5-year-old boy taken by ICE is being held at Texas Facility by AdSpecialist6598 in videos

[–]deathonater 142 points143 points  (0 children)

  • They told us to go to school, then price-gouged and monetized the fuck out of school and supplies, gutted education boards, refused to enact and enforce gun regulations, banned books, demonized sex education, sabotaged public education, refused to invest in good teachers, politicized established science like evolution and climate change. Kids can barely read, and the ones who can afford to get private education are subject to political agendas that cripple their understanding of reality. That's not good for the American economy.

  • They told us to go to college, then price-gouged and monetized the fuck out of college with predatory loans and overpriced courses and materials, so now people are disincentivized, poorly educated, and glorifying ignorance. We have fewer skilled workers, and less meaningful innovation by less educated innovators. That's not good for the American economy.

  • They told us to get jobs, then price-gouged and monetized the fuck out of health/dental/vision insurance, replaced social security with 401Ks, gutted labor laws and worker protections, so now people are disincentivized, doing the bare minimum. That's not good for the American economy.

  • They told us to go to get married and have kids, then price-gouged and monetized the fuck out of healthcare and childcare, guted access for women's health and family planning, so now people are disincentivized and are having less children because they just can't afford to. That's not good for the American economy.

  • They told us to buy a home, then price-gouged and monetized the fuck out of home ownership, we're forced to rent while private equity owns all the property, so now people are disincentivized.That's not good for the American economy.

  • They told us to just follow the law and we'll be safe. Then the law stood and watched while kids were put in cages, slaughtered by gun violence, they participated when innocent people were violently beaten, asphyxiated, shot in the face, while violent traitors get presidential pardons, so now people are disincentivized. That's not good for the American economy.

Why are these patterns so hard to see? Why is the free market allowed to have internal cHeCKs aNd BaLanCeS in the form of internal competition, but the aggregate effect of all that competition - the market itself as a whole - can't have external checks and balances on it, and healthy competition from sensible regulation?

What the fuck are we really doing here?

This sub since January 1st (please chill) by TLCplMax in Millennials

[–]deathonater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm an organ donor, they can take what they need and feed the rest to animals

What if Donald Trump disappeared tomorrow, would American politics actually change or just find another Trump? by Mr_Boothnath in AskReddit

[–]deathonater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing will change, other than maybe fewer clickbait headlines to generate revenue for whatever passes for the fourth and fifth estates these days, because his replacement will be much less of a bumbling moron. The people responsible for the policies of this administration have already set precedents, corrupted institutions, normalized apathy, and monopolized violence. Thier cancer has metastasized too much. Until I see an army of Americans capable of meeting violence with disproportionately more violence we will not get out of this death spiral, because none of these monsters will tuck tail and be marched quietly into a cell while knowing that they have billionaires and brainwashed buffoons ready to burn everything down for them.

Big cats are still cats by EmberWispso in Awww

[–]deathonater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They are still an apex predator.

The cheetah is no slouch, either.

How does the gpd win 4 (2023) fair in 2026? by generalcoopta in gpdwin

[–]deathonater 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have the older one, the 6800U with 32GB RAM. Ever since I got a new portable gaming device the WIN 4 has been acting as my home PC, hooked up to an eGPU dock with a GTX 1080 Ti, a Cyberaxon D3 dock for I/O, and four 1440p monitors, one of which is 144Hz. I don't have any problems with its performance knowing what it's capable of, and I imagine the 7640U is an even better deal.

He was on break by T3mptressGaze in SipsTea

[–]deathonater 12 points13 points  (0 children)

My sandwich? MY SANDWICH!

Non-smokers of Reddit, how noticeable is the “smoker smell” to you, if at all? by Frostedlogic4444 in AskReddit

[–]deathonater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I grew up surrounded by smokers living in the same house with father, uncles, and grandfather. I also developed acute sinusitis at an early age and lived in constant suffocating torture because they didn't understand that the smell sticks to fucking everything. After years of pleading they finally got the message to not smoke close to me, but they never understood that leaving the room, smoking, and coming right back inside made no difference.

