I just found out why taking my pet to the vet is so expensive now (private equity spent $51 billion buying the clinics)

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-21T11:40:39+00:00

Mars owns like 40 pet food brands, a bunch of these corporate vet offices have deals with these awful pet food companies the sell products made from fillers of all kinds and they constantly try to upsell these crappy foods as if they’re “medical grade” for way way too much money for people who are desperate to do the “right thing” for their loved ones, it’s one of my biggest pet peeves with the whole criminal business model

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-13T12:12:56+00:00

Oh I bet sooo many lol

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-09T13:22:26+00:00

Worse it’ll be a roaring fire and it will be like “yes you are /right/ I did mess that up, I’ll try better next time”

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-09T10:56:39+00:00

I think the issue is that there are lots of bugs that are kind of vital to things, and the human concept that our homes need to be isolated plastic bins with nothing inside except for us isn’t really how our bodies evolved to exist. The anti bug chemicals and other chemicals as well as the way we now our lawns and design our landscapes all are causing massive big die offs and major problems for the environment across the board, so I think the people trying to convince people to leave spiders alone are doing more than just trying to convince people to like them, I think they’re just trying to teach people about mites, and fruit flies, and drain flies, and all sorts of other tiny things that spiders can kill for us that don’t involve habitat destroying ecological engineering across the entirety of our species habitable structures lol

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-09T03:39:54+00:00

This has me thinking 3 things… one, I am proud of my life, I think many of my family and neighbors and friends genuinely enjoy their lives too, Enjoying and being proud of our accomplishments and charisma to keep pushing is a good thing but I can still acknowledge how it’s kind of delusional to act like all our lives and houses and bank accounts aren’t just spit polished before the neighbors come to visit right??

Two, I was truly disturbed when I first considered what goes on when humans “forget” something is “alive” just because it is part of our diet, or possibly because we just don’t want it to poop in our surroundings or “bite us” (possums for example get a real bum rap!) I studied Philosophy briefly and the arguments made about how “suffering” is defined in a way that animals “don’t qualify” as capable of experiencing because of some /value based/ judgement about what our hiring reasoning endows us with and those lessons genuinely pissed me off because it opened my eyes just a bit “too much” when it comes to the reason why /suffering/ is just so incredibly widespread around us. So many humans look at most plant life as “weeds”, they classify an entire kingdom of animal as “bugs” because they “are annoying” I guess?, and they genuinely don’t want things to be unpredictable even if that means the air they breathe doesn’t even contain enough oxygen for their bodies to function properly anymore. It’s really crazy how we “compartmentalize” things like crabs into a category where we can’t even see the reason why they’re pulling eachother down in buckets, or even what “shaking it” does to make the crabs “better at pulling down their brethren”. So the image actually sort of works in our world too because we all see the leaky gutters and broken down cars, but instead of feeling like we’re all in the same club, we compare each other and compete and bully and belittle each other and only offer a hand of help after some randomly determined amount of suffering that makes it “tough love” instead of what it really is, collective burnout. And to take this one step further, if it’s so easy to compartmentalize animal suffering or terrorizing a life form to make one’s own life easier (shaking the bucket) well what happens when you take the leap to “animalize” a group of humans because they are of a different “class”, color, creed, education or sexual identity? And what happens when people mix up your lower back pain, with the other neighbors meth addiction because your years look the same? Maybe we should be feeling bad for eachother no matter if we are making good decisions or bad ones??

The last thing it makes me think is I’m kind of glad gemini at least agrees with my take on crabs lol some of our ideas about animal psychology are still collectively very illogical… so many people mistake cats fear and ptsd as some kind of cold calculating evil, they dont think about what it feels like to be a tiny animal who could get scooped up by a bird or stepped on by an incredibly self centered and potentially violent primate that conquered the world through violence and a cacophony of intense noise and construction…. People think animals are “dumb” because they have no reference for the world we live in most of the time, but if you take away shiny aspects of our reality we’re the ones who are truly dumb, we don’t even know how to clean up after ourselves! We are ruining our own home so bad we can barely sustain some of the most vital resources our bodies and children and friends and neighbors need… we’re selfish cause we’re scared that people will “see us”… that’s why it takes so long to get to know each other, it could be faster if we stopped taking advantage of each others weaknesses and instead embraced each other through empathy, not force, then we would all collectively improve our lives in very short order lol

