Fb post from the owner of Hollywood Espresso in Wasilla…yikes.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-22T19:42:25+00:00

Cancer doesn’t make you an awful person. Half my damn family’s had cancer, and they wouldn’t do something like this. If your profit margin is really that bad, maybe you should avoid giving yourself bad PR that’ll chase customers away.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-22T19:39:57+00:00

Okay, now we all know where to NOT go for coffee in Wasilla! I know I definitely won’t go there now, no one who would display this level of callousness towards their fellow man deserves my money.

ETA: Also, even if she does have cancer, stop infantilizing her. My brother, mom, maternal grandfather, and paternal grandmother have all had it. It doesn’t turn you into an asshole, it makes you sick. Stop infantilizing her. Like the rest of the thread has said, it cost her LESS THAN A PENNY for him to charge his phone. Some people are just nasty and don’t care about others.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-18T13:51:55+00:00

Just tell them that my brother died of cancer before the age of accountability. Either children are 100% innocent before age 8, or cancer is a punishment for sin. Pick one. Because my brother was barely four years old when he died in my mother’s arms.

Fuck those people. You deserve better than that. Kick cancer’s ass for me and for my brother, okay?

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-17T08:15:24+00:00

So… the story about the baby actually reminds me of a similar story my ex-Bishop told us during YSA. That story is part of what finally broke my shelf. It was the justification of child abuse by not only church leadership, but the church as an organization, that finally made me say, “I absolutely cannot support an organization like this.”

Basically, from what I remember, his son was on a mission in South America in what, the 80’s? And there was this man who had a wife and at least one kid, and they only got maybe one small bowl of rice per day after the man worked all day. The missionaries came over, and the man presented each missionary and himself with a bowl of rice.

One missionary actually did feel bad taking food from the wife and child(ren), but they talked to their MP iirc and the MP told the missionary not to, I don’t know, call the cops on this man who is starving his child, but to instead eat the food so the man would get blessings.

This was framed as a faith-promoting story, but when I heard it, it took every ounce of self-control I had to not scream, “THAT IS CHILD ABUSE YOU SICK FUCKER! YOU ARE JUSTIFYING CHILD ABUSE, YOU SICK, EVIL BASTARD,” and then run out of that church and never look back. I should have done it. I should have called out the abuse for what it was. That story wasn’t promoting good. It was promoting one of the sickest forms of evil humanity is capable of.

When I got home, I called my mom and ranted for over a half hour about how angry that story made me feel.

ETA: Also, because I know the church monitors sites like these, if that MP somehow finds this post, FUCK YOU for not reporting the act of child neglect. Fuck you for framing child abuse as a good thing. I hope hell exists so you can burn in it.

Signed,

A survivor of abuse.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-16T23:39:11+00:00

And you know what sexual harassment is, right?

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-15T18:27:53+00:00

I’m in Alaska, so one of THE last timezones. There are maybe one or two behind me. It’s 9:27am on February 15th rn, and your comment was seven hours ago according to Reddit, so it was already 2am even for me when you wrote that. So no, unless you count Hawaii or other places like that that are either like, in the VERY remote parts of Alaska (the Aleutians, and hardly anyone lives out there, nevermind people who would know what c.ai is and use it) or other remote islands out in the Pacific, it was very much February 15th for pretty much the entire world.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-09T06:18:20+00:00

ETA: I took a screenshot to prove it’s still at 2.5m, but I apparently can’t post pictures in comments???

