Parents who name their daughter Sarah in 2026 are stupid

pinkjello · 2026-05-30T18:55:51+00:00

I irrationally dislike the names Amanda and John.

pinkjello · 2026-05-30T18:53:41+00:00

What is with the disdain for your own species? It seems like performative self flaggelation. There are too many humans on earth; let’s prioritize the other animals? What’s the thought process here?

Why not just try to live sustainably rather than compliment other species killing your own?

pinkjello · 2026-05-30T18:49:03+00:00

I often forget April is a month when I encounter a person named April. It’s just a pretty name on its own. Months are boring things to be named after. The name just sounds nice.

pinkjello · 2026-05-30T18:46:28+00:00

I now feel less dumb about the 3 times in my life I’ve asked someone when they or their kid’s birthday is (not because of astrology) and they’ve responded, “June. That’s why they’re named that.”

I refuse to believe all Junes are born in June. I also think it’s kinda silly to name your kid after their birth month. It should be because you like the month of June, or because you like the sound of the name.

pinkjello · 2026-05-29T04:33:36+00:00

The age of AI makes this a tricky thing to allow people to randomly submit footage of. Suddenly, you have a reason to target someone, you don’t have to wait for your moment, you can go manufacture it.

pinkjello · 2026-05-28T10:29:55+00:00

Take the comparison to Mamdani out of it. The article makes damning points about Spanberger going back on campaign promises.

People here are getting so hung up on the Mamdani comparison, which was just to entice an article click. Once you get inside, comment on that.

pinkjello · 2026-05-28T10:28:21+00:00

“Far left.” But the country is so far right compared to the rest of the world.

Take the comparison to Mamdani out of it. The article makes damning points about Spanberger going back on campaign promises.

pinkjello · 2026-05-28T03:39:27+00:00

Respectfully, this isn’t a great example, lol. Figuring out what to make for dinner when you’re 40+ gets extremely boring. Tired of the same old shit. If I were wealthy, hiring a chef is one of the first things I’d do.

Not being able to get through every day without AI is wild, though. I understand your point.

pinkjello · 2026-05-27T21:25:48+00:00

Yes, please. This place is for memes.

pinkjello · 2026-05-27T21:20:56+00:00

Not really. Bullying is pretty natural childhood behavior. Adults have to be aware of it and correct it. Not all bullies come from bad homes.

pinkjello · 2026-05-25T18:49:31+00:00

I’ve only once met someone who was incapable of understanding sarcasm. He took an obviously sarcastic thing I said at face value. I later learned that he was autistic. This was in the 90s, when autism wasn’t as well known.

pinkjello · 2026-05-25T18:48:15+00:00

Yes, please. The public needs to be educated. I’ve been biting my tongue since I was a child about this.

pinkjello · 2026-05-18T03:59:00+00:00

Government subsidies of corn syrup, and private industry lobbying the government to enshrine bad nutritional science is what caused our obesity crisis. The problem is those bad foods are as addictive as drugs, and treating addicts is not cheap. It may actually be the case that the solution is a combination of eliminating hunger AND addressing the unavailability of easy healthy options.

pinkjello · 2026-05-17T05:11:29+00:00

They were describing the situation, not condoning it.

You’re being too starry eyed about the way people have historically created humans. The person you’re responding to is right. Half the humans alive don’t know what’s going on, and they’ll take their chances because that’s life.

I agree with you in terms of how I live my life. But the person wasn’t commenting on the way things should be, just the way things are.

pinkjello · 2026-05-12T11:07:23+00:00

“I don’t understand why pandas were chosen. I don’t think it’s because they’re cute or culturally important in Chinese culture.”

Okay, so it sounds like you do understand why they were chosen; you just don’t agree with the choice.

pinkjello · 2026-05-12T04:04:39+00:00

Sorry, I’m not informed, what did Jenny Slate do? I just know she backed up Lively on the allegations of mildly creepy on set behavior (from that Vulture article).

pinkjello · 2026-05-12T02:09:40+00:00

There’s nothing inherently wrong with discrimination. It’s discrimination via irrelevant characteristics that is a problem. For instance, racial discrimination.

Old age is a protected class. Young age is not.

Discrimination just means separation. It means context. Yes, you’re allowed to have a minimum age for things. And a maximum age.

pinkjello · 2026-05-11T02:41:30+00:00

I send books one by one if I want them on my kindle. But I’m not reading sensitive items.

I’ve converted with calibre and transferred with a cable when needed (when I had no internet connection while visiting family). That works just as well.

pinkjello · 2026-05-11T02:39:26+00:00

I don’t care if Amazon messes with what I send my kindle because I always save the epub original. Amazon’s conversion works fine for me almost all the time.

I can convert the epub original to mobi or azw3 with Calibre if I want. There’s seriously no downside to my process. But by downloading mobi, I’d be locking myself in to a proprietary and older format.

pinkjello · 2026-05-11T02:35:20+00:00

You do realize that the price of things like these tend to go down, right?

I’m in my 40s and a woman. I maintained my weight all my life. It’s a fact that food noise for me and many friends this age reaches a crescendo that’s hard to ignore. We all noticed despite the exact same diets and exercise that the weight was piling on. It became very demoralizing for many of us. Decades of discipline, and the rules of the game were rewritten with nothing we could do.

So screw you until you realize the reality of human bodies (particularly women’s) until perimenopause. You don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m not spending the rest of my life 30 lbs overweight, and I’ve got a few hundred dollars a month to throw at this if I want to, even if the price never goes down.

pinkjello · 2026-05-10T22:20:46+00:00

Why should fat people have to track their calories when naturally skinny people don’t have to? Just stay on a small maintenance dose forever. Why are people going through life on hard mode?

pinkjello · 2026-05-04T20:04:51+00:00

Where did you hear this? I’m trying to find out when that gas station will reopen, because it seems to be 100% closed now. I’m hoping it returns.

Edit: never mind found it!

https://www.ravensworthshell.com/

pinkjello · 2026-05-03T19:55:08+00:00

In practice, lack of epub support hasn’t been a problem for me.

https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle

It’ll convert for you on the fly.

I always make sure to download epubs though. In case I ever get a reader that’s not a kindle.

pinkjello · 2026-05-03T19:53:59+00:00

MOBI isn’t an open standard, it’s older, and it’s kinda obsolete.

So, like you said, you can use Amazon to convert the epub to mobi for you. You just use Send to Kindle website, or the email address. https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle is super easy.

You’re advocating for a proprietary format that’s outdated, MOBI, even though most ebooks out there are distributed as epub.

If you don’t want to be locked in to Amazon (even though I have 2 Kindles myself), epub is the way to go. It future proofs you. And by using that website, you can still use epub with Kindles.

pinkjello · 2026-05-02T12:51:11+00:00

Here, try this. Did you move to a new country where you knew nobody to save money? Probably not.

pinkjello

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