I mean, how about my boring example from work the other day? I wanted to double check whether priority mail had guaranteed delivery timeframes before telling a customer that they did not and if she needed something by a specific day she should use UPS. When I searched “is priority mail delivery date guaranteed”, the first real answer, from USPS’s website, was a resounding no, just like I thought. Guess what Google’s AI told me? “Priority mail is a guaranteed service, so you can choose it knowing that your package will be delivered on the projected date.”

It’s fucking stupid. It’s wrong. It should not be at the top of search results.

Fucking lol

Chud

Just admit you hate science and want to live in a fantasy world where reality agrees with you 🤷🏻‍♀️

Buddy that’s like saying you won’t listen to physicists about gravity because they’re biased

Researching and reporting on scientific realities isn’t bias

It’s stating the truth

Fucking lol

The doctors who research this stuff for a living are biased

Science is biased

Reality is biased

You’re a regressive who hates that reality disagrees with you and would prefer to live in a fantasy world of your own making

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Regarding difficulty - on lower difficulties it’ll take longer to earn up the medals (though the major order rewards definitely help there) but I actually think it’s faster to farm super credits on the easiest 3 difficulties.

Hey, lots of people have a favorite subway sandwich. It’s whatever one is regularly least disappointing! Sometimes it’s the only option for lunch :')

They do have a say in whether or not they want to raise it. No one is demanding that they be active and attentive parents. They’re just being told that they need to help financially support the child that they had an active hand in creating.

Until UBI and true test tube births are a thing, pregnancy will always put all of the risk on the birth giver. This is inherently unfair. In order to even out that risk, the non-birthing parent should be required to support the child to a minimum level.

Granted, UBI and universal support would entirely negate the need for this discussion and it’s what we should be working towards in the long run, but we can’t just… not support the kids in the mean time.

PSA: it’s actually supposed to be “toe the line”, aka stand with your toes on the line like a good drone. Earlier versions of the phrase included “toe the mark” or “toe the scratch”. They are adhering to the party line, not pulling it along behind them.

https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/toe-the-line.html

I dunno, I feel like it’s mostly just people being people. We have a truck and a sporty little hatchback and people are just as apt to drive like assholes around both cars, despite my husband and I both also being the “drive just enough above the speed limit that we probably won’t get a ticket” drivers, and otherwise adhering almost exactly to road laws the way only mildly obsessive neurodivergents can. I think people either just don’t know road laws or don’t care about them and get pissed when other people do and “impede” their oh-so-important trip.

That sounds like a you problem, maybe you should raise your kids to be more conscientious lol

I mean for fucksake, my friend’s 15 year old knows he can’t make plans without checking with mom, even just as a courtesy. Raise a good kid and it’s not a problem, just don’t let them do whatever the fuck they want?

Are you making the joke I think you’re making, or am I just exposing myself for the dirty heathen I am?

Friggin teach your kid they can’t make plans without checking with you first, then? Besides, what if you text them at noon and they made plans with their friend at 10am? How is that any different?

It doesn’t work. You can still always tell the kids who have new uniforms vs those who had to buy second hand, or those who have designer backpacks or shoes from those who have Walmart versions. The rich kids who were raised to be assholes will still find something to look down on the poor kids about. Best friend was stuck in private school for years and hated it because of this.

Because I can’t get my husband to take his shoes off right when he comes inside after 13 years together, so I’ve given up and just started wearing shoes inside myself 🤷🏻‍♀️

Apartments that might attract lower income renters? Not In My BackYard!

Also possible :D

Great. Now I’m fucking terrified my nelnet loans will get eaten up by mohela. I was pissed enough when I got forced away from great lakes.

The woman arrested wasn’t the driver, just the dognapper. They haven’t caught the man who was driving yet, but I assume he’ll have much harsher charges if/when they do.

You know, as jaded as I am, it still saddens me to see gen z being just as jaded. I’m going to try a different tack, though I probably won’t change your mind.

Biden is a dusty old milquetoast imperialist fucktwat. No arguments on that front. However, due to the way our electoral system works, 3rd parties cannot currently be viable at a national level because you and I will never, ever be able to convince 50%+ of the population to vote outside the D/R binary. It is an unfortunate reality that every vote not explicitly for Biden is a vote that will help Trump in the end.

What needs to happen, realistically, is that we defeat Trump, buy ourselves 4 more years of slow decline rather than complete collapse, and work at a local level to grow support for some form of ranked voting before 2028. Now, granted, that’s been the goal of most pacifist leftists for years now and it hasn’t happened. However, keep in mind that even if Trump is voted in and we see a fascist collapse, revolution probably just… won’t happen. Not in America. Not in our lifetimes. Not in enough force to change anything. And if revolution doesn’t happen and you’re now living in a full-on fascist hellscape, how will you get out? Do you have a plan? Is it feasible? Even if it’s feasible now, will it remain so in two years?

I dunno. I have very little hope at this point, and maybe the “burn it down” zoomers are right. Maybe you all and gen alpha have enough energy to overcome the lethargic despair and bitterness that has suffused us older folks. All I know is that I’m too fucking tired to revolt after the train crash, so I’ll try my best to stop the train instead and work to build new tracks going the other direction. It’d be nice to have a little help but… Honestly I don’t blame you if you just want to see it crash at this point.

Wow, writing that all out just made me even more depressed 🥲