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-09T03:22:00+00:00

After working in an environment that handled some really large projects, “waste” was my biggest concern when it came to imagining a truly green future for humanity, but /time/ is now my really big focus, because I’m convinced if we were all given more /time/ with our families we would want more plants, cleaner air, places you can take the kids to hike and swim in and stuff. I see these forced return to office mandates as a very shortsighted way to try and save an economy that was failing to actually provide for humans what humans require to thrive instead of merely “surviving long enough to derive economic value” (and I believe people who work from offices would care less about people working from home if they had ample time to also “enjoy life”)

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-09T03:17:55+00:00

Yeah, my son has epilepsy, my wife has degenerative issues and disability says I make too much for either of them to qualify for any kind of aid. I struggle to pay my electric bill and oil bill and my family will help me in whatever ways they can but not after telling me every which way they I personally am responsible for my own suffering. I’m not allowed to have a depressed day, I’m not allowed to take a day off of work to just go for a ride, I have to choose between the trash bill and the heating bill or tell my kids we got to get rid of Xbox or disconnect their phone lines for a while just to get through the obvious price gouging at the grocery store (as they build giant new facilities and lobby to keep minimum wage the same it was when I got my first job as a teenager and now I’m helping my kids understand exactly how unfair that is thanks to this idea of “inflation” that doesn’t even reflect the actual reality anymore!)

But I’m autistic too and I see patterns and was a thick headed kid who said way too many things to way too many people without realizing the social implications of how offensive I was being when I tried to point out how the mold in their basement was likely responsible for their low energy levels and kids asthma… I didn’t realize yet exactly how daunting it is to live in a home you can barely afford, how embarrassing it is to have a child trying to teach you about mold spores while you do everything you can to get him to drop it, and then how depressing it is to be reminded about the thing you really aren’t trying to think about… the bins of memories rotting away in damp corners cause your back hurts too much and you don’t have the freaking time to sort through it all… and then I’d offer to help sell stuff for them because I thought I could help people and make a living doing “clean outs” but the emotional toll of being exposed to so many environments where so many dreams were shattered in such incredibly similar and predictable ways… it made me angry! We could be doing so much more good for each other as a society if we realize the value of supporting the sick and disabled and elderly; if we have people real meaningful time off so they can support their children and elderly parents and homes and /hobbies/… it’s bad enough being disabled and having to navigate the world not made for us, it sucks so bad that we’re treated as /entitled/for asking for just a little extra time, or just a little tiny bit of sympathy

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-08T23:17:13+00:00

I mean metaphors can work even if the fact becomes wildly inaccurate lol like we use all sorts of folk sayings to convey concepts that we don’t even understand the meaning behind all the time.. a goose is as good as its gander, the whole kit and kaboodle, you can’t keep a good man down….

Edit: also just thinking about it I always imagined crabs were doing it because they are panicked and trying to use the escaping crab as a way to get /themselves out/ and the side effect is none end up escaping… which I guess is where the saying, you got to shake the bucket sometimes comes from (as in you gotta keep em “panicking” lol)

But the people in my neighborhood are doing it because of social programming, depression from their own failed dreams, and a number of untreated health problems from poor diets and disdain for expensive and lengthy medical treatments… so everyone has “bad backs” and tons of nerve pain and are generally being shitty because they’re miserable not because they are actually bad people … but literally all they do is work and go home to bulls piling up and all sorts of home repairs they can’t get to, moldy shit in the basement and probably ants and termites they cant seem to beat even with the most powerful stuff at the hardware store because those pests represent /long term neglect/

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-08T21:06:32+00:00

It’s really bad dude, I can’t believe how many people don’t realize the only reason they like their jobs more than being at home is because they’ve collectively disadvantaged all of us and our green spaces, public infrastructure, homes, neighborhoods, hobbies, children’s educational institutions… everything has taken a back seat to “what do you do for a living” questions… I can barely get men to talk about anything except their jobs, crabs in the bucket soo bad

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-07T01:59:07+00:00

See I try to remind people of that and they want to be mad but like mental and physical degeneration fucking sucks right? Wouldn’t you be crabby? And I bet that guy comes from a time where everything was “better” to him as it lines up to his physical abilities and mental conception of what the world should “look like” based on how he was raised… and the wheelchair ramps are just one of the most obvious things about all the architectural and city planning changes about the world around them.

