People (or bots) who go through a thread or comm and just downvote everything without otherwise engaging with the thread or comm.

It personally doesn’t bother me, but I can see why some find it distasteful.

Maybe I’m just old, because I got it right away. Grew up with those ads, so its burned into my brain.

I haven’t been able to turn up a source for it

Back in my day we didn’t use cars as a vanity, I used a normal vanity at home to put my mascara on.

Oh, not that PNG.

Article makes sense though, no birb is an island.

Rural west coast. It is more expensive here than the midwest states, but the state insurance is fantastic, so the access to medical care is worth it.

Edit: Population of 2k, for the record

Lowkey, we never should have switched from ‘private message’ to ‘direct message’. I feel like the switch in terminology has softened the public opinion towards corps reading your mail. Private messages should be private.

I’m currently living in a slightly smaller house that’s valued at 250k. The roof leaks and the porch is falling apart, but the town has doubled in size since COVID, and so has the cost of housing.

Some of my best work, yes, but also some of my worst work.

It kept crashing to desktop for me. Literally unplayable.

The only Ubisoft game I tried was Assassin’s Creed Black Flag, and it was the buggiest piece of shit I have ever encountered.

Eh, yes and no. I wouldn’t say that they’re operating the camps, but kapos are an unfortunate reality.

I’d agree that homophobia isn’t the primary concern for most straight people, but with the caveat that it is the primary concern for the families who are worried enough to enter the conversion camp pipeline. I’d also argue that homophobia was a primary method of control via fear by specifically the preachers in the camp pipeline, though that stick is getting worn out and they’re starting to swap to transphobia for fresh fear. There are many roads to hell though, so you’re right about it not being their only concern.

Yeah, the store I’m thinking is a hypermarket sells groceries, but also clothing, toys, furniture, garden plants, tools, etc. We still call it a grocery store, lol.

My town’s store doesn’t even have its own bakery department or meat counter, but the bigger one next town over away has a bank branch and a starbucks inside, but doesn’t sell the range of the big one mentioned above.

Is that close to the grocery > supermarket > hypermarket scale?

Yeah, the walking infrastructure around here is incredibly weird. Like, my town converted an old rail right-of-way to a gravel trail, which is great, but… There’s this warehouse that used to connect to the rail line, so now the trail goes right through the middle of their parking lot/ shipping lanes. You have to cross a truck route to get to it from the residential area anyways, so it doesn’t get a lot of use.

Don’t mind me, I’m just looking for stuff to shove in his face later, because I’m kinda irritated by his claim too, lol.

Oh geeze, we don’t make a distinction between a supermarket and a grocery store either, lol. Most ‘grocery stores’ in the US are apparently supermarkets because they sell stuff like dog food and laundry detergent? I don’t think we have any stores that do just produce, at least not in the few states I’ve lived in.

Going off the wiki link, it looks like I have a hypermarket ~25km away.

What’s a hypermarket?

Yeah, I can’t stomach our tap water, so having to buy drinking water adds to my grocery weight. I guess that’s also not normal for most Europeans.

Good thing I’m soliciting a range of opinions instead of just believing my friend then, right?

Dang, that must be nice. The bus only comes by once every 4 hours for me, and it’s always standing-room only.

On the other hand, nothing wakes you up like standing on a bus going 80km/h on a bumpy road.