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It was 15 bean soup and I was look oh hee hee hoo hoo what if I sipped on the dried bean water. Forgot it had kidney beans. Might explode out the ass later. Wish me luck

PSA about kidney bean poisoning I guess

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I've decided I want to become a Druid, if I win my benefit appeal I'm going to join the Order of bards, Ovates and Druids. Their chief wrote this essay on Druidism and politics, which I thought some here might find interesting. It's leftist:

https://philipcarr-gomm.com/essay/druidry-politics/

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Has anyone ever woken up and decided to drop their klan robes and become a Marxist? Or quit the SS and a year later joining worker picket lines?

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If Donny Dealz does drag us into another war in the middle east, is that the death of MAGA or will the chuds triple down and say this is 4D3D3D3D Chess and refill your popcorn bucket because any second now white people will rule the world again?

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It was horrible but not nearly as horrible as I was led to believe. Too bad we dont do laughing gas here, its only syringe anesthesia kitty-cri

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so many companies have no sort of actual user support anymore, they make you message them on twitter, instagram, facebook etc. i've even seen companies direct customer service to threads, and i don't even think anyone uses threads.

for my case, i barely play battlefield. about a year and a half ago i found myself suddenly unable to join BoB community servers, i assumed it's cause i was trolling some maga guy in the text chat and was banned for that. i figured whatever and since have been playing on the official DICE servers. a few nights ago i decided to play again for the first time in a few months and i found not only am i banned from the BoB servers, i'm banned from all the community servers. i found out there's something that tracks reasons for battlefield bans, so i look myself up on that, and i was banned for being reported for cheating. the support for this claim is that with the lewis gun 78% of my kills are headshots. but all in all i have like a 15% accuracy rate. i have no clue how that seems suspicious, but the user support to deal with this is, i had to join the BFban discord server, and "make a ticket", and each message takes several days before i get a reply. and how do you even prove you didn't do something?

what kind of user experience is this? i paid money for a game, some random person falsely reported me for some shit, and now my experience is completely fucked because i can only play in official servers which ARE full of cheaters.

wondering what anyone else's worst customer/user experience has been in this new level of capitalist hell where you don't actually own anything and can't actually use anything you pay for?

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hi comrades I've been on this site with various accounts since it was a subreddit and I've just returned after deleting my last account a few months back

some time ago I posted about being unemployed for a long time and lacking the motivation to find work and just generally being alienated and having no direction in life. a lot of kind people had great advice, and shout out to the person in particular who suggested postal work, whoever you are! that planted the seed in my brain and the more I thought about it, the more sense it made to me. and now I've just received a job offer to become a mail carrier! I will be out in the real world, serving the public, getting exercise, and most importantly, not having to work for porky

it will be a difficult road ahead, this is a radical change in lifestyle but that's exactly what I needed and I'm looking forward to accepting the challenge

PS any advice from other postal worker comrades is very much welcome, as this line of work is very much new to me!

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350gb so far. Shooting for 500+. I'm only 6 days into my new bill. Never let your dreams be dreams.

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🤔

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Ninety nine bottles
Of beer on the wall, ninety
Nine bottles of beer.

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The plural, of course, is karens rather than *karener, because we need to add new irregular plurals at every opportunity.

Likewise, the pronunciation, of course, is a Norwegian approximation of the English pronunciation, because we need to add new irregular spellings at every opportunity, too.

And the meaning, of course, is the watered-down sense of the word which has already proliferated across the Anglosphere, and is not only a far cry from the original meaning of the term rooted in the lived experience of New Afrikans... But is also entirely redundant except to repackage misogyny for a new generation.

The best part is that karen and karens are (in spelling) already words in Norwegian, meaning "the guy" and "the guy's" respectively. Because more homographs is exactly what we need in the language where the N word and "to negate" are spelled the same.

God help us all.

Note: The earliest uses of karen in Norwegian were years ago. A country that's like 90% extremely-high-proficiency ESL speakers is naturally going to soak up L2 slang basically as quickly as it emerges. Yet I have somehow managed to avoid actually running into karen in any Norwegian texts in the wild until just now, which probably says something about just how little I read in Norwegian compared to English.

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I went to the hardware store to get a couple of tools for a project and rang up some paint, tape and furniture rollers.

Everything went smoothly. I chatted a bit with the cashier while waiting for the paint to mix and exchanged some job talk, as we've both worked in the trades.

Pretty normal so far. I pay for my stuff, and put the roller in my side pocket and give it a pat, out of habit.

The painting tape goes in my other pocket, and I give it a pat, and I grab the paint.

He hands me the receipt, and having no space left, I shove it into my back pocket while turning to walk out.

My hand goes a bit too fast, and I accidentally slap my booty so loud it reverberates throughout the store.

My cheeks are still jiggling as I look back and lock eyes with the cashier. He saw it. He heard it. I just loudly spanked my own ass in front of this dude and he's staring back with a look of profound confusion.

I skedaddle the fuck out of there, cheeks red. I can never return.

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Like I would have months where I would take out a big pile of cash once and never use my bank card. Other times, I would have certain sides of town where I would use cash only or card only and switch it. I told myself I was playing 'opsec games'. Stupid stupid stupid.

Sometimes I like to laugh. Even since being diagnosed with ADHD, I will dogmatically stick to these bizarre ideas that come to me on a lark. Thankfully, I was able to talk myself out of train hopping with no real purpose or preparation. I've also completely avoided tattoos.

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Is there anyone here that I can stand on so that I'll look taller?

