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“Logged Out Of My Toothbrush”: 102 Disturbing Posts That Prove We’re Already Living In Dystopia
Back in 1949, when George Orwell’s 1984 was published, the novel was deemed a depressing masterpiece and prophetic warning. Readers were horrified by the idea that the future might eventually reflect the themes in the book. Nowadays, however, we know all too well how accurate the story has become.
It seems like every single week, news headlines are more and more dystopian. Artificial intelligence becomes increasingly pervasive by the day, and governments around the world appear to be taking steps to remove individual freedoms, rather than expand them. And if you’re interested in seeing some harrowing examples of what’s happening to society, you’ve come to the right place. We visited the "That’s Dystopian" Facebook group and gathered some of their most unsettling posts below. From employees working past the age of 100 to citizens being encouraged to snitch on shoplifters, our lives are starting to feel like we're living in a Black Mirror episode.
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Spencer's slave no longer 17 hours ago
Dirty nappies and cat litter spring to mind on this, veggies are too expensive in the Disunited States.
CP 7 hours ago
In a capitalist society this is just called good business. Humans are only useful for profit.
Lotekguy 50 minutes ago
There are degrees of capitalism. It can exist without excessive greed wherever there is the political will to set some boundaries.
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Nitka Tsar 31 minutes ago
Just out of curiosity: Do other stores in the US have electronic price tags or will Walmart be the first?
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Geoffrey Scott 9 hours ago
And isn't it odd, that the US wants NOTHING to do with Communism which is defined by the government overseeing the methods and means of commercial productivity. As the 'Orange God' is demanding Nvidia and US Steel, pay 'tribute' to the government by allowing him to have final say so over how they run the business?
CP 7 hours ago
Thank you for properly using communism and not saying socialism.
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PenguinEmp 11 minutes ago
Why do the Americans think communism is socialism? They are two completely different things.
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Multa Nocte 16 hours ago (edited)
Gosh, I would have to concur with that 100%! It might not even be that bad if they then increased your wages, but it very rarely works like that.
Michael Largey 2 hours ago
The inefficient are left where they are. The incurably clueless are moved up to management.
Beth Wheeler 1 hour ago
And no matter how much they saw they appreciate you it's a load of BS. It's been a while ago that I'd staff mtgs the manager told us about 4 different things that would be coming to us and away from the clinic managers. Each time after the mag I went to my boss and told her that I know how to do that (I'm the only 1 that knew how to do it). She gave it to other people that had to go to classes to learn it. I had also told her that I have trained people in the past. After the last time I just said s***w it, I'm not telling her that I know how to do something unless she asks.
Zig Zag Wanderer 15 hours ago
The trick is to take on remote work in spare work time. Apparently.
For the most part, technological advancements are a positive thing. It’s amazing that we can use our phones to give us directions while driving, play music whenever we want, provide us with access to all the knowledge in the world, and allow us to keep in touch with people all over the planet. Meanwhile, we need scientists to continue finding cures for diseases and creating new vaccines to keep us safe. But there are certain aspects of technology that feel just a bit dystopian.
According to a report from October 2025, more than a billion people across the globe say that they now use AI at least once a month. But many are using it every single day, whether that’s to help them write an email at work or to provide advice on how to handle issues in their relationship. People are starting to turn to computers to solve every single problem they have, and life is beginning to feel like a sci-fi novel.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 15 hours ago
But do the actually shun it? I think it's normally just withheld.
ErolHM 56 minutes ago
You can get it all over South America, Central America and in northen North America a.k.a Canada.
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Geoffrey Scott 9 hours ago (edited)
We had an exchange student whose parents came over to see her 'graduate' (sophomore). Talking with her Dad, I told him how much I admired Danish social society and how it sees to citizens' lives. "You have to watch them EVERY MINUTE!" (sigh) guess it'll never happen here. He did b***h about the tax burden though.
azubi 6 hours ago
If it even was, because taxes mean they share an equal load related to their possibilities. In fact, more well-offpeople are taken out of compulsary healthcare where I live. They choose insurance anyway, if they're not very very rich. I don't expect you to know this because you sound very very stupid.
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Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
One of my professors, Alfred Baumeister, at Vanderbilt's John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development, used to tell us that if you want to know the best predictor for how someone would turn out in life given the current US climate was to look at the zip code of the child's parents when the child was born.
