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While popular movies and TV shows paint a dystopian future full of surreal landscapes, totalitarian governments, and post-apocalyptic scenes, it is more likely to consist of unappealing and mundane scenarios. In fact, once you look past the meticulously curated universe of social media, it may seem we’re already living in it. Senseless ads, broken machines, canned dinners, dreary headlines — we’re constantly bombarded with chilling reminders of the "boring dystopia" we find ourselves in.
While it may be hard to wrap your head around this phenomenon at first, you gradually get the hang of it. And then start seeing it everywhere you look. Here’s where the prominent corner of Reddit called 'A Boring Dystopia' enters the picture. "A subreddit for chronicling how Advanced Capitalist Society is not only dystopic but also incredibly boring," as the moderators describe.
When you think of it, the group seems to be the unofficial mirror of our society by sharing the most upsetting, ridiculous, and all too real examples of modern-day dystopia that prove something's not quite right with this world. Below, we wrapped up the newest batch of their posts to give you a reality check and hopefully inspire you to fix the near future. So continue scrolling and upvote as you go!
Psst! When you're done with this list, be sure to check out Bored Panda's earlier pieces full of dystopian madness right here, here, and here.
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#1
Welcome To America
Paul Macdonell 3 years ago
Silly rabbit. You just listen to us old entitled white guys ... we know what's best. God is directing us for your salvation.
Panda Boi 3 years ago
Don't just blame old white men, blame the 50% of women in the US who keep voting for them.
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girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
So a gun has more rights than me in the USA? Well then… I’M NOT GOING BACK TO AMERICA AND YOU CAN’T MAKE ME!!!!
Electra Complex 3 years ago
Republicans are like: "Sure! You both have the right to be owned by a man ♥️"
Aisling Raye 3 years ago
This is my favorite comment of the day so far. I really shouldn't have laughed, it's so f'ed up, but it's also so spot on true.
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Mistiekim 3 years ago
Your day will come when you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to the politicians who control such things. Hooray for the government!
Burnt Bagel 3 years ago (edited)
The US government -most specifically Congress-have literally become a bunch of spoiled little children fighting in the sandbox. It is truly an embarrassment. The GOP is a pathetic joke.
Rod McCabe 3 years ago
Paul. I keep asking and everyone seems to know but noone can point god out. Why can't they point out god? God does exist, right? Well where? Show me.
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#2
There’s No Hate Like Christian “Love”
august is mentally unstable 3 years ago
they're killing adults, people with actual lives, to prioritize unborn fetuses. and once they are born, they stop caring. i'm convinced now that everyone just wants control.
AR 3 years ago
All of it has always been about control instead of any type of goodness.
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Bubs623 3 years ago
GOP motto: this land is white and 'christian ' and all except white straight cis men should have zero rights and be under our thumb.
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YinzerGhost 3 years ago
Tax churches. They're legislating from the pulpit. Tax. F*****g. Churches.
Exotic Butters 3 years ago
Lots of non religious people don't love killing babies.
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girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
So you prioritize fetuses over real humans, but you’re against gun control laws which will prevent these kids from dying? So what these people want is… women to go through painful birth?
Jessica J. 3 years ago
They're pro-life but also pro-death penalty. It's just all hypocrisy.
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barn owls ️ 3 years ago
if they actually cared about babies we’d have better adoption and foster systems, but they don’t and just want to control women's bodies.
Valden 3 years ago
I don't think it's about controlling women. It's about punishing women for having sex and misery loves company. They were punished for having sex by being burdened with a child they did not want, so everyone should suffer the same. It's the same mentality as when they get offended because someone got help for something they did not. For example, the recent government help with student loans. I did not get abort my unwanted baby, neither should you.
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bagels and beagles 3 years ago
The worst part is that the Bible doesn’t even promote this. It actually has ways to perform an abortion
kitteh floof lover 3 years ago
extremists of any religion are dangerous, christian extremists included.
Julie Schulz 3 years ago (edited)
As a Christian, I agree with this comment. There always has to be an extremist component to anything it seems, whether it's politics, religion or whatever.
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Explained Nice And Simple
Jontelle 3 years ago (edited)
I’m glad this is(was) #1. My generation often feels so guilty because of where they are in life when it’s the system that has left us with what often feels like no fighting chance.
Limey 3 years ago
Well at least thank you for the “MAGA” boomer. I am a boomer that has always and still does fight against capitalist greed and the selfishness of conservatism. I have worked all my life and am still working in my 70s. Yes I own a home but I still have a mortgage. All “boomers” don’t buy into the “bootstrap and avocado toast” mentality and we don’t appreciated being lumped into one category any more than millennials do.
Grace Noyes 3 years ago
Thank you for saying that, Limey. I'm a boomer as well, and yes, I paid my way through college and bought a house in my 20s. But I'm also very well aware that it's almost impossible for young people to do those things now. Young people have my deepest sympathy for the world they've been given. No judgment at all from me.
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Ella Whitehead 3 years ago
I’m a boomer who is tired of being blamed for the situation our country is in now. I bought a house at 23 for $29,900. A box with a roof. I scraped to pay for grad school, and pay my mortgage (7.5% interest). I was a registered independent, but always voted for democrats When I married we lived within our means, used cars, and going without luxuries, no exotic honeymoon, no extravagant wedding. My gripe is this. The price of a college education is crippling. Starting in early 2000s high school students were told pick your college and take out loans, no worries! Lots of loans to out there for students. I would listen to this drivel and fume. Irresponsible information that cursed graduating students. College tuitions soared, loans getting higher, students graduating with a mortgage. How can they afford a home? Education is now a luxury many kids can’t afford. People vote against their own best interest, they are lied to and can’t discriminate facts. The birth of an American cast system.
Andi 3 years ago
This greed was always un-sustainable - from the 80's onwards some of us fought against this every step of the way and are still trying to kick the door back open but we need help .. as a marginal boomer- we taught our children our truth, please carry on trying to teach your parents.
T. Unnamable 3 years ago
In the 60s and 70s my carpenter father paid my sister's and my college tuitions with little trouble.
ItsJess 3 years ago
I don't know why anyone would downvote you, your comment is illustrative of this exact problem. An average working class parent in the 60s or 70s could afford to help their children pay for college, that's completely untenable now
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The 70% tax rate is true but doesn't help the argument. But whatever..there is no doubt we have literally sold our children and grandchildren into slavery over our selfish government borrowing.
Erin Kelley 3 years ago
Government borrowing isn’t the problem. It’s what was done with that money.
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Estelle Winwoode 3 years ago
That is a divisive belief, and it is untrue. It doesn't benefit my generation that following generations have less opportunity. In the 1970s young people were encouraged to invest in property so that they would have an income when they were elderly, with the specific goal of not being a burden on the state, and so in years to come, young people wouldn't have to be taxed hard to pay for our pensions and nursing homes. What happened was trickle-down economics, and boomers are not responsible for that.
Load More Replies...In case you've never heard of "boring dystopia" before, the term was coined by the late British academic and cultural theorist Mark Fisher in 2015. It refers to the bland and mildly coercive signs that flourish in a late-stage capitalist society, which give out pervasive feelings of unease, discontent, and isolation.
That same year, Fisher started a Facebook group that documented these signs as a way to become more aware of the world around us. Members got the chance to share pictures of rarely seen England and the page quickly filled with eerie images of broken machinery, ragged shop signs, and cameras closely monitoring decaying streets.
The group brought together examples of "Silicon Valley ideology, PR and advertising which distracts us from our own aesthetic poverty, and the reality of what we have." All of this was accompanied by a description: "Neoliberal England is a boring dystopia. Here's why."
#4
Flawless Logic
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
Wait until you see what happens when a poor girl who is pregnant develops a form of curable cancer but can't get the treatment because the cure will kill the fetus. She gets treatment and lives but is thrown in jail for murder, or, she doesn't get treatment and both her and the baby die! Great stuff there GQPenises!
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
It seems like only yesterday that we were sneering at: throw her in the pond if she drowns she's innocent and gets a decent burial, if she floats she's a witch kill her
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Sen Todd Akin (R, GOPee), "if it's 'legitimate r@pe' the woman, okay, the girl, can just shut it down, doesn't get pregnant."
GoGoPDX 3 years ago (edited)
And here is an example of how great the US education system is folks! /s
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Tiki Stanford 3 years ago
This is so f****d up. I would take my child, jump in the car and drive however far to get the medical care she needs. The government needs to stop playing doctor! Focus on improving government, and let the doctors focus on health care. Why is that so hard??? Makes me so angry....
Mistiekim 3 years ago
She was able to go to Indiana and get the help she needed\deserved.
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xolitaire 3 years ago
If you don't have the "equipment" to get pregnant, you should not have any say in what those who do have them do with it.
Greg Wilhelm 3 years ago
Happy to live in Colorado where that wouldn't happen... Known kind of as the Hippie state. A woman's body is her own f*cking business...
ItsJess 3 years ago
I live in NY State and we used to be able to say this, but the tide is slowly turning...we have some serious threats to our position as a progressive state in November. Don't get complacent, folks
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Mabelbabel 3 years ago
It's absolutely sickening, but I'm sure there are some people who would justify this by saying that she couldn't have got pregnant if she wasn't menstruating, and if she's menstruating, that means she's a woman regardless of her actual age. And don't forget that moronic Republican senator Tod Akin who believed that if it was a genuine rape, your body could 'could shut that thing down' so if you got pregnant from rape, that meant you enjoyed it and it wasn't real rape. I'm sure there are far more despicable and backwards people thinking along those lines, not just him.
der sebbl 3 years ago
Wait a second! This is real? A child was raped and Ohio wanted to force her to endure pregnancy?
ItsJess 3 years ago
Not only is it real but people were accused of making up the story...until a man was actually charged with her rape...then they tried to paint the doctor who helped her as some sort of unethical quack (because she also had a history of providing abortion care for women).
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cadena kuhn 3 years ago (edited)
Gop defense 10 yr olds can't get pregnant. It never happened it's a political plot. Oh she got her abortion well can we charge the doctor. Oh he was a Mexican well clearly this is an immigration issue
#5
And Yet They Manage Our Life
Paul Macdonell 3 years ago
And corporate American shows a great willingness to take any kind of government handout when the economy tanks. But my God don't call it socialism.....
Maria Veronica 3 years ago
In my country, right-wing businessmen: you, poors and socialists, only want to live of the State, you want all for free Also right-wing businessmen: make everything a lobby, win all the aid-contests, profit from the social programs, are firts in line for banks help
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Todd Campbell 3 years ago
The follow comeback that grinds my gears is then don’t go to college. Maybe some of us aren’t doing art history degrees and actually want a future beyond HVAC repair.
Captain Panda 3 years ago
And we've bailed out said companies, yet, cant do anything for the people.
Rod McCabe 3 years ago
And, remember, when big corporations fail they are inevitably bail out by the government (ala General Motors). When did the government save the loss of someones house due to financial failure? Never because government was set up by rich people (like those we call the founding fathers - they're not my founding anything - look at the country run by a really poorly written document like the Constitution) and set up for not-so-rich people tp pay ALL of the taxes and do ALL of the work while really f*****g stupid and incredibly lazy f***s like scummy Elon Musk and idiot Jeff Bezos. Hell even Bill Gates sits on his a*s all day and d***s himself.
#6
Is This Signs Of A Healthy Economy?
Tiki Stanford 3 years ago
I'll bring some wine, maybe some sort of side salad?
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Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
I actually agree with this one. Close all the tax loopholes and repeal all the tax subsidies these corporations have gotten over the years. Tax offshore accounts too. If you're a US citizen or earn income from businesses with locations in the US, then it's taxed. Plain and simple.
the Return of Bruno 3 years ago
Raising tax RATES doesn't change this. 2 times 0 is still 0. The catch is to remove all the exemptions.
Bryn 3 years ago
It does. Raising taxes doesn't need to mean multiplying. If we raise from 0 to 15, that's raising.
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Beata Santa 3 years ago
elon musk is not a self-made billionaire and you are closer to being homeless than being a millionaire
David Zumwalt 3 years ago
None of the elite mega rich were self made. All had forms of help only the rich can provide. It's a myth.
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The experiment has been done over-and-over-and-over again for 75 years in first world countries across the globe. We know the results. If the US taxed corporations and the unfathomably rich who build passenger space rockets -- like the rest of the civilized world does -- the result would be a better life for most citizens while the rich would still be rich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This is for those who believe the OP suggestion would increase unemployment, or depress wages, or have some other detrimental effect upon the economy/society
Eat Dirt Crow 3 years ago (edited)
Can we come up with some sort of way to fine companies whose employees are on any sort of government assistance? If a company needs the government to subsidize their employees they should have to pay for it. Employees get paid a fair wage and the government has less spending. Win for both sides.
Brooklynn Jackson 3 years ago
I'm sorry if this might be controversial, but guys, THAT'S WHY TAXES WHERE CREATED! TO PUNISH THE RICH! But guess who got greedy?? The rich are rich because they know how to legally avoid taxes (unfair, I know).
shiny shinx 3 years ago (edited)
1) why were you downvoted for a genuine question though 2) tax loopholes/exemptions
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Thorsten Massow 3 years ago (edited)
If you take every dollar of privat money above 100 million and distribute it among all Americans, everybody would recieve roughly 60k.
