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Tyrannical governments, natural disasters, crime, violence, poverty—mix these ingredients and you get a hopeless society where people don't live, they just exist.
Sounds like a nightmare, right? Something we would never wish to see on Earth. However, at the same time, such a predicament is quite easy to imagine. According to the subreddit r/ABoringDystopia, that is because humanity is already moving in that direction.
This online community unites 760K members and they regularly share real-life examples to prove their point. Here are some of the recent ones that seem pretty convincing.
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#1
Strange Priorities
Uncommon Boston 1 year ago
The wealthy have tax loops so they pay less taxes, but we blame the welfare moms. Who costs the country more?
LizzieBoredom 1 year ago
Plus Elon (probably others too) gets Billions of taxpayer $$ as subsidies for his space & electric car companies, and then imports foreign labor instead of hiring American workers.
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pfeils wife 1 year ago (edited)
... but not you Elon! Please don't have any more babies
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turk 1 year ago
And one of those men (Musk) just put out his top three "fixes" for the economy, as requested by the current idiot-in-chief: raise the retirement age to 70, slash Social Security benefits, and more tax cuts for the wealthiest. But then, we all knew this was the Trump economic plan and idiots still lined up to vote for him.
Nikole 12 months ago
Ooo he also just reversed Biden’s policy of reducing prescription d**g prices, in case anyone was still wondering what’s going to continue happening and what the two sides really are.
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Shelley Keenan 12 months ago
Choosing between food and medicine. Shameful that people have to do this in the "wealthiest country in the world."
Jane Hower 11 months ago
Those eight guys employ or make jobs for TONS AND TONS of people!!! They aren't sitting in their bath tubs rubbing dollars all over their bodies. Most are working hard making things or building things, or providing services that EMPLOY lots of people. Thank god we HAVE smart, rich business men!!!!!!!!! Oh, and the top 1% of the poplation account for almost 50% of all the tax revenue we take in - so I'd guess they ARE paying their 'fair share', especially since the bottom 20% or more PAY NO TAXES AT ALL. Know your facts before you mouth off.
Rich Black 12 months ago
D***s, online gambling, and graduates who are functionally illiterate are the problem. Not tech wntrepreneurs.
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#2
This Is Not Normal And Should Not Be Seen As A Wholesome Story Either
L_M 1 year ago
America is weird... In Belgium, you can stay at home (a few weeks fully paid, then 60%) until you are able to work again.
RedMarbles 1 year ago
I genuinely hope that continues. Please don't lose it. We need examples to be able to point to in our fight for humane conditions for our workers. We have suffered a big defeat for most citizens (whether they know it or not), but it isn't over.
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Tropical Tarot 1 year ago
Happened to my mom with her brain cancer. She worked for our city government.
Blah Blah Blah 12 months ago
Incase ya'll didn't know this is wrong on so many levels. No one should ever be punished (financially or otherwise) for getting sick, ever!
Rich Black 12 months ago
Wait . . .what? He's a government employee with a denied health claim? Does Luigi Mangione know about this?
Before the subreddit was created in January 2016, there was a Facebook group of the same name.
The group was founded by the late philosopher Mark Fisher, the very person who originally coined the term "boring dystopia."
However, Fisher, widely known as the author of the cult classic Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, told Vice that the group "wasn't that well thought-out at the start" and that he hadn’t done anything like this before.
As a result, he closed it in November 2015. But apparently, the internet needed such a space.
#3
That Is The Truth Sadly
iseefractals 1 year ago
And i'm sick of people talking about "back in my day" before pretending that inflation is the only factor in how pricing evolves. The US population has increased by more than 100 million people in the past 30 years. L.A's population has tripled from 4 million in 1980 to 12.5 million today, 80% of Americans live in cities, trying to cram ever more people into the same amount of space, um lets see....the housing market crash that was facilitated by the well intentioned, if short sighted belief that everyone is entitled to buy a home, regardless of whether or not they can afford it. A teacher making $30,000 a year who wants to buy a $300,000 home? Approved with a 0.9% interest rate.....and ya know all the people who did, and continue to give AirBnB money, really didn't help. Right now a 30 year mortgage for a $250,000 home has a monthly payment of $1,834...because interest rates have nearly quadrupled in the past couple of years. Stop trying to tie everything with a neat little bow.
Offbeat Quinoa 1 year ago
Exactly!! (Also my last suite, which I left in 2018, was $780/month. I recently looked it up out of curiosity and it’s currently renting for $1500. It’s doubled in 7 years - this is ridiculous!)
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Nice Beast Ludo 1 year ago
My landlord knows someone in the courthouse. We live in Maryland. The court system is extremely corrupt. Our rent is due on the 26th of each month. If we don't pay it by the 5th, we will be in court before the 20th for eviction. She somehow gets it through the court and to the sheriff's office on the same day. It's like living under a gun. We cannot relax. Last month she filed for "without right of redemption" and tried to have us evicted before Christmas. I demanded all of the receipts printed out and she started to panic. Said the system was down. Can't even understand the paperwork at all but afraid to call and complain because she will have us out faster than we can blink. We paid rent all during covid and on time for 6 years. Now this year we have had a lot of trouble being late (2 weeks at most a few times) but since she got us into court so fast, we have about 9 court dates this year and no one in their right mind will ever rent to us again. Plus she charges over $400 a month in fees when we are late. It's a nightmare and we have no choice.
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
Or you get lucky. My first appt was 180 dollars and that price was still for 15 years. Admittedly, not much was done on the place but I could live with that. All utitilites included. I think they lost money on me the last years.
Pandapoo 1 year ago
My studio was $200 in the early 80s which I could barely afford at the time. I can’t imagine being 18 in this day and age and being able to afford a place by myself working 2 restaurant jobs while I went to college.
Load More Replies... Nimitz 12 months ago
20 years ago I was paying $600/month for a basement apartment with one bedroom, full kitchen, small den and shower only bathroom. That price included power, heat, cable, and high speed internet. That same place is going for $1400/month no utilities included. Minimum wage was $8.95/hr, and is now $15/hr in that city.
Offbeat Quinoa 1 year ago
I used to live in the Vancouver area of BC. I moved away (to a super cheap and remote rural town) in 2018 - the basement suite I left behind was $780/month and that included utilities and internet. In 2024 I decided to move back to my old neighbourhood in the Vancouver area, but when I looked online I’m struggling to find a basement suites or apartments for less than $1500. Basement suites used to be cheaper than apartments, not anymore. IT’S ONLY BEEN 7 YEARS 🙄 Exhausting that our pay rises so much more slowly, eventually no one will be able to afford anything.
Rich Black 12 months ago
I wish city governments would stop denying construction permits unless campaign contributions and bribes are paid
#4
'murica Never Disappoints
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
About 100 people shot dead in the USA every day. That's (very) roughly one every 15 minutes - and the powers that be don't care at all until it's one of them, the rich and privileged, who gets shot dead.
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Montanavanna 1 year ago
Is that panic when you are faced with the threat your choices could directly result in being murdered? Hmm, ya, we know Richy Rich. Only our choices that can lead to murder are to supply for our basic needs. Theirs are to get more stuff and things and power and control. For shame, they should be panicking.
Courtney Christelle 12 months ago
And they’re trying to paint it as an act of terrorism. I’d call being so greedy that you kill thousands of people with your company an act of terrorism.
Nikole 12 months ago
And who did it “terrorize”? CEOs? Oh no, I’m paralyzed with not caring about them.
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Michael None 1 year ago
Did anyone else notice how many tactical geared police they always have around Mangioni? They are clearly trying to send a message to us poors.
Weasel Wise 1 year ago (edited)
American here: I mentioned something similar to my husband the other day, "Anyone over 18yo can buy weapons to kill masses. But you sure as fukc better make sure that milk is pasteurized or heads will roll!" I hate you a little more with every day, America.
BWC 1 year ago
Milk should be pasteurized. Drinking raw milk is a fool's errand.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 12 months ago
School shootings used to be highly reported until it was discovered that this inspired deranged copycats trying to set a new body count record.
#5
Argentina New "Anarcho-Capitalist" President Announced People Would Lose Social Welfare Plans If They Blocked Streets In Protest. These Are The Streets Outside Congress At 3:00 Am
Rich Black 12 months ago
To bevfair, he has ended Argentinas 100% inflation rate. Expats are returning.
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 11 months ago
And we'll go on blocking streets every day! Next February 1, we'll march for the LGTB+ . Milei, you shall not pass!
Offbeat Quinoa 1 year ago
Being successful isn’t always a good thing. Hitler was pretty successful as well.