Tea Drinker 10 hours ago
Apparently, it's been suggested that instead of admitting certain students based on race, they should admit them based on zip code. Zip codes with lower income families regardless of race.
Load More Replies... CP 7 hours ago
The ugly truth of the world is that luck plays the biggest role. Your genes and environment dictate who you become, and we punish people for these things they have no control over. It is messed up.
CK 33 minutes ago
People always feel like they have more control than they actually do.
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Laszlo Larthlanc 4 hours ago
I worked at a market while I was in school. The deli manager used to take the day's unsold fried chicken, put it in foil-lined bags, and then place those in the dumpster on top of clean flattened paper towel and toilet paper boxes. .The owner of the market found out about this and instituted a new policy: chicken was to go directly into the dumpster, and then the day's grease trap matter was to go on top of the chicken, followed by the day's coffee grounds.
Laszlo Larthlanc 4 hours ago
Later on in life, I was delivering to a large chain market, and when I arrived at the loading dock the assistant manager was taking bags of bread, slicing them open with a box cutter, and dumping the bread into the filthy dumpster. When I asked him why he was going to all this trouble (even though I already knew the answer) he told me that if people could get bread for free they weren't going to buy bread in the store. As if the poor and the homeless had any money at all to buy any bread anywhere.
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Clinton passed a law that allows restaurants to give their leftovers to the food bank free of repurcussions, like being sued for stale bread, etc I can't believe food is still thrown away.
While AI can be a helpful tool, IBM warns that there are some potential risks associated with these technologies. First, they note that humans are innately biased, and humans created artificial intelligence. Sometimes, these biases and prejudices are reflected in the technology, so it's important that we don't take everything an AI model spits out as gospel.
At the same time, AI is sometimes used to launch cyberattacks. Voices can be cloned, and identities can be faked to scam people out of money. AI tools can also be used to create convincing phishing schemes to compromise an individual's or an organization’s privacy and security. It’s becoming increasingly challenging to determine what was crafted by AI and what was created by a real person.
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pandamonium 11 hours ago
Yep. And when you get all cozy and comfortable in your bog lord Farquaad causes a surge of refugees to disturb you...
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Multa Nocte 40 minutes ago
Was that the billy goat or the troll who told you that? ;-)
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Did I say that out loud? 9 hours ago
And we're going to make sure they can't sleep on this bench,too.
Jesha 2 hours ago
Carry some allen wrenches so if you see these you can do something about em. Can't remember what size though.
Did I say that out loud? 31 minutes ago
Things like can use all different kinds of special fixings, though.
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Multa Nocte 16 hours ago (edited)
Anyone who buys a toothbrush with that sort of technology deserves whatever consequences they get.
Auntriarch 4 hours ago
I've got one of those (present from my brother). If I brush for two minutes it shows a smiley face. If I stop before then, it shows a sad face. Great, now I've made my toothbrush unhappy.
Laszlo Larthlanc 4 hours ago
It's too bad nobody ever invented plain old manually operated toothbrushes that required no power other than human power, and no Internet connection.
Tea Drinker 11 hours ago
I forgot my password! How do I brush now? And now my arm aches! Woe is I.
Beth Wheeler 1 hour ago
That's ridiculous, just get a cheaper either electric or battery operated ($7) toothbrush.
J J 4 hours ago
When did oral hygiene go from a chore to an experience? Does a vibrating toothbrush give you a mouthorgasm?
Auntriarch 11 minutes ago
Apparently special toothbrush heads are available...
Load More Replies...Another major concern that critics of AI cite is the environmental issues. The data centers that AI technologies run on use an incredible amount of water to keep their servers cool. In fact, one study found that just one language processing model emits over 600,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, which is almost 5 times the amount of emissions a car will produce in its lifetime.
It feels a bit dystopian to know that we’re wasting water and polluting the planet, so people can talk to ChatGPT. Meanwhile, a quarter of the world’s population still doesn't have access to clean water.
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Laszlo Larthlanc 4 hours ago
Not uncommon. The homeless in the town where I grew up used to commit non-violent misdemeanors & felonies in order to get themselves arrested. They knew they'd get a shower and a shave, some fresh clothes, and a few meals that were far better than what they'd been getting on the streets.
