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No. 1659188
don't joke about 9/11 edition
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I was gonna make the threadpic anime George Washington but this is still cute
No. 1659207
>>1659088Something about swimming across a river to help your fellow man when he is in need is so beautiful… That is true America! I'm tearing up right now.
>Blackqamankek
No. 1659256
>>1659246and 40k americans die a year in car crashes, but if we mention that cars ought to be banned we're called [insert slur/-ism du jour]. people's sensitivities are asinine and arbitrary, so they should stop joke policing. a guy taking a car trip when he could have taken bus is a worse person than someone who makes 9/11 jokes. the latter has zero chance of killing someone. yet which are people offended by?
besides which, americans still make japan-nuke jokes. they can dish it but can't take it. right this moment america is using ukraine as a proxy war site and killing 20 trillion slavs so that gdp go up. the US isn't as bad as, like, pakistan, but we're a pretty shit country on any basis of morality, yet act like the global morality police. no wonder other countries hate us.
if you're offended by 9/11 jokes, have more self awareness. the CIA literally destabilized all of latin america and half of asia for profit. our embargos are killing cubans to this day and our political bullshit turned ukraine into a wasteland.
No. 1659266
>>1659256This is gonna sound absolutely bonkers, but you can think other tragedies (especially ones facilitated by the US government) and jokes about them are wrong AND ALSO not like jokes about 9/11. Mind fucking blown.
No but really, your whole argument is just "the government does bad things so it's funny that a bunch of innocent people died and you're wrong if you disagree" as if anyone here supports war or half of the shit our government does. All this self-flagellating and 13 year old edgelord humor is fucking lame.
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Okay burgernonas, let's get controversial. How do you like your grits? Picrel is how I do mine.
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>>1659282Ooooh, do non-southerners even eat grits? Anyway I eat mine plain as fuck. Water, milk, salt, pepper and sometimes minced onion. Then scrambled eggs, BUTTER! and sausage or bacon mixed in. And it can't be thick, but not runny either. I used to like 'murican or cheddar on top of my grits but I haven't been into that for a long time.
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>>1659282Never had grits before, I should try them, but I always think of this scene when grits get mentioned.
No. 1659329
>>1659289I'm a southerner and I like mine plain and just thick enough to not be side-eyed. I don't think they're that popular outside of the south. More for the rest of us kek. Hell, sometimes I eat just grits for breakfast or a snack when I'm hungry but don't know what I want to eat. The next time you try it with cheese, try mixing the cheese in while the grits are still hot and topping it with crispy pieces of bacon. Heaven on a fork.
>>1659290I've never had it with brown sugar – gotta try that out. I generally stick to salt and butter, but I've cooked it in the past with spicy cheeses, seasonal onions, pork or seafood, and southern tomato stew.
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>>1659515best of both worlds!
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>>1659192What about this one
No. 1659943
>>1659929It isnt racism, I dont care what race they are, I just want them gone. I get turned down for jobs by people who were not even born here. If they had not come here, I would have their job. immigration artificially increases population, leading to more competition. After the black death in Europe, the average person lived in a golden age of high wages and low costs. We live in the reverse, low wages and high costs. Too many humans on this fucking planet and they all want to move here. People screaming about racism while I'm just struggling to afford to live and wish I could see a doctor.
I google something or see an ad, and its all, "ask your doctor if…" who the fuck are these mythical people who just HAVE a doctor? i might spring to ruin my bank account with one if I was dying. boomers were unfathomably privileged. their lifestyle is an ancient fairytale now. when you could just buy a house at 24 from an entry level job. when you could just go see a doctor whenever you wanted.
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>>1659899Needs more naked Ben Franklin.
No. 1659963
>>1659946I wonder if this was a theory he had while he grew older and senile. This old man flapping his ballbag in the wind.
>>1659953Probably what the government wants.
No. 1660138
>>1660102Take a couple Spanish courses at your local community college, nonna. You probably feel like you shouldn't have to, but it also makes you more employable across the board, if you ever move away.
>>1660067Cringe. Back to twitter with you.
No. 1660771
>>1659282My mom makes the world's best shrimp and grits imo, so that's my favorite. I also like them plain with butter or with tons of cheese. I haven't eaten them with sugar since I was a little kid though. I just can't handle sweet + mushy at the same time.
>>1660755Nta but she said she was from the desert. Where could that be other than the Southwest (almost all of which used to be Mexico)?
No. 1661420
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>>1661402spread your eagle wings and fly
nonny No. 1661454
>>1661418What they did allows you to enjoy the luxuries of a first world country, like being able to take care of yourself without the the help of an
abusive man, air conditioning, an education that can enable you to make better choices, modern healthcare so you don't die of an easily treatable disease or suffer years through a debilitating illness, and much much more. None of that is a right guaranteed to you. Healthcare is not a right,you arent entitled to the work of others,neither is personal safety, but you can arm yourself or call the police who'll intervene for free. If you think your ability to access those things is wavering, you're partly to blame through your own inaction. Someone would have eventually discovered the new continent, natives would have been wiped out anyway through disease, and it would have happened no matter their color of their skin simply because bacteria and viruses don't discriminate, unlike you. Every achievment the human mind came up with was a result of suffering, the discovery being a means of mending that suffering. You didn't ask to be born, nor has anybody else for that matter. We have to find a way to live with one another somehow and keep things going otherwise we'll slip back to repeating mistakes we've already learned from. Ie tribal warfare, rape, murder,slavery, child exploitation,etc. I'm not your enemy, and I don't want to be. However, I'll defend my life no matter the cost. If you can't live with the responsibilities that society brings, you can always leave.
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>>1661461Nta but when you guys talk like this this is wat I imagine. While we were doing drugs, you were studying the blade.
No. 1661589
>>1661572KEK oh nonna, that was surely a troll or a tiktok boomer who got lost. I'm sure there are plenty of women who are 40s or up that use lc. I'm definitely not going back to any other socmed sites, so it's this for me or something new in the future.
Personally I think this 40+ year old weirdo is a scrote or newfag.
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Ummm?? So an illegal lab was found near Fresno, with documents containing unverified Chinese addresses, containers of human fluids, blood, HIV, coronavirus, chlamydia, malaria, and "certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus," court documents said. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material."
Hundreds of mice also were found at the warehouse, where they were "kept in inadequate conditions in overcrowded cages" with no food or water, according to court documents. An associate with Prestige Biotech told investigators the mice were "genetically engineered to catch and carry the COVID virus," the documents added."
But nobody's talking about it and we're not supposed to worry, I guess
No. 1661922
>>1661883The facility closure documents are available online
https://www.fresnocountyca.gov/Departments/Public-Health/Public-Health-Communication/Reedley-FacilityLocal journalists were tracking this for a hot minute. I recommend reading their original articles because they go deeper than mainstream media:
https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/illegal-reedley-lab/mice-hazardous-chemicals-biological-agents-found-in-fresno-lab/amp/The whole situation raises so many red flags. What really stands out is that the mice were bred to both receive and transmit the Covid virus.
No. 1662414
>>1661498Kekk
>>1661922It's legit and not another conspiracy?
No. 1662418
>>1661883Yep, literal bioterrorism to accompany the literal ongoing infrastructure sabotague. China is fighting a war against us whether we want to acknowledge it or not. Then again the US also blew up nordstream so lmao, our government are war criminals. Of course it will be innocent people who suffer while the bastards all chill in yachts and bunkers. What can you do?
The chinese intentionally spread fentanyl here as a street drug as revenge for the opiate war, by the way. no one brings that up. Our govt are sackless. They waste all their money on grift and pork, so there is no funding for actually addressing real threats, they're just incompetent thieves running the ship into the iceberg. Bombing goat farmers in Iraq isn't going to compare to a war against China.
Our foreign policy shouldn't have been allowed to be, "just run around destroying everything and being a massive dick." Now the chickens are home to roost. Boomers' bad policies are going to fuck us. China is only a threat because boomers offshored everything to them. They were dirt poor rice farmers a generation ago. But boomers and their walmart junk funded them into a supervillain and boomers are going to dodge all consequences, it will be our generation who will be destroyed for their sins. I hate this country so much. I want to move to France.
No. 1662763
>>1661277Europe created industry where there was none and brought advancements that were beyond the wildest dreams or capabilities of the people of Africa or South America or Australia. The idea that Europe got rich off these places is a leftist myth, individual families may have made their fortune but Spain, Portugal, England, Belgium, they all lost money trying to bring their colonies to civilization. Railroads cost money, hospitals and doctors and importing medicine costs money, goverment agencies cost money, roads cost money, telegram/phone lines cost money and it was all paid for by European goverments. On top of that every single thing that was supposedly so horrible that happened during colonizing happened to Europeans first. Funny how Europeans and Asian countries like Korea or even China went through the same stripping of resources, loss of their indigenous religions, went through slavery/serfdom and then the brutal working conditions of industrialization, whatever you can name they also went through but Africa and South America still wallow.
>>1660222Spanish was only spoken by invasive foreign colonizers. Those same invaders are invading again, it should be legal to shoot them.
(dont call for violence ) No. 1662857
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So am I the only one who didn't know that these are gone?
>Klondike discontinued the Choco Taco in July 2022. According to an Associated Press fact check, Klondike discontinued the product due to a sharp increase in demand across its brands and to ensure the availability of the remainder of its products.
No. 1662980
>>1662904I don't want to respond directly to bait but a google search will lead you to cases where insane redneck home owners have straight up shot people for being near their homes or ringing their door bells, not necessarily race related since a lot of the
victims were white, but it's a given they problem have racist views anyways, but the bottom line is that they will dig for an excuse to murder someone and "protect their castle".
No. 1662985
>>1662980Shoutout to when the troons at the colorado alpaca auschwitz aggro'd some woman who was doing a u-turn in their driveway threating to shoot her, and then called her a
TERF and posted online as if they were the
victims. this country is full of severely mentally ill people. there are actual murder cults out in the boons who will set up a roadblock just to abduct you when you get out to clear the road to get past. there's also places where you will straight up get carjacked in broad daylight. city or rural, it's all a hellscape of unfathomable violence, paranoia, and retardation.
No. 1663279
>>1662893Incoming blogpost I guess: There’s a few in the Deep South for sure. But any sundown town I’ve lived near or regularly had to drive past aren’t places you’re likely to stop in unless you REALLY need to stop for gas or a bathroom. There’s just not much going on there given their small populations, no big attractions, and they’re small because, well, they’re keeping a lot of potential residents out, obviously. Some people define sundown towns differently for whatever reasons though, I’ll admit I don’t really get why because I thought it was pretty cut and dry: no black people after sundown. I don’t really care to argue I guess. As for the ones in my state, people will insist “it’s better now” but I hesitate to buy that. Sure, it’s probably a little different in 2023 but there’s places I wouldn’t bring my black friends through ‘cause even if they had to take the signs down, there’s still a bunch of crazy old geezers living there who remember “how it used to be”. Like I was just looking at a list of is/was a sundown towns for this state and was initially surprised to see where my grandma lives listed then remembered a story my dad told me one time about how his friend had given him a ride to see my mom at her parents house while they were in college. He was like “come on, don’t you want to come inside for a while?” And she said no. Nope. He asked her why and she says something along the lines of “I’m black, I’m not getting out of this car here, they’ll shoot me.” Annnnnd, sure enough, it was known to have been a sundown town, signs and all. Super out of the way place though, you don’t just stumble upon it accidentally, and they ain’t got shit there, it’s a weirdass creepy place in the tail end of the Appalachians. really eerie. My old roommate came with me to see grandma once and confirmed it wasn’t just me getting the creeps.
strangely enough all my non-white lineage came from over there No. 1663314
>>1662895I live in Texas and this is mostly true here too. I’ve seen random people online from other states warning people about “sundown towns” that I’ve literally been to and they have like 25% black populations kek. Compared to a super liberal city like Denver where the black population is only 8%… most
POC tend to feel more comfortable in the south. Of course there’s still gross racism from the white trash meth-head types, but not typically life-threatening.
No. 1663465
>>1663414>wasn't thereI don't know why don't you try googling it? Oh wait you can't cause your lying ass made it up lol.
>>1663449Your talking to a cult member. Europe and especially Sweden's (150 people shot in Sweden so far this year!) rising gun crime have put the nail in the coffin of >muh gun bans but these people still won't admit the problem is moids and especially melatonin moids.
(racebaiting) No. 1663905
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>>1663692I liked “The Vintage” when I was there last, it has a really cozy feeling and the food was really good. I’d recommend it.
No. 1664182
>>1663449All of this. There is nothing but cases upon cases of gun violence by unstable and emotional men. It's always a male shooting up a school or his work place. Women dont do this shit.
If anything, it should be only women owning guns since we're the 'weaker sex' and men love to say that shit. They shouldnt be allowed any weapons. Period.
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>>1666397Amish are nice to tourists. They have some damned good food, too. All that heavy old fashioned PA dutch cooking, shoo fly pies, hearty pancakes cooked in lard, farm fresh eggs. Ah god damn, I wish we could replace all the mormons with Amish. What the fuck do mormons do for anyone? "coffee is a sin, tea and chocolate are sins, you need magic underwear, sister wives, teenage pregnancy, and polygamy!" Mormonism is the worst thing to come out of america. It's worse than the Calarts bean-mouth. It's worse than capeshit.
Amish just want to bake you a pie and sell you furniture.
No. 1666694
>>1666406>Amish just want to bake you a pie and sell you furniture Amish people are
abusive and deep in the dark ages. They live out the trad misogynistic role play our useless men dream about except they could never do it because it would require manual labor. We are lucky that they are so useless because the prospect of being able to molest their children and sisters would be ultra enticing were it not for the fact they'd have to actually work.
No. 1666719
>>1666700right, but conservative/old order amish communities in particular are so removed from society that they refuse to go to the doctor or contact emergency services, work 'worldly' jobs or do anything that would have them interact with normal people outside of a few things e.g selling their stuff. environments like that at prime for abuse and the government allows them to live off the grid and be exempt from paying taxes etc.
JWs are extremely culty too – hell mainstream christianity has a rampant abuse problem – but there's something to be said for the fact that old order amish communities are almost completely cut off from the rest of the world, despite living in a country like america. i cant imagine how many people are stuck in
abusive situations in these communities with no means of escape
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If anyone else drinks this new england swill today was the first day for pumpkin swirl! It’s almost time for the best season of the year.
No. 1667714
>>1667558I tried to disable all emergency alerts sans weather alerts and I still get those. Mine came blaring last night at midnight and I almost dropped my fucking phone
Blue alerts are pointless. Isn't the police stations job to find the cop killer, not the public? With Amber, Silver and Clear alerts there's a clear cut missing person who's in potential danger… who cares if a cop got hurt [2] those pigs aren't protecting normal peoples interests anyway
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What do we do? Like seriously, what the fuck are we supposed to do?
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>>1669080Bring back Mao. Landlords deserve public lynchings at this point.
No. 1669184
>>1668798>>1668780Rural anons - FARMS AND FARMERS MARKETS
I went to a farm near me and got 2 gallons of milk, a dozen of fresh eggs and me and my daughter got to pick a few lbs of fruit, veggies and herbs with some fresh tea for less than $20, then the meat farm down the road I got a huge rack of pork ribs, steak, fish, and chicken breasts for less than $20. There's U pick farms where you can get tons of fruit and veggies for cheap and the grain farms here you can get bread making ingredients and pasta for cheap as well. I also got a massive thing of honey and pollen for less than 8 that's still full. Definitely take advantage of local farm food if you're struggling to find food
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>>1669159Not as important but you also see it in pop culture. 10 years ago, it girls on the internet used babylips, shopped at F21 and had Starbucks. Now you gotta spend mad cash for some bland monochrome Lulu outfit and a Stanley cup, or RL with a Coach bag for that old money (lol)/clean girl aesthetic. And your home/room has to be perfectly instagrammable.
I miss following normal human beings online.
No. 1669335
>>1668780i went to the store and spent $40. all i got was some vegetables, fruit, and cottage cheese. i'm really just screaming at this point.
>>1669034my rent went from $900 to $1500 in 2 years. my wage stayed the same. even new jobs are all paying the same wage. i think the PPP loans caused the inflation.
>>1669080they use a software called yieldstar that tells them to always raise the rent. every single DAY the rent goes up for new leases. i've actually gotten a property manager to show it to me on his computer. i just can't afford to live anymore. i dont know what to do when the student loans turn back on, because i cannot afford it and i'm not paying. i just ignore the emails. this government has lost its mind.
No. 1669366
>>1669335I live with my disable grandma who gets rent assistance and we both get food stamps. I work, as the program requires me to, but my city has become so expensive that I will never make enough to live on my own. I'm on her lease so as long as the landlord keeps taking goverment vouchers I'll have somewhere to live when my grandma eventually dies. Before the pandemic I heard a lot of negative remarks about people like me on welfare but look at the state of this country. There's really no incentive to work multiple jobs when everything keeps doubling in price every 6 months to the point where I'd need to make $80k just to afford a studio with a window facing a brick wall and survive on ramen noodles.
Companies took advantage of the pandemic to price gouge us, raked in billions with PPP loans they didn't deserve, and refuse to lower their prices after the emergency ended because nobody is stopping them. Meanwhile, our idiot president wants to send more money to the losers in ukraine. Fuck all of it.
