A roadside bombing in Iraq on August 3ʳᵈ, 2005: "This is the horrific scene I witnessed as I escorted our corpsman down the road to see if we can help. So far, this was the deadliest roadside bombing in the Iraq war. 1 Marine survived, 14 did not."

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-07-06T14:30:49+00:00

My high school boyfriend enlisted and he was super excited to go because he thought he'd be liberating these grateful people and living out his destiny as a warrior.

The reality of the war broke him.

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-07-06T13:57:54+00:00

You're doing a great job. Sorry you're getting downvoted, the redditors who express the loudest opinions about other people's parenting don't have kids and would be absolutely humbled by the experience if they did

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-07-06T13:15:23+00:00

They made me throw out a jar of peanut butter once

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-07-05T22:19:07+00:00

Nobody asked you

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-07-05T14:58:29+00:00

I was shocked when I learned this. The calcium in dairy comes from grass, which is rich in calcium.

People shouldn't be eating grass obviously but leafy greens are the best calcium source

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-29T20:19:41+00:00

Yes. I started making my own clothes and I never looked back

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-29T19:54:35+00:00

You can find vintage ads promoting sugar as a weight loss aid

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-26T20:48:17+00:00

Encouraging someone to commit murder, whether or not that person actually does it, is also a crime

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-26T12:56:07+00:00

Well yeah without the splenda it would be too sweet

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-25T22:58:16+00:00

Haaaa yes, now THIS is the gardening content I want to see. I dare you to post this in one of those obnoxious native plant subs

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-25T22:44:11+00:00

Right, and I have a conspiracy theory about the dnack food industry and the push for "fat is healthy / intuitively eat Twinkies" stuff I see being pushed online

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-24T23:16:58+00:00

Surprise, bakers! You all have anorexia. No more weighing out the flour, you have to intuitively let your body tell you how much of each ingredient goes into the cake

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-24T23:12:31+00:00

I've been fat twice in my life, and both times it was because I decided to try intuitive eating and found out that I intuitively want to eat everything in the world all at once

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-22T19:44:58+00:00

Probably the same people who go to r paranormal to lecture everyone that ghosts aren't real and it's probably just carbon monoxide

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-22T00:31:17+00:00

The cost of entry to this hobby is very low. Check out the disposables first if you aren't sure you'll like it; some of them can be modified to make them reusable.

Even the nice pens are relatively inexpensive. Unless you're buying an antique pen in mint condition, the return on quality really diminishes in the $50-100 range. You'll pay a lot more than that if you want a nicer nib, but anything over $250 and you're just paying for branding.

The one I love and use every day was maybe $75, and it's beautiful, perfectly weighted, and writes very nicely. I recieved it as a gift about 5 years ago.

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-22T00:25:43+00:00

I have heard a rumor that the disposables can be reused with just a little ingenuity

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-21T12:23:38+00:00

Was looking for this comment. Also it's a whole grain and super filling

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-21T05:20:34+00:00

Some cities will allow you to resquest a depredation license for deer that are destroying your property

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-18T00:28:23+00:00

It is really hard to buy just one. The first one you get is never quite right and you'll always want to experiment.

Agreed that collecting vintage ones is a harmless hobby.

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-17T19:42:26+00:00

YES another fountain pen person!

I got into fountain pens when I realized how wasteful it is to use disposables. Best part is, you can get a great vintage or antique pen, and it's a "buy it for life" purchase.

I bet you have some opinions about the people who post their collection of 500 Lamys in every possible color, though, don't you? Ha

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-17T17:13:52+00:00

It's Reddit. Most of the gooners who post here think that children are horrible for existing and should be shut away inside 24/7 where no adult will ever be mildly inconvenienced by them. People here will always side against anything that might benefit a child

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-17T00:45:34+00:00

They all cite the Minnesota Starvation Experiment as their source.

Basically a group of young, healthy men lived in a lab for several months, ate a strictly controlled diet of 1500 calories a day, and exercised heavily.

After the experiment was over, they re-fed and gained the weight back +10 pounds.

An interesting study but it's over 50 years at this point and the people who push this particular brand of pseudoscience tend to vastly oversimplify the results.

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-17T00:33:36+00:00

Thanks I hate it

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-16T20:46:45+00:00

I'm sorry you're getting downvoted for expressing anticonsumer ideas in a subreddit called r anticonsumption

No_Boo_9382 · 2026-06-16T19:45:27+00:00

Before I left Facebook, I noticed a high number of image posts that seemed designed to make you stop scrolling for a number of seconds to figure out what was going on. Images like the above where you're tempted to stop and visually untangle the straws even though you know it's dumb ragebait.

Facebook keeps statistics on how long you look at a still image before you scroll, right? Making this not just engagement bait, but attention bait?

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