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I am once again complaining about how all movies and shows have really loud background music, but everyone speaking is mumbling. I have to watch everything with subtitles and the volume low to not upset the roommates or neighbors. This is ridiculous.

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The documentary they put out on Luigi Mangione is a hot pile of garbage. They interviewed the most spineless, soulless cowards and did everything they could to drag his name through the dirt. Shame on all of them and Max for streaming it.

How did everyone like the Puppy Bowl?

A random section in a book I'm reading about putting together incense for sacred use.

Hello? Is anyone here?

The biggest annoyance of wearing a face mask at work is my hot breath fogs up my glasses. Does anyone have a trick for that?

I was thinking of getting YouTube live TV to watch the Super Bowl. But now, seeing who made it, it's not worth it.

Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?

A federal court has declared that warrantless searches of US person’s communications collected for national security purposes is unconstitutional. Now it’s our job to make sure Congress knows that when they renew this law in a little over a year.

Leonard Peltier to Be Freed After Half-Century in Prison: "A Day of Victory for Indigenous People"

It's illegal to be homeless in California. Which is not a joke.

Turns out I have a Hernia I've been living with for about a year now. It's a "reducible Inguinal Hernia" which isn't as bad as a strangulated or lacerated Hernia but still uncomfortable. Contemplating getting surgery and what that means as far as missing work and taking care of the dog. This sucks.

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Today at work, I overheard my boss talking to another employee (whose family lives about 20 minutes from the LA fire). He actually said out loud, "Why don't they just use ocean water to put out the fire?" Could you imagine saying this to a firefighter or anyone having to live through this? Insane.

I get zero traction here and Facebook. So it doesn't really matter what void I shout into. But I still use Facebook more because of the specific groups I'm in that keep me up to date with the hobbies I enjoy. Maybe we should form groups on this app.

One reason people insist that you use the proper channels to change things is because they have control of the proper channels and they’re confident it won’t work. - Jon Stone

Chocolate is going to go up in price. Maybe get used to not eating it.

BREAKING: CEO shooter Luigi Mangione once participated in a ritual game where participants slowly hanged a man by guessing the letters of a secret word

NOBODY KNOWS just how many Americans per year are killed off by health insurance companies delaying and denying coverage because they DON’T SHARE THE DATA.

This was shared with us and made us smile! 😊

Study Finds Growing Gap Between America's Rich and Super Rich

An Italian American guy named "Mario" has the chance to do the funniest thing in history right now.

During his disastrous interview with Kristen Welker, Trump said no other country has birthright citizenship, and Welker did not challenge it. For what it's worth, dozens of countries have birthright citizenship

We keep getting messages saying climate change is a hoax and the world is flat. Is it 2024?!

I can’t believe this is real lol

🚨 Experts are being deployed to Panzi, in the southwest of the Democratic Republic of the #Congo, to support health authorities in investigating a yet undiagnosed disease. Laboratory tests are underway to identify the cause.

My Samsung phone gets a 0/10 for not allowing me to disable notifications from the Galaxy Play Store. They need to fix that.

I have news…that place where you got food poisoning is probably not where you got the food poisoning. Time between exposure and symptoms: Campylobacter: 2-6 days E. coli: 2-5 days Salmonella: 6 hrs-6 days Norovirus: 12-48 hrs Shigella: 1-3 days Staph aureus: fast Listeria: 9-48 hrs

We have a large enough nuclear arsenal to end all life on the planet in order to protect us from the bad guys.

#Climate change exacerbates inequality & disproportionately impacts the most vulnerable. "The world is getting ever hotter and we must reduce the temperature to protect our health...we must phase out fossil fuels" - Dr Kate Wylie @docsenvaus.bsky.social #auspol

Rainbows are way more fascinating than you think www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Gf...

I saw a big raptor bird while walking to work today. I'm not a bird expert, and my camera sucks. So, I won't attempt to identify it. But it was pretty big. I thought it was vulture at first. Let me know if you know what it is. #birds

I've been watching all the Alien movies in the spirit of Thanksgiving. Resurrection is either the worst or the best of series, depending who you ask. I'm not sure where I'm at yet.

Gonna eat some leftover chicken and noodles later. Anyone doing anything today on just another regular Thursday?

We finally have real snow out where I'm at. About time. It just sucks trying to walk my dog in it. He won't poop and he just wants to play the whole time.

I wish they could make an app that could automatically filter out AI images. I hate them and don't want to see them. I've already unsubscribed from multiple YouTube channels for using them. This is the one time I wish we could go backwards with technology.

One Tennessee school district's list of nearly 400 books removed from library shelves, including titles by authors ranging from Dr. Seuss to Toni Morrison, is being used by other school systems as a possible template to follow. www.timesfreepress.com/news/2024/no...

I got you, introverts

In the spirit of the internet telling me to read more, I'm finishing up this book I've had sitting around too long. This one is more autobiographical. Oliver Sacks was brilliant, and you should read his books. My personal favorite was Musicophilia.

Dumpster score. The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch. Maybe a past, present, future theme going on. The fate of humanity. Idk something like that. Hope everyone's doing good. I might eat a Pomelo later. I'm not sure I got it.

This is my dog sitting on a chair. He does this when he sees me looking at him.