No. 1669375
>>1669366i was against the ukraine war from the beginning and people treated me like a neo-nazi who kills puppies for sport. the propaganda about it was disturbingly heavy handed, the kind of shit we laugh at people in the past like, "how did they ever fall for this cartoonish bullshit?" and those same people fell for it all. now they finally see that it really was just raining money for the DoD and their warhawk cult. we should end all foreign intervention and aid (other than disaster assistance) until every american citizen has healthcare and is out of debt.
our government bleeds us like pigs to stuff their own wallets with grift. our infrastructure is crumbling, our youth are killing themselves due to poverty and lack of job opportunities, we have no healthcare or public transit, two generations of people are being sacrificed on the student loan debt altar, and all the government wants to do is send a few hundred billion more to kill people in a foreign country. the government, meanwhile, left american citizens out to dry. we give more in foreign aid to countries like israel than we put towards bettering the lives of our own citizens. that's why people voted trump (i don't like him, just explaining why the left should have thought about why "america first" was appealing to so many people instead of just screaming that they're racist.) europeans might pay (slightly) more tax than us, but they actually get something back for it. americans pay out the nose and get nothing. we're the ones being screwed.
there is no enforcement of laws against the rich. they blatantly collude and break labor laws and never face consequences. we live in an oligarchy that is rapidly devolving to feudalism. it makes me feel insane that we're still just going along with this. we need a new Occupy Wall Street. neither democrats nor republicans serve me–they only serve themselves, the rich. biden is a crook.
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Are you ready for Hilary, californianons?
No. 1669652
>>1669535our food is really low quality. they put additives in things that don't even need it. i have to check the ingredients of everything i buy, otherwise i end up with added corn syrup, added soybean oil, added artificial color, and other crap.
i'm traumatized by the absurd number of mega-fats. being chubby i get. i don't understand how every other person is 300 lbs. and all of them wear shein body-con onesies so they look like a chicken nugget. at this point i don't understand how they afford that much food.
No. 1669835
>>1669375Same here anon. I hate how every time the ukraine war is brought up, officials call it '
the unprovoked war in ukraine'. I personally do not think it was unprovoked, not that I think russia is doing right (they arent imo and should never have started an offense) but why does any descriptor at all need to be put in front of 'the war in Ukraine' even if it was unprovoked? Subtle way of making sure everyone feels how unjust it is and how we
need to help this poor defenseless little angel country, dont look at how we are going to hold their abundant agricultural capabilities hostage when this is over for our own gain, thats just them returning the favor of our 'help'…and dont mind the very likely scenario of a US military base getting put right up close to Russia, that's just for protection… dont get me wrong I hate this war I hate how many are wounded and dead, russian, ukrainian, whoever…putin did wrong no matter what but if the US had not stepped in, more people would be alive, more structures intact, and global tension might not be what it is now (I suspect, but who really knows) even if unfortunately Ukraine succumbed to Russia.
No. 1669900
>>1669159I don't know how my mother survived her divorce other than leeching off men and my fathers alimony. She was horrifically lazy,
abusive, demanding and physically ill in the aftermath of the divorce up until I turned about 18. She was also too prideful to apply for food stamps. I literally think all of it was leeching off men.
My dad makes decent money and is an ivy alum but he's always been entitled, a bad spender, and up to his eyeballs in debt. I'll take him over my
abusive mother but watching the middle class vanish as someone who grew up with loveless crazy parents who tried so hard to cosplay as upper crust is fucking insane, because it's lke the mask is becoming reality. When I was a kid we were desperately trying to prove ourselves rich, but we were firmly middle class. Years later and there really is no middle class and we're only getting lower and lower. How in the fuck am I ever going to pay for my parents retirement if they don't die before then (and do my
abusive mom and neglectful dad really deserve that?)
This whole escalation of society into mass consumerism and trying to desperately live beyond their means is so reminiscent of what I hated about my early childhood watching my parents drain their money away until we almost ended up homeless kek it's disgusting
No. 1669953
>>1669900>sure my parents are awful people who destroyed their own lives and abused me, but i'm still going to work myself to death to pay for their retirement while neglecting myselfthe words of someone who needs THERAPY please go now
>>1669882i'm hitting a $25/hr ceiling and it just does not pay for life, while being gaslit that everyone else is making 80k or 100+k. i swear to god i'm going to go insane. wages, if anything, keep falling. they're using remote work as an excuse to cut wages even further, while every cost of living has almost doubled. i can't take much more of this. every day i want to kill myself. $25/hr was dogshit 5 years ago and now I may as well go flip burgers because then at least I could get free food. there is effectively no difference between white collar and burger flipper anymore. but they're going to make me pay the student loan debt. i should never have bothered trying, i should have just been a bartender and shelf-stocker. what the fuck was I even born for. every year everything gets worse. i don't even enjoy living because i can't afford to go anywhere or do anything. i just sit here and cry because the walls are closing in.
basically once i get even one major health issue, that's it. i'm financially done. i'll just throw myself off a fucking bridge.
No. 1670063
>>1669628I’m not really sure how different it could be in Cali, but in Connecticut we had Irene and Sandy and they caused a ton of issues from wind damage. I can’t remember which but this was the worst that happened:
>24 hour driving ban >hometown lost power for 2 weeks>the next town over was inaccessible by road and had no power for a month >businesses didn’t have generators and had to give away or toss refrigerated/frozen food>the only local business with a backup was McDonalds, so everyone would go there in the morning for breakfast >if I needed to shower I would go to where my sister was living or at a nearby community college >since my mom‘s job had no power for 2+ weeks they transferred her to a town with power, and if I wasn’t at school I’d go with her and wander around while she was at work>when power was restored it blew out my parents refrigerator, the state emergency funds paid for a replacementSandy also affected the coastline pretty badly, entire beach houses in Rhode Island were washed away or destroyed. The beaches themselves were reshaped from flooding and sands getting moved around.
So my advice is
>keep your phone charged>put some water and drinks aside >buy food that doesn’t need to be in a fridge >don’t drive when the weather is shit (there might be a ban anyway)>if you lose power, try to find out what businesses or nearby towns have electricity >enjoy being able to see all the stars in the sky at night if all the nearby businesses wind up losing power No. 1670330
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>>1670317These types of comment sections always remind me of how fucking dumb everyone really is. If I wasn’t a complete autist I’d be making interview bait videos like these for money too
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>>1669575Yes, the sandbags are lined up. We’ve been getting small Bursts of rain but no wind. I’m curious to see how this is gonna go. Hoping it doesn’t get too crazy. My siblings who live up north tell me stores in their area are already out of water and ice.
No. 1670816
>>1670550This + a lot of small livable towns are getting monetized as soon as people discover them to be pretty
I grew up in a small town in the PNW and now it seems like any small area that is hours away from the nearest city is quadtripling in price. I remember during and before COVID just a couple of years ago I was easily able to find a 2 bedroom apartment for 500 a month, an easy 10-15 dollar an hour job and live from there, sure it wasn't glamorous but I had a roof and was able to afford food. Same apartments got brought out and the price is currently 3k despite still having having the typical stereotypes of cheap apartments
Also there's almost no laws anymore protecting normal folks from leeches who keep buying up properties to rent them out as airbnbs or other forms of rentals. The sad part is half the time they aren't even being rented, I've seen so many places stay up for months on end because landlords want to keep trying to rent out the 2 bedroom lower middle class house from the 70s for 2500$ rather than lower the price
No. 1670848
>>1670550thank you for calling gen X out. they act like they're innocent angels when they're just the same filth as boomers. i hate them even more than boomers because they have a shitty attitude. employers are delusional about acceptable pay. i've had to turn jobs down because they would literally not even pay me enough to cover the basic cost of living. employers want their cake and to eat it, too. they want super qualified super educated golden unicorn candidates who will work for $18/hr with a smile. I want to kick their faces in.
Inflation should not exist. Inflation should be 0%. It's bullshit that the value of a dollar has decreased 75% in 50 years. People who set this up were greedy and shortsighted, and the american public is mesmerized by celebrities and video games into complacency as everything is stolen from under us. that's probably why our education quality is so terrible–they want us stupid and unable to see how they're fucking us over.
>>1670421they keep everyone angry and divided over bullshit like trannies. i swear they took abortion away just to get people talking about something other than the economic problems and declining quality of life. I'm pro-choice sure but how often do you need an abortion, maybe once in your life if you're unlucky? and it isn't like you can't just eat the $200 plane ride and go to california or new york to get it done. meanwhile the economy fucks me over every single day in every aspect of my life. so while the govt is fleecing us for tens of thousands of dollars a year, people are up in arms about an unlikely what-if scenario where, at worst, they'll be out $500. i want to scream.
No. 1671235
>>1670858>>1670848Protesting an abortion ban is not a ‘psyop’, there a women and girls dying right now due to a lack of access to abortion and they are not rare cases at all. It’s true that inflation and rising cost of living is forcing many women into staying with
abusive partners, but abortion bans also leave women trapped in unsafe relationships. You can focus on more than one issue at a time, and indeed there plenty of organizations dedicated to helping women leave
abusive relationships. It’s not an either/or scenario. It’s funny how you both can acknowledge that poor women are being fucked over by how expensive everything is getting and thus are unable to leave
abusive partners, putting their lives at risk. But you are unable to connect the dots and understand that a lot of poor women simply cannot afford plane rides interstate or to have abortion pills shipped in. And since abortion is illegal they would taking a huge risk by doing so, as if they get caught they could go to jail and have their livelihoods ruined. You both seem incredibly sheltered and I sure hope neither of you consider yourselves feminists.
(infighting) No. 1671391
>>1671235anon it's not the abortion ban, its completely fair to oppose it. It's the fact it seems like as soon as we get to discussing something that's affecting and hurting way more women there's a whole new thing now that gets people from beating around the bush
you're literally proving everyones point about the "us vs them" mentality for bringing in feminism over something that we all even agree on, all because a couple of anons said it just seems like distraction over distraction from the main issue
No. 1671394
>>1671235Quit taking the stuff you read seriously and assuming anons are "feminists". Most anons who cry and seethe about the economy/capitalism but don't see anything wrong with abortion bans or other issues women face are NEETs and since they don't think they'll ever need abortions themselves, they don't care about other women.
Have you seen the amount of anons that admit to being useless NEETs here? They're the ones who cry about not being able to afford stuff(aka their shopping addiction, useless plastic shit and usually merch) because of "capitalism".
No. 1671405
>>1671391Fighting for abortion rights is not a ‘distraction’ from the ‘real issues’. It is a ‘real issue’ all on its own. Not that it matters though, it’s not like any of you are actually going to do anything to protest rising inflation, or help women trapped in
abusive relationships. Instead you’ll just whinge about other women who got off their asses and are actually trying make a change, because they are focusing on an issue that is ‘less important’ in your eyes.
No. 1671645
>>1671405It literally is though. There has been almost no talking points about what is actively and currently putting all non rich American women in danger. It almost feels insulting that feminists are able to come out of the woodwork and be activists yet every single day I see an American woman complain about how fulfilling food is unaffordable and I haven't seen a single woman say anything about this at all .
Yes, at this point you shouldn't be surprised if others start thinking suddenly activism sparks that end up quickly dying is a form of distraction. There has been a huge need for this discussion for years now but nothing happens
No. 1672089
>>1671394>NEETs and since they don't think they'll ever need abortions themselves, what does being NEET have to do with not getting eggplant
>>1671405I pay rent every month. I receive a paycheck every week. I eat food every day. Abortion is not my biggest problem right now. And, seriously, just drive to another state, it's an inconvenience not a total national ban. It sucks but it isn't the sky falling. You act like my not ranking abortion as the #1 issue means i'm literally hitler. I have bills to pay. I am fucking poor. I am choking on wildfire smoke. I can't afford to live. It's on my list but it isn't my #1. The more you insensibly rage about this perfectly reasonable stance the more you prove me right. After Occupy Wall Street they started pushing race relations and accusations of racism to distract people from the economic woes. Now they're pushing abortion as a hot button topic to distract people from our economic woes. Not only are you falling for it, you're screeching at me for not following it. Life is not a Marvel movie. stop thinking in black and white. Then you're going off on unfounded whataboutisms trying to make out like because I care about more issues than just abortion, that I am personally out battering a housewife. Please grow up and stop attacking people because you cannot understand nuance.
No. 1672272
>>1672089Yeah fuck them underage rape
victims, get your abuser to drive you to another state, it's just that easy these days.
No. 1672905
>>1672845The govt should also not be able to mandate you get a series of injections of an untested newly developed vaccine for something that for your age-group is less likely to kill you than literal lightning, but here we are.
>>1672712Seriously I have concerns about the economy. we had huge protests over george floyd but we get nothing at all for rent doubling?
No. 1673161
>>1673136I see we're back to
>all poor people are neetDo you think no one sees what you're trying to do?
No. 1673276
>>1673250>black man who killed a white woman and her babynta but this is literally a lie lol. at least google first.
https://www.wral.com/story/fact-check-photo-doesn-t-show-woman-assaulted-by-floyd/19152282/>In the wake of worldwide protests against police brutality following the death of George Floyd, some internet users are spreading misinformation about Floyd’s arrest record.
>Floyd had multiple brushes with the law and was sentenced to serve five years in prison for his involvement in an armed robbery in 2007 while he still lived in Houston.
>But the facts of the incident have gotten muddled on the internet, and some posts claim the woman robbed, Aracely Henriquez, was pregnant and that Floyd beat her and threatened to kill her baby. Social media users are also sharing a photo of a woman with bruises and cuts on her face, claiming it’s Henriquez.
>The photo appears on Instagram. But we won’t repost the image here because the it's not of Henriquez, and several of the details about the robbery are either made up or exaggerated.
>The woman in the photo is Andrea Sicignano, an American student who was assaulted and raped in Madrid in 2018. Sicignano posted the photo on her Facebook page and Spanish news outlet El Pais published a story about the incident.
>On June 12, 2020, Sicignano took to Facebook and said her photo is being misused to spread misinformation about Floyd.
>"There has been a photo of me circulating around on the internet since yesterday. The photo was taken of me in a hospital bed in Spain after being violently beaten and raped by a stranger," Sicignano wrote in the post. "I posted my story over a year ago to use my voice to spread awareness and encourage other women to speak out about the injustices they've faced. Today my photo is being used as political propaganda/click bait to make people believe that George Floyd deserved to die. I am disgusted and humiliated, not for myself, but for my country."
>Meanwhile, some of the assertions made about the details of the robbery are not accurate.
>Floyd was arrested in 2007 for his involvement in an armed home robbery and was sentenced to five years in prison, but court records do not indicate that Henriquez was pregnant at the time of the incident, or that Floyd threatened to kill her baby.
>According to the police’s probable cause report, Henriquez, another woman and a toddler were home at the time of the incident and Floyd was one of multiple men who forced their way into the home, during which he threatened her with a gun.
>She was injured during the home invasion, but the report says her injuries were inflicted by another man, not Floyd. No. 1673478
>>1673416Correct but I've seen BLM support white children who were killed by the police when the all lives matter gang was nowhere to be found. Each group has their ups and downs I suppose
Either way I think we're all proving scizo anons point, we went from discussing how crappy the American economy is to people who aren't rich to a full on race war. No wonder scizos keep trying to tell us they're using it as a distraction
No. 1673753
>>1673473not schizo
nonnie, but the only black woman's murder by police in recent history that ever came close to the notoriety of a black man's was the murder of Sandra Bland. Aside from the fact that black men are violent af, their "problems" are always prioritized in black american movements because black men hate black women. bleeding edge white liberals also hate black women too as they prioritize the murder/suicides of black troon prostitutes as the most pressing issue of all time.
No. 1673850
>>1673763Pretty much.
Dead troons who don't 41% themselves are killed by their boyfriends and this is somehow everyone else's problem and women are to blame for it all because we don't want them in our bathrooms and shelters.
No. 1673950
>>1673943KEK yes I am. I thought it said "we are capable of tapping into". Leaving my post up for posterity.
Sorry nonna I accused of being a stealth schizo, your post does make me think you are probably lowkey schizo and don't know it yet, though.
No. 1673954
>>1673950I finding it fucking hilarious when newfags see discussion about serious, real issues–lack of privacy, no real security in technology, dark web fringe stalking, exploitation, fast technology advancement with no protections–and accuse anyone who expresses any vent about it as being schizo. You're on the wrong side of history and that's your prerogative but trying to tell people that they just
must be schizophrenic for questioning or daring to criticize tools that are harming us is both ignorant and condescending. I think brain trauma and mutation can activate senses average people cannot, I don't think it makes them 'chosen people-or special, that doesn't make me schizo.
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>>1673943NTA but i think there was a typo
No. 1674085
>>1673954It gets a little weird when you're telling me that I'm on the wrong side of history in your second rant post ngl. You do be sounding unwell in your posts.
Also you kind of sound like you have main character syndrome, sorry. You're being weird and aggro and saying your unique experiences unlocked a special part of your brain. You do see how you sound, right?
>>1674077Yeah, thanks, I think the sentence is just phrased a little oddly and it threw me off kek
No. 1674193
>>1673954I remember for the longest damn time I was called scizo for believing side effects of the vaccine and and such. Months later companies straight up revealed everything conspiracy theorists have been saying (vaccine doesn't prevent COVID, it causes heart problems, it's unnecessary in young healthy people, etc) now the people who kicked me out of their life and isolated me over the damn jab are all crawling back like nothing happened. Anti conspiracy cattle are the true gaslighters are still want us to believe we're all just insane even after our information is proven again multiple times
Glowie anon continues to prove everyone's point, multiple anons pointed out that the "scizos" have been reliable for a while now just for them to blow off everything mentioned as we all can't read or something
No. 1674513
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Yesterday I received a call from this number asking for my participation in their survey… it was all about covid and how I took precautions..? Did anyone else receive a call like this? Why is it a “public service”? Maybe this belongs in the tinfoil thread but I am very off-put by it
No. 1674659
One anon mentions they want a better quality of life for the working class because cost of living has become unaffordable, and 60 posts later everyone is calling everyone a schizophrenic and people are posting b&b8.
