Maybe something like this but fatal?

I’m guessing it was some kind of astrology thing. People used to blame deaths on planets and stars being in certain areas of the sky.

The company I was working for back in 2018 canceled Christmas bonuses. The only time they ever did so in their 40+ year history. Other than some bullshit platitudes from upper management about how everyone in the company has to make sacrifices that year, it was never explicitly said why. Some of us suspected it had to do with the tariffs at the time, since we import a lot of steel.

This, however, seems a bit too on the nose. I feel like management would never come out and straight up blame the tariffs like they are here.

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I’m one of the Holiday Ruiners.

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I love EDM, but there’s a subset/trope of it that annoys the shit out of me. It’s songs that rhythmically mute or go quiet along with the beat. It grates on my brain and makes me think there’s something wrong with my speakers/headphones.

I can’t find an immediate example, but it’s usually in YouTuber channel intros or stock/royalty-free EDM songs.

EDIT: Wait this is c/badposting lmao.

Donkey Kong Country 2 - Mining Melancholy

I need to get back into OSM. Pokemon Go was the reason I initially started contributing. The game uses (used?) OSM map data, and certain Pokemons will spawn near certain biomes (water, woods, etc).

My little cousin played the hell out of PG around 2017-2018, and they mostly played it around the big park in our town. At the time, the park appeared on OSM (and by extension PG) as a featureless green polygon with a few roads and footpaths. In reality it has a bunch of woods, streams, a pond, playground, public pool etc. So I did a quick readup on how to add stuff to OSM and I gave the park a digital makeover. I even walked around the footpaths with my phone and marked them out with the GPS so that they would appear in the map more accurately.

Unfortunately it was quite a while before Pokemon Go updated its OSM database, and my cousin lost interest in the game by then. But I kept at contributing for quite a few years, adding random stuff in spurts and stopping for a month or two

Sounds like my coworker who argued that veganism kills more animals than meat does, due to the pest control measures that might be necessary to protect crops.

As if pest control isn’t a thing in the meat industry from the feed crops, to the feed lots, to the barns to the slaughterhouses. They think the cattle that made the steak they’re eating just materialized out of thin air or something and didn’t require a shit ton of energy and resources to grow it.

Semi-related: How come it seems like 90% of the people who say they “don’t support the Democrats or the Republicans” turn out to be chuds, while 10% are comrades?

I’m obviously exaggerating that number, but any time I hear that take, I have to brace myself because more often than not it’s followed up with gross opinions about trans people or immigrants.

Yeah like the Walmart has a whole end cap of Great Value versions of name brand candy, and the prices are like 79 cents or whatever. Which is what the name brands were in the before times.

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The best phone I ever owned was a Xiaomi Mi9 that I got in 2020, right before the US government banned Xiaomi products. Got it new at Target for about $90

I had a T-Mobile prepaid plan on a drugstore Android phone from 2010-2012. The data usage app they preloaded on it was almost a day or two behind, so if it showed that you were close to hitting your cap, chances are you probably already hit it if you had been using your phone a lot in the past 24-48 hours. I caught on when the app told me that I had almost two gigabytes left (back when you could stretch a gig out quite a bit if you stayed away from video apps or downloading big files), then I got a text from them an hour later saying that I hit my cap.

Granted I was on a plan that had “unlimited” data that throttled my phone to like 128 kilobits per second when I hit the cap, but it was still deceitful as fuck for people who were on plans that charged extra if they went past their cap.

It’s crazy that phone companies are still pulling this shit.

I was gonna say the text for the “ad” looks way too clean and straight, and doesn’t match the artifacting of the rest of the image.

E.coli from McDonald’s, specifically.

Elimination of overtime pay for all salaried workers

The other day I “joked” with my friend that this will be how Donald implements his “no tax on overtime” campaign promise. He’ll just get rid of overtime protections entirely. Can’t tax something that nobody has.

12th century peasant mindset lmao.

Reminds me of a video I saw some years back where somebody built a cat maze inside the their walls of their house. Like my first thought was “cool but what are you gonna do if your cat gets hurt or dies in there, or starts using it as their litterbox?”