Load More Replies...Originally, Fisher had noticed a common theme in pictures he shared on Facebook and wondered if it could be developed into a group.
"It was understood from the start to be a consciousness-raising exercise, encouraging people to perceive the actual state of Britain rather than the PR state," he said in December 2015, a month after he shut down the group and before the inception of the subreddit. "Which is surprisingly hard, because there's this mixture of Silicon Valley ideology, PR, and advertising which distracts us from our own aesthetic poverty, and the reality of what we have. Which is just all these crap robots..."
#6
The Oligarchic States Of America
Nils Skirnir 1 year ago
Yep Visa is a helluva lot more humane than Tesla or FB
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Jill Rhodry 1 year ago
You mean like Lilly pharm in the top right hand corner
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
If people were corporations like corporations are people (thank you Supreme Court and Citizens United) the government could bail them out during the next economic crash.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
Right! I think Americans need to be reminded of the too big to fail bank bailout. The only thing it did was move more wealth to fewer people. Our money, directly into bank ceo pockets, and they didn't even hide it. We must have been in a coma to let that happen. I, myself remember the facts around who got what money, but it wasn't until someone talking about it last week did I actually see how calculated and diabolical that was.
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Lee Gilliland 12 months ago
Hmm, CBS but not NBC, ABC, CNN. Coke but not Pepsi. Citibank but not Wells Fargo, despite the recent revelations.
#7
It Is So Over Goddamn
person (i think) 1 year ago
1984! 1984! 1984! Good to see the thought police are getting rid of dangerous vocabulary for us
Lyone Fein 1 year ago
I want to scream. And pull out my hair. Or pull out the hair of the person responsible for this atrocity.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
They follow his lead and don’t read; reading is for cucks, simps and betas
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Owen 1 year ago
A story is about *how* it is told. I hope this monstrosity is meant to be satire.
Dragons Exist 1 year ago
Especially the Great Gatsby, which is known for it's symbolism
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#8
So We’re Here Now, Do We Deserve Each Other?
Corvus 1 year ago
Reporting your friends and neighbors is quite typical of... communist regimes. How ironic.
Virgil Blue 1 year ago (edited)
And facists. Here in Europe the nazis tried things like this all the time. At first with rewards, and later with threats of deportation to camps. Spoiler, even if you were their stool pigeon you still got to admire the camps and maybe meet some of the people that knew you sold them out.
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Learner Panda 1 year ago
This is the Nazi history repeating itself. Reporting your neighbour for having a radio during World War II.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Or for listening to transmissions from the west in socialist East Germany
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Reset Game 1 year ago
She voted for them so she should get to "benefit" from her actions that helped make it a law
Andie Day 1 year ago (edited)
Do you think for one hot minute she would hesitate to report you if you were raped and left the state to abort a fetus you didn't want and/or couldn't afford? And you certainly wouldn't expect as a slutty woman who deserved rape to have the father support his little crime, right? There comes a time when you have to take a stand. Report her. Doubt if she's intelligent enough to learn anything by it, because MAGGOTS are all so self-centered she'd think it was 'unfair" and mean. But just maybe you'd be protecting a neighbor. I'm sick of those people who are so 'special'. Don't make a law and then think you're above it.
Ece Cenker 1 year ago
I would not report her. I would blackmail her. Probably would not get me $10000, but I would take revenge scaring her sh*tless and avoid turning into an animal myself.
Corwin 02 1 year ago
The Texas Heartbeat Act, Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), is an act of the Texas Legislature that bans abortion after the detection of embryonic or fetal cardiac activity, which normally occurs after about six weeks of pregnancy. The law took effect on September 1, 2021, after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request for emergency relief from Texas abortion providers.[1] It was the first time a state has successfully imposed a six-week abortion ban since Roe v. Wade, and the first abortion restriction to rely solely on enforcement by private individuals through civil lawsuits, rather than having state officials enforce the law with criminal or civil penalties. The act authorizes members of the public to sue anyone who performs or facilitates an illegal abortion for a minimum of $10,000 in statutory damages per abortion, plus court costs and attorneys' fees
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It's A Trickle-Down Nightmare
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
We're still waiting for Saint Ronnie Reagan's tinkle down to reach the people. That could be any day now. Then Project 2025 could get down there by 2065.
Nikole 12 months ago
More than that. This damage won’t be easily rectified, if at all.
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"Crap robots" were a common theme on his Facebook group. One typical post included a photograph of a broken vending machine, with a note attached to it saying, "The light inside has broken but I still work."
"It’s Californian ideology without Californian sunshine, isn’t it?” Fisher asked rhetorically.
#10
Housing Crisis Reality
Owen 1 year ago
When I was homeless (Not in the US), I broke into an abandoned shop and stayed there at night. Just so I wouldn't die of exposure in a cold winter. I would urge every homeless person worldwide to do the same. If it's not being used, but it can save your life? Commit that crime.
Sue User 1 year ago
Years ago, washington dc was tired if this c**p. So they said thatif it was unoccupied and not up to strict code standards, they emminiently domained them.
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Karen Krause 1 year ago
The laws in the states are made so big developers get a bigger tax break if some of their houses are vacant. It counts as a loss. So that's why you see developments that are slow to fill, it's better.
Seadog 11 months ago
My son and I renovated a 1920 home for him and his family to live in. The last 2 years of the reno, several inquiries came in from people (companies) wanting to buy it. One in particular wouldn't give up so I finally told him it's $500k as is or $600k finished. That finally got him to leave us alone. Funny thing is one kept asking if it could be turned into a duplex. Really dude? We just spent over $300K and 6000+ man hours turning it back into the one family home it was originally built to be because someone turned it into 5 apartments in the mid 40s.
Rich Black 12 months ago
Actually, every socialist and communist gogovernment is a vastly larger landlord. But those homes are not as well maintained.
#11
Bernie Asks, Billionaire Answers: The $7.25 Standoff
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago
No CEO should get more than ten times the lowest paid employee's wage.
Subtlelikeawreckingball 1 year ago
When I worked for Signet Jewelers, the CEO was making 300x what I made. And I was not the lowest paid person in my store or district. This was 3 years ago too.
Load More Replies... Earonn - 1 year ago
No surprise. You vote for rapists, you get f****d. But so many just couldn't bear to have a black, female president...or a neighbour of a different skin colour. Or were just too lazy to get their fat a**e up their couch to go and vote. I'm just so sorry for all you decent people, and for those who couldn't vote for some reason.
pfeils wife 1 year ago
How this perfectly put, sarcastic comment seems to fit everywhere these days!! 😂😂 (I could only fix one of those downvotes, sorry!)
Load More Replies... Anne Roberts 12 months ago
No one, and I mean NO ONE deserve the kind of money these CEOs make.
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
Make every CEO earn the same amount as their lowest paid employee. You'll see income change real fast
UKDeek 12 months ago (edited)
Recently, Mike Black, a millionaire, went "broke" to prove you can make a $1 million in 12 months. Interestingly, he stopped this experiment 2 months early citing "health" problems after making only $64,000... https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/millionaire-becomes-poor-prove-you-can-earn-1m-year-fails-10-months-only-64k-1724388 Just goes to show how "easy" this is for the everyday person
Offbeat Quinoa 1 year ago
In BC, the minimum wage is $17.40 an hour. That’s $12.10 USD. Why are some US states still $7.25? That’s a ridiculously low wage. How do the politicians not understand that? Stop electing rich people lmao, they don’t get it.
#12
Heil… Wait, This Can’t Be Real?
Jo 1 year ago
Watching events in America right now makes me weirdly proud of our batsh*t political system (UK). We may still have a monarchy and all sorts of archaic nonsense, but there's not one single individual in government with the power to "pardon" convicted criminals with the stroke of a pen. This is some medieval madness
David 1 year ago
And I read that he did it TWICE. He turned around and did it again for the people behind him.
Virgil Blue 1 year ago
I saw the video. He did. There is no way you can tell me it was am accidental gesture in the heat of the moment.
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Leopoldo Pisanello 1 year ago
It took Nazis 78 years but they finally captured the United States.
Sue User 1 year ago
JFC, look at all the people making excuses. Even *IF* it was a mistake/ taken out if context/ means something else, any sane person would be going " i am so sorry" and be upset that people are taking it to mean something else.
BWC 1 year ago
The ADL made a statement taking up for him and he replied "thanks!" with a laughing emoji. He knew exactly what he was doing. He has the emotional intelligence of an 8th grade edge lord.
