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GooberEar

@ GooberEar @lemmy.wtf

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  • 12 February 2025

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  • You got scammed, bro. For $75, I got a lady that'll take care of several loads. Best cleaning lady ever, clothes come out so clean and she even folds them for me.

  • Selective reality

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  • Yes, yes, and yes. This is exactly what I'm seeing happen.

    Those right leaning folks who were most vocal about how Biden was at fault for the last time egg prices went up are now suddenly fully willing to blame it on bird flu and not worried about it because prices will come back down soon. And already the increasing rate of inflation isn't the president's fault, inflation is high all around the world, there's little the president can actually do to control it, and it's actually Biden's fault. Funny how that works.

  • US consumer prices increase more than expected in January

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  • Here's the deal. If Kamala had won, the C-word people would be 100% blaming it on her. If inflation had cooled, the C-word people would have been praising Trump and giving him 100% of the credit. But since Kamala didn't win and inflation is up, it's all Biden's fault according to the C-words.

    And truth be told, under NORMAL circumstances, it would be too early to place much blame on the new president. But that's the thing, these aren't normal circumstances and a lot of blame does fall on Trump.

    For one, he literally promised that he'd tackle inflation on day one. Now, any reasonable person knew that was a lie, but when a leader makes that kind of statement and fails to deliver, the blame falls on that leader.

    But mostly, we knew the circus was coming to town, so reasonable people took steps in preparation for the chaos. These numbers are a reflection that the circus delivered. Even if things ultimate end up getting better, chaos and instability are not good for the average American, and this is a reflection of that.

  • Senate votes to confirm Tulsi Gabbard as top U.S. intelligence official

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  • Hunger Games reject villain, IMHO

  • You can do it

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  • I just hate what's being done to the Palletstinians.

  • Just saw this very important sign 🪧

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  • Makes you wonder why so many people want to go fishing in this spot to begin with.

  • Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion

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  • Why not make it an even 100 billion is what I would ask if I were uninformed, which I am, so it's what I'm asking.

  • Polls keep showing Americans want Elon Musk and DOGE out of government

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  • I live in a solidly conservative area and I heard a surprising but also encouraging conversation this morning at the doctor's office.

    When I walked in, there were a handful of folks in the waiting area and they were talking supportively of JD Vance, so presumably conservative voters. It was off putting for me and I was immediately a bit irritated that I can't even go to the doctor without having to listen to this bullshit.

    But as the conversation continued, they actually started talking about how super wealthy people worth hundreds of millions aren't paying their fair share of taxes, how they're ruining towns and making middle class people pay for it, and things like that. Specifically they were talking about some of the environmental damage done to waterways by rich people (they mentioned someone specific but it wasn't a name I am familiar with and I don't recall what it was) and how the clean-up is being paid for by middle class tax payers.

    So, while we might all disagree substantially on a lot of topics, I think a disdain for super wealthy / elites not paying their fair share is some common ground to build on.

  • Why the long gill?

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  • Nice. Now can anyone find the original image so that I can actually see what's going on? Very hard to make out anything behind the layers and layers of compression, recompression, screenshots, and compression again.

  • Hope yall like screaming

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  • Call it lame if you will, but I would love to see him lean more into the surreal but supernatural side of Art. Like a modern Freddy Krueger from Nightmare on Elm Street 3 and on. Let that fucker emerge from a balloon. Have him inject a victim with cotton candy until they explode.

  • A fascist reposted a meme today. Have you?

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  • With the price of furniture these days who can afford to sit anymore?

  • Oh, now they're doing flips and karate chopping the air...

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  • Well, it's subversion of the common trope where the giant group of angry bad guys circle round to watch as they each fight the protagonist one-by-one. Like the gargantuan army of White Walkers that suddenly lined up to take on Jon Snow one at a time.

  • Houston man pardoned by Trump arrested on child sex charge.

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  • Gosh, this is so stunning and shocking. Never would have seen this coming, I mean, he doesn't even look like an antifa drag queen.

  • As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders

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  • I'll put an offender on blast: Max.

    A couple of months ago I subscribed to the highest tier, ad-free plan. Around a week into it, we started getting ads for different kinds of sports shows, interrupting the shows and movies at random spots just like traditional ads on television.

    First thing first: Back in the days when we rode our Dimetrodons to school both ways uphill in fallen volcanic ash, we called it Cinemax and HBO was separate. And neither one of them had ads show up in the middle of their content because they were premium channels.

    Second thing second: When I contacted customer service about it, they actually had the audacity to tell me that those aren't ads, they are previews for other content offered in their service.

    So to me, whether it is a bug in their system or the definition of ad has changed in the ensuing millennia since I first learned its meaning, the fact that there are even ads in premium media services like these is a prime example of enshittification to me.

  • Metal

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  • I got a temporary suspension on that R-word site that shall not be named for using the word "retard" in the context of refrigerating bread to slow the development of mold and there was no way to contest it.

    So, with that sort of shit going on all over the internets, I give folks a little grace these days when it comes to self-censorship.

  • I got an ad.... in the paid version of new york times.

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  • Max and Me

    A similar thing happened to me recently with Max. I decided to treat myself and my family with the highest cost plan that had 4k quality, 4 (I think) simultaneous streams, and no ads.

    A week into the subscription, we started getting random sports ads in the middle of our content. After an abnormally long discussion with their support folks because they didn't understand that I wasn't talking about the ads that show up BEFORE the content and that in fact I was talking about ads that interrupt the content in the middle of a show or movie, they asked that I send them video evidence, which I did.

    Their response? Those aren't ads, those are previews for their other content.

    So yeah, seems like a common theme here. These companies are scam artists and liars.

  • Trump reveals executive order requiring Pam Bondi to prosecute ‘anti-Christian bias'

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  • I have a family member who told me last year that they believe Christians are the most persecuted group in the USA, even more so than gay people.

    In truth it was very challenging to stay calm in the face of someone saying something so blatantly biased and false. Packaged as an opinion, of course, but presented as the truth.

    I asked questions and challenged some of the statements being made, but I know for a fact that the only thing I accomplished is that she's unlikely to make that particular statement in front of me again. No minds were changed that day. It's just sad.

    As someone who actually IS persecuted in this country for things I cannot change about myself, I really don't get why someone would want to live under the delusion that they are being persecuted when they otherwise aren't. It's not fun and there's no benefit to being persecuted.

  • Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs

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  • Oh yeah? I'll make my own eggs with blackjack and hookers.

  • Packaging rule

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  • I'm disappointed to hear that that about Josh's Frogs. I'm a fan of the company overall and had great experience with them, but I have never bought live food or live animals from them. So, I'm a little surprised to hear that they're shipping roaches and crickets this way. Otherwise, they're my go to for a lot of other hobby related stuff, so I hope they have made some improvements on that front.

    For clarity, I imagine that the species of roach you ordered were likely something like dubias.

    For anybody that might see this, most of the roach species used as feeders (or even kept as "pets") are not associated with diseases in humans and would be highly unlikely to become an infestation issue in most domestic situations outside of fully tropical climates (and even then it would be unlikely). These are critters that need stable, warm temperatures and fairly high humidity, as well as appropriate food sources and surprisingly clean environments just to keep them alive in cultivation. Your home or the post office (in North America) is unlikely to be conducive.