This is why you use semisexual instead of bisexual. It removes the ambiguity

it allows you to make it cooler than just boring plain text

Agree.

People who find it annoying have grown old and boring, or are too young to have posted on a phpbb with a tacky signature.

Tryin’ to make a change :-\

You should be concerned with debt/GDP ratio, not the overall number. We’ve had no problem paying our bills which is why in the past we have had an excellent rating. Historically our debt/GDP ratio has been in line with other nations with developed economies. Nothing unusual.

Moody’s is lowering our rating because our GDP is projected to go down (due to tarrifs and destruction of the public sector) and we are going to be operating with a budget deficit. Decrease in GDP means less tax money coming in, and we will be adding to the deficit anyway (and thus our debt) due to Republican policies.

Trump has also said he didn’t feel like paying the interest on the debt, which no one took seriously and he didn’t follow through with. Thank god. Since most tbills are owned by US holders, not paying out bonds is a direct self-own.

Focusing on the actual debt total doesn’t paint a full picture. Moody’s is only concerned whether tbills purchased will actually pay.

They’re just admitting that they think that the folk who put their food on the shelves, answer phones for them and clean the facilities don’t deserve a good life.

They have no problem being served by capitalism’s underclass.

I guess I will over-explain my snarky comment.

I’m making an analogy with robbing a bank, something that everyone would agree is a criminal activity because:

1. Bill Gates is a billionaire. Billionaires hoard wealth that they cannot possibly spend in their lifetimes and use that excess wealth to influence our political processes to get what they want. The existence of billionaires is violence, just not the sort of direct violence we all recognize.

If you don’t find that point convincing:

2. The only reason Bill Gates is as wealthy as he is is due to Microsoft being so profitable. I think it’s funny how quickly everyone has forgotten how anti-competitive and scummy Microsoft was during the 1990-2010s (and even today), and they definitely wouldn’t be where they are today without those practices. If you believe in free markets, this should make you angry, because competition is good for the consumer. Anti-competitive practices could be seen as a type of theft here.

A great deal of his wealth is unearned and comes at a cost to society in the form of an unfair technology market. He is the benefactor of a system who rewards those who have the most already, a system that allows your neighbors be homeless, sick and/or without basic necessities.

Kind of like a bank robber has unearned wealth. A bank robber (who got away with it!) giving away their unearned wealth to their favored charities doesn’t really belong in Uplifting News.

Ending the tip credit (where employers can pay less than min wage as long as your tips put you at or above min wage) would remove one of the biggest sources of wage theft in America.

I personally was a victim of this when I was a teenager. I worked at a shitty diner for $2.13 an hour and I didn’t know my employer had to make sure I was making at least $6 an hour or whatever (it was a couple decades ago)

I am currently a tipped employees and I support ending the tip credit (I don’t live in Massachusetts tho).

Honestly tipping is a dated practice. It should end. Removing the tip credit won’t kill it though. It’ll just help protect the vulnerable.

It is a joke. TrueAnon is a podcaster. He’s shitposting here 100%

Fucking lol. I can’t believe that shit’s real and from Reuters of all places.

I couldn’t find the graph on an original Reuters article (they must have gotten embarrassed and pulled it down lmao), but Business Insider still has it on their version of the article

(edit: and this is just time vs murders, not time vs gun deaths, a better statistic for this)

Bank Robber vows to give away his stolen funds by 20 years from now to charities of his choosing. He’s one of the good ones! So uplifting!

I totally love the energy of the poster in OPs image, it’s so warm and wholesome.

That said, it’s probably true that cats (and dogs for that matter) have a variety of coat patterns because of domestication. Not only do humans choose to breed pets for their coat variations, selecting for tamer, friendlier animals actually also just introduces a variety of differences from their wild counterparts. Coat color is one of them.

https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/197/3/795/5935921?login=false

But the [related traits from domestication] as a whole, with its diverse array of affected morphological traits, clearly cannot be caused simply by alterations of adrenal function. What, therefore, might be the common factor? What all of these diverse traits, including the adrenals, share is that their development is closely linked to neural crest cells (NCCs). NCCs are the vertebrate-specific class of stem cells that first appear during early embryogenesis at the dorsal edge (“crest”) of the neural tube and then migrate ventrally throughout the body in both the cranium and the trunk, giving rise to the cellular precursors of many cell and tissue types and indirectly promoting the development of others (Carlson 1999; Hall 1999; Gilbert 2003; Trainor 2014).

Edit: the adrenal gland is mentioned here because lessening the function of the “flight or flight” response appears to makes friendlier animals with better temperament for domestication. The idea is that domestic animals were selected for temperament first, and everything else is less important (why would you keep an animal that won’t stop biting you?).

jesus christ stop giving Ye attention. That means you, reader. Stop clicking on these articles.

