The only ASMR I can stand is the sound of food cooking/sizzling, only because it triggers an appetite for me.

Shit like whispering, fingernails clacking on hard surfaces, or plastic bags being crinkled... no thanks.

My city has a rail station right in front of the stadium and barely anyone uses it, not even during big games/events.

Oh shit I completely misread your comment lmao. I thought you meant in general and not directed at Taylor.

When I was 13 I shat on Backstreet Boys and Nsync after I discovered The Eagles.

I grew beyond The Eagles though and now I lump them in with boy bands.

But he did bring up the pet thing on a nationally televised debate though. "They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats!"

"Yay, my swollen belly isn't ascites from liver failure!"

Not only would it take a long time, I imagine the results would be extremely random to the point it would be unreliable as an execution method. Carcinogens, and the way each person's body reacts to them, are highly unpredictable. That's why health disclaimers on carcinogenic products say "may cause cancer" and not "will cause cancer."

It would be far easier to just shoot or stab the target and make it look like a robbery gone bad or something.

Reminds me of that scene from Austin Powers where they parody those intricate death traps in James Bond films...

Dr. Evil: I'm going to kill Mr. Powers by putting him in an overly elaborate and easily escapable contraption and assume it all went according to plan.

Scott: Why don't you just get a gun and shoot him? He's right there!

"This bridge can't accommodate your ridiculous treat-truck and we will fine you if you break it."

Pickup owners: "tHiS iS a ScAm"

I bet these same people post comments like "fuck around, find out" and "should have listened" on videos of people getting shot by the cops for not following their orders one hundred percent.

Yeah, the one by me started doing them around 2019 or so and stopped about a year back. They were loud as fuck too and I'd hear them echoing off the buildings across the street.

They still do ads but it's silent slideshows of food and products that are on sale in the gas station store. Still shitty but kind of an improvement I guess?

Criticizing the current administration in charge of the country that supplies arms to a country committing genocide == pro-Trump.

Nobody is talking about Trump BECAUASE HE'S NOT RUNNING THE USA RIGHT NOW. I don't know how it's so hard for libs to understand thus.

The R-slur was considered offensive even when I went to school in the early 90s. I distinctly remember kids getting into trouble when caught saying it, especially if it was directed at kids in the special education classes.

By the 2000s I feel like the lid had more or less been put on those kinds of slurs. But in the last 10 years or so they've made a comeback in spite of chuds claiming that they're being "censored" now, and that the 90s were like some bastion of freeze peach.

So I'm too lazy to fully read up on it, and what little I could find wasn't completely clear, but are Mennonites essentially LARPers? Like do they just dress plain like it's the 17th century while enjoying all the modern conveniences?

I've always seen people say that if you are coming from MacOS then try GNOME, and if you are coming from Windows then try KDE. This is the first time I've heard of anyone say either of those desktops blatantly ripped their respective OS's off.

My first smartphone was a second-hand Motorola Droid A855 that I got in like 2012 (I think it was about 2-3 years old by the time I got it). That keyboard was great and I hated how smartphones were slowly moving away from it.

A few years ago the grocery I worked for got rid of their inventory scan guns that ran on Windows CE and used TinyTERM. They were rugged as shit and it was impossible to lose your progress if you took the scanner into a WiFi dead zone somewhere in the bowels of the stockroom. Then at some point they switched to these shitty Android-based ones where everything is done on a web browser. You needed to be extra cautious to make sure it was actually communicating with the WiFi and remote server, or else whatever you're scanning would not get counted/ordered.

Reminds me of when a chud claims to have personally seen someone pay for a cartload of lobster and steaks with their food assistance card, then take it to their Cadillac while talking on their iPhone.

Like they all repeat this same story verbatim, so it's obvious they're talking out of their ass and making shit up, but they're also low-key admitting that they stalk people from the supermarket to their car.

Any time I talk about my hobbies, I get told that I have too much free time on my hands, and/or that I should turn said hobbies into a job/business.

It's like people are so capitalism-brained that they can't fathom someone having a passion for the sake of the passion itself, and not making a commodity out of it.

Also the phrase "you have too much free time on your hands" as a backhanded insult. People seem to abhor the idea of someone spending their time doing things for themselves instead of working. Or am I reading too much into that?

Yeah like even as toys, Funko Pops are useless. They're just static decorations, and not even good ones at that.

