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Lokarin posted...

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This is a reference to something and I don't think anyone got it

Clearly not, and that's probably a good thing as the scenario is bat-shit insane.

OhhhJa posted...

Ah you're one of those guys who thinks they're all rigged i bet

No, not rigged, but most sports fans tend to enjoy the personal gossip and drama almost as much as the actual games.

OhhhJa posted...

Yeah the "sportsball" people are even more annoying than the overzealous fans

Nope, not even close. Sports are basically reality TV geared toward men instead of women.

BlazeAndBlade posted...

Back for good or a limited time only

The over/under is 6 weeks.

Youtube has ads?

adjl posted...

I would guess it's because the US has killed the de minimis exemption for small shipments. Paying duties on larger shipments isn't a big deal and they've already budgeted for that, but for tiny individual shipments it's more of a problem, which is why de minimis exists in the first place.

It's not even the duties, it's the cost of the paperwork to pay the duties. Imagine paying someone working for $20/hr to fill out the paperwork to mail a single brick worth $1 and pay $0.05 in import duties.

If it becomes a serious problem, they'll almost certainly build a US distribution center or institute a minimum order amount. Or revert to the old "plus $5.99 for shipping and handling".

Muscles posted...

Why would suburbs make you lonely? There's a lot of stuff to do in suburbs. I imagine it's worse in rural areas where no one is around or in cities where there is too many people that its overwhelming and you have to keep your guard up at all times

I can tell that you're imagining rather than actually having experienced rural life. In my experience social cohesion is inversely proportional to population density. My dad passed away last year and the community support I experienced while cleaning out the house was more than I'd seen from 20 years of effectively suburban living. Everyone is friendly as hell. I saw people I hadn't seen since high school, who remembered me from high school or had siblings or spouses I went to high school with.

It's both good and bad, of course, because everyone knows everyone and there are some things you can never escape or live down. It's great if you share the interests of the majority, but if you for instance couldn't care less about high school football you're going to be an outsider.

CyborgSage00x0 posted...

you can't compel or force people to get mental help

Here's a hint: when people say "reopen the asylums" they're really saying revert to the legal framework where you absolutely could force people to undergo treatment.

adjl posted...

That's always a little unintuitive, since one would expect that in the year of our lord 2025 inventory systems should be able to update themselves automatically whenever a sale is made and the online product finder should be able to tap into that real-time data, but I guess there are a lot of legacy inventory systems out there that aren't fully integrated with the PoS system or online tracking, which the general public doesn't necessarily recognize or appreciate.

There's also the minor fact that the digital inventory may not match the physical inventory, and other than individual manual fixes for obvious errors the physical inventory is only done once or maybe twice a year. So if my physical inventory is off by half a case of whatever, it will show as in stock even if I've been sold out for a week.

Lokarin posted...

they are feeling unappreciated and are antagonistic towards you

Then liberally apply a crowbar to their person until they comply or are physically incapable of complying. If I'm going to die because they're an asshole, I'm taking them with me.

Give the jerk who put your medication under the anvil a 20 to go get it for you. They can clearly lift the anvil.

Revelation34 posted...

Nah I meant it will show a product at a location that doesn't even carry it.

I have never had that happen.

EclairReturns posted...

Good God, I cannot resist the urge to point out the irony.

You would not believe some of the social media comments being posted about this. I've seen many along the lines of "well at least these children won't have to grow up in a country Trump fucked over" and others far worse that I don't dare post here.

And correction to the OP: the shooter was a trans woman, not a trans man.

Accrovideogames posted...

Once or twice a week?! In what utopia are you living in? I was unable to find a food product in my local grocery store despite the manufacturer's website saying they were selling it there. I literally called all grocery stores in my city that were listed as clients. None of them had seen that product anywhere. It's been years and it still hasn't been updated.

I was referring to the listing on the store side, not the manufacturer side. Like if you check the Walmart website and it says the store near you has product in stock, but it may or may not be there when you go to buy it. They definitely carry the product but it's hit or miss whether there's any on the shelf at any given time.

Revelation34 posted...

I wish those online product finders actually worked.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I had to tell customers that the product finder isn't updated in real time. At best it's updated once a twice a week.

ooger posted...

Fun fact, you've posted a whopping grand total of zero sources!

A relevant wiki article is in fact a source. Not the best of sources, perhaps, but better than one that actively disproves the claim you made as your source did.

adjl posted...

My guy, we're just asking where this alleged source is. It's a simple question; no need to turn it into some kind of contest.

He's not posting a source because he doesn't have one.

