The thing that surprised me most after moving to Oregon was how bad the drivers were. I’ve lived in many states across the South, the Midwest, and West Coast and I’ve never encountered drivers so consistently vindictive, entitled and reckless as the drivers in Oregon.

Zig zag/crinkle cut goes to the back and I think waffle deserves the #1 spot personally. I agree with the rest of the ordering otherwise.

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Until they’re deported to a prison death camp in El Salvador … Assuming you’re from America

I stopped using Spotify long ago because of their shitty business practices. Producing a product they killed support for within just a couple years without reimbursing customers and producing huge amounts of e-waste. Jacking their subscription prices twice in one year. Apparently, they also donated to Trump despite not being an American company?? That’s to say nothing of their shitty recommendation algorithm, which just plays your most played tracks over and over. Good riddance.

For those interested, I use Tidal now. I’m satisfied with, their recommendation algo is fine and the higher quality streaming is really nice but nothing I’ve used has ever been as good as Google Play Music, I found so much good music though that service and could upload whatever I was missing. Once Tidal inevitably pisses me off, I’m going to move on to self hosting.

Authorities: Quit complaining and get back to work, peasant!

Welcome to the 2020s! Fun times all around.

So are you saying that because George Floyd had a criminal history he deserved to be slowly murdered without due process, face down in the street with a knee pressing into his neck so hard it prevented him from drawing breath? That all despite him serving his sentence for his convictions, reintegrating into society, and expressing regret over the wrongs of his past (source).

Don’t you see what you’re doing? “He had a rough history so no wonder he was the victim of unjustified police violence. Surely that would never happen to anybody who’s never done a bad thing in their life like me.”

Edit: It’s totally fair to approach news reporting with a healthy level of skepticism. But justifying authoritarian violence based on the fact that news outlets sometimes withhold information seems like poor judgement to me. When they violate anybody’s liberties, they violate yours too. And when they do come for you, how will you feel about the public reaction being, “meh, they probably had it coming”.

It’s a defense mechanism. If people are having their liberties stripped away and are being subject to violence over something so little as a harmless meme, then it could happen to anybody including yourself.

But if there are details not being reported on that would give the border agents a legitimate reason to assault the victim here, like real threats against government officials, being a menace through customs, or otherwise something any normal person would not do, then the victim deserved it and normal law-abiding people can continue to feel secure knowing they’re safe from this treatment so long as they don’t do whatever the victim did to deserve that treatment.

There’s a similar effect for sexual assault victims: “They were asking for it because of what they were wearing/who they misplaced their trust in/where they chose to walk alone at night”. It’s all designed to put fault on the victim in order to maintain a false sense of security for the average person.

For the people in the comments who either won’t or seemingly can’t read the article: The paint on the top of the caps is plastic-based and before they’re put on the bottle they’re stored in a big jumbled up pile where the paint chips off and coats the caps in tiny flakes. When the cap gets put on the bottle, the flakes on the bottom of the cap get washed off into your drink. Studies show that washing the caps first dramatically reduces the micro-plastic contamination.

Does green apple count? It feels like an adjective but considering there’s “green apple” flavored candy, I’d consider it a part of the noun.

*Allegedly ICE

Those could totally just be plain old kidnappers

Remember when the craziest news was that Trump nominated him for Attorney General?

They aren’t powerless though. The Republicans only have a slim majority. It would currently take only 4 Republicans in either chamber to kill any legislation (so long as no Dems also flipped).

It never seems to be a problem for Republicans to get in the way of legislation when they’re in the minority.

For reference, $10M is 1% of $1B. Jeff Bezos is worth $225B, so that would be 1/225 of 1% for him to foot the bill. Considering there are many other multi-billionaires living on that island, that brings our fraction of a single percent of their collective wealth closer and closer to effectively zero.

The greed of billionaires is unfathomable.

From an outsider’s perspective, Japanese culture seems to foster a mutual respect for one another as well as for one’s community and environment.

On the contrary, America seems to idealize treating people with contempt unless there’s something you would want from them. Our society is very transactional and if you have nothing of interest to show for yourself then you have no worth to anybody and deserve no respect.

I know this is all a big generalization of two societies consisting of millions of people and this isn’t to say that everybody behaves the same way across both societies. But when you have a general behavior across a society then it’s no surprise that a significant portion of that society will adapt that behavior.

You think they care about their children’s well being? It’s all about their own status and legacy to them and their children are just a part of that.