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Mel in Georgia 55 minutes ago
With Communists greatly benefiting from the arrangement!
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Kerry Borthwick 4 hours ago
Lol my bf said they metal gear soldier that robot
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In 2024, Newsweek reported that a survey of 1,000 Americans found that 26% of men and 14% of women believed they were living in a dystopian society. In fact, one-fifth of Americans said they were living in an even more dystopian society than the one described in Orwell’s 1984. Reasons cited for this were the overturning of Roe v. Wade, shifting gender norms, cancel culture, and more. But today, people might have even more reasons to believe that they're living in a sci-fi story.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 15 hours ago
For 25 years, when submitting a proposal for work from my company, they had to have my CV. It was basically, 'Owned and ran this company for [however many] years'. Every time.
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Sam Trudeau 5 hours ago
And this is the kind of work Christians are SUPPOSED to do
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TheMFKNXerdo 2 hours ago
some christian conservative that thinks that the poor are not human, like absolutely every single christian conservative does, got offended.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately, there’s more than one dystopian piece of literature or film that has come eerily close to predicting the future. The Guardian published a piece earlier this month discussing pieces of media that seem to have predicted the future. Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash, for example, has an immersive virtual reality called the “metaverse,” which requires a headset to access. And we all know that Mark Zuckerberg renamed his company Meta and announced a plan to develop his own “metaverse”.
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CP 7 hours ago
If you read the Bible, I don’t think most Christians understand Jesus.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 15 hours ago
Although in the Matrix, making people happy didn't work, so there's that....
UnclePanda 7 hours ago
It did work for the vast majority of the residents. Innocence was bliss.
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Mike Rodrick 7 hours ago
Or up to 25 to work in the medical field or be a nurse which is no longer considered a degree.
Beth Wheeler 54 minutes ago
Whoever the idiot is that came up with that idea should be stuck in a hospital after all the nurses quit. Mo mother was an LPN for 33 years and had to do extra training after about 10 years to be able to give meds.
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 50 minutes ago
My daughter is a new employee for a company that gets business by providing other companies IT customer support by real people who speak English very well. She said they're already replacing them outside of business hours with AI. I don't know how anybody is going to be able to get entry-level positions soon.
Meanwhile, Octavia E. Butler’s 1993 Parable of the Sower and 1998 Parable of the Talents have unsettling similarities to our current age. The stories, which are set in a post-apocalyptic California, describe a wealthy community that has sequestered itself away from the dangers of the world. At the same time, the climate has been destroyed, and the president claims that he will “Make America Great Again”. Sound familiar?
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Zig Zag Wanderer 15 hours ago (edited)
Well, no. I get overwhelmed by how online is a genuine dystopian nightmare, and out of my windows is a chaotic utopian wilderness that is absolutely adorable.
Mike Rodrick 7 hours ago
Tell it to spineless republicans & the conservatives on SCOTUS who've been enabling a dictator.
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CP 6 hours ago
Society doesn’t make sense when you think about it for a moment. People hoarding wealth they don’t need and didn’t earn while people starve. Inheriting money isn’t earning it despite what the rich tell you. If giving children titles they didn’t earn via monarchies didn’t make sense then why does giving children money they didn’t earn make sense? We still operate society based on blood and it only has meaning because we give it meaning.
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Everyone knows that it’s impossible to predict the future. But in many regards, at the moment, it does look bleak. Climate change is undeniable, and the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to avoid using AI, and it’s widely understood that the government is watching and listening to pretty much everything its citizens do. We know that the world can be a scary place nowadays, but if it brings you some comfort to call out just how dystopian it has become, we highly recommend that you do so! You might even want to share your findings with That’s Dystopian on Facebook.
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Multa Nocte 16 hours ago
These make me ill. And BP, you ought to back off your crappy AI pix as well. Also your shoddy AI entries on articles.
#23
Alewa 15 hours ago
How about designing workplaces in such a way that people don't want to hide on the toilet?
Luke || Kira (he/she) 6 hours ago
I've seen a follow-up to this post that was like "If your workplace installs these, call me - sincerely, your lawyer with Crohn's"
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Josh Gallant 11 hours ago
If I see one of these at work, I'm crappin on TOP of the lid. Every time.
