals recognize him, namely Leatherface (John Colin Hacker) and Elizabeth Renee Richter. JCH stole Ngo’s phone and doxxed his private information, while ERR and a large group of maybe 10-12 trannys chased him down. He tried to run into The Nines hotel in Portland Oregon, and they denied him any help. He was sent back outside and they beat him so viciously that he suffered a brain hemorrhage. You can see JCH does not physically commit the attack himself; however he does coordinate it, and video surveillance from outside the surrounding area does show him
patting the goon on the back as they walk away from the crime scene. This was all 4 years ago, but has only reached trial this week. It was a 6 day long trial that resulted in 0 justice. It was a complete joke and has only enabled this mass psychosis sickening the city of Portland.