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pfeils wife 1 year ago (edited)
And so it begins. As an American... if you are also an American, and you aren't also terrified... then you are not paying attention. Elon is just one... watch the video and listen to how loudly the crowd cheered FFS
Nikole 12 months ago
Oh I’m terrified. And very angry. We somehow let these pieces of shít get back into power again. Thanks, uneducated and ignorant bigots!
Load More Replies... DowntownStevieB 1 year ago
Trust me as an U.S. citizen, most of us are on high alert. It's scary that a small faction can be so powerful.
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Palestinians Returning To Their Homes In Khan Yunis, Gaza After The Iof Partially Withdraw. This Was A City That Housed Approx. 400,000 People. Photo By Ali Jadallah
Janissary35680 1 year ago
"Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant." / "And where they make a desert, they call it peace." (Tacitus, Agricola, c AD 98)
Daria 1 year ago
war is a barbarian way of settling disputes, and should be made a thing of the uncivilized past where it belongs
Spark 1 year ago
You are right. I think war rarely settles anything. It only murders people and animals and creates hatred and distrust for many generations.
Load More Replies... D 1 year ago
Don’t fire missiles for years and then invade, murder, burn, rape, and kidnap people … don’t build terror infrastructure in nearly every home, mosque, hospital, and school making them legitimate military targets …. Hamas and its supporters own all the death and destruction.
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
Don't force people out of their homes at gun-point and steal all they have except for what they can carry so that a bunch of foreigners can settle in lands to which they had no right, and then expect the victims to remain passive while the foreigners attack, steal, and oppress them ever more, for decade after decade - longer than I've been alive. Israel and its supporters know that they are by far the worst villians in this story, for all that Hamas is guilty of vile crimes.
Load More Replies... Earonn - 1 year ago
But look, all those tunnels that are now that the buildings are gone, are laid bare! And the babies, don't forget the terrorist babies! And how will Israel survive if it doesn't burn people in a hospital alive and behaves worse than the actual Nazis?
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago (edited)
Israel isn't behaving *worse* than actual Nazis. You don't know what you're talking about if that's what you think. But Israel is behaving exactly as badly as the actual Nazis, while avoiding the worst atrocities. Wicked, yes, but not as bad as things got in the years 1939-45. A comment I heard about the true horrors from a researcher who spoke to survivors went roughly like this: "Whatever you think you know, you don't. There's always more."
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Nicole 1 year ago
Lyone you are a coward for writing that and then turning off your replies. It’s maniacal to think people should be ‘grateful’ to return to their city especially when they are returning to rubble. There were multiple instances of people being told to leave certain parts and go to other places and being bombed anyway. It is unhinged to sit completely safe in your house and take pleasure in the suffering of innocents. You seem normal when I see your comments on other topics but whenever I see your name I remember the evil in your heart.
HTakeover 1 year ago (edited)
Replies are automatically disabled by BP when downvotes hit a certain number. 5 I think. An individual doesn't have that ability.
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Kelly Hartle 12 months ago
Trump wants to relocate Palestinians to other countries and talks about Gaza as if it were just prime real estate, and we could just move the residents somewhere else. That's the thinking Andrew Jackson, his favorite president, used in the Trail of Tears.
Colin Briggs 1 year ago
probably shouldnt have celebrated hamas butchering, raping, kidnapping their way into Israel then, should they. FAFO
Nicole 1 year ago
Does FAFO when most of the victims are women and children make you feel like a big man? Do you feel powerful? Does it get you off? You are a ghoul.
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#14
The State Of The Union
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
What'll happen? Hopefully, full on revolution. Judge for yourself how much I'm joking.
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Ron Man 1 year ago
Millennials? They'll do what the Gen X before them without retirement did. Keep working.
Nikole 12 months ago
I’m a late gen X and my retirement plan is honestly suicide after a year or so.
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Seedy Vine 1 year ago
In the same boat. It's sad when you're hoping not to outlive your bank account balance.
D D 1 year ago
They won't hit retirement age for decades. By then the 1% will own everything, education will be only for the rich, as well as health insurance. The 99% will be a slave state. Billionaires will have wiped out all retirement by crashing the stock market and housing markets intentionally to buy everything cheap off the 99% who lost everything. The goal is to make everyone homeless and poor. There will be no more social security or medicare. People who have paid off their homes the billionaires will get their goons in office and make their property taxes so high they lose their homes as well.
Nikole 12 months ago
I actually agree. It’s awful and why didn’t his voters see this?? Oh, right, the stupidity and myopia.
Load More Replies... Anne Roberts 12 months ago
It's a terrible situation. My great niece is working on her Master's degree in Social work. She is already over $100k in student loan debt.
Seadog 11 months ago
Probably won't matter much because when all of the Gen X'ers and boomers are gone, there won't be enough people left with actual hands-on skills left to support the country. I look at the world today, see what's coming and sometimes regret ever having children. Maybe my grandchildren will get smart and move to Japan.
Cydney Golden 12 months ago
When the price of eggs don't go down, go up instead...when medicaid is cut...when abortions are illegal everywhere...?
Calyx Teren 12 months ago
Well, at least the Rs ensure that everyone can get guns so that they can off themselves rather than get healthcare and be well again, or have a well deserved retirement in the richest country in the world. It’s the only area I can think of where they are not howling hypocrites. Horrible people and inept at government, but at least if they drive people to suicide, they make it easy. I hope that they all experience trauma to the same level they have inflicted on others.
#15
So I Happaned To Rewatched Don't Look Up, And This Scene Hit Pretty Close To Home
ZGutr 1 year ago
I'd laugh real hard had it been satire but being that real makes it sad beyond words
Nikole 12 months ago
That pretty much sums up everything he’s done so far.
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El Dee 1 year ago
This is literally happening now. One of Trump's executive orders was to set aside the vetting for some of his picks for high office..
Nikole 12 months ago
And “Drill, baby, drill”. He’ll be known as the president who has the foresight to preserve and protect the environment… Just kidding!
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Miranda Prince 12 months ago
That was a definite "once is enough" movie for me. It was good, but too painful to watch again.
#16
Ten Whole Thousand Dollars!
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I truly hope for jury nullification. He made a good start at least. Go for Nestle next.
Orysha 1 year ago (edited)
Nestlé, Musk, Trump and the other health insurance CEOs.
Load More Replies... john doe 1 year ago
If my wife died and I had nothing to live for anymore id just start taking out whoever I could from the billionaire list, people gotta start doing desperate acts to ignite a fire in everyone else to make a real change, unfortunately the change will be bloody but when you try everything else and it keeps getting worse what other choices do the people have?
Rich Black 12 months ago
The guy who shot the CEO is heir to a multi million dollar family fortune. He was living at a "surfing commune" in Hawaii.
Lee451 Henderson 12 months ago
The problem here is when the opposing side starts doing the same thing.
The Darkest Timeline 12 months ago
The insurance CEOs are already killing regular people
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Economist Michael Hudson Warned That The Parasite Anti-Economy (Finance, Real Estate, Insurance) Would Devour The Real Working Economy. Article Link In The Comments
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago (edited)
Looked it up, this is in steamboat springs, Colorado. I then looked up rent prices in steamboat springs and it's about $2200 for a one bedroom apartment. Conversely, financial planners recommend spending 1/3 or less of your salary on mortgage/rent. So (167000/12)*(1/3)= 4638.88... and 2200 is less than 4638, so I'd disagree that this is actually affordable to live on that salary. (And I live in Colorado and am actually trying to figure out how to apply for this job, bc where I am now rent is also about 2200/month, but I make 64k...)
Lyla 11 months ago
I second the other comments, many other costs to take into account. And also, your calculations relate to a one bedroom apartment. What if you have a family to support?
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According to a new survey from book publisher The Folio Society, around 26 percent of American men and 14 percent of women feel like they are already living in a dystopia.
At the same time, only one-third of Americans believe the nation has a functioning democracy, and younger people were increasingly convinced that democracy had failed in the U.S.
Americans are particularly concerned over free speech (60 percent) and government surveillance of personal and family finances (45 percent).
#18
The Human Internet Is Dying. AI Images Taking Over Google
Montanavanna 1 year ago
GREAT NEWS! so almost every community, at least in America, has a physical library. They have books there! Mine has an entire section of books for sale but it is only by donation. Give what you can. We MUST use our libraries before they try to take those away too.
Nicola Roberts 1 year ago
I wonder if printed encyclopaedias will make a come back as a source of truth?
