covid GaveUp • 7 hours ago • 100%

I'm not anti-vaxx, I just don't trust American health agencies. Wouldn't even think twice if this was in most other countries

news GaveUp • 4 days ago • 100%

web.archive.org

Most important part of these tariffs: "The trade rule allows packages to be shipped from foreign countries directly to consumers or businesses without paying tariffs, as long as the shipments do not exceed $800 per recipient per day. The new proposal would strip that exemption from a wide array of products and most likely have a significant impact on large importers of Chinese goods such as Shein and Temu, two online marketplaces that have become popular with American shoppers." This trade rule being taken advantage of by Aliexpress, Temu, and Shein is the sole reason why significant amounts of Americans could still afford to buy a lot of consumer goods despite having their real wages crash year after year. This would genuinely trigger another cost of living crisis

askchapo GaveUp • 5 days ago • 96%

I feel I can def pretty accurately tell whether somebody works a tech or some business/finance/marketing/HR job just by the way they speak. Like I talk to them outside of a work context, I make the guess, and then they later reveal what they do and I'm usually right if it's one of those 2 categories

technology GaveUp • 3 weeks ago • 99%

So that if there's a big event like a Taylor Swift concert you couldn't go to and they detected you're most likely a fan, they'll gen AI a photo of you at the concert If you missed a Christmas gathering with your family, they'll gen AI one for you If like Japan but haven't been there yet, they gen AI a whole vacation album of you there They're literally trying to embed fabricated events into your life and brain lmao People are largely very excited for this idea. All the apps between different companies constantly copy each other to achieve feature parity, there's no escape. You will live a life of luxury and excitement whether you want to or not

askchapo GaveUp • 3 weeks ago • 100%

I have 450 sq ft that's on the ground floor. Like almost 0 elevation at all from street level. 100 year old building. I live a 10 minutes walk away from the Pacific Coast, SF climate Every time I wake up and go to the bathroom, I see 2-5 insects in it. 1-2 are cockroaches, rest are some other small thing. Flies maybe? Always see some cockroach droppings on sink counter that I have to spray and wipe down Every time I leave a room dark for a few hours and turn on the lights, I always see 1-3 insects During the day with lights on, I notice 1-4 insects per hour in various places excluding tiny fruit flies. Those I probably see like 5 times a day Problem has been getting worse since I've moved in but this is also the first summer I've lived through in this place And if I need pest control, how much work is it to have them come in? Should I just move apartments if I need them?

em_poc GaveUp • 4 weeks ago • 100%

I shouldn't pass which is fine but on the rare occasion I do, it's always a white person who lives in a place without many east asians The last white liberal I tried to befriend unironically told me I was so lucky to be Asian because I naturally already look more feminine than white transfems (like her)

badposting GaveUp • 1 month ago • 100%

Follow-up to my De-Google post to ensure your privacy and prevent your weird fetishes from being advertised back to you Meta service - Alternative Facebook - Your retirement home's bulletin board Messenger - WhatsApp Instagram - Touching grass Meta Quest/Oculus VR - PornHub Hope this helps and as always, pussy is in my bio

badposting GaveUp • 1 month ago • 100%

Since people always mention wanting to do this in the comments but say it's always say too hard Google product - Alternative Google Search - Bing Google Drive - iCloud Google Chrome - Safari Gmail - Outlook Google Photos - Amazon Photos (if you have Prime, it's unlimited photos storage + 5GB for videos) or Apple Photos YouTube - TikTok Waymo - Uber or Lyft Let me know if I missed anything in the comments section and what I should cover next post

games GaveUp • 1 month ago • 100%

This has surprisingly garnered lots of support amongst gamers Every day I keep getting surprised and my bar keeps getting lowered deeper into the ground

chat GaveUp • 1 month ago • 100%

The workers are largely just as pro-capitalism and anti-worker as the employers but they're way less likely to support acceptance and extra corporate or governmental resources for minorities, women, queer, and trans people (they even regularly complain about tampons in the mens bathrooms), even as a farce to increase labor productivity

chat GaveUp • 1 month ago • 97%

Edit: I'm not saying anything negative about the female side here, just the male one On one hand, you have fanfics, kpop Stans, fandoms, Sanrio, etc. On the other you have literally 4chan, literally reddit, circle jerks about muh superior white music genres like metal, modern rock, and being "cultured" by liking suffering porn with socially conscious hip hop, Roman history, WWII history, military obsession, geopolitics obsession, gamer shit with n-words and Japan stuff, some weird shit with obsessing over your body/facial features to be the perfect Eurocentric ideal, etc. Also shout-outs to pro incest and pedo anime culture In the words of a friend who agrees: White men just cannot be trusted to be left alone together on the Internet

videos GaveUp • 2 months ago • 100%

https://hexbear.net/comment/5181368

askchapo GaveUp • 3 months ago • 100%

They're feeling like a failure because of job shit and if they get fired they're probably gonna get deported back after their family spent essentially their entire life savings (and more?) to support them studying abroad So far I got: Industrial Reserve Army (Reserve Army of Labor) Tendency for Rate of Profit to fall (to understand increasing exploitation of workers) I want to try and keep things light

chapotraphouse GaveUp • 4 months ago • 100%

The cause being Russia interfering with our elections

em_poc GaveUp • 4 months ago • 100%

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2653829 > instead of usb booting a custom Tails instance every time to defend their glorious revolution

music GaveUp • 4 months ago • 100%

Source: https://twitter.com/BlackDresses666/status/1792596037925736933?t=Lr-15UfM1xiYuqrIHNHVBg&s=19

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns GaveUp • 4 months ago • 100%

I can't really find a consistent, comprehensive answer online and I don't really feel comfortable asking my friends who are

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns GaveUp • 5 months ago • 100%

idk what I'm looking for from this post. But I'm honestly fine with how my face looks. But unless I look feminine, most bi-women are going to keep assuming I want to dom and top without even asking (aka treat me like a man...). Lesbians won't be attracted to me. 99% of people won't perceive me as a women and interact the same they do with other women I think I can get FFS lined up in some months but I feel extremely weird changing my face so drastically and suddenly. I'm dissociating extremely hard rn just thinking about it. I can't imagine how bad it'd be after the surgeries. I feel like I'd lose a big part of my identity. I'm deathly afraid of looking into a mirror and not recognizing the face staring back at me There's something about the face being by far the premier identifier for human beings here. Because if they were easy/safe, I totally would get surgeries to contract my shoulders and ribcage in an instant LOL Honestly, so much of what I do to transition is just so the world will interact with me like a woman. I also quite like my "natural" deep heavy 75hz voice tbh. But I'm still voice training at a light valley girl 200-250hz range because I can't look masculine and have that deep a voice for people to treat me like a woman. At least the voice training is okay though, it was something that I developed in steps + I can still talk nearly the same as I did previously when I want so I don't feel divorced from who I am Gender in its current form is so fucking stupid I want something like what some indigenous cultures had

traaaaaaannnnnnnnnns GaveUp • 5 months ago • 100%

sdfas

em_poc GaveUp • 6 months ago • 100%

Because the implication here is that she thinks having sex with black men is more degrading/humiliating and getting beat up by them is like, more "savage" or something than other races My liberal friends all disagree with me and thinks I'm kinkshaming, being racist myself, or invalidating her "preferences" or something (which I think is usually also racist, having racial preferences unless there's some shared culture/experiences)