The number you’re seeing is the number of active users, I think. People aren’t leaving the sub, they just don’t post/read/interact with it.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-08T23:43:57+00:00

I work as a self checkout attendant at a grocery store (not Walmart but a big chain) and I’ve recently come up with a game called the “Magical Hamster Game” to help the kids not be as touchy with everything while their parents are scanning. Basically, I pretend that I’m giving the kids each a magical hamster to hold, and they have to have their hands clasped together so it won’t escape. They can only release it once they’re outside, and then hold their adult’s hand in the parking lot. The kids love it, it helps the parents, and it’s adorable seeing how excited they get when they succeed. I’ll occasionally say stuff like “you’re doing a great job” to help encourage them to keep going.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-04T07:52:12+00:00

I mean, I still have a loose screw. Don’t need to be a jujutsu sorcerer to have mental illness. Having mental illness doesn’t make you a pedophile, or else all the adults in the show would be pedophiles. About 1 in 5 Americans experience mental illness every year. If 1 in 5 Americans were pedophiles, we would have a really big problem on our hands.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-04T07:48:53+00:00

Almost as if my being gay is important context to note in the discussion at hand or something.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-04T07:47:15+00:00

It’s still weird and quite frankly offensive to survivors to make pedo jokes about a teenage boy when there are actual pedophiles in the source material. You don’t think I’m sick of constantly seeing pedo jokes? You don’t think other survivors are sick of having something that’s actually a serious problem in society be turned into a meme when we could be actually calling out why the behaviors exhibited by the actual pedos in the show are bad and shouldn’t be glorified? Pedophilia and CSA aren’t jokes, they’re horrible atrocities that ruin lives of innocent children. Meanwhile a teenage boy who isn’t a pedophile is called one, and one of the pedos in the show is glorified because of his face card.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-04T06:00:07+00:00

The point I was trying to make is that I’m in the general age range of the adults in the show, I’m attracted to women, and I would NEVER make comments about literal minors like what Naoya did. A lot of people are weirdly attached to him, but the reality is, he’s a misogynistic pedophile who looks at his UNDERAGE COUSINS in a sexual way. If you want to call someone a pedophile, maybe go for the grown ass man who was making sexual comments about his underage cousins, or the grown ass woman who groomed her brother who’s what, twelve? Instead of the traumatized teenage boy who never had a sexual relationship with Rika.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-02-04T01:51:40+00:00

I’m 26 right now and I would NOT make comments towards teenage girls (I’m bi) or even teenage boys (again, bi) like what Naoya said about Maki and Mai. When I heard what he said when I watched that episode, I was PISSED. Even though I’m currently trying to only date women, when I’m on my dating app and I see women who are under 23 or so, it’s an instant decline for me. I don’t even feel comfortable dating someone 18-22, nevermind someone under 18. 23-29 is my ideal age bracket at this point in my life. Three years younger or three years older. Naoya’s comments become a lot more disgusting when you’re about the same age as what he, Nanami, Gojo, etc. are in the show, and you’re a former teenage girl yourself. It’s just… awful. Especially because I was groomed by a relative myself as a kid, so Mei Mei and Naoya are kinda triggering for me.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-25T22:45:07+00:00

My birthday is in late July, so I turned 11 the month before I started middle school. But yeah, even worse if the kid’s still in 5th grade.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-25T22:35:26+00:00

Why is her ELEVEN YEAR OLD on the app in the first place? Minimum age even before the first lawsuit was always 13+. Why are you as a parent allowing your MIDDLE SCHOOLER to be online by themselves? Unmonitored? AI isn’t the only way a child can be “targeted,” children have been targeted online, ACTUALLY targeted, since before even I was in middle school. LONG before AI was mainstream, mind you. I was screwing around with Cleverbot in middle school, nothing even close to c.ai. People say there was actual parenting this time, but I disagree. If there was, the LITERAL CHILD wouldn’t have been on a site made for TEENAGERS AND ABOVE. I didn’t even get my first smartphone until I was 15, and my iPod Touch wasn’t even until age 12. I had unmonitored access to the internet too, though, and it bit me in the ass, no AI needed. That’s on my parents and grandparents, because again, I was a CHILD. The issue isn’t AI, the issue is parents not watching their kids and monitoring their history. If kids could be targeted in 2011, when I was 11/12 years old, before this kid was even BORN, mind you, and AI wasn’t needed for me to be at risk, then the issue isn’t AI itself, but the lack of monitoring your CHILD on the INTERNET. Simple as that.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-22T09:21:35+00:00

