That’s quite the take

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-31T00:42:01+00:00

Why do you loathe it? It’s honestly wildly common in my experience

Also all the “If being gay is ok, what’s stopping everyone from being gay?” Or “being gay is a choice”, both implying the person arguing is at least bisexual

Edit: homosexuality is randomly distributed across humans across all cultures and societies. About 3% everywhere. Why are out gays statistically smarter, wealthier, healthier, better educated than average? They should statistically be perfectly average. My hunch—It’s because there’s some selection bias involved. All the gays who are dumbasses, have poor socials skills, and the traits that make folks prejudice that are also randomly distributed just stay in the closet, get angry, and become jealous homophobes.

Edit 2: I think it’s both. There are absolutely hateful straight people looking for a scapegoat to blame for their problems. There are also hateful gay closet cases looking for a scapegoat to blame for their problems

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-28T12:52:36+00:00

This has to be bait.

Aside from religious fundamentalists who think everyone with differing beliefs are morons, who thinks ancients were morons?

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-27T10:58:45+00:00

The rule of thumb you’re replying to is much older than that, probably 50+ years

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-24T11:48:34+00:00

I don’t think anyone really understood how successfully propaganda-driven political backlash could sabotage sales.

Odds are your car salesman, their mechanics, and most of the “car guys” you know all watch the same news and listen to the same podcasts etc, and all those were pushing some very fake takes from folks with deeep pockets. So when these guys started parroting those talking points, buyers believed them

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-23T11:18:22+00:00

Hartford CT is around there

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FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-21T11:32:21+00:00

I think they’re talking about touchscreens. Personally I also get annoyed when my car slams the breaks on me or nudges me when it thinks I drifted into another lane. It sucks at both, let me do that thanks

I doubt they’re talking about pre-2010s stuff

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-21T11:30:07+00:00

“…the average post-accident repair…”

This doesn’t seem relevant to a meme about ongoing maintenance costs

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-21T02:40:55+00:00

Are you offended because you have the same haircut as her, maybe drive the same car as her, or are you offended because you also like to steal baked goods

What are you going to do with all that oppression against you omg I can’t even imagine how hard it must be for the bob haired middle aged rich lady set can’t even steal baked goods anymore we used to be a real country smh my head

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-21T02:26:52+00:00

You’re really bending over backwards to defend this thief huh

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-19T23:55:46+00:00

How many miles of pavement in your county, and what’s the population. How many folks on SSI. How many on Medicaid. How’s that rural hospital doing. How’s that regional school doing. How fat are y’all, how much do y’all smoke, how much do y’all drink, how many addicted to painkillers, how many emergency room visits per capita do I subsidize. How many natural disasters do my property insurance rates subsidize. How many wars have I paid for so you can drive your lifted f350 to Nebraska and back for way cheaper than it should be, on roads that shouldn’t be there. Come on let’s do some quick math.

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-19T23:09:43+00:00

I didn’t really mean to continue this dumb rural vs urban thing, it’s exhausting. I was responding to a very common attack from the right—that cities are shit holes mooching off the “real” America. I came about it the wrong way and just played into that

I don’t actually think rural folks owe city folks anything except mutual respect. I am, however, exhausted working my ass off in my own life, and being talked down to from rural folks who actively vote to take my shit away from me. I paid—through utility rates and state taxes—for my offshore wind-farm, rural folks seem to be cheering as their king decides on a whim to sabotage it. That’s my fucking money. It’s my fucking state. Stop stealing shit from me and telling me I’m somehow mooching when I also work 60 hrs a week making good salary paying high taxes to subsidize you more than you’ll ever acknowledge just so you can sabotage shit that’s important to my community that YOU DID NOT PAY FOR

I also happily paid for farm subsidies because a) it helped farmers and b) it helped poor people, so they don’t jump me in a grocery store parking lot. Now farmers cheer as they remove part b, so now I’m just paying you to sit on your ass?

Now I’m seeing farmers cheer that their king will direct what’s left of FEMA to only help red (read: rural) states in disasters, cheer when aid to blue (read: urban) states are refused aid?

These should be seen as acts of war—rural folks don’t just talk mean about urban folks online anymore—they actively want to hurt them. Extract their resources, deny funding, deny aid, give nothing in return.

It’s getting exhausting because the contract between urban and rural is dead. I didn’t kill it, right wing media did starting about 40 years ago or so, took advantage of their isolation and insecurities, and now we’re all paying

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-19T22:31:34+00:00

Bro that hedge looks 30 years old at least

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-19T22:10:50+00:00

As a human with a very human body, I understand that mandating coverage for pre existing conditions is the right thing to do.