Nitka Tsar 15 minutes ago
Only in USA, I‘m sure. I just can‘t fathom how far the companies in that country are going, just to make life hatder for everyone. No compassion, no empathy.
s6xcncsyc7 22 minutes ago
The b*m doctor told me to never sit on the toilet for more than 5 minutes, he was pretty stern about it. He would approve this toilet.
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Tea Drinker 11 hours ago
My FIL worked part time at his local grocery store for extra money because he couldn't survive on his Social Security and pension. He had a crooked knee, hip replacement, and heart problems and used an electric scooter when he wasn't on duty. 'murica.
Load More Replies... Bewitched One 12 hours ago
It could be. When owe get older and retire, we, a lot of the time stop being as active and that can be detrimental to the health of the elderly
Load More Replies... Auntriarch 6 minutes ago
One of Mr Auntriarch's uncles retired and in a couple of weeks he was so bored he got a job working the car park in a supermarket, keeping things tidy.
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Are you feeling unsettled after scrolling through these photos, pandas? Keep upvoting the ones that you find particularly eerie, and let us know in the comments below what the most dystopian thing you’ve witnessed recently was. Then, if you’re interested in checking out another Bored Panda article discussing similar societal issues, look no further than right here!
#25
Spencer's slave no longer 17 hours ago
So, McDonalds now have indentured servants, not employees.
Mike Rodrick 7 hours ago
I recall hearing Musk say that soon, people won't have to be worried about working.
Load More Replies... Multa Nocte 16 hours ago
Does this mean they will illegally keep your final wages if you get angry and walk out?
Kim Kermes 16 hours ago
So no one can get fired before they talk to the are or regional manager?
Khavrinen 4 hours ago
"Oh, no, of course not!! That's totally different!"
Load More Replies... Antoinette the Red 4 hours ago
So quitting your job is going to like canceling a gym membership now?
TheMFKNXerdo 2 hours ago
Their Spanish sign is also an absolute disgrace of a translation. I'd quit just for that
Tucker Cahooter 15 hours ago
Easy-peasy way to work around that. Just drop dead; technically you haven't quit
Gerry Higgins 16 hours ago
That is just daring me to get a job there so I can quit without notice.
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Jonathan Ware 1 hour ago
Destroying a 40 year friendship for political differences? So tolerant and loving! #stunning #brave
Asher Tye 38 minutes ago
She knew the risks when she voted for the orange felon and his idiocy. But apparently a 40 year friendship was less important than having a dictator.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 15 hours ago (edited)
Don't go too far back, you'll find the same problem! It was just a boom after ww2, and now it's back to normal.
Min 4 hours ago
Prior to WWII, families often had one working parent supporting them. Now two people working full time, with no kids and decent jobs, struggle to afford housing.
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Multa Nocte 16 hours ago (edited)
I disagree with this. If I had never had to read a book outside a class, many of which I had never heard or weren't the sort of books I would have personally chosen, there is no way I would have had exposure to the books that shaped my life. As well, the amount of learning about Greek and Roman philosophy and mythology might not have come my way, and definitely the math that they taught in grades 7 to 12 needed time outside class to be worked on, mastered, and used. I very definitely believe in homework and believe it is important.
detective miller's hat 3 hours ago
I was always terrible at maths, and as a kid I never had parents--or any adult--home with me to help with my maths homework. Teachers should not be giving children assignments that they cannot complete without help from an adult. I would come home with awful grades only to be screamed at by my mother, and in school would be made to feel like an idiot because all the other kids got the right answers on their homework.
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Andy Frederick 15 hours ago
Without homework, kids just go home and play video games and don't learn how to work hard. Actually, even with homework that's what they do. And then their parents complain to their kids' teachers about their kids' bad grades.
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YakFactory 15 hours ago
So you have to pay to save your grandma, rather than watching her choke? That's sick, money before compassion.
UnclePanda 7 hours ago
You stopped at YT to watch an ad? Was the rest of the Internet offline?
Bewitched One 12 hours ago
It’s more than likely an AI auto response that sees keywords and has set responses based on those keywords. It’s sees “dont put ads” it responds with that exact message. Or a variation of the exact same thing
Load More Replies... Mike Rodrick 7 hours ago
Prime offers an option for not having to see commercials for $3.99 per month
Becky Samuel 2 hours ago
In the UK you can text 999 (911) in an emergency where you're unable to speak. Sensible, right? The catch is that you have to have signed up for the service previously on their app. So you have to know IN ADVANCE if you're likely to have a medical emergency or a home invasion. Idiots.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 15 hours ago
I don't think I've often been so broke as to need to spread my fast food payments over 4 months, but when I was, I certainly wasn't buying fast food!