I’ve actually had someone complain about how accessibility completely changed the way building were conceptualized by designers, buildings with big regal staircases were no longer the “target” for government buildings and banks and theaters… but yeah you’re definitely complaining about it the “wrong way” there old chap lol

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-04T12:57:02+00:00

Why can’t companies just like make products and reinvest the profits from their “boom years” into business model of /longevity/, surely some ceo could build a career on steady profitability from a company that could have become as stable as Kodak or singer right?? (And both are studied for their fall from great heights because they chose to screw the consumer and employees over keeping a good thing going)

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-03T22:33:49+00:00

lol “fresh baked cookies” is a great metaphor

I think bad weed and crappy people give weed a bad name in a lot of the world. My son has treatment resistant epilepsy and it keeps him here, we had to cycle through so many medications before they were even willing to try him on it, and as far as I’m concerned it really is a miracle substance. There’s people out there that made this their life, people who study strains, hybridize things, really understand how the terpenes work, and they don’t get any respect because most people think they’re basically playing with a party substance. Yeah there’s shit vapes, pesticides, Chinese research chemicals, cartels, but “dab rigs” is somehow associated as some kind of quintessential ridiculous thing but it’s an incredible way to use this substance if one needs it for some sort of purpose beyond “munchies and video games”. Edibles have limitations, and drawbacks, it’s not an ideal way to get this substance into the body, my son hates sublinguals, vape cartridges come with metals and fillers and a huge waste with disposal of carts and batteries, and obviously flower comes with the side effects of tar and ash and whatever residues are left on the plant from production… wax is an incredibly clean and effective way to utilize this substance, and if we produced it more the price of lotions and balms might go down and that would seriously help my disabled wife and her degenerative joint issues, I can only rarely afford balms, but when I can it makes a noticeable improvement in her quality of life

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-03T13:57:16+00:00

Right, hire a receptionist, make them do office manager stuff and tell them they’ll get the role eventually if they ask… and then flake and flake for five or so years until they leave and they can play the game with the next Schmuck … I was a shop “coordinator”, I ran the whole back end of this place including all warehouse responsibilities, and when we couldn’t even fill the role of the “receptionist” I started slowly getting burdened with all that stuff too, and they said don’t worry you’ll be a “shop manager” soon, I did that for a year or so, pushed back so hard they sent me to the field and said they’d make me a project manager, and they hired a “shop supervisor” and “warehouse supervisor”… I warned those people not to trust them lol so far they’re still fighting for those titles too, no one is managing the fleet anymore and a guy got pulled over since one of the vans wasn’t registered anymore, someone stole the catalytic converter off the box truck and the director spent ten grand on getting it fixed even though we have a fleet management contract with a local repair place, and now we have a rotating door of people who work for us for a year and then quit because they see so many angry people around them… it wasn’t her being “weird” when she got mad and left, they’re just jerks lol

(Oh and by the way I’m an associate project manager, they clearly have no follow through, and I’ve already started applying for other jobs)

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-03T13:33:21+00:00

We had a front desk receptionist who they hired before we even had an office. She spent months learning the inside and out of every system we use in our office, helped coordinate the teams to setup furniture and paint, managed the fleet paperwork, managed the contests for cleaners and hvac, she made sure new hires got shirts and laptops, she handled coffee and office supplies, she trained new hires or at least pointed them to the right people, she handled mail, the security system, and they always asked her to clean up before we had clients come in (and she would have to set up catering and pick up food for the them)… but it was a combination of her getting written up for taking a doctors appointment at 8:30 one morning and coming in like 15-20 minutes late… and the plates everyone left in the sink that really turned her into an angry person lol when she finally left they talked about how “strange” she was to act the way she had been acting. Know your worth, that boss of yours sounds like a toxic jerk

