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Remember when Canada gave most people on CERB a $2000 advance but didn't make it clear it was an advance they had to pay back until 2 years later then sent everyone who got it a bill? Fortunately that didn't happen to me, be abuse when I got laid off, HR wrote the wrong date on my ROE and I had to talk to at least 4 different government employees over the course of 3 months to have it corrected. Which it wasn't. HR just submitted a new one. I now have 2 ROEs for the same job with different file numbers, end dates, and income amounts on record. When the government was doing their auditing to make sure no one was overpaid or underpaid 2 years later, I kept getting both cheques and bills in the mail because of the double ROEs, and I spent hours on the phone with the government trying to figure out the final amount.
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Remeber when T stopped student loan repayment and gave out checks during COVID and the second B was in office DOCTOR Jill bBiden was saying "doesn't it feel good to breath the spring air without a mask  " and B was ramping up efforts to restart student loans ASAP and failed to give his relief checks in the amount promised?
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MuadDib Atreides posted:Remeber when T stopped student loan repayment and gave out checks during COVID and the second B was in office DOCTOR Jill bBiden was saying "doesn't it feel good to breath the spring air without a mask Powerful ironic post/thread title combo
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Rust Martialis posted:Powerful ironic post/thread title combo agreed. many broken brains are unable to recall these objective facts.
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MuadDib Atreides posted:agreed. many broken brains are unable to recall these objective facts. 
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Jul 22, 2023 22:43
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Dr. Jillian Biden didn’t make the “air smell sweeter” speeches till June. It was before the solstice, though, so technically she was smelling spring air.
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Jul 22, 2023 22:46
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I've become a worse driver, personally. So... sorry. I'm one of those people.
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Boy I'm glad nom epique is back to remind us that Biden sucks, which is extremely biting and funny, and not cringey or tedious at all
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Animal-Mother posted:I've become a worse driver, personally. So... sorry. I'm one of those people. Worse like slower, or faster?
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Jul 23, 2023 00:24
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I'd rather you be a slower driver and respect the boundaries instead of trying to get ahead of everyone. The posted speed limit is 35 and people out there being an rear end going 55, not paying attention to lights and almost rear ending me. Yeah I drive like a grandma, but who the gently caress do you think you are?
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Jul 23, 2023 00:36
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Wherever you're trying to get to isn't more important than the other 4 families you almost smashed into.
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Jul 23, 2023 00:39
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Found the dude going ten under the limit in the fast lane on the freeway
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Jul 23, 2023 03:08
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The satisfaction of getting somewhere 13 seconds faster is worth a few families
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Jul 23, 2023 03:23
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STAY RIGHT UNLESS PASSING
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If we as a society decide that the speed limit is not high enough, we should get together and fix it. This whole system of "just go with the flow" or "10/15/20 over is fine" is just stupid. My state codified the stupid and it's illegal to go slower than somebody else in the left lane. A guy got two tickets on a single stretch of I 70, one for obstructing traffic and one for speeding, both for going the same speed. gently caress that poo poo. Just raise the limit or go to some Autobahn style poo poo where the limits are conditional.
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Jul 23, 2023 03:47
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Just don't get caught stupid I can't believe that I have to explain this
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Jul 23, 2023 03:50
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I'm talking residential streets, not highways. It's a crowded, public area, be careful. If you want to go 70 or 100 go ahead. But not next to schools, homes and places people are just trying to walk. That yield for pedestrian sign might as well not even be there.
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Jul 23, 2023 03:54
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No need to rev up your truck to max to cross 400 yards.
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Jul 23, 2023 03:56
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What, you beat me to the next stoplight? Good you. Don't give me the finger.
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If you're in the wrong lane and need to turn you either did something stupid or Siri told you too late. Take the L and bust a U. Don't muscle your gently caress rear end thru traffic to get in the turn lane you goddam swine!!
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I just move over then they can’t stare at my succulent rear end  I’d do more night driving if Covid hours ever went away. But now everything is combat hours only.
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redshirt posted:Worse like slower, or faster? Just making stupid common sense failures that I never made before.
