Vanth

Friendly reminder Trump is tariffing countries he alleges haven't done enough to mitigate slave-labor.

I'm now expecting some convoluted plan from Trump where he tarrifs his own country and routes the fees into his family's bank accounts. Politicians and justifies will stand around with their fingers up their noses saying there's nothing to be done, it's only tradition that has kept presidents from doing this sort of thing previously. Would anyone here actually be surprised by such a headline?

I nailed it.

So it's B) women, with a twist of C) immigrants, because it's the non-white people who would be scary immigrants if they were to come here 🇺🇸🦅

(This is a joke. I am making fun of my country's systemic bigotry towards anyone who is not a white, male landowner. Safe travels to anyone coming here for FIFA, but I think you're a bit crazy to do so.)

Me either, TBH.

Try here? The NPR article is just a copy/paste from this one.

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/05/26/men-leaving-workforce

A) late stage capitalism

B) women

C) immigrants

D) artificial intelligence

What shall it be today?

My last Spotify wrapped said it was a Hozier song. Hozier is not to my personal taste, I use my scarce free-spotify-account skips when Hozier songs come up. I don't believe for one second they are my most listened to.

From my Jellyfin music library, most frequent are Air Traffic Controller and Silversun Pickups. I have many of their songs downloaded on my phone so spend a good portion of flights and car trips listening to them.

Is the breakup and ending of friendships related to the rape accusations levied against you that you posted about 20 days ago?

https://lemmy.ca/comment/23387798

Burying the lede there a bit if that's the fuller context to your situation.

Edit: I'm not saying I think you're a rapist. I don't have enough information to formulate an opinion responsibly. I'm pointing out your former friends seem to have that perception, so that might contribute to you feeling like they're all staring a hole into the side of your head.

I'm going to apply a user tag and stop engaging now. Arguing with me is not where you need to spend your energy, nor I with you.

I'm tired. I read "Costco gay bars" at first and thought $1.50 hot dogs at a gay bar would be a helluva good business idea.

Now I'm thinking of some nice man wearing a party shirt with the Kirkland logo all over it.

Maybe it's just any gay bar that caters to middle age and older. After the days of youthful, wild parties give way to tamer, fiscally responsible nights. Gotta get to bed early enough to wake up for a run to the real Costco before it gets too busy. The kids need a palette of La Croix.

I didn't get banned. I left after the API change. I was already reducing use naturally, and what time I did still spend there was mostly to mod a very small niche hobby sub.

Without the mod tools I used before the API changes, plus the influx of MAGA-bots on reddit as a whole, I could longer mod the sub in a way the community asked for and that I was comfortable with. So I resigned, wished the remaining mods well, and went about my way.

There were other subs trying to go dark and impact reddit's advertising opportunities, and reddit was banning some of the mods doing that sort of thing. I decided even if reddit changed course, I was past the point I could ever come back to it.

Yeah, billion$ that got bogged down by state level politics, telecomm company resistance, and lack of Democratic party backbone.

I don't know how much momentum was even left to get DOGE'd.

Ragebait.

If I ever came across it IRL, I would stop going to that restaurant. This sort of thing doesn't happen without the restaurant management brainwashing their employees into think they don't have to pay them.

My dad just switched to Starlink. I advised he watch his bill closely because Musk is going to start playing money games any day. He blew me off, confident they would operate like most other cable companies and keep his prices set for 2-3 years even without a specific contract lock. Don't say I didn't warn ya'.

Also, double fuck you to Musk. My parents are rural and this is far and away the best service they're able to get. Instead of paying around what the others charge plus a little more because they are better, my folks are going to get taken to the cleaners.