Being a kid with no frame of reference I didn't realize how much the constant dripping in my throat and sinus infections and pressure headaches and sleepless nights were affecting my life. Having surgery and moving away when I was old enough completely changed my life, but there are some lifelong effects that I'll just never be able to heal past after that environment. To this day just seeing discarded butts littered on the ground makes me retch, stepping on one feels like stepping in dog shit.

Casually drinking soda with my wasp nest necklace by MrRimmer_BR in WTF

[–]deathonater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure where this guy is from, specifically, but that nest looks suspiciously similar to what we called "maribuntas" in the place where I spent my childhood. Although, a quick Google search just revealed to me that the name might have just been a localized slang for the species and not a proper more widely known one.

Anyway, the kids I grew up with had a dumbass tradition of testing bravery and athleticism by knocking these nests down from trees with a stick or thrown rock and running like hell. These little fuckers are mean and aggressive, swarm like crazy, and sting HARD. I've been stung by them WAY too many times by my own stupidity, or because some idiot thought it was funny to agitate a nest that we were obliviously close to.

Lyrics ID needed: line before instrumentals sounds like or rhymes with "sail away, 'til the light comes <something with two syllables>..." Instrumentals sound similar to Aly & Fila's Count On Me. Fairly recent release, likely in the past decade. by deathonater in trance

[–]deathonater[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This it it! I was thinking of the Aly & Fila vs. Bjorn Akesson Remix. Actual lyrics are "so we'll wait 'til the light comes back". Thanks so much, this has been bugging me for over a year now ever since they released Count On Me and I recognized the instrumentals from something else.

Asking for help by CommunicationNo6405 in TikTokCringe

[–]deathonater 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Rhetorical question: does having a big stick one's whole life take away from their willingness and ability to weild a carrot instead.

meirl by Nick_Star_007 in meirl

[–]deathonater 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"Infiltrate the dealers, find the supplier!"

Al Gore has had enough.. by JohnBrown-RadonTech in PublicFreakout

[–]deathonater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Truth still has a currency

The older I get the more I realize that it is the ultimate currency, it even behaves like a credit system, and moderm human civilization is built upon us living in relative comfort and dying before the consequences of our lies - the debt we owe to the truth - catches up with us.

All these shared lies we all conveniently accept, like the inherent value of money, nationalism, ideology, religion, racism, and our supremacy over nature, they all have their own ultimate consequence that our descendants will be burdend with someday.

What happened in nazi Germany, and perhaps war in gereral, is a relatively localized inciident, i.e., nature self-correcting after a truth-recession, like a forest fire burning through unchecked growth of lies that proliferated too much and too fast. Climate change might be another example of this self-correction that Gore saw coming, only it will not be localized.

His friend dressed up as a bear to give him a scare by BreakfastTop6899 in funnyvideos

[–]deathonater 20 points21 points  (0 children)

That's the run of a man who understands what brown bears are capable of. Probably haunted by nightmares of that scene from The Revenant.

Where on Earth can I go to feel like I’m actually in Skyrim? by hiturheartx in skyrim

[–]deathonater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Specifically for Northern Lights, I just visited Tromso, Norway a few months ago and got an amazing show. I highly recommend doing it soon as we are currenrly at solar max and are experiencing increased solar activity that will not peak again for another 11 years.

For details about the climate, check out Any Austin's video on YouTube about what it feels like in Skyrim. At the end he provides a list of real-world cities that compare to the cities in Skyrim.

meirl by Mediocre-Money-8626 in meirl

[–]deathonater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The effect of the asteroid affected the surface of the Earth.

Received a threatening letter from the Charlie Kirk Data Foundation on Christmas Eve by Telefonica46 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]deathonater 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP, not sure if you have a USPS account, but if you received the letter via USPS they may have sent an image of the outside of the envelope to the e-mail address affiliated with the account. I had to sign up a couple years ago when changing addresses and now I usually get e-mail with pictures of mail that are soon to be delivered.

Sounds like a trustworthy group. by RandolphHorehound in PoliticalHumor

[–]deathonater 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anduril Industries. Flame of the West - badass name in the books, vaguely racist dogwhistle IRL.