unemployedclaquer

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Cops going around and asking about purple rocks would cause a tiny stir. A kid would be aware of that and entertained. This is pre- internet and It's Soviet culture. I'm not supporting the Soviets, but people talked to each other, which is generically quite positive.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'd like to play my uninformed conspiracy theory card. Some people are making bank off this trash, and Lionsgate is just a vehicle they wrecked along the way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If I know ONE THING, it's that fuck do I really have to do this. If I'm getting paid per post, I want to know what is the lady's head doing in the blob thing

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (3 children)

You are not criticizing the OP, I guess, because you acknowledge their point, that it was meaningless, but it was entertaining to distract the Stasi. But you are criticizing the OP, because you think the Stasi were so competent?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's a slippery slope. There's no sense or consistency to allowing books of religion but not books of philosophy, which are also often not credible. Some new age manosphere grifter would love to get their trash into jail. Or whatever's going as the Celestine Prophecy or the Secret these days. Or The Game, lol

Since they're westerners there at the jail in Kentucky, I'd like some David Hume or John Locke. Kant is good, requires a lot of focus, might get you twisted up with anxiety, Marx or Hegel if you're even more masochistic. it would be amazing to sneak in some 20th century Spanish antifascist text, but that might turn out to be anachronistic. I'd say you need a dictionary for much of this, but same with the bible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., or simply Couche-Tard, is a Canadian multinational operator of convenience stores. The company has approximately 16,700 stores across Canada, the United States, Mexico, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Japan, China, and Indonesia. The company operates its corporate stores mainly under the Couche-Tard, Circle K, and On the Run brands but also under the affiliated brands Mac's Convenience Stores, go! (Go Store), 7-jours, Dairy/Daisy Mart, Becker's and Winks. Operations in Russia (38 stores) were suspended in 2022.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alimentation_Couche-Tard

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

For such a short article, wow. Some notes, because I haven't looked up any of this

A person or entity from Canada named Alimentation Couche-Tard runs Circle-k, which does some stuff in Europe

A Japanese billionaire was in charge of bringing 7-11 back from the 90s

It's CNN business, so they don't cover the shittyness of 7-11, speedway or circle-k. It's fucking terrible when that type of place is your only option even in an urban area, to buy nutritious food or supplies. It's a step up from those shitholes to dollar ex or whatever, which is also going to be awful

Also they're all great places to buy illegal drugs, but speedway really sucked the life out of many communities when they bought superamerica (whoever the fuck owned that) /s kinda

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Is that expression literally in the article? I don't know because I hit a huge consent box when I clicked on it, and i just backed out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

FOSS in general ... and FOSS social media ... is a leftist answer to capitalist social media ....

This is how you can tell me you're a troll and know nothing of the history of personal computing.

[Tried to approximate the quote, couldn't copy and paste on mobile]

Edit: not sure if you were sarcastic or not, based on other comments. Either my instance or my mobile browser makes it hard to see everything in a coherent way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah this is absurd.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You described Lorena Bobbitt more or less. Ashli Babbitt was a Jan 6 rioter (at the u.s. capitol) shot by police.

Fuck this timeline.

 
 

background: staying in a roadside motel in the US. Man and Woman in the next room are screaming at each other. 1:30 in the morning. Not my problem.

But I did get voyeuristic and plant my ear on the wall. Most I could comprehend was "your daughter, but what about MY daughter?" from the woman. That's what I thought I heard.

I was like, if I am certain I can tell that someone is beating on someone, and trying to kill them, or you know just violence is happening, then I'll call 911. but I was far from certain. all i could discern was crying and screaming.

Hour later, someone is pounding on my door. is it someone in distress? I am in the least accessible and least desirable room in the place. It's probably one of those two neighbors, but which one?

Anyways, I'm in the US, so I have one or more guns, but I don't keep them loaded or accessible. by the time I had something ready, I think the neighbors were about to pass out. they currently are quiet after hours of screaming.

So I'm not a fan of cops, but not entirely against them. Situations in which I did call the cops:

-Neighbors were screaming at each other, 3 a.m.; their 6-year-old girl was out in the street crying.

-I heard broken glass and looked out the window, and saw a pair of big man's boots going into what I thought was a single woman's apartment.

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