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Triikan posted:If we as a society decide that the speed limit is not high enough, we should get together and fix it. This whole system of "just go with the flow" or "10/15/20 over is fine" is just stupid. My state codified the stupid and it's illegal to go slower than somebody else in the left lane. A guy got two tickets on a single stretch of I 70, one for obstructing traffic and one for speeding, both for going the same speed. gently caress that poo poo. Just raise the limit or go to some Autobahn style poo poo where the limits are conditional. Whats the worst is when you get these trucks that are going relatively the same speed, and then one truck sees a car trying to pass and then decide for no good reason to overtake the truck in front of it. Maybe they're playing traffic cop and they don't want a car going fast or some poo poo IDK. But whatever broke brained poo poo it is, they switch lanes and go like .1mph faster than the other rig, so it takes a total of like 15 minutes to overtake the other truck, blocking both lanes. The net result is they get to their destination like 0 minutes faster or slower and lose or gain 0 dollars for getting their payload to its destination and minute or two slower/faster. Maybe it's like some gearing/fuel efficiency thing. But if that's the point of it, they should increase the national average from 55mph, which was derived from a FUEL EFFICIENCY model, when most cars had like 3 on the tree or 4 on the floor. Most modern cars get optimum fuel efficiency between 70 and 80 mph on open stretches nowadays, and going slower is costing people money now. Nobody drives the actual speed limit until they spot a cop on the highway, like anywhere anymore. Blocking the whole road actually is considered false imprisonment in a lot of places now, and it's like, if you wanna pass, you gotta hit the gas. You don't just get to drive in the passing lane all the time at 2mph over the speed limit because you have an expensive car or some poo poo, which is the mentality of a lot of people. It's like a shot to their ego to just coast in the slow lane, like they literally view the passing lane as the "privileged" persons lane now, not the actual "I want to drive faster" lane. It would be like walking amongst the donkeys and gypsy caravans for them to drive in the regular lane or something. And now they can get pulled over in a lot of places for doing that poo poo so GOOD.
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I used to worry local cops would give me a ticket. But no longer....
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Treecko posted:I'm talking residential streets, not highways. I love to speed, but also agree 100% with this. Speed smart.
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Up through around last summer, people were going through red lights just all of the freaking time around here (Philly), including tons of bus drivers. It seems like everybody has stopped now, people are doing it even less than pre-covid. No idea why that would be, since they sure as hell are not ticketing people.
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Yeah people figured out there's almost zero traffic enforcement except for obvious speed traps. It's gotten better in my neighborhood, I think, or I'm just more cautious but for a while it was super dangerous just walking the dog with people simply rolling stop signs across areas that are frequented with pedestrians and have had sight lines.
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There is a stretch of rural road near my house, completely flat and straight for several miles with a single dotted line down the middle because there is a LOT of Amish and farm tractor traffic during the day that needs to be passed. It was posted at 45 but pretty much everyone drove 55 on it, which was fine. Despite the Amish and tractor traffic, this is a very busy road and a major thoroughfare between the two largest local population centers. A year into covid they bumped it up to 55 (probably because that's what everyone was safely driving anyway), so now everyone drives 70 and you better prepare to be tailgated and passed in the most aggressive way possible with the passer having a near-miss with oncoming traffic if you are going any slower than 60. There were four fatal accidents in the first month and everyone chilled the gently caress out a bit, but it's still basically the fury road when you add covid driving to the mix. It seems like there are certain speed limits that people's brains register as "anything above X is fine" and that number is somewhere around 55.
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Nelson Mandingo posted:I hate that walmart isn't 24 hours. I really enjoyed doing my shopping after 12. this entirely. also most grocery stores by me don't open until 7am now when they used to be 24/7. I don't go to stores so much anymore. Pre Covid I'd drive somewhere to window shop and usually buy something because I was already there. But with online shopping I kinda don't need to, and in some ways that is worse because I can just order poo poo and forget I did a day or two later. My credit card remembers though. I miss eating out even in lovely restaurants. Save money there too, I guess, but it does suck being the only person who doesn't go out to eat much anymore. One of my friends got back from an international trip a few weeks ago and I ran into him at a grocery store where he wasn't masked. So him insisting he was masked during his trip doesn't mean much. Dude used to be very good with that poo poo too, but he is over masking. Another friend has had Covid twice and thinks it's no big deal despite the first time kicking his rear end, so he eats out all the time and goes to crowded casinos and is annoyed if I won't go because I'm the only one in a mask.
