I found this really interesting and thought provoking. I loved the line how ultimate optimism is not always misplaced.

I used to just walk 1.5 hours to work sometimes because it was the same time the bus would take, to only drop me off 75minutes early for my shift, or ten minutes late. So I’d just walk.

Couldn’t you just buy other toilet paper and leave his dusty roll for his use only?

Yeah, that dust is getting on your vulva, I have a bidet too. I prefer papers that are similar to scotts, where there is no dust. That extra soft stuff is aweful.

I’d buy what I wanted and just use it myself if my husband cared.

Your deleted comments don’t amuse nor inform, but they do make you look like a coward

There was a drug house across the street from me once. You’d see people in and out all day/night. One perfect sunday morning, I heard a commotion. Some dude was pissed the dealer stole his money and was trying to bang the door down. It goes on for a bit, until I see the dealer come out the back with a baseball bat, the guy ran off the property to where is car is parked, and called the police on him lmao they called the police on themselves.

Both were arrested. And the drug house was done for, thank goodness. Wildly entertaining.

One of my worst apartment had bedbugs. Even with my best efforts, they moved with us. Was finally able to detroy them at the second place, but the livingroom (only room with carpet) had to stay empty for 5 months. I was afraid to even put a couch in there.

Still the worst place for me was a one bedroom apartment on the first floor in the sticks. Small little place in New England. The basement had no insulation, broken window, and access for mice. So many mice, on top of that there was a massive draft in the winter. My power outlets gave off a cold draft. How does a power outlet have cold air come through it? It was $600/month for electric heat, keeping my thermostat at 58. Im still, ten years later, in debt from three winters there. The last summer I was there, the septic backed up into the dooryard. It smelled so bad. The landlord kept trying to bandaid every issue. Until finally she paid for the building to get on sewer, and sold the place as a money pit.

She had the nerve to get mad at me after I moved out because when she pulled up the carpet it was gross under it. That carpet was not new when I moved in. I am so clean, I get massive anxiety if my place is not clean, so I’m anal about it. It was just me and a baby who lived there, like- ugh. Stupid bitch landlord, inherited the place from her father and was in over her head.

I find it really annoying how Communist and Socialist are two words used interchangeably by these people.

They’re two very different ideas.

I was at the grocery the day after he won the primary, and I saw the New York Post stack of newspapers, with a sensationalized headline about him. I nearly bought all the copies to throw in the trash-

I’ve no shame in saying when I had my one and only child over a decade ago, I was vaccine hesitant. Idk if the Internet stuff got to me, or the part of me that likes to keep life natural within reason, or the hormones, whatever-

I didn’t vaccinate my baby right away, for anything, because I had fear. I did however let them give me all the vaccines they wanted after I gave birth. Wooping cough and a few others, I at least understood it was needed to protect the baby I was nursing. When my baby turned one, I put him on a vaccine schedule, made them separate any combinations, and by 3 years of age he was caught up with where he should be.

While I look back now at how foolish I was being, While also understanding hesitancy, it’s down right stupid to think vaccines don’t work, or are unnecessary. I found a middle ground I was comfortable with. People who just don’t vaccinate at all are putting everyone at risk

I’ve tried the licorice thats made with ammonium chloride.

I love love love, licorice. Theres a store by me that often carries international candies and goods. I saw salty licorice there, and it sounded good, so I bought a little bag of the stuff made in one of the nordic countries, it was a bit ago, I don’t remember which one.

Driving home with a piece in my mouth and I taste it. Why do I taste cat piss? Wtf? My face sours, and ammonia comes to mind. My nose flairs, I spit it out. I get home and search up ammonium chloride, which I found on the package lable. I’m horrified what I find. It is processed with ammonia. WTF

Salty licorice might be good, but y’all can keep the ammonium chloride stuff, I’m good. Taste like cat piss smells

I’m allergic the something they put in mass produced milk chocolate over here I think. Idk what it is, I’ve no allergies I know of. But if I have a Hershey Kiss, my throat burns a little after, feels painful.

This doesnt happen when I have good dark chocolate, it’s only the garbage mass produced chocolate. US chocolate wasn’t always this shitty, but it sure as fuck is now. I doubt there is much actual cocoa in it these days

You will remember after the fifth, sixth, fiftennth time at check out you basically standing there naked trying to figure out how to get your groceries home.

Or you just pay the 10 cents for paper …

Just buy paper then.

You say this, but when there aren’t any options, you either (in my state) pay ten cents per paper bag, or you get in the habit of bringing your own. I was bad at remembering at first too, but you get used to it. Most non-grocery places just use paper bags. The grocery is the only place you really should bring your own.

Some folks I’ve seen even now just keep a laundry type basket in their car, straight from cart to basket and into the house. It’s not abnormal to see people packing their groceries at their trunk at Walmart.

Paper works for all of these purposes.

Nothing helped me get into the habit of remembering bags like going to the store and having nothing to pack my shit in, so you either buy reusable bags or walk out with your stuff still clanking arounf your cart loose.

It only took a few weeks to get the hang of it, and now after years, I nearly never forget my bags, and we keep spare ones in the car anyway.

Such a positive behavior change the whole community made

Connecticut quit plastic bags around ghe same time too.

I saw one blowing in the wind as I was driving, realized, “damn I haven’t seen one of those in a longgg time” It was like a relic.

I worked in plastic extrusion for nearly a decade.

The front of the line would be about 85, but the back of the kine, where the work was, hit 110°F to 120F° in the summers.

Absolute hell

I have a Pixel phone im bout to throw in the river

“I’ve worn watches by my own choice since I was a kid”

Lets hope it remains a choice

When rumpy won in 2016, after my initial shock I thought, well maybe he will make it so bad, we will collectively be forced to see the truth, forced to come together and actually have a positive change for the working people.

I didnt know then, that I’d be fearing for the loss of democracy as a whole in 2025, but I think my initial thought still stands.

Maybe this wouldn’t be the outcome if Harris won, but if the silver lining is people start paying attention, I’m happy for it.