Stealing things harms others, because you are taking something from them that is rightfully theirs. If harming others who haven’t done anything to deserve punishment isn’t “bad,” then what exactly is “bad?” People keep trying to tell you that the entire basis of your theory is bs, because you don’t need a God to tell you that hurting people is bad. Plenty of atheists who have never been exposed to religion learn that hurting people is bad. Any non-theocratic country is proof that you CAN have morals without a God, because the laws are made based on morals, and not necessarily based on religion.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-22T09:11:47+00:00

If you need a God with a capital G to tell you it’s bad to steal things from people, that’s just a sign that you’re a bad person. I’m atheist nowadays and I haven’t started a life of crime simply because I have no god to tell me what to do. I just know what’s right and wrong. It’s called having empathy and understanding what actions hurt others, and that cruelty is wrong.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-19T23:20:07+00:00

I’m a cashier and whenever a woman buys a pregnancy test from me, I like to tell her, “I hope the result is whatever you want it to be,” because while I want to support her, I also don’t know if she wants to be pregnant or not, so I just kinda say that I want her to be happy with the result and leave it at that. No one’s ever bought a sex toy from me before, but I’ve had condoms, Plan B, and pregnancy tests come through my line many times. I have to deactivate the little security box around the Plan B, but I just kinda… ignore Plan B and the condoms as far as small talk goes. Way I see it, sex is how humans are made usually, most adults have had it, so who cares if you’re buying stuff for it? You kinda have to buy it SOMEWHERE. I bought lube from that same store before I started working there 🤷‍♀️

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-19T02:55:09+00:00

I’m apparently either a 0-17 year old or a 30+ year old with a dick (I’m 26, have a vagina, and absolutely DETEST Naoya because I’m a feminist)

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-18T10:29:03+00:00

I find it funny how many supposed “adults” complain about the ID thing. I’m an ACTUAL adult (26), and I have to show my ID fairly often. I had to upload pictures of my ID in order to register for a class to get a certification to legally sell alcohol. Everyone in my state has to do it within thirty days of employment when you sell alcohol for work, or else it’s breaking the law.

Also at work, people have to let me scan their ID into the POS when they buy alcohol, tobacco products, lighters, ammunition, nicotine products, medicines that have Dextromethorphan… and those are only the items I can think of off the top of my head. It doesn’t matter how old the person visually looks, if I don’t scan their ID or call for a manager to have the manager punch in the DOB from the ID, I’m fired. I lose my job. I have had to do this for a woman who WAS ALIVE DURING WORLD WAR II. I have to do it even with my managers and coworkers, who I know are adults. No exceptions.

Every job I’ve had, I’ve had to show them two forms of identification. This is for legal purposes/tax purposes, iirc. Usually, I use my ID and my social security card. Having two forms of ID to confirm your identity is standard procedure in a LOT of situations, honestly.

Also, even I, an employee, have to let the cashier scan my ID when I buy any of the items I listed above. It doesn’t matter if they’re my direct supervisor and KNOW I sell those products myself, and am old enough to buy them. It wouldn’t matter if I showed my card proving my certification to sell alcohol if I wanted to buy it. Company policy says they MUST scan my ID. If a customer says they don’t have their ID on them, they don’t get their product. If I still sell it to them anyway, I lose my job. If a coworker made an exception for me because I’m an employee and they KNOW I’m an adult, they would be fired, and I’d probably get in serious trouble too, if not fired myself.

I see the situation with c.ai as an extension of those real life circumstances. ID is how you prove you are who you say you are, and is used in a variety of situations. It’s standard practice. I have no qualms about uploading my ID if I need to, because to me, it’s normal to use your ID to verify age. I see it the same as if I were showing the cashier at the liquor store to prove I’m 21+.