One of the symptoms of bipolar disorder is “delusions of grandeur”.

…But Ye is rich as fuck, and everyone keeps giving him attention, even if it’s just to gawk at him. Everyone is feeding his neurosis.

This disease unravels people. It changes their personality. It robs them of their ability to sleep. It rewrites their memories. **If ** (with emphasis on “if”) there is good in Ye we might never see it, because in order for him to truly get help he has to see himself as the problem.

Stop giving clicks to this mentally ill Nazi fuck, and stop giving clicks to people who platform him. Piers Morgan is a vulture.

I got a cat on a restricted diet (diabetic) and two kittens who get to eat whenever they want. However, we gotta keep the kitten’s food away from our toothless old diabetic. Meal time for the kittens happens behind a closed door.

Constantly the kittens are meowing at the door for snacks. We let them in, they have a few bites, they stratch the door to come out, process repeats. We make jokes, “Time for second breakfast”, “time for elevensies”, and our poor old diabetic cat gets none of it. She gets carefully portioned prescription food twice a day (and an injection).

I always wonder what she thinks. The vet says the diabetes makes her feel hungry all the time, and I believe it. We have to keep the sandwich bread in the pantry or she’ll chew through the plastic bag and have some. Or, at least, that’s what she would do when she had teeth. We still keep it away from her.

She gets grouchy when we shoo her away from the kitten’s magic infinite food room. My socks and ankles have been gummed when she’s felt especially unhappy with the food situation.

This.

If I don’t cover up my very natural dark under circles and acne scars, I am treated differently at work by customers.

Wearing light makeup is professional, like wearing a collared shirt is professional. Society has decided this for me.

Some men at work don’t even realise I wear makeup because I choose natural looking application without eye-shadow. They only notice when I don’t wear it (“Are you OK? You look tired/sick”)

Which, in an ideal world, is why AI generated comments should be labeled.

I always break when I see a deer at the side of the road.

(Yes people can lie on the Internet. If you funded an army of propagandists to convince people by any means necessary I think you would find it expensive. People generally find lying like this to feel bad. It would take a mental toll. With AI, this looks possible for cheaper.)

Right? The McDs I remember growing up was a themed one. It was trying to be like a 50s soda shop. They had a model (or actual?) grill for a retro 50s car coming out of the wall. There were neon light decorations around the place and pictures of Elvis. They played rockabilly music instead of top 50 recent hits or whatever.

McDs these days reminds me of airport bathrooms.

Do you not charge it when you sleep? I don’t even have to charge mine every day because it’s pretty new and I’m barely on it. And I use GrapheneOS so it’s debloated.

I have to sign in to 2-5 programs to complete service for customers

I use shared terminals so I have to sign out when I am done

Each task takes about 3-4 minutes of computer work, feels like most of my time spent is typing in a 15 character password in 2-5 programs. I do this all day, 8hr shift, graveyards.

I just change a single digit number on this password when the 90 day rotation happens. Typing it in incorrectly 3 times gets me locked out, a call to IT. I work for tips, no time for that. My work environment is distracting, noisy and stressful, so even if I wanted to use “best practices” in choosing passwords, I really shouldn’t.

Management refuses to replace keyboards that aren’t in good repair. Several have keys that stick.

I type in a 15-char password probably 100+ times a day.

my phone is dead for 2fa

Lmao skill issue

I had this problem with Pearson. I got around it by making sure my bowser (librewolf) reported windows as my user agent. This was last semester for an online intro level course, ymmv

Edit: I see your other posts about how its not blocking access… Tbh I don’t remember checking, I just remember checking my browser settings haha. Guess I didn’t have to bother.

Yeah, I was really looking forward to google making more of those neat images with all the eyes and the dog faces. Additional fingers were always a plus for me, like cracking an egg and finding two yolks.

Now, instead of AI creating man-made horrors beyond my imagining (which are alien and rainbow colored), AI creates man-made horrors within my imagining (excuses for corporate layoffs, aggressive ads, etc, all excused by internet posters who don’t value art to begin with and have no idea what it is. Quit abdicating the human experience to matrix algebra).

pushes glasses up nose well actually,

Radiowaves are electromagnetic radiation (like visible light and microwaves). Sound waves are kinetic motion between air molecules. Your music radio is receiving electromagnetic waves and converting to sound waves through the radio speakers.

I’m not a biologist or a linguist but I think its perfectly reasonable to call a device that captures inaudible sound a radio. But it is different than your music radio.