That’s a fight I’ll take up arms for.

Yeah, this is phrased like those three just slightly edge out the bottom 50, as opposed to each individually owning significantly greater than the bottom 50. I’m going to assume these three own more than the “bottom” like 85%.

I see a lot of the same people, recognize the names. I argue with some, know I’ll agree with others. I like it. It harkens back to old forum days for me. Reddit may as well be anonymous1 talking to anonymous2, maybe outside of some more niche subs, but here, I can comment on a post about corn and recognize a few of the names who are also commenting.

I swear these people are fucking bots and their whole purpose is to drive a wedge. I’m actually seeing a bit of a turn recently on the “America Bad” front, evidenced by an approaching 50/50 split of ups and downs. And I think bot is the best case, because then it’s just some keyboard warrior who clearly doesn’t understand the situation and parrots some other comments on an article from a biased source that they didn’t even bother to read.

Like you, my Congressman is useless. His name is Tom Kean Jr. He’s a nepo politician, and as that goes he doesn’t deserve to stand in his father’s shadow. He’s a moderate Republican who is almost impossible to find and takes no stance on anything. We never hear from him. But this district was drawn to mix communities like mine in with communities that vote for him and so here I am.

That more ignorant suggestions (which I don’t want to besmirch the OC here, I’m sure they’d go down this path eventually) would have us take up arms against … whatever. Storm the Capitol, maybe. Any mention of that being stupid is called weak.

So yeah, I’m with you.

Yeah, I work for your biggest social media comoetitor, why would I not just go post slop all over your platform with the intent of getting you fined?

I dunno, someone just throws this up on social media, and you’re the person in the position to say hey, halt the trains, don’t you do just that out of an abundance of caution?

Weed.

My four year old son cannot game get, but he’ll ask to put that on and he just honks at people. He also likes to be the hat in that Mario game with the hat, can’t remember the name. I Mario, he hats.

I’ve been turning off smoothing for at least 15, years at this point. Not every terrible tech is AI.

I’m a soldat!

You know, I’ve had a similar thought to what you’ve offered here. It’s always been a tongue in cheek observation, but because cars are so safe, people literally take their safety for granted driving them. If cars were less safe, people might take the responsibility of driving more seriously.

Make it so, if you get in an accident, it chops a foot off. So not life ending, but certainly life altering. People drive knowing “I’ll be fine,” and then they look at a text, daydream, all that. If you knew, every time you got in the car, you risked losing a foot, you’d take that shit seriously.

I also am part of the “I downloaded jerboa first and it’s good enough” crew.

Yeah the only time I touch canned goods, including seltzer (as I touched on in another comment) is when they’re heavily discounted, and that’s usually something like eight cans for five bucks, so we stock the shelf in the basement a bit, because it’d be real dumb to pass it up at the store on Monday, only to have the world end on Wednesday.

Yeah, I honestly expected it to be worse. Yeah, the dude says Campbell’s for poor people. I’m not poor, but Campbell’s Chicken Noodle has always been a comfort food for when I’m sick. Putting it aside, it is supposed to be food for people on budgets, that’s the whole idea.

And then he goes on to say that their product is shit. I don’t necessarily think that’s a bad thing, if you’re saying it with the idea that maybe the product should get unucked, which I can’t tell from the limited passages and my near-midnight cognition.

The part about fucking Indians, obviously racist, but I’m also not sure what it means. Being from the US, it feels to me like Campbell’s outsourced production or some service to India and is reaping what they sowed, so to speak, with decline in product quality?

Perhaps it’s an awakening for Campbell’s soup, and with a shithead VP’s tirade comes a rebirth of cheap soup for the non-rich (which will be all of us soon enough).

I also think the canned goods market in general just isn’t what it was when it was first introduced. We had nonperishable goods in a can. We’ve replaced the need for the nonperishables with access to fresh foods (yes, I understand not for everyone), and canned goods have taken a hit. It doesn’t help that the price of anything in a can (looking at you seltzer) is straight up double what it used to be. I used to get four 12-packs of seltzer for 8.88. Now, three for 10 is the best deal there is. And that’s because you can’t really skimp and water down the quality of seltzer, because its about as basic as it gets, versus canned soups where you can apparently 3D print meat (paraphrasing) to save money.

All the bots on this site like to shit on Americans, “Why aren’t you doing something?!” And the answer to the stupid question is that individual actions are pointless and that if we wanted to do something, you need a rallying point.

This is that rallying point. This is the kind of movement you can get behind to tell the feds to fuck off. I’ve said it before, I served my time, and I’m not sure I’d serve the country again right now, but I would 100% serve New Jersey.

Ha, guess you’re not a LotR fan then. It’s one of the phrases from the book that folks quote often, I think mainly tongue in cheek, because it’s phrased a little funny. But it definitely carries meaning for sure.

I feel you. I’m born in '87, but I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.

The US has given twice the aid as the entirety of the European Union.

It really is. Someone practicing a joke for their standup routine on Tumblr gets dissected to dust. It’s why I’m here, I think.

My buddy works for Verizon and just let a few of us know that Friday they’ll be laying off 15% of the workforce.