"[The group] wasn't that well thought-out at the start, to be honest," Fisher said in an interview with Vice. "I'd never done a Facebook group before." See, he shut down the community when he noticed it started to become like any other group on the platform.
"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. It felt like it was reinforcing the condition it was intended to displace," Fisher explained. Although many felt it was an untimely end for the popular group, 'A Boring Dystopia' sprung up in its wake soon after. The subreddit was created in 2016 and has already amassed over 750k devoted members eagerly waiting for the newest posts.
#7
Tax The Churches
xolitaire 3 years ago (edited)
Jesus was a hippie who did whatever he wanted, including inviting himself to weddings, spending time with social outsiders etc. He would never stand for this
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Cooter McCoughlin 3 years ago
I grew up catholic and it made me sick sitting in that million dollar church with the hundred thousand dollar stained glass windows and people still dumping their hard earned money into a collection basket. They always preach about sacrifice. Well how about having mass in a church made of logs and a fireplace for heat. All that money that was dumped into the church could have done so much good to so many less fortunate people. I cant even step foot in a church now without getting angry. It's just gross
Paul Macdonell 3 years ago
It's called the 'Separation of Church and State'.....well...let's not refer this one to the Supreme Court while 7 of 9 are Catholic....
Lesley Christie 3 years ago
What amazes me is that there are countless stories in the new testament of Jesus being kind and being clear minded and logical. I don't think they know the God they are meant to be following. Love your neighbour as yourself is obviously meaningless to them.
Robert B 3 years ago
My understanding is that to be granted tax free status, one has to give up the right to participate in politics. So it may be illegal. I’m not a lawyer, just happened to come across some info relating to this recently. I may be misremembering.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
I remember this too. They can't endorse any politicians but not sure about lobbying legislation
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Scott Rackley 3 years ago (edited)
The church is only about power/money. Nothing else. It's their means of control.
Burnt Bagel 3 years ago
Because this country is completely f****d up. Pretty simple, actually!
J.A. Rogers 3 years ago
No surprise. The Knights of Columbus alone shelled out more than $1,000,000 (one million dollars) to kill marriage equality in California. And don't even get me started on what the Mormon church did.
#8
And The Cycle Continues
Thorsten Massow 3 years ago
Only true in countries without a functioning healthcare system.
Load More Replies... girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
And this is why most people can’t just “pull themselves up by their bootstraps”.
Arliss Speace 3 years ago
Yes. It is impossible to buget your way out of poverty.
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Ent Hugger 3 years ago
lol yes! before i even read what he wrote i said...... that chocolate rain??! he's still out here speaking truth, who knew!!
Load More Replies... Arliss Speace 3 years ago (edited)
And time consuming. An errand that would take me 30 minutes by car takes me 3 hours on the bus.
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David Zumwalt 3 years ago
Why TF is dental separate from medical? Massive load of c**p. It's all medical.
Luna Crow 3 years ago
No, but dental is "cosmetic." Because it's not like we need teeth to eat, or that abscesses lead to medical issues...
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‘Bout Sums It Up
2picklesinabun 3 years ago
I just learned that you can't ask questions or you'll be called a conspiracy theorist, or told off. Not sure when asking questions became a bad thing. University loved when I had a thirst for knowledge and understanding.
Maria Veronica 3 years ago (edited)
Some people ask questions, which is nice, and some people invented crazy and twisted evil-motivated stuff and put an interrogation sign and the end and say "I´m just asking questions¨which is not nice, you can call the difference ten miles away
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Jonie 3 years ago
I was a purchasing agent for the US Forest Service for 25 years. Our official uniforms were made in Pakistan. Our American flags were made in China. I could buy a bottle of Windex locally for $3.00 but had to order from a GSA contract and pay $14.61 a bottle. The stories about $400 hammers are true. I stayed mad every day.
Captain Panda 3 years ago (edited)
It taught me how my friends/family/etc really think! And that is why my circle is MUCH smaller and MUCH better without them
MagicJacket 3 years ago
America is a gorgeously frosted & creatively decorated multi-tier cake made of dog poop.
"Boring Dystopia was partly about the fact that no one can care about stuff any more," said Fisher. "It's not that they don't care, but in a city like London, or any intensely pressured urban metropolis — add to that the pressures of capitalist cyberspace and people just feel like they perpetually have no time."
"Our resources for caring are depleted, and that has aesthetic consequences," he added.
#10
"Pepsi Family"
IDK_Something 3 years ago
I have a feeling they didn't expect it, either. They did deserve it.
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Shauna Voigt 3 years ago
They just did this to a guy at my husband's job. He was with the company for 40 years, took leave with a cancer diagnosis and has been battling it for about 6 months now. They fired him two weeks ago, which means he didn't have insurance coverage for October and it cut off his long term disability benefits. He was offered no severance package or any other benefits.
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
😞 So sad… I’m never going to look at a Pepsi bottle the same way again 😭
Jessica J. 3 years ago (edited)
Work for a big retail pharmacy chain. Had a woman that worked for them for 20 or 30 years...she go Covid, and ready had heart and lung issues. (She was NOT a smoker, and she WAS vaccinated), so she was in the hospital for a bit, and then she was told she would have to stay on oxygen for the foreseeable future. Initially, there were no compact units available, and would have to have the bulky tanks. She applied for disability through the company, and the claim was denied. WTF do you have to do to qualify, then?!
Bubs623 3 years ago
This once again highlights the essential problem that health insurance is tied to employment. That must change and the USA must provide national healthcare or people will continue to die and suffer, 'sharing' that suffering with their real families. Also, no business is a 'family'. It's straight lies. Huge red flag.
#11
From Mad Magazine, 1968
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
I actually remember this one. I thought it would be different by now, sweet summer child that I was
Mikey Kliss 3 years ago
I don't know about hating the "very rich" part. It should have an asterisk that says "only if they're Jewish"
Rob 3 years ago
I’m not great at picking up sarcasm so I’ll assume your not as much of an idiot as I think you are
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Rabbit Lord 3 years ago
Ironically honest: a "super patriot" is a man who hates himself hence almost all americans are immigrants so he most probably is one too.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
Well, that's not wrong. But when a person actively calls themself a "patriot" while at the same time ranting about liberals, activists, immigrants (just illegal ones, of course!), unions and intellectuals, the lines between nationalist and patriot start to blur. They often blur, since people who quietly love their country and quietly do their citizen's duties (voting, most importantly, and paying taxes, maybe participating in a few local politics) are usually not the ones loudly proclaiming their patriotism.
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Alexandria Z 3 years ago
100 % true except the hating the super rich. If they contribute to him/her they can stay for a while.
#12
Little Girls Are Braver Than Some Of These Cops
Jessica J. 3 years ago
Hi, well, my dad is a cop, and a volunteer firefighter, and and EMT-D...he has gone through so much training, taken so many classes, to take so many tests, to gain so many certifications, because he believes in serving the community. Not all cops are bad, but all stereotypes are.
Load More Replies... barn owls ️ 3 years ago
i think you mean “braver than all cops”. she was a child. she shouldn’t have had to be brave. rip sweet girl
Lesley Christie 3 years ago
The fact that they even have that award for a child is terrifying.
Stephanie Paich 3 years ago
I think it was created with other scenarios in mind, like trying to save someone from drowning or being hit by a car
Load More Replies... Jo Morris 3 years ago
How many times has a Bronze Cross been handed out by the Girl Scouts, if "saving or attempting to save a life at the risk of the Girl Scout's own life? Why is this category even a thing?
Erin Kelley 3 years ago
I find your incredulity weird, disingenuous, and possibly misogynist. Girl Scouts receive health and safety training, that’s one of the points of scouting, GSA anyway. It’s pretty easy to find information on the Bronze Cross, but I’m so annoyed I went and did your homework for you. The Bronze Cross application includes the following situations: “Animal bite, Auto accident, Bicycle accident, Cave-in, Drowning (water/ice), Electrical accident, Fall, Fire, Flood, Hemorrhage, Poisoning, Respiratory failure, Shock, Tornado” and other. “Since 2017, Girl Scouts’ statistics indicate that 163 Girl Scouts nationwide have earned this Medal of Honor.* An additional 12 have been awarded the Scouts’ Bronze Cross for risking their own lives while trying to save the life of someone else.” <— from an article in the San Diego Union Tribune. *the Medal of Honor is for a Girl Scout who saves someone’s life but their life wasn’t at risk, for example, saving someone from a choking incident.
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Randy Sanders 3 years ago
That young lady HAS the heart of a warrior. Never leave anyone behind, even at the cost of your own life. She is with God without a doubt. I would have been proud to have her as my granddaughter or later, as one of my team. You would know she had your 6.
Alexandria Z 3 years ago
Sad when a 10 year old girl has more guts and moxie than riot geared cops with big guns. I salute her and all who stand up against cowards that hate.
EvilNob 3 years ago
I'm from Europe and I have no idea what happened there. Could someone explain please?
Xbox is better 3 years ago
Uvalde was a school involved in a mass shooting, I believe it was 18 students killed and 2 teachers killed I live in texas about 1hr and 45 mins away from Uvalde.
Load More Replies... Maria Veronica 3 years ago
Firstable, should not have any chance for a kid to risk its live for saving others, and there´s a prize?
Previously, we reached out to Macon Holt, Ph.D., a researcher at Copenhagen Business School and author of Pop Music and Hip Ennui: A Sonic Fiction of Capitalist Realism, to learn more about this phenomenon. According to him, "boring dystopia" is related to another term introduced by Fisher — "capitalist realism". He used it to describe "the pervasive belief that capitalism is the only viable form of the political, social and cultural organization following the end of the cold war."
"Boring dystopia is more about the aesthetic experience of living in capitalist realism at a point in time when the system appears ever more unsustainable (ecologically, [politically], and in terms of increasing inequality and decreasing standards of living) but in which no other way to organize society has emerged," Holt told Bored Panda.
#13
Who Else?
Little Wonder 3 years ago
The government here (Australia) gave out some cash during the pandemic to stimulate the economy. Every person I know who qualified for the cash used it on the dentist.
Lisa B 3 years ago (edited)
I lived with an idiot during the pandemic who qualified for unemployment + 600$/wk. He blew it all on stupid s**t and didn't help with bills at all (except what he normally did before), it was about 2-3 times what he earned working. We are now divorced.
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Firstname Lastname 3 years ago
A small house to stop paying through the nose for a small, noisy apartment.
Biliegh Berrie 3 years ago (edited)
Doctor and to have running water after so many years. I would love a shower
Lauren S 3 years ago
Why, why, why can I not pay off my student loans and my mortgage?? I don’t like the clause they added to this question. Okay… fine… I’d go back to school to get my doctorate. Somehow my answer makes me feel selfish compared to others and I don’t like that. ☹️
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
No no - they didn't mean you shouldn't pay off your debt with the money. They meant that AFTER paying off the debt, what is the first luxury you'll allow yourself. For me... Hm, probably something sensible, like a solar panel for our roof (of the house I paid off the loan first. And insulated the roof ;-) )
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Jan Bowyer 3 years ago
I'm actually in a decent (not fabulous) situation financially, so my money would go to animal shelters and rescue operations. See Best Friends and many other non-profits for animals. I'd also use the power that money creates to get rid of the many evil, Republican Nazi-type politicians that are destroying the United States. Yes, I realize this is an Australian venture, but I can dream, right?
Stephanie Paich 3 years ago
After paying off my debt, my first splurge would be for other people. I get far more joy out of giving than receiving. How fun would it be to give every waiter in a restaurant a thousand dollar tip? Or buy a car for someone you know really needs a new one?
Julie Schulz 3 years ago (edited)
Contrary to the post's "rule", I would pay off debt first, save enough to retire and my splurge would be traveling the world.
ctsbathory 3 years ago
I would also get a fleet of RV's to go around to public schools to do vision tests on all the kids and make sure they had the glasses they need. Then another with dentists to make sure those students have dental care and they can bring their parents too. So much could be done if the rich were made to pay taxes. Maybe hey don't buy that 32k handbag and sponsor a school to pay for lunches. Trade that ridiculously expensive watch to get some new computers for a school. The problem with the rich is none of them seem to have any souls.
#14
Maybe We Laugh So We Don't Cry. Or Rage
Csaba Hegedűs 3 years ago
Why. Are. People. Writing. As. If. One. Word. Was. A. Whole. Sentence.
shiny shinx 3 years ago
if. all. caps. means. shouting. then. maybe. all. caps. and. making. every. word. a. sentence. means. even. louder. shouting.
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Gninja 3 years ago
Yes!!! My kids go out but I have friends complaining their kids dont like to play outside or cant go on one mile hikes at 6-8 yrs old. They are on their ipads all day and even during meals. 🥲. (Its the only way they will eat...) sadly I find similar situations with many people.