For today's post: rent is still unaffordable. Thanks.
>>1674513that's called a consumer poll, nonna. it's randomized, like jury duty.
No. 1675467
>>1674193>Months later companies straight up revealed everything conspiracy theorists have been saying (vaccine doesn't prevent COVID, it causes heart problems, it's unnecessary in young healthy people, etc) now the people who kicked me out of their life and isolated me over the damn jab are all crawling back like nothing happened.for the government to allow pharma companies to inject over 70% of all americans with something that potentially would kill them makes zero sense
nonnie. we have no economic safety nets unlike an actual developed nation and most americans are buried in thousands worth of debt with no personal savings whatsoever. this country would completely collapse without the permanent underclass of serfs our fucked up economic system needs to function.
No. 1675720
>>1674513LUCKY.
I want to be called for phone surveys so fucking bad. I also never get called for jury duty. It's not fair, they only call people who don't want it
No. 1675768
>>1675666I've had a horrible time getting a job this year. The job market is absoulutely fucked and they're lying about the numbers. I got laid off and I've been screwed ever since. I can't live if this is going to be my life. I work for a year, a layoff happens, then I'm in unemployment hell for six months losing my mind and having daily mental breakdowns, interview after interview and HR treats me like trash and looks for reasons to kick me to the curb. I can't do this shit. I wish I was never born. My entire life has been hell, I thought getting away from my
abusive parents would save me and allow me to begin living, but I was wrong–the employer is the
abusive parent now. And I can't get away. Our labor market is fucked up. Our worker's rights are fucked up. You can get fired for no reason at all, the employer will just make up some bullshit lie… you know in Europe they can't just fire you whenever they want? You know in Europe they have 1 interview and that's it, no fucking 6 rounds plus a personality test plus a take-home skills test? This country is garbage and I want to die. America is just Brazil with wealthy owners. This is a clown country. This is a nation of dogs by dogs for dogs. I live in hell and the demons have won.
No. 1675927
>>1673954What do you expect when most of them didn't grow up in a world pre-9/11?
>>1675865I'm not saying there aren't reasons to distrust big pharma but some of the vaccine delusions are insane and most people are fine.
No. 1675936
>>1675865This isn't some case of scummy sponsored American organizations getting money under the desk from fast food producers, these are the facts agreed upon by the
global science community and were clearly reported internationally, young men for example were told to be extra cautious with physical exercise for a while after taking the vaccine and in some countries one of the vaccines was recalled after it was found out there was a microscopic chance of causing blood clots. The science community has been extremely open about the side effects of the vaccine and it's been almost 3 years since the trial runs and it's been proven time and time again that actually contracting the disease is a way bigger health risk than taking the vaccine.
No. 1676011
>>1675936You're not wrong but when Americans DID bring up these studies they were gaslight, told they know more than Doctors, etc. In America it seems like talking to 24 hour scizophernics because you can say one thing and people will completely turn around and scream something else. Just look how trannies are interpreting the "anti trans" laws, Americans trying to comprehend the Depp case, etc
It's even funnier when you can point out something as mild and widely agreed on like the fact the vaccine doesn't prevent COVID and deathfat jab addicts will come in screaming and foaming at the mouth about how "we don't need ignorance in the MIDDLE of the pandemic"(even though almost all restrictions have been lifted for almost a year but whatever). You're completely missing the point that the so called scizos were repeating what doctors were saying since the beginning just to get gaslight and "stop watching fox". Don't believe me? Just go on any public forum during the pandemic, search up a discussion relating to COVID or the vaccine and watch how quickly people will dogpile conspiracy theorists for repeating what doctors have been saying. Hell it even happened here on lolcow in the COVID threads when anons would have a borderline meltdown over repeating, what is now just widely accepted as fact
No. 1676035
>>1676011You know, the easiest way to prevent yourself dying of coronavirus is to lose weight. The government response was to (attempt to) mandate jabs, close gyms, fence off sports fields and hiking trails, and tell people not to go outside. Maybe if we weren't all so god damned fucking fat a mild flu wouldn't be lethal. Africa had basically 0 covid deaths. Why? No fatties. Instead I get fat unhealthy slobs screaming in my face that I need to take 20 jabs to prevent a seasonal cold or else I'm a murderer putting (what remains of) their health at risk. It's the first time in their life they ever cared about their health and suddenly it's my problem? They should have put a stop to their McDonalds habit if they wanted to live a long life. McDonalds has a higher risk of giving you a heart attack than covid does of killing you, yet which did people freak out over and wage war on? If we care so much about people's health, why not stop the cars? Cars kill 40,000 people a year in the US and put another 1.5 million in the hospital. Where is the Vision Zero for cars? How many people die of fatness, yet no one calls for a national ban on french fries? In this country more people are killed by brodozers than by guns, but which are people up in arms about?
All I want is consistency.
No. 1676071
>>1676035>The government response was to (attempt to) mandate jabs, close gyms, fence off sports fields and hiking trails, and tell people not to go outside.Lol where the fuck do you live?
Nobody closed gyms where I lived, they only limited how many people who could enter at a time. The only place I heard getting "forced to close" was some rat's nest in New Jersey and that's because the owner made a big deal about it. I also don't remember anyone being told to stop going outside to parks and stuff, it was the complete opposite. People were told to exercise in parks instead because the air circulation is obviously better than being crammed in a giant room with 200+ people breathing and sweating. Keeping out of a place like the gym when a highly contagious illness is going around is just common sense.
No. 1676133
>>1676066I also want to know that. I got the double jab and two boosters so I’m just gonna hope there’s nothing really bad about them, but the first one brought on a tiny period even though I had a hormonal IUD and don’t have periods at all normally. so like wtf?
I kinda miss the full-on mask days though, I didn’t get a cold or flu for two full years it was amazing (same job and people exposure, just we all had masks). I wish people weren’t buttmad about masks, that shit works.
No. 1676211
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>>167603590% of our societal problems are caused by greedy and retarded corporate oligarchs who prioritize on making more money rather than looking at long term risks. When actual adults/experts try to step in and fix things, they have legitimate autistic meltdowns because spending some money for safety means CEO will only be able to afford 5 golden yachts this year instead of 7. Louis Rossman has compilations on his experiences with Right to Repair and how they try to fuck people over via lobbying, as well as the recent Ohio train derailment where the train got tumbled over exactly because of cut costing (even the workers in charge of cleaning the chemicals fucked up because they burned the fucking thing rather than scooping the chemicals into containers where the dangerous fumes won't spread across the state). We can add Oceangate too where ironically the idiot who cut costs over basic saftey died, which is pure poetic justice and I hope more of this happens.
Fat people are like whales in gatcha games. They spend most of their income on dumb shit and food. On top of that they make the medical industry cash because they are constantly running into health problems. This can also be applied to troons too mostly the mtfs. It's the reason why they're trying to push troon shit on kids because even if they detransition, they will be on pain management or have some health problem for the rest of their lives.
Of course we are seeing the effects of this retarded greed play out right now with people dropping out of society in forms such as quiet quitting and people not joining the military. Because why the fuck would anyone want to help maintain this retarded system where the leaders don't care about you at best, and want you dying at worst.
No. 1676221
>>1676211Found out grain rots your teeth, guess what I was forcefed as 90% of my diet as a child/teen, guess who has fucked up teeth and had to spend tens of thousands of dollars at a dentist for a problem that is 100% preventable if society gave one tenth of a fuck?
I want to live in the reality where abortion is legal and lobbying is illegal. This country is rotten to the core. Everyone born in the US ends up traumatized, fat, mentally ill, injured, sick, debt-ridden, miseducated, sedentary, stressed, and sleep-deprived. They focus on GDP when we should make our best measure a happiness index or quality of life. Eat the rich, abolish banks, submarine capitalists, turn parking lots into vegetable farms, turn offices into housing.
No. 1676322
>>1676295>Why haven't you posted about it in the last two weeks?I spend too much time IRL to be on lolcow regularly.
And even if I did post
something about it, which I did
>>1676285, who's to say anything would come out of it, besides maybe 1 or 2 anons commenting? I can't force anons to quit infighting over stupid shit and discuss something that is actually worthwhile
No. 1676380
>>1676330>And no, you didn't post about it.Thus far, I am the first, and only, anon to have posted either the words "Hawaii" (HI, but same difference) or "Maui", so I did in fact post about it, since now you and (hopefully) other anons are aware, but I am not interested in getting pedantic. If you're going to complain about my complaining and fret over potential derailment, then the least you could do is write your opinion on the event. It's not very difficult, and will ensure that the thread does not derail any further. I figured I didn't need to post information/pictures of the fires as it's already international news, but I guess some anons ITT are very uninformed.
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Did any of you ever watch this shitty movie as a kid kek? If you haven’t, it’s about a group of little boys who gather all their coins to bike into the city for a prostitute who will show them her titties. They find one, she does it, somehow she finds out who one of the kids dad is and makes him her husband. Staunchly American.
No. 1676385
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Here anons, please discuss the tragedy of Lāhainā/Maui. What do you think of the civil service's response to the wildfire? Do you think more lives could have been saved, or were they unavoidable? Could more precautions have been taken to prepare for wildfires on
Maui/Hawaii? Are you interested in donating to charities supporting the victims of the wildfires?
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>>1676386>Stop complaining, you're gonna cause an infight!!!!>Kek let me get in the last word by calling you a newfagAs if you're not a 2020fag anyway. Maui is waiting for your opinion, kahuna. I promise you that your energy will be better spent doing that than keeping up a petty squabble.
No. 1676395
>>1676385Why would I donate to them? I don't have a house, either, and I never had the privilege of living somewhere as nice as Maui. Sorry but not sorry. I'm bitter af.
I do think the government/wealthy intentionally killed them in a land grab though.
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what is this expression meant to convey
No. 1676412
>>1676395>I never had the privilege of living somewhere as nice as MauiIt's not so much a privilege if you can't afford the cost of living, which a large fraction of Maui/Hawaii residents can say is true. Many of the missing/dead were/are immigrants and (for lack of better terms) people of color.
>I'm bitter afI wouldn't be, tbh. If you live in the northeast/midwest you're in a very good spot with regards to climate sensitivity and change (on the long-term). Hawaii is a very remote part of the world and very susceptible to extreme weather events
>the government/wealthy intentionally killed themI argue less intent and more incompetence. Something like 90% of the town got incinerated, including multimillion dollar mansions (which, in a touristy place like Lāhainā, there are a lot of). There's more bureaucracy/money in redeveloping the land than in keeping it as is or building upon it.
>>1676408Jumpscare warning please kek
No. 1676434
>>1676417Arson, overpopulation, bad wiring, unmaintained infrastructure, overloaded power supply, incompetence, lack of wildland maintenance due to arrogance and unscientific granola opinions presiding over tried and true methods, invasive plant species that are more fire-susceptible, dry land from water diversion to human activities, ubiquitous pollution from oily runoff and microplastics from car use and litter, smokers flicking still-lit butts, bored kids with matches… Take your pick.
I don't understand why there are so many fucking cars on that island. Isolated town, should be 100% walkable, only one road to the next town over which ought to be perfect for a tram line. NOPE. Instead you turn paradise into a car dependent hellhole, and then you get trapped in car traffic in an evacuation and roast in your pollution-box. The gasoline from all those cars probably fueled the fires 100x more than would have occurred if cars did not exist. Why do we have cars on a warm island where there is only one roadway connecting every major settlement that could easily be a train line?
NWO is talking about 15 minute cities and they may be cannibal pedophiles but I agree on that much. Enough with cars. Ban cars. Why is it so hot out? Go stand next to a car that is running, feel how much heat pours off it, and multiply that by 1 billion cars running on this fucking planet every day.
No. 1676439
>>1676285the hawaii fires are just so fucked up i have trouble even reading news articles or teven talking about it, i wonder if others feel the same. seeing people on the news sobbing about never seeing their cousins/families/friends ever again just breaks my heart. And the way all the
victims died is so fucked, they barely had time to escape and there was nobody there to rescue them. It's such a fucked situation and I think it one of the more morbid disasters of the modern age.
>>1676417(most of) hawaii hasn't been a wet or fetile land for years now due to a myriad of issues with farming and divvying of water supply. plenty of the vegetation in that area was dry as hell
No. 1676485
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So I went to a new primary care doctor to renew a prescription and get a yearly health check. It seems like the place isn’t run amazingly well based on the online reviews (even my doctor guy complained) but in the end I got what I needed so I’m okay with it all.
Now, what I’m majorly confused about - is that my primary care doctor guy texted me two hours later saying that I can contact him if I ever need anything. I responded just now saying thanks and he texted back and wrote that I’m “so cool and sweet :)” and..!?
Is it even legal for doctors to contact patients like this? He was fun to talk to during the appointment and he seemed appreciative that I was ”normal” (I am a normal and healthy adult) compared to some of the regular clientele (this place has mixed reviews online and I’m not like majorly impressed by when I went there so I can imagine that some of the clientele are hard to work with). The doctor guy gave me a fist bump at the end of the appointment and thanked me for giving this place a chance (lol). It kinda felt like talking with a frustrated friend. We also just chatted about dogs and stuff and it turns out we live super close to each other and he has a friend in the same building I live in.
I didn’t get major creepy vibes from him but I feel like this is overstepping a boundary? I’m completely new to this state (which he knows) so I do need more friends… but… I feel like this is a red flag. Not feeling like dating anyone currently so I guess if he’s just flirting then I’ll have to shoot him down anyway.
Anyone work in healthcare who would like to give an opinion? Or anyone at all? I’m just shocked that a doctor can casually text their patients and I feel lost when it comes to handling relationships lol
No. 1676519
>>1676224Lower class USA fatties don't carry much blame IMO outside of the legitimately obese ones that are way too fat for it to be caused by hormonal fuckups. Our food is basically poisoned with tons of hormonal disruptors, weight gaining agents, unnecessary amounts of sodium and addictive chemicals. We're forced to work sometimes 100+ hours weekly as well as "hustling" with some sort of educational or business goal meaning we have to pick up cheap and quick options for food aka fast food and food deserts are a thing. There's a reason why people who travel out the US notice the weight falling right off despite no major lifestyle or diet change
Combine that with no walkable cities, demented blind seniors having no driving regulations and people calling the cops on you for walking and the hate boner against cyclists, being put on weight gaining ssris to cope with the fact most of us need to go in debt to survive, of course you have a generation of people who can't lose weight
I'm jealous of euroshits who get blackout drunk daily and eat fried fish and gyros yet stay skinny well into their 40s but 16 yr olds are struggling to lose weight kek
No. 1676549
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>>1676499You joke but he probably assaulted you while you were under anesthesia anyway.
Google "dentist sexual assault", it happens quite often.
No. 1676749
>>1676519I'm from nyc and moved to a non walkable city. shit sucks like nothing else. America desperately needs more walkable areas for pedestrians.
>the hate boner against cyclistAs far as cyclists go, most of them are trash. There is a road for bikes and people where there's a stop sign for us and cars have the right of way. I see cyclists all the time blaze right through the stop sign without looking and almost get into an accident with the car. I dunno why so many think they are above the law. I've also almost been hit twice by them just walking casually on the road, way off to the right. They are supposed to go left around you, but these two fuckers went straight to the right and almost knocked me over. They were going fast too. I was simply walking.
No. 1676938
>>1676749>cyclistsI agree to an extent as a cyclist and pedestrian, but I spent the summer in a very bike-able city (but not very walkable) and it seemed that most cyclists knew the rules
>>1676787Just ignore the post and move on. What is wrong with you?
No. 1677036
>>1676133>>1676521Covid is also a “weird” illness to begin with. Not only did the vaccines give me my period early but I caught it after I got the booster somehow and immediately when I started showing symptoms, my period started too. I knew something was up because my period had just ended like days before. I really want to know what that is and if it’s actually causing women to lose eggs but I doubt we’ll ever know until like 100 years later when some scientist finally thinks to research what women have been saying since the first shot.
And like other women, I know my body and. I know my periods. I’ve been sick with a lot of things, taken a lot of vaccines, and neither have ever immediately induced periods like Covid and its vaccines have.
No. 1677071
>>1677042We didn't have an Amerifag thread back then. Like you said, California gets wildfires all the time. Hawaii has never had anything like this before, which is what makes it so incredible. Like, the vast majority of Hawaii's wildfires (the rest of which were much smaller than the 2023 fires) in it's history as a state have only occurred within the past 5-10 years.
>>1677032This is very true as well. I think it's too easy to obtain a driver's license. Very few people have any respect that they are the sole operator of a 3000+ lb heap of moving metal
No. 1677222
>>1677169What happens if your house burns down, anyway? Did you have to live in a hotel?
If there is a fire here I already know the evac route will clog with cars within 10 seconds, so I plan to just plop my laptop in a waterproof bag, take a bottle of water, and try to swim for it. Maybe get rescued by a ferry or steal a canoe.