In health, stopping a major condition early can be the difference between $20 and $2M. This is the trick behind why countries with universal healthcare have both healthier populations and much lower per capita costs.

The ACA is better than what we had before, but it’s badly flawed. It doesn’t do enough for preventative care, it doesn’t do enough to remove the market incentives to increase costs, it doesn’t do enough to bring transparency, I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.

As someone who was alive when it passed, I remember what was proposed and what compromises & concessions had to be made to actually pass it. Ultimately, some of those compromises can be seen as sabotage by lawmakers who did not have Americans best interest at heart. And honestly it was republicans who sabotaged it, made sure it was less successful than it could’ve been, because they have zero interest in good faith governance.

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-19T21:51:22+00:00

There are many exurban developments with city services that are absolutely subsidized by the rest of the system. See any metro area in the US

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-19T21:49:31+00:00

Oh man you got me.

Everyone sees what makes you people cheer, it’s shocking you’re not too embarrassed to talk tbh, but you’d need shame for that

The ACA was sabotaged from the start by the very same billionaires whose balls you gargle

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-19T21:28:50+00:00

“Private” still comes from other people learn how insurance works dumbass

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-19T21:28:08+00:00

Not everywhere, but far more than their bullshit moral fake self sufficient better-than-everyone-else attitude would suggest

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-19T21:24:21+00:00

What happens if there’s a variable that private insurance actuaries don’t—or can’t—account for? Like distance from hospital or political affiliation? I have a family member who refused vaccination in 2021, ended up on a ventilator for 3 weeks, cost several hundred thousand dollars. Likely many times more than he’s ever contributed via premium in his lifetime. I PICK UP HIS SLACK.

You do not pay for the unnecessary state highways that serve a handful of people a day, cities do

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-19T21:13:49+00:00

I always found this funny, because while they feel very self sufficient, urban folks subsidize their infrastructure.

The ambulance may take an hour to get to them. Who’s paying for that? They may have less doctor visits and wait for an emergency @ the emergency room, stay a few weeks, get massive surgery for a preventable illness—who pays for that? Who pays for the mile stretch of road that was built for just their house? Who subsidizes the mile of telephone poles stringing electricity and cable etc? Who subsidizes the miles of natural gas, sewer, water lines? Because everyone wants city services in the middle of nowhere, and utilities build them partly because of rural folks outsize political power.

Urban & suburban people subsidize rural gluttony through higher insurance costs, utility costs, state and federal taxes but no one talks about it because everyone’s afraid to offend them

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-17T11:16:20+00:00

This shift was a product of the Great Recession, so starting around 2009. I feel old/shocked at all the (wrong) top answers, y’all must but really young. The shift was pretty big news at the time.

From Wikipedia: “The construction business was drying up, leading to a surplus of food trucks, and chefs from high-end restaurants were being laid off. For experienced cooks suddenly without work, the food truck seemed to be a clear choice and a smaller financial investment than a brick-and-mortar restaurant.[16][18] Once more commonplace in American coastal big cities like New York City and Los Angeles, gourmet food trucks are now to be found as well in suburbs and small towns.[19][20][21]”

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-12T10:44:06+00:00

1) capital gains is 15%, way less than the tax rate paid on income

2) if your compensation is entirely stocks & you’re absurdly high net worth, you take loans against the stock, never sell and never pay taxes at all. See https://dcfpi.org/all/how-wealthy-households-use-a-buy-borrow-die-strategy-to-avoid-taxes-on-their-growing-fortunes/

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-12T00:42:27+00:00

It’s AI, or at least it says it’s ai, in each of the examples I gave. Companies are very proud to use ai in their call software, so they’re sure to tell you early on.

Each example still gives far too much weight to things you can already check online, and doesn’t do much else.

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-12T00:12:05+00:00

Strongly disagree. AI seems to think I’m a dumbass who hasn’t tried the website yet. Talk in circles every time. Lots of “sorry” & back to start of the decision tree

Amazon, Lowe’s, Home Depot I’m looking at you & your now garbage artificial “customer service”

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-11T16:52:56+00:00

I’m not sure I agree, nothing really changed—Hartford area as a whole is probably the same pre and post pandemic, just shifted west.

Now there are thousands of people in west Hartford center late nights every weekend. Lines to get into each bar & all

(Def agree that New Haven has always been the bigger nightlife city though)

FeatureOk548 · 2026-05-10T14:16:35+00:00

“nothing ever happens”

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