I however, do. This is quite difficult to read as it appears to have been a scan to text in an era when such technology was still rudimentary at best but most of it can be deciphered from context.

https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/report/pornography-and-the-law

That's the Heritage Foundation's stance on pornography in 1987. People in general, and ooger in particular, seem to be overlooking or are entirely ignorant of the fact that "Project 2025" is merely the 9th edition of policy documents the Heritage Foundation has been publishing since 1981, usually 4 or 8 years apart to match presidential election cycles.

One can correctly state that the Heritage Foundation is in favor of banning pornography; one cannot honestly state that stance started in 2017.

ooger posted...

I already did

The only "source" you've posted was in post #198 that had an interview from 2024 that does not at all support your claim that Project 2025 started in 2017. If you think you've provided another source that does support your claim, kindly repost it or even just post a quote of that post so the rest of us can see it. Because as is no one has been able to find the post you supposedly made that supports your claim.

Ogurisama posted...

Honeybees werent having many issues in recent years. On that, we shouldnt worry about honeybees in NA anyways, we need to worry about native bees, like Bumble or Carpenter. Honeybees are an invasive species in the Americas.

Yes, but healthier European honeybee colonies can help resist Africanized bees from encroaching further than they already have.

Revelation34 posted...

The same content was removed from Patreon in 2017.

ooger posted...

Oh hey, right when what became Project 2025 started.

How interesting.

Still zero sources from the ooger little boy.

Cite a source for that particular start date. But of course you can't, because your source is several inches up your own backside.

ooger posted...

Maybe you should read what I wrote and linked, little guy.

Maybe you should grow up and admit you are wrong, little guy.

Edit: inb4 he marks me for trolling or flaming, as that seems to be his ultimate goal.

Amuseum posted...

Naturally a topic about pop culture eventually becomes a place to criticize the modern 'lonely' men and their 'toxic' masculinity. If half the men are lonely, the flip side is that half the women are equally lonely and complaining thereof. But then watching those tiktok videos, who wants to approach those toxic women.

That would be true if you were measuring loneliness solely in terms of romantic relationships, and heterosexual ones at that. Research shows that simply isn't true; even single women tend to have female friends (insert the entirely serious meme that single women keep women single), but lonely men tend not to have male friends as well as not having girlfriends, and homosexual men are as lonely or even more so than heterosexual men.

adjl posted...

I mean, regardless of when Project 2025 itself was officially established, the Heritage Foundation has been pushing similar agendas for its entire existence. To say the project itself started in 2017 isn't particularly accurate, but I'd be very surprised if one couldn't find examples of the Heritage Foundation (and those pushing agendas it supports) lobbying for things like preventing the sale of "immoral" media in 2017, capitalizing on the fact that Trump built so much of his presidency on "owning the libs" and was therefore likely to be on board with pushing back against "leftist" trends in media.

Yes, but you'd find that going back to when it started in the 1970s. There's nothing to indicate that their specific hatred of "immoral" media suddenly developed in 2017 as ooger claims.

adjl posted...

To be fair he did provide a source. Whether it's a credible source that supports the conclusion he's trying to present remains in question, but a source is there.

His "source" is an interview from 2024, which he claims supports Project 2025 starting in 2017 when the people who wrote it were already in power. I can't tell if he's been gaslit or is trying to gaslight us.

Since most of the primary sources are paywalled, I'll have to use everyone's least favorite source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

Project 2025 was established in 2022 with Paul Dans as director to provide the 2024 Republican presidential nominee with a personnel database and ideological framework.[63][41] According to the Johnson Amendment, 501c3 organizations like Heritage cannot explicitly promote a particular election candidate.[64] The Heritage Foundation spent $22 million preparing staffing recommendations for a conservative government in 2025. This was much more than what the group typically does for its staffing recommendations because President Trump said he had terrible staff during his first term.[63] Citing the Reagan-era maxim that "personnel is policy", some political commentators have argued that personnel is the most important aspect of Project 2025.[65][66]

The Mandate for Leadership series has had new volumes released in parallel with United States presidential elections since 1981.[68] Heritage calls its Mandate a "policy bible",[68] claiming that the implementation of almost two-thirds of the policies in its 1981 Mandate was attempted by Ronald Reagan,[69] and similarly, the implementation of nearly two-thirds of the policies of its 2015 Mandate was attempted by Trump.[69][70]

In April 2023, the Heritage Foundation published the 920-page Mandate, written by hundreds of conservatives.[13] Nearly half of the project's collaborating organizations have received dark money contributions from a network of fundraising groups linked to Leonard Leo, a major conservative donor and key figure in guiding the selection of Trump's federal judicial nominees.[71] Some of the authors worked for Amazon, Meta, and bitcoin companies directly or as lobbyists.[72] One expert claimed inconsistencies in the plan are designed for fund-raising from certain industries or donors that would benefit.[73]

I will admit to being wrong about the plan not referencing Trump, as it explicitly refers to him dozens of times as it it is a strategy and policy plan written after Biden was president to be implemented when/if Trump was reelected.