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Claudia Calabrese 3 years ago
We are in a world with people that love animals, even filthy rats, more than they like people. And then they protest because others (the rich, the government, politicians) don't do good things for people.
Margaret Hooper 3 years ago
Yes, they are exotic animals, unless you are an American female and live in a state where you are forced to be a breeder no matter what your circumstances. In that case, thoughts and prayers are yours.
Laura Lett 3 years ago
Or like me, unable medically, to have children. Also, i have a brown thumb, have killed 3 cacti.
#15
Lock Up The Poor
Kylie Mountain 3 years ago
Absolutely. Can't pay bail, exorbitant 'court fees,' thousands of dollars to an ankle monitor company? You're stuck in jail.
Lawrencium 3 years ago
A coworker of mine told the story of his grandfather, who used to work at a state prison where he would see inmates break out just a couple of days before their release, and then just stand there and wait to get caught. Prison was more affordable than trying to make it on the streets, much less as an ex-con...
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jknbt jknbt 3 years ago
the court-appointed lawyer wants to get rid of the burdensome case as quickly as possible, and he/she dreads the thought of a long trial. So they counsel the client to plead guilty, even if they are really not guilty. "It will be better this way", they say...
Curry on... 3 years ago
Yep, they definitely can't plead affluenza and no one gives a flip about their poverty, because alas, prisons are another profit center.
Laura Lett 3 years ago
It's like the days of Charles Dickins. Around half the population were in debtor's prison. History repeats itself.
Although we may imagine a dystopian future similar to exciting movies like Blade Runner or The Matrix from the '80s and '90s that offered depictions of going out with a bang, it is more likely to consist of mundane scenarios. "As the years in which those images came around, none of the dreams or nightmares came true," Holt said.
"Instead, space travel is becoming the hobby of billionaires while they ignore the ecological crises they could perhaps help with, AI and robots seem either to be surveilling us while they vacuum or when we click on a link, and the VR worlds of the metaverse are just ways to charge us more rent for spaces that we can't actually occupy."
#16
Indeed
Den Ver 3 years ago (edited)
Question: What do they call the, "Popular Vote" in countries other than the US? . . . Answer: The Vote
Den Ver 3 years ago (edited)
In the US, the state of California* has 68x more citizens than Wyoming*, but the same number of Senators (who play a role in electing the President). This is why the US may be the only ‘first world’ country where a person with the most votes in a head-to-head (two-person) contest can lose to someone with fewer votes. [*California vs Wyoming is just one of many examples]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . This would be like the country of Luxembourg (pop. 632,000) having the same voting power as Spain (pop. 47,350,000 ), if a European leader was voted for.
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frederick clause 3 years ago
Democracy in the U.S. is a myth. The real power comes from big money and big business.
Burnt Bagel 3 years ago
This is the reality of the completely f****d up country the USA has become. F**k Trump and anybody who has ever and certainly currently supports him. (Will this one cause another lifetime ban?)
Bobby 3 years ago
I learned recently that a big part of the reason the electoral college still existing is that small states control something like 8% of the electoral college, but only 4% of the popular vote
Crouching hippo hidden panda 3 years ago
Trump has done so much damage to the US and it’s still suffering the aftershocks
Ila in Maine 3 years ago
Democracy little or large D will die in America if everyone who believes in it does not vote BLUE for everyone from Animal Control Officer to the highest elected position on your ballot each and every election beginning Nov 22 until either the MAGA party is replaced with sane GOP members or a new political party is formed.
#17
How Much Have You Contributed To The Modern Day Feudal System?
Tom Gill 3 years ago
His point is that we're being charged enough in rent to afford a mortgage, so why are we being told we can't afford a mortgage?
MagicJacket 3 years ago
It's the down payment and the cost of the house. Even if you can afford a mortgage, first you need to come up with the 20% down payment of a house. Average home price in America is $428,000 (and MUCH higher in a lot of places.) How many people have $85,000 laying around for the down payment?
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Tina Hugh 3 years ago
What’s the alternative? Some people can’t afford to buy a home. Where are they supposed to live?
Little Wonder 3 years ago
There will always be a need for rental properties for sure, the problem at the moment is the cost and the lack of rights for tenants. Rents keep shooting up while wages stay still, it shouldn't be that way.
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TGHW 3 years ago
This is me. Can't get a mortgage, paying well over mortgage payment rates in rent to landlords so I can't afford to save for a deposit. Being kicked out when they want to move the property on and not getting my deposit back because things aren't exactly as they were 5-10 years ago when I moved in. Been in this situation since 1999 and getting poorer by the year. My rent is now 2/3 of my wages and I live in a less than desirable area. I'm at the front when we start the revolution guys. I have nothing left to lose!
Shauna Voigt 3 years ago
Reminds me of a friend who was playing $1650 a month for rent but was denied a mortgage loan because the lender said they couldn't afford the $1100 mortgage payment.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago (edited)
I paid almost $90k to rent a studio for three years in a safe neighborhood. Landlord tried to literally enslave me and then kick me out during the pandemic as a thank you. There's not even a word for how angry I am about this. I mean, that could've been my retirement savings. I guess it's homelessness for a third time once I'm elderly and can't work anymore.
Channon Doughty 3 years ago
Funny how all those years of paying rent and utilities on time cannot be factored in to credit ratings! Absurd
Mikey Kliss 3 years ago
Very very true. I've never missed paying rent (which in someplace was more then a mortgage) and yet my credit score since I cant get a loan because shortly after graduating HS I got very sick and the medical bills destroyed my credit
tl gmc 3 years ago
Is your credit score above 560? If so you can still get a loan, under will be harder but still possible if it's only medical bills dropping your credit. A wholesale lender works, if you go to big banks they will dent you.
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worldgoing2shit 3 years ago
hell i love it over 115k in 5 years and counting oh and just on one house
#18
America Is The Best Country In The World!
Eunice Probert 3 years ago
And in Wales, ALL prescriptions are free anyway.
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John 3 years ago
On 23 January 1923, Banting, Collip and Best were awarded U.S. patents on insulin and the method used to make it. They all sold these patents to the University of Toronto for $1 each. Banting famously said, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.” He wanted everyone who needed it to have access to it.
ADHORTATOR 3 years ago
My wife is diabetic and needs insulin... so does my mother in law and my father. I could not live in the US...
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In Australia there is a $500 annual threshold on the cost of prescription meds if you are on a pension or welfare. Individual scripts are capped at $6.80 per script as well. Some people, especially diabetics will reach the threshold in 4 month etc, rest of calendar year is free. My mum has heart problems as well asvthecdiabetes so this has definitely saved her life.
Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
Republican argument : I'm on the pharma board and want to make more money at the cost of others lives
TCW Sam Vimes 3 years ago
Prescription is free in Germany, you only pay a fee of 5 or 10€, even if the medication costs thousands of €
Den Ver 3 years ago (edited)
It’s Price Gouging! ... https://www.pharmacychecker.com/askpc/insulin-production-cost/# . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Because the U.S. does not regulate drug prices, the 3 companies that produce 96% of the insulin market charge diabetics 60x the production costs of the medicine. The other countries listed in the original post pay manufacturers 6x the production cost. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Republicans: The real question is, do you want to be gouged by an unregulated private for profit company, or to you want to pay less through a gov’t program. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . For those who support unregulated capitalism, I assume you would be okay with oil companies colluding to charge $40/gallon (€10.5/litre) for fuel, when they could still make an extraordinary profit at $4/gal.
Sarah Monk 3 years ago
You don’t need petrol to stay alive! Priorities seem skewed in the USA
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️ saturn the furry (she/they) 3 years ago
I literally can’t even describe how much I hate america
Brian bell 3 years ago
They do. It is "since we can afford it we don't care, why don't you lazy slackers get a second or third job and stop whining." (Plus it helps their stock margins)
While this list involves some of the most evident examples of boring dystopia, Holt mentioned bureaucracy is also a common one. "Like the terms of a rental contract that forbid tenants to use cooking oil on the stove, so a landlord can keep the deposit if a single drop is found on the extractor fan hood."
"NFTs are perhaps a good example of boring dystopia," he continued. "If a sci-fi writer were to dream up a situation in which people paid the money they had earned doing actual work for a certificate of verification that they own a .jpeg of a bored ape, their editor would probably say the world the story depicted would be too depressing to publish."
#19
It Sucks
James016 3 years ago
Also the rules can change at any time. This is one of the many things that my wife and I worry about for our son. Will he be able to cope with a work environment etc?
Virgil Blue 3 years ago
It's hard at first but if you help him and point out "acceptable" reactions to social situations it will help him work out how to navigate around the "instinctive" bits neurotypicals take for granted. It helped me to have someone I could ask about anything I couldn't work out so I could create a "canned response" to a lot of the social clutter.
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Robert B 3 years ago
Dude, it isn’t just against people on the spectrum. I’m not, I just despise social games and power plays. I leak spite out of my eyes and voice when someone tries to force me to play.
Mariza 3 years ago
This resonate SO HARD!! I applied for a job I used to do recently and couldn't get past the stupid online tests that o thing to do with the actual job. I can't even get a part time supermarket job cause of al the online rubbish. Yet I'd be great at checkouts!!! It hate applying for jobs as an autistic person, none of the processes make any sense.
Julie Schulz 3 years ago
I'm not autistic but I hate job interviews with a passion. I'm introverted and shy so talking to strangers is hard (I need to get to know people before I open up). I often come across as reserved or snobbish because I'm not more outgoing, although I'm anything but once I get to know you and feel comfortable. I've interviewed for jobs I know I could have done, and done well, but didn't ace the interview.
Moosy Girl 3 years ago
Ditto, I was unemployed for almost 10 years because I couldn’t get past the social barrier. I got lucky someone presented me as „this is the person you need” to my current workplace, and I got interviewed by an equally socially awkward person there.
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Yep, I feel you. After years of research I have painstakingly build up mental scripts I can use to survive most "social occasions". Pretty much similar to dialogue trees found in games with open spaces to insert proples names or the latest sports ball teams wins etc.
Becky Samuel 3 years ago
I wish that counsellors, therapists, doctors etc. would stop telling me "just be yourself". They just prove to me in one phrase that they have *no* idea what it's like to navigate a social situation as an autistic person.
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Tobias Reaper 3 years ago
i applied for a job once after a telephone interview they told me that i had passed and would get an email inviting me to an assessment centre i never heard from them again
Pink_Boba22 3 years ago
Like Illymation said, the world was sadly made for beans, not legumes. If you know you know.
#20
The True Perspective
Tess 3 years ago
And that's the far more reasonable Canada, that has public transport, and better wages.
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Stephanie Paich 3 years ago
This is to limit demand for parking. Any time there is not enough supply to meet demand, prices must go up to reduce demand. It's the same reason why airplane ticket prices skyrocket during hurricanes.
Gardener of Weeden 3 years ago
It is slightly working that way... but you keep hearing " no one wants to work". If people are able to keep pushing back we might get close to a living wage in usa.
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2picklesinabun 3 years ago
This isn't anything new. It has always been expensive to park in downtown cities.
#21
Attention: Homeless
tl gmc 3 years ago
Hopefully it was reported, not sure how much it would do though
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Milano1015385 3 years ago
Where the hell else are they supposed to go if they're HOMELESS. Having an HOA is pointless
Joy 3 years ago
The demented person who wrote this is just begging karma to do its thing. Reminds me of when a church in London lost its mind and declared vulnerable homeless people would no longer be welcome to rest on its outside steps. The backlash against St John's of Hackney was loud enough for the church to tremble and whimper it had had a change of heart. Don't ever look down on the homeless for one day it could be you.
Valden 3 years ago
Is that not the Christian way? “Whatever is hurtful to you, do not do to any other person.” I guess this does not count if your homeless, a woman, immigrant, black, gay, or poor. I am sure I left someone out.
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Seedy Vine 3 years ago
People with nice flammable houses probably shouldn't be threatening the people close by who have nothing left to lose.
He also noted that our beloved Bored Panda also draws attention to the conditions of contemporary boring dystopia in its name and tries to break up the monotony of the everyday. "In boring dystopia, people are often anxious about work, housing and the future of the planet, and there's very little to alleviate this. As Mark Fisher put it 'No one is bored, everything is boring.'"
#22
Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions
RezFidel 3 years ago
yeah.. this might actually work in Gilead states. Seriously.
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Reminds me of the old joke about the bloke who rang the police to report a burglar, to be told they were busy. After ringing a second and third time, he told them not to bother hurrying, as he'd shot him. 6 squad cars were there inside 2 minutes.
Shauna Voigt 3 years ago
Sad thing is this girl was found months later in Oklahoma being forced into prostitution.https://amp.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article261353877.html
#23
Enjoy Another Recession And Global Warming Child
Sydneywhite 3 years ago
Australia is thinking about bringing back the baby bonus payment to get people to have more kids....because you know a small payment will solve all the reasons people dont want to have kids.
Aélia Potter 3 years ago
It will just lead people to have a lot of kids for wrong reasons. Besides, people who have kids for money will probably mistreat them.
