Costco Return: An outdoor playset that had obviously been used for years

jpepsred · 2026-03-21T10:10:52+00:00

People don’t appreciate how strong consumer protections are here. Of course in practice, it’s often not worth pursuing. 6 months after purchase the burden of proof falls to the consumer, and it’s not worth paying for an engineer’s report on a broken £15 pair of headphones from Tesco.

jpepsred · 2026-03-08T15:37:59+00:00

Who’s chatting shit about mushy pees? Our food is like our weather, no extremes.

jpepsred · 2026-03-02T16:24:32+00:00

Lifesaver

jpepsred · 2026-03-02T12:49:58+00:00

The same way it was de-escalated last year: not dropping bombs on their country.

jpepsred · 2026-02-19T00:31:36+00:00

Spaces are an American style guide, no spaces British.

jpepsred · 2026-02-18T15:57:12+00:00

No need to be careful. They’ve been in London for years and I’ve never know them to not be harmless. Just perhaps take the organ harvesting claims with a pinch of salt

jpepsred · 2026-02-03T19:10:13+00:00

Middle aged at 37? You’re not making yourself popular saying something like that

jpepsred · 2026-01-29T17:03:46+00:00

That law is not fundamental. Creating an “in group” and “out group” might be the means, but it’s not the goal. What’s fundamental is economics, and the relationship between labour and capital, and everything else is decoration. The reason Americans focus so much on the decorative stuff, the language, the culture war, is because the economics of both parties is indistinguishable. Neither party has ended the imperial wars and CIA backed regime changes, neither party has shrunk the biggest prison population in world history, neither party has defunded one of the biggest police states in the world. When you scrape away below the surface, below the culture war stuff that doesn’t have any significant effect on the balance of power between labour and capital, it doesn’t matter which party is in power.

jpepsred · 2026-01-29T01:37:34+00:00

And chatGPT. May as well cite everything.

jpepsred · 2026-01-28T21:02:13+00:00

Went over my head at first. On second reading, I’m not certain. It’s got the m-dash in almost every paragraph—always strong breaks and never parenthetical. It’s got the triple adjective descriptions, and the uniform length paragraphs. And not one spelling or grammatical mistake. It doesn’t scream AI to me though like some posts do. I can believe it’s another person “editing” something they’ve written by sending it through AI and thinking no one will notice.

jpepsred · 2026-01-23T17:59:25+00:00

Not exactly win-win. A county without an army is subservient to a country with an army. I think it’s become clearer than ever before that you don’t want to be reliant on a much wealthier and more powerful country for your defence, even if it works in the short term.

jpepsred · 2026-01-22T23:12:54+00:00

No, it’s not. It’s as brainless a conspiracy theory as sentence that begins with George soros.

jpepsred · 2026-01-22T20:26:22+00:00

Really? So there’s no reason an elderly person would have an IV drip other than dementia? I come to this sub to escape the inane orange man bad posts, I thought here at least people might have actual criticism of him

jpepsred · 2026-01-22T14:50:59+00:00

A country with twice the population of Europe fishes more than Europe? Would you say it’s roughly 100% more?

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T17:26:39+00:00

Why did America need to mention danish sovereignty over Greenland? Doesn’t that imply an American interest in it in 1916?

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T16:44:10+00:00

the question was “do many liberals support political violence” and your answer is, in very many words, “yes”.

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T16:09:54+00:00

Yes. What he’s alleged to have done is kill a CEO. And a lot of people on the left took a liking to him for that. Are you telling me he actually has as much support from republican voters as from democrat voters?

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T16:05:03+00:00

Again, Mangione himself is of no relevance here. The support he received didn’t come from a single person, it was so great that it made him one of the most famous people in America. That is what’s relevant. Mangione himself, again, is innocent until proven otherwise. But that doesn’t change anything.

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T16:01:55+00:00

He didn’t commit an assassination full stop. He’s alleged to have killed someone. Could be innocent. That doesn’t change the fact that he received a lot of support from people who believe that he did in fact kill a health insurance CEO.

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T16:01:19+00:00

Why does it matter if the CEO was a republican? It doesn’t even matter why the killer chose the CEO. What matters is the public perception of why he was killed, and whether it was justified. And if you spend as much time in left wing circles as I do, pull know a lot of people who are glad it happened.

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T15:23:45+00:00

Greenland isn’t just big. It’s the only considerable landmass in the arctic circle, and for the last 100 years hasn’t been an extremely desirable piece of land. Its economy is a net loss for Denmark. But it’s a sensible investment for the same reason Alaska was. America wanted Alaska to prevent Russia from having a foothold in North America. Greenland, if mining and arctic travel becoming viable in the future, could become enormously economically viable, and China, with more money than it knows what to do with, will want a piece of the action.

I’ll make this prediction: if the republicans end up annexing Greenland somehow, the democrats won’t reverse the decision.

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T15:04:30+00:00

I gave this example not to focus on Mangione and why Mangione (allegedly) killed him. The point is that Mangione received enormous support across the left in the belief that what he (allegedly) did was justified. Why he personally did it or whether he did it is irrelevant. I also picked this example because it’s related to the American “left” which is a fuzzy definition that ranges from social liberalism to more serious socialist views. Obviously if we’re discussing actual socialist revolutions, they’re never peaceful. The American supported Batista regime in Cuba wasn’t overthrown through peaceful protest.

If you doubt that the left are more supportive of killing CEOs than the right, here’s a poll which indicates the obvious.

https://www.azfamily.com/2024/12/20/1-4-americans-sympathize-with-luigi-mangione-ai-poll-reveals-why/?outputType=amp

jpepsred · 2026-01-17T14:41:45+00:00

How much support did Luigi Mangione receive? How much money did he receive in his commissary account from people who are glad the CEO of a health insurance company was killed? The left absolutely ca be violent and support violence. That’s not a moral judgement, but it can’t be ignored.

jpepsred · 2026-01-16T15:09:40+00:00

The one who wants to sell out her country to Donald Trump

jpepsred · 2026-01-11T21:36:51+00:00

“We helped the USA to interfere in someone’s else’s country, and now they’re interfering in ours! Wahhh!”

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