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
I don’t want anything to do with AI until it’s regulated. But companies are sneaking that s**t onto our devices. My company uses WhatsApp and f*****g Zuckerberg snuck AI onto WhatsApp—-and made it so it cannot be deleted or even turned off. So we’re forced to have it on our devices, with no choice in the matter. That does not sit well with me, as I do not trust something so potentially harmful that no one is even attempting to regulate.
Cydney Golden 12 months ago
I joined a gardening group on FB. So many of the images were AI. That's not gardening.
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 12 months ago
I used this, it's brilliant and works: https://www.androidauthority.com/how-to-turn-off-ai-overviews-google-3445771/
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And Some People Are Afraid, That A Class War Might Be Imminent
Libstak 1 year ago (edited)
You are at the tail end of your existence and still you have to score points and destroy the next generation for the sake of your ego....you are the dictionary definition of a monster.
Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago
You are missing his point. If you listen to what he has had to say for decades, he says that things are out of wack and that the ultra rich should pay more for taxes etc. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/warren-buffett-wants-higher-taxes-182425932.html
Load More Replies... Ece Cenker 1 year ago
What I take he means is that the rich class is busy waging a war and winning because the other side is kept busy warring each other about culture and identitiy and are not even warring at the moment.
john doe 1 year ago
So who is actually going to truly help fight the upcoming class war? I mean if you don't already think you should be fighting it now and willing to kill or die to finally get some justice when will you? What will have to happen to push you over the edge?
Ece Cenker 1 year ago
"...first you've got to get mad..." and stop burying your anger in distarctions.
Load More Replies... The Scout 1 year ago
Not at all, as his quote was to actually cast light on this events as something to be remedied. Although he is a billionaire himself, he saw that as problematic even back then. Which is why he started the "Ginving Pledge" (together with Bill Gates) in 2010.
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Leesa DeAndrea 11 months ago
The quote is taken out of context. In the article in the New York Times Buffett was pointing out how the tax system unfairly favors the wealthy. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/business/yourmoney/26every.html
Rich Black 12 months ago
This is the guy who has been contesting his $2 billion IRS bill in court for more than a decade
#20
Picture Sent To Me From A Friend That Works In An Amazon Distribution Center
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
B******t. Unions PROTECT workers. If they didnt, the corporations would not fear unionization.
Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year ago
I stopped reading at "Amazon delivered the truth"
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
WTF is wrong with America? Why are they so strigently anti-union? It makes life easier for everyone. Most of the time the union talks with management, representing the workers, and gets things resolved. Much easier for management than having meeting with thousands of individual workers.
D D 1 year ago
America isn't anti-union. America is 1/2 people who are pro-union and 1/2 people that don't know their a*s from a caterpillar. That 1/2 believe and do what they have been programmed to believe and do by MAGA propaganda and lies.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
That's what I like about the laws here in Germany- Corporations can't do s**t about employees joining unions. (They also work way different than they do in the US)
#21
Top 1% Of U.S. Earners Now Have More Wealth Than The Entire Middle Class
Sergy Yeltsen 1 year ago
The middle class has just about been wiped out in Australia. Soon there will only be poverty-level poor and obscenely wealthy rich.
Owen 1 year ago
It is not only in Australia. The super-rich make me hate money.
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Miranda Veracruz de la Joya Cardenal 1 year ago
Bernie was right all along and warning us for more than 30 years
LukewarmSoymilk 1 year ago
Just a few weeks ago I read that the wealth inequality in the US is bigger than in France just before the French revolution, so yeah, this graph checks out
Rich Black 12 months ago
If you hate Facebook, Anazon and Google so much, stop using them. Don't carp just because you're addicted.
However, why did Fisher close 'Boring Dystopia' 1.0 if his thoughts are proving to be so relevant to people?
"For me, the point at which the group started to go downhill was when it became like every other Facebook group. It was just recirculating 'content' and sending links, keeping people inside what I would call capitalist cyberspace instead of looking outside at their own environment," the philosopher explained. "It felt like it was reinforcing the condition it was intended to displace."
#22
Whistleblower Found Dead
Angie May 1 year ago
Just like all those Russian whistleblowers falling out of windows.
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CP 1 year ago
Not everything has to be a conspiracy. You know that, right?
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BarkingSquirell 12 months ago
This does not bode well for Quebec. They are shutting down the Amazon delivery station.
#23
17,000 Tourists Arrived Today With Cruise Ships In Santorini, A Small Greek Island. Santorini's Total Population Is 17,000 Citizens. Overtourism Is Real And It's Scary
Jrog 1 year ago
It's estimated the island could handle at most 8000 tourist/day. Instead, they have over 17.000 on average, the overwhelming majority from cruise ships. Tourists from cruise ships are generally considered the works type of tourist for many reasons: they come in large groups, overwhelming infrastructures and tourist locations that could benefit from a more "spread out" approach; cruise tourist are the ones that spend less on site by a huge margin, bringing almost no value to local economy; they come with the huge environmental impact of the polluting ships, and require infrastructures to be scaled up to handle sewage and utilities. Santorini installed a $20/day/pax fee on cruise ship tourism, and it is apparently still not enough to cover the financial and social cost of the phenomenon.
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I visited there in 82, when I was 11. Beautiful place, got to go to the other side and a boat ride around the rising dome. This looks like a version of hell.
Christos Arvanitis 1 year ago
Having been there a couple of times, this breaks my heart. I'm glad that mother grew up on a less visited Greek island.
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago (edited)
As a tourist why in the hell would you want to be a part of that? When I travel I try to avoid other tourists!
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
This is being poorly managed by the island governance. I understand that they may rely on cruise ship money for their economy, and the cruise companies may hold this over them by threatening to take their passengers elsewhere, but the island council need to negotiate a better deal where they get less passengers at a time, but those that are there get a better visit.
1LittleGranny64 2 months ago
I don’t get this. I don’t want to go to tourist sites…I want to stay in some small quiet town where there aren’t a lot of people. I want to go with my new friends to grandmas house for lunch. I lived in Spain for three years before I ever went to Madrid.
Rich Black 12 months ago
Greece has unsustainable government debt. This howvthey propose to fight it.
#24
Russia In The 90's But It's Argentina Today
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
Anyone glucose or lactose intolerant r gonna be f****d lol
Earonn - 1 year ago
Well, you know the saying: pay peanuts, get monkeys. Pay milk, get (insert baby mammal of your liking here).
Michael None 1 year ago
Its Argentina. Getting food as pay would be better than money. They're monthly inflation rate has been over 100% for years. Goods would be more stable as an income than their money.
#25
Guerrilla Poster On The Subway
1LittleGranny64 2 months ago
Why would anyone be surprised by this? Apparently, they feel threatened by black people running away from them that they can shoot them in the back.
Anne Roberts 12 months ago
Good lord. What do they do to real criminals?? Not paying your fare isn't good but you shouldn't have to die because of it.
aubergine10003 12 months ago
This poster is eminently misleading though. The ACTUAL story is here: https://apnews.com/article/nyc-police-officer-friendly-fire-shot-95f9201cc4be3fa727fe3528d7a6230f
The alternative to closing it was endless policing by him and Rumi Josephs, an artist who served as the group's second admin. "It didn't work at that scale, and you could feel that it wasn't the right place for it… It was just an experiment, and Facebook probably wasn't the right platform. I didn't want it to be diluted."
#26
Drones Luring Civilians To Their Deaths
Abdul Rahman Falih 1 year ago
Don't understand why you are getting downvoted when the proof is literally there!
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Sue Phillips 12 months ago
Yes, it is a war crime. But so is bombing hospitals and schools, deliberately killing noncombatants, blocking aid for innocent victims, etc. Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza for decades, and the world has just allowed them to do it. I could go on for pages.
Load More Replies... Fakeus nameus 1 year ago
This s**t is literally straight from the hunger games. They did it in that dystopian society and they do here too
Lori Gibbs 12 months ago
The Israelis learned their lessons well, hard takedown and they don't get up.
#27
I Can't Even... (Link In Description)
Agfox 1 year ago
"Next up in tonight's News, Soylent Green institutions to be rolled out from mid-2025. Join me for details after this break"
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
The right would be happy to grind up the homeless and make it happen
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deejak 1 year ago
Because it is almost exactly the same. We're just fleshy resources to be exploited.
Load More Replies... Earonn - 1 year ago
This kinda happened ages ago in Germany: a pregnant women had a car accident and was brain dead. They wanted to use her body as an incubator until the child could be cut out of her ( I refuse to call removing a baby from a brainless, dead, kept-alive-only-by-machines body a 'birth'). IIRC, "thankfully" the fetus died before the decision could be made. Ladies - if you're pregnant talk to your partner / doctor about this possibility. Make clear what you want (either way is okay, it's your body).