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Enlee Jones 3 years ago
Yeah, let’s bring kids who didn’t ask to born into this hell hole where climate change will kill them if a mass shooting doesn’t first.
Two_rolling_black_eyes 3 years ago (edited)
This is bologna. I'll use the Marvel villain Thanos' plan as an example that decreasing is not catastrophic for humanity, its bad for business. If the human population of the planet (7,794,798,739 in 2020) decreased 50%....it would equal the population of the planet in 1973 (3,851,650,245). Having 1973 levels of people on the planet would give us a healthier planet. Having 1973 levels of consumers (half) would destroy the capitalist based growth model. Also, infant mortality rates have decreased over 50% since 1973 and the average life expectancy has gone from just under 71 to just over 79. Because of these two things, even though the fertility rate (number of children per women born) has decreased almost 60% in that same time period, we still have a positive growth rate. We need to decrease the number of new births or the planet dies.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago
There have never been more human beings on the planet, nor more suffering. We can either live long and die out, or we can keep increasing our numbers and destroy the planet and ourselves.
Curry on... 3 years ago
I think it's arrogant to think we can destroy the planet. I think we can destroy, for the moment, those resources we need to stay alive, then we'll kill each other and/or die off, and the earth will heal, just like it did during the pandemic.
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Craymoss 3 years ago
If they want people to have kids. Have Incentives to take the billions of dam kids already out there into a loving home. Not to bring more dam hungry mouths into this damned planet. There’s people popping out dozens of kids to themselves, we seriously don’t need incentives for more…
Bruce Davis 3 years ago
People in western counties who complain about the birth rate collapsing mean the WHITE birth rate is collapsing.
For some, pictures pointing out modern-day dystopian reality could be a source of entertainment. For others, they may create a daunting sense of a lost future. Speaking of the latter one, Holt said that the material things that make people feel that way (skyrocketing housing prices, student-loan debts, insane medical bills — the list goes on) stem from actions at various levels of society.
"It is just what happens when the interests of people with power align," he added. "Boring dystopia is the experience of our faith in the future having been betrayed. There is no quick fix. Instead, to quote Donna Haraway, we have to 'stay with the trouble' if we want to commit to a future we can flourish in."
#24
When Your Boss Is A Robot
Grey Blue 3 years ago
Ok, I’m laughing so hard! Me and my friend were walking around a store with one of these things. Didn’t know what it was, or why it was there. Literally every time we turned around/went down an aisle it would be RIGHT THERE. Thought it was creepy af! Now I know it just thought we were trash…
Catherine Miklavic 3 years ago
This thing sucks Giant has them and every time I go in it seeks me out and chases me around the store.... and I'm not a dirty person
Gardener of Weeden 3 years ago
There was one at a store I went to... it actually was scanning inventory. I guess I stood looking at a shelf too long and it approached me. I HATE robots . I dumped (left) my cart at customer service and refuse to shop there ever again. If you keep taking jobs from people... then I will shop at our associate owned store ( not convenient, not as well stocked... but I know where the money is going.)
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That is an inventory shelf scanning robot that also detects trash on the floor. But saying that wouldn't let people express their outrage.
Philip Castellano 3 years ago
No it doesn't do inventory. It's only function is to detect spills. Stop and Shop has been using them in the USA for 3 years. Still it saves money as it can work multiple shifts and prevent expensive injury lawsuits.
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#25
America - Solving The Real Problems!
Mahayana 3 years ago
Oh dear… why do I keep reading! Let’s love one another damit! When are we going to stop this nonsense of suffering.
Jessica J. 3 years ago
When a certain group of politicians have died of old age.
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Weirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet 3 years ago
I broke down in tears when I saw this and I not the person to cry over posts and chats. (Not meant offensively) (and of course that post was on my birthday too.😞) America has some problems that cannot be fixed until people are fixed. Not allowing abortion is crazy. Women have the same right as we had back 200 years ago. I- I wish that I wasn’t born at this time. COVID-19 causes way to much stress and (please don’t go after me when I say this) COVID was blown way out of proportion. I can’t deal with this rn. The more I find out about, along with current problem I have personally at school and at home, my stomach drops and I wanna cry for hours. Why can’t we just get along with each other. Abortion is not murder, dammit, the child isn’t even born yet. (Please don’t go after me or downvote me. I just wanna show the way I see it. I love some parts of society but some parts I can’t stand. I have bold part of viewing and I may be a little uninformed about this all) xoxoxo.
Lawrencium 3 years ago
Given your post, I have slightly different views than you, but I can still respect you and your opinion! You're an awesome person and deserving of love. I guess the biggest thing I disagree with is that I, for one, am glad you were born at this time! I hope this helps, hang in there! 😊
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BetterBitterButter 3 years ago
Sounds like a nightmare where you want to wake up and try to scream but can't because no sound would come out of your mouth!
Weirdest Bi You’ll Ever Meet 3 years ago
What are you talking about? I gained nothing for that comment.
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#26
Maximum Price, Minimum Quality, Ideal Suffering Of The Peasants
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
Yup, a 50 cent candy bar now costs $2.50 and is an ounce smaller. "New and improved" though!
T. Unnamable 3 years ago
Hunt's Original Recipe BBQ Sauce advertises itself as "new and improved". Wait, what?
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Martin Forbes 3 years ago
What really confuses me is that food manufacturers claim that the price of ingredients has gone up so they need to pass this rise in costs onto the consumer. Then they reduce the size of the product whilst increasing the cost for it. If the costs have gone up but the size has gone down, then surely the prices should stay the same as it was before the increase in costs.
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
Jeesh, I just popped by the store to get some fruit and salmon. Somehow walked out $80 poorer!
rumple slunkskin 3 years ago
Got some laundry soap the other day, was very pleased that the price hadn't gone up. Then I picked it up and realized it's now a half gallon instead of full gallon.
rumple slunkskin 3 years ago
I bought chickens in spring for what a carton of eggs costs now
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Accidentally came home with one-ply toilet paper yesterday. Can't even start a fire with that stuff.
"One piece of advice that is really easy for coming to terms with and starting to imagine a way out of boring dystopia would be to read Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is there no Alternative? It is an incredibly accessible piece of critical theory and is only about 86 pages long. It is a great jumping-off point for finding out more. Read it with friends and talk about it after. It is a great way to feel less alone in a world that seems to be ever more isolating," Holt concluded.
#27
"He Has Some Pretty Old Ideas About Things"
Susie Elle 3 years ago
Screw you Musk, you were headed towards greatness but instead took the first exit to Doucheville.
Paul Macdonell 3 years ago
Elon Musk is no ordinary fool....he's a world class, top of the class, fool.
BG 3 years ago
In case you're not in the loop... Tesla's factory in china has housing and shopping inside the factory so that the employees never have to leave the facility.
Enlee Jones 3 years ago
Notice how doesn’t say anything about the workers enjoying any kind of benefits from their work.
#28
What A Dream
Paul Macdonell 3 years ago
A crippling injury that results in a litigeous windfall. The American Dream....
BluEyedSeoulite 3 years ago
I low key have always wanted a car to hit me in a parking lot. Just so I could be debt free
Bobby 3 years ago
I'm going back to school in a manner of speaking. You can find a lot of free courses for different things from well respected schools online. You don't get a degree though. I fill in the blanks on message boards speaking with people in the industry. I'm banking on this networking and building a portfolio of actual projects landing me a job without the degree. I'm just not willing to take on student loan debt
keighterz 3 years ago
When we cross the streets in big cities my husband and I always take our time. We’ve got medical bills and student loan debt. Please, rich person in fancy car, hit me.
Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago (edited)
I always say i want to get hit by a city bus. Sue the bus manufacturer, the driver, the transit authority, the transit authority's insurance, the city, the county, s**t, i'll sue the department of transportation for their horrible placement of a stop sign if it means i can get some food and a place to sleep. If only. With my luck, it'll snap my back in 4 places and i will lose all that money from buying a motorized wheelchair because my insurance denies, then I'm back to broke AND broken. F**k this country.
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LynzCatastrophe 3 years ago
If it helps, I just wanted to be hit by a car so I could get some time off, I don't care about payment. Though after 6 weeks straight of 12 hour shifts I finally had enough and demanded it.
Sarah SH 3 years ago (edited)
I wish empathy were as present as people seem to think socialism is.
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Interesting
cecilia kilian 3 years ago
When fiction meets reality, like "The Handmaid's Tale". Next chapter, "Soylent Green"?
Curry on... 3 years ago
I tell people all the time that science fiction is my favorite genre, because it shows so much of what's going on or what will go on in the future.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
Remember in V for Vendetta when 100,000 Americans dying was enough to send society into hard core panic mode? As though we’d give a tiny s**t when *only* 100,000 of us die in a pandemic. We have manicures to get and Olive Gardens to eat at!
Empresslockness 3 years ago
Well we are already living Black Mirror, so I guess Mad Max is next!
#30
We Need To Stop And Reverse The Fingers
Maria Veronica 3 years ago (edited)
And this is the bad news: no matter at all our everyday little sacrificies, there´s not reversing to the collapse if the world still working this way
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
Not quite true. We can keep the disaster smaller, which will greatly benefit those nations directly impacted by global warming (like island-nations and countries with growing deserts). There's still time - not much, but it's possible! If we pull ourselves together (everyone, INCLUDING the small people, though of course also the big players), we can do it. If we do nothing, we're doomed. And our children and their children. And if you don't care for children - all the cute little animals, too. Just don't shove it ALL in corporate's shoes. Yes, they (especially fossil-fuel consuming power-plants) are the biggest players. But if we use less energy, we can lessen their grip on us and make way for different, renewable energy instead. We HAVE to. And with shut-off gas-pipelines from Russia, a lot of Europe is really feeling the impact - and is learning where to save energy.
Load More Replies... Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
And again: we can't just throw in the towel and stop doing anything! the western civilizations are the largest polluters when it comes to per-capita carbon emissions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CO2_emissions_per_capita,_2016_(Our_World_in_Data).svg In total, China is the largest, but the US is certainly no saint. And neither is EU and Australia. Becoming defeatist is equivalent to throwing the poorer countries, or those sitting in the middle of a (rising) ocean to the wolves. Or sharks, rather - and putting our hands on our ears when we hear them scream. "Lalala - can't hear you. Oh, your poor and dishevelled need shelter and new homes? Well, not here, naaaaw. Go ... wherever. Just not here" We HAVE to. And maybe it feels like running uphill against the storm, but if Kate Bush can do that, what excuse do we get? Do whatever you can, turn of electronics and limiting showers, and it might not save the world but at least you can contribute towards saving it -
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
- and if it goes down the drain anyway, at least you can say that you tried. We can't break fossil-fuel's grip on power if we consume mindlessly as we did up to now! we need to stop spending so much power, invest in different energy, invest in research towards less destructive resources. Soooo much time has been wasted already with the right alternatives already in our hands! Nothing was done because fossil-fuels keep power in their sweaty little hands and we just continue to follow their carrot. Our cars still use oil, our heatings still use gas (or oil), as does our electricity largely. And one of the selling-points is that without coal, gas and oil, we wouldn't be able to keep up our living-standard. well, tough s**t! Maybe our living-standard is way too high anyway. Eat less meat, use less energy, wear more woolen clothes, shop smarter and recycle if possible. Sucks, but what else can we do? Definitely NOT stick our heads in sand and pretend nothing's happening like f*ing egoists
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Shirley D Harnish 3 years ago
USA has about 4% of the world's population yet we are expected to "save the environment" for the entire world.
Ola Polowczyk 3 years ago (edited)
Yeah... And meanwhile they're pouring water on the roads in front of the Tour de France race riders. During a drought... Qatar installs some ridiculously huge air conditioning turbines for the world cup... And they want to organize some winter games. In Saudi Arabia... Because the show must go on.... The list goes on... But DON'T YOU DARE using plastic straws or plastic bags!
Jessica J. 3 years ago
Was just unwrapping the flood of plastic from the sunglasses and reading glasses, which consists of each individual pair having one ear wrapped in a plastic sleeve, and then the entire unit being in a plastic sleeve. Next time you go to the store, and see that display, just think of all the plastic. And it goes on and on...
v 3 years ago
What's even more of a slap in the face is that the green industry became a big industry which laughed all the way to the bank (still does) as people continued (still do) to believe the lie of recycling and other sustainable products/processes.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 3 years ago
It's not a lie. Recycling is good, even though the impact of everyday-people is a lot smallr than they make us believe. Not-recycling is still worse, though!
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You’re Supposed To Like Working
Kylie Mountain 3 years ago
Let me tell you, it's not because I have a deep passion for opening boxes of overpriced plastic merchandise. It's because my parents aren't millionaires.
Hypoxia Smurf 3 years ago
Question: Why work? For income. For medical coverage. For a fatter resume. To pilfer from the worksite. To seduce co-workers. But "for personal spiritual enrichment" is an unlikely answer.
TGHW 3 years ago
To live in fear of a minor fault leaving you unemployed and losing all your savings supporting yourself while you look for another job. To barely make enough money to break even month to month. To put in extra hours without extra pay. To be too scared to use the bathroom during your shift in case your workrate dips To be scared to join a union that could help you - the list goes on. Apparantly, THIS is why we work. I'm not seeing the attraction!