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Holy shit I've done so much lately i can't believe it's just been a week. Spent a couple more days in Prague. Prague has a very large (north) vietnamese population so i went to Sapa (little Hanoi) to check it out. Definitely not a tourist spot but cool to see and get some lunch in, quite a number of communist flags flying there. Praha zoo is absolutely incredible, seven hours there and i didn't even see the whole thing.

Went on a day trip to Kuntá Hora (Kuttenberg for you nerds.) it's another beautiful little city. Seeing some of the places from Kingdom Come was pretty cool but by far the best parts were the Sedlec Ossuary and the Church of St Barbara.

I moved to Brno, second largest city in Czech Republic, on Friday. Got here just in time for their cultural fest, several nights of fireworks a drone show and a bunch of other stuff going on. I'm typing this while sitting in the court yard of Veverí castle over looking the looking the lake. Took a boat out here and I'll hike the 4 miles back through the forest and along the lake.

Thinking my next stop will be Budapest, it's only a couple hours by train.

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Lots of protests, lots of people willing to go out and disrupt cities and force the state to listen. Great! I know Americans suffer under a fascist police state, commit genocides, underfund public services, ooh - they have a shitty bourgeois democratic system, maybe they're protesting to fix that, or maybe they're demanding free healthcare, that's long overdue. No, I know, it'll be about the insane amount of school shootings, or serious police violence. I know the LA riots started against ICE, that's cool, so maybe they're protesting for actually fair justice! That'd be a step forward.

Whatever they're protesting, they seem to be in huge numbers, so they'll probably make an actual effort to disrupt things. Occupy buildings. You know, some sort of direct action, they can't all stand around pointlessly. Anyway, enough anticipation let's go look and find out

Oh, the protests are just "Trump bad" in another form. And they're decrying all forms of violence. And the police are literally collaborating with some. Oh.

Americans really took all these years of mistreatment, fascism, genocide with their tax dollars, deliberately being made poorer year after year, violent suppression, being allowed to die in droves, and the mass culmination of that is.. "trump bad, also be polite while saying it"??? And then the protests are used as an excuse to tighten the fascism.

I can't wrap my head around it. Millions(?) of people coming out to protest, and the overwhelming demand is 'replace orange man with another genocidal fascist pls'. ie. basically for nothing to change whatsoever.

At least leftists try to get the fucking goods. Lib organising is the worst.

EDIT: I'mma just be clear - protesting ICE is extremely cool and not the part I'm complaining about.

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Politics have consequences. When elected politicians vote to arms ongoing genocide, people die. When elected politicians vote to deny people healthcare, people die. Politics and its consequences is inherently violent. dennis. If you want nonviolence take up rattan basket weaving

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had no idea until i tried pressing the send button

i guess this is some sort of sign that i need to logout

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Or rather that's how the news covered it. What had actually happened was that some conservative regions (really, the Deep South, Texas, and the likes) were blanket-banning anime and manga as "gay propaganda", so an addendum was made to a previous declaration about the broader human right to participate in cultural development.

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I’ve had like a dozen contacts join in the last few days, wayyyy more than the average of like 2 a month (if that). Really hoping it’s people getting exposed to the horrors of Israel. idf-cool

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I’m estranged from my family and have been for 10 years. I found out the police were trying to get a hold of me, but couldn’t because I am in Spain now.

Knowing his history and long term struggle with mental illness, it’s most likely suicide. I really, really hope it’s not something worse.

I tried calling the police department and they’re so, so fucking dumb.

Me: “Hi I’m calling in regards to a missing person’s case. I heard that the detective was trying to get a hold of me?”

Pig: Huh? Missing person’s case?

Me: Yeaaaaahhhh??? He went missing 2.5 months ago.

Pig: So are you reporting someone missing or are you asking about someone missing?

Me: ????????? I’m asking about someone missing [Brother Name]

Pig: Oh. Let me look. It up…. Yes SHE went missing.

Me: Huh? You mean HE.

Pig: Looks like they were found, can I do anything else for you?

Me: Uh, no, that’s great to hear. Thanks.

——- 5 minutes later ———

Pig: SOOOOO I was wrong she I mean he are still missing.

Me: OK? Sooo.

Pig: The detective will want to talk to you. I’ve sent this number to the detective. They will call you back.

——— 1 Hour Later ———

Sergeant Pig: This is Sergeant Pig, what do you want? (WOW, PROFESSIONAL.)

Me: I’m calling about my missing brother, he’s my sibling. I heard the detective was looking for me.

Him: Oh. Who is he again?

Me: [Brother Name]

Sergeant Pig: Oh yeah he’s still missing. Give me your e-mail and I’ll have the detective contact you.

Me: [Gives e-mail]

Sergeant Pig: [Doesn’t check spelling] OK I got it I will let the detective know and they’ll contact you. (Click)

I still haven’t heard back and I need to call again. Double bonus, I am AFAB and the local press referred to me as the “niece” who possibly kidnapped my brother. (Press was talking to my aunt) SUPER.

ACAB.

Anyway, feels like shit. Even if we hadn’t spoken in a long time because our mother is a monster. Part of me knew it would end like this, but it’s still shit. Don’t know how to feel. I’ve been vaping too much, but I’ve been avoiding alcohol and I’ve been trying to keep up with things because I don’t have the space to sink over this.

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for no reason at all

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Title. I totaled my car by rear ending another. Luckily nobody was hurt at all, I steered off when I understood I won't be able to stop so it was mostly side-to-side contact, caught between a highway barrier and the other car. It happened 7 hours ago and I am still shaken. It was clearly my fault.

I am privileged to have savings so I am able to cover my expenses for a new car (I need one due to my living situation), but it still sucks a lot.

I just wanted to get this off my chest.

I am just happy that nobody got hurt. Drive safe everybody, and fuck cars

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