Bat178 posted...

Collective Shout have completely lost their collective marbles, and think they can get gamers arrested now: https://youtu.be/v70R-k4A7mU

Possibly the funniest Uno Reverse card has now been played; criminal charges have been filed against various members of Collective Shout in both the UK and Australia for repeatedly and maliciously misgendering one of their critics. They're so lost in the sauce that they've left themselves open to hate crime prosecution.

The discovery process will almost certainly reveal that some if not most of the "threats" these people have received are from their own sock puppet accounts.

There's almost certain to be a defamation lawsuit in the future, too.

captpackrat posted...

The best before date is just that: they guarantee the freshness and taste of the product until that date. After that, it may still be perfectly fine, they just no longer guarantee it. It's not an expiration date.

If it smells alright, and there's no obvious mold or discoloration or anything, it's probably fine. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so if it tastes good, then go ahead and eat it.

A "best before" date or anything like that is only valid if the product hasn't been opened.

That said, the margarine is probably fine as you said, although it does bring into question whether a product that can sit in a refrigerator for 8 years without spoiling can technically be classified as food.

We'll return to Atari 2600 graphics and moral standards, where you weren't supposed to allow violence against a human-looking character and those characters were only 10 pixels anyway.

I've donated in the past when I had spare cash. Not so much right now.

Accrovideogames posted...

No, it means that the food that did test positive never entered it. Either the FDA doesn't test all the food, or someone decided to contaminate the shrimp after it was approved by the FDA.

They test some out of each batch, and if any of the tests come up bad the entire batch is assumed to be bad. 99% of the food that gets recalled is perfectly fine, but better to be safe than radioactive.

Flappers posted...

The amount of food recalls in America for the past year has been insane.

I haven't noticed any unusually high levels of recalls, and the number google AI gave me for the year to date is actually low compared to the last few years. Most people don't realize there are several hundred food recalls every year in the US.

Flappers posted...

Do you guys think I'm just totally fucked?

Not at all, but you might benefit more from using one of the online learning services like Brilliant where you can start at the basics and work at your own pace rather than jumping straight into a structured learning environment you're obviously not ready for. It might be best to drop that class now if you can and try it again after a few months of prep. No one likes to admit they need remedial help but it beats slamming your face into a wall and quitting.

Lokarin posted...

yes, this is the right answer.

that's the other trick. to cut a piece of wood into 3 pieces you only make 2 cuts. This is an off-by-one error that is common in math

Deliberately trying to confuse someone who is already out of their depth is probably not the best way to help.

Flappers posted...

20 doesn't divide by 3 so... I don't know. Is division even the way to solve this???

You might as well have put a cuneiform tablet in front of my and asked me to read it.

That one is sort of a trick question, as you only need to cut the piece of wood twice to get three pieces and three times to get four pieces. So 20 minutes for 2 cuts is 10 minutes per cut, meaning three cuts would take 30 minutes.

Lokarin posted...

ya, this is 3rd grade math in Canada

Pretty much the same in the US.

Lokarin posted...

ok, this one might be a different countries thing. The LCD only applies to fractions, if the answer is 60 they're looking for the LCM (lowest common multiple)

They're the same concept being called different names. The lowest common multiple will be the lowest common denominator when used as the denominator in fractions.

Flappers posted...

By the way, if you look at the back of great value marshmallows it says "may contain traces of tilapia"

Marshmallows are generally made with gelatin from mammalian sources (i.e. boiled out of otherwise unusable connective tissues from beef) but certain brands will use skin and other unusable fish parts as the gelatin source to be Kosher/Halal.

You have to look pretty hard to find vegan-friendly marshmallows which are usually made from seaweed-based agar proteins.

The weird things you learn working at a grocery store.

6 years

VioletZer0 posted...

I want to merge into the human superfungus.

You mean Twitter?

Self-cooking shrimp. What's not to like?

Topical: https://xkcd.com/3131/

ooger posted...

Note how @ooger has yet to post a source, LOL.