Load More Replies... Maria Veronica 3 years ago
Exactly!! I mean you genuinely can enjoy or feel gratified teaching, cooking, reading, organizing, attending people, and is a plus, but we only works for money, for ourselves and our families
Shayda 3 years ago
That's because regardless of if you enjoy your work, your time and effort is worth reward. Your paycheck is really what you're working for, just because you enjoy the task that gets you to your paycheck doesn't mean you're worth less. At least in MY opinion.
Load More Replies... Delta Dawn 3 years ago
Just like they hired me because they like me and want to hang out with me, not have me do work for them.
Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
They want loyalty and "family" but they will sell you out the moment the boss's bonus dips 1%.
Elizabeth 3 years ago
Back when Chick-Fil-A did tried to get people to work the drive through for "free" sandwiches, my dad told me I should go because "It’s a good deal, you love their sandwiches!" I turned around and said, "I love money more. Money can buy me many sandwiches from many other places. Why would I go work for anything else?"
Curry on... 3 years ago
Why are the companies in business? Oh, they like money, lots and lots of it.
#32
Quality Healthcare
Tamra 3 years ago
This is infuriating. There is NO scenario in which an ectopic pregnancy results in a healthy birth. It is not medically possible. I've been there - had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy, bled out into my abdomen and nearly died. And this was WITH early medical monitoring.
Lisa Zehr 3 years ago
I had an argument with someone on Reddit that insisted 'but there was ONE TIME a fetus was viable from an ectopic'. So all the other deaths from ectopics don't count?
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TGHW 3 years ago
Ectopic pregnancy or not, it is a womans right to terminate her pregnancy if she chooses. Fight me.
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
You have my sword, bow, axe and whatever else you need.
Load More Replies... Tiki Stanford 3 years ago
Why do these politicians keep butting in between people and their doctors? They are letting patients suffer and die due to their own lack of medical knowledge, real talk. Their hypothetical grandstanding has reached the point of criminal. I wish the families of victims would sue every politician who votes for any medical restrictions that have stopped providers from caring for their patients appropriately. Maybe if they are held responsible they would think differently
Stylishsidewaysbird 3 years ago
There are very few things in medicine that is 100% guaranteed. The most glaring on is that 100% of ectopic pregnancies with not result in viable pregnancy and without treatment those women will die.
bottomless.abyss.of.bordem 3 years ago
At least the government will step up and care for the other two children she will leave behind./s
Julie Schulz 3 years ago
I used to work in a medical clinic and learned just how much the doctors are limited by insurance companies too. It's maddening! What's the point of going to all of that schooling if some Joe Schmo at the insurance company or some stupid law is going to make the decision anyway?
Xenon 3 years ago
I read somewhere if medical treatment or claims refused its your right to demand the names and qualifications of the people who turned it down. Never tried that so don't know if it works.
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Seedy Vine 3 years ago (edited)
According to the Mayo Clinic, 10-20% of pregnancies end in miscarriage. That means 10-20% of the pregnant women in my country may die.
#33
I Wouldn't Be Able To Afford A House Anyway, But Might Give A Try?
Eline 3 years ago (edited)
Oh look at this! They made a mess, but it's our fault? When my aunt was my age, she bought a house. Today, i'm not earning enough with my job to pay a rent of a little appartment. I can pay grocerries to help my mum and pay a restaurant for her birthday, but without my mum, i'll be in the streets.
Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
if i was a billionaire without the billionaire's lack of a soul, i would throw a few million at ya.
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Missy Corron 3 years ago
I tell Children I'd like to invent a Time Machine "to go back and see dinosaurs" but really it's to go back to 1962 and buy my house for 9k instead of 450k in 2014.
#34
Our Society Is Flawed And Rotten To The Core
girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
Universal Declaration of Human Rights says otherwise.
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alwaysMispelled 3 years ago
Wrong. It implies any given human being does not have an inalienable right to live and stay alive.
CatchTheWind 3 years ago
The original poster is misinterpreting the expression "earning a living." It doesn't mean earning the right to be alive. It means earning the money for your needs.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
Yes we know that. But the word “earn” also implies the deeper meaning. *the more you know rainbow swoosh*
Load More Replies... Todd Campbell 3 years ago
America kinda stole it from Locke where the last one was private property and they updated it to pursuit of happiness.. either way the screenshot was wrong if that was supposed to be the US constitution.
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Ila in Maine 3 years ago
If you are a woman in America the GOP absolutely believes you don't deserve to be alive. I think about what they are going to do if they win the mid-term elections and do get every state to outlaw abortion. They'll dust off their hands and look around and say what's next we can control? That's when all the men who agreed with them might want to start worrying because you're all that is left. That's when the real fun starts because I don't know a single woman who is going to stand up for you.
Richard Smith 3 years ago
No, it's taking responsibility for yourself, rather than passing it off on others.
E. Hamilton 3 years ago
Um, since when did nature care about "rights"? We don't have rights... Nothing is inalienable... All we have is luck in where we are born and who we are born to. After that, try not to be an a$$hole.
#35
He Really Just Came Out And Said It
Enlee Jones 3 years ago
What a choice: Drown in student loan debt or join the military, get sent to Afghanistan, and have your legs blown off by an roadside bomb.
Jordi Sharpe 3 years ago
And when you get back, the VA can backlog your medical claims and force you to go into debt anyways as you pay out of your own pocket.
Load More Replies... Lyone Fein 3 years ago
The military should build a bunch of those supermarket robots, only with guns. Or water pistols.
Seedy Vine 3 years ago (edited)
Because why educate young men when you could get rich by sending them off to die? /s
Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
And if you watched a segment of a certain news show that has a ticking clock, you would know that the free college thing is a huge piece of BS. They do have to pay back with exorbitant interest rates. It’s either that, or get killed and your family can pay it off with whatever the military doles out to them because you died pursuing a college education.
#36
Can We All Agree It’s Time To Tax Churches?
Brendan 3 years ago
Of course. All the other anti-freedom religions teach voodoo and terrorism. /s
Load More Replies... girlsrock4ever 3 years ago
Just noticed that. Guess the world isn't all bad...
Load More Replies... ️ saturn the furry (she/they) 3 years ago
We are hurtling to theocracy in a lifted, diesel gussling, dirty a*s truck with an American flag on it
Tiki Stanford 3 years ago
They should have taxed religious groups from the beginning. Separation of church and state my a*s! So many idiots running for office touting their religious beliefs as qualifications for which they should be elected. (Hershel Walker, I'm looking right at you) It is only getting worse. Taxing these organizations would be a good start to separate religion and government.
Channon Doughty 3 years ago
An utterly terrifying theocracy: think Puritans, think witch trials, think mob violence... WE MUST STOP THEM
Edward Dunne 3 years ago
In 1986, Frank Zappa warned us about hurtling towards theocracy. People didn't take him seriously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlePLLlfH4Q
Brooklynn Jackson 3 years ago
If we used all this money for other stuff... Dudes, you tell me, is it better to learn about god (no offence to anyone I'm just stating my opinion, again, no intended offence) and whatever miracle he did or use this money to SAVE OURSELVES AND OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS FROM A HAAAAAARD LIFE?!
#37
Can You See It?
Bruce B 3 years ago
While these homeless need an address and a valid working phone with internet access and references so that they can be followed up on. My mother and father worked 8am-11 pm between 3 jobs and my two younger brothers and I were left in the car because that was our home when we weren’t at school or waiting around to be picked up from the babysitter. It’s sad the babysitter’s house was the only house I knew of until I was 10 and we qualified to enter a homeless shelter.
Estelle Winwoode 3 years ago
And in 20 years someone will dig this up and show it around, saying "isn't it uncanny - how on earth could they have known?"
#38
2meirl4meirl
JoyfulZebra 3 years ago
That's not correct. We can change the future. The future is not static. We change it through our present actions.
Panda in the Fake South 3 years ago
The individual can't change the future of the world. The major problems (ie climate change) can't be changed by the individual. The individual can vote for people who will make the changes. But since promises so much then does so little. And the losing politician fights to end democracy. The future is FU(KED and we can do nothing about it.
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Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
The fact that some things are getting called out for their b******t and when these old crusty dickheads die, things will get better.
Nonna_SoF 3 years ago
Sure. $10000 but only if I can hold the money. Also you have the burden of proving the future has changed.
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Ah Yes, The American Healthcare System™
v 3 years ago (edited)
Yep. It truly is un f*****g believable that people get outraged over two pictures with a short headline and ZERO actual context. The elf on the shelf one was Christmas glurge, nothing more, nothing less. The brain surgery one was actually true. The insurance company did deny the minimally invasive surgery. According to the pictures is ends here and people get all offended and then move on because they can't be bothered with actually trying to know what actually happened. The insurance company actually did cover the cost of the surgery to make her life better.
Load More Replies... Cooter McCoughlin 3 years ago
Elf on a shelf is a snitch and you know what happens to snitches...
moi 3 years ago
I don't understand why americans stay when you collectively look at it all. gtfo and leave the tramps that vote for all of this to it.
Vinchenski 3 years ago
Noooo, if the sensible ones leave, we will be left with the most powerful country in the world (in terms of military) run by a bunch of people who think they are the best in the world and followed by a bunch of people who think the same. And we know what happens when one group think they are superior to everyone else.
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Delta Dawn 3 years ago
Our Children’s Hospital would treat her for free. Almost as though she has a right to medical care as a living human being. Huh.
#40
Basically
Nancy Doughty 3 years ago
Actually, he (the orange turd) was an extra of sorts. Would only allow the inside of his hotel to be used if he was in the movie. I believe his scene has been cropped now.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
Kids are talking about it on the playground again, whether they’re far enough from the center of our city to survive a direct attack. Deja vu from growing up in the 80s.
Tess 3 years ago
Doesn't extortion imply some level of intelligent resistance?
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Organize And Join A Union
v 3 years ago
I get depressed when I see things like this which is proof that people actually do read about history but, by and large, fail to actually learn from the history they read about.
MJLstrd 3 years ago
A good friend of mine who could barely make ends meet working his hourly job told me how much he hated unions and they should all be outlawed.
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#42
"The Circumstances"
DrBronxx 3 years ago (edited)
Reminds me of the period of the late 60s to 1998 in Northern Ireland, which were called "The Troubles". Growing up in Belfast, that name was normal. It never struck me until I moved away, and talked about it with others, how polite that term was. Looking back, it's more like a term that the mainland gave to its little shame off the west coast.
Timmy Pillinger 3 years ago
John Peel said he was confused by this because his mum referred to menstruation as the troubles
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Kylie Mountain 3 years ago
See, this I understand. This is at least honest; their costs have gone up, they have to raise prices to stay open. It's the whole sneaky 'we shrank the bottle and we're hoping you just don't notice' thing that drives me nuts.
TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
I mean, printing a sign for each and every circumstance would probably be expensive in current times
Julie Schulz 3 years ago
Yeah, have you seen the price of ink and toner cartridges?
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Speaking only for the U.S. here. The single largest circumstance is the centralized production model, especially when it comes to agriculture. It's been in place for so long that people are used to having all manner of things that wouldn't be available in their geographic area. Also, because of this model, no real effort has ever been put into establishing localized production and distribution based on what can viably be grown in a geographic area.
Pittsburgh rare 3 years ago
THIS.And applies perfectly well to Europe (dunno about other places). We either rethink the chain of distribution from the producers to the consumers or fresh produce will become a luxury.
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#43
Can't Have Anything
Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
When did my sixth grade social studies teacher get a job setting Amazon policy. Seriously. Dude would joke about how your eyeballs needed to be "swimming in their sockets" before he'd let you go pee, especially if you were a girl. People about pissed their pants he was such a d**k.
Michael Sanders 3 years ago
I had a teacher in 6th grade that had a hard and fast rule of no bathroom breaks. A kid in class who was very well behaved asked to go and she said no. I had to go to the nurse, but when I got back the poor guy was sitting there with tears running down his face and a puddle of pee under his desk. The kid pissed himself because he didn’t want to break her stupid rule. I would’ve gotten up and pissed on the desk. This was the 80’s so I dunno what happened behind closed doors but I know she kept her job. Teachers get fired for some very trivial things nowadays, but this woman kept her job after doing something criminal. #fightthepower #pissondesks
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ERIKA H. 3 years ago
Denying bathroom breaks is literally illegal. Amazon breaks so many labor laws, yet doesn't even get a slap on the wrist
Daniel Mattock 3 years ago
Ideally every Amazon worker in the world would stop working for one day. That would scare management into treating them humans. I get that it’s too big a risk though
Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
Are you shackled? because that sounds like a place that would shackle people. All for the world's love of cheap garbagy Chinese rip off products sent to your hands in 1 day.
Duane Johnston 3 years ago
I would dropped trouble and taken a dump on the floor, wiped it with a box and sent someone a surprise!
