Those pillows fucking suck, too. I can’t believe he openly marketed them as being made from leftover foam scraps, then sold them for $30 a piece.

Those look like a bunch of photocopies, like someone who’s never been to a protest but wants the cops to think he’s a protestor. Ya know, by bringing 100 paper photocopies of the name of the protest, like a protestor would.

I agree that this is a sickening amount of e-waste, and companies should be responsible for processing/recycling their own waste, but what’s the alternative in this case? Mail the faulty batteries back to Anker?

To be clear, I voted for Harris, and I implored everyone I know to vote for Harris, for exactly the reasons you mentioned. I will always vote for the farthest-left candidate in the general, full-stop. I’m not arguing that both sides are the same, or that Harris wouldn’t have been a better choice for 100 reasons outside of the genocide issue. I’m arguing that Harris gave no indication that she would defend Palestine or even recognize the genocide at all. She might well have done those things, but she didn’t campaign on that, so I don’t know why anyone is defending her on the issue. Establishment Dems can’t seem to get it through their heads that progressive policies are popular, so we keep getting general elections between an absolute monster and a neolib Dem saying, “Vote for me or you’ll get the monster!” That might be the reality, but it’s not a platform.

I live in a blue state, and I had people around me arguing that whether they voted third-party or didn’t vote at all, they would be able to sleep at night knowing that A. they didn’t vote for genocide and B. the state would go blue anyway. I don’t agree with that position at all. I want third parties to be represented in the US, but that starts at the local level and in the primaries. By the general election it’s too late and we realistically have two options. I also believe that shutting down any criticism of the Dem candidate (e.g. a now-banned user told me to kill myself) is a good way to alienate people and discourage them from engaging with the process at all. The right has banned nuance from their discourse, and I refuse to allow the same thing to happen around me.

1 million upvotes for you. “Hope you’re happy Trump got elected. Palestine is doing great now” etc. is such a tired cliche at this point. I’m astonished that it gets upvoted every. single. time. Harris literally said she wouldn’t do anything different from Biden. She would have allowed/financed the genocide all the same, but she’d be calling the “tragic loss of life” a “very complex issue.” I have no idea where this fantasy comes from that she would suddenly be the hero who stands up to Israel.

You sound like an expert in doing nothing.

Oh I don’t at all support what Meta has done, and I don’t trust any company not to harm and exploit users. I was responding to your comment by saying that talking to a chatbot doesn’t necessarily indicate that someone has “bigger problems.” If they’re not in a crisis, and they have reasonable expectations for the chatbot, I can see how it could be a helpful tool. If someone doesn’t have access to a real therapist, and a chatbot helps them feel better in the meantime, I’m not going to gatekeep that experience.

I’m a real-life human therapist (honest!) and while I don’t think it’s a substitute for talking to a real person, I’m happy that some people get some benefit from chatbots. I had a client who used Rosebud Journal in between sessions and found it helpful. I tried out Rosebud myself and I was very impressed with how it replicated the basics like reflective listening and validation. It was even able to reframe my input using various therapy models when I requested it. I didn’t use it for long because I’m not big on journaling, but I wouldn’t dismiss it completely as a tool.

Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender -The Onion

I appreciate you recognizing the blunder, and you couldn’t have picked a more obscure reference.

What?

As a thus-far-monogamous person, my understanding of ENM is that the point isn’t to be easier, but to respect each person’s right to engage in relationships however feels right to them. One benefit I see is that for ENM to be ethical it requires open communication. It forces conversations about consent, satisfaction, curiosity, jealousy, priority, etc. All of those issues exist in monogamous relationships, but we’re allowed to avoid talking about them by saying for example, “It doesn’t matter if I feel jealous because the contract says we won’t have other relationships.”

There are valid reasons why someone wouldn’t want to stick around and talk to the cops. They could be undocumented, they could have priors, or they could (justifiably) be worried that the cops might consider them a suspect when they’re not.

When Jacob Wetterling went missing, a guy who lived close to the crime scene publicly asked why the sheriff’s department never interviewed him. They responded by naming him as a person of interest and harassing him for 27 years until they arrested the actual perpetrator.

Do you have a link? I think it’s important to witness stuff like this.

This is absolutely inhuman.

My oldest sister got [what she believes to be] COVID in Feb 2020. She’s been on disability since then, and while she’s not cognitively impaired, she can’t walk around for more than 60 seconds before having to lay down again.