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covid broke some brains by literally fusing the cells together, so if one neuron blinks off, all the ones it's fused to do too, like lights in a house that are on the same electrical circuit. probably fine! lol https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-06-covid-brain-cells-fuse.html
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Toxic Mental posted:The covid driving thing seems real. A mix of 1. Stupid idiots didn’t quarantine so the quality of drivers was worse even if there were fewer. Which then lead to 2. Everyone else either thinking that was okay and just giving up on being humans when on the road or also going crazy dealing with poo poo drivers and 3. People are just more selfish and barbaric from feeling isolated from society for years. Last man on earth-type driving. Also I just think in general American society and interpersonal standards are degrading more and more overall so it figures people would be selfish drivers hmmmmm, i wonder what on earth could possibly be going on to make people worse drivers https://twitter.com/maolesen/status/1657203137478836224 https://twitter.com/maolesen/status/1657203139647361026 https://twitter.com/maolesen/status/1657590710885920768
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Does anyone else remember when Costco didn't have limits on anything and it was during the toilet paper shortage? I remember seeing people loading up with four or five packets of the massive toilet paper when most stores didn't have any, and Costco just kind of shrugged about it. And then one day Costco got on the bandwagon and that was when all the lines started for me outside the store and they would have big dry erase boards by the carts that listed off what they were out of and how many you could purchase of each item, like one thing of toilet paper or one thing of paper towels or one thing of Kleenex but you could not get all three. They heavily enforced the masking for I think about three maybe four days. And then after that they just gave up, you had to have a mask to enter Costco, but once you were passed the membership card check, nobody cared. And so I saw most other customers with the mask hanging off their ears or on their forehead. For a place that is so much about security to the point they crack down on membership sharing and they insist on seeing your receipt when you leave and they insist on seeing your membership card when you walk in and when you pay, they were pretty lax about the masking. Edit: and gently caress the people who argue that slow driving causes accidents. For work I have a pretty high profile corporate wrapped delivery van that has a pretty wide turn radius and a high flip capacity. I also have a camera on me from the second I put the key in the ignition and it measures if you go anything over 5 miles over the speed limit. For more than a minute. I'm not going to risk a police ticket, as well as internal tickets because I'm the only one doing 55 in the construction zone marked as 55 when everyone else is speeding by at 65 or 70. Cowslips Warren fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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I knew these people from the 90's until covid and I learned about what they really were - Plays mil-sims and builds guns; has no HS diploma - Religious. Religious with anti science stance: thinks scientists are out for clout - Lies to your face when they make a mistake - Cheats on their wife - When you play a co-op puzzle solving game that they've been stuck on, you breeze through levels with them until you're tired of the levels - Went from apolitcal to "trump drained the swamp" and antivax even when they proclaim to be pro bernnie. This was 2020 - Blames the person video recording for not stepping in to save George Floyd (that was an immediate nix out of friendship for the religious idiot) - Leverages age power dynamic going back to HS years to suggest you keep smoking pot when you're hanging out and you're in your 30's (that was long-standing that I could shrug off but annoying and telling eventually) They just wanted to have a good time and I'm all about that, but train went off the tracks
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I don't know that drivers are actually worse overall now than pre-covid, drivers were pretty bad then too. Spring 2021 and 2022 basically turned into Mad Max for a couple weeks though.Overdog posted:Whats the worst is when you get these trucks that are going relatively the same speed, and then one truck sees a car trying to pass and then decide for no good reason to overtake the truck in front of it. Maybe they're playing traffic cop and they don't want a car going fast or some poo poo IDK. But whatever broke brained poo poo it is, they switch lanes and go like .1mph faster than the other rig, so it takes a total of like 15 minutes to overtake the other truck, blocking both lanes. The net result is they get to their destination like 0 minutes faster or slower and lose or gain 0 dollars for getting their payload to its destination and minute or two slower/faster. Maybe it's like some gearing/fuel efficiency thing. But if that's the point of it, they should increase the national average from 55mph, which was derived from a FUEL EFFICIENCY model, when most cars had like 3 on the tree or 4 on the floor. Most modern cars get optimum fuel efficiency between 70 and 80 mph on open stretches nowadays, and going slower is costing people money now. Nobody drives the actual speed limit until they spot a cop on the highway, like anywhere anymore. Blocking the whole road actually is considered false imprisonment in a lot of places now, and it's like, if you wanna pass, you gotta hit the gas. You don't just get to drive in the passing lane all the time at 2mph over the speed limit because you have an expensive car or some poo poo, which is the mentality of a lot of people. It's like a shot to their ego to just coast in the slow lane, like they literally view the passing lane as the "privileged" persons lane now, not the actual "I want to drive faster" lane. It would be like walking amongst the donkeys and gypsy caravans for them to drive in the regular lane or something. And now they can get pulled over in a lot of places for doing that poo poo so GOOD. My favorite thing is when I get into the left lane to pass and someone gets right up on my rear end, then as soon as I move back over they ease up and fall behind, until the next time I have to pass someone at which point they will speed up and get right up on my rear end. So when I get back over I let up a little bit so that they'll just fuckin pass me and they actually slow down even more, until the next car I need to pass when they will get right up on my rear end...