#44
Small Town Texas Politician Shares The Real Reason Police Are Armed
Moezzzz 3 years ago
He's not wrong. My brother is an officer here in Texas. He's probably one of the best people I know- far better than myself. He was once caught on camera ( this dude was going around to different stations to "provoke" or "see if he'd get arrested" for filming the exits of said station. He'd done it a few times at other places and got what he was after, but the minute I saw my brother talking to him, man, I was so proud of him. Everytime the dude would call him a pig or tell him "you can't do anything to me!!", my bro just talked in a normal voice. Calmed him down and asked what he was REALLY doing. Then explained that filming the exits of a government building makes him look like a terrorist, or that he wants to hurt people. Dude was doing it to sue those stations that would arrest him. That was the day I knew he was in the right position. He's an Army veteran, Purple Heart recipient and my hero.
Julie Schulz 3 years ago
It's sad that all of the good cops are being overshadowed by the bad ones. My husband had an uncle (since passed from cancer) that was a cop for 32 years and he was definitely one of the good ones.
Load More Replies... Nathan Pogorzala 3 years ago
The rednecks who carry guns in public are scared of everything, including being exposed as the under educated, small dicked person they are.
Jessica J. 3 years ago
There are a lot more countries where police carry guns than those that don't. They're records of police involved shootings are VERY different. The overwhelming difference is in how much nore education and training those places require for police officers.
T. Unnamable 3 years ago
And we wear cowboy hats and boots because they make us look taller, tougher and cooler.
Mental Liberals 3 years ago
Absolute Fact! The Supreme court ruled they have NO duty to protect you! ONLY YOU can protect yourself! Get trained!!
Valden 3 years ago
Yep, police are only required to protect property, not people.
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Tess 3 years ago (edited)
What is the point in protecting property, and places, if the law abiding citizen; who far too often is a child, loses their life, because you were too worried about protecting a building, and yourself? Although, it really does explain a hell of a lot about America. Australia has had very few mass shootings. After the last, the gun buyback program was implemented. People who owned guns that were now illegal, for the most part willingly turned them over. Not for the monetary value that the government paid to compensate you for the cost of your gun. They willingly turned them in because the Port Arthur Massacre was such an horrific event, that no one ever wanted it to happen again. Individuals handed over anything that they owned that was now outlawed, not because they were worried that they would commit an act like that. They willingly turned in their own guns, so that they could never fall into the wrong hands.
Richard Smith 3 years ago
It's true. And police have no obligation to protect you. Your life and property is your responsibility.
#45
A Grim Reality Sets In
Paddling Panda 3 years ago
The Boomer Generation are so plentiful versus the Gen X'ers, there will be no CPP or OAS by the time I get to 65. There are literally not enough of us paying into the federal pension plan to ensure there's enough money for us when we get to that age. So. I will work until I die. Period.
TGHW 3 years ago
In the UK, the 'Boomers' set up the NHS to provide free healthcare to our population and many other socialist plans to provide wealth for future generations. As a country, we owned our own industry, we owned and funded our own healthcare, our transport industry was state owned. A legacy to leave for future generations. They did amazing things. The villians are conservative governments selling this legacy to private interests with none of the revenue reinvested in people, and weak labour governments not doing enough to get it back. The original plan was sound. But the wealth of these interests is now in private capitalist hands, we are the next USA waiting to happen, where socialism is a dirty word and capitilism reigns supreme.
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Daniel Mattock 3 years ago
But that’s why the US is so broken- so many people believed that all you had to do to succeed is work hard, that they hated the idea universal healthcare, benefits, any sort of help for those who need it.
A_Stevens 3 years ago
This is me. 100% effort does not = reward in this society anymore. Not even intelligence pays anymore. Worked my a*s off to get out of a deprived environment. Went college, then Uni (a good one!), now a scientist and on the same salary as the kid who left school at 16 and worked as an apprentice electrician before they qualified in the practice a couple of years later in their late teens. Biggest differences: they own their own home, while i live hand to mouth paying ridiculous rents unable to save for an extortionate house deposit they, are actually likely on more money than me and certainly have fewer/smaller outgoings, and they have zero student debt, but at least I know about magmatic fractionation -.-
Brendan 3 years ago
I went to uni, believing it will lead to a dream job and a healthy bank balance. 14 years later, I'm still paying off student debt (and I'm far from my dream job). When my kids grow up, I will support whatever they want to do, but I hope they get an apprenticeship.
Load More Replies... Miss Frankfurter 3 years ago
You guys aren’t the only ones experiencing this. Some of us Boomers are. My parents couldn’t afford a house, and neither can I. I got left a small amount of life insurance when my final parent died. I live off of OAS and CPP and a small amount of pension from my employer I retired from. I have run out of rich relatives (one). I live in a mobile home my mom left me. Because of how little I make, I am in horrible debt from the emergencies that have come up. My only hope is to sell it and move into a studio apartment offered by some friends. If I don’t sell this place to pay my debts and have a nest egg, my life will be over. Don’t lump all of us into one pile. There are those of us who are living in abject poverty. Waiting for a subsidized seniors apartment is a 10 year wait. They asked if I’d like to go on said list.🤣🤣🤣🤣 No thanks. I’ll be dead by then. 🇨🇦 By the way.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago (edited)
In the US you can declare bankruptcy. They can’t take your primary residence. What have you got to lose, your credit score? Pshaw.
Load More Replies... B 3 years ago (edited)
Here's the problem, I am Gen X, my mother did not work until my father forced her to get a job when I was in high school she quit about a week after he died. Her & many people like her are a drain on the system, I am working 9 hour days supporting people who never held down a full time job but are now collecting social security & medi care . I am told make sure you contribute to your 401K because there will be no social security when you want to retire in 15 years. Mean while I have been working since I am 16 & people of my mothers generation that survived & thrived on a 1 person income ( my dad's) have run through their savings & are expecting the rest of us to pay for them. I was married for almost 17 years before we could afford a house because we wanted our son to go to college debt free. So Yeah I'll probably work until I die & hopefully it's at work because my life insurance pays out more that way.
#46
A Boring Police State Dystopia
JoyfulZebra 3 years ago (edited)
Funny how crazy conservatives talk about the "Radical Left" trying to make the U.S. into the USSR or Nazi Germany, when we already have a similar police state because of ultraconservative policies.
Trond Øien 3 years ago
Fascists always blame "the others" of what they're actually doing themselves.
Load More Replies... Mabelbabel 3 years ago
It should be an offence to turn off their bodycam whilst working. Surely the technology exists that stops the wearer turning it themselves, that it can only be turned off back at base once off-duty?
Tess 3 years ago (edited)
It shouldn't have a manual off full stop. Where they're worn should be specifically mandated. If it can detect a heartbeat, it is filming, and tracking. Footage and any event that happens on shift must match up exactly. No way of taking it off until you finish your shift. Magnet keys for shop displays, or clothing tag tech, should be a minimum obstruction to removal. Preferably the clothing ones that explode purple dye everywhere and it doesn't come off for weeks. So it's an instant infraction after you finish your shift, suspension without pay until you're no longer purple; a warning for members of the public until then, that you most likely pose a danger to their safety. If it happens a second time that is your policing career over, and really should carry a felony charge, and jail term. A police officer should be there to protect civilians, in times of unrest and civil anarchy, they have other officers with different qualifications, training, and resources. These exist for a reason. They exist to prevent regular police officers from taking action that is outside their training. They aren't above the law, they are supposed to be the law. To protect those who could be harmed by others who break it.
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Cass Malone 3 years ago
My sil called the cops on my man one night for being too loud while drunk. (She was living with us at the time) cops come, man and sis say all is good. Cop overhears my man say "really you called the cops" cops hear it n come back. Long story short my man got tasered twice, didn't feel it the first time, and got arrested for "assaulting an officer" (which he didn't do, cop just tripped). Point is when it came time for court the Sheriffs Dept couldn't come up with the body cam footage to prove my man did anything wrong. The charges ended up getting dropped since there was no proof.
Aisling Raye 3 years ago
**Body cam footage of officer shooting an unarmed 12 year old sitting on a bench and playing with a yo yo at 10am on a Sunday. Press conference Monday morning: "The officer has been placed on paid administrative leave while we conduct our investigation" Next week (or next month or whatever the officer involved shooting paid vacation time is currently) "After a thorough internal investigation we have determined that the yo-yo looked like an assault rifle, the child looked like an adult acting erratically, and the time and date were suspect as it was Sunday morning and the individual should have been at church. The department has concluded that the officer's actions were warranted. Officer whateverthef has resumed work and was awarded a bonus for their bravery in the line of duty. Our city is a better place because of officer whateverthef's dedication to upholding the law."**
#47
Daaamn, What A Good Ideea
#48
A Straight Up Scam
Cooter McCoughlin 3 years ago
That's so awful to do to someone who is looking for a job and probably doesn't have that money to begin with. On the other hand, it is a very creative scam they got going on there. I'll give 'em that!
#49
Accidentally Accurate
G. Ross 3 years ago
The flag with the blue stripe shows support for the police. Not always bad. But since the original US flag is supposed to represent freedom it's basically saying that they support ripping away our freedom for a police state. Could also mean that freedom is an illusion used to hide corrupt law and control.
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cecilia kilian 3 years ago
If you abide by American flag protocol, you do not alter or deface the flag you display in any way. Just being snarky here.
SAF saf 3 years ago (edited)
It's a BS Blue Lives matter flag, where the thin blue line represents all law enforcement. It's BS because US citizens all share the same US flag. The Marines, Navy, DMV, Army all serve under one U.S. flag.....but not law enforcement for some odd reason.
Bubs623 3 years ago
So many of the 'first responders' and military branches have their own similar flag. Red line means firefighters. Olive green is ground forces in Army etc etc. I
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#50
USA Be Like
ItsJess 3 years ago
No, not "anyway"- the career politicians in DC have fantastic health insurance.
Load More Replies... Ila in Maine 3 years ago
The FPOTUS and the GOP have been promising a new health care plan since Reagan was elected. They have been promising it was going to be released 'in two weeks ' since the 1980s. Where those 2 weeks are is a mystery because like their health plan no one has ever seen either.
#51
Nobody Wants To Fish
#52
I Hope More States Do The Same
#54
Necessities Are Now A Privilege Many Do Not Have In The USA
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
This!! This was me yesterday! I bought a small amount of food and toothpaste and paid my phone bill and then felt guilty for the rest of the day cause that was a huge chunk of my paycheque
#55
Yeah.. Selling VCR's And Microwaves! I'm College Educated And I Make $15.00
indiecognition 3 years ago
Is the problem the rarity of a living wage, or that people don't want VCRs anymore?
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
I think they just used VCRs as an example, it’s definitely the rarity of a living wage
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It Be Like That
indiecognition 3 years ago
You can take two moneybags and the person off the top track, and still have the same outcome.
#57
“Nothing Happens” And There’s Micro Plastic In The Rain Now…
#58
A Jeff Bezos Mural With Surveillance Cameras For Eyes
#59
Owing Money For A Book You Wrote
BG 3 years ago
A printed book which can be returned is literally the problem here. Digital publishing is far superior.
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Jessica Wood 3 years ago
Amazon has changed this policy now. Probably the only good thing they've done.
Billy Harrelson 3 years ago
I shudder at the thought of returning books. Some books I will put in the little free libraries for others to enjoy. I have even repurchased favorite books that have been lost our damaged. But never will I return a book to get the money back.
ezPZ 3 years ago
How come it royalties can go negative, what kind of contract is that, that the small guy is responsible
B.Nelson 3 years ago
Amazon makes the author pay a "shelving fee" (yeah, I know it's a digital book) for each returned book. If enough books are returned after purchase, then the author ends up wiping out royalties with fees.
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Living Well Is Not Profitable
Joe Blowe 3 years ago
Drug companies do not want to cure anything. They make too much if they only deal with the symptoms.
Jack S 3 years ago
They can sell a treatment to you for the rest of your life or they can sell a cure to you once. Isn't capitalism wonderful.
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#61
How Do You Prove You’re Jewish?
ADHORTATOR 3 years ago
I guess the only reason was that the kosher food was more expensive (maybe just some cents) than the standard one...
RP 3 years ago
My guess: plain old prejudice. If I recall correctly, Kosher (and Halal) primarily relate to meat. There is no reason the staff could not have at least given the person veg (unless they're frying in pig's fat) and bread until it was sorted. Putting them on a meatless diet would have been even cheaper, so I guess they just wanted to feel powerful by making someone suffer
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That is absolutely religious discrimination and it is illegal in the US in essentially all circumstances. What a shame that he had to *prove* he was Jewish!!
#62
Just Wow America
#63
How
#64
Corporations Will Save Us!
Cooter McCoughlin 3 years ago
Probably because it's cheaper than maternity leave. I have a hard time trusting these decisions aren't for the benefit of the corporation
TGHW 3 years ago
Yeah, definitely. Big companies get it right SOMETIMES. Good for them.