No. 1678287
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Is there any electrolyte drink at Walmart that doesn't taste like drain cleaner? Preferably diet/no calories. I tried picrel because I've been nauseous and throwing up but this shit just made me throw up more cause it was so disgusting. Gatorade is gross as hell also. Help.
No. 1678578
>>1678567west coast has treated me well. Do you have job skills? btw abortion is illegal in idaho. it's also been known for a while that west coast refugees have pushed living costs up there. i was looking around at houses in idaho for funsies and they're just as expensive as the west coast. it's even worse when you realize their jobs pay less because they still think of themselves as a podunk.
at some point you need to stop running, there is no magic easily affordable place that pays high salary with low cost of living. everything has been bought up. the fucked up thing to realize is that even in nowhere shitholes and flyover states, rent there is nearly as much as medium/large cities, despite their only jobs being min wage. i spent a long time looking at housing costs all across the country and there was nowhere that was magically cheap unless it was a welfare county (absolutely no fucking jobs anywhere) or had really high crime. housing is fucked everywhere.
No. 1678587
>>1678578AYRT I'm in college right now so not exactly rolling in money in the first place, but I wasn't having this much trouble with money while going to college in the south compared to going to college on the west coast.
I will never stop running from the west coast lmao. I don't want to self-dox but I live in California which might be creating some bias, but I fucking hate it here and I hate all the people here and I hate the weather. Maybe Oregon or Washington are better but I've hated the west coast so far if they're all similar to California.
I get what you're saying though, things are fucked everywhere. But if I'm gonna get fucked over on housing prices anyway, I'd rather do it in a place that isn't California at the very least. Way wayyy too many people in this state.
No. 1678744
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Where is a place in America that is good to live in regards to climate change and pollution and isn't completely bumfuck? Also a plus if I won't get murdered by a homeless man. If I'm gonna buy an expensive house I want it to last atleast.
No. 1679008
>>1678587If you grew up in California then it's time to accept that you'll never feel the same anywhere else. You realize how many unique privileges you lost once you leave.
>>1677169So your house burned down and that sucks but it doesn't change that people lost their lives in Hawaii and that the damage and lives lost are the result of government negligence. For someone that lost their property I'd think you would be more empathetic to the people of Hawaii and the conditions they've faced for years.
No. 1679155
>>1678567Kek Idaho is one of the shittiest states to live in with regards to quality of life. There's a reason only republitards and schizo white nationalists ever move to Idaho. As a woman in that state, trannies would be the least of your concerns.
>>1678744>Where is a place in America that is good to live in regards to climate change and pollution and isn't completely bumfuck?New England
No. 1679229
>>1679213>surprisingly high costsIt’s not surprising, New England is currently one of the most difficult areas to move into because of the lack of available housing. Connecticut is ranked last in the entire country for available houses and apartment vacancies.
>>1679155Vermont was just all over the news for getting obliterated by climate change-related flooding
No. 1679601
>>1679229There is no part of this country that will be immune to climate change. At best, there will be a few regions that are more resistant to the effects, which is still New England along with the general northeast area and parts of the midwest.
>>1679226There was no indication that original anon was not from HI, just that nobody was talking about the fires. Take a breather, there's no need to lash out at people in the thread.
No. 1679778
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>>1679598Can any Connecticut nonnies confirm this? What is like living in CT. The good, the bad, and the ugly. Just looked on zillow and there are some good homes in my price range.
No. 1679796
>>1679710At this point I dismiss all conservitard rant about "blue cities" as projection and jealousy. I'm not saying cities don't have problems, they obviously do. Still, most people (including them) would rather not live bumfuck nowhere and need to drive 1 hour to see another human being.
I have republican family members who left New Jersey and NYC to buy homes in red areas of Florida and "escape democrat leadership", but now they're seniors and miserable. One of them has chronic health issues and can't drive anymore which basically leaves her at the mercy of uber to get to all her doctor's appointments. She's always whining to my mother about how transportation costs her hundreds every week and now her homeowner's insurance rate has gone through the roof. She's considering selling her house and moving back to Long Island where her children live.
No. 1679806
>>1679796that's something that pisses me off. because the boomers voted for the destruction of public transit because they were able to drive at that time. until gas gets expensive, until they get old, then suddenly it's waaah wahhhhh why no reliable public transit waaaahhhh like they weren't the ones voting against it all this time. boomers are incapable of empathy. kids, teens, the elderly, the disabled? "haha they're too poor to afford a car, i have a car, no tax money for trains!" all the while blind and stupid to the fact that one day they'll be old and will want an alternative to driving. stupid bastards.
not only that but a lifestyle of driving, cubicles, TV, and fast food mean as they age they get obese and are a wad of fat on undeveloped muscle and weak bones, so they are as good as a beached whale. meanwhile the elderly in walkable nations are perfectly fit and able to walk for miles even into their 90s. bad enough they inflict a terrible lifestyle on themselves, but they want to force the rest of us into it, and if we say we don't want to rely on driving 4 hours a day in a fucking car paying out the nose for gas, that we're "immature" and "need to grow up" as if this horrible fate is some kind of inevitability and not a result of their conscious choices for bad infrastructure development.
ooh i hate them so much, i hate cars
No. 1679820
>>1679796You couldn't be more wrong. Tons of people have been fleeing the cities, especially Californias shitting up Montana and everywhere else that is nice. Cities stink, are expensive and loud and are full of people with certain socioeconomic factors that nobody wants to live around.
Do you really think people don't want to live in a big house surrounded by nature instead of in a pod-sized apartment?
No. 1679823
>>1679796My husband's family is extremely red and you're right. They project everything they can't get as blue as a coping mechanism for why their life is better even though almost none of them would ever even benefit from it. Ot but his uncle thinks literally every state that's not the belt from texas to Florida is blue for some reason and kept claiming the other bumfuck cowboy western states we lived in were blue like what
Universities that are top tier that they can't get into is because they're libtards, their city doesn't give a shit if they starve but it's okay because they're red, constant shootings are okay because who knows. Conservatards care more about a fucking label than anything else, they can't even be smart enough to see trump was a Democrat all the way up until he ran for president and just started buying into whatever campaign paid him. They also don't realize how many liberal laws Trump passed such as the animal abuse being a felony which would felonize almost every old white man kek
No. 1679831
>>1679820Life in a city: Walk to farmer's market, see crowds of happy people and adorable dogs, buy high quality food, read a book on the bus to work, have 200000 options to eat out or go on a date to, can take a train to the airport, no car, no troubles, walk around neighborhood and collect free things neighbors place on the corner, have five libraries in walking distance, can walk to the next neighborhood over and go to their events, world class amenities in my backyard, live in a tourist destination with stunning beauty
Rural: be poor, no jobs, no marriage partners around who aren't on meth, everyone is miserable and stays indoors, everyone is on meth, everyone stuck in a car if they want to go anywhere, only things in town are walmart and mcdonalds, life composed of driving up and down a road and eating walmart food, nothing to do, kids will start popping pills and be miserable until they can escape to college, die because no hospital within a 4 hour drive, haven't read a book since high school, education options for your kids are abstinence-only, if you don't join the local church you will be ostracized, everyone is obese, even the dogs are obese
i have relatives in very rural areas, and they're all poor miserable fat jobless trash.
No. 1679841
>>1679831kek i mean sure if you're rich and can be in the nice areas and not with the riffraff. i live in a city where a studio to yourself is generally 1800-2000 a month so you have to live with roommates and everyone is either a fucking insufferable woke cretin or a techbro douchebag. i'm gay and my dating options are they/thems and trannies so why would i go on a date? it's way too dangerous to go out at night as a woman anymore, the crime has skyrocketed. the parks are mostly full of homeless scrotes. i will concede the libraries are great though. public transit and libraries are the only things i like about this city.
i think you have an extremely idealized view of urban life. but then, i also have an extremely bitter and angry view of cities seeing mine become such a shithole since i was a child.
No. 1679858
>>1679841I don't think that much rent is all that much when you consider that you don't have to own a car in a city. Ruralites obsess over rent but turn a blind eye to how much their deathbox is costing them. You also get higher wages in a city. Really if you aren't stupid a city is very affordable.
I live in a nice city though, yes. If I lived in some kind of shithole like Tulsa or Baltimore I'd have a different view. Maybe the real issue is how many of our cities are total garbage and lawless sprawled out evil wastelands.
No. 1679862
>>1679860To be fair, to an american a distance of three blocks is "unwalkable." people in this country have a skewed view and are really fucking fat and lazy. it's crazy what distance i've heard people complain about. so "walkable" is subjective depending on your BMI. i've made it work walking and biking in "unwalkable" and "unbikeable" places.
thankfully after decades of destruction by boomers and gen x, the younger generations are finally demanding walkable development and public transit options. our construction of eg light rail is miserably slow but progress is being made all over the country. the car experiment was a costly mistake. we once upon a time had perfectly walkable cities with great train service, including local and interstate lines. they were bulldozed for cars. to make our cities more accessible to cars, we destroyed the cities themselves, leaving nowhere left to go but plenty of highway and parking lots to get there. what senseless destruction and a waste of resources.
No. 1679880
>>1679778>The good, the bad, and the ugly. Good
>can live in cities or more rural areas >people generally keep to themselves >farmers markets/produce everywhere >pretty good school and university system>not excessively far from the big cities in NY, MA, RI>ER and walk-ins are easy to access even in rural areas >lots of outdoor parks, trails, beaches that are free for residents >some of the cities look like shit but CT has loads of Victorian and historically significant buildings, it’s very scenic Bad
>expensive >very hard to make friends >heroin swamp yankees errywhere>lots of juvenile crime and corrupt police >spotty public transportation (you need a car)>everything is 20+ minute drive from where you live >not a huge amount of diversity in food depending on what part of the state you’re in>connecticut drivers are VERY aggressive and pedestrian deaths have risen quite a bit >huge amount of disparity throughout the state, many people are barely scraping by and the cities aren’t doing too hot in contrast to all the wealthy New Yorkers living in southwest CT No. 1679888
I walk everywhere but it’s incredibly dangerous because of the cars. Everyone speeds, everyone’s on their stupid phone, no one signals, no one stops at crosswalks. The parking lots for businesses in my area aren’t designed with pedestrians in mind, you have to literally go back out onto the road to go from business to business. To make matters worse news coverage is always “please drivers be aware, please, we know it’s hard but plllllease, you keep running over children, please stop” then turn around and say “pedestrians look out for cars you fucking idiots, how many times do we have to tell you to use the crosswalk! We don’t care that cars are running red lights, just look both ways!” It’s infuriating. Nothing gets done about it though, they just keep expanding the roads, upping the speed limits and lowering the expectations for a license.
No. 1679913
>>1679894I agree, I've been in plenty of pedestrian-hostile places where, even though it was a short distance, it was unpleasant to exist there. But things are improving all over as pedestrian demand is increased. we need lower speed limits and traffic calming infrastructure. the wide, straight streets encourage speeding and reckless driving. and even in the worst places, it's still possible even if it's inconvenient.
>>1679905Many west coast cities are great. SF, portland, and seattle are all walkable. been to all three and never had trouble. san francisco was great, i never waited more than 5 minutes for a bus.
>>1679909I've lived in several cities and i'm not wealthy by any stretch. I'm probably poorer than most. Stop living in houston or whatever fucking shithole. I've gotten along fine without cars. You can do it most anywhere, but most people are lazy. People make so many excuses for why they are driving to somewhere in walking distance, even trips under a mile in a walkable area, the first impulse for the vast majority of americans is to drive there. they grew up in thick car centric culture and it will take a while to improve but the only thing stopping them is their own laziness.
No. 1679965
>>1679831>Life in a city: Walk to farmer's market where you pay money for food you could grow in your own garden, see lots of black and brown people, buy food for 10x the price it used to be worth a year ago, get groped by a melinated man on the bus to work, have 20000 options to eat overpriced food that a minimum wage worker spit in, go on a date with a guy who will never call you back, no backyard, live in tourist destination that gives tourists who imagined it to be beautiful crippling depression
>Life Rural: Own your own home, work local or from home, no Tinder so people actually still know each other, all men around you are buff as fuck cause they are forced to work labour intensive jobs, nobody is on SSRI's cause everyone touches grass regularly, drive your own car that you own wherever you want cause you don't depend on government operated public transport full of homeless people, eat food you grew yourself in your backyard, kids will not be beaten up by niggers in school, die at old age in your own home that your children will inherit, read books every day cause that's not something that is exclusive to people who live in a city, educate children however you want cause they don't go to public school to learn about anal sex and how liking pink makes you a woman, join local church cause they have awesome BBQ, nobody has "depression and anxiety" even the dogs aren't taking SSRI's(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE) No. 1679970
>>1679828>>1679827nta, but 40 acres sounds like an inheritance
Also >40 minute drive to the next town and most of it dirt road
lol better hope your cabin doesn't catch on fire, you don't slip and hit your head on a rock, get bit by a wild animal, or have a group of scrotes on a hunting trip find out you live alone in the middle of nowhere. nobody will ever find your body.
No. 1679980
>>1679970>nta, but 40 acres sounds like an inheritanceIt's not. Land is cheap.
>better hope your cabin doesn't catch on fireI guess in that very unlikely scenario I am fucked
>you don't slip and hit your head on a rockMy husband would probably notice
>get bit by a wild animalI have a gun and a dog to alert me
>have a group of scrotes on a hunting trip find out you live aloneI don't live alone and I can just kill them cause I have "no trespassing" signs and don't live in a cucked state
>nobody will ever find your bodyProjection since none of your neighbors will report the smell to the police when you croak in your 20sqft apartment
No. 1679994
>>1679980>It's not. Land is cheap.i'd like to know where too and how much you paid for it.
>I guess in that very unlikely scenario I am fuckedyea because natural disasters are so rare and rural areas haven't been catching on fire recently
>My husband would probably noticeand if he dies or decides he doesn't want you anymore?
>I have a gun and a dog to alert me>I don't live alone and I can just kill them cause I have "no trespassing" signs and don't live in a cucked statecool story bro
>Projection since none of your neighbors will report the smell to the police when you croak in your 20sqft apartmentlol you're projecting. you think i live in a major city because i'm calling bullshit on your babbling brook fairytale home. you wanna make it sound like you're living in some thomas kinkade painting, when you're probably living a trailer park at best. i have no doubt
>>1679965 is also you.
No. 1680002
>>1679994nta but why are you so pressed that nonna has a life like that? are you jealous she doesnt have to pay 2k a month for a shitty apt?
it's not like she is telling a fairy tale.. living in the boonies and raising vegetables/animals isn't something out of this world, your greatgrandparents probably lived like that at some point. you seem like a sheltered city girl tbh.
(infighting) No. 1680007
>>1679970Yeah you’re so right.
So when I lived in the city my apartment caught fire because my drunk upstairs neighbor passed out while cooking and wouldn’t you know it the fire trucks couldn’t get into my narrow street because some dipshit bros had their hummers blocking the entrance (for some reason low income housing seems to attract massive/luxury car owners).
In my current inner city low income housing three people have been shot, people have died and gone unnoticed for weeks, the nearby park is home to all sorts of vagrants (some of them are even dead bodies), people just park in the parking lot to shoot up and oh yeah, I can’t even go outside by myself because I’ll get accosted as a lone woman or run over by all the inattentive zoomers or drunk boomers.
The doctor doesn’t show up for 40mins. Even when they do they don’t have time to talk to me, constantly put erroneous information on my chart and the pharmacy routinely looses my script or fills it without giving me my medication thus requiring I contact my doctor who doesn’t have time for me. Creating an endless loop of me having to harangue them and being labeled a problem patient.
As for wild animals, I grew up rural, they are easy to avoid. As for no one will find my body, what makes you think I’d give a shit? Dead is dead, whether from some rare accident or drug addled moid. Like I’m picking my poison here and I pick owning my own land over living in this mold infested overcrowded powder keg. You said it yourself, being in the boonies means no one finds the bodies. I don’t see a problem with that.
No. 1680008
>>1680002>nta but why are you so pressed that nonna has a life like that?girl bye. this is the same person who always goes on racist screeds whenever someone points out the drawbacks to living in rural areas.
>you seem like a sheltered city girl tbh.>are you jealous she doesnt have to pay 2k a month for a shitty apt?more projection
>living in the boonies and raising vegetables/animals isn't something out of this world, your greatgrandparents probably lived like that at some point.never said it was out of this world. where did you read that?
(infighting) No. 1680032
>>1680007>>1680017living off the land isn't necessarily better than living in the hood,
nonnie. and not to be intrusive, but if you can only afford to live in the hood right now, how are you going to afford constructing and running a farm in the middle of nowhere? from what i've seen, nice areas that have good and arable land aren't cheap (racist
nonnie has yet to update us on her magical place) there's also permitting, tax, utility hookups, and other requirements that vary by state. on top of that you have to pay for animals, their feed, house them, your farming equipment, maintenance, etc. if you get land in a place that has changing seasons, add another layer of expenses and complications and you need steady income to support all this.
No. 1680034
>>1680010This is funny and true but all I can think about is that Twitter post of someone finding a mansion in Texas for the same price as a crack house on California and the most voted up comment was "I'd rather be caught dead in a cardboard box than to ever be seen in Texas" or something of that nature
Location snoots are funny but sad, sometimes you have to sacrifice to be able to live. I lose any sympathy I have for city folks complaining about pollution, housing, etc as soon as they start whining about how they're better than me for living in a big famous city
No. 1680050
>>1680047>Who sad anything about a farm? I’m so confused about some of these responses about wanting to own land or live rurally. There is so much projection going on with this shit it’s wild.you're getting worked up over nothing.