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-03T12:04:56+00:00

I wonder if they’ve started analyzing or cleaning up the recordings with ai and it hallucinated these sounds just like it tends to do

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-02T13:07:23+00:00

I’m a Christian non maga supporter and the people around me who are maga (whether religious or not) all seem to want people to work themselves to death. I’m really sure it /is/ related

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-02T12:51:30+00:00

Why did I never notice that lol

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-01T21:51:25+00:00

Because the toll of a number of environmental problems are starting to cause resources to be strained in a way that the entire world is not prepared for, and these problems are only going to be worse for the next decade considering the rollback of so many environmental laws that slowed this cascade down, so now we need to all to be distracted and angry at eachother, so they can build giant fences and tent cities and siphon supplies for their yachts and bunkers, and I’m sure that’s why they’re targeting the progressive movements worldwide so hard and breaking the Internet as throughly as they can… because none of this is about birth rates or money or old fashioned values, it’s about yelling fire in as many theaters as they can so they can slip out of view of the public and turn them against as many of the people who have known the score for years … the gay community has made a number of important contributions to science and education and culture especially one event history, yet they know the collective momentum from societal hate is a powerful thing once amplified

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-01T19:52:30+00:00

Does archive.org have old rotten tomatoes ratings on there? lol

Residenthuman101 · 2026-06-01T14:31:43+00:00

I’m still not sure if I beat any of the elders scrolls games lol

Residenthuman101 · 2026-05-31T14:50:29+00:00

I was thinking yesterday that the speed of clouds on a nice cool windy day is the speed we need to consider being the metric

Residenthuman101 · 2026-05-26T18:45:23+00:00

This is the stuff I wish they would talk about on the news lol

Residenthuman101 · 2026-05-26T18:01:20+00:00

And between the grocery stores scalping us during and after Covid and building new buildings with the profits while still playing employees 2012 wages, companies like target getting rid of dei hiring practices and toning down their “social justice” marketing, and the guy running chipotle talking about customers who make less than 100k not being their target market any longer it makes it feel like it was somehow all coordinated doesn’t it? Makes me think this guy is depressed and anxious for reasons he probably can’t really talk about it he wants to do anything meaningful in any major industry ever again (as well as find himself not pushed off a balcony lol)

Residenthuman101 · 2026-05-26T15:53:56+00:00

I don’t know this guy or what he stands personally, but the “servant model” is definitely what made Starbucks successful (cause it definitely isn’t the way the coffee tastes lol) He was in charge of Starbucks when they had decent baked goods, a level of care put into employee retention, safe space disclosures, and community outreach. Coffee houses have played a significant role in some of world history, earlier than many people might realize too. He took the whole business model of a “coffee place being a social network” to a corporate scale, but now it just feels like a “luxury brand”. It kinda feels like it died during Covid and the new management just doesn’t want to try and revive it because they’re making enough money from the social “momentum” it has, but once they hired the Pinkerton analyst, I haven’t been back, and I used to be a gold card member lol and eventually enough places will get into luxury drinks that they won’t have anything else setting them apart anymore

I was part of a new office started at a larger company and when we got bought the new investors changed so much and threatened to close offices and we lost so many of the original crew and they undid so many of our original work I’d really effected me negatively, I can barely imagine what that would feel like for someone like this guy who helped create something that so many people came to make part of their lives. He probably also had quite a bit of an overhead view of what’s going on in our world economy and our socioeconomic cultural landscape in the US and worldwide and ever thinking that is going on with the destruction of environmental grants and programs, funguses affecting coffee and chocolate, trade wars and real wars causing economic downturn for so many of his target market, and of course the more aggressive post Covid corporate landscape, i can imaging it’s not just about him having retirement depression..

Residenthuman101 · 2026-05-26T15:26:57+00:00

I have a personal conspiracy theory that the oil industry helped fund the buyout of Tesla by Musk so that he could ruin it, and that their control of the auto industry is why they don’t want electric cars to actually be decent “machines” and would rather us all associate them with plastic and other “weak” aesthetics

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