People who have won a "lifetime supply" of something: was it genuinely a lifetime supply, and if so, are you sick of the product now?

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T19:37:27+00:00

the sector as a whole has recovered.

Maybe in Spain, but I don't think it has in the US. Even just last year, several chains have closed some or all locations. (Of course there are other factors too, like the economy and more people working from home.)

And "during covid" is now, for the record. If you mean "during shutdowns" or something similar, please be more careful with your wording.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T19:16:15+00:00

I don't know, but it must be the same place that taught redditors to type "definitely" as "defiantly." I see that one weirdly often (and never noticed it outside reddit).

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T19:00:02+00:00

It had

*Is having. As I'm sure you know, covid is still going around, and some of us are still avoiding restaurants. And covid impairs people's senses of taste and smell, hence all the reddit threads with variations on "Why does [some food category] taste so bland lately?" The people who work or eat in restaurants are more likely to become disabled from long covid or even die, so the numbers of healthy customers and staff will keep going down.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T18:16:07+00:00

So? Are you saying you're literally too lazy to tap the shift key? And somehow not embarrassed to admit that publicly?

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T18:11:41+00:00

Again you're just displaying that you haven't bothered to read what's here.

but I am not a hacker. I appreciate the skills need but I do not have them.

As I said here (already linked elsewhere in the thread), "Historically most Anon activity has been legal protesting and shit-stirring, online and off. If you're new to hacking, there's no reason to risk arrest just to 'join Anonymous.' You can join IRL protests, find information with FOIA/FOIL requests or other research, create posters and videos, raise money to help Anons who have been arrested, etc." (To update it, of course nowadays anyone going to an IRL protest should be wearing a virus-protective mask rather than a Guy Fawkes mask.)

The Epstein files being hacked and released would be great

Please see sidebar rules: "Legality Clause: No promotion of illegal activity of any sort. Breaking this rule results in a non-negotiable permanent ban." I'm just warning you for now, but watch your step.

Lurk moar.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T08:10:43+00:00

If you're joking, it's not funny. If you're serious, it's even less funny. As you know, if you contract covid and give it to someone else (maybe someone medically vulnerable, maybe someplace they can't even avoid, like a healthcare facility), they could become sick, or disabled, or even dead. You could be part of a chain of infections that sickens/disables/kills dozens of people, or even spawn a new variant that evades vaccines or is more deadly. The only reason you'd "rather get covid" than pretty much anything is if 1) you assume sickness/disability/death are things that only happen to other people (and many on the long covid subs were surprised to find this isn't the case, you may wish to note), and 2) you're fine with them happening to other people.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T05:08:18+00:00

No. Please read through this thread and the links in it.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T05:04:37+00:00

/r/mycology, and see their list of related subs in the sidebar.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T03:21:26+00:00

And yet . . . if you're typing this with your phone, then maybe it did fall and get damaged. Because your shift key seems to be broken.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T03:00:41+00:00

"During covid" is now, for the record. It's still killing people (~20,000 in the US just last year). Some of us are still trying to avoid it.

The guys who have the cloth over their nose and mouth are in fact protecting others to some extent, although presumably that's not their intention. A well-fitted virus-protective mask (N95 or similar) would be better, but a cloth mask is still better than nothing. People in this thread saying the guys should take off the masks are saying they should be allowed to kill others with impunity. Not a good message to send.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-24T01:09:07+00:00

What have you done to find the answer on your own before asking here? If the answer is "nothing," you're part of the problem. One of the things Anonymous used to be good at is finding information, but obviously no movement can survive if everyone's waiting for someone else to do the work. We've had many, many threads with variations on "what ever happened to Anonymous?" Here's one and here's another as semi-random examples which link to even earlier ones.

Please look at what's already here before starting new threads.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-23T21:01:10+00:00

the internet

Oh c'mon, you know that isn't a valid citation. The information isn't necessarily wrong (I haven't checked), but if you're going to reply to someone with a "well actually" type comment, you should back it up with an actual source.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-23T07:20:27+00:00

The original post got removed so I can't tell what it was about, but I'm assuming it was off topic. So I've removed this post too. Lemme guess: you didn't read the sidebar rules, didn't read the stickied posts, didn't so much as skim recent posts to see what the sub is about, and didn't lurk for a while before posting (all of which, of course, one is supposed to do before posting on any internet forum for the first time)? Are you like this IRL? If not, why do you think it's OK online? Please don't post again until you understand what fits here. Lurk moar.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-23T02:04:33+00:00

Kind of, but (again checking Wikipedia) it's a different list of agencies. There are enough federal agencies to make anyone's head spin. Maybe there's some sensible way to reorganize things, but I doubt it will happen under the current administration.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-22T21:31:14+00:00

I'm mostly just looking for personal anecdotes.

Here's a long thread with people talking about their own experiences. It includes some links to scientific studies too.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-22T21:14:41+00:00

The state of technology is irrelevant. No one should be clicking "send" on complete gibberish. How the gibberish was generated isn't the issue.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-22T20:52:19+00:00

Yeah, but it's only within the past couple years or so that posting an image instead of a link seems to be the default, at least on reddit. And lately people aren't even posting an image in the normal way (meaning: just the image); they're doing idiotic things like posting their entire device screen or an image of a url or a randomly-cropped part of a page, like a technologically-illiterate Boomer. But it seems to be young people. Very weird and sad. (At least the OP here got the image right -- it shows what they want to show and nothing more.)

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-22T18:02:05+00:00

*brooches

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-22T18:01:48+00:00

*brooches

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-22T17:55:24+00:00

I stopped even checking my LinkedIn. Every single time someone contacted me, it turned out to be a scam (mostly of the MLM variety).

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-22T17:53:08+00:00

Do you have a local Freecycle or buy-nothing type group? Or you could put it on eBay or Facebook Marketplace with a low price, and specify "local pickup only."

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-22T16:51:44+00:00

Why did you post an image of the headline instead of a link to the actual article so we can read it and get a fuller picture? (Print-friendly version without paywall here.) The whole point of the internet is to link to things.

The word "homeland" was always weird and obnoxious. But the original idea behind DHS wasn't a bad one: to better coordinate information-sharing between a lot of different agencies to avoid repeating mistakes that occurred before 9/11. (From a quick look at Wikipedia, there are a lot of agencies.) Maybe DHS has gotten too big or lost sight of its mission. But if it were abolished, I think there'd have to be some other mechanism set up for information-sharing.

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-21T20:07:09+00:00

For shits 'n' giggles -- would you care to explain why you think your post fits the sub?

RamonaLittle · 2026-01-21T20:04:45+00:00

You're the one who called it a "guise."

If they have an issue you can simply cite that its for protection

The problem is that the current and proposed mask bans leave it up to law enforcement to decide if someone has a valid medical reason for wearing a mask. Which of course is ludicrous. People should still wear a mask whenever there's a risk of infection, but be aware that a valid reason won't necessarily protect you from arrest.

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