>I’d like to be able to choose the burden of owning land, not even necessarily a farm, just a piece of dirt will do because it would quell something inside me that longs for something I can point to and say “this is mine, this is my home and it’s mine”.this is literally naive romanticism.
it's 2023, not the 1800s. yes, you can buy land to but to make it livable isn't free nor do expenses stop once you own it. if you just want a piece of dirt to die on, buy a cemetery plot and crawl in.
No. 1680057
>>1680050> you're getting worked up over nothing.Is that you ot-baitchan?
> this is literally naive romanticism. It’s 2023, not the 1800s. yes, you can buy land to but to make it livable isn't free nor do expenses stop once you own it. if you just want a piece of dirt to die on, buy a cemetery plot and crawl in.It’s not free? No way? Guess I’ll stop making my “property of me” flag. Hell, guess I’ll repurpose my flag to make a bindle and go move down by the creek, dreams dashed. Thanks nonna for setting me straight and opening my eyes to my naive ways, I’ll never dream again.
No. 1680065
>>1680057sorry for questioning your plan hood-
nonnie. i should've just gave you asspats and encouraged you to live your dreams of that thomas kinkade cabin in the woods on a sprawling 40-acres that you can obviously afford with on your hood income.
No. 1680067
>>1680062It’s ok nonna, I’ve given up. All my worldly possessions are in my woefully small bindle, I’m heading to the creekside under the bridge as I type.
>>1680065You know me so well from my small hyperbolic post, like a true sister. It’s like we came up in the world together, this is truly a deep moment for our bond. But also who is kinkade?
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>>1680067>You know me so well from my small hyperbolic post, like a true sister. It’s like we came up in the world together, this is truly a deep moment for our bond. if it's all really hyperbole and you have the money to do it, you wouldn't be dreaming about it.
>But also who is kinkade?←-
No. 1680386
>>1680155>"hurr hurr no u!!1!1!"More hyperbole? You're not actually retarded but just pretending to be, right? ;)
>>1680239The horseshoe theory is reality, at least in America. Conservatives (and bleeding edge liberals) believe in magical thinking, that if women are forced to bear a child they don't want or making kids pray in school, or whatever condition for their "ideal society" is met then everything and everyone will fall into place.
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>>1680391>lol you really expect me to dox myself for you?nobody asked you to post your address, you samefagging retard. "I paid 30k for land in the pacific northwest" isn't doxxing yourself.
>Ofc it will be more expensive if you want to live somewhere like Alaska or California (ew), but you can easily buy land for under $100,000 and get a loan from your bank to build a house on it. Well maybe you can't since you probably have a bad credit score from living above your means in the city and never cooking your own food.yeah, because landlords who rent expensive apartments don't run credit checks or ask for proof of income and security deposits before you move in. if your landlord reports your rent to a credit bureau and you pay on time, you won't have bad credit. then again, you live in the hood so you wouldn't know all that.
No. 1680412
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What are y'all fighting about in here? If we're talking about whether the city or rural areas are better, I like the city more. Yes there are big downsides, but I love being in a lively hub as opposed to rural areas where you are a million miles away from anything and there's not shit to do. Where I grew up was so far away from everything else so now I can't stand being stranded. I also think people have a tendency to think country life is so easy and if you live rural you can just Snow White LARP everyday, but tbh it's not at all.
But truthfully, which one is "better" just depends on your lifestyle. There's no use in debating about it when we all have such different goals and priorities.
No. 1680425
>>1680042>1700 a month for a crappy shack with literally no doorI live in a top floor apartment in a trendy neighborhood of an overpriced city and my rent is $1500. Hah!
Also want to mention the three major causes of death in rural areas are drugs/booze, diabetes from being a fatass, and car crashes, in particular from drunk drivers. Especially mountain roads. Everyone flies down them as fast as they can, drunk day or night, and half of them crash into an oncoming vehicle or fly off the guardrails. I've seen ridiculous crashes on rural roads, you have no fucking clue. The UK btw doesn't have mountains like we do. Mountain roads are not a fucking joke, but some deranged scrote drinking and driving in his lifted mega-XL pickup going 70 in a 30 zone on a twisty steep mountain road will end your life randomly.
We don't have catastrophic crashes in cities because no one here is going more than 40mph as the traffic physically prevents it. The most fucked up accidents are always rural. Cars flipped. Cars down the mountain caught in the trees. Two cars from opposite directions slammed together forming a human-strawberry-jam sandwich. And the deer and moose and other shit. People are terrified of mugging in a city, which I've never experienced because I'm not a retard, but the real danger is a fucking deer leaping in front of you. Last thing you'll see is some tick-ridden horned retard staring dumbly at you after ensuring both it and you will die.
No. 1680483
>>1680425Rural areas in America aren't that unique and what you're describing happens all over the world, the hazards are different depending on the climate and geography.
>Also want to mention the three major causes of death in rural areas are drugs/booze, diabetes from being a fatassThe consequences of rural poverty are seen all over the world. If I go to a market town, the high street is lined with homeless heroin addicts.
>Especially mountain roads.The UK also has hazardous roads. Where I live is dense peat bog. The roads are narrow, poorly maintained and are frequently water logged. It rains 60% of the time, humidity is always over 85% and in winter this freezes and creates dense fog. Every tourist season people die because they aren't familiar with the roads or weather. Dangerous roads and retards driving on them isn't an American exclusive problem.
>And the deer and moose and other shit.There's wild animals in the countryside in every country on earth. I already have to deal with deer, wild boar and wild ponies. All you're describing is the same shit in a different location.
It's choice to live in a rural area or a city. Both have their negatives and positives. I don't see why you're replying to obvious bait and getting upset that people choose the live their life differently.
No. 1680485
>>1680446You still pay "rent" in the form of property tax, maintenance, and depreciation, lmao. Meanwhile I'm close to actually good job opportunities.
Buying is stupid in this market. You'd be a fool to buy.
No. 1680649
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Shooting at UNC Chapel Hill only an hour ago. Details are still coming out, but I believe there are two victims so far. The shooter was arrested.
I just don't really understand how many times this has to happen until something actually changes.
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>>1680649Samefag, and there also was a shooting in Jacksonville two days ago. He also tried to attack an HBCU first, so almost two attacks on schools in these past 2 days.
No. 1680659
I'm just going to personally vent for a bit but I'm so sick of where I live. No nature, rude as fuck people that are cold and not friendly, they all have the same personality and mould themselves into a stereotype, no specific culture besides moids being obsessed with watching boring ass sports (but never playing them of course. they're all fat too lel), ghetto behavior celebrated, world class city that used to be clean but gets more unsafe every year due to the blacks, illegal mexicans everywhere, both of these groups are ALWAYS rude or whining about white people yet get everything they want without working for it, especially scrotes who hide their sexism with racial issues, all the white people and asians left due to these issues or live in wealthy exclusive towns, jealousy, hostility, and anger everywhere, transplants from shitty southern states moving here and taking all our homes and creating more traffic.
The richest, most old money town in the area has the NICEST, most normal people ever. They are always friendly, wave and say hi, smile and have a warm demeanor like people used to. Funny thing is, so many people in my area think this town is full of mean snobs just because they are old money. This is the attitude that turns places into a shithole ghetto. I've lived in bad areas all my life and I'm sick of it. Sick of the attitude, sick of ghetto culture, and upper middle class people feeding into it and praising it because they are oblivious to the damage it can cause since they don't come from that world and never lived it. I'm not the least bit conservative but god damn. Wish I could move states so badly.(global rule #7)
No. 1680707
>>1680704you're really bad at pointing out samefagging.
>>1680659 post was hardly about race but I'm sure you're from lipstick alley and can't help but freak out anytime someone bad mouths the ghetto which yeah is kind of an undesirable place to live…imagine that. nice racebaiting
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>>1680736lmao you're the most entertaining thing to ever happen to this thread. truly.
the dedication, the conviction, the passion… i love it!
No. 1680751
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The "NOOOOO! Only unhinged fuji schizo NEETS are allowed to be on lolcow" is the weirdest gatekeeping. Like why would you self-own like that?
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>>1680751>>1680750you got this! don't stop now!
No. 1680764
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What do all the cities at the tippy top have in common, nonnas? Can you figure it out?(USER HAS BEEN PUT OUT TO PASTURE)
No. 1680775
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Many threads ago someone asked if there were any other Alaskans here, I responded but immediately stopped browsing lolcow for a few months kek. If you are still here fellow last frontier nonnie I hope you're having a good day
No. 1680883
>>1680649I'm with the glowies on this. Online incel spaces like 4chan and reddit are radicalizing dumb scrotes into being mass shooters. They should be broken up and all the terminally online scrotes preemptively arrested and sent off to labor camps.
And it's always males. You never see a female (who isn't a tim) doing this. Why is the go-to for feeling shitty about yourself to shoot randos. Go camping for a week. Go take a tour with peace corps. Males cannot be trusted to decide their own lives, they should be chained up and told what to do by an older woman, either their mother or a teacher or advisor. Moids go insane if they have freedom because they inevitably squander it. Take the jobless incel losers and arbeit macht frei them in a coal mine.
No. 1680889
>>1680682Car centric infastructure is the problem, not cities. Madrid doesn't have that issue. London doesn't have that issue. It's just lazy american pigs unable to walk who need a motorized lounge chair to move their lardy asses around, and all the resulting zillion cars clog the streets up, unlike train or bike or pedestrians.
Cars ruin cities. Name the problem. The problem is cars and car-centric development.
No. 1680899
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Thats right nonnas. Don't have a car so you depend fully on government run public transport. Don't own your own home so you can depend entirely on a landlord for housing. Don't have any guns, just trust the government to protect you. Don't put money into assets like real estate or gold/silver, just trust the banks. Consume more product. Don't own anything. Buy an Alexa to make your life easier. Use your handprint to pay for stuff instead of holding cash in your hand. Have you gotten your 10th booster shot yet? It's Covid season again soon!
Just trust the government, they will protect you. They won't take all of this away from you the second you say something they don't like, like that men can't be women.
No. 1681030
>>16808990 IQ rant. We already are being controlled and it's not by anyone who we elected in. Money is what talks here, who do you think buys off the politicians, lmao. This entire country is just 3 corporations in a cowboy hat and they are the ones who decide your every move in life. housing bubbles, medicines approved by FDA, automobile investing. everything exists just to put more money in pockets. as if you had a choice in any of this, kek.
God forbid you step outside this country and realize a better life is possible. Go on a single chinese or japanese train and tell me this shit would be the biggest game changer of all time for the american landscape. have a bit of fucking wonder and curiosity in your life
No. 1681110
>>1681030Japanese trains? The ones where women have to have a separate cart because the get groped so much? Wow sounds wonderful!
My point is that you should be as independent from the government as possible and owning a car is part of that.
No. 1681134
>>1680991also worth noting the people who clung to their cars in maui all roasted to death. the cars became death boxes because the road was blocked. cars are trash tier for survival situations. they depend on a govt supported infrastructure grid and constant supply of fuel from gas stations. one oopsie to the infrastructure grid knocks cars out of operation. i watched one survivor video, and he only lived because he ABANDONED his car and went on foot. the roads were gridlock. cars fail at the slightest hiccup. people were better off running into the ocean than trying to take a car out of town.
a bike is the most self-sufficient and reliable transit option. all maintenance can be done by yourself. there is no way for the govt to track the bike or where you go with it. you can ride just about anywhere. you can take the bike inside other transit forms, up staircases, into buildings, onto boats, on trails, on sidewalks, even on grass, and the only fuel it needs is your own body fat. rambo types are delulu to think a car defeats govt control.
No. 1681222
>>1680832getting a degree is difficult in terms of the amount of work required to put in, buying a home is difficult in terms of the requirements a lot of home buying agencies require never mind the fact a lot of realtors will literally only sell affordable houses to investors if Chinese millionaires aren't already buying homes the next DAY they've been up. Don't be slow. Are you not seeing posts of young folks getting denied for mortgages that are HALF their rent because their bank is refusing to write them permission?
not the worst strawman I've seen but one of them. Someone pointing out the average person can no longer buy a home even if they can afford the mortgage. I unlike you apparently own a home which is why I understand this and you just accuse everyone you disagree with of bizarre things because you took it out of context when I said it's hard
No. 1681286
>>1680751You lack so much self-awareness if you truly don't see how batshit schizo and unhinged your posts sound. You are extremely insufferable and unlikable,
toxic, and shitty towards everyone. Like why choose to be that way? It's pathetic
No. 1681461
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Why are Americans so hostile and critical towards diets that aren't shoveling down food? It's so bizarre, I see people get praised for feeding them and their families greasy junk food for dinner because "at least they're eating" but I've seen women make things like salads, salmon, berries, etc on TikTok for the comment section to be spammed with idiots screaming about how it's not seasoned because they didn't deep fry it in hot Cheetos dust or about how "its not enough stuff" when it's like 1500+ cal. My recent favorite is the meltdowns centered around the Paleo diet as if a bunch of people who think milk, berries and steak is the most unhealthy and least of their concerns when shoving down disgusting greasy burgers or microwave food that's mostly cancer shouldn't be discussed and protecting someone's diet from getting criticism is somehow the priority then
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>>1680659Personally im gonna buy a gun and shoot in the air the next time i see another gaggle of rich white transplants in my neighborhood and another vegan kosher cafe being opened in a place that is supposed to have Caribbean influence. I want you devils to go back to your boring ass everything looks, acts, and is the same towns. Stop coming to our hoods to gain a semblance of personality you never had to begin with and then crying when the people born and raised there dont cater to your ugly dumbass.
Stay in your boring ass suburbs where you all buy the same box blonde revlon hairdye and blue colored contacts and pretend you aren't living off credit and your cheating husband's child support.
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>>1681718>Caribbean food sucksWoah
No. 1681738
I’m not going to tell anyone else how to feel by my personal experience going from low, low, barely middle class maybe rural to living homeless in the city was that the latter was infinitely better. Looking back now, I realize of course that a lot still sucked, like it was hard to get around because of less public transport but I could still walk plenty of places and paying for the odd Uber was way better than spending a gazillion dollars on gas just to go to the grocery store which btw because it’s so expensive and time consuming is a 2week to monthly occurrence in the country kek, so anything you don’t grow yourself assuming you can afford the mulch, dirt enrichments, and pesticides to grow anything other than 50 tons of squash needs to be shelf stable, frozen, or eaten in the first week. And I was couch surfing sewing with predator scrotes or renting a room for $300 a month with a broken window and no AC in the 100+ heat but at least there was clean water and public services available. There are so many resources in the city it’s unreal, especially the libraries are a gold mine that will literally change your life and allow you upward mobility. In the country you are lucky to have a library and it will be like 3 small bookshelves of Steven king and Tom Clancy, nothing else and certainly no computers, no rentable items. I noticed hardly anyone uses the resources, though, a lot of city slickers seem quite lazy. There is also a plethora of under the table work opportunities. I went outside more because it was fun to have places to go and people to see and just walk. In the country going outside gets boring fast unless you have the money for fun hobby stuff. I actually had felt that my quality of living there was the highest it had ever been.
I imagine living an urban area with no clean water and lots of gang violence would be way worse, but that’s only a few city areas.
No. 1682111
>>1681461It's this fat positivity bullshit. Just what we need, to encourage lardos to get even fucking fatter. Being 250 lbs isn't enough for them, no, they have to keep putting away Cheesecake Factory until they top 350 and you have to applaud their bravery or be branded as a bigot. But an attractive person eats a salad and gets attacked by 500 jealous fat-lards and is made out to be mentally ill.
I am so tired of seeing fatties everywhere. Have some fucking shame and go purge into the toilet or get 50 rounds of liposuction, waddle-ass.
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Hope all the nonnies potentially affected by hurricane Idalia stay safe. RIP cedar key
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American distrust in doctors is one of the only things I can side with the general population on. We have one of the worst healthcare results in the first world and people will stand around screaming how it's because we're fat or something when almost every single person can count at least a handful of times when doctors deliberately ignored or underplayed their symptoms until they evolved into even worse conditions or the patient straight up died kek. In fact one of the biggest "SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DO WHAT DOCTORS SAY" people I know actually had like millions flying out the door trying to get pregnant via IVF because her doctors were blowing off her PCOS blowing up or trying to underplay it just to sell her the most expensive solution. It's like we can't do things to prevent us from being manipulated or medically neglected but if we just blindly put our trust in the worst healthcare outcome in the first world we get fucked up
>In B4 dunning kruger effect
The guy who invented this phrase actually went on to say not only does he HATE when people use this in internet arguments but this phrase was meant to be a self reflection to people to understand that they aren't always perfect and can always make room for improvements. People using this defense to silence people for questioning healthcare is actually the opposite of what they inventor would have wanted since he mainly encouraged doctors to look at what they did wrong and understand they aren't perfect and can improve
No. 1682693
>>1682680There's really no need to be so rude…whatever is happening in your life that is stressing you out I hope it gets better soon.
>>1682670I am not in a huge city but when I lived in a big-ish city my car got the windows busted out and stuff stolen. I called the non emergency police bc I didnt know what to do and it technically wasnt an emergency. They actually semt a cop out and he took fingerprints kek he was super nice,but I think maybe it was only because I was maybe 18 and terrified sounding on the phone. Nothing came of it, and I rarely hear that anyone actually tries to call police for a vehicle break in any more they just make a report online and on insurance, but idk if that is because there was an actual shift in policy that even non emergency police wont take the call or if everyone just assumes that because they dont even come out for car wrecks anymore unless there is an injury bad enough to need treatment on the spot (if it isnt raining, if its raining the wreck has to be bad bad for police to come).