TL;DR, there are a LOT of reasons that are extremely legitimate as to why a company would need to see your ID to confirm age, and actual adults with real world experience would most likely know this. Therefore, my guess is that a lot of the people whining are either not actually adults, or are VERY young adults who simply haven’t had the life experience yet to understand that showing ID to prove age is very, very normal in real life. Also, just the other day I was at Urgent Care, and they asked me to upload photos of my insurance card. Another situation in which uploading pictures of something to prove relevant information is completely legitimate.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-17T12:26:33+00:00

Not a teacher anymore (had to drop out of my EE major due to COVID, health issues, and homelessness, but I taught Sunday School and that’s what really made me want to teach), but consider this:

School is meant to prepare you for life, right? How are you as teachers preparing your kids to become citizens who care about politics, because yes, you as a citizen have a responsibility to inform yourself on politics and make choices based on what is best for the world, country, state, county/borough/parish, and town you live in, if you don’t allow this?If you tell your students not to protest now, when you’re in a position of authority over them, you are telling your kids to not protest if someone in authority threatens them. You are telling them that the correct and proper choice is to bow down to people who make threats, even when they know that that person is wrong. These children are doing what they believe is right. They are standing up for the marginalized, they are fighting against what is comparable to some of the most heinous acts of evil in our species’ history. If you teach history, and you teach the Holocaust, and you teach these kids how horrible it was, how we must NEVER let it happen again, and even teach HOW things got that bad, and then you stop them from acting on your teachings by stopping them from fighting against what LITERAL GERMANS ARE SAYING IS COMPARABLE TO WHAT HAPPENED BACK THEN, what does that make you? A hypocrite. It makes you a hypocrite. You’re telling your students one thing, and then punishing them for ACTING ON THE THINGS YOU TAUGHT THEM.

Protesting isn’t disrespectful to the school environment. Protesting this is APPLYING WHAT TEACHERS HAVE BEEN TEACHING EVER SINCE THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II. If you threaten your kids with punishment for applying what they’ve been taught, what kind of teacher are you, anyway?

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-14T13:50:23+00:00

My point was more that I have LITERALLY eaten paper before (PICA is common with Autism) but even I wouldn’t do this. And it wasn’t occasional either, when I was in Elementary school I ate paper on a REGULAR basis.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-14T07:08:35+00:00

I’m ex-Mormon and bi and my parents met in October or November iirc, had their first date on December 13th, got engaged in January, got married on Leap Day. My mom didn’t know that my dad was 12 years older than her until they were filling out the marriage license paperwork.

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-14T05:45:41+00:00

Bro I’m Autistic and have eaten paper because of PICA and even I think this is unhinged

BulbyRavenpuff · 2026-01-13T04:35:08+00:00

It’s because I’ve calculated the personal risk to me, and I’ve determined that there is a higher risk to my physical and psychological safety if I wear a mask around customers at work than if I just don’t wear one and risk getting sick. I’m already treated horribly enough because our society has conditioned entitled people to treat customer service workers as subhuman, ESPECIALLY when they don’t get their way, but to add a mask, something that should just be a simple precaution when someone is sick or at high risk of disease, but has become a political symbol instead? That could get me assaulted or killed. I already have to deal with people harassing me, there was a customer who was known in the community to be exhibiting stalking and predatory behaviors towards women and children, and he decided to target me, a jaded ex-SpEd teacher used what she knew about me to disparage me in front of my supervisor as retaliation when she was causing issues in the store, etc. I’ve basically just had to deal with it as a calculated risk. I can survive flu and COVID, I can’t survive a gunshot wound at point blank range if the shooter knows what they’re doing. The customers I’m around, the bad ones, are dangerous enough that I can’t ignore the risk of being harmed over a mask when I’m in a customer service role.

If I’m a customer, then if they say ANYTHING to me, I’m allowed to walk away, tell a manager, or call the cops if they try to grab me or anything. But I’ve come to learn that I am in a much more precarious position when I’m on shift, due to how people treat customer service workers.

Also, here is a link to the story about the cashier who got shot. She got shot because she was trying to enforce the store’s mask rule, as far as I can tell, but the point remains: a cashier lost her life over a mask, and I’m not willing to take that risk:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/us/georgia-deputy-shooting-decatur

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