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#65
Sneaky And Evil
Roadkill The Brave 3 years ago
Eh even having someone work 7 hours and 50 minutes is a misconception unless they only scheduled them 7 hours and 50 minutes while paying for the first 15 minute break. In the U.S. at least most scheduled work days are actually 9 hours long. Not every work place pays for breaks and lunches, most of them don't that's off the clock time - so your actual 9-5 has an hour of not-paid-time, so in reality you work 8 hours with that one off. Unless they scheduled you 9-3:50 and paid for the 15 minute break you're required to still have there really is no 'out'. Also - people need to utilize OSHA more than they do. Most businesses in the U.S. make you feel like OSHA is this evil empire and don't want anyone to 'tattle' to OSHA about them. If they followed OSHA guidelines there'd be nothing to tattle on. I've called OSHA on more than one business in the past for valid reasons most of them relating to worker abuse.
ERIKA H. 3 years ago
Ni sure how it is outside of California, but in CA any shift over 5 hours requires a meal break. Also, if an employee works consistently 35 hours a week, they nees to be offered full-time employee benefits.
Erika 3 years ago
Similar to where I am. Employees under the age of 18 can only work up to 3.5 hours before they’re required a break.
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#66
The Whole Thing Is A Scam
Edward Monks 3 years ago
i work in health insurance, we dont pay out on invoices unless they are itemisem / broken down. Its crazy how these very costly bills reduce by over half when they actually have to strat explaining where they got that cost from.
#67
This Is Why We Don't Believe Republicans When They Say They Care About Mothers And Babies
#68
This Year, Give Your Special Someone The Gift Of Accessing The American Healthcare System
Missy Missy 3 years ago
This is atrocious. I can book a Drs appointment, request prescriptions and a medical certificate for work online for $30. I'm paying for the certificate and script because the Dr is covered by Medicare. Thank God for socialised healthcare.
Wilf 3 years ago
My mother requested a GP appointment, a hospital referral, scans, three years of chemotherapy, 10+ in-patients visits, two surgeries and continued lifetime of drugs... for £0. The USA is a third-world country.
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Lynn Morello 3 years ago
I can get in to see the doctor, get my prescriptions and it costs nothing till I go to the Chemist to fill those scripts.
Pretty Pink Sky Photography 3 years ago
Is this real? I’m seriously asking. This world is so broken.
Kitten Fenerty 3 years ago
Consider this... any person legally living in America or not, insured or uninsured, able to pay or not able, can go to an emergency room and be treated. Ever been to a children's ER in a border state? You will see the "sick" kids running around the ER waiting area playing because they are there for a simple cold. The uninsured use emergency rooms for every thing. Not just emergencies. The ER cant turn you away. This has caused hospitals to close down because they go bankrupt.
Kitten Fenerty 3 years ago
It is part of the healthcare problems in the US. Go to Canada on vacation... the ER wont treat you unless you can pay. (Maybe if its a life n death issue they would, but if you are just sick forget it)
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#69
Instead Of Addressing The Wage Crisis, Quebec Has Turned To Child Labour
Queen Boudicca 3 years ago
There was a time when one paycheck was enough to support a family. Then, we had to have two paycheck to survive. Now, they want us to send out our children to work as well. When is it too much?
#70
Think I'm Getting Scammed Here
Philly Bob Squires 3 years ago
I want to know why I can pay $1600 a month to pay someone else's mortgage on a home (rental) but a bank doesn't think I can afford $1000 for my own. Now for a car.... I can BUY a car with OK credit but can't rent one! Go figure.
King Cheetah 3 years ago
What kind of "logic" is it? Wait until you realize, that money you pay for milk allows farmer to pay off cow loan and *he* gets the cow, you looser xD
TGHW 3 years ago (edited)
It's not the same thing. They are not the only recipient of the cows milk and therefore should not have to pay for all of it, even with a farmers profit taken into account. And if they WERE the only recipient of the milk, and they paid more for that milk than the farmer is paying for the cow, then they should get their own cow. But they can't, because no bank will give them money for that because they've never owned a cow before and can't prove that they can pay for it. The fact that they've been paying more for the milk than the cost of the cow isn't taken into account. You're the loser. It only has one O.
Load More Replies... Tobias Reaper 3 years ago
i am 40 and still live with my parents because i can't afford to live alone as i am single so cant afford it unless i lived with someone the only places i could afford would be a shared flat or house so basically same as living with my parents except with strangers
Tina Hugh 3 years ago
If people can buy rather than rent, they will. Rents always remain below what a mortgage would be.
Tristan J 3 years ago
How do you figure that? A landlord will need to cover the mortgage and costs, such as repairs, legal fees, management fees, times it is empty etc, if renters were typically paying less than the mortgage on the property, there would be no housing to rent. It's a nice idea that you would pay less as you get less value, but wholly unrealistic
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#71
You Are Your Landlords Breadwinner
Paul Macdonell 3 years ago
Probably unfair to a lot of small landlords just trying to eke out a living too.
#72
Just A Bench In The Richest Country In The History Of The World
#73
Modern Fall
Kitten Fenerty 3 years ago
In Canada they sell paper bags for this. 50 gallon super sturdy paper bags
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
Ok but they will kill your lawn if you don’t rake them. Put them in the compost bin or use as mulch, or use paper yard waste bags.
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
It’s not the raking, it’s the plastic bags. Use something other than plastic, or compost/mulch them.
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#75
Absurd
T. Unnamable 3 years ago
Posing as if they were in an action movie just before the big event. In real life? Oops, sorry, not my job to confront armed killers.
Nilsen 3 years ago
My hometown has 13000 inhabitants and three people working at the police office. Two officers and one secretary, they are open between eight and four, and are closed in the weekends. It's mainly for applications of various kinds, serious crime (one murder during the last 50 years) is handled in the nearest city.
Michelle Carlson 3 years ago
I think they all got fired, right? https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwj895ns19X6AhVeAzQIHeTGBUoQFnoECAsQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reuters.com%2Fworld%2Fus%2Fuvalde-texas-school-district-suspends-entire-police-force-wake-mass-shooting-2022-10-07%2F&usg=AOvVaw2SrbX315ZZwdnXr_o90UDd
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
The school district police got fired. The rest are still working so far as I know.
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Americans: We Need A Third Party! The Third Party:
AR 3 years ago
Says people who benefitted from free public education and child labor laws. Libertarians are so dumb.
Butterfinger 3 years ago
Just slowly going back to the 1800s. Ready to sleep on the highway tonight 💪🏻💪🏻
Michelle C 3 years ago
That is not libertarian in the slightest! I wonder if they know what libertarianism actually is and I say this as an American.
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
We've got them too. Labour just carried on Thatcher's work, and pulled up the drawbridge after them
#77
A Boring And Exploitative Dystopia
august is mentally unstable 3 years ago
now this is someone i can legally murder with a pool noodle
JoyfulZebra 3 years ago (edited)
I love the mental image you just put in my head!
Load More Replies... Biliegh Berrie 3 years ago
The fact that the video is only 9 minutes and 55 seconds shows how messed up society is right now. He spent all that money to get there, doing whatever, for a video under 10 minutes. He did this because people watch and he will make money from it. People allow this, grew that type of content then blame him lol. Stop watching stuff like this!!!!!
Tristan J 3 years ago
Whilst this particular example may be exploitative, it is a reality that without content like that, less would watch footage of or know anything about the country in question. A click bait title will get more views, and if done well such a video could prove informative and of net benefit to the country if it created interest in it.
Todd Campbell 3 years ago
It’s good that people get a chance to learn about a place they wouldn’t have otherwise - it’s the lack of humility that this guy in celebrating himself over the poverty of this place - when he can just go home after to his not poverty life.
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The Rhine, The Yangtze, The Po
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
Silver lining: when the rain does come it’s a 1000 year deluge that may put out the raging wildfires
#79
A Boring And Dangerous School Dystopia
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Leave a nice redwood coiler right in front of the gate.
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Cactus 1549 3 years ago
I hope not, but it might depend on what state it’s in
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Donkey boi 3 years ago
The gap in the bars is wide enough to have a p**s through. Just saying....... Y'know, incase you wanted to protest in some way...
Milano1015385 3 years ago
Not allowed to go between classes, gets berated because we didn't go between classes
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
It’s to keep people from doing drugs or sleeping in there over the summer. They turn the water fountains off too!
#80
Enjoy Your Freedom!
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
Yep. Thanks to the Las Vegas shooter a few years ago.
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Michelle C 3 years ago
After what that one person did in Las Vegas it’s no wonder that hotels in big cities would be taking more precautions altogether. Shame!
#81
Comically Evil
#82
Nothing Like Hearing Boomers Casually Reminisce About Their Childhood Only To Realize They Were Abused And Traumatized
Delta Dawn 3 years ago
Except our kids are now painfully aware of how f****d up the world is, which is a whole new class of trauma.
Load More Replies... Delta Dawn 3 years ago (edited)
It’s ok though we spend our free time getting drunk off our asses to cope with the trauma /s
#83
The Hidden Cost
#85
The Reality Of Life In Hong Kong - Many Live In A Home No Bigger Than A Coffin - The Coffin Homes Of Hong Kong
#86
People Using A Park As Designed? Unacceptable!
Sandi Martinez 3 years ago
As a homeless person myself, it's extremely hard to find anywhere to just sit and rest in some shade. The police will come run you off saying that there was a complaint about vagrants sitting on a park bench. What are park benches for, if not for people to sit on? I only carry a small purse with essentials, and my notebook and pens.
TheHalloweenTeen 3 years ago
Pardon me for asking, I really don't want to be rude... But how are you writing messages? Like with internet and battery and stuff, I don't mean to be rude in any way, I just really don't know.
Load More Replies... 3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
I had a friend who was once homeless for a few months. I asked him what it was like and he said the worst part was how people looked at him and treated him. He even got spat on once.
Butterfinger 3 years ago
Literally hate people so much. I don’t know what kind of a person would allow this crime against their own kind. No one deserves less respect than you period. Ever.
#87
Yeah... Not So Great
#88
C'mon, People, Bootstraps!!!
Lauren S 3 years ago
Can I admit that one of the main reasons I breastfed was because formula is expensive AF.
VM37 3 years ago
Mother nursing newborn need about 500 calories more then not norsing woman same age and weight. That is basicaly a pice of bread with cottage chesse and some ham, a few fruits of juice. Rest is fat from pregnancy which we want gone anyway. Plus you don't need any bottles or rest of the stuff.
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Varying Degrees Of Dystopia. Both Regimes Claim The Other Is Pure Evil. There Is, However, Only One Coin
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
Yep.Opposite sides of the same coin, and both have one goal. To get as much money and power as possible. Only difference is the methods they use.
Jami M. Cox 3 years ago
ANYTHING taken to extremes is wrong no matter which side it started on.
#90
A Casual Reminder
Susie Elle 3 years ago
I NEED to know what the "Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan" has against the Beatles, though.
#92
A Kid Raised $500,000 To Buy Bulletproof Vests For Police Dogs
Raven Sheridan 3 years ago
Makes more sense to raise the money to buy them for his classmates.
Tobias Reaper 3 years ago
Police department are too cheap to buy enough vest for K9 officers is left to 12 year old to raise funds to do it. there fixed it
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
It's a damn shame that police use dogs in the first place. Hey officer piggy mcwannabebada$$, how about you go in your big bad self instead getting a dog to do your dirty work?
#93
One Of The Worst Headlines Ive Come Across
TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
I'd advice against looking at the bright side of a nuke...
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#94
Excellent Advice For Dealing With The Cost Of Living Crisis
Cooter McCoughlin 3 years ago
There is definitely not going to be more sex if there's less washing. This article is flawed right from the start
#95
Interesting Times I Guess
Tobias Reaper 3 years ago
kinda seems like something that would be in place if germany won world war 2
TGHW 3 years ago
As much as I hate someone invoking Hitler in an argument, it seems justified here!
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Corporate Greed
Charlie the Cat 3 years ago
At John Lewis (retail store in the UK), after working there for 25 years they give you 6 months off on full pay.
Bethan Coleman 3 years ago
My UK employer provides a £500 gift voucher and an additional days holiday entitlement which takes you to 28 days per year plus all bank holidays
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Ohhh
King of Goose 3 years ago
"United States Plastic Corp". Sure, Christ is the answer, not limiting plastic pollution and decreasing the use of fossil fuels to save the environment. /s
J 3 years ago
C-corporate greed H-housing costs R-roe v. wade overturns I-intangible goals via minimum wage S-selective court rulings T-tax evasion for those who looove C
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Taco Bell Instructing Its Employees What They Can And Cannot Say On The Workers' Own Social Media
Luisa Madrigal 3 years ago (edited)
How bout instead you make employees WANT to post all that good stuff
TGHW 3 years ago
Easier to fire the problem ones and hire new staff. There's no job security here
Load More Replies... Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
That's why you lock that stuff down so tight not even gamma rays can get out.
#99
Citizen Of World's Sixth Largest Economy Needs A Meal That Doesn't Have To Taste Good As Long As It Doesn't Require Electricity To Make It
Little Wonder 3 years ago
Food banks in the UK are reporting that people are declining things like potatoes as they can't afford to actually cook them.