Has ooger seriously gone full "I reject your reality and substitute my own"?

Bat178 posted...

The credit card company censorship shit has been going on since at least 2012, as a result of one of Obama's policies targeting them.

He knows, but he has a set of alternative facts he'd like to believe instead.

ooger posted...

Oh hey, right when what became Project 2025 started.

How interesting.

Project 2025 didn't start until after Trump lost the 2020 election, which is why it was named Project 2025 as it was planned to start when the next Republican president was inaugurated in January 2025. That's why it makes no reference to Trump at all, as it was written with the expectation he would not be the president implementing it.

Alternatively, you could say the very beginnings of Project 2025 was in the 1970s when the Heritage Foundation was created. What you can't say (honestly, at least) is that Project 2025 started in 2017 when Trump was already in office, as the Heritage Foundation had no reason at that point to be making a long term plan for what to implement under the next Republican president. That argument is nonsensical, but don't let facts get in the way of your hate boner.

Bat178 posted...

This problem of credit card companies censoring s*** has been going on long before Project 2025, and the UK's OSA was passed by the Tories back in 2023 underneath the table. Labor just chose not to get rid of it, and it's come into effect as a result. It's actually the UK that's pushing this, specifically their GOSRN, as the groups pushing it all have ties to them.

Don't bother, you can't argue with ooger once he gets his Christian hate boner going.

The only times I've reported an employee's conduct to management was when I was also an employee working with them. Generally that took the form of reporting the conduct of one manager to a higher manager.

ooger posted...

Oh hey, look where the origin of all this really came from.

https://www.thegamer.com/steams-adult-content-ban-has-been-plotted-for-a-year/

How shocking. /s

Yes, that surely explains why other countries are doing the same thing at roughly the same time. /s

Do you think the UK is part of Project 2025?

slaterastle posted...

I thought you were gonna say cus everything on there sucks and that's mostly true and it's sad cus it wasn't always the case.

I tend to watch a lot of what you might call edutainment. Long form almost documentaries on all sorts of topics with a lot of dry humor mixed in. If you can sit through an hour-long Perun video without getting at least a few good laughs while learning something you're probably dead inside. Likewise for Drachinifel or the Chieftain.

Admittedly, if youtube truly does go to hell I'd finally have an excuse to pay for Nebula.

josh posted...

Are the prices for liability only insurance what we're talking about here or just auto insurance like fire/theft?

No, most people are discussing comprehensive coverage, which would cover fire, theft, flooding, accidents that are your fault, etc. It's literally comprehensive coverage; it covers basically everything. Some states require it, some only require insurance for damage to others as I described and what you're used to. Comprehensive coverage is about 5x as expensive as liability-only, which is why people pay it by the month instead of every six months.

Salrite posted...

Mandatory auto insurance is an absolute scam. Over the course of 20 years of driving I've probably thrown 30,000 dollars down the drain for no reason and will never see a return on investment. There is no situation where this would benefit me, even if I were to get in a collision.

It's all fun and games until you cause $100k in medical bills to someone, or blow a tire and total multiple vehicles on the freeway.

josh posted...

Holy moly you guys pay a lot for your car insurance.
I paid something like AUD$650 for the year for compulsory third party insurance.

That's the equivalent of liability-only insurance in the US, and yes it's required here as well. It covers damage you might do to someone/something else but does not cover your losses. If I hit your car, my insurance would pay for repairs/replacement to your car and any medical bills you may have as a result of that, but it does not pay to repair or replace my car.

SinisterSlay posted...

I might as well just post my passport photo and SIN number here.

I think we'll all be trending towards Mexico's new CURP system, where you are issued an identification number that links to a government database containing name, date and place of birth, signature, photograph, fingerprints, and even iris scans. Using the CURP will be required even for banking, medical care, and yes some website access.

Although for variety they aren't doing it "for the children" it's "for missing persons".

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-biometric-curp-missing-persons/

SinisterSlay posted...

Without seeing it I assume some new information harvesting company will be used and everyone links to it.
Then it gets hacked.

That's the plan. And the hacks will be totally unforeseen and take everyone entirely by surprise because someone used "admin" as the admin password or something equally cliche.

SinisterSlay posted...

They never even said they were going to. They are using "ai" (they are not using AI, it's just an if statement) to guess your age.

You can also just tell it your age.

They may well have to get your ID if they want to continue operating in the UK, as their new law requires ID for anything that can be considered "harmful to children" and explicitly includes content that is legal in that definition. Twitter users found themselves having to use ID to see video of protests in the UK, for example.