But if they aren’t real, why do they always come out of the woodwork when there’s a woman as the lead character?

Idle games! So many idle games.

Yep! Anker has been making the rounds as a reliable company over the past few years. But they got something sketch about them.

I bought a dozen Anker products during the pandemic because they were reliable and affordable. But after the eufy thing, I dug deeper and my tin foil hat is on.

Don’t recommend this but I have a story.

This is twenty years ago, and weed wasnt legal. I was getting kicked out of a casino for being stupid and arguing with the dealer. But they didn’t just kick me out, they brought me to “the backrooms”. They said they plan to call the cops, and In hindsight, I think it was a fake threat. But since I’m carrying weed brownies, I panicked and ate them. I usually consume a 1/2 a bar. But in that panic, I ate 3 whole bars.

While still sober, they finally kick me out, no cops.

Then while walking back to my motel, the brownies kicked in and I did not have a good time.

I’m a old person. Is that somebody important?

Orange man convinced MAGA that Russia is our friend, let’s get him to get MAGA to “Praise be to Allah”.

Pretty much this.

People have shared how Costco would work with farms and say, “Well pay you less per product, but we’re order a magnitude more than your next buyer. Enough that you can retire next year.”

The numbers are insane.

Oh great that’s what we need from this administration.

Went to a bar a while back and started making conversation with a random guy.

After an hour of drinking - He brought up how he used to have dogs and made money having his dogs fight other dogs.

In the 2000s, people were already starting to move back in with their family. There were jokes in movies and TV, but not much. The rising cost of everything, it was a good financial move to save money living with your parents again.

2020s and making that joke? Have you seen how expensive rent is? I don’t even think I see it in entertainment anymore.

I came to say that too! It was body horror and glorious. 4 arms in the wrong place? Eyes in funny places.

Marketing. My responsibilities involve funneling online leads into sales through online campaigns.

The owner (not my boss) wanted me to walk around knocking on doors and giving fliers because “that’s how we always do it”.

I laughed and went back to my desk, doing what I’m good at.

Owner hated me in the first 6 months and then left me alone because I’m good at my job.

The unspoken rule in the eyes of society is that people are granted certain privileges.

This is not to be confused by privileges defined by law.

These privileges are unspoken, because they differ between people and place, cultures, race, experience, education, etc. Things that you might have but another person might not. It’s deeply rooted in society, and near invisible to those who aren’t aware of the privileges they don’t have.

To use an example: You are a doctor. Your work provided you with a office, and items for you to do your work. One of those items is an iPad, which you use to take notes and access the internal medical records. One day, you take that iPad home and let your kids play with it.

The company noticed you installed a game, which is against company rules and is a fire-able offense. But, your status as a doctor means that if they fire you, they’ll lose a lot. The patient workload would increase, and finding a replacement would take a long time.

Even though you, the doctor, broke a rule, the company decides that it was an honest mistake and lets you off with a warning.

Here’s where the privilege comes in. You, the doctor, just got away with it. What else can you get away with?

As a doctor, you now KNOW that you have a high status in the company and they have to weigh the pros and cons of firing you.

So maybe you, the doctor, start taking snacks home that was meant for the whole team. Maybe you start telling the new interns about how cute their little butts are. Maybe you start taking huge turds and not flushing.

Each action, the company has to go: Do I fire this doctor and lose how much we gain from them? And chances are, they won’t. Because the rules you broke are too “minor” and it would be an inconvenience to the company. The company found ways to convince themselves to keep you even though you clearly broke the rules.

Let’s switch it. You’re a janitor at this hospital. You are minimum wage. You tell a intern how cute their butt is. Instant fire. Because to the company, you’re easily replaceable, your absence would be a minor hiccup.

With the president, the people behind the scenes are asking themselves, “Well he really did call black people monkeys, bomb a school of girls, rape underage girls… (Laundry list of bs here), but if we removed him, will it be a major inconvenience to our operations of making money/power/influence?” And the answer is unfortunately yes to those people.

If they asked the same question about you, the answer will be way different.

Helium browser.

Also indians. A lot don’t actually care about the anti-lgbtqia side. They just hate big US tech.

Imagine buying a Tesla today, knowing every dollar you paid for it goes to a man who did two Hitler salutes.

Absolutely this.

There was an anonymous confession page at my college and it became a place where people would share how they treat other students/staff like shit. And some were just hateful like “I’ll never date a [race]”.

It kept going for years and was just a toxic place.

It won’t upload but it’s a video I saved of a cat taking a dump outside the litter box

I mean it’s such a braindead take that he might as well be

But between setting up the birthdate when creating my children’s local account on their computers, and having to send a copy of their ID to every platform under the sun, I’d easily chose the former.

This is how they move the goalpost. They changed the argument.

You currently can just create a local account - period. It’s yours. No tracking. No personal info.

But now you’re accepting that you’re willing to give a third party information, even just a little.

The next argument is: “If giving your age is okay, why not your home address?”

This is what police do to fish information out of you.

I’d even agree to a simple protocol (HTTP X-Over-18 / X-Over-21 headers?) to that.

In a era where privacy conscious people don’t even connect their TV to the internet… This is okay to you?

You went from “Why do they want my information?”

To

“I’m not concerned with sharing my age. But how should we do it?”

And that itself is the root issue.