Damn government regulations keep getting in the way. /s

Knew somebody who had colorectal cancer and got medicinal cannabis. While he admitted he only got it so he could smoke legally, he also said that it was the only thing that helped him get an appetite and eat because the chemo and the cancer itself killed his appetite most of the time. He said it did nothing for the pain though.

I have anxiety as well as a cardiac arrhythmia. I'd imagine cannabis would make those things worse, so I've avoided smoking any, even in spite of recreational use being legalized in my state.

Lmao are we sure this is Donald? This is completely indistinguishable from your average unhinged Facebook boomerpost.

"Barack HUSSEIN Obama" dusting off the classics, I see.

For a second I thought the teal blue one on the right was carrying a knife.

Homer's disappointedly exasperated "Aw, the Denver Broncos?!" lives rent-free in my mind.

I have cardinal climbers for my trellis. They attract lots of honey bees and I even spotted some hummingbirds a few times. But I have to be aggressive with controlling the vines because they will spread if I neglect them for more than a few days.

If you plant some make sure to put them in an area where you can control any seedling growth. They'll take over your flower bed if you're not careful.

Any time someone posts that meme of the US military cargo plane dropping countermeasure flares that vaguely look like an angel, invoke II Corinthians 11:14 and watch them get mad.

A majority of the PAVN and NLF leadership and officers were old veterans who previously fought Japanese occupation during WWII, and French occupation during the 1950s. To say that they were all just plucky civilians who took up arms to fight the Americans is inaccurate. Many of them were already experienced soldiers.

Then a few years later they liberated Cambodia and fought off an attempted occupation by China in 1979.

Vietnam was a force to be reckoned with well before the US tried to get its claws in it.

Trump bladed (CW: blood, references to self-harm in link) like they do in pro wrestling.

Seriously though, we are probably fucked. And not just libs, but everyone to the left of MAGA.

I played Empires of the Undergrowth but it seems development has stalled a bit.

I went through a box of old family photos taken by my grandparents in the 60s and 70s. One of the most jarring things about them is how many outdoor pics have snow on the ground. I just assumed most of them were taken around December/Christmas, but then I see months like October or even April hand written on them.

I live in the same town those pictures were taken in and it hardly ever snows here anymore, save for a couple days January. It snowed literally once this past winter, and it wasn't even enough to justify bringing my snow blower out to clear the walks because it melted within hours.

It's like the 1500ml water bottles that are next to the 1500ml Pepsi bottles. Beyond the cost of the plastic, water and filtration (pretty much the same bottle and filtered water that's used to make Pepsi) there's no fucking reason they should be the exact same price.

Games too. The digital download is exactly the same price as the physical. And these days there's no reason to even get the physical anymore because the game isn't actually on the disc. It's just a script that opens the game store and downloads it.

Same with celebrities any time one dies, even when they're well past the average life expectancy and/or had a long illness that was diagnosed pre-covid. Comment threads, especially on YouTube and Facebook, full of "Safe and effective?" comments.

I thought celebrities were in on the whole thing and wouldn't have taken the jab.

I'm actually surprised there were never conspiracies about Ahmadinejad and Fauci being the same guy. Ahmadinejad was like a chud boogeyman for years until covid happened.

I get rubber-legged standing on the third highest rung of a tall ladder (the highest rung you can safely put your feet on). I don't know how some people are able to stand on the very top and do their work without a care in the world. One misstep or something collides with the ladder from below and you're fucked.

From what I read the bridge was built in 1898 and had its last major overhaul in 2004. NYC has seen hotter temps than 95°F/35°C during those 126 years. It got up to 108/42 degrees in 1936 for example, and broke 100/37 several times since 2004.

I feel like there's more going on there than mere thermal expansion, which should be accounted for in a rotating swing bridge like this. I don't know much about geology but could the ground on either side shift enough without, say, an earthquake causing it?

My favorite are the people who hate the big city because of the traffic, but are also opposed to any alternative form of transportation (bike lanes, trains) that would take more vehicles off the roads.

I've been coal rolled, had beer cans and other garbage thrown at me and almost clipped nearly every time I go out biking. And I live in a town with some decent bike infrastructure. If I ever retaliated, you can bet these assholes would be on Facebook in an instant talking about how aggressive and entitled cyclists are.