Bewitched One 12 hours ago
Especially not through DoorDash delivery with their higher than the actual restaurants prices, and ridiculous fees
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Multa Nocte 16 hours ago
It's all going to depend on the name of the restaurant. If you buy a silicone keyboard cover at Bob's Burger and Grill, there is still going to be some explaining to do.
Ace 12 hours ago
Unscrupulous employees have been fiddling their expense claims for ever. I think the company might get a little suspicious about just how many times you need to replace your earphones or keyboard cover.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 14 hours ago (edited)
The t-shirt i insist on for my funeral is a favourite: I used up all of my sick days, so I called in deåd. Americans may have to have 'sick days' explained to them.
Did I say that out loud? 9 hours ago
May I ask where you are? In 2024 I was suddenly off work for 8 weeks. If I'd needed more time before I was fit to return, there would have been no questions or arguments about me having it.
Load More Replies... Mark Karol-Chik 4 minutes ago
Reminds me of the 12 years working at Home Depot. You would come into work sick. Fever or coughing, because of the fer of losing your job for missing days.
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Multa Nocte 16 hours ago (edited)
🎶 God bless the USA. 🎶 (Ed.) And this bill is from over 10 years ago. Think what it would be now.
Michael Largey 2 hours ago (edited)
Was that being bitten by a "snake" as in serpent or being bit by a "snake" as in insurance company.?
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Multa Nocte 16 hours ago (edited)
Hopefully someday someone will enact some legislation to prevent this exploitation and emotional abuse of children. This mom will be pikachu shocked if her kid ever decides this was too much and goes no contact.
Laszlo Larthlanc 3 hours ago
Hey. It's all about Mommy. Oliver's just an extra in her life movie.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 15 hours ago
How can you pay for things with a bar code? Because if I can, I'm scanning that barcode myself....
Multa Nocte 16 hours ago
This reminds me of the movie where Loki used the retina extractor to remove the scientist's eye so he could circumvent the security system and steal iridium.
Did I say that out loud? 9 hours ago
It was also done in Demolition Man,1993.
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Major Harris 19 minutes ago
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Jalunney 14 minutes ago
It does make me laugh that nothing in the fictional novel is true, yet here we are.
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Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
I would like someone to cite some research on this. And Betsy Mikel, article writer, I wish you all the way to the darkest, hottest parts of hell.
Josh Gallant 11 hours ago
If I see one of these at work, I'm poopin on top of the lid. Every time.
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Bartlet for world domination 3 hours ago (edited)
In California, inmate firefighters are volunteers only and there is a possibility (not for everyone) to have your record expunged and get professional certifications after you get out. The true part is that inmate firefighters earn $5.80 - $10.24 per day. Source in comment.
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Greenkitty 12 hours ago
I won't buy anything from Amazon, if I can't find it somewhere else I dont need it.
Michael Largey 2 hours ago
If you met Jeff Bezos in hell, he would just try to sell you Hell Prime.
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Tea Drinker 10 hours ago
Get caught at school with this and I suspect you'll get expelled.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 hours ago
Nice that you can match up the pepper spray with the color you're wearing that day.
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David Paterson 2 hours ago
We've crossed the uncanny valley in reverse. Human-made "real" images have become so obnoxiously edited that they resemble AI slop.
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Dan Holden 17 hours ago
How about just having more trees. They have more benefits than just creating oxygen. Shade for one.
Ace 12 hours ago
TBF these are much more efficient and cheaper in the long term than real trees, and can go where a real tree cannot grow.
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Arthur Waite 7 hours ago
That thing wouldn't last a week in my city - just too tempting to pitch a rock.... and I'm in Canada!
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Multa Nocte 16 hours ago
I know. Anyone who has the above system deserves to have a cold bed.
Load More Replies... Did I say that out loud? 15 hours ago
Shut yer whining. If you were so stupid as to buy a bed that needs an app, that's entirely on you.
