GooberEar

It's the summers that we don't get thunderstorms that I worry about, because those are the years we end up in extreme droughts and those are far more miserable. As for the heat, people find a reason to removed about every season. It's too cold. It's too hot. Eew there's bugs. Damned pollen. Fuckin' leaves everywhere. Ice sucks. Bird shit all over. Santa Claus is coming to town, hide your kids and hide your wife.

Southern drawl versus text-to-speech. Bedazzle of the scent tree.

So nice. My giardiasis just finished blooming, the whole yard smelled of it.

It's because the system is gamed, we all know it, and you would be hard pressed to be able trust anything -- even your own grandmother -- when it comes to the internet. It's nearly all psychological and sociological warfare.

If we see 5 stars, we just assume the bad reviews have been hidden or discarded, or simply never existed (since all the reviews good or bad are fake anyway). Because way too often, that's exactly the case.

And when we see thousands of reviews we tend to ignore the fact that it's computationally trivial to generate millions upon millions of reviews that are just believable enough to avoid automated detection and/or are easily influenced or corrupted by a variety of means (ex: social engineering, backdoor deals, etc). Psychologically we just close our eyes and ears, yell la-la-la-la-la mentally, and hope that the truth is buried in the myriad of faked/gamed reviews somewhere.

I know it's the onion community, but I'm sure some people honestly believe this.

I had a relative somewhat recently make the statement that christians are the most oppressed group in the United States. She said that to me, a member of the LGBT community. Not that it's a competition, but I can think of several dozen groups of people in the USA who I would consider to be more oppressed, but what do I know?

First they told us not to eat the yellow snow, now they're telling us not to stick spring rolls up our poop chutes. It's like doctors don't want us to find any joy in our lives.

First they invented great barrier reef, now they make great barrier ointment. My God what horrors and highlights, the hubris of humankind.

I live in a rural area outside of a small town in the southern USA. The local electrician, basically the guy almost everybody calls if they need basic residential electrical work, earns almost twice the high end of what that job listing is paying. Granted, he's basically on call 7 days a week and I'm sure his job isn't always unicorn farts and leprechaun rainbows, but he's his own boss and works his own hours.

ONLY CHILDREN NEED NOT APPLY

I completely understand.

I spent a semester of college working at Home Depot. It was a terrible experience and awful in so many different ways that I consider it my second worst job experience, only slightly behind the holier than thou "Christian business" that didn't pay its employees and actively committed fraud against employees, clients, and the government. 25+ years later, I still don't like to shop at Home Depot, it was so bad.

United States news. Posted from THE FUTURE! Hell yeah!