ManuelQue 1 year ago
This happened about 10 years ago in British Columbia. The woman experienced an aneurism and was quickly put on life support - which would have been done in any case to assess chances of survival. She was kept on life support until the earliest time that Iver could be born by c-section. Dylan Benson is the dad. As grateful as he was for Iver being alive he also had to say goodbye to his wife. I heard about a similar case in the U.S. where the baby died before it could be removed safely. I don't know what made the difference in the two situations.
Load More Replies... Nicole Weymann 12 months ago
Eight billion people on the planet, tens if not hundreds of thousands of children without a good, loving, stable home, and their "problem" of choice is how to breed more?
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
If you do a source check, the suggestion was that women who donated their body to science /organ harvesting etc also could opt to be surrogates instead. So not as bad as it is made here. I would use that option. Why not? Still better then donate to the crime farms where decomposed donated bodies are studied by forensics.
KLL 1 year ago
Please study my body for forensics. Do not use me as an incubator for some gods zealot offspring.
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LNB87 12 months ago
oof... it falls flat when you're too stupid to check what you wrote before you post it.
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This Ad Looks Like It’s From A Dystopian Movie But It’s Real
Roni Stone 1 year ago
Then, Alx, you and Musty spit those babies out your own asses and stay the hell out of our uteri.
Forrest Hobbs 12 months ago
But, but, but too many babies are the problem! That's what they said in 1968, when it was lots of *brown* babies being born... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Population_Bomb
Load More Replies... SCP 4666 1 year ago
Oh we don't need the sunglasses anymore. They're openly displaying the subliminal messages now
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
What is the latest money figure? Last I heard it was a quarter mill from birth to getting them out the door.
Load More Replies... CP 1 year ago (edited)
This is just so dumb, it hurts. Studies have been done and it is predicted the world will max out around 9.5 billion people. That looks to be true the way population trends are going. Instead of figuring out how to have more babies in a world that isn't getting any bigger, we need an economic system that doesn't rely on growth to prosper. That is why all these rich AH are panicking. The capitalists in power seem to know this, but can't apparently fathom doing things any other way.
The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
They’re basically threatening us all: if you don’t have more kids to prop up our version of capitalism, things are going to get very bad for you; we’ll make sure of it
Load More Replies... Karen Krause 1 year ago
How about, making the world seem like a place you'd want to have children in? Musk has trillions by now, single-handed he could end many of the problems the world is facing. But, no, he's hiring people to play games so he can be cool like a real gamer, while following trump around and acting like a 12 year-old nerd that just found a friend..
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
I'm trying to make A BABY! Sorry it took me until 39 to be in a position to even maybe kinda afford one, and now I have old eggs. Maybe make it affordable to have children before my eggs are all dried up?
Montanavanna 1 year ago
Yeah, that has been put out there. The powers and people that control everything are scrambling! We can no longer be deceived by them, their masks are slipping and they are nervous! We are much stronger than they are and unlike them, we have divine support. If you haven't had your awakening yet, captive, you are so close. I see a light warrior in you. Our silence is their armor. We are the people we have been waiting for.
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Yet Again The Us Vetoes A Un Resolution For Ceasefire
Tamra 1 year ago
Why would the US vote against forcing a ceasefire in Gaza? Because Netanyahu doesn't want a ceasefire. And whatever Israel wants, Israel gets, especially from US politicians. AIPAC gives *loads* of money to our politicians in exchange for favorable political support.
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Michael None 1 year ago
How are we supposed to sell the Israelis weapons if they don't use the ones they've got?
Jonas Fisher 1 year ago
I get it, honestly. I make it a policy not to put my foot down making rules that I know won't be followed when I'm unwilling to bring consequences to bear. What are all those other countries ACTUALLY going to do when Israel doesn't comply? Invade? Attack? Hardly.
David 1 year ago
because there was more to the resolutuon than that, was very problematic. It required Israel to fully withdraw within a few days, restore Hamas, and then after that Hamas to release the hostages, but ban Israel from re-entering gaza if Hamas didnt hold up their end of the deal.
Fisher cast Facebook as a distorted reality following an alternate sense of time, where old news is endlessly recirculated and human nature is subject to automation. At that time, the filter bubble had already felt developed enough to rewrite reality by what companies paid for us to see. Which hasn't really changed since, either.
Because of this, in 2023 (over 6 years after Fisher's passing), the subreddit's team eventually released a statement saying it wanted to honor his stance and committed to removing social media content unless posters get approval from the moderators. It will be interesting to see how well they will manage to enforce the rule.
#30
Improvised Shelter Made From Condo Sales Signs
Offbeat Quinoa 1 year ago (edited)
Ah oui, nous aussi. We also have a terrible issue with too many people not having access to homes or shelter.
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#31
The Official White House Page On The Us Constitution Just Went 404
#32
Used Meta AI To Edit A Selfie, Now Instagram Is Using My Face On Ads Targeted At Me
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
And this is your cue to sue for "personality rights" since they are using your likeness for commercial purpose without authorization.
El Cucuy 1 year ago
Sorry, but the average Joe suing an enormous corporation would get buried in litigation costs. It would never make it to court because it would drag on until Joe ran out of money.
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Yayheterogeneity 1 year ago
Somehow that feels well deserved but no. No AI should be allowed to do that.
Carilyn Beverly 12 months ago
Black Mirror is becoming Reality (ex. S6E1 Joan is Awful). Always read the fine print and Terms & Conditions!!!
Anne Roberts 12 months ago
Ever see the movie "Minority Report" with Tom Cruise? There was a scene this reminds me of.
#33
Tik Tok’s Ban Comes With A Side Of Propaganda
Andi 1 year ago
Hmm - a shut down just long enough to harvest and data dump all the information from Tictok to a 3rd party server - whoever that could be ....
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General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
It wasn't banned yet, ByteDance took it offline. President Biden had already left enforcement of a ban up to the incoming administration. No more than a publicity stunt by the owner. Someone's daughter's Chinese trademarks™ were probably up for renewal.
Steve 1 year ago
What is funny is that tRump was the one talking about banning TikTok when he was last in office, and now he supports them.
Tamra 12 months ago
Getting millions of dollars in campaign contributions will do that.
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#34
Even A Paying Customer Is Considered Loitering If They Stay Past 30 Minutes. What Happened To Hanging Out At Diners?
Fellfromthemoon 1 year ago
I wish coffeehouse culture came back. About a century ago, many artists, journalists and similar freelancers frequented certain coffeehouses and basically, worked at the tables. As they frequented the same places, these became real intellectual centers.
Michael Largey 1 year ago
If your skin is dark, your welcome at Denny's is a lot shorter than 30 minutes.
TruthoftheHeart 1 year ago
I would never eat at a Denny's anyways why would I pay you for something I can make at home I can make my own damn Burger or pancakes
#35
AI Company's 'Stop Hiring Humans' Ads All Over Sf
#36
Went To A Bar To Watch The Olympics. Everyone Pledged Allegiance To The Trump Flag Before Starting
NetworkMan 1 year ago
God, you Americans terrify me. I know it's not all of you, but I'm just using a blanket term. If someone here in England said they start their day pledging allegiance to a cardboard cut-out of Kier Stamer, I'd request to have them sectioned. Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it, and the last time people started to salute the man and not the flag, there was a 6 year war that engulfed the world.
Alfred Wessex 1 year ago
Just say “Trump supporters” then, not “Americans”
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DowntownStevieB 1 year ago
It's amazing how such a small faction of extremists in the U.S. can have such a pull. I promise you, most of us U.S. citizens are very uneasy with this. (Well, the educated ones anyway.)
kansasmagic 12 months ago
Sadly, many educated people are very much on board with this. Education just isn't the panacea it is too often made out to be. Awful people with an education are still awful; they're just more cunning.
Load More Replies... Kelly Scott 12 months ago
You guys are too young to remember, but we used to burn the American flag during the 60s to protest the Vietnam war. I think it's time to start taking the Trump flag out in the streets and burn it to ashes while filming it.
kansasmagic 12 months ago
trump announced that he was going to "restore" free speech, so he and his supporters should be totally fine with this idea.