No. 1682701
>>1682670Sorry nonna, not quite from a big city like NY myself. But having lived in a what wikipedia calls a metropolitan area (vague, I know), we definitely call the cops if someone has broken in or fucks with our shit. Now, if they show up, that can depend on if you live in the ghetto, or are a few blocks from the police department. There have been a few times where they just don't show up for hours, though. Maybe an LA or NY nonna can chime in, kek.
>>1682693Just report and don't respond, nonna. They're in multiple threads right now.
But yeah, non-emergency lines are useful, like when there's a small wreck blocking a side street, or for noise complaints.
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My friend has a theory that the government is purposefully letting our economy go to shit so that people join the US military. I kinda believe it because the propaganda commercials aren't gonna work no matter how much they try to make the army seem like Call of Duty or FPS games.
What do we think anons?
No. 1682944
>>1682918His vids are good tho kek. It
triggers my fight or flight
No. 1682952
>>1682916Even that's a scam kek. Tri care sucks ass and doesn't cover anything, the GI bill is completely bullshit and you'd have to take like 1 class a semester if you only take what they cover the cost for, the "housing" is straight up poisoning people and needs like 5 days of deep cleaning with chemical only available to clean up companies and most veterans end up homeless
They like to advertise the idea it's basically the American dream when that couldn't be further from the truth, it's only an option if you're literally homeless even then the process itself can take months or a year or so if you don't starve to death after basics. And if you got any form of physical problems don't even think about it kek my husband got denied in the military because of one asthma attack when he was 12.
I also have a theory they're this desperate due to the COVID vaccine requirements and the fact they're now having to send home a bunch of people who have got heart problems from it
No. 1682966
>>1682868Nah it’s so at the final moment corporations can swoop in and save us.
> Need housing, food and a conveniently located job? Look no further, introducing Amazon campus! Work from your lavish Amazon apartment, with free prime and internet what more could you want? At first they’ll even throw in a wage but eventually that’ll get lowered as they offer more amenities and then when they’re paying everyone nothing those amenities will go to shit and there we go. You’ll own nothing and be happy.
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>>1680694Will it ever get any better? As a working class paycheck-to-paycheck poorfag, I'm scared
No. 1683080
>>1683066imo it's acceptable for women or families with children making a 5 minute drive for food or something because it's so dangerous with shitty drivers who have hate boners for walkers or the amount of traffickers, rapists, etc that will easily swoop them up if given a chance
Moids though? I instantly lose respect for any moid who can't be bothered to walk for less than an hour or so to get anywhere
No. 1683085
>>1683080spicy take but women are just as shitty drivers as men. I saw a woman driving a car today applying her makeup at a stoplight. and god knows if there are kids in that vehicle they are going insane tearing it apart and she is constantly distracted to scream at them to stop shitting on the seats or throwing ice cream at the dashboard or shoving gundam figures in their sibling's nostril. no one in this country is a qualified driver. everyone is stupid and retarded.
men though are 100% of road ragers. women drivers might scream and honk but only moids pull out a gun because you stopped for a yellow and caused them to "miss the light" that they were intending to run. men were a mistake.
No. 1683114
>>1683106have their asses carry groceries too. people have survived for thousands of years before the invention of cars. I assure you that you won't fall over dead from carrying home a ham.
>>1683111my god they are seriously so god damned fucking fat. i want to puke every time i see a fatty. it's unfathomable how lazy people are when our ancestors evolved literally running down gazelle to the point of exhaustion. now they complain to carry a bag of groceries a quarter mile.
No. 1683654
>>1683643nta but some people absolutely have to buy shit tons of groceries all at once if you live with multiple people
t. raised in a family of 7
No. 1683696
>>1683682Nta but you really underestimate the amount of food a large family will need kek. Buying small amounts of food every few days is ideal when you're alone, but it's better to just buy in bulk if you have a lot of people. Also, it's just unrealistic to expect an entire family to go on one shopping trip together and carry all the groceries back
idk about other people but speaking from my experience growing up with a lot of people under one roof, it was pretty much just two people stocking up the kitchen. Unless you're saying they spread what would be one trip across multiple days (still unrealistic and nonsensical).
No. 1684013
>>1683990I think a lot of the anons in this thread claiming Americans are dogshit lazy retards don't understand what a privilege it is to have the time, energy, and living situation that allows you to walk for groceries. With the rent crisis, living in an area close to amenities like grocery stores where it is safe to walk is even less likely than before.
A woman who cannot afford a car certainly cannot afford time to take a multi-hour trip to the grocery store to feed herself, and so she will go to the neighborhood stores and gas stations closest to her. I would never buy crappy expensive milk at a gas station, but the overworked woman with no car doesn't have a choice.
No. 1684021
>>1684013>privilegemy broke carless ass can do it, it isn't privilege, it's making intelligent choices, like choosing NOT to live in the middle of suburban nowhere where you rely on a car for every single facet of your daily life and would perish within 3 days if it stopped running. a car that, if you have it, hint, meanwhile, costs you at average more than $500 a month. Yeah it's the people who don't own a vehicle who are privileged. It's the people who don't live in suburbia who are privileged.
You wanted the mercedes and mcmansion. i chose a sustainable lifestyle that i can live on while borderline broke. don't you dare call me privileged. do you have any idea how much a car actually costs? you don't, because it isn't an unconquerable expense for you.
half of my generation cannot even AFFORD a car and you're talking about how privileged we are
and the tiem and energy? a 15 min walk is easier and less stressful than driving in heavy traffic my dudette. you go to a gym. my life is my gym.
No. 1684030
>>1684026I am. I never said it's your fault that walkability sucks in America or that you aren't allowed to walk to get groceries.
>"food desert" is defined as a quarter-mile. 1/4 of a milePretty sure this isn't true.
No. 1684040
>>1684030first result on google:
>In the US, a food desert is a low-income census tract residing at least 0.5 miles (0.80 km) in urban areas…from a large grocery store.The US official standards presume that being 2/3 of a mile from a major grocer is an unrecoverable obstacle. That's a 15 minute walk. And that says "large" grocery store, like a kroger or publix, not even counting smaller joints like greengrocers.
God forbid walking 2/3 of a mile! …No wonder everyone in this country is morbidly obese.
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>>1684040It's different standards. Regardless of the standard though, food deserts do exist and it's not rich people living in them.
No. 1684057
>>1684050I can't imagine being an anon who bends over backwards find an excuse to shit all over poorfags so she can feel better about
walking to a grocery store kek. The lying, too. "First result on google", I used multiple search engines including googl to try finding her "0.5 miles" definition, and out of five different sites, only wikipedia mentions it as part of a third grading scale.
>>1684053Why are you so aggressive and who are you talking to.
No. 1684058
>>1684057She was replying to this
>>1684050 I just deleted to add the second sentence.
No. 1684079
>>1684059It was already discussed in a previous post you got mad at why people who can't afford cars can afford to walk for food even less. You accused me of having a McMansion, said that people "choose where to live", then got mad and derailed about how food deserts aren't real problems and everyone who complains about them is an obese pig. I'm not even sure
you understand what you're mad about. You're coming off schizo. Are the $500 monthly car payments in the room with us right now? You wouldn't even know, you don't own a car.
>>1684076Yes. I have noticed. KEK
(infighting) No. 1684089
>>1684076>If you really think the only reason most Americans don't walk everywhere is because we're obese lazy retards you're being obtuse on purpose, our entire infrastructure was designed to be inhospitable to walking unless you live in one of like 5 major cities.Did you actually watch NJB? The whole point of his videos, and a lot of the anti-car urban channels I've seen, are how infrastructure incentivizes car use which agrees with your point. I can see how NJB gets aggressive in his tone, especially in one of his rant videos, but it's something I can completely understand. When you used to be poor and have to spend half of your day commutting just to get anywhere when it didn't have to be this way, then it's hard not to feel angry and frustrated. The Europe worship can be pretty annoying though. Not everyone is privileged enough to just up and leave their friends, families, and job just to live in Europe or any walkable city, which often are very expensive. Like I don't need to hear how Netherlands is the best country in the world to live in, when I don't ever plan to ever live there, lol. I'd rather improve things here in my home town but change is slow and can take many years.
No. 1687824
Okay so the republicans want to ban women from traveling out of state to get an abortion. the thing is I cannot see how that could be enforced, and besides which it's a blatant violation of the constitution, but that's toilet paper i guess. how would the state know you're pregnant unless you do something stupid like go to a doctor, use a tracking app, or text someone about it? in theory sure it's deplorable, but in reality i don't see how it could be enforced. maybe I'm stupid for not being impressed but honestly the government is all bark no bite. They make a lot of laws they can't enforce that people trod all over without consequence.
Literally just keep your mouth shut and no one will know?
>>1687540I just had to google what that was, so I'd say it was minor. Hurricanes are actually really common and most are mostly harmless.
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>>1687540Floridanon here, it wasn't that bad. Georgia and the Carolinas got a bit of a shock as it went more North than the most common model predicted, but overall it was not a huge deal in terms of lives lost even in the Gulf Coast areas where it hit first. There was a lot of property damage and there's gonna be long-term cleanup efforts unfortunately.
Ron DeSantis is also very good at disaster relief, believe it or not.>>1688367Same, I got my chores done on Saturday and spent Sunday and Monday as a comfy shut-in. Love a long weekend.
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hi nonnies, I'm wondering how weird/scammy this sounds. my mom has been needing a new roof anyway, and got a visit from the electric company who offered to provide solar panels + a roofing job in a bundle. apparently we were cited as some of the biggest energy-users in the area, hence is why the solar panels were offered. he also used a drone to survey the roof.
is stuff like this generally a good deal? Apparently it might be a tax write off or something if the roof is deemed necessary to install the solar panels but I'm not really sure. I want to help my mom.
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Cornell approved milk lol
No. 1690808
>>1689788It shouldn't be. Cars are so expensive that most people cannot even afford to buy a used car that isn't a literal scrap of delipidated sheet metal. Mechanics charge heavily inflated and nearly predatory prices. The average cost of a car worth less than 20k pre-pandemic is now being sold
used for no less than 30k. The average car note in America is $750 a month now. Climate change is obviously real and they just keep manufacturing these huge worthless mountains of steel instead of even trying to make public transport a decent option in the country. I understand why people hate the "walkable infrastructure" meme but its being touted for a reason.
No. 1692677
>>1690235I have lived in a European city with public transit and I honestly prefer living in the country and driving everywhere. Public transit is fucking garbage. It's expensive, there is constantly issues with the tracks or the carts which means you always have to wake up an hour early just to make sure that if the subway isn't coming you can take the next one or take a bus instead, but still I arrived late for University so many times because of the subway or bus being late without warning. In summer and during rush hour it is absolute hell on earth to be cramped into a bus or train with people, you are literally pressed body against body with random moids, everyone is stinky and sweaty. There are often homeless people harassing you, often times people smell like poop or piss or bring some really vile smelling food on, listen to loud music and teenage boys are extremely obnoxious. People are blocking seats with their bags while you have to stand for an hour cause all other seats are taken, it takes forever because of all the stops etc. The ONLY upside is that you don't have to find a parking space.
I will take car over public transport any day. I feel like the people who think public transport is some sort of utopic paradise have never relied on actually using it.
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What the hell does this mean are people not allowed to open their windows in england
No. 1696240
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Why are you talking about a window in England when cost of living inflation is killing people? If they turn the student loans back on now people are going to be jumping out of fucking windows.
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Since it’s in the news lately here’s a 2019 write up about Hunter’s dealings
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/08/will-hunter-biden-jeopardize-his-fathers-campaignIt’s kind to the Bidens in general but does also describe some of the things that have raised eyebrows. My favorite kind of article.
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>>1696240I think this is great. Things are finally starting to become normal again. People today are too spoiled, no one wants to be a servant anymore, despite there being a serious shortage of butlers, maids and whipping boys. People need to humble themselves once again and realize their position. Don't want to starve? Go shine shoes on a street corner or something and be polite while you're at it.
No. 1696740
>>1696700If I could make a modest proposal… I do therefore humbly offer it to public consideration that of the hundred and twenty thousand children already computed, twenty thousand may be reserved for breed, whereof only one-fourth part to be males; which is more than we allow to sheep, black cattle or swine; and my reason is, that these children are seldom the fruits of marriage, a circumstance not much regarded by our savages, therefore one male will be sufficient to serve four females. That the remaining hundred thousand may, at a year old, be offered in the sale to the persons of quality and fortune through the kingdom; always advising the mother to let them suck plentifully in the last month, so as to render them plump and fat for a good table. A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends; and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in winter.
I have reckoned upon a medium that a child just born will weigh 12 pounds, and in a solar year, if tolerably nursed, increaseth to 28 pounds.
I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.
(shitposting from “A Modest Proposal” by Jonathan Swift) No. 1696922
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>>1696877
Wow your retard level is off the charts today.
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>>1696945Ah damn you're probably right at the playing along. Sorry nonnas!
Hopefully to start a more fun fight: How do y'all like your barbecue? I love sweet molasses bbq sauce on anything, but they don't have a lot of that in my state.
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No. 1697877
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Cops joke about female hit-and-run victim over her dead body: "she was 26 already"
No. 1697953
>>1697948That's just a convenient myth, it doesn't even make sense.
>>1697949Tell that to baiters.
(continual baiting) No. 1698064
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Come on nonnies, black people need government support because of their socio-economic circumstances making them poor and also because of slavery and shiet.
Btw have you heard of this new trend called "Bottle Wars" where socio-economically-challenged people buy thousands of dollars worth of booze just to pour it onto the floor as a flex?(global rule #7)
No. 1698084
>>1698080but i
really want slavery was a myth-chan back, nona, you don't understanddd
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>>1698064>>1698065>>1698123iT's iMpOrTaNt tO hIp HoP cUlTuRe
No. 1698211
>>1696971I just made bbq sauce. It's really easy. Take ketchup, worchestershire sauce, mustard, apple cider vinegar, and whatever else you like and simmer it together in a pan until it reaches consistency. It's quite foolproof. I added bourbon (actually cheap canadian whiskey) and blackstrap molasses. Somehow canadian whiskey is cheaper than vodka.
>>1697319yawn. fakest shit ever.
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>>1696971I'm a Carolina girl so I'm partial to tangy and sweet sauces myself, although Carolina Gold can be kinda strong, so I use it lightly. I prefer no spice but every bbq sauce has a little spice so I just deal.
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socio-economic circumstances are at it again(ban evasion)
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>>1697657THANK YOU ANON, so well said
No. 1698537
>>1697877You posted this in two threads already and everyone kept correcting you that he talked about how much he'd pay and how low it'd be yet you kept making it about "the wall". You're mentally ill and keep doing the same thing until someone will agree.
Didn't you also say women are worth the most before 18 and blame a homeless woman who got kidnapped because you thought her two old psycho kidnappers were "men she dated"? You're really disturbing and as dangerous as those men.
No. 1698638
>>1698537I’m one of the anons you’re referring to, I never said anything about a kidnapping
victim and I have no idea what you’re talking about, I’ve also never said that girls have more value than women, however multiple anons have tried to teach you that incels hold that belief. I’m also not the one who posted
>>1697877The majority of people I’ve spoken to or seen comment about this situation online, believe that the cop is an incel whose joke was incel rhetoric. You’re the odd one out.
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Nonnies it’s finally cool outside. I can’t wait to go out walking after work and hear marching bands rehearsing in the distance. Soup is defrosting in the fridge next to a bottle of apple cider.
No. 1699898
>>1699894You know, it is amazing that every corner of this country is filled to the brim overflowing with people. The planet is overpopulated, humans have bred to the extent we are literally killing off every other species on this planet (except for maybe like, rats and roaches, lol). And they're still screaming at us to keep breeding more more more. The population 100 years ago was 2 billion. Now it's 8 billion. I think we have enough fucking people for five lifetimes. We managed to turn this entire continent into a paving lot hellscape in a couple hundred years. America wasn't even smart with its land use, they had all this land so they were like, "why bother being responsible, let's just develop the shit out of it in the least efficient way possible, there's always more, hyuk hyuk hyuk." now we can't afford housing because the stupid sprawling wasteful development befouled all the land, can't grow food because all the arable land was paved over, and all the water is sucked out for golf courses and oodles of idiots who want a lawn in a desert.
America is the world's greatest tragedy. What did we do with this land? fill it with parking lots and stripmalls and other places no one wants to be because they're absolutely miserable to exist in. and i'm sure 300,000,000 cars running all day every day aren't doing anything to reduce the heat. did you ever look at a given road and ask yourself, who the fuck are all these people and where the fuck are they going that's so important? it's all useless shit and premanently destroying the environment and our futures for some temporary profit for wealthy sociopaths.
No. 1699975
>>1699946Omfg no1curr that you think the
nonny you got into with once is now posting again literally just shut up
No. 1699986
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Lauren Boebert getting her tits squeezed before fondling her date’s dick over his pants. in public during Beetlejuice the Musical. Normal day for the rightoids
https://youtu.be/aPzf7EXVa6w?si=n-fZz35TX8LV4TLk No. 1700403
>>1700184ew, drag queens are fucking gross. they look like a pile of walking STDs. i wish people kept their fetishes to themselves. now scrotes are walking around with furry buttplugs shoved up their ass in public and ahegao phone backgrounds.
