I can only confirm the pack is unsafe, unsure what happens if you stick to smaller doses.

They gave me a super power. But it was one of the cursed super powers where there's a catch to using it, the type of thing you'd wish for from a genie but the wish he grants you is twisted into diabolical torture that taps deep into your darkest fears. They also made everything look like the world was spinning clockwise.

Do not eat a pack of watch batteries under any circumstances.

The engagement bait, algorithmic nature of social media is up there for me. Everything has to be the most extreme, divisive there's no room for gradients and equivalency.

Sting Jesus, while obviously a joke, doesn't really make sense does it? Wouldn't it be Sting Mary? Or Sting Jesus's Mom? I'm not a Bibleologist of course, I only play one in the internet.

Big wheel keep on turnin'. Sting Mary keep on burnin'.

I'm extremely surprised '''''they''''' would think there's any species of shark could father babies with a ray, though but then maybe I'm just a big ole dumby for thinking they would be in reference to the keepers and support staff who cared for and/or studied Sting Mary.

There was the time I had to hunt down an employee to make a copy of a house key for me because they didn't have any of the automatic machines and the other home improvement super store in the area which did have an automatic key making kiosk unfortunately did not have a functional automatic key making kiosk.

For 45 minutes, I tried to steer the conversation away to almost any topic besides the one he insisted on having about his favorite American football team, The Patriots. This guy was stopping the key duplication process just to look me in the eyes and tell me about The Patriots. He messed up his first 2 attempts at copying the key I was having made because he was too busy talking to me about The Patriots. I probably told him 10 times in the course of this episode that I don't watch sports at all, don't know the teams, the players, the rules, the seasons, and I have no interest in it. That didn't dissuade his passion to discuss The Patriots with me at all.

Got home and of course the set of keys he made didn't work.

Dead, there was no baby.

My first and last experience with one of these places was many years ago. I didn't know it was anything special, just assumed it was yet another random truck stop gas station deal and I needed to stop for gas while on a long trip.

BIG MISTAKE

The customers themselves driving through the massive parking lot, it was like Mad Fucking Max, and that was enough to let me know that I needed to move on to some place else and never go back. It was literal non-stop absolutely bat shit insane drivers, running stop signs, laying hands on their horns and just letting it blare for a minute+ because a pedestrian dared cross through a crosswalk. People driving every which way down the lanes as though it was all one way or something. Squealing tires because people are going several times faster than the posted speed limit and then have to suddenly slam on brakes ... IN A FUCKING PARKING LOT.

NEVER AGAIN

I suppose learning this bullshit philosophy of the owners / management it all sort of comes together and makes sense. The worst kind of people as customers, the worst kind of people running it.

If he said this any time recently, it's the perfect example to use for the idiom "Even a broken clock is right twice a day."

I was there! It was a common conservative talking point in the pre-COVID era. Stopped hearing it as much once Dork Sidious decided to publicly back the pedophile class. Curious as that may seem, I'm sure it's all a giant coinkidink.

It's okay dear, we'll be dead by then anyway. -- This person's parents.

But yes, I agree with the pedants here unfortunately. I know, I need a shower. This is obvious hyperbole.

Having said that, it's also true that a lot of people are in a position where they would not be shocked at all if things continue to decline over time. Today may be a shitty day, but you'll come to realize that it's one of the best days you'll ever have from here on out. A time when you didn't have to worry about which InterZone you got assigned to today or whether you were going to get bazopped in your Volundo today. You can just enjoy the fresh air outside without having to worry if there's more than 80 PPM Solanaceous compounds in it or if you've got enough glonks to go smocking in the boonzoon. Just sitting with a glowing screen in front of your eyes oblivious to it all is a luxury that in time few will be able to accomplish.

Yep. A few years ago there was that whole spiel about how Democrats were putting litter boxes in public school classrooms so that the kids who identify as animals would have a place to relieve themselves. I heard someone actively talking about it while grocery shopping at one point.

Trump himself has claimed children are getting gender affirming surgery IN SCHOOL and I can tell you that there are men and women out there, this very year in 2026, who have made statements implying they would kill the teachers involved. Like, it's complete fantasy, they just love to be angry and act tough about stuff that's not happening and never will.

This one hits hard, not going to sugar coat it. Obviously the conversation doesn't necessarily go exactly like that, but close enough for a meme.

In my bunkty-two years on this fine planet, prior to this year, I have been called a communist exactly none times. All of a sudden, I went from mild mannered and hard working homosexual to world ending communist supreme in like a manner of a few months. If this pace keeps up, I may be the communist black hole that devours the entire universe by the time the USA's midterm elections come in November.

At one point I was out with a group that was bringing attention to the fact that the medicaid cuts resulting from the big beautiful bill are projected to bankrupt a rural hospital in my area. There were people out there screaming at us things like "how are we going to pay for it" and calling us "commies / communists". And you can bet those willfully ignorant people are voters.

At least have the decency to take your sidepiece out to eat some place classy like Little Caesar's.

Can't we solve this problem like Elon would solve the problem and simply store the cheese in space?

In my experience here locally, rural area in the southern USA, I haven't been hearing anybody harping on the Muslim angle in person. Certainly not even a tiny fraction of the amount these people did and still do with Obama. Now, I don't follow these folks online to see what they're posting there, so I'm going solely by the comments they are willing to take offline and say in person.

Obviously this is a fickle cult and the boogie-man du jour changes faster than I can keep up, but pretty much since primary season started, they've been going hard and heavy with "Communist". Anything that's in direct contrast to the Trump and Republican agenda, communism. Every problem in the world is due to communism. Well that's a lie. But obviously the prior boogie-persons du jour are too (trans, immigrants, fact checking). Everybody that does not like what's going on in this country is a communist.

There's a DINO Republican running under the Dem ticket in a district close enough to mine that I get opposition ads online and in streaming stuff -- they're even calling him a woke Communist supporter. The Dems in his area aren't terribly fond of the guy, his policies are all middle of the road centrist Republican aligned with the exception that he is a staunch Trump opponent. And yet that D beside his name on the ballot is enough that they're trying to hang those buzzwords around his neck -- woke communist.

Having said that, my new number had been added to some kind of seemingly Christian Nationalist text group (presumably prior to me getting it, but who knows?). I didn't notice for a while because I just ignored the texts. Then one day I was cleaning out all the random mess and decided to look at what was being sent. Yes, those folks are very much anti-Muslim, so I wouldn't be surprised to see the the "He's a Muslim" being pandered to that crowd.

No doubt. Although when so many people in this country don't even understand their constitutional rights, there are times I wonder if it would matter one way or the other for the average citizen.

I literally had a MAGA person tell me I had no right to protest in a public space. She came up to me, asked to read my sign, and then said "You have no right to be out here."

I very directly told her, "You're wrong, I have the first amendment right." Fortunately that was enough to make her back off on that point, but trust me, everything else she said to me was equally as uninformed and ignorant.

I got laid off because Trump & Elon are a disaster.

You got laid off because, well much the same, but also different.

So that's where they keep all the standards that aren't double.

Realistically, the problem isn't "starting over".

The problem is if you are taking the advice of random internet strangers seriously for advice on complicated and highly subjective questions like that.

Do random internet strangers sometimes give good advice? Sure. But for these types of questions it's usually more by accident than anything.