If you chose to live in a small and isolated down,

And then on any post about housing prices, all you see are comments like “well you chose to live in an urban area!! If you liberals would just move to rural Alabama you could afford your rent!1!” So which is it?

Then I get downvoted for saying there’s a million reasons people can’t just up and move, including a lack of jobs and other resources in rural areas. Besides, a majority of people don’t necessarily choose where they live. There are countless socioeconomic circumstances that dictate that.

It’s just proof that people continue to fall for placing the blame on one another when it should really be directed straight upwards.

I’m pretty sure they don’t get paid anywhere near what they’re worth. Same old story in the US: anything that’s important to society, has to do with people’s health, safety, education, and so on.

What alternative would you propose for providing loans?

Making things affordable (or just priced within reason) if they are considered a necessity to live in society.

Yes, there are survival necessities ie. food, water, shelter. But in modern society, we can add Internet, phone, car (depending on where you live) or bus pass etc, and probably tuition for at least a bachelor’s degree.

If you want to buy a boat or some shit, then sure, you should have to take out a loan.

Did I mention trump anywhere in my comment?

No one said you did.

interpret all criticism of Biden as support for Trump

When you don’t vote, therefore allowing Trump to win the election…then yeah.

Equating the above with “all criticism” is what’s dishonest. Plenty of people criticize Biden who voted for him once, and they are still voting for him again. But you know that. We might not like him but believe it or not, we dislike fascism even more. Crazy, I know.

They didn’t say “any young people.”

They pointed out that 18-29 year olds have historically had the lowest voter turnout of any group. It was higher in 2020 than in the previous election year, but overall, not many young people vote. Hyperbole sucks.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/984745/youth-voter-turnout-presidential-elections-us/

“We believe in democracy in Texas…except when our feelings get hurt.”

My daughter still has to do homework during Chanukkah every night but gets the week of Christmas off

Was just thinking about this with my college, as finals week is during Chanukkah. I don’t think concessions should be made for any religion, but it’s definitely a blatant sign that christians think they are more important than everyone else and that it’s essentially already the state religion in the US.

Are you dense

I just don’t get it. I must be missing something really important about what makes her stand out as different from any other guitar-playing radio pop woman singer-songwriter since the early 2000’s. Why didn’t Michelle Branch get as popular? I don’t dislike her, just not my taste I guess.

The whole article could have just been this:

it remains unclear how encouraging people to vote can be construed as election interference.

But one of the weirdest things is how conservatives are totally obsessed with how many people she’s dated. One of the tweets in the article says she “runs through men like water.” Ok? Even if it were somehow unacceptable to date multiple people throughout the whole of your twenties, god forbid, exactly what in the fuck does it have to do with “election interference.”

I love how every male conservative leader can be married 5 times while paying for abortions for their girlfriends, but regular dating is where they draw the line.

This is exactly what I thought when I read that. What kind of “recalibrating” do they think they’re going to get to do with a christian fascist lording over the country?

I can’t help but have conspiracy theory thoughts, like this is some kind of conservative campaign. It’s hard to rule anything out anymore, and the idea of muslims voting for trump is just that fucking stupid.

There should be regulation of the private sector. There has to be some accountability for these corporations. The onus can’t be on the consumer one hundred percent of the time. It really shouldn’t be at all. Buyers should only be responsible for deciding which products would be best for them and their budget, not for having to predict which corporation will utterly fuck them over the least out of the only three corporations they have to choose from when they’re all trying to scam them out of their money.

I’m so sick of being scammed every single time I buy something. The government needs to step in and do their job instead of just handing out a few fines here and there.

God, this entire comment section is nothing but

“I’m not victim blaming, but…”

“personal responsibility”

“parents should be doing blah blah blah…no, I don’t have kids.”

The best parents in the world still can’t control what their kids are doing every second of every day. Kids will always find ways around every single thing that’s meant to restrict what they can do, see, or hear. I’m sure you never did stuff you weren’t supposed to when you were a kid…right?

I wonder why none of us paid subscriptions to access websites in the 90s and early 2000s? We all used MySpace, FB, LiveJournal, Make Out Club, Hot or Not, Geocities, Angelfire, NeoPets, MSN messenger, AOL messenger, the millions of chat rooms. Etc etc. We paid for time on the internet itself (like we still do) but at least then you could find one of those AOL CD ROMs with free minutes just about anywhere. You couldn’t escape them.

There also weren’t that many ads, just some banners at the top. There were web rings and stuff to advertise each other’s sites. But it seems like once pop-up ads started, you couldn’t get rid of them ever again. There weren’t browser extensions or anything, pretty much just anti virus software you had to go to Frys to buy.

In torrent client, set up Mullvad proxy.

I guess this is the kind of shit people are talking about. Wtf does this even mean.

I definitely care enough, but I can’t figure it out to save my life. All the online communities just act like everyone’s supposed to automatically already know what they’re talking about.

So right after I signed up at the beginning of this year, they switched from HBOMax to “Max.” I paid for a year in advance, and of course when I signed up there was nothing about them switching to a new brand. All of a sudden it was full of trash reality shows and ID Discovery true crime. I have no idea what possessed them to do that.

Then once it switched over I stopped being able to stream any new HBO shows on mobile and customer service won’t refund me any amount. Not that I can even communicate with them effectively. It’s all “chat” with AI or people who have no idea what I’m saying. Half the shows still won’t play on mobile for me.

TL;DR I paid for a year of HBO. They changed their selection a few months in. I lost mobile access to a bunch of their shows. And now I’m losing even more features before the year is up. That’s quite literally not what I paid for.

How exactly is any of that legal? Genuine question. What about the Federal Trade Commission? Isn’t there fucking anybody regulating these corporations in the US?

I honestly think it’s better than Netflix (most streaming services are) and Hulu and definitely better than Prime.

It’s just that once they switched to Max they started focusing on reality shows and true crime and other such garbage.

Exactly. The problem is that it can never just stop there. If we could all just “live and let live,” then of course everyone should have the right to worship how, when, and where they want to. But humans are all judgemental, narcissistic dicks who insist on forcing beliefs onto everyone and everything because they’re right and everyone else is wrong.

In the US, it’s never just a matter of “religious freedom.” It’s a matter of people having bodily autonomy, of freedom from persecution for loving who you love, of freedom from diseases that proliferate due to the rejection of modern medicine. There are even homeless shelters/soup kitchens that won’t allow people to eat or stay the night until they’ve sat through an entire church service. And that’s considered pretty normal in terms of charities that target homelessness and addiction.

It may be a cliche way to put it, but it really does act like a societal cancer.