>>1700364nonna are you okay? have you seen the ocean? please take a vacation.
No. 1700444
>>1699916Asheville NC (getting kind of expensive but not too bad just outside the city)
Anywhere along the cascades in Oregon or Washington state. If you pick Oregon between the mountain ranges that run up and down the state you will have very mild winters which is nice. East of the cascades it’s kinda rough and desert-y with very cold winters and hot summers. Avoid the big cities and the vacation spots and it’s not too crazy expensive, there are even some cheap towns.
Vermont or New Hampshire (anywhere in either would have those things but also a lot of snow and long winters so you have to like that too)… I’m a little out of touch with where is cheap and where is expensive in New England, it’s a mix. I know I grew up poor there but now everything seems expensive so idk, I think you have to live in the sticks to get cheap land
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This was hard to watch. I’m so fucking sick of these ghetto pieces of shit, I don’t want to live in this country anymore
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12526679/amp/Las-Vegas-hit-run-death-cyclist-Andreas-Probst.html No. 1700603
>>1700329>>1700579Can't we just agree that all politicians are morally deficient perverts regardless of affiliation?
>>1700464Holy shit moidlets shouldn't be given driver's licenses.
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Lmao so apparently there’s a MISSING F-35 jet that a pilot ejected from and it might just still be flying around somewhere and nobody knows where it is.
>If you have any information that may help our recovery teams locate the F-35, please call the Base Defense Operations Center
Fucking Kek
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I was waiting for this! I mean I hope it doesn’t do any damage but the name is funny. If Nigel fucks up our shit at least there’s that silver lining —surely a Nigel would never hurt us though
No. 1704391
>>1703588People figured out the best solution is to just ignore the fats and let them eat themselves to death. I don't know what kind of mental illness it takes to reach 300 lbs and be unable to climb stairs at age 25, and think that's fine and dandy. They don't consume real food anyway, so they aren't harming us. They live on a diet of corn syrup and vegetable oil.
You know Lilo and Stitch, where Lilo takes all those photos of obese tourists? We figured out she was onto something. It is hilarious to watch these beasts. Now, don't get me wrong–they should be charged double fare on bus and airplanes and triple at a buffet, but otherwise they're free entertainment in this bleak world.
No. 1704655
>>1704527ebt or wic? I have WIC and all they needed was a copy of my Medicaid and I got approved and sent a card. The only downside is sometimes it won't go through on self checkouts which is embarrassing
Medicaid is also one of the easiest ones to get IMO, they don't check your income (just report you have no income), background check or anything else.
>inb4 wahh Medicaid fraudMedicaid should be available to anyone except millionaires who can easily afford thousands of dollars in medical bills. even private insurances can sometimes make your bills more expensive or co pays are insane
No. 1705770
>>1704655Wait anon, I was doing something like this kind of by accident. Except I'm in a medicaid gap state, reported my income as at least the amount to get it, and then I failed to get another job fast enough to make my income what I reported. So I cancelled it for the rest of the year last month. I'm worried about not having insurance for the time being. Do they really not check income? Once the enrollment opens should I just do the same thing again? I am just using goodrx for my prescriptions right now. Obviously I'm still looking for a job so maybe my income will actually be that next year.
I also heard that even if you do get medical debt, you can basically ignore it. So I think about that in worse case scenario. I don't know.
No. 1708784
>>1708779Karens and boomers don't get the idea of not getting in their caddy escalade to go down the street to Starbucks. This has been happening on my nextdoor, especially if someone has a routine like walking home from work everyday at 5, they'll take pictures of them and start posting about it and conspiring about their own theories.
Definitely gets my tinfoiling side rolling though, they want people to use a car so that way they can be traced as much as possible, Karen's flipping out is a public shaming tactic to try to get people to resort back to the cars
No. 1708818
>>1704066Middle schoolers with EDs are back in fashion, plenty of them on Tiktok. The Venn diagram of coquettes/balletcore girlies, Koreaboos and anas is a circle.
Now we just have obesity too.
No. 1709021
>>1708784Carbrains are mentally ill. Every time they sit their flabby ass in the carseat they rot a little bit more. Eventually their rotten brains will just spill out of their ears.
>>1708756They have a point. People in Japan aren't obese because they walk everywhere and it keeps them passively in shape without gym time. However, the suburbanites deserve being obese because they bought a suburban house and propped up this country's horrific land use policies. This country is shit and the people in it are shit.
No. 1709040
>>1708773>>1709021Wtf thank God here in the deep south everyone minds their own business cause ive literally never heard of this happening.
But on the topic of obesity, most fat people have bad eating habits like passive snacking, eating large portions, having sugary drinks throughout the day, etc. A brisk walk doesnt burn that much calories at all. Japanese people eat small portions and healthier food. If they ate like the average fat American theyd be fat too, but ofc fat people will blame everything but their five fried meals a day kek
No. 1709241
>>1709040People always get up in arms about soft drinks/sugary drink taxation but soda is like the de fucking facto source of American health problems. It’s consumed like water in the south and I guarantee you anytime someone talks about losing 25lbs the first thing they’ll mention is cutting out drinking a 2 liter of pepsi a day.
And although I agree with your anecdote about Japanese portions being smaller, cigarette smoking is still huge in Asia while in America it’s uncommon because of the cost. So most Americans turn their addictive vices to overeating cheap snacks and dewing the dew instead of smoking three packs of marlboro gold 100s a day
No. 1709336
>>1708784This. When I lived down south and walked places I'd get shamed
mainly by retarded flabby moids because "we don't walk no where down here, only poor people walk". Granted, it is hot as balls but no wonder you're all round and out of shape. At least in ~walkable cities~ you're forced to move around a lot to maintain some form of shape. Even the old people out here gotta hustle around.
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>>1709365Fresh from the CDC; only Colorado and DC are ok.
No. 1709452
>>1709378Whats the map tracking? I assume obesity but the labels got cut off. What are the side maps? I think a lot of suburban people are fat in part because there straight up isnt a lot to actually go do that is close by and not a lot of effort to plan. There are only restaraunts for miles and miles it feels like. When my fam gets together all we really do is sit at home and bake pies and sweets and go out to eat. I really hate it, honestly. I wish there were arcades, museums, paintball, indoor rock climbing, streets full of shops to visit on foot, outdoor movies/picnic areas, anything that isnt a 'sit and eat' type of entertainment that was close enough by we could do that instead. Its self fulfilling too. Restaraunt food is seen as a treat and a family event, it is now a tradition they dont want to deviate from even if we could do so easily. Now a lot of my family has trouble walking and moving anyway, even the younger (30s) ones. Makes me sad. I am out of shape now too but I try pretty hard to walk regularly,bike,stretch, occasional calisthenics, and eat decently. I really need to go back to the gym regularly so I lose the ability to move too…
No. 1710616
>>1710595This is partially true but also lifestyle and environment. There's a lot of pollution that cause medical problem in long term, blue collar jobs are prominent which people work long hours for, causes more health problems and most of the time the closest food option are gas stations and fast food. Southern people aren't exactly just downing fried plates every day as anons have stated earlier. Not to mention the amount of health problems people are getting from the water and air, likely fucking with their hormones and appetite.
As someone that grew up in the south, I noticed that when me and others moved out the state we lost weight tons easier, despite our diet being the same or sometimes even worse (thanks super one 25 cent ice cream). I can't really come up with a perfect conclusion or anything but just throwing that out there
No. 1711154
>>1710653I grew up in the south and moved up north. You are completely right, I lost like 15 lbs without even trying within the first few months I moved and nothing in my diet changed, if anything it probably got worse because I wanted to try local restaurants and stuff
There's also a lot of shame and zero encouragement. If you gain 10 lbs everyone starts praising you if you got bigger boobs or something, the obsession with big boobs is so
toxic most people will seriously say a complete deathfat has a nicer body than someone like Adrienne Lima because the fatty has bigger tits. Gyms are terrible and barely anywhere, if you try to go to them and you're not actually fat (or you're chubby but not fat) you'll get some weird love yourself speech as if you just went 2013 Tumblr ana. The more near the Gulf you are the less fresh produce there is and if there is then it's expensive unless it's in season, which even then food deserts are a huge thing. For most of my life I was like a few lbs overweight and got considered the little skinny girl just because of how fat everyone is. And walking? Kek, unless you're in the city center of one of our only handful of cities good luck trying that without being honked at, someone trying to run you over, or rednecks trying to pick you up
No. 1712069
>>1711533I think they stopped pizza day during covid.
>no judgment zone' bullshitThat’s not something a lot of places really enforce, it’s just to bring awareness that some people are intimidated by gymbro culture and they don’t want guys screeching and leaving their shit everywhere. Like some people will go to PF because they need to do physical therapy and it’s the cheapest place to go.
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I'm just gonna put my phone in a drawer or something when this alarm plays because I don't wanna hear this shit.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emergency-alert-test-october-4-2023-fema-fcc-cellphones-tvs-radios/ No. 1714818
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nonnies… i am trying so hard not to become a carfag but i am so unbelievably sick of taking the busses where i live. they so often are grimy and stink like ass and have schizos yelling at the air and homeless who make everyone else uncomfortable. i've seen so much weird shit and smelled so many horrible smells that i didnt even know existed. just earlier i saw a homeless woman with dried blood all over her face who kept swaying around and bumped into the poor woman who she sat next to. not to mention being hit on by 50+ year old men at bus stops. also the fact that it takes 6x longer to get somewhere than if you could just drive there
No. 1715269
>>1714818I could fill a book with the crazy things I've seen on buses here but I still refuse to get a car. Then you just replace watching a fent zombie tweak out with watching a tiny-dicked brodozer road rage and try to kill everyone. At least if I'm on the bus there's cameras and a driver who will intervene.
I have seen some heinous shit. Just heinous. Hobos covered in blood sores and body fluids, violent freakouts, smoking meth, needles hanging out of arms, screaming rage-hobos having a schizo breakdown and shouting that they're going to kill everyone, guys kicking passengers and waving around knives, psycho junkies punching the bus windows and tearing things apart, driver getting in a fight with a hobo who won't leave and won't stop being violently mental, hobos taking a shit on the bus stop bench, hobos fucking, naked hobos of all varieties, extremely obese hobos mostly naked or in such poor fitting clothing they're essentially naked, naked crackwhores covered in scabies sores displaying their coochie in full view and doing a dance, hobos getting in death fights, daylight drug dealing dens in full operation, women being mugged, hobos tearing property apart and smashing everything and hurling chunks of pavement at people, cars on fire, underpasses on fire, random arsons, junkies doing the lean in groups of dozens, moids pissing or shitting all over in full view or jacking off, tent sites covered in rats, floods of rats crawling through the filth and scabbering along the sidewalk.
I've smelled things no human should ever smell.
It's almost like they want to put the final nail in the coffin of public transit and force everyone to buy electric cars for corporate profits.
No. 1715766
HERE IT COMES
>>1715759this is like the new years ball drop for my devices
No. 1715849
>>1715349america
>>1715585>>1715744>cars are safebesides the car jackings and cat converter thefts, you can't really own a car here. the window will get smashed out weekly, and parking costs $50/day. yes, car jackings, at gunpoint. of course that isn't counting the road rage shootings and lethal crashes. the bus is more consistently horrifying but it's actually statistically safer, somehow, than cars.
No. 1715980
>>1715779Did people actually say this? I haven't seen anything related to it other than people warning to turn off their phones if they're in an
abusive relationship
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>>1715980nayrt but yes lmfao, i've also seen screenshots of boomer conspiracyfags telling people to put their phones in the microwave
No. 1716013
>>1715968Sounds like a SFO area anon.
Crime is so bad in Cuckiefornia.
Had dev engineer friends who moved to Colorado from there because crime was basically unpenalized and they became afraid of their commutes to and from work. And that was a few years ago, and to my understanding it's gotten worse. Lootings of stores are regular there now too.
Car commuting is safer in literally any other place in Murrica. The Bay is not representative.
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How much are you spending on Halloween, nonas?
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>>1719626Can't wait to see how the elections go
No. 1719762
>>1719754They're lifting some previous health restrictions. And yeah the military advertises like crazy even as young as middle schoolers. They put up posters in "trendy" places like my local burrito place and bubble tea place showing a 4 year breakdown of how much money youll save vs going to college or whatever.
and they even invest in subtle psyops such as funding pro-military media (this includes everything from certain games to avengers and Top Gun). It doesn't have to be implicitly "GO TO WAR NOW" to have the messaging they want, it just has to introduce the dichotomy of us good guys vs the evil in the world and people intake that and keep it in their psyche forever.
That's how lots of moids came back from Afghanistan with nothing but appendage stumps and melted skin to show for it and then get suicidal when they realize they were used and there was no fraternity, honor, etc. They were larping as was every soldier that ever lived and took their last breath realizing it was a scam and they're about to be worm food. (Whether that was on the battlefield or in a homeless shelter). This is why they need ego appeasement the whole time they're amongst "civilians" THANK ME FOR MY SERVICE
The military does its best to not break this illusion until you have been used up, when you are fresh to them they will brainwash you to think you are the good guy and will be fine. Hence why the military does NOT practice with paintball or realistic simulated fighting: it caused massive disillusionment to realize how easily you could be hit
No. 1719808
>>1719803sorry your moid is brain damaged. mine agrees it's a waste of money and none of our business. it shouldn't be a crime to be neutral. after all, switzerland is a great country because it always takes a neutral stance to wars, and that's why all their citizens have healthcare and housing and they have the best public transit in the world. your moid probably jacks off to bloodthirst porn about dead russian soldiers and joining the ukies as a merc. i don't know why men cry when they actually get sent to war to die, when they spend their entire life fantasizing about it and playing video games about it.
women's tax rate should be halved and men's should be doubled. let them pay for their war fantasies themselves. hopefully zoomer scrotes all get drafted to go die so their andrew tate cult dies with them.
No. 1720959
>>1720952you don't really get it that corpos/government profit from war, right? it's not like US is giving them supplies out of kindness in their heart. ukraine is going to get out of this war with massive debt to US and US is gonna ride on that debt for a long, long time.
>>1720954I dont get how americans have a ton of guns yet they don't fucking shoot their CEOs. I think it's a good thing I don't live in the US kek
No. 1721005
>>1720975The plan is for Blackrock, Vanguard and other American companies to rebuild Ukraine which will be paid for a huge loan that Ukraine will never be able to pay off.
If Russia wins, Ukraine gets left as small bankrupt country with it's territories divided between Russia and Poland. If the US wins, Ukraine will forever be a poor country paying off debts to American corporations. Either way the country is fucked. Never trust neocons.
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>>1721244I just read up on him and he seems certifiably insane but we’ll see how things go. Its funny that Trump isn’t religious at all and it’s an open secret that he has paid for abortions for women in the past, but still panders to evangelical losers. Men are so shit.
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saw this on ebay and thought of the thread
hope you all had a nice columbus day yesterday
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>>1720922Completely random. You'd be surprised the lengths these people go to to steal. Every single friend I've ever had who lived in San Francisco (or worse, Oakland/the east bay) has been burglarized or robbed. A friend of mine just last month had someone CRAWL UP THREE STORIES to steal a bike that her roommate had sitting on their third-floor balcony, chained to the railing. Yep, they chained their damn bike 3 stories up just in case, and someone still jumped/crawled up 3 floors to pull themselves over the railing, and cut through the bike lock so they could steal it. Everything that isn't chained down (or is, I guess), you can expect someone will steal it and won't hesitate to kill you if you try to intervene. People even tell you to clear out your car every time you park, and to leave the doors unlocked to prevent broken windows. Even if you have nothing visible in your car, they'll break your window anyway. The bay (and this whole state) is so fucked with theft and violent crime, we're becoming more like Brazil and South Africa with every passing year.
No. 1722552
>>1722536Same exact shit happening in Philly, including being told to leave your car unlocked and to have nothing valuable in there. Doesn't prevent car
parts from being stolen, though. Not to mention the multi-people raid parties that just rush into stores and steal shit. Lots of women doing it, too.
No. 1722554
>>1722536big cities are containment zones for this shit and SF is the peak of the turd pile. Crime is part of the reason I'm moving to a small mountain town.
especially with internet, I don't have a single reason to go back .
No. 1722601
>>1721005i'll be the one to say it. this is why they wanted trump out. what did trump do? first president to NOT start any new war, and ended the last dumb one we were for some reason involved in. people said if biden won, he'd start a new war. what happened? biden in, suddenly war is on. trump was right. biden is a swamp creature with blue paint. "muh based heckin democrats" well what happened? student loans NOT forgiven. abortion GONE. NO healthcare. NO transit. trillions of dollars for new wars. meanwhile poverty rate is climbing and average families can't afford to eat. say what you want about trump but the economy was great with him and we didn't have new globalist wars being started. people voted for biden for student loans and roe v wade, and it was all a rugpull, he gave you nothing. you've been bamboozled.
voting will not fix what's wrong with this country. audits and guillotines might. funny we don't hear anything about those panama papers. out for a decade and no one went to jail, nothing happened, they whacked every journalist and lawyer who tried to tackle it and the average person doesn't even know what the panama papers were. they won and the american people slept like fat dumb housecats through it. the mafia is running the country but this time they ain't italian, just pedophiles and kleptocrats. americans have exactly the country they deserve.