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#37
Tire Particulate In Your Bloodstream
Anne Roberts 12 months ago
Oh well, as long as it's for a good reason. (Please note the sarcasm)
El Dee 1 year ago
Very few wars are existential. Most are territorial incursions/disputes. We even view WW2 thru rose tinted glasses. Somehow it's thought that we fought against the Nazi ideology of discrimination and destruction of Jewish, disabled, non-white, masons, communists etc. The Nuremburg Laws came in 4 years before war was declared and no one batted an eye. The war was over territory and the crimes of the regime were discovered afterwards but make no mistake, the world was quite happy to allow the Nuremberg Laws to go ahead whilst at the same time refusing access to Jewish (and other) refugees fleeing certain death. With that behind us you'd think we'd have learned that hate is wrong. We've simply changed WHO we hate..
#38
Today, For The 32nd Year In A Row, The Entire World Voted To Condemn The Us' Illegal And Cruel Embargo Against Cuba - Except For Three Countries
Jrog 1 year ago
It's not clear from the image, but as you would have guessed the votes against were from United States and Israel. Moldova abstained.
Atom Bohr 1 year ago
Thanks for that. You know it's bad when even Russia, Turkey and North Korea side with everyone else against you!
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A. HAM 1 year ago
I don’t see 3 countries, only the US, and the US isn’t going to vote against itself. Who is writing these captions, AI?
Nacho Man Sandy Ravage 1 year ago
I can see the USA in blue and another country above the Middle East area who abstained. Can't see the 3rd one though
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#39
Removing Slavery Was On The Ballot In California. It Literally Had No Opposition Campaign At All, And It Still Lost
Sue User 1 year ago
I am reading because so many people are telking me i am panicing, its not that bad, it will be over in 4 years. It is happenning.
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The Darkest Timeline 1 year ago
Do people not realize that slavery for those convicted of a crime is literally written into the constitution?
XenoMurph 1 year ago
Slavery was written into the constitution, it was changed, except for prisoners. But it's not mandatory. And the constitution could be changed to remove it altogether.
Load More Replies... Scott Rackley 1 year ago
Well, I appreciate your point, but your title is b******t. It wasn't about enslaving people. It was about work details for felons. Which I have no problem with. Hey, we know you're a murderer, but you gotta spend 7 years making license plates, if that.
Jess Bertram 1 year ago
They are still humans. Denying recompense for labor is slavery. No one has a (big) problem with their incarceration, just the unpaid labor. They got jail time, not slavery time.
Load More Replies... Candi Cabaniss 1 year ago
Read what it says. It is not about slavery, but not having people in prison work. I do not see a bad thing with that.
#40
I'm Going To Celebrate Today As A Holiday
Vermonta 1 year ago
At least it wasn't a bunch of school kids. If it was it would be forgotten by now.
WalterWhiteSavannah 12 months ago
That highly accurate post is possibly the best point in the article for what a dystopian nightmare modern times are.
Load More Replies... King Joffrey 1 year ago
"Remember, remember, the 5th of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot" - it's a British nursery rhyme referencing Guy Hawkes who tried to blow up the Parliament.
Load More Replies... 1LittleGranny64 2 months ago (edited)
The US either needs more Luigi or someone needs to start making 1789 revolutions popular again.
#41
A Perfect Snapshot Of America In The Trending Articles From 12/6/24
RP 1 year ago
Converting disused and failing malls (which were always a terrible idea) into mixed use apartment complexes is actually a step in the right direction. It is also nothing new. The French had a similar design back in the 19th century
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
They need to make them into retirement apartments for Gen X. We would totally fork over our money for that if it had an arcade and a spencer's gifts.
Load More Replies... Tropical Tarot 1 year ago
The one in the article does. I've seen stories about it but I can't remember where it is.
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#42
Sad Times With No Reprieve On The Horizon
Depressed Lesbian(she/they/he) 12 months ago
THIS MAKES ME SO GODDAMN MAD. I’ve been hospitalised for attempts, and attempted many times. It diminishes my struggles.
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Peter Griffin 12 months ago
a society in search of happiness and inclusion is one of the most depressed and suicidal. reminds me of Fahrenheit 451
#43
There Is No Privacy Or Freedom In Tesla
Pernille 1 year ago
In some places people who drive Tesla's are getting boooed, and have their cars scratched. In Danmark you can get a sticker for your Tesla that says you bought it before you knew Musk was an idiot. The sale of Teslas are also tanking in some countries.
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
The problem is that the fact that he is getting boicotted by one party only makes him more popular with the othe. Even if he sells to half the world he'll do OK
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Seedy Vine 1 year ago
tesla-owning musk simps in my town seem set on running everyone down with their cars lately
Kelly Scott 12 months ago
So make sure you give the finger to Elon every time you recharge your Tesla.
Warren Cancilla 12 months ago
This and Cambridge Analytica... And they're worried about china having our info???
Krzysztof Gajda 1 year ago
No, no. Not a fan of Musk or Tesla, but this one is bs. It was a rental. I fully assume that if renting a regular car the company I rent it from has a spare key. And gas stations are also monitored. The issue of cameras being everywhere is entirely different topic, but neither of those is specific to Tesla, electric vehicles or Musk.
#44
A Police Sniper Stationed On The Roof Of The Indiana Memorial Union Overlooking A Student Encampment At Iu Bloomington
HTakeover 1 year ago (edited)
There are snipers at every large social event - college level & up games, large protests, political speeches/rallys, you name it. Been that way for decades. Wish it wasn't normal, but it is.
Kelly Hartle 12 months ago
And it was so underreported that I live in Indiana, went to IU, and read the news daily, yet never saw anything about it.
#45
A Company Box Lunch That Comes With Simulated Cookie Printed Out
Manana Man 12 months ago
The benefit is mockery. You think you got a cookie? haha. F you.
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#46
It Isn't A Threat, The Casings Are Empty. It's A Reminder Of How Far Society Is Being Pushed By Profit Over People
Hoi-Polloi 1 year ago
It ... kind of reads like a threat to me! And I'm not even a CEO or anything...
Montanavanna 1 year ago
Discover IT Own IT Patent IT Sell IT Control IT Hoard IT Withhold IT Destroy IT Knowledge, science, Healthcare, resources, technology, capacity, access, education..the list goes on and on. We were not always like this, we can be a different way. Our silence is their armor. We are the people we have been waiting for.
#47
What's The End Game Here?
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
The spelling mistake was made on purpose to get clout online with this image going viral while they were undergoing a round of capital seeding. It was just a marketing stunt. The company's product is a barely functional "AI sales assistant" demo, they gathered about 11 million in capital round last September (that is chump change when it comes to venture capital). Their financials are sketchy to say the least, it's a very small company and they are entering late into a market that already have established players ten times as big.
Sue User 1 year ago
So they got artificial clout, some established company will buy them out to squelch any possible competition, they get rich.
Load More Replies... 1LittleGranny64 2 months ago
Let’s think about this. We’ve all been in the phone loop with the Virtual Assistant. After an hour of trying to speak to someone, it hangs up on you and you have to start again. I say we get rid of the AI and Virtual Assistants and go back to people who can answer a question and help you.
#48
Idk If They’re Joking With This Survey? Or What? Prolly Trying To Make A Point I Hope
Montanavanna 1 year ago
Spoiler Alert: they can do it, getting a feel for people's awareness levels and trying to frame it as a good thing. The only correct answer is hell no, f**k off, who do you think you are? It is time for you to leave planet.
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Tucker Cahooter 1 year ago
My dreams always get interrupted by "Technical difficulties. Please stand by" and I never get to find out how they end
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
I'd pay do dream about my Doggy every night. Take her for walks and her resting her head on my leg on the sofa, yes rolling up looking at me. Miss you Donna.
#49
Absolutely Speechless Right Now. Am I Being Trolled?
Nils Skirnir 1 year ago
Trump pushed for TikTok to be sold and Republican Congress passed it. Then Democrats approved it. Now Trump is backtracking or has plan for one of his lackeys to buy it
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
Well, he can't make any money from bribes by banning it.
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Sami-Jo Ross 1 year ago
It was all a publicity stunt. He wasn't even in office and they were all calling him "President". He arranged the ban so he could swoop in and be the "savior".
TTorrest Author 12 months ago
I used to love scrolling TikTok, and booktok was a great resource to promote my books. But I haven't so much as opened the app since this all went down. Trying to avoid FB, Insta, and Xitter, too. BlueSky FTW.
#50
What's Next Gambling How Many People Die?
Robert Beveridge 12 months ago
Bold of you to think people don't gamble on wildfire body counts every summer in California
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Playing BS-Bingo with politician reactions is fun, but this... oh boy
#51
Don't Worry Yall. Since La Cut $17.6 Million From The Lafd And Gave A Significant Portion To The Lapd, The Police Will Be Able To Handle It
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
BTW, it's not true and it started off as Trumpist propaganda. The LA Municipality initially passed a budget of $819,6M against previous year's $837M. This is where the misinfo stems from. What they omit on purpose is that the initial budget was preliminary, and in November the budget was raised a further $53M, for a net INCREASE of the 2024/2025 budget of about $32M over the previous year.
