Me basically whenever I leave the US and visit a country that's not primarily English speaking 😭 meanwhile there's Americans that are basically married to the salt shaker

not OP but I presume: Google maps sees that traffic is "red" and backed up on the arterial, so it offers a faster route that goes parallel to the arterial, funneling much more traffic onto what would normally be a quiet residential street safe enough for kids to play in

inb4 a libertarian says you're asking for slavery because people rely on others

Baptist Law :(

famous upper class behavior: complaining about a $1 tax

yes i am a hateful pacifist and every person you kill adds another 1% to your receipt

PTSD

I actually charge veterans a secret surcharge

and definitely don't include the phrase "sorry you feel that way for whatever you think I did"

what is this, a protection racket?

pumpkin spiced latte could never

oh the shitty PSL, ah

why is that interesting? could you explain why sexual assault doesn't concern you?

SEAL!!!

it's why I dislike the terms "authoritarian" and "totalitarian"; words used by dishonest centrists and anticommunists to lump the right and left into a contorted horseshoe where the only commonality is "they do things I don't like"

they;d rather you be a useless rules-lawyer or a libertarian

I think this comes from the Dario Amodei side of the house. People blindly think his criticism of Sam Altman is genuine rather than one of selfish zero-sum gain, i.e., "quit chatGPT and use Claude instead"

his musings are "AI is too smart and can end the world" and not one based in fact.

I think I'd rather have my date *not* scan their irises for Sam Altman's [whatever he's going to do with them] 💀

PRETTY COLORS 🫡

I think I'm around the same timeline! and immensely grateful to everyone else who came out so I didn't have to endure years of "oh so you're like caitlyn jenner!" because ouch rough year that was

cis liberal excited about woke catholic: "Isn't it nice that Catholicism is no longer actively evil"

Me remembering how the pope invited exactly 4 trans people to sit at the sinners table consultation: 🙊

christian zionists...knew too many as a kid, and also imo some of the least respectful people when it came to Judaism because their missionary brain would just be activated :/

common US military L

More seriously, this is why the US needs an actual jobs program and not a streamlined funnel to either the military or prison.

Speaking of prison, even they deserve better than "prison food" slop but y'all are not woke enough for that.

Kinder, Gentler State Violence. Donald Trump wants to make ICE just like every other law enforcement agency, and the Democrats want to let him.

when we pretend the issue with ICE is that they’re masked and untrained and ‘different’ from law enforcement, what you get is unmasked ICE in airports instead of any real change. latest:

open.substack.com/pub/cohen489...

parental rights is a rebrand of property rights but if you say that outright to a "parental rights" activist they'll both be pissed off that you called their kid property, and also assert that nobody has the right to tell them how they should raise their kid

idk who to talk to about this

but the "new" trader joes tomato leaf candle smells nasty as fuck and reminds me of a ruined vegetable garden

who the hell decided this was a nice scent??

I would take a bite straight out of that bowl damn

2000s bush republicans are now 2020s "they're anti trump! Why can't you be in a big tent with them" (their politics are still the same, apart from gay marriage)(intentionally not saying LGBT because they hate tslurs and women)

yay biking! fun when your life isnt in danger by the metal box

anything name brand and even the bougie brands :(

having to cook is no fun but it's the only way I can get to "classic" tastes for too many things 😭

outlook when it works: your grammar SUCKS! want us to make it worse and change the entire meaning of your sentence? 💀

cute fungi cup!!