Catherine Graffham 3 years ago
Yep. And food banks have changed their policies regarding a lot of canned goods. Usually they are a food bank staple because they are long lasting and cheap to source, but now they are suggesting not to donate those items/aren’t buying them themselves because they cost so much to cook that the poorest people can’t use them because their energy bills would be too much. And don’t get me started on ‘warm banks’ which is when public spaces are staying open long hours to provide a warm place for people to go when they can’t afford to heat their homes over the winter. Not sure how it will work though because the public spaces are usually in places like libraries and community centres which have been so underfunded recently that they can’t afford to staff them for the hours required for the ‘warm banks’. It’s truly sickening, especially as a chronically ill person who is only able to stay out of abject poverty by being able to stay with more well off family. I’d be screwed otherwise…
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#100
Better Watch What You Say Folks... Homeland Security Is Watching You
Cooter McCoughlin 3 years ago
Well she did encourage people to burn down federal buildings and slaughter politicians. This letter kind of feels like she's getting off easy. I mean we are living in a world where this kind of thing could easily happen. I agree that they're all scum bags but maybe let's just wish they lose their jobs and the buildings get like a sewer leak...something like less murdery ya know?
Sanchez Vasile 3 years ago
while they do murder us instead of wishing us leaks.
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CWebby 3 years ago
I wonder how many of the January rioters received personal letters like that?
Tina Hugh 3 years ago
They’ve gotten personal visits from law enforcement, do you have a problem with that?
Load More Replies... Biliegh Berrie 3 years ago
I deleted mine. I now only post to here and on Instagram about my life. I will now live the rest of my life keeping my opinions to myself.
Load More Replies... TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
Given how violent people became over political topics (from both spectra) - a reasonable letter
Althea Armwood 3 years ago
Granted, you gotta draw the line somewhere because those insane suggestions could lead to some idiot doing those things. But I just LOVE how they listed the agencies before the employees in reference to "harassment/threats against the PERSONAL SAFETY". Not even gonna mention the irony of free speech being discouraged BY THE GOVERNMENT here either.
#102
This Is Genuinely Disturbing
Falcon dimi 3 years ago
In Belgium we had some mass shooting in supermarkets by a gang (bende van Nijvel). It was in 1982, 1983 and 1985. It is still a well known event and still chocking.
Sandi Martinez 3 years ago
How has this become normal? We shouldn't have to worry about being shot while grocery shopping! We shouldn't have to worry about our children getting shot while they are at school! This is not a normal way to live!!!
#103
Just Shut Your Pie Hole And Shower. Anyway, Pentagon Heres Your $850 Billion Budget
Ellie 3 years ago
Other side of the country but yeah. I have to get water delivered bi-weekly in big jugs because I don't otherwise have access to safe, drinkable(or to use with cooking) water
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#104
We Did It
Raven Sheridan 3 years ago
Meanwhile, Sacagawea weeps for her land, her people and their future.
Tobias Reaper 3 years ago (edited)
something that makes me laugh is americans posting about how the queen was a coloniser and took lands off people ever heard the saying people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones of course not they are too busy trying to learn ways to not get shot in school to be able to learn anything useful other than the propaganda that they are the centre of the world
#105
Capitalism In Decay
J 3 years ago
There are 42 years until the youngest baby boomer is around 100 years old. Just hold on i guess
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#107
Thanks I Hate This Terrifying New Level Of Karen
Chich 3 years ago
You can spell c**t in someone's lawn using fertilizer or weed killer. Your choice.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago (edited)
I CAN DRESS LIKE A PIKACHU-THEMED SLUTMAID IN MY OWN HOUSE IF I WANT TO, THANK YOU VERY MUCH KAREN
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
This jackass needs to get the hell over this power tripping phase and STFU.
Melanie Schmidt 3 years ago
The government and crazy people slowly turning everyone into the same unrecognizable grey blobs in order to instill higher profits
#108
We Have Reached Gas Prices They Thought Would Be Apocalyptic Back In 2007 (I Am Legend)
Brent Hollett 3 years ago (edited)
Actually those aren't "apocalyptic". That's just what they thought gas would cost in 2021 (when the movie is set). The prices were the values *before* the zombie outbreak. They didn't suddenly raise prices when the customers were asking for brains, and the speed of the outbreak meant they didn't raise the prices because of an emergency. Someone at that studio props department was spot on.
#109
Then: 'You Don't Need Money To Be Happy!' Now: 'Actually, You Don't Need To Be Happy At All'
#110
"Just Vote!" Welp
Alicia M 3 years ago
The reason Biden hasn't done yet is because we don't have enough Senators to get it done. Two Democratic Senators, both from very Republican states, consistently side with Republicans on most issues, completely negating our majority. We need to elect more Democrats to get a bigger majority in Congress if we want to change anything, period. Long story short, we don't have a large enough majority.
Karmageddon 3 years ago
Neither had the 60 vote majority needed to keep the Republicans from filibustering the vote. Put the blame squarely where it goes, on the Republicans.
L.A. Trefry 3 years ago
Biden hasn't had an actual majority, thanks to Sinema and Manchin. Be fair.
moi 3 years ago
these extremists policies work just as well for both sides of politics, why would they change it when they could blame the other side for it? Besides, it's likely more politically sound to leave it going for a decade until so many have been affected that saying you'll change it will get you elected. None of them care. Politicians work for themselves apart from a very small minority
#111
It Is 2023, The FDA Has Fined Nestle $320,000 For Using Cocoa Laborer Remains In Its Crunch And Kit Kat Recipes
3 Owls In A Coat 3 years ago
It’s a comment on the “boring dystopia” that we live in. In fiction, it’s a lot more exciting and obvious. In real life, we’re actually living in a dystopia and we all already know it.
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#112
We’re Screwed
indiecognition 3 years ago
From what I gather, Caro Caro makes this level of cheese security necessary
Raven Sheridan 3 years ago
Just rip off the plastic wrapping and eat around the security device, while doing your grocery shopping. 😏
Vinchenski 3 years ago
Those wires on the security device look like ideal cheese slicers to be fair...
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Garry Cowan 3 years ago
It's because cheese , bacon and other cuts of meat are easily sold by shoplifters
#113
You Can't Learn If You Are From A Poor Country
RP 3 years ago
Proving that you have enough living funds to study overseas is standard practice at universities across the world for any international student. Assuming that a person cannot pay based on their country of origin and not giving them the same chance to prove that they can as everyone else... that's racisim. On the other hand, Covid really did put everyone is some very new and strange positions that are too complicated to be summed up in a screen shot. Maybe there is more to this
Vix Spiderthrust 3 years ago
On the upside, this gives them time to sit some resits and apply to a proper university.
Aiden Brough 3 years ago
The same Uni that sacked cleaners and other staff but then spent a fortune sponsoring the Huddersfield Giants. They also sacked a lecturer who was a qualified Accountant because he didn't have a degree (and depsite him saying he would get a degree, but they would need to give him time). He won his case and they had to pay him compo. Ironic how Uni are run morons and well paid ones at that...
#114
Planned Marital Obsolescence
Chucky Cheezburger 3 years ago
The software just went to a subscription based service and he has to pay monthly to access it.
#115
What A Tedious Bastard
Harlan Bleiler 3 years ago
I “steal” about 6-7 hours a day. But I’m still doing the job they asked me to do. But I’m certainly not doing more than they asked me.
Chris Holdsworth 3 years ago
Baaaaaahaaaaaaaa how did BP not redact or moderate the C bomb in the title?!
dmf 3 years ago
This is true. If you are on the clock, you are being paid to work. And the all the people that say otherwise, imagine you hire a babysitter, and are paying them by the hour and they show up and sit around for a half hour on your porch before knocking on your door to actually start watching your kid but then demand to be paid for that half hour because they were at your house for that time.
#116
50+ People Waiting In A Queue To Visit A Rental Studio In Amsterdam
#117
I’m So Glad Joe Biden Codified Roe vs. Wade Like He Said He Would, Things Could’ve Been Bad Otherwise
Brent Hollett 3 years ago
Fun fact: He said he would, if the voters delivered a Senate that would pass the bill so he could sign it. He can't codify Roe vs Wade by himself.
#118
Graph Goes Up Means World More Gooder
#119
US Fascism On Full Display
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What do you think ?
sasha_k 3 years ago
more like American who lives in dystopian nightmare... In my country I'm still allowed to have an abortion, and i have free health care
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
I'm sure it's only a matter of time in my country
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Curry on... 3 years ago (edited)
I was talking to a woman who vacationed in several places in Europe. She went to England, France and Brussels. She said the food was so fresh in each of those places and that there were laws that control the amount of processed food sold. Then I thought about it...they offer health care to the people. It's to the government's benefit to keep the people healthy. Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Pittsburgh rare 3 years ago
What that woman failed to mention (probably because she wasn't aware) is that the price of those groceries has become so exorbitantly expensive over the past 8 months that people are switching to refined carbs and crappy food that is more affordable. Of course and as usual, southern Europe is taking the blow harder than northern Europe despite being the producers, due to stagnant wages and structural unemployment.
Load More Replies... 2picklesinabun 3 years ago
It's easy to be doom and gloom when you look for it. Just like it is to share all the good in the world. I'd rather choose to look at the good than suffer sucking in all the negative stuff.
Satan Laughs 3 years ago
Thank you! What happened to all the cool art threads, BP??
Load More Replies... Slim Bluesbender 3 years ago
These are .jpg images of tweets and other written rants not pictures of dystopian events.
love u 3 years ago
ah time to go to a corner and cry in person who doesn't want to grow up in this world (:
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
I got to the part where it said "this post originally had 119 ...... etc." And I just couldn't go on.
wowbagger 3 years ago
Yes, a lot of these examples are American, but people in more progressive countries shouldn't get complacent. This turn to the far right is showing up everywhere. We're all in this fight together.
ItsJess 3 years ago (edited)
Yes. I live in NY State, a progressive state, and the pendulum is slowly swinging back in the other direction. In a few years we could be another red state if we get too complacent. Don't ever assume it can't happen where you are.
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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
For everyone saying these must be America: If you're in Europe, how's that fuel price thing going? Drought over yet? Wildfires much? Right-wingers in governments? (The answers are: Badly, no, yes, yes.) My point being: There is no Utopia. The word means No Place.
Satan Laughs 3 years ago
Omg AGREE. Is BP anti-American now? I used to come here for the art.
Load More Replies... David Zumwalt 3 years ago
We can disagree. It's okay. I don't like operating in echo chambers. I think school should be for learning basic educational standards. Ideology, left or right has no place in public schools. I actively seek the opposite view to learn. You should do the same.
sasha_k 3 years ago
more like American who lives in dystopian nightmare... In my country I'm still allowed to have an abortion, and i have free health care
Aunt Riarch 3 years ago
I'm sure it's only a matter of time in my country
Load More Replies... Curry on... 3 years ago (edited)
I was talking to a woman who vacationed in several places in Europe. She went to England, France and Brussels. She said the food was so fresh in each of those places and that there were laws that control the amount of processed food sold. Then I thought about it...they offer health care to the people. It's to the government's benefit to keep the people healthy. Meanwhile, back at the ranch...
Pittsburgh rare 3 years ago
What that woman failed to mention (probably because she wasn't aware) is that the price of those groceries has become so exorbitantly expensive over the past 8 months that people are switching to refined carbs and crappy food that is more affordable. Of course and as usual, southern Europe is taking the blow harder than northern Europe despite being the producers, due to stagnant wages and structural unemployment.
Load More Replies... 2picklesinabun 3 years ago
It's easy to be doom and gloom when you look for it. Just like it is to share all the good in the world. I'd rather choose to look at the good than suffer sucking in all the negative stuff.
Satan Laughs 3 years ago
Thank you! What happened to all the cool art threads, BP??
Load More Replies... Slim Bluesbender 3 years ago
These are .jpg images of tweets and other written rants not pictures of dystopian events.
love u 3 years ago
ah time to go to a corner and cry in person who doesn't want to grow up in this world (:
Lyone Fein 3 years ago
I got to the part where it said "this post originally had 119 ...... etc." And I just couldn't go on.
wowbagger 3 years ago
Yes, a lot of these examples are American, but people in more progressive countries shouldn't get complacent. This turn to the far right is showing up everywhere. We're all in this fight together.
ItsJess 3 years ago (edited)
Yes. I live in NY State, a progressive state, and the pendulum is slowly swinging back in the other direction. In a few years we could be another red state if we get too complacent. Don't ever assume it can't happen where you are.
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 3 years ago
For everyone saying these must be America: If you're in Europe, how's that fuel price thing going? Drought over yet? Wildfires much? Right-wingers in governments? (The answers are: Badly, no, yes, yes.) My point being: There is no Utopia. The word means No Place.
Satan Laughs 3 years ago
Omg AGREE. Is BP anti-American now? I used to come here for the art.
Load More Replies... David Zumwalt 3 years ago
We can disagree. It's okay. I don't like operating in echo chambers. I think school should be for learning basic educational standards. Ideology, left or right has no place in public schools. I actively seek the opposite view to learn. You should do the same.
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