Peter Griffin 1 year ago
they could’ve used the money to fill the reservoir
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Where Have I Seen This Before? Hmm 🤔
Jacqueline Dartley 1 year ago
Do you believe everything you read? This was proven to be Hamas propaganda.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Oh yeah, clearly not false flag propaganda - Scary how many people fall for fake news nowadays as long as it targets their designated enemies
ShellsBells 1 year ago
I've been watching Al Jazeera for over 15 years, mainly because they cover the entire world better than other news media. The things they do to Palestinians is shocking. From tearing up their food stands, stealing their homes, shooting reporters in the head then throwing their caskets on the ground because it had a Palestinian flag on it (Shireen Abu Akleh, who was an Amerian citizen as well), to smacking a child across his face and ripping his shirt off in a grocery store with his mom. Except for the experiments (who knows what's going on in the prisons, where they can be held indefinitely without charges or being able to see a lawyer), they are treating them exactly the same way the Nazis treated the Jewish. It's almost like they act like this since the same behavior happened to their people, they must inflict the same sort of terror on others. And I'm not saying all, there are IDF soldiers who fled Israel because they couldn't participate in this. It's really sad.
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"What Starts Here Changes The World" Officers Surrounding Peaceful Pro-Palestine, Anti-Genocide Protesters At The University Of Texas In Austin
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
To be fair, if those are the same kind of protesters we have at german universities... I'd recommend an additional riot-control water cannon
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
America has a lot of problems and Trump being president is top of my list. Take all of the s****y things about America and have them be prevalent in one place and you get Texas. What a s**t hole place that is to live. F**k that state.
1LittleGranny64 2 months ago
Being against genocide is not the same as being pro terrorist.
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Had To Pay 50 Cent To Use The Restroom, But There Is A Cutout For Kids To Use It Free
Na Schi 1 year ago
In Germany this is quite a common pratice, as you usually have to pay for public restrooms. So I might have already drunk the KoolAid of this, but I don't see anything dystopian in this (well, besides that this cutout seems to be for very little children).
person (i think) 1 year ago
I wouldn’t mind paying if it meant there were clean, easy-to-find bathrooms
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Willem Oosterhof 1 year ago
This is also common in the Netherlands. You pay and usually you can get a voucher for the same amount and get it back as a rebate on a purchase at the filling station shop. The toilets are usually well kept and clean with this system. If this is what keeps these toilets clean and functional than it's a win-win for me.
Cammy Mack 1 year ago
It looks extremely easy just to swing a leg over, or just duck under if someone is willing.
Petra Schaap 12 months ago
ahahaha this is so funny. the concept of a clean toilet, after paying a small amount, is dystopia to non europeans??
Scott Rackley 1 year ago
I will gladly pay for Japanese toilets/bathrooms. I was surprised after 3 days I couldn't find one with a vibrating seat. They do everything else. Except give you a good pat on the a*s for a good job.
#55
Maye Musk, Mother Of Richest Man In The World, Sits In On Doge Meetings
jenniferann bunch 1 year ago
In all fairness no one voted for her son either yet here we are.....
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Tiffany Munday 1 year ago
Sorry , but has everyone forgotten about Ivanka taking daddy’s seat at a G20 summit meeting in 2017 ?
#56
Spotify Decided The Device I Bought Less Than 2 Years Ago Will Just Stop Working
#57
Israel Wipes Out Another Village In Lebanon
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
This is supposed to be a photo of the Libanese village of Ramyeh. Must be pointed out the photo is of dubious origin, with some claiming it's from the 1982 war, some claiming AI but for sure it lacks a definite source. What is true, though, is that Ramyeh suffered intensive and repeated bombing by the IDF, and the Israeli attacked on purpose an UN Peacekeeping outpost with tanks and rockets killing 4 and wounding 15, in what is effectively a war crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_attack_on_Ramyah_UNIFIL_post
DowntownStevieB 1 year ago
I certainly do not agree with war. I'll never understand the need to harm regular citizen's lives, or harm anyone anyway. Wouldn't it be nice if we let the leaders, who do all the trash talk, just duke it out and waste their own time and money?
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Only works if both sides actually have their forces in uniform - Hamas and Hizbollah disguise themselves as civilians and use civilian infrastructure for military purposes.
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XenoMurph 1 year ago
I went to a Jewish school in Dublin. met the president of Israel several times. Lived in a Jewish enclave, our house had mezuzahs on the door posts. Lovely Jewish neighbours on both sides. No, I don't hate Jews, but I do hate what Israel has done. How does killing thousands of children, and destroying the entire infrastructure of the area make Israel safer, less likely to be attacked? How does it calm tensions in the region so that the nation can normalise relations with its neighbours? Israel =/= Jews. Israel's actions are wrong. Hating Jews is wrong.
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Owen 1 year ago
Agreed. But there are levels that have been taken too far in retaliation.
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Just Got This In The Mail Today
DowntownStevieB 1 year ago
It's astounding how much insurance gets in the way of proper patient care.
Son of Philosoraptor 1 year ago
I've seen ones where they approve the surgeon but deny the anesthesiologist. That's a special moment!
Roxy222uk 1 year ago
As a non-American I genuinely don't understand how this works. A doctor prescribes something and the insurance company says that the doctor is wrong and they don't need it?
BarfyCat 1 year ago
Yes. Because they don't want to pay for it. And now doctors have to spend a ridiculous amount of time trying to fight for their patients.
Load More Replies... 1LittleGranny64 2 months ago
If America is SO advanced, why are they the only first world nation without universal healthcare? You know the rest of us don’t have to deal with this, right?
#59
The Definition Of “Out Of Touch”
#60
Fortune Magazine Shaming Gen Z For Not Purchasing Diamonds Mined By Children Or Owned By Oligarchs
Jrog 1 year ago (edited)
Misleading claim. Lab grown diamonds are not made from "burning coal". They are made from purified CO2 gas obtained mostly from desulphurized natural gas or liquid oil, fed into a a process called HPHT (High Pressure, High Temp). The main production hubs for synthetic gems are effectively India or China, and in those countries 60-70% of the electricity produced comes from coal. Not the energy specific for the diamond manufacturing: ALL the electricity. So, if we consider this claim ANYTHING made there is made "from burning coal".
Jrog 1 year ago
The title comes from a clickbait-ey article from Fortune last October, that boiled down to "we asked but they did not respond, so we consider the worst case and make up some claims".
Load More Replies... Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 1 year ago
So we now can't buy anything because fossil fuels are involved in everything we buy...
Disgruntled Panda 1 year ago
Kids working in graphite mines are no joke. Just don't buy diamonds, either mined or factory made
Vermonta 1 year ago
They prefer to have adventures rather than a ring that looks like a piece of glass. Will gold ever lose value?
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago
Maybe as jewellery, it's very essential for high-tech industries still
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Corporate Media Says Corporate Greed Not Driving Inflation
Offbeat Quinoa 1 year ago
The fact that a company isn’t considered successful unless it makes MORE MONEY than it did the previous year is a huge part of the problem. They need to raise their profit margins EVERY YEAR. They need to make more and more and more and more, while us regular people are still making the same wages. Companies are successful but individual people are struggling. The human species is so backwards right now.
D D 1 year ago
There's only one way to know for sure.... Did they increase their prices and/or provide less for the same price? Did that coincide with record profits? Then indeed this was corporate greed. The fact that they are so bold to brag to shareholders about record profits while price gouging us AFTER getting massive tax breaks. The epitome of corporate greed!
Ravenkbh 1 year ago
It's not Corporate greed it's consumer greed by refusing to give Corporations more money.
Montanavanna 1 year ago
Consumer greed can be the antichrist to corporate greed. I'm not crazy about that framing. It is time to get real particular about who we give our money to for goods and services. Shop local as much as possible. I think this could be a beautiful moment in time for the local business to be reborn.
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That Won't Even Cover My Out Of Pocket Maximum For The Year
D D 1 year ago
Pensions have been stripped away, they give less and less benefits and health care is being stripped. When we have health care they deny the claim. Home insurance and car insurance will charge you more to recover the costs if you file a claim so you actually pay more than the cost of the original claim even though they pocketed your money for decades without a claim. Health Insurance is in the business of taking money and refusing to provide the service you paid for WHEN YOU NEED IT MOST. This a*s clown literally made everything worse (not Luigi the CEO). It is hard to believe it can get worse but he managed to make it happen. We are applauding that someone is doing ANYTHING to get this tyranny to stop. Meanwhile thousands of children are killed by gun violence and we just look away & say oh what can you do? But the second a CEO got shot they sure went into action didn't they? It won't matter because insurance company's are morally and ethically bankrupt just like the President.