No. 1722613
>>1722609the problem is the drug addiction. it's mighty clear. even ex-gronks will tell you it's the drugs. in my city they're paying to house these things with human beings in apartment buildings or buying up entire hotels or other housing buildings to turn over to them. when they get into an apartment they destroy it inside and out within months and turn it into a drug den. meth fumes circulating through the building ventillation poisoning every other resident, copper pipes torn out of walls, floors rotted through, sinks and tubs overflowing for days without pause, meth labs exploding.
it's just for grifting that they pretend they don't know the solution. they don't care if women get raped and murdered by gronks so long as they can keep getting $500k salaries to be the head lead department commissioner on unhoused neighbors of substances outreach program for fingerpainting therapy safe spaces for gronks of color and queerness. and the citizens quietly take it all up the ass.
No. 1722665
>>1722636the problem is the metrics that they use to say the economy is good are metrics that benefit them only, eg GDP and stonk margut. there are no metrics used which represent the interests and welfare of working class people. why? because working class people are doomscrolling or consooming or cooming instead of organizing, learning about the issues, and putting together a coherent and logically sound declaration of their demands to be represented in policy decisions. in other words, they're very stupid.
they are too stupid to even understand that they are stupid, let alone to comprehend the issues at hand and formulate discourse on them like the founding fathers or any other successful reform movement did. there's an anti-intellectualism in the working class where they take pride in their own stupidity and refusal to read books and learn argument and rhetoric. the people who can accomplish the above are smart enough to succeed even if the system is mostly rigged, so they have no motive to paddle upriver trying to drag the lower classes to salvation. there actually is a point to reading books, and it isn't about the plot–it's to gain better mastery of language and how to form complex thoughts and arguments in a coherent manner. which you don't get from television. therefore, the working class are willfully retarding themselves loudly and proudly and the end result is they can't advocate for their own interests in any effective way. sometimes they take a weekend to give a token screech or put on a dumb hat, but these are not a threat to the established system–they are they confused braying of imbeciles who are all bark no bite. to bite, you have to know what to target. the average person cannot tell you why they are poor or why the system is setting them up to be and stay poor. they can only bellow in flaccid, inarticulate rage.
intellectualism is dead and we live caught between two flavors of idiots being pick-pocketed by the wealthy, blind to it and all the while screaming at each other over inconsequential distractions. nothing ever happens and this situation will continue for decades as did the fall of rome, a slow descent to mediocrity and permanent destitution.
No. 1723245
>>1723230in the first place biden is the one responsible for making student loans not dischargable in bankruptcy. it was stupid how everyone thought he would save them when they could google search and see what a slimeball he is. i liked ron paul and even bernie would have been okay (although he's incompetent and a doormat, if not a grifter), but we can never have that, we only get crony picks. red crony blue crony, the american people get fucked over regardless. at least with trump we would have steady employment so we could pay the loans without trouble, now we have so much inflation our wages were effectively halved. the only good part about inflation is it erodes the loan balances in terms of real current value.
people get weird ideas in their head and no amount of facts can dissuade them. i know people irl who think kyle rittenhouse killed 3 black men. (they were all white.) you can't even say anything to them or they get angry and lash out.
there are a lot of people about to get wiped out when the loan repayments start. it's actually one of the driving factors pushing us towards recession.
No. 1723538
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>>1722582New England has had a ton of rain in the last two months so the foliage isn’t expected to be very flashy this year
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>>1723538Last year around the same time had a ton of color, this year is more green and red/brown.
No. 1723548
>>1723498>>1723499I just got a notification about my new prescription not being able to be filled at my pharmacy bc they don’t have it.
Is this a national problem? What’s going on?
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excuse me what? biden is building a wall now? what the actual fuck, the two party system is so fake
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>>1723547>>1723538aw my uncle in maine told me it was expected to be a good foliage year because it was rainy in the summer and everything was super green and it had been mild in september so if there's no storms or early frost it should be a nice foliage year… (I'm not asking him for pics because he's old) but thank you so much for the pics you're an angel.
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>>1723631I just found where he talked about this (picrel.) This bitch is useless!
No. 1723662
>>1723641>does the wall workirks me as a question because they want a yes/no on a question that isn't yes/no. what percentage reduction in migrants is necessary to conclude it "works"? if it stops even 1 migrant? if it stops 100% of migrants? what do they mean by that? god i hate journalists that
triggers my autism. they dont want understanding, they just want soundbites. they're marketers selling outrage porn.
No. 1723732
>>1723701Yeah, I don't see why we have to take in 10 trillion poor latinos when they should really be staying in their own damned countries and fixing them. it's sad they're poor but my tax money isn't a global charity fund. i'm also against foreign aid except in temporary circumstances like natural disasters. we shouldn't have 30 different insolvent worthless countries sucking on our teet because they can't figure out how to use a condom or make a functional economy.
like, look at mexico city, a sprawling shitheap of way too many people to the point they're driving the axolotl to extinction. why do they create problems by having no self control at all, and suddenly it's on us to solve their issues and clean up after their messes? just stop having more kids than you can provide a future for, this isn't hard. china did it.
same thing in europe, they dropped the "refugee" bit when everyone figured out these migrants are not coming from active warzones at all, they're just from poor countries looking to suck up welfare somewhere else, eating off someone else's back. why are we not allowed to say no after our charity and hospitality have been so abused for so long to such an extent? they don't even pretend to obey our laws or be grateful for our help. if white people did this to china, would china tolerate us? hell no. they'd kick our sorry asses out and rightfully so. this situation is so retarded.
No. 1725840
>>1725637men being too rapeape to not ruin a strike at the goverment laying claim to their mother's country doesn't make the palestinian families who were displaced any less of a
victim. men were the problem, you can bet if female palestinians were in charge of the offense none of this bullshit would have happened. also nobody has forgotten, "fuck palestine" is literally the common sentiment in the west before moids could fuck this shit up even among anti-semites cause they hate brown people and can sometimes put their-jew hate aside to hate muslims more
No. 1726430
>>1726425not every woman is frigid like you,
nonny.
No. 1726432
>>1726411actually no, you've fallen for scrote propaganda. pills are 100% safe. if you have side effects find a different pill that suits you better. that's why they have different formulations.
you know what actually damages your body and hormonal system? pregnancy. please stop spreading this misinformation, you're doing the work of scrotes for them.
No. 1726437
>>1726414you know, i could masturbate to the thought of andrew tate cult zoomscrotes being rounded up and sent to die for israel. god i hope there's video footage. one day they're posting dank women-bashing memes and the next they're tinned catfood, a nice schmear of fois gross all over the sand. i think war is god's way of reducing the scrote population and giving them divine justice for all the abuse they do to women.
if you think about it, men are only this uppity because they haven't been rounded up for death ca–i mean, bootcamps–in a few generations. war is the natural cure for male audacity.
No. 1726453
>>1726432>You’ve fallen for scrote propaganda Did you not read the part where I said I know women personally who are either fatter, stupider, or have some kind of chronic illness after deciding to become addicted to birth control.
>>1726430I mean, it’s not really frigid to understand that men don’t really make an effort to make women orgasm kek. Y’all must be young.
>>1726433>Oh men don’t make any kind of effort to pleasure women so you think women are incapable of feeling pleasure? Do you? Do you? Do you? A lot of you sound really autistic…
No. 1726486
>>1726432>pills are 100% safeNo drug is 100% safe. All medications including contraception, have side effects.
>what actually damages your body and hormonal system? pregnancy.The contraceptive pill works by providing hormones that make the body think it's pregnant. So if pregnancy damages a woman's body, then so does the contraceptive pill.
https://www.timeofcare.com/mimicking-pregnancy-the-way-hormonal-contraceptives-work/>The birth control pill functions primarily by preventing ovulation. The pill elevates the body’s levels of progesterone, which mimics pregnancy. The body behaves as though it is pregnant, disrupting the normal menstrual cycle and the release of additional hormones that cause a woman to ovulate. Progestin also thickens cervical mucus, which helps prevent sperm from entering the uterus. It may also prevent fertilized eggs from implanting properly in the lining of the uterusI don't think contraceptives should be banned but women need to be made fully aware of the risks and benefits so they can make an informed choice.
No. 1726522
>>1726490>stopping ovulating isn’t very healthywhy? why do you believe that? actually, stopping ovulation LOWERS risk of ovarian cancer, so i'd say it's pretty damned healthy to stop it! you just repeat things you don't even understand the meaning of.
>but muh nature gangrene and ecoli are also natural. but i do believe you prefer to stop those?
>>1726508only relevant to people with high blood pressure and can be alleviated with improved diet and exercise. you can't diet and exercise your way out of pregnancy. birth destroys your body. therefore birth control pills are always an improvement to health compared to pregnancy and birth. additionally, the cessation of periods reduces anemia and lowers risk of ovarian cancer. bc pills are the single best thing you can do for your health pharmaceutical-wise.
No. 1726544
>>1726536lowering a risk that is relevant to me, verus a bunch of risks i don't have the preexisting condition to warrant considering… hmmm…
Why are you so against women having control of their own reproductive system? pickmeisha. when you have the same arguments that andrew tate followers do, maybe you should rethink yourself. absolutely gross. my last post, i don't care what you do with your body, but i am taking my magic total life improvement pills and you can stay angry and terrified. go eat a twinkie while you're at it. eat five.
No. 1726577
>>1726544Total life improvement pills? Popping pills just so you can have sex with your literal natural predator is improving your life
that greatly? This verbatim sounds much more pickmeisha than any of the facts surrounding birth controls safety.
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No. 1727960
>>1726888??? google "the list tiktok" you're delulu.
>insecurities over being childfreeyou're the ones who can't leave us tf alone and are trying to ban abortion now. if i wanted a kid i would have had one, even the dumbest bitch in the trailer park can manage to get knocked up. yeah sure we're just jealous that we don't have toddler poop smeared all over our walls and carpets lmao? rent free
funny how men never get bingoed about having kids or "regretting it". only women. really funny, that. almost like you're a misogynist. you came here to attack people who don't even think about you.
No. 1728279
>>1728071>stuck at homewhat? unless your partner for some reason takes any means of leaving your house you're not stuck at home, if anything you're more likely to leave your home because its more socially acceptable to do things like zoo, pizza and arcade, going to the park, etc
>having your nipples sucked at like you’re a cow, being sleep deprived, just to subsequently have all of that hard work result in some bratty annoying kid who just drains your wallet would still be a massive downer on any womans existence.I don't understand, do you not want moms to be happy or something? there's a difference between not wanting kids and demanding women believe they're ruined cows by having children
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why the fuck did the military go so downhill
>inb4 stupid zoomers can't take the heat!
lolno. I come from a military family and it's been 200x more cutthroat than it has for decades. workouts are way too harsh and intense, conditions are so much worse, way less sleep, way worse meals, way worse medical care, etc. Almost everyone I know who enrolled got sent home before basics were even over because of some sort of injury, that was unheard of in the old days not to mention people can easily serve for years with no health effects
No. 1728292
>>1728282Counterpoint to your picrel: the draft shouldn't exist for anyone. It's like saying, "if girls want equality, I should be allowed to hit them!" Like… you shouldn't hit anyone, because that's assault.
>>1726888>The only women with wrecked bodies from childbirth are women who had unhealthy lifestylesNice
victim blaming. Also, I'd argue that having kids is
also scrote propaganda, because scrotes are experts at contradicting themselves. They simultaneously believe that mothers are damaged goods while also shaming women for choosing
not to be mothers. It's just a bunch of nonsense they engineered to both pass on their decrepit genes while also continuing to prey on young childless women.
It also seems to me like both sides of this debate project onto the other. Childless women perceive mothers as regretting the choice to have kids and using sunk-cost to bully other women into it, while women with kids think that childfree women are jealous, bitter spinsters who wished they had kids. Neither of those accusations are 100% true, so why don't we just respect each other's life choices and not browbeat people over whether they have kids?
No. 1728451
>>1728103no one:
literally no one:
you: "people who dont' have kids are just so insecure that's why they're always talkign about how my boobs are saggy now and how many stretchmarks i have and why my feet are now 2 sizes bigger, i bet they bookmark all my facebook photos, they're stalking me because they're jealous of me, i'm going to go post about it online so they can know how insecure they are."
you is the damn face of insecurity go contain yourself
No. 1728645
>>1728472What the fuck are you talking about? No one cares if you're childfree as long as if you don't act insane about it. Childfree people have the worse fucking
victim complexes on earth
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not beating the lizard in a skinsuit allegations, he looks weirder every time I see him
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We’re getting roasted in the China newsletter I subscribe to (again lol)
No. 1729217
>>1729197Saying that it's unlikely you're being shunned in mass for not having kids by strangers isn't saying misogyny doesn't exist, you're just further proving the point this is just your
victim complex
No. 1729222
>>1729159This is like how when I’d go on Omegle I would never see a penis, idk how but not once did I ever roll a dick but everyone else it was immediately erection! Just because you don’t experience it or witness it doesn’t mean it isn’t a common event.
And if you’re in Mormon capital how haven’t you heard the snippy comments mothers make about their daughters not having kids yet and the annoyed grin and bear it of a young women when relatives grill her about babies? I’m not even from a Mormon family and I was getting dumb comments and invasive comments from strangers, it’s weird and rude but it does happen.
No. 1729454
>>1729197This is my experience. We get so much pressure to birth kids and if we don't it's nonstop hysterics and shitstorms. Women get it way worse than men, too. My family has been trying to pressure me into having kids since I was 19 and it's so disgusting and such a feeling of betrayal. But males are free to just exist and do what they want, no one tries to boss them around and make demands that they change their lifestyle to give their mom grandbabies. And I can't even exist online in some completely unrelated thread without some deranged lunatic barging into the thread and posting no context unreasoned dripping poisonous hatred seething about childfree women having the audacity to quietly exist. I did nothing and someone came out to attack me, totally unrelated thread. That's just the tip of the iceburg on what we experience. And if we don't want kids, people can never just accept that and leave us alone, no, they think it's their personal god given mission in life to hunt us down and bully and harass us until we give in and do what they want us to do and end our careers and lives to have children. Men don't get this treatment. Therefore it's pure misogyny.
No one respects me enough to let me make decisions about my own life. No. They have to barge in and foist their bitter, angry demands onto me and bash me when I won't obey them. I guess the only saving grace is that they cannot literally hold me down and rape me until I get knocked up like they want. And in America this is worse than anywhere else, the people here are over the top foam-mouthed insane about it, they treat childfree women like modern witches and want to hunt us all down and burn us at the stake. Meanwhile I just want to be left alone to work, pay rent, and cook silly fancy things for dinner in peace.
No. 1729484
>>1729459Im trying to stay out of it, the amount of fake news is overwhelming and it’s not good for our mental health to be so wrapped up in tragic news 24/7. I feel like the US should not get involved with global conflicts, esp in the Middle East because nothing good comes out of intervening there.
However, the amount of “progressives” who are spouting the same level of hatred for Jews as neo Nazis is deeply concerning. I’ve also noticed a few proto neo Nazis LARPing as Palestine supporters to circulate antisemitic talking points. Between that and the recent 23andMe dna hack, it doesn’t feel like a safe time to have Ashkenazi heritage.
No. 1729527
>>1729457I feel like it's probably their reaction and then taking out of context the reaction of their reactions. People are probably just asking the anon if she had kids and then immediately getting fired and saying some weird cringe shit instead of a simple "no I don't want kids" then thinking its some weird breeder propaganda people rightfully react to her BS
>>1729454Doubt that considering Americans continue seeing young adults as teenagers until they're in their late 20s
No. 1729535
>>1729527Ah yes
nonnie misogyny doesn’t exist and people are never rude or entitled. Now here take your meds
No. 1729740
>>1729695>>1729726I'm aware of Palestinian genocide. But my opinion is based on Neo Nazi movements growing online before this official Palestinian genocide came about and the actions of Israel are making antisemitic sentiments worse. There are unironically people all over the world who support genocide of the Jewish race and pin all of today's problems on Jews. If you can't see the contempt for Israel being linked to Jewish people then idk what to tell you.
>>1729739Yes, but the problem is when you have Neo Nazis sneaking in under the guise of being pro-Palestine.
No. 1729746
>>1729726Go off. They're drawing swastikas in NYC but there's people actively killing Palestinians in the name of Israel. Like some d landlord scrotes stabbed up a fucking 6 year old yet New York brand Jews are crying because someone glared at them in Starbucks. I'm so tired of their
victim shit when they're also usually racist assholes themselves.
No. 1729848
>>1729451Not made up. It really happened to her. She had hers for a really long time. Started having issues with brain fog and emotional regularity and memory, but no one could figure it out. Got misdiagnosed with a mood disorder before someone caught the
toxic level of copper. Got it out and she was okay.
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Any nonnas planning to watch the Orionids meteor shower tonight or tomorrow?
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>>1732801Apparently it's visible in both northern and southern hemispheres (sorry kek thought it was just us burgerfags). If you can locate Orion's belt and aren't in too bright a location, you should be able to see some of them. I found this article that goes into better detail:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/orionid-meteor-showers-where-when-see-them/>For the best view, locate the constellation Orion, the namesake of the meteor shower, and find the star Betelgeuse. Just to the north of this star is the shower's radiant, or point in the sky from which they seem to be coming, NASA said. Don't fix your gaze on Orion, though. Instead, look about 45 to 90 degrees away. This will cause the meteors to "appear longer and more spectacular." Looking at Orion directly will make the meteors look "short," according to NASA.Happy viewing nonnies!