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I work retail and my wife getting paid to not work all day while I had to deal with morons was Very Lame She was all sad and I was like, a year of Not Leaving The House And Never Talking To Anyone Ever, Here Is Your Money is a dream for me
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Songbearer posted:Not Leaving The House And Never Talking To Anyone Ever, Here Is Your Money is a dream for me Burning your retirement and banking on not loving up relations with your fam
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Songbearer posted:She was all sad and I was like, a year of Not Leaving The House And Never Talking To Anyone Ever, Here Is Your Money is a dream for me Done it for like 7 years now and I've never felt more disconnected from people, I hate it so much
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I’m a medical professional who spends a good part of my working day right up in people’s faces. Between vaxing, boosting and social distancing I’ve managed not to get COVID. I used to get upper respiratory infections a few times a year with at least one a year causing several weeks of miserable hacking cough. I’ve had none of this since the pandemic and that is reason enough to maintain N95 use at work and grocery shopping etc. I have started to go to movies and restaurants again, recognizing this is an increased risk of getting COVID and getting infections generally. I will never do these things with the frequency that I did before COVID. I could rationalize and almost understand everything that happened in the pandemic right up until a highly protective vaccine was developed that I felt very privileged to be at the front of the line to receive, living in the richest country that could give it to everyone for free, and a substantial portion of the country simply… refused to get it. That was my crack ping brain busting moment. I mean this was some miracle bullshit straight out of the movies, team of scientists develop vaccine just in time for Christmas! And these fuckers not only wouldn’t take it but created and believed all kinds of crazy myths to justify this stance. If you watch the film Contagion they get almost everything right but they didn’t see that coming either. They got the panic buying, the social media snake oil hucksters, violent mobs. But the only thing they caught about vaccines was people abusing privilege to get in front of the line. Zwabu fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Zwabu posted:I could rationalize and almost understand everything that happened in the pandemic right up until a highly protective vaccine was developed that I felt very privileged to be at the front of the line to receive, living in the richest country that could give it to everyone for free, and a substantial portion of the country simply… refused to get it. i can understand how if you are in medicine and surrounded by medical professionals and work in a specific field (one unrelated to vaccines, i'm assuming) it could seem like a shock, but the groundwork for that was laid for years, the anti-vax movement before covid was somewhat relegated to discussions of autism but it was getting bigger and bigger and jumping from a fringe thing to a wierdo celeb-endorsed thing and starting to rear its head as a more mainstream thing even in some of the 2016 election discourse. covid was an extremely convenient jumping point for the movement because the idea of a "mandate" was being thrown around so frequently especially with regard to certain jobs that have a high percentage of far right employees (i.e. cops). the fact that large gatherings and singing spread the illness faster, meaning that in-person religious events could not safely be held, also gave the anti-vax/anti-mask/anti-safety crowd a lot of sway because it enabled them to use a "government is shutting down our worship" narrative, which is a very specific type of victimhood narrative the far right had been salivating about being able to use for like decades, so they stepped on the gas real hard with that poo poo and now *gestures broadly at the current condition of the us* Earwicker fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Zwabu posted:I mean this was some miracle bullshit straight out of the movies, team of scientists develop vaccine just in time for Christmas! And these fuckers not only wouldn’t take it but created and believed all kinds of crazy myths to justify this stance. Part of me isn’t sure if it’s access to education that matters or if people just latch onto the first thing they hear regarding something and just stay locked in that mindset forever, regardless of education levels. I’m not sure if it’s a media literacy thing or critical thinking problem or what. I say this as my two roommates are still unvaccinated from Covid or monkeypox (the male one, anyway) because of some “concerns” but never really expanded upon what those concerns are.
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