1LittleGranny64 2 months ago
CEOs and politicians seem to be pushing for a new revolution in the form of 1789 by pissed off citizens.
#63
Ys Presidential Candidate And Ambassador To The Un, Writes ‘Finish Them’ On Bombs Used To Mass M*rder Children
David 1 year ago
This photo is cropped. The one in the Reddit thread this was scraped from includes the text, "Nikki Haley writing "Finish them" on Israeli missiles. This woman ran for president in the US." It's nit picking - but they appear to be artillery shells, not missiles or bombs. Same practical difference though.
Bored Sailor 1 year ago
That is not US artillery. And Nikki Hailey has dark brown/black hair.
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Lila Allen 1 year ago
Oddly redundant.. I mean isn't the exact purpose of bombs to finish them?
#64
The First Image That Pops Up When You Google Beethoven Is Now AI Generated
WindySwede 1 year ago
Not even that much if you add 'AI' at the end. But I use Ecosia. 🤷♂️
Load More Replies... Beto River 1 year ago
There are no real Pictures of Beethoven. All portraits are sketches or paintings...
Bell-icose 1 year ago
To be fair, there are very few real photos of people who died the year photography was invented.
#65
It's Hot Let's Gouge People For Water
David 1 year ago
These are not new. I've seen them here (WA state) in a local store several years ago. It's basically to a paper price sticker as an e-book is to a paper book. They can change them with a scanner / pricer tool thing. Each one has a battery in it but my understanding is because the screen is mono and static, the battery lasts a super long time.
WindySwede 1 year ago
Have had these for atleast 20 years here? Or something.
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The Scout 1 year ago
The trouble is that they allow dynamic pricing. Half an hour before closing time, no time to go anywhere else? Jack up the prices. It starts to rain? Umbrellas marked up 50%. Ice cream marked up as soon as the temperature hits high enough. Possibilities are endless. Airlines have done this successfully for years on their websites.
ElfVibratorGlitter 1 year ago
What happens if they jackup the prices between putting it in your cart and checking out? Honestly asking.
Load More Replies... Pernille 1 year ago
These are all over Europe, displaying the price including taxes, and the last price before the current one, price per kg/100g, and country of origin. What is the problem with that?
Earonn - 1 year ago
Dynamic pricing. That they price can be changed in a second, depending on demand. Or perhaps even depending on the customer, if you get identified.
Load More Replies... roepi 1 year ago
I wonder how long it will take before some havker will have some fun with those.
#66
McDonald's In The 1980s Compared To Today
HeavyMetalHeart 1 year ago
Frankly, this is a huge improvement. That tree will haunt my nightmares.
Johnnynatfan 1 year ago
That tree was fun as a kid! McDonalds was a magical place to visit back then.
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Joshua David 1 year ago (edited)
That was McDonald's having unfettered access to advertising directly at children. It was funner though. 46 here.
TotallyNOTAFox 1 year ago (edited)
Styles always changed throughout history - I'm actually curious how it went down throughout the whole ancient egyptian empire from the start right till Rome took over
Panda Kicki 1 year ago
Our McD had a wonderful gigantic saltwater aquarium. I hate McD but sometimes had an icecream just to look at the fish.
#67
Tesla Cybertruck Reportedly Catches Fire Outside Trump Hotel In Las Vegas
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Disgruntled Panda 1 year ago
I think I'm gonna curl up into a ball and rock back and forth while making little mewling noises
Captive 1 year ago
I'm surprised there were a few posts showing Israeli war crimes and their procedures since most of the times it's swept under a rug. Don't turn a blind eye on genocide
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Not a fan of the Israelis but not a fan of the terrorist either. I had a family of Palestinians living in my block. Practising Muslims who had to flee Palestine in the 2000 because he refused to send his children to the Iman ( can't remember the name, like religions schools) to be indoctrinated. He refused to have his daughter clítoris cut of and married at 14..I lost contact, they were trying to get to Sweden. Woman in Palatine have no rights. I make me laugh when I see western woman defending the PLO or whatever the call it now. If that had been born there they would have the clitoris cut off and ) or raped by now. He was a professor at some university. He wanted his daughters to study.
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Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Don't. You have to see and celebrate the day Donald Trump dies.
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LB 1 year ago
I want to go cry in a bathroom somewhere. Some days it's so hard to even feel any of this is real...
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
Thank you for turning Bored Panda into a sensationalist, US-centered tabloid schittwhole. It used to be an oasis of positivism, okay, escapism in a depressing world.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
I went through my old email notifications last month, and it appears that Bored Panda did indeed used to be mostly about having a laugh, learning something interesting, meeting decent people, and of course the obligatory cute animals. I don't suppose there's anything we can do about it though.
Load More Replies... Wintermute 1 year ago
Our state shut down all DEI funding, which in turn shut down a women's center at the local university. A female MAGA coworker got really mad about that, and I got to be the person to ask her who she thought DEI was for. She just assumed it meant taking jobs from decent American folk and giving them to brown gay people. Never realized that SHE was who it's for, and she just voted it away. The schadenfreude was strong with me that day.
Wintermute 1 year ago
Or the people who discovered what tariffs were AFTER they voted for them, and were shocked that it was going to make groceries cost more. Morons.
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Rae Reyn 1 year ago
SO this link will show you how to get rid of Ai images, https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistHate/comments/1ah4340/here_is_how_to_avoid_ai_sites_on_google_images/ I use Firefox, but there ways to remove that annoying Ai answer bot that pops up with misinformation on every search. I installed a third party plugin creatively named "Hide Google AI Overviews"
Cydney Golden 12 months ago
My hope is that at the midterms sanity takes hold after his supporters see what he does.
Disgruntled Panda 1 year ago
I think I'm gonna curl up into a ball and rock back and forth while making little mewling noises
Captive 1 year ago
I'm surprised there were a few posts showing Israeli war crimes and their procedures since most of the times it's swept under a rug. Don't turn a blind eye on genocide
Donna Peluda 1 year ago
Not a fan of the Israelis but not a fan of the terrorist either. I had a family of Palestinians living in my block. Practising Muslims who had to flee Palestine in the 2000 because he refused to send his children to the Iman ( can't remember the name, like religions schools) to be indoctrinated. He refused to have his daughter clítoris cut of and married at 14..I lost contact, they were trying to get to Sweden. Woman in Palatine have no rights. I make me laugh when I see western woman defending the PLO or whatever the call it now. If that had been born there they would have the clitoris cut off and ) or raped by now. He was a professor at some university. He wanted his daughters to study.
Load More Replies... Luke Branwen 1 year ago
Don't. You have to see and celebrate the day Donald Trump dies.
Load More Replies... LB 1 year ago
I want to go cry in a bathroom somewhere. Some days it's so hard to even feel any of this is real...
General Anaesthesia 1 year ago (edited)
Thank you for turning Bored Panda into a sensationalist, US-centered tabloid schittwhole. It used to be an oasis of positivism, okay, escapism in a depressing world.
Auntriarch 1 year ago
I went through my old email notifications last month, and it appears that Bored Panda did indeed used to be mostly about having a laugh, learning something interesting, meeting decent people, and of course the obligatory cute animals. I don't suppose there's anything we can do about it though.
Load More Replies... Wintermute 1 year ago
Our state shut down all DEI funding, which in turn shut down a women's center at the local university. A female MAGA coworker got really mad about that, and I got to be the person to ask her who she thought DEI was for. She just assumed it meant taking jobs from decent American folk and giving them to brown gay people. Never realized that SHE was who it's for, and she just voted it away. The schadenfreude was strong with me that day.
Wintermute 1 year ago
Or the people who discovered what tariffs were AFTER they voted for them, and were shocked that it was going to make groceries cost more. Morons.
Load More Replies... Rae Reyn 1 year ago
SO this link will show you how to get rid of Ai images, https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistHate/comments/1ah4340/here_is_how_to_avoid_ai_sites_on_google_images/ I use Firefox, but there ways to remove that annoying Ai answer bot that pops up with misinformation on every search. I installed a third party plugin creatively named "Hide Google AI Overviews"
Cydney Golden 12 months ago
My hope is that at the midterms sanity takes hold after his supporters see what he does.
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