Sam Trudeau 5 hours ago
Reminds me of the Captain Underpants book 12 where they have a planet called "Smart Earth" where everything but the Huffington Post is the same name as we use but with "Smart" added.
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Multa Nocte 16 hours ago
Not a krona? Do they have to pay to travel to Great Britain if they collect some of these so that they can spend them?
Owen 12 hours ago (edited)
Icelands is a grocery store in the UK, that sells mostly frozen food.
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 2 hours ago
Shoplifter will pay you two if you don't. Let that free market capitalists brag about decide these things.
Betsy S 1 hour ago
If they could afford to do that, they wouldn't have to be shoplifting.
Load More Replies... Tea Drinker 11 hours ago
Huh. In my city, people just pick up what they want and walk out because there are no security measures in a grocery store and staff are required not to interfere for their own safety. Yes, kids walk out with cases of beer.
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Dan Holden 17 hours ago
Westjet, a Canadian airline, recently reversed their decision to add one more row to their aircraft (by taking away more leg room from an already cramped cabin), because of fierce pushback from the public. It's a small victory, but maybe we if everyone started pushing back more, these companies wouldn't be so quick to take advantage of their customers.
Jalunney 3 minutes ago
Unfortunately people will pay, they have no mind for the ones that don't because there will be enough that do.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 14 hours ago
The backlash is coming. I've been predicting this for years now.
Owen 12 hours ago
I think most smart people have been predicting it for years. Sadly, it's no longer about predicting, it's about watching it unfold on a daily basis.
Load More Replies... Did I say that out loud? 6 hours ago
I find it slightly bizarre that off-duty police officers are allowed to have a second job like that in the first place.
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Michael Largey 2 hours ago
"If you think the world has forgotten you exist, try missing a couple of car payments."
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UnclePanda 7 hours ago
My no-window office opened into a 55" portal dedicated to reef diving videos and sunny beaches.
Kelly Scott 3 hours ago
I want a space room, like Captain Picar's room, with huge windows that show the stars and maybe a planet or two. And with modern but comfortable technology and furnishings.
#51
Spencer's slave no longer 16 hours ago
Maybe I should start charging rent to the illegal tenants in my shed but she's pregnant and he eats cockroaches. I think they sub let to a family with more than 6 kids so can I charge them rent too?
Mark C 7 hours ago
Well, you can charge them, but have fun actually collecting it...🤣 If we're talking trash pandas, they ARE also known as bandits, sooooo...
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Rosecrucian Roeth 9 hours ago
If there really was a god, this would not be happening!
Load More Replies... Tea Drinker 10 hours ago
@Zig Zag Wanderer - no reply on your comment, so...in my state (IIRC), the rainwater that hits your residence technically belongs to the city.
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Daisydaisy 14 hours ago
Well sunshine and lollipops! My dearest wish is to be cleaning other people's toilets and changing their bedding when I'm 84!
detective miller's hat 3 hours ago
And people think I'm morbid when I say I hope I drop deąd of a heart attack before I'm unable to work full time.
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Just me... 1 hour ago
Oh, he's got some explaining to do. I may even listen after he gets my forgiveness.
Rosecrucian Roeth 9 hours ago
Makes about as much sense as every other part of religion..................
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Multa Nocte 15 hours ago (edited)
And then is carted off to a psychiatric ward due to the psychosis she created by not sleeping. Or perhaps to jail after she killed other people with her sleep-deprived driving.
Geoffrey Scott 8 hours ago
Psychosis of not sleeping. If there are any doubts as to why the "Orange God' seems unhinged, it is no secret he sleeps 2 hrs/night, if at all.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 14 hours ago
Some people can survive on 3 hours sleep, and good for them. Most cannot, so this is silly. And £500k for a house is a lot, even in Essex.
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Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
Who wouldn't prefer pictures of trees instead of the real thing? You also need to generate pictures of birds and squirrels, and perhaps photos of the oxygen the trees would have produced.
#57
Greenkitty 12 hours ago
Can't be any worse than some of the name people are giving their kids for free.
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Multa Nocte 8 hours ago
Why would I only want my head preserved? Fat lot of good that will do me. I'm short enough already.
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Tea Drinker 10 hours ago
Believe it or not, seafood - including fish used for sushi - takes a similar trip. Misc oceans to Japan's fish market, sold, reshipped to USA.
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Biofish23 6 hours ago
Almost certainly US dollars, those look like pretty typical prices to me, an American who lives in a medium cost of living city where the federal minimum wage of $7 .25 an hour applies.
Load More Replies... Tea Drinker 10 hours ago
But it does. Then some bright-eyed, clueless, self-satisfied nebbish loudly tells you that you'd save so much by joining Costco.
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Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
Truly honouring Christ would mean you would unfollow those shallow posters who claim they know what he would have wanted.
Kelly Scott 3 hours ago
I could unfollow more than that. How about I unfollow all the Republicans that profess to follow Christ and then they act as unChristian as possible?
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RomanceRadish 2 hours ago
Whether he's doing this to make a point, or for personal health, he's succeeding.
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Multa Nocte 8 hours ago
If he's sticking this in your car, apparently you do. ;-)
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OneHappyPuppy 1 hour ago
I've made it this far in the list (#66) and this post is the first one that made me think f**k this s**t...
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Ace 11 hours ago
Most countries across Europe have similar TV licencing fees. It's not quite enforced the same way in different places though - I don't think I've ever paid the French one, but the Swiss are rigorous about it. And even a computer or smartphone will make you liable, not just an actual dedicated TV set.
Zig Zag Wanderer 15 hours ago
No we don't. We pay a yearly fee if we watch the state television channels. It's voluntary. Other countries FORCE payments of state broadcasting via taxes. I know which I prefer!
Did I say that out loud? 9 hours ago (edited)
You haven't got a clue how it works,do you? You need a licence to watch any live broadcast, even with on-demand services such as Netflix.
Load More Replies... Matthew Williams 2 hours ago
We don't. We pay a yearly fee to watch TV with no ads, with journalists who are not paid by billionaires. Like Americans can, except our fee is less.
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Pernille 13 hours ago
I'm happy to pay license fees both in Danmark and in the UK, it gives me good TV without commercials. I'm still paying both even though I live in France, then I don't feel so bad about using a VPN to watch DR and BBC.
Tomas O Flatharta 3 hours ago
In Ireland you get to pay for the TV licensce and still get to enjoy commercials and has long as you have TV you need to get the license.
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Fellfromthemoon 3 hours ago
In the eighties my family also paid a monthly fee for TV. My grandma told me that in the fifties, there was a monthly radio fee. Now, there is no "TV fee", but one has to pay if they want to watch anything on the telly, as every channel is digital.
Mike Rodrick 7 hours ago
There's a yearly fee to own a vehicle in Rhode Island determined by the age of it.
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Khavrinen 3 hours ago
As sensible as many of the other things our tax dollars have been spent on.
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*slaps roof of obsidian sphere* "This bad boy can hold so many daleks"
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Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
Said by the overpaid president of the company who is sitting on his ass in his office and having everyone do his work for him, as well as bringing him coffee and lunch, and who, instead of paying his employees bonuses, takes it all for himself and his board of execs and his shareholders.
James016 11 hours ago
This comes across as more lower to middle management. The people who claim it's not their job to find cover if one of their team is off sick/on holiday
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Booker 16 hours ago (edited)
I can't think of a better way to let others know you don't have a healthy set of boundaries. Even if you had the best of intentions, you'd be enabling others down paths of entitlement, power trips, etc. If you did it long enough, coworkers would label you as a kiss-a-, over-achiever, non-player, ..., and they would target you every chance they got. From an ethical standpoint, the issues are even worse. Administrators would have a whole new way to avoid being held accountable for what they were being paid to manage, initial praise for unpaid overtime would likely turn into unfair expectations, etc. The one good thing about a sign like this is that, without a doubt, it would identify that this was an extremely toxic work environment.
Rick Murray 15 hours ago
Stop you right at "unpaid overtime". If that's an expectation then it is already a toxic work environment.
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 22 minutes ago
The company I worked for would ask people in the more professional positions to work in shipping, physically boxing our products, when we had a large shipment. It made no sense, financially, because my pay was far greater than those working in the warehouse. I was fine with it though - kinda enjoyed the mindless work - but it literally was not my job. That company was crazy.
OneHappyPuppy 1 hour ago
I just had this argument with the owner of the company I work for yesterday... I'm seriously impressed I'm not fired yet. Must be that they need me...
Michael Largey 2 hours ago
OK, I'm awarding myself a big raise and a huge bonus. You may say that it's not my job to do that, but management has assured me that that phrase does not apply to me.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 9 hours ago
Wow, doesn't take much to have your comment hidden............the orange one must be in here somewhere.
Multa Nocte 8 hours ago
It's that BP glitch that they have been taking so long to fix where random comments are being hidden, sometimes receiving a minus point, and can't be responded to. IF they are ever going to fix it - it's been a week, and that's an awful long time for an entire website to be this messed up. Maybe the entire place is run by AI now and/or they just don't give a fuck anymore.
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Dar Mal 5 hours ago
At my school, the teachers decided to unionize. Didn't go with a national or state organization, just used a lawyer. All benefits were wiped (tuition reimbursement, wellness bonus, etc), replaced with less effective insurance at a higher cost, and I have not had a raise in 3 years based on the new pay scale (I'm 5 years from retirement!). Utterly slaughtered!
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Zig Zag Wanderer 14 hours ago (edited)
I can distress tights myself for a lot less! It always amused me when 'distressed' jeans came into fashion. I was soooo ahead of the curve!
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YakFactory 15 hours ago
Just use an ordinary paperclip from the stationary store. Much cheaper, and it does the same job.. Or, just use a scrap of paper and don't damage the pages.
Owen 12 hours ago
I love my books. The ones I love most are my books that come with the little attached ribbon that you can use as a bookmark. Those ribbons are classy.
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Tyranamar Seuss 12 hours ago
The same kind of sickness as Elf on the Shelf.
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Did I say that out loud? 8 hours ago
But you know that it's given someone an Idea, though.
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Zig Zag Wanderer 14 hours ago (edited)
Zoom in and see it's a special tourist 'photo op' British phonebox. Rightly trashed. Love the ads on it too!
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YakFactory 14 hours ago
Just make sure you don't step on the homeless man on the pavement. Ignore him and his plight, and have fun taking your cra**y photo. (Being sarcastic, just in case you don't realise. it.). What happened to compassion?
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Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
Yep, there is some real side-slapping humour involved in that silly-billy global warming.
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Tea Drinker 10 hours ago
Maybe if the employer made an effort to *make* it a place an employee would say that.
Michael Largey 2 hours ago
Employees saying "Profits are up ... Costs are down!" doesn't make it true. In fact, employers don't want their workers to know that profits are up. It might make them ask for raises.
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Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
"FDA approval for this treatment is still far down the road, but the study points toward new paths for treating severe depression. Krystal said that understanding the brain circuits underlying depression is likely to guide future non-invasive treatments that can modulate those circuits."
Powerful Katrinka 7 hours ago
This shouldn’t be on this list. For people with treatment resistant depression, this could be a life saver.
IamMego 4 hours ago
Yes, I was just thinking that if I were given the opportunity I would jump on it, for sure.. Could be life changing
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Tea Drinker 10 hours ago
How about making that electrical stimulation burst come out my eyes to blowtorch the person making me depressed.
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Sam Trudeau 3 hours ago
Interesting. I've seen a Shakespeare book where they used LEGO for the characters
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Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
To be fair, he was not labelling them - he was describing what happens under a Republican regime.
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Earonn - 7 hours ago
Sorry, but I don't like this "you are loved". No, not everyone is loved. People in that situation are s******l, not stupid.
TheMFKNXerdo 1 hour ago
Exactly. And those useless "hotlines" are a joke. No amount of lying to a caller can fix structural issues. Ask me how I know.
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Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
Next we will need a set of ICE figurines with guns and covered faces and the attitude of Cro-Magnon men.
Tea Drinker 10 hours ago
They should make this more true-to-life: the person being searched is too...pale.
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Rosecrucian Roeth 8 hours ago
And America is gonna get 'em.................more murderers and psychos.
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Betsy S 1 hour ago
Looks like it. A little low, but at least he doesn't have a fever and I'm guessing that's what this is supposed to be looking for. 36.5 - 37.5 is average for the human body.
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TACO Don's Authentic TexMex 14 hours ago
Not the right thing to read when you are already pretty bummed out
Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
Sadly, the jokes and fakes ARE becoming the reals.
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Not the right thing to read when you are already pretty bummed out
Multa Nocte 15 hours ago
